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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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| Brazil's Senate opens voting session expected to oust Rousseff | |  By Lisandra Paraguassu and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Senate opened the final session in an impeachment trial expected to dismiss President Dilma Rousseff from office on Wednesday and draw the curtain on 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule in Latin America's largest nation. Senate aides said that after senators established the final conditions for the vote, a verdict was expected at around 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. local time (1600-1700 GMT). Rousseff's supporters seemed resigned to the likelihood that more than two-thirds of the 81-member Senate would convict her of breaking budget laws, the threshold for her dismissal.
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| Swedish hospital behind Nobel prize criticised over medical scandal | |  The reputation of the Karolinska Institute, one of Sweden's top hospitals that awards the Nobel prize for medicine, has been badly damaged by allegations patients died as a result of a surgeon performing experimental operations without clearance, an official report said. Criticism of the Karolinska Institute, which had employed Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, led to the resignation of the secretary of the Nobel Committee at the Institute in February and to calls for the award to be scrapped this year and next. Bjorn Hurtig, a Swedish lawyer who represents Macchiarini, could not immediately be reached for comment on the report.
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| Trump to make 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. Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence, in several television interviews early Wednesday, said Trump would speak to the Mexican leader about border security, including his signature pledge to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border if he wins the Nov. 8 election. The private meeting, which Trump and his advisers began considering last week after Pena Nieto's invitation, will be Trump's first official interaction with a foreign leader since he began his presidential campaign more than a year ago, stirring up frequent controversy both at home and abroad.
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| U.S. court dismisses award against Palestinian Authority, PLO over attacks | | | A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday threw out a $655.5 million judgment against the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization after they had been found liable to a group of American families who accused them of supporting terrorist attacks in Israel. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said a lower court judge erred in concluding he had jurisdiction over the defendants with regard to the plaintiffs' claims. The appeals court ordered the lawsuit be dismissed. |
| IOC sanctions six sportspeople for failing dope tests at Beijing Games | | | ZURICH (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee has disqualified six sportspeople for failing doping tests at the Beijing 2008 Games, the IOC said on Wednesday. They included three Russian medallists: weighlifters Nadezda Evstyukhina and Marina Shainova, and Tatyana Firova, who finished second with teammates in the 4x400m event. Bronze-medal weighlighter Tigran Martirosyan of Armenia and fellow weighlifters Alexandru Dudoglo of Moldova and Intigam Zairov of Azerbaijan were also disqualified, the IOC said in a statement. (Reporting by Michael Shields; Editing by Alison Williams) |
| Kenya's anti-graft chief, accused of conflict of interest, quits | | | By Humphrey Malalo NAIROBI (Reuters) - The chairman of Kenya's anti-graft body said on Wednesday he had quit after lawmakers recommended removing him from office over an alleged conflict of interest between his family business and another state-run agency. Kenyan media reported parliament's Justice and Legal Affairs Committee wanted lawmakers to ask President Uhuru Kenyatta to set up a tribunal to force out Philip Kinisu. The committee had accused Kinisu of a conflict of interest in his family company's dealings with state-run National Youth Service, which the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) that he leads was investigating over lost money. |
| Germany investigating 64 suspected extremist Islamists in armed forces | | | Germany's military counter-intelligence agency is investigating 64 suspected "extremist Islamists" working for the armed forces, a spokesman for the Defence Ministry said on Wednesday. People judged to be "extremist Islamists" are not permitted to work for the military. Between 2007 and 2016, 30 "extremist Islamists" went to Syria or Iraq after being employed in the armed forces, the spokesman said. |
| Police question suspect after Frankfurt airport security breach | |  By Maria Sheahan and Ilona Wissenbach FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German police said a misunderstanding may have led to a security breach that prompted the evacuation of Frankfurt airport's Terminal 1 and caused delays and flight cancellations at Europe's fourth largest airport on Wednesday. Police were questioning a female suspect who had entered into the departure gate area at Frankfurt, a major hub for international travel and home to Lufthansa, without completing the security check, a spokeswoman for the federal force told Reuters. The security breach interrupted flight operations, delaying departures and forcing some planes to divert to other German airports instead.
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| Swiss tell EU: Hands off veterans' assault rifles | |  By John Miller ZURICH (Reuters) - Friction between Switzerland and the European Union over the bloc's plans to tighten gun control following a rise in militant attacks could turn into another serious snag in ties already tested by Swiss efforts to curb immigration. The proposed directive, which applies to non-EU member Switzerland only because it is part of Europe's Schengen open border system, has raised hackles among the Swiss, who resent intervention from Brussels. Christoph Blocher, a leading voice of the Swiss right and a eurosceptic, says Switzerland should consider abandoning Europe's Schengen system of passport-free travel if the Swiss people rejected the proposed measures in a referendum.
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| Gabon poll count favours Bongo, opponent cries fraud | |  By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - A count by Gabon's electoral commission on Wednesday suggested incumbent Ali Bongo had narrowly beaten challenger Jean Ping in a presidential election that Ping's camp denounced as fraudulent and said the Gabonese will not accept. A senior source in the commission and a member of the body allied to Ping's camp confirmed the commission numbers gave Bongo a 49.85 percent share of the vote to Ping's 48.16 percent. The electoral commission was scheduled to release the results of Saturday's poll on Tuesday evening, but by 11.15 a.m. (1015 GMT) the following day, the panel was still in a closed-door meeting.
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| Corrected: Turkey arrests 865 this year in Islamic State crackdown - minister | | | Turkey has arrested 865 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. |
| WIDER IMAGE: Brexit town wants government to 'get on with it' and leave EU | |  By Sarah Young CLACTON-ON-SEA, England (Reuters) - Gazing out across the calm, grey North Sea towards northern France, families in Clacton enjoy the English summer, some sipping tea, others with cans of beer, outside wooden beach huts strung with union jack flags. Two months ago, many residents of this town of 55,000 in eastern England, were celebrating: 70 percent of people in the area voted on June 23 to leave the European Union, helping secure Britain's 52-48 percent result in favour of quitting the bloc. "We need to get moving," said Janet Ford, 60, a retired bookkeeper at a Brexit-themed party held by UKIP in a pub.
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| Turkey seeks to push Islamic State from 90 km stretch of Syria | | | ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's week-long incursion into northern Syria aims to clear Islamic State fighters from a 90 km (56-mile) stretch of territory along the Turkish border, President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman said on Wednesday. Ibrahim Kalin also told a news conference that Erdogan was expected to hold talks with U.S. President Barack Obama at a G20 meeting in September about a Turkish request to extradite U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara says masterminded last month's failed coup. ... |
| 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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