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| Philippines' Duterte: Obama must listen to me on human rights | |  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday he was ready to discuss any issues with Barack Obama when they meet in Laos next week, but added that the U.S. president must listen to him first before bringing up the question of human rights. Washington has expressed concern about a surge in drug-related killings since Duterte became president two months ago promising to wipe out narcotics in the Southeast Asian nation. Asked if he would be willing to discuss human rights at his meeting with Obama on the sidelines of an East Asia summit on Sept. 6, Duterte told reporters: "Depends to what degree.
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| Courting Republicans, Clinton to tout 'American exceptionalism' | |  By Caren Bohan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a foreign policy speech meant to reach out to Republican and independent voters, Democratic President Hillary Clinton on Wednesday will argue for a robust commitment to U.S. leadership in the world and tout the idea of "American exceptionalism." A Clinton aide said she would contrast her foreign policy approach with that of Republican Donald Trump, who puts the emphasis on what he calls an "America first" vision that includes a crackdown on illegal immigration and opposition to multinational trade agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Clinton, a former secretary of state, plans to appear at 12:30 EDT (1630 GMT) at a convention of the American Legion veterans' group in Cincinnati.
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| Trump to make dramatic trip to Mexico before immigration speech | |  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will meet Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday in a hastily arranged visit to Mexico hours before delivering a highly anticipated speech on how he will tackle illegal immigration. Trump announced the trip on Twitter on Tuesday night and it was confirmed in another tweet by the Mexican government. "I have accepted the invitation of President Enrique Pena Nieto, of Mexico, and look very much forward to meeting him tomorrow," Trump said.
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| Tunisia police kill two militants, seize bomb belt in raid | | | Tunisian police killed two Islamist militants on Wednesday and seized arms and an explosive belt prepared for suicide attacks during a dawn raid in a central province following an earlier ambush on an army patrol, the interior ministry said. It said weapons, a suicide belt and other material was seized in the house. A civilian was also killed in clashes between police and the two suspects during the raid, a security source said. |
| Swiss refugee centre burns down, cause under investigation | | | A refugee centre in western Switzerland burnt down early on Wednesday, but nobody was injured and the cause of the fire was still unclear, police said. The fire brigade in the town of Biberist was able to put the fire out quickly after an alarm at 3 a.m. local time. A police spokesman said it could take two to three days for results of the investigation to emerge. |
| Australia's Turnbull hit over same-sex marriage as parliament opens | |  By Matt Siegel CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull came under pressure over same-sex marriage and from within his own party on Wednesday as parliament returned for the first time since a poor showing by his coalition government in elections last month. Turnbull's Liberal-National coalition was reduced to a razor-thin one-vote majority in the lower house after an early poll to break a deadlock in the upper house Senate backfired. The centre-left opposition Labor Party immediately dug in its heels over the government's proposal to hold a national plebiscite on same-sex marriage, which it considers expensive and unnecessary.
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| Rights group calls on Myanmar to investigate Rohingya woman's death | | | By Simon Lewis and Wa Lone YANGON (Reuters) - Human rights advocates have called on Myanmar to investigate the death of a young woman from the country's persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, who died this month after being found naked and unconscious near a military base. The woman, identified as Raysuana, 25, was found by a road next to an army compound in Sittwe, the capital of the conflict-torn Rakhine State in western Myanmar, residents and rights group Amnesty International said. Most of the displaced are Rohingya Muslims, a group that many in Buddhist-majority Myanmar regard as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. |
| Turkey arrests 815 this year in Islamic State crackdown - minister | | | Turkey has arrested 815 people since the start of 2016 in its fight against Islamic State, and more than half of those were foreigners, Interior Minister Efkan Ala said in remarks broadcast on Turkish television channels on Wednesday. Thousands of foreign fighters from countries including Turkey, Britain, Europe and the United States have joined the Islamist militants in their self-proclaimed caliphate in recent years, many of them passing through Turkey. Turkey has since launched a crackdown on the networks facilitating their passage. |
| Exclusive: Islamic State axe attacker planned to move to Germany - sources | |  An Islamic State supporter who was shot dead in Russia after he attacked police officers with an axe had planned to travel to Germany to join members of his family there, two people who knew him told Reuters. Usman Murdalov, 21, and his friend Sulim Israilov, 18, armed themselves with axes and attacked a traffic police post near Moscow on Aug. 17. In a video posted online a day later, they professed loyalty to Islamic State.
