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• Attempted coup adds to strains in uneasy U.S.-Turkey relations
• Turkey widens post-coup purge, demands U.S. hand over cleric
• Afghan refugee with ax attacks passengers on German train
• North Korea fires three ballistic missiles, flew up to 600 km: South Korea
• Exclusive: Documents from purged Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang to be published in Hong Kong
• Britain's May to tell ministers they must work for Brexit success
• North Korea fires three ballistic missiles, flew up to 600 km: South Korea
• Top Asian News 12:23 a.m. GMT
• Australia's cabinet sworn in after narrow election victory
• Ex-soldier who killed Guatemalan bishop dies in prison riot
• Seoul says North Korea has fired 3 missiles into sea
• U.S. says hopes to raise in excess of $2 billion in aid for Iraq
• Turnbull sworn in as Australia's PM
• German police kill Afghan teen after train axe attack
• Guatemalan army captain convicted of killing bishop dies in prison riot
• Tensions with West rise as Turkey continues purge
• Kobe Paras signs with Creighton's men's basketball team
• Seoul says North Korea has fired three missiles into its eastern sea
• UK's Johnson says Russia must join push to oust Syria's Assad
• U.S. regulators say fuel efficiency pays, despite cheaper gas
• Boris Johnson to make first US trip for IS talks
• EU's Oettinger says Turkey won't get visa-free travel this year
• Middle-class Venezuelans liquidate savings to stockpile food
• Afghan teen killed after injuring passengers on German train
• Anti-Trump revolt rocks Republican convention
• Querrey trying to build momentum after beating Djokovic
• German train attacker was 17-year-old Afghan: Bavarian minister
• German train attacker shot dead, motive unclear: Bavarian ministry
• Step up fight against extremism, says mayor of Nice
• Mexico statistics body criticized for poverty survey changes
• Attorney: Minnesota woman denies treating nanny like slave
• Tesoro, Par Hawaii settle with U.S. over air quality violations
• Survivor's tale: "It looked like a killing machine"
• Wimbledon champion Andy Murray withdraws from Rogers Cup
• Russia's Rio status hangs by thread as IOC talks sanctions
• UK Parliament votes to renew submarine-based nuclear arsenal
• Some questions and answers about the Russian doping report

Attempted coup adds to strains in uneasy U.S.-Turkey relations Posted: 18 Jul 2016 04:30 PM PDT By Lesley Wroughton, Jonathan Landay and Yara Bayoumy WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government can do little for now but voice its concern as Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan uses a failed coup attempt to purge thousands of his opponents and demand the extradition of a dissident cleric living in Pennsylvania. "What happens to our relationship with Turkey will largely depend on how Turkey itself works its way through the investigations and the decisions they make in the wake of this attempted coup," a senior U.S. official said.Erdogan has accused Gulen of being behind the coup and said on Monday that his government will formally request the cleric's extradition within days.

Turkey widens post-coup purge, demands U.S. hand over cleric Posted: 18 Jul 2016 02:15 PM PDT By Humeyra Pamuk and Ercan Gurses ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey purged its police on Monday after rounding up thousands of soldiers in the wake of a failed military coup, and said it could reconsider its friendship with the United States unless Washington hands over a cleric Ankara blames for the putsch. The broad crackdown and calls to reinstate the death penalty for plotters drew concern from Western allies who said Ankara must uphold the rule of law in the country, a NATO member that is Washington's most powerful Muslim ally. Some voiced concern President Tayyip Erdogan - who said he was almost killed or captured by the mutineers - was using the opportunity to consolidate his power and further a process of stifling dissent which has already caused tensions with Europe.

Afghan refugee with ax attacks passengers on German train Posted: 18 Jul 2016 05:26 PM PDT A 17-year-old Afghan refugee wielding an ax and a knife attacked passengers on a train in southern Germany on Monday evening, severely wounding four, before he was shot dead by police, the interior minister for the state of Bavaria said. Speaking on German public television, Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said it was too early to speculate about the motives of the attacker, who he said was believed to have been living in a home for unaccompanied minors in Ochsenfurt, near the city of Wuerzburg. The attack comes just days after a Tunisian delivery man plowed a 19-tonne truck into crowds of Bastille Day revelers in the southern French city of Nice, killing 84.

North Korea fires three ballistic missiles, flew up to 600 km: South Korea Posted: 18 Jul 2016 03:46 PM PDT North Korea fired three ballistic missiles early on Tuesday into the sea off its east coast that had a range of between 500 and 600 kilometers (300 and 360 miles), South Korea's military said. The missiles were launched towards east from an area in the North's western region called Hwangju from 5:45 a.m. local time (2045 GMT Monday) to 6:40 a.m., the South's military said. "The ballistic missiles flight went from 500 kilometers to 600 kilometers, which is a distance far enough to strike all of South Korea including Busan," the South's military said in a statement.

