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| Indian man charged with sexually touching sleeping Virgin America passenger | | | (Editor's note: Please be advised that paragraph 5 contains language that may offend some readers) By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A male Virgin America passenger has been criminally charged with sexually touching a sleeping female passenger on an overnight flight to Newark, New Jersey from Los Angeles last week, federal prosecutors said on Tuesday. Veerabhadrarao Kunam, 58, of Visakhapatnam, India, was charged with one count of abusive sexual conduct aboard Flight 170 which departed on July 29, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman in New Jersey said. Fishman said the defendant was arrested on July 30 when his flight arrived, and was released on $50,000 bond following a Monday court appearance in Newark federal court. |
| Activists demand justice after Kenyan hacks off wife's hands in machete attack | | | By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Kenyan man who chopped off his wife's hands with a machete because she had not conceived a child must face the full force of the law to deter other perpetrators of widespread domestic violence in Kenya, women's rights activists said on Tuesday. Stephen Ngila from Machakos County in southern Kenya, was yesterday arrested and charged with attempted murder, after attacking his wife, Jackline Mwende, almost two weeks ago, according to the women's rights organisation Equality Now. |
| U.S. counterterrorism agents arrest Michigan man with explosives | | | Federal counterterrorism agents have arrested a 29-year-old Michigan man accused of illegally purchasing an arsenal of explosives and other devices capable of mass casualties, according to a criminal complaint filed this week. Sebastian Gregerson, a Detroit resident who also goes by the name Abdurrahman Bin Mikaayl, was arrested on Monday by officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's counterterrorism squad, according to the complaint. Gregerson is accused of unregistered possession of a destructive device and the unlicensed receipt of explosive materials, the complaint said. |
| First U.S. Republican lawmaker breaks with party, backs Democrat Clinton | | | By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican lawmaker in Congress became the first to break with his party over the White House campaign on Tuesday, denouncing presidential candidate Donald Trump as unfit to lead and pledging to vote for Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. The break followed days of dispute between Trump and the parents of a Muslim U.S. Army officer killed in the Iraq war, that has fueled fresh unease among many Republicans over the New York businessman's policies and style. In an op-ed piece, Representative Richard Hanna of New York cited Trump's attacks on the parents, calling the candidate "deeply flawed in endless ways," "unrepentant" and "self-involved." "For me, it is not enough to simply denounce his comments: He is unfit to serve our party and cannot lead this country," Hanna wrote in the letter posted on syracuse.com, the website of the Post-Standard newspaper in New York. |
| Guns, drugs and maybe Islamists: Brazil tightens border before Games | |  By Stephen Eisenhammer FOZ DO IGUAÇU, Brazil (Reuters) - On a chilly morning, with a breeze blowing in from Paraguay, customs officials occasionally stop and search vehicles crossing Brazil's busiest border point, looking for contraband. Most passengers are poor Brazilians, carrying electronics they were commissioned to buy duty-free over the river in Paraguay's Ciudad del Este, but there is a more dangerous trade too. With just days to go before the Olympics start in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian security forces have shifted their gaze to an even more amorphous crime: terrorism.
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| New York City Police Commissioner Bratton to resign Tuesday - reports | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton on Tuesday will announce his resignation as the head of the largest city police force in the United States, according to several media reports. Mayor Bill de Blasio scheduled a news conference for noon at City Hall to make "an NYPD-related announcement." Representatives of the Police Department and the mayor's office would not confirm that Bratton was set to step down. Regarded as a celebrity in the world of law enforcement, Bratton, 68, was credited with sharply cutting crime in New York City during his first spell as commissioner in the 1990s.
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| New York City Police Commissioner Bratton to retire in September | |  NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton will retire in September as the head of the largest city police force in the United States, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday. Bratton, known as a celebrity in the world of law enforcement, will step down after serving as New York's police commissioner for the second time during a career spanning more than four decades. (Reporting by Joseph Ax; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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| Maryland prosecutors appeal new trial ruling for 'Serial' podcast's Adnan Syed | |  Maryland's attorney general has appealed a judge's order for a new trial for Adnan Syed, whose murder conviction was put into question by the 2014 podcast "Serial." Syed, 36, is serving a life sentence for the 1999 murder of his former girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. The appeal, filed in Baltimore City Circuit Court late on Monday, argued that Judge Martin Welch had wrongly allowed new arguments over cellphone evidence that linked Syed to Lee's death.
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| Erdogan says Turkey's coup script was "written abroad" | |  By Ece Toksabay and Nick Tattersall ANKARA/ISTANBUL, Turkey (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan accused the West of supporting terrorism and standing by coups on Tuesday, questioning Turkey's relationship with the United States and saying the "script" for an abortive putsch last month was "written abroad". In a combative speech at his palace in Ankara, Erdogan said charter schools in the United States were the main source of income for the network of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who he says masterminded the bloody July 15 putsch. "I'm calling on the United States: what kind of strategic partners are we, that you can still host someone whose extradition I have asked for?" Erdogan said in a speech to local representatives of multinational firms operating in Turkey.
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| Protesters disrupt Hong Kong election meeting over rule change | |  By Tyrone Siu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Dozens of masked demonstrators tried to force their way into an electoral meeting in Hong Kong on Tuesday to protest against a new bar on anyone running for the legislature who refuses to declare the territory an "inalienable" part of China. Members of the League of Social Democrats and People Power tried several times to charge the stage and take the microphone before being pushed back by security, forcing the meeting to be suspended at least three times. Politicians from other pro-democracy parties chanted: "No more political elimination!" and "Defend a fair election!" The Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC) said last month that potential candidates for the September Legislative Council election must sign an additional "confirmation form" declaring Hong Kong an inalienable part of China and acknowledging that advocating independence could disqualify them from the election.
