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| Greece's Tsipras asserts control over party with congress vote | |  By Renee Maltezou and Angeliki Koutantou ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's ruling Syriza movement backed a call on Thursday from Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to hold an emergency party congress as he seeks to assert his control over rebel lawmakers balking at new bailout talks. At a meeting of the Syriza movement's 200-member central committee held in an old cinema hall, Tsipras defended his decision to accept harsh bailout terms as the best deal anyone could win for Greece. The emergency congress will allow Tsipras to bring in new members and capitalise on the wider public support he has secured over the past two years, making it easier to defeat the far-left camp.
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| Palestinian toddler killed in suspected Jewish extremist attack - police | | | By Ali Sawafta KAFR DUMA, West Bank (Reuters) - A house fire in the occupied West Bank suspected to have been set by Jewish extremists killed an 18-month-old Palestinian child, injured a four-year-old brother and both parents on Friday, Israeli security officials said. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the "Price Tag" slogan used in the past by extremist Israelis was daubed on the walls of the family home that had been torched in a village near the West Bank city of Nablus. The house at Kafr Duma was destroyed by fire, apparently as the family slept inside, and Israeli security forces were at the scene. |
| Religious assailant attacks Jerusalem Gay Pride parade, wounding six | |  By Allyn Fisher-Ilan JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man stabbed and wounded six participants, two of them seriously, in the annual Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem on Thursday, with police saying the suspect was jailed for a similar attack 10 years ago. "We heard people screaming, everyone ran for cover, and there were bloodied people on the ground," Shai Aviyor, a witness interviewed on Israel's Channel 2, said. It was the worst attack in years on the event in Jerusalem, a divided city where the religious population is more prominent than in other parts of Israel and highlighted the tension nationwide among disparate social groups.
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| China paper says "wicked man wiped out" after graft probe | |  China's top newspaper lauded the decision to prosecute a former senior military officer for graft on Friday, saying in unusually strong language that a "wicked man" had been wiped out by the "anti-corruption sword". Guo Boxiong, who was a vice chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission until he stepped down in 2012, has been accused of bribery and abuse of power and expelled from the ruling Communist Party, the government said on Thursday night. The party's official People's Daily said in a front-page editorial that the decision to go after Guo meant there would be no let up in the fight against corruption, and that his case would act as a powerful warning to others.
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| Chinese professor accused of spying by U.S. released on bail | | | By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese professor charged in the United States with economic espionage has been released on bail, U.S. court records show, and his family said he was confident of clearing his name. Zhang Hao was one of six Chinese nationals charged by the U.S. government in May with economic espionage. U.S. authorities said they stole secrets from two companies that develop technology often used in military systems. |
| Obama urges supporters to lobby for Iran deal | |  By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday told groups that support the Iran nuclear deal to make their voices heard to Congress to counter the millions of dollars in lobbying by those who want to derail the agreement. "Right now the opponents of this deal have been flooding Congressional offices," Obama said on a call with groups including the Washington-based think tank Center for American Progress. Groups who opposed the deal, such as American Israel Public Affairs Committee known as AIPAC, have spent $20 million in TV ads to put pressure on members of Congress, Obama said.
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| Three more 'Game of Thrones' seasons likely, HBO says | |  By Piya Sinha-Roy and Lisa Richwine BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) - HBO's most-watched series, the medieval fantasy drama "Game of Thrones," will likely continue through three more seasons, a network executive said on Thursday, as he defended the show's gritty violence. Executives have planned to run at least seven seasons and are discussing with the show's creators how much longer the show will extend beyond that, said Michael Lombardo, president of HBO programming. "They are feeling two more years after six," Lombardo said at a Television Critics Association meeting.
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| Mexico approves U.S. extradition warrant for fugitive kingpin Guzman | |  The Mexican Attorney General's office said on Thursday a judge had approved an order to extradite to the United States drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who escaped from prison through a tunnel earlier this month. Mexico said it received a U.S. extradition request on June 25, a couple of weeks before Guzman's breakout from a maximum security prison not far from Mexico City.
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| Canada pastor held in North Korea confesses to trying to overthrow state | |  The head pastor of one of Canada's largest congregations who has been detained by North Korea since February appeared before media in Pyongyang and confessed to crimes aimed at overthrowing the state, the North's official news agency said on Friday. The KCNA news agency said Hyeon Soo Lim, of the 3,000-member Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, "honestly admitted to all crimes" he was accused of committing. KCNA quoted Lim as telling a news conference he had travelled to North Korea in the guise of humanitarian work and gathered information that he used in sermons outside the country in a bid to drive the regime to a collapse "with the love of God." His purpose was to "overturn its social system by taking advantage of the hostile policy against it sought by the South Korean authorities and set up a base for building a religious state," KCNA quoted him as saying.
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