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| Hostage video aimed at pressuring Afghan government over militant case - Taliban source | | | The release of a video showing a U.S. and a Canadian citizen held hostage by the Taliban is designed to pressure the Afghan government not to impose the death sentence on the son of a feared militant leader, a Taliban source said on Wednesday. U.S. and Canadian officials have said they are aware of the video of Caitlan Coleman, a U.S. citizen and her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, who were kidnapped in 2012 while on a backpacking trip. A State Department spokesman said on Tuesday the validity of the video was being studied but offered no further comment. |
| Six teenagers arrested in Britain suspected of killing Polish man in 'hate crime' | | | Six teenagers in a town east of London have been released on bail after being arrested on suspicion of killing a Polish man in a suspected hate crime, British police said on Wednesday. Police have reported a jump in hate crime in Britain after the country voted to leave the European Union in June, following a campaign that critics said stoked xenophobia and racism. One line of investigation was that the attack was a hate crime, they said. |
| Philippines' Duterte to workers returning from Saudi: Don't do drugs | |  By Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, heavily criticised for a brutal anti-narcotics drive in which hundreds have been killed, on Wednesday welcomed home more than 100 Filipinos abandoned in desert camps in Saudi Arabia with a warning - don't do drugs. Duterte railed against the United Nations this month after it called for an end to the killings. "Avoid drugs at all cost because it could cost your life too," Duterte told the workers after an almost 10-hour flight from Dammam.
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| Spain's Socialists to vote against government, raising risk of new election | |  By Jesús Aguado MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Socialists will vote against the government of acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in a confidence vote on Wednesday, party leader Pedro Sanchez told parliament, potentially triggering the countdown to a third national election in a year. Spain has been without a functioning government since inconclusive elections in June and December and parties are under pressure to end a political deadlock which has stalled investment and cast a pall over an economic recovery.
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| Britain's Corbyn to win bigger mandate in Labour leadership vote - poll | |  Jeremy Corbyn, the left-wing head of Britain's opposition Labour party, is set to win a leadership race with even more support than when he was first elected last year, according to a YouGov poll in The Times on Wednesday. In the first published poll of those entitled to vote in the election, Corbyn is leading his rival, Owen Smith, by 62 percent to 38 percent, up from the 59 percent share of the vote he won last year. The party of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown is mired in one of the biggest crises in its 116-year history after Britain voted to leave the European Union in June.
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| Death toll from Somalia car bomb attack on Tuesday rises to 22 - police | |  MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The death toll from a car bomb blast in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Tuesday that exploded outside the Presidential Palace has risen to 22, police said on Wednesday. "We have confirmed from various hospitals that at least 22 died and 50 others were wounded. Death includes wounded people who died in hospitals," police officer Major Mohamed Abdullahi told Reuters. The attack has been claimed by al Shabaab militants. (Reporting by Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar; Writing by George Obulutsa; Editing by Louise Ireland)
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| U.N. Security Council diplomats expected in South Sudan this week -official | |  By Denis Dumo JUBA (Reuters) - U.N. Security Council diplomats are expected to visit South Sudan this week, a foreign affairs ministry spokesman said on Wednesday without giving any details on the purpose of the trip. This month, the Security Council approved a 4,000-strong protection force for South Sudan's capital of Juba as part of the UNMISS peacekeeping mission that had its mandate extended in July. "We will have together with the government and the minister of foreign affairs to work out programmes so that the members of the Security Council can meet the President and government of South Sudan (and) continue discussing how we improve the situation making sure we have peace," UNMISS head, Ellen Margrethe Loej, said on state-run TV after meeting with Foreign Affairs Minister Deng Alor on Tuesday.
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| China promises humane, lawful treatment of detained Canadian | |  By Ben Blanchard and Michael Martina BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang promised on Wednesday that a Canadian man held in China for two years on suspicion of spying would be treated humanely and lawfully, but the man's family expressed frustration and called for his release. China indicted Canadian citizen Kevin Garratt in January on charges of spying and stealing state secrets. Asked about Garratt, Li told a joint news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Beijing that China and Canada would continue to communicate on the issue.
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| Brazil Senate expected to dismiss Rousseff in impeachment vote | |  By Brad Haynes SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's Senate was expected to vote on Wednesday to dismiss President Dilma Rousseff, finalizing a nine-month impeachment process and confirming the country's shift to the right with the end of 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule. Rousseff's supporters seemed resigned to the likelihood that more than two-thirds of the 81-seat Senate would convict her of breaking budget laws, while opponents hailed the chance to turn the page on a drawn-out economic and political crisis. Brazil's first female president has denied any wrongdoing and said the impeachment process was aimed at protecting the interests of the country's economic elite.
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| Family of murdered government critic Kem Ley flee Cambodia | |  The family of murdered Cambodian government critic Kem Ley have fled abroad fearing for their safety, friends of the family said on Wednesday. Kem Ley, 46, was gunned down in broad daylight at a shop in the capital Phnom Penh on July 10. Tens of thousands turned out for his funeral last month including his heavily pregnant wife Bou Rachana.
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