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| Obama says Trump unfit to serve as U.S. president | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday Donald Trump's attacks on the family of a Muslim U.S. Army captain killed in Iraq and his lack of understanding of critical issues means the Republican candidate is "woefully unprepared" to serve as president. "There has to come a point at which you say 'enough,'" Obama said, addressing Republican leaders who he said have repeatedly denounced statements made by Trump but who continue to endorse him for president. Obama, a Democrat, was speaking at a White House news conference with Singapore's prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong. ...
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| Olympics will not hinder Brazil's giant corruption probe - police chief | | | CURITIBA, Brazil (Reuters) - The Olympic Games will not hinder a giant corruption investigation centered on state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA but could reduce the number of police available for arrests and sweeps, police chief Igor Romario said on Tuesday. Thousands of police officers have been posted in Rio de Janeiro to beef up security ahead of South America's first Olympics, which start on Friday. Earlier on Tuesday, the federal police arrested two people as part of an investigation into the participation of builder Galvao Queiroz into the Petrobras bribery scheme. ... |
| British EU Commission nominee to oversee response to terrorism | |  By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain's nominee for the European Commission will be put in charge of crafting a response to terrorism and promoting intelligence-sharing, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said, a tough role amid a spate of attacks in western Europe. Recently departed prime minister David Cameron nominated Julian King, currently ambassador to France, as Britain's representative to replace Jonathan Hill, who resigned after Britons voted on June 23 to leave the bloc. The Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, said King's Security Union portfolio would include setting up a European response to terrorism, organised crime and cybercrime.
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| Spain faces spectre of third election as parties lock horns | |  By Sarah White and Blanca Rodríguez MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's two main political parties held fruitless talks to form a new government on Tuesday and acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said a new election - the third in less than a year - may be necessary. Seven months of negotiations to form a new government have so far come to a dead-end, following national elections in December and June that left Spain with a hung parliament. A meeting on Tuesday between the only two parties which together command enough seats in parliament to form a majority, the second-placed Socialists and Rajoy's People's Party (PP), yielded little.
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| A crackdown on counterfeits at merchandise-happy Rio Games | |  By Paulo Prada RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Want an Olympic license plate, or a hand-embroidered Olympic handkerchief? In a country where pirate versions of just about any product are as common as tropical fruit, Olympic organizers are battling a tide of bootleg goods sold and produced by those seeking to profit from the hype around the first-ever Games held in South America. "These are opportunists," says Valeria Aragão, a police inspector in charge of a 20-member counterfeit squad that in recent weeks has conducted raids across the city, confiscating all manner of ersatz Olympic goods.
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| Turkish army overhaul needed to stop cleric's followers, Erdogan says | |  Followers of the U.S.-based cleric blamed for the abortive coup in Turkey last month will try to take over the military again if the armed forces are not restructured, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. In a speech in his palace in Ankara, Erdogan questioned what kind of strategic partnership Turkey had with the United States if Washington refused to extradite the cleric he blames for masterminding the coup. Turkey blames followers of Fethullah Gulen, who has lived in exile in the United States since 1999, for the coup bid, which saw a faction of the military commandeer tanks, planes and helicopters in an attempt to topple the government.
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| China court warns against illegal fishing in riposte to Sth China Sea ruling | |  China's Supreme Court said on Tuesday people caught illegally fishing in Chinese waters could be jailed for up to a year, issuing a judicial interpretation defining those waters as including China's exclusive economic zones. An arbitration court in the Hague ruled last month that China had no historic title over the waters of the South China Sea and that it had breached the Philippines' sovereign rights with various actions in the sea, infuriating Beijing, which dismissed the case. None of China's reefs and holdings in the Spratly Islands entitled it to a 200-mile exclusive economic zone, the court decided.
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| Tens of thousands flee South Sudan violence - U.N. | |  By Stephanie Nebehay and Denis Dumo GENEVA/JUBA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people have fled a fresh outbreak of violence in South Sudan, reporting mass killings, looting and forced recruitment of child soldiers, U.N. agencies said on Tuesday. Many of the refugees pouring into neighbouring Uganda, Kenya and Sudan have been carrying malnourished children, the refugee agency the UNHCR added, the victims of a humanitarian crisis exacerbated by food shortages and a cholera outbreak. The world's newest nation has been caught up in more than two years of ethnically charged fighting between supporters of President Salva Kiir and his long-time rival Riek Machar that has raised fears of wider instability across east Africa.
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| Former Thai PM Yingluck rejects charter days before referendum | |  Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Tuesday she rejected a draft constitution sponsored by the generals who toppled her government two years ago, and would vote against it in an Aug. 7 referendum. The referendum is an important step for the military government that took power after the May 2014 coup as it tries to shape a political system that it hopes will end a decade of turmoil in Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy. Yingluck's party has already rejected the draft charter, as has the leader of its main rival, and she echoed their criticism of it as undemocratic.
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| Sexual abuse plagues female workers on India's sugarcane fields | |  By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Every year after the monsoon, Gouri Bhiwde and her husband joined tens of thousands of workers migrating to the west of Maharashtra state to cut sugarcane. After one difficult pregnancy, Bhiwde's husband and his family took her to a doctor, who advised her to have a hysterectomy to prevent any further complications. "The doctor said, 'let's take it out'," Bhiwde said by telephone from her village in Beed district.
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| Briton in Trump gun incident could die in U.S. prison, mother says | |  A British man detained in the United States for allegedly trying to wrestle a gun from a police officer at a Donald Trump rally is suffering from severe mental illness and risks dying in prison, his mother said on Tuesday. Michael Sandford, 20, is due to face trial in Nevada on Aug. 22.
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