Exclusive: Documents from purged Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang to be published in Hong Kong Posted: 18 Jul 2016 04:52 PM PDT By Benjamin Kang Lim and Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - A collection of documents from Zhao Ziyang, who was China's reformist Communist Party chief until he was toppled in 1989 for opposing the Tiananmen crackdown, has been smuggled out of the country and will be published in Hong Kong this month, according to a publishing house that is turning them into a book.  "The Collected Works of Zhao Ziyang", to be released by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, lifts the veil on behind-the-scenes wrangling among top leaders from 1980 to 1989, said Gan Qi, director of the publisher. It is unclear if the documents still come under China's state secret laws. The territory was rocked recently by allegations that China had abducted and illegally detained five Hong Kong booksellers.        China's State Council Information Office, its cabinet spokesman's office, did not respond to requests for comment.

Britain's May to tell ministers they must work for Brexit success Posted: 18 Jul 2016 04:07 PM PDT New British Prime Minister Theresa May will use the first meeting of her senior ministers on Tuesday to tell them they must all play their part in making Britain's exit from the European Union a success. May's office said she would also tell her cabinet that the government must seize the global opportunities offered by leaving the EU and ensure Britain remains open for business. "Brexit means Brexit and we're going to make a success of it.

North Korea fires three ballistic missiles, flew up to 600 km: South Korea Posted: 18 Jul 2016 05:31 PM PDT By Jack Kim and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired three ballistic missiles early on Tuesday which flew between 500 and 600 kms (300 and 360 miles) into the sea off its east coast, South Korea's military said, the latest in a series of provocative moves by the isolated country. The missiles, which South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said were presumed to be Scud types, were launched from an area in the North's western region called Hwangju between 5:45 a.m. local time (2045 GMT Monday) and 6:40 a.m., the South's military said. Tuesday's launches came days after South Korea and the United States announced a final decision to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) anti-missile system in the South to counter threats from the North.

Top Asian News 12:23 a.m. GMT Posted: 18 Jul 2016 05:23 PM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Tuesday fired three ballistic missiles into its eastern sea, which followed a week of verbal warnings against the South over its decision to deploy an advanced U.S. missile defense system to better cope with North Korean threats, South Korean officials said. The short-range missiles were launched from inland and flew about 500 to 600 kilometers (310 to 375 miles) before crashing into the sea, displaying a sufficient range to target the southern part of South Korea, where Seoul and Washington have decided to station the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, system, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

Australia's cabinet sworn in after narrow election victory Posted: 18 Jul 2016 05:23 PM PDT CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia's new cabinet was sworn in Tuesday, but the conservative government will have the slimmest of majorities when Parliament opens next month.

Ex-soldier who killed Guatemalan bishop dies in prison riot Posted: 18 Jul 2016 05:19 PM PDT GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A former army officer serving a prison sentence for the 1998 killing of a Roman Catholic bishop died in a jail riot that killed at least five inmates Monday, Guatemalan authorities said.

Seoul says North Korea has fired 3 missiles into sea Posted: 18 Jul 2016 05:18 PM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Tuesday fired three ballistic missiles into its eastern sea, which followed a week of verbal warnings against the South over its decision to deploy an advanced U.S. missile defense system to better cope with North Korean threats, South Korean officials said.

U.S. says hopes to raise in excess of $2 billion in aid for Iraq Posted: 18 Jul 2016 04:58 PM PDT The United States expects to raise more than $2 billion this week for war-torn Iraq during a pledging conference in Washington, a senior State Department official said on Monday. The Iraq donor meeting of 24 countries is being co-hosted by the United States, Canada, Germany, Japan, Kuwait and the Netherlands. A broader meeting on a U.S.-led campaign to fight Islamic State militants will be held on Thursday.

Turnbull sworn in as Australia's PM Posted: 18 Jul 2016 04:55 PM PDT Malcolm Turnbull was sworn in for another term as Australia's prime minister Tuesday after a narrow election victory with budget repair and a public vote on same sex marriage among his top priorities. The multi-millionaire former banker's Liberal/National coalition clung to power in closely-fought July 2 polls, with the party holding 76 seats, and potentially one more with counting still underway, in the 150-seat House of Representatives. Turnbull was sworn in at Government House in Canberra by Governor General Peter Cosgrove, Queen Elizabeth II's representative in Australia, and has broadly stuck with the same team of ministers he took to the election.

