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| Lawyers of U.S. church shooter argue federal death penalty unconstitutional | |  (Reuters) - Attorneys for a white man accused of killing nine black parishioners in a racially motivated attack at a South Carolina church a year ago argued that their client should not face the death penalty, asserting the punishment is unconstitutional. Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Dylann Roof, 22, who is accused of opening fire on a Bible study session at Charleston's historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17, 2015. Attorneys for Roof argued in a document filed in a U.S. District Court in South Carolina on Monday that the federal death penalty is "cruel and unusual punishment" and, as a result, violates the U.S. Constitution.
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| After Orlando shooting, gay leaders train sights on guns | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK, August 2 (Reuters) - Dozens of leading civil rights activists gathered earlier this summer at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in New York, the largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender synagogue in the United States. It was two days after the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando. The group that included Evan Wolfson, often described as the architect of the modern same-sex marriage movement, was there for action.
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| FINA lets two Russian swimmers compete at Rio Olympics | | | Swimming's world governing body FINA has allowed Russian swimmers Vladimir Morozov and Nikita Lobintsev to compete at the Rio Olympics, TASS news agency quoted their lawyer Artyom Patsev as saying on Tuesday. "Yes, Morozov and Lobintsev have been admitted to the Olympic Games by FINA," Patsev told the agency. |
| Hackers hit Czech billionaire minister's companies to protest gambling law | |  The Anonymous hackers' group briefly shut down company websites of billionaire Czech Finance Minister Andrej Babis's food and agriculture empire in protest at a law giving the state the power to close illegal gambling sites. Lupa.cz, a private news agency, reported that Czech hackers from Anonymous shut down the websites of Babis's holding company Agrofert and bakery group Penam for a short period on Monday evening. The hacker group has threatened more website attacks against Agrofert and lawmakers and called for the cancellation of the new law that places greater restrictions on gambling and allows the ministry to close sites operating illegally in the Czech Republic.
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| AIBA dismiss corruption allegations as 'rumours' | |  The International Boxing Association (AIBA) has dismissed allegations of corruption within the organisation and demanded proof after a British newspaper reported that some bouts in the Rio Olympics could be fixed. According to The Guardian, citing multiple sources, a group of senior referees and judges met before a major championship to decide on how to score certain bouts having earlier relied on hand and head signals to select a winner. "We reiterate that, unless tangible proof is put forward, not just rumours, we cannot further comment on these allegations," the paper quoted the sport's global governing body as saying.
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| South Sudanese refugees flee violence, report looting, killing | |  GENEVA (Reuters) - About 60,000 people have fled South Sudan since violence escalated over the past three weeks, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. "They brought to us very disturbing reports, armed groups operating on roads to Uganda are preventing people from fleeing," UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming told a briefing. "Armed groups are looting villages, murdering civilians and forcibly recruiting young men and boys into their ranks. ...
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| Turkish government has taken over military factories, shipyards, PM says | |  ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has taken over factories and shipyards that had been under control of the military general staff as part of a wide-ranging shake-up of the armed forces following last month's abortive coup, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Tuesday. Yildirim, who was speaking to members of his ruling AK Party in parliament, also said the restructuring of Turkey's armed forces would not weaken the military, but put its focus on activities essential for national security. ...
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| China sentences activist connected to lawyer crackdown | | | By Michael Martina and Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - China sentenced a prominent activist to three years in jail with a four year reprieve on Tuesday for subverting the state, in a case linked to a crackdown on human rights lawyers. President Xi Jinping's administration has tightened control over almost every aspect of civil society since 2012, citing the need to buttress national security and stability. Dozens of lawyers and activists associated with the Beijing Fengrui law firm, which has represented several high-profile clients, have been swept up in the crackdown and held since July last year, triggering concern in Western capitals. |
| Exclusive: Bangladesh officials visit Manila to seek recovery of bank heist money | |  By Krishna N. Das, Serajul Quadir and Karen Lema DHAKA/MANILA (Reuters) - Officials from the Bangladesh central bank are visiting Manila this week to pressure the authorities in the Philippines to find ways to return the $63 million that is still missing out of the funds stolen from its account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York earlier this year, two people close to Bangladesh Bank said. Unknown cyber criminals tried to steal nearly $1 billion from the Bangladesh Bank account between Feb. 4 and Feb. 5, and succeeded in transferring $81 million to four accounts at Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) in Manila. The Bangladeshi officials are alleging that the money was allowed to disappear into the casino industry in the Philippines, where investigators say it was laundered, because of systemic failures at RCBC, the two sources said.
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