| North Korea military threatens physical response against U.S. THAAD deployment Posted: 10 Jul 2016 03:19 PM PDT  North Korea's military said on Monday it will take "physical response" to a move by the United States and South Korea to deploy the advanced THAAD missile defense system to the Korean peninsula to counter the threat from the North. The United States and South Korea said on Friday that the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system will be used as defense against North Korea's growing nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities.
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| Frontrunner in British PM race May vows corporate governance reforms Posted: 10 Jul 2016 04:46 PM PDT  By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Theresa May, the favorite to succeed David Cameron as British prime minister, will pledge on Monday to overhaul corporate governance rules if elected, including putting workers on company boards and making shareholder votes on pay binding. Cameron said last month he was stepping down after voters rejected his bid to keep Britain in the European Union. Interior minister May is up against junior energy minister Andrea Leadsom in a leadership contest due to be decided by Sept. 9 in a vote by the Conservative Party's 150,000 grassroots members.
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| German ministry sees possible delay in signing missile defense contract Posted: 10 Jul 2016 05:04 PM PDT  Germany may not finish negotiations with Europe's MBDA and Lockheed Martin Corp on the MEADS missile defense system by the end of the year as planned, according to a document sent to lawmakers by a senior German defense ministry official. The document, dated July 8 and sent by State Secretary Ralf Brauksiepe, said it was unclear if the project could be submitted to the parliamentary budget committee by the end of this year, or if it would slip into early next year. Company officials told Reuters last month they hoped to submit a final contract proposal for the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) by the end of July and wrap up negotiations on the $4.5 billion project by year's end.
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| Israeli attorney-general orders inquiry linked to Netanyahu Posted: 10 Jul 2016 01:02 PM PDT  Israel's attorney-general has ordered an inquiry into "matters" related to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the justice ministry said on Sunday, without saying what they were. The terse statement followed days of Israeli media speculation about possible official suspicions of misconduct by Netanyahu or by people close to him. Through his lawyer, Netanyahu - now serving his fourth term as prime minister - has denied any wrongdoing.
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| Renewed fighting erupts in South Sudan as fears of civil war mount Posted: 10 Jul 2016 02:49 PM PDT  By Denis Dumo JUBA (Reuters) - Renewed fighting erupted in South Sudan's capital on Sunday and forces loyal to Vice President Riek Machar said his residence was attacked by the president's troops, raising fears of a slide back into full-blown conflict in the five-year-old nation. There was no immediate response from the government of President Salva Kiir to the statement by Machar's spokesman. At least 272 people have been killed in the fighting, a Health Ministry source told Reuters early on Sunday.
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| Family of killed U.S. journalist Marie Colvin sues Syria Posted: 10 Jul 2016 01:43 PM PDT  By Lisa Barrington BEIRUT (Reuters) - The family of American journalist Marie Colvin, who died in Syria in 2012, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in a U.S. court, accusing the Syrian government of deliberately killing her. Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs in 2012 while reporting on the Syrian conflict, now in its sixth year. The lawsuit, filed in Washington on Saturday and seen by Reuters, said Syrian officials deliberately targeted rockets against a makeshift broadcast studio where Colvin and other reporters were living and working.
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| FARC rebels injured in 'combat' with Colombian army: minister Posted: 10 Jul 2016 05:24 PM PDT  FARC rebels in Colombia have clashed with government forces in the center of the country, Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas said, as the two sides push to finalize a historic peace deal. A FARC patrol unit came upon an army rapid response team patrol and engaged," Villegas said on Sunday. The injured rebels were members of a delegation that was due to travel to the ongoing peace talks being held in Havana.
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| US frees Yemeni prisoner from Guantanamo, sends him to Italy Posted: 10 Jul 2016 05:20 PM PDT  MIAMI (AP) — A Yemeni prisoner at Guantanamo Bay was released and sent to Italy after more than 14 years in custody, the Pentagon said Sunday.
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| UN Security Council meets on South Sudan fighting Posted: 10 Jul 2016 05:18 PM PDT  The UN Security Council met behind closed doors on renewed fighting in the capital of South Sudan, as former rebels and government soldiers exchanged fire in several parts of Juba. The UNMISS mission was caught in the exchange of fire.
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| Column: Euro 2016 final again proves football's cruelty Posted: 10 Jul 2016 05:09 PM PDT  SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Football is a cruel game. Sometimes even for its winners.
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| Goydos hangs on to win Dick's Open on Champions Tour Posted: 10 Jul 2016 04:59 PM PDT ENDICOTT, New York (AP) — Paul Goydos likes to say his golf game is two good rounds, then a mediocre one. |
| French police arrest 40 over Euro 2016 violence Posted: 10 Jul 2016 04:59 PM PDT  French police arrested around 40 people for violence and other offences before and after France's defeat to Portugal in the Euro 2016 final in Paris on Sunday, police said. Police used tear gas and rounded up supporters who pelted them with bottles at the foot of the Eiffel Tower after they were refused entry to the fan zone, which was closed after it was packed to its 90,000 capacity, Paris police said. Other arrests took place outside the Stade de France where the match was played.