German police kill Afghan teen after train axe attack Posted: 18 Jul 2016 04:47 PM PDT Several other people were also injured in the assault on a regional train near the southern city of Wuerzburg, police said, adding that the teenager was killed as he tried to flee. Joachim Herrmann, the interior minister of Bavaria state, said the assailant had arrived as an unaccompanied minor in Germany and had lived at first in a shelter and then more recently with a foster family in nearby Ochsenfurt. "It is quite probable that this was an Islamist attack," said a ministry spokesman, adding that the attacker had shouted "Allahu akbar" (God is greatest).

Guatemalan army captain convicted of killing bishop dies in prison riot Posted: 18 Jul 2016 04:33 PM PDT A former army captain convicted of murdering a Guatemalan bishop was killed on Monday in a prison riot in which 13 people died, the National Institute of Forensic Sciences said. A spokesman for the institute said the death of Byron Lima Oliva, who was serving 20 years for the murder of Bishop Juan Gerardi in 1998, took place in Pavoncito, a prison 18 miles (30 km) from the capital, Guatemala City. Twelve other inmates were killed in the riot, said spokesman Roberto Garza.

Tensions with West rise as Turkey continues purge Posted: 18 Jul 2016 04:31 PM PDT ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The purging of thousands of alleged plotters of a failed coup raised tensions Monday between Turkey and the West, with U.S. and European officials urging restraint, while Ankara insisted that Washington extradite an exile accused of orchestrating the plot.

Kobe Paras signs with Creighton's men's basketball team Posted: 18 Jul 2016 04:27 PM PDT OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Creighton says Kobe Paras has signed an agreement to play basketball for the Bluejays.

Seoul says North Korea has fired three missiles into its eastern sea Posted: 18 Jul 2016 04:23 PM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Seoul says North Korea has fired three missiles into its eastern sea.

UK's Johnson says Russia must join push to oust Syria's Assad Posted: 18 Jul 2016 04:13 PM PDT New British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called on Tuesday for Russia and other states to demand Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down as he prepared for his first meeting with Western counterparts on Syria's intractable civil war. Johnson will meet peers from Germany, France, Italy and the European Union in London to discuss Syria's five-year conflict, which has spurred the rise of Islamic State, sucked in regional and major powers and created the world's worst refugee crisis. "I will be making clear my view that the suffering of the Syrian people will not end while Assad remains in power.

U.S. regulators say fuel efficiency pays, despite cheaper gas Posted: 18 Jul 2016 04:08 PM PDT By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Automakers have the technology to meet aggressive mandates to hike fuel efficiency by 2025, but the fleet-wide improvement will not be as great as the Obama administration once forecast because buyers are switching to pickup trucks and SUVs, federal regulators said Monday. The report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the California Air Resources Board will frame a debate with the auto industry that will be decided in 2018 by the next president.

Boris Johnson to make first US trip for IS talks Posted: 18 Jul 2016 04:06 PM PDT New British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will on Thursday make his first official visit to the United States, meeting international counterparts as part of the fight against Islamic State (IS). The former London mayor, a surprise choice to become Britain's top diplomat in new Prime Minister Theresa May's government, made his first overseas engagement on Monday, meeting with European leaders, many of whom were angered by his campaign to take Britain out of the European Union. Johnson will meet with US counterpart John Kerry in London on Tuesday to "underline the importance of the special relationship following Britain's decision to withdraw from the European Union".

EU's Oettinger says Turkey won't get visa-free travel this year Posted: 18 Jul 2016 04:04 PM PDT European Commissioner Guenther Oettinger has said he did not see the European Union granting Turks visa-free travel this year - as agreed in a migration deal - due to Ankara's crackdown after a failed military coup. The EU sealed a controversial deal with Turkey in March intended to halt illegal migration flows to Europe in return for financial and political rewards for Ankara. "The draft law (on ending visa requirements for Turks) is being debated in the European Parliament right now," Oettinger, commissioner for digital economy and society, told several regional German newspapers in an interview published on Tuesday.

Middle-class Venezuelans liquidate savings to stockpile food Posted: 18 Jul 2016 04:00 PM PDT SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (AP) — Tebie Gonzalez and Ramiro Ramirez still have their sleek apartment, a fridge covered with souvenir magnets from vacations abroard, and closets full of name brand clothes. But they feel hunger drawing close.

Afghan teen killed after injuring passengers on German train Posted: 18 Jul 2016 03:59 PM PDT BERLIN (AP) — A teenage Afghan migrant armed with an ax and a knife attacked passengers aboard a regional train in southern Germany on Monday night, injuring four people before he was shot and killed by police as he fled, authorities said.

