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| Christian woman told to remove headscarf for licence - ACLU lawsuit | | | The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed a lawsuit accusing Alabama county officials of violating a Christian woman's religious rights by forcing her to remove her headscarf before taking her driver's licence photo. Yvonne Allen, of Tuskegee, said a court clerk told her when she sought a licence renewal last December that "only Muslim women have the right to cover their hair," according to the complaint filed with the federal court in Opelika, Alabama. Allen described herself as a devout Christian woman whose faith compels her to cover her hair in public. |
| U.S. aware of Afghan hostage video, assessing it - State Department | |  The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday that authorities were assessing the validity of a video released by Afghan militants that depicts U.S. hostage Caitlan Coleman and her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, who were seized four years ago. State Department spokesman John Kirby said the United States was concerned about the welfare of the couple and their family and "continue to urge for their immediate release on humanitarian grounds." Coleman and Boyle vanished a few days after arriving in Afghanistan while on a backpacking trip near the Pakistani border in 2012.
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| Chinese embassy in Kyrgyzstan hit by suspected suicide car bomb | |  By Olga Dzyubenko BISHKEK (Reuters) - A suspected suicide car bomber rammed the gates of the Chinese embassy in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek on Tuesday, killing the attacker and wounding at least three other people, officials said. China condemned the attack and urged Kyrgyz authorities to "quickly investigate and determine the real situation behind the incident. "China is deeply shocked by this and strongly condemns this violent and extreme act," foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a regular news briefing in Beijing.
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| Talks start at U.N. on possible Syria sanctions over gas attacks | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council began talks on Tuesday on whether to impose sanctions on people or entities linked to two chlorine gas attacks on civilians that the United Nations and the global chemical weapons watchdog blamed on the Syrian government. A year-long U.N. and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) inquiry, unanimously authorized by the 15-member Security Council, also found that Islamic State militants used sulfur mustard gas. "It is incumbent on the council to act swiftly to show that when we put that Joint Investigative Mechanism in place we were serious about there being meaningful accountability," U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said on Tuesday.
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| Singer Chris Brown, police in standoff after 911 call by woman | |  By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police surrounded the Los Angeles home of Chris Brown on Tuesday in response to a pre-dawn 911 call from a woman there who asked for help, and media reports said the woman claimed the pop star had pointed a gun at her. Brown, 27, denied any wrongdoing and said in posts on Instagram that he had woken up to find police outside and that they would need a warrant to enter the property in the Tarzana neighborhood in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. The incident involved the residence of Mr. Chris Brown, where officers responded and met with that person," Lieutenant Chris Ramirez of the Los Angeles Police Department told reporters at a press conference.
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| South Africa's ANC backs Gordhan, urges him to cooperate with police | |  By Stella Mapenzauswa JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling party backed Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan on Tuesday but urged him to cooperate with police investigations, days after Gordhan declined to meet detectives looking into his time at the tax office. Gordhan said last week he had done nothing wrong and had no legal obligation to obey a police summons over the inquiry into whether he used a surveillance unit set up when he was head of the tax service to spy on politicians. The main opposition party Democratic Alliance said last week the police investigation into Gordhan was a "witch-hunt".
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| Egyptian parliament approves long-awaited church building law | | | By Ahmed Aboulenein and Mohamed Abdellah CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's parliament approved on Tuesday a long-awaited law that governs building and renovating churches, an issue that has led in the past to attacks on members the country's Christian minority by Muslim militants. Egyptian Christians make up about a tenth of the country's 90 million population and are the Middle East's largest Christian community. The new law empowers provincial governors to approve church building and renovation permits, previously the domain of security services. |
| Former IOC exec Hickey leaves prison, must stay in Brazil | |  The former head of the European Olympic Committee (EOC), Ireland's Patrick Hickey, left prison in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday vowing to clear his name as an investigation continues into charges he took part in a ring to illegally sell tickets to the Games. A Rio court on Monday ordered the release of the 71-year-old, who was also the head of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI), but said he must remain in Brazil and had his passport taken away. Hickey had been held in Rio's Bangu 10 maximum security prison since his arrest on Aug. 10 in a luxury beachfront hotel during the Games.
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| Turkey's post-coup purges shake higher education | |  By Seda Sezer ISTANBUL (Reuters) - With the summer holiday almost over, computer science student Hande Tekiner should be gearing up for a year of cram sessions and late-night homework. Instead, she may have nowhere to return to, as her university was shut after Turkey's failed coup. Authorities have closed 15 universities and around 1,000 secondary schools linked to Fethullah Gulen, the U.S.-based Muslim cleric blamed for the July 15 attempted putsch.