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| Poland's disappearing lakes fuel battle over coal mining Posted: 10 Jul 2016 04:55 PM PDT Drought and climate change, however, are feared to not be the only culprits, with mining of lignite, or brown coal, sapping underground waters and pitting residents against major energy company ZE PAK's proposal for another new mine. Grzegorz Skowroński, the mayor of Wilczyn, a municipality about 200 km (125 miles) west of Warsaw, said Lake Wilczyńskie's water level has fallen five metres (16.4 ft) since 2011 and is dropping up to four centimeters a week now. "The state of the lake today is catastrophic and nearby lakes are affected too as they are all inter-connected," Skowroński told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. |
| Urgency needed over U.N. goals to slash global poverty, inequality: think tank Posted: 10 Jul 2016 04:50 PM PDT By Joel Silverstein LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A global commitment to combat extreme poverty and inequality agreed in a blaze of publicity last year needs to be put into action before it is too late, a UK-based think tank on development and humanitarian issues warned on Monday. The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) warned in a report that slow implementation of the U.N.'s global goals, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), would stall advances against rising global inequality. U.N. member states agreed last September to a 15-year blueprint with 17 ambitious goals and 169 targets to try to tackle the world's most troubling problems. |
| Thousands flee heavy fighting in South Sudan capital Posted: 10 Jul 2016 04:46 PM PDT  Thousands fled heavy fighting in South Sudan's capital Juba on Sunday as government soldiers and former rebels traded fire in a return to hostilities that has claimed scores of lives, threatening a shaky peace deal. The battles are the first between the army and ex-rebels in Juba since rebel leader Riek Machar returned to take up the post of vice president in a unity government in April, under an accord to end a bloody civil war. The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting behind closed doors Sunday evening to discuss the situation.
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| France's poor finishing resurfaces at Euro 2016 final Posted: 10 Jul 2016 04:34 PM PDT  SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Wasteful finishing came back to haunt France in the European Championship final against Portugal on Sunday, with even tournament top scorer Antoine Griezmann missing his chances.
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| Happy Ronaldo leaves European final in tears for 2nd time Posted: 10 Jul 2016 04:34 PM PDT  SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — This time, Cristiano Ronaldo cried with joy at a European Championship final and lifted the trophy as the winning captain.
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| Japan's ruling bloc wins landslide in upper house election Posted: 10 Jul 2016 04:30 PM PDT  By Linda Sieg and Minami Funakoshi TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition won a landslide victory on Sunday in an election for parliament's upper house, despite concerns about his economic policies and plans to revise the nation's post-war pacifist constitution for the first time. Final counts showed Abe's coalition, like-minded parties and independents had won the two-thirds "super majority" needed to try to revise the constitution's restraints on the military, a step that could strain ties with China, where memories of Japan's past militarism run deep. Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) fell one short of winning a simple majority, which would have increased its clout within the coalition.
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| Padres agree to $11M deal with 17-year-old Cuban pitcher Posted: 10 Jul 2016 04:12 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — The San Diego Padres have agreed to terms with 17-year-old Cuban pitcher Adrian Morejon on a deal that includes an $11 million signing bonus and is pending a physical. |
| N. Korea to take 'physical action' over US anti-missile system Posted: 10 Jul 2016 04:10 PM PDT  North Korea on Monday threatened to take "physical action" to counter a sophisticated US anti-missile system planned to be deployed in the South. "The DPRK will take a physical counter-action to thoroughly control THAAD... from the moment its location and place have been confirmed in South Korea," the artillery bureau of the North's military said in a statement, according to the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). North Korea's military, which has "sufficient latest offensive strike means", will take "more merciless and powerful successive corresponding measures against the US keen to ignite a war by deploying THAAD", it said.
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| UK Treasury chief visits United States for Wall Street talks Posted: 10 Jul 2016 04:03 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — Britain's Treasury chief is visiting the United States for talks with investors on Wall Street following Britain's decision to leave the European Union. |
| Dallas shooter planned larger attacks, police say Posted: 10 Jul 2016 03:33 PM PDT  The Dallas gunman was plotting a major bomb attack, authorities said Sunday, urging calm after 200 people were arrested in a new night of protests over police violence against blacks. Anger around America over the deaths of two black men at the hands of police in recent days -- the stated reason for the black Dallas gunman's deadly rampage targeting white officers -- showed no signs of abating with a prominent Black Lives Matter activist among those arrested. President Barack Obama cautioned protesting Americans against casting all police as racially biased, as the White House announced he would travel to Dallas on Tuesday to address an inter-faith memorial service.
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| The Latest: Victorious Portugal set for Confederations Cup Posted: 10 Jul 2016 03:25 PM PDT  SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — The Latest from the European Championship (all times local):
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| Dallas gunman plotted bigger assault, taunted officers: chief Posted: 10 Jul 2016 02:43 PM PDT  The U.S. military veteran who fatally shot five Dallas police officers was plotting a larger assault, possibly using explosives, and he taunted police and wrote on a wall in his own blood before being killed, authorities said on Sunday. Instead, Micah X. Johnson improvised and used his military training to gun down officers during a demonstration on Thursday evening, Dallas Police Chief David Brown told CNN. It was the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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| Venezuelans cross into Colombia searching for food Posted: 10 Jul 2016 02:39 PM PDT  Thousands of Venezuelans poured across the border into Colombia on Sunday to buy essential goods during a brief opening of the border that's been closed for nearly a year. After ordering the border closed last August for security reasons, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro authorized a maximum 12-hour opening of the pedestrian bridge that connects Tachira, Venezuela and Cucuta, Colombia. Economically ravaged Venezuela has suffered food and medicine shortages for months, a ripple effect from the falling price of oil, the country's primary export.
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| Murray's competitiveness helped him win 2nd Wimbledon title Posted: 10 Jul 2016 02:28 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — There are many reasons for Andy Murray's second Wimbledon championship and third Grand Slam title, not least of which would be his ability to return Milos Raonic's big serves in the final.
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| Heavy arms fire rocks South Sudan capital, many casualties Posted: 10 Jul 2016 05:38 PM PDT  JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan's capital was rocked Sunday by heavy arms fire between forces loyal to the president and those of the vice president, causing widespread casualties and raising fears the country is returning to civil war.
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| Israel okays millions to West Bank settlements after attacks Posted: 10 Jul 2016 01:42 PM PDT  Israel's government on Sunday approved nearly $13 million in financing for the West Bank settlements of Kiryat Arba and Hebron, officials said, following a wave of Palestinian attacks in the area. The decision by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing cabinet will see some 50 million shekels ($12.8 million, 11.6 million euros) allocated to "strengthen" the communities. "Government offices, I must note, have all been recruited to assist the residents who stand heroically in the face of vicious terrorism," Netanyahu said ahead of the approval.
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| Guapaza gets first US win in River Memories Stakes Posted: 10 Jul 2016 01:31 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Guapaza got her first U.S. victory on Sunday, beating Trophee by a half length in the $95,000 River Memories Stakes for fillies and mares on the turf at Belmont Park. |
| Fowler tweets he's going to Olympics Posted: 10 Jul 2016 01:29 PM PDT  TROON, Scotland (AP) — Rickie Fowler took to Twitter to say he's going to the Olympics. Patrick Reed confirmed at the Scottish Open that he will join him in Rio.
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| Israel AG orders 'examination' into Netanyahu 'matter' Posted: 10 Jul 2016 01:17 PM PDT  Israel's Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit said on Sunday he had ordered an "examination" into an unspecified affair involving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after weeks of media speculation and rumours. "After receiving information on matters pertaining, among others, to the prime minister," Mandelblit met police and justice officials, after which he decided "to order an examination into the matter," a justice ministry statement read. "We stress that this is an examination and not a criminal investigation into the prime minister," it read.
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| US group celebrates Poles who saved Jews during Holocaust Posted: 10 Jul 2016 01:16 PM PDT  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — One man is 101 years old. Others are in their 80s and 90s and arrived in wheelchairs, with a walker, or leaning for support on children who are themselves past middle age.
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| Egypt foreign minister meets Israel PM in rare visit Posted: 10 Jul 2016 01:06 PM PDT  Egypt's foreign minister met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday on reviving peace efforts with the Palestinians, the first such visit in nearly a decade and the latest sign of warming ties. The trip came amid talk of renewing an Arab peace initiative and with Israel's military having recently saluted "unprecedented" intelligence cooperation with Egypt to combat the Islamic State group.
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| Obama urges greater respect, understanding after shootings Posted: 10 Jul 2016 01:04 PM PDT  MADRID (AP) — President Barack Obama on Sunday urged respect and restraint from Americans angered by the killing of black men by police, saying anything less does a "disservice to the cause" of ridding the criminal justice system of racial bias.
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| Turkish military strikes Islamic State, PKK targets Posted: 10 Jul 2016 12:46 PM PDT ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish jets and artillery struck 10 Islamic State targets as they were preparing to fire on Turkey, the country's General Staff said Sunday. |
| WADA calls for 'quick action' after latest Kenya doping claims Posted: 10 Jul 2016 12:41 PM PDT  The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) urged the Kenyan government to act "quickly in the interest of protecting clean sport" after the athletics powerhouse found itself caught in the eye of a fresh doping storm. A new investigation by German television channel ARD and Britain's Sunday Times newspaper alleged Saturday that doping is rife at the elite training centre in Iten. Over the past three years some 40 Kenyan athletes have failed doping tests, shredding their reputation for probity and laying bare the reality behind their reputation as the most dominant middle to long distance running nation in the world.
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| Next stages in UK Labour leadership contest Posted: 10 Jul 2016 12:36 PM PDT  Britain's Angela Eagle was set Monday to launch a bid to unseat Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the main opposition Labour Party, part of the fallout of last month's Brexit vote. Corbyn, a veteran socialist who has been in the job since November, has been under pressure to resign over his lukewarm campaigning in favour of Britain remaining in the EU. On June 28, 172 of 230 Labour members of parliament approved a non-binding motion of no confidence in him, while 40 backed him to remain on as Labour leader.
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