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| New Hampshire sex victim says school didn't take attack seriously | | | A girl who was the focus of a high-profile criminal trial last year after accusing a fellow student of sexual assault has said their elite New Hampshire prep school did not take the incident seriously. In an interview broadcast on NBC's "Today" program on Tuesday, Chessy Prout, 17, identified herself publicly as the victim in the case and said she would not have pursued criminal charges against Owen Labrie had she received a letter of apology following the May 2014 incident. |
| China charges U.S. woman with espionage | | | An American businesswoman held in China since March last year has been charged with spying, China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, the latest development in a case that has added to U.S.-China tensions. Sandy Phan-Gillis, from Houston, Texas, who is of Chinese ancestry and is a naturalized U.S. citizen, was arrested in March 2015 and had been held without charges since then. "Based on our understanding, Phan-Gillis, because of her suspected crimes of espionage, has been charged according to law by the relevant Chinese department," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters at a regular briefing. |
| Zimbabwe to dehorn rhino to shut out poachers | |  Zimbabwe plans to dehorn all rhino in its national parks to discourage poaching after 50 animals were illegally killed last year, a wildlife conservation group said on Tuesday. Rhino horn is prized in Asia for use in traditional medicine and surging demand has led to more poaching. A record 1,305 rhino were killed illegally in Africa last year, most of them in South Africa, according to conservation groups.
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| Alleged al Qaeda bomber loses pretrial challenge | | | By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday rejected a challenge by the alleged mastermind in the bombing of a U.S. ship in Yemen in his upcoming trial before a military tribunal. Nashiri, a detainee at the U.S. naval facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is accused of overseeing a plan by militant Islamic group al Qaeda to ram a boat full of explosives into the side of the U.S. guided-missile destroyer Cole off Yemen in 2000. The lawyers argue that the United States was not engaged in "hostilities" with al Qaeda at the time of the attacks, meaning his acts were not crimes of war. |
| New York subway prankster to be charged with crime - police | | | By David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City police plan to arrest an aspiring actress who let crickets and worms loose on a crowded subway train and then urinated on herself last week in what she has described as a prank, authorities said on Tuesday. Zaida Pugh will be charged with reckless endangerment for what she did on the train, said Robert Boyce, the New York Police Department's chief of detectives. Subway riders were locked in close quarters with the bugs for about 30 minutes during Wednesday evening's rush hour after a passenger pulled an emergency brake while the train was on the Manhattan Bridge. |
| Venice star-studded film fest set to open under heightened security | |  By Mike Davidson and Agnieszka Flak VENICE (Reuters) - A musical with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, Jude Law as a chain smoking pope and Mel Gibson's come back with a war drama are all tipped as must-sees at the Venice film festival which opens its 73rd edition on the Lido under heightened security on Wednesday. Top Hollywood talent and auteur directors will be vying for the Golden Lion at the world's oldest film festival which, after a period in the doldrums, is again seen as a launch pad for the industry's award season after premiering Academy winners in its last three editions. Space drama "Gravity", comedy "Birdman" and last year's clergy sex abuse film "Spotlight" secured Oscars after premiering in Venice and those wins have helped attract talent to this year's festival, said artistic director Alberto Barbera.
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| Bahrain's al-Wefaq opposition appeals dissolution ruling - Wefaq official | |  Bahrain's main opposition al-Wefaq has appealed against an administrative court ruling last month that dissolved the group and found it guilty of fostering terrorism, a leading Wefaq official said on Tuesday. The court decision to dissolve al-Wefaq was part of a wider government crackdown on an opposition mainly comprised of Shi'ite Muslims demanding reforms and a bigger say in running the Western-allied Gulf Arab state. Ali Alaswad, a former member of the Bahraini parliament for al-Wefaq who lives in Europe, said the group officially submitted an appeal "to challenge the verdict of the high civil court issued...dissolving the society and liquidating its funds".
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| Egyptian parliament's human rights chief resigns | | | A prominent Egyptian lawmaker has resigned as head of parliament's human rights committee, accusing the government and legislature of failing to address complaints of abuse from citizens. As head of the House of Representatives Committee on Human Rights, Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat, nephew of late president Anwar al-Sadat, was a vocal critic of right abuses in Egypt and called for the release of hundreds of activists arrested during anti-government protests. U.N. experts and international human rights groups have accused the Egyptian government of clamping down on campaigners so human rights violations such as the use of torture do not come to light, something the government denies. |
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