Anti-Trump revolt rocks Republican convention Posted: 18 Jul 2016 03:54 PM PDT The Republican convention opened to chaotic scenes Monday as Donald Trump's opponents and supporters traded angry shouts, disrupting his plans for a smooth coronation as the party's White House nominee. Jeers and yells filled the convention floor in Cleveland, Ohio as simmering divisions among thousands of Republican delegates spilled out into the open. Anti-Trump Republicans -- outraged that their party will be led by a man who described Mexicans as rapists and advocated banning Muslims -- expressed fury when procedural machinations denied them a chance to register their discontent.

Querrey trying to build momentum after beating Djokovic Posted: 18 Jul 2016 03:52 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The player who beat Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon is ready to get back on the court.

German train attacker was 17-year-old Afghan: Bavarian minister Posted: 18 Jul 2016 03:43 PM PDT BERLIN (Reuters) - The axe-wielding man who attacked passengers on a train in southern Germany on Monday, critically injuring several people, was a 17-year-old Afghan refugee who was living in the town of Ochsenfurt, Bavaria's interior minister said. Joachim Herrmann told public broadcaster ARD that the young man, who was later shot dead by police, appeared to have made his way to Germany as an unaccompanied minor. Herrmann declined to speculate about the motive for the attack. (Reporting by Noah Barkin; Editing by Michael Nienaber)

German train attacker shot dead, motive unclear: Bavarian ministry Posted: 18 Jul 2016 03:42 PM PDT The Bavarian Interior Ministry confirmed early on Tuesday that an attacker who injured several passengers with an ax on a regional train in southern Germany was shot dead by police. The motive of the attacker was unclear, a spokesman for the Bavarian Interior Ministry told Reuters. German media quoted a Bavarian ministry official as saying that the attacker was a refugee.

Step up fight against extremism, says mayor of Nice Posted: 18 Jul 2016 03:35 PM PDT NICE, France (AP) — The mayor of Nice called Monday for France to step up its fight against extremism, saying the attack on his city shows that radical ideas are still entering the country too easily.

Mexico statistics body criticized for poverty survey changes Posted: 18 Jul 2016 03:26 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — Anti-poverty groups in Mexico accused the national statistics agency Monday of arbitrarily changing the way it measures income surveys so poverty appears to be less of a problem.

Attorney: Minnesota woman denies treating nanny like slave Posted: 18 Jul 2016 03:24 PM PDT WOODBURY, Minn. (AP) — The attorney for a Minnesota woman accused of beating and starving a woman she brought from China to work as a nanny says his client denies the charges.

Tesoro, Par Hawaii settle with U.S. over air quality violations Posted: 18 Jul 2016 03:18 PM PDT By Valerie Volcovici and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. oil refiners Tesoro Corp and Par Hawaii Refining reached a $425 million settlement with the United States on Monday to resolve air quality violations at six refineries in Western states, the government announced on Monday. The accord requires the companies to invest $403 million in new equipment to better control air emissions at operations in Alaska, Northern California, North Dakota, Utah, Hawaii and Washington, the Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency said. "We are pleased to have reached agreement on this consent decree that allows us to fully implement the required procedures and investments to further improve our environmental performance," said Keith Casey, Tesoro's executive vice president for operations.

Survivor's tale: "It looked like a killing machine" Posted: 18 Jul 2016 03:14 PM PDT NICE, France (AP) — Limane Lyes is a bus driver by trade, and his first thought when he saw the truck careening down the Promenade des Anglais was that either the driver had fallen asleep or that the brakes had failed. Then he saw the truck deliberately zig-zagging to target families as they tried to flee his trajectory.

Wimbledon champion Andy Murray withdraws from Rogers Cup Posted: 18 Jul 2016 03:06 PM PDT TORONTO (AP) — Wimbledon champion Andy Murray has withdrawn from the Rogers Cup tennis tournament because of fatigue.

Russia's Rio status hangs by thread as IOC talks sanctions Posted: 18 Jul 2016 02:53 PM PDT International Olympic Committee (IOC) members were set for emergency talks Tuesday to decide Russia's status for the Rio Olympics after an investigation found rampant state-run doping at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games and other events. A probe by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren for WADA found the FSB secret service helped "the state-dictated failsafe system" carried out by the Moscow sports ministry and sprawling 30 sports over five years.

UK Parliament votes to renew submarine-based nuclear arsenal Posted: 18 Jul 2016 02:51 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers voted Monday to replace the country's aging fleet of nuclear-armed submarines with new vessels, heeding Prime Minister Theresa May's warning that relinquishing atomic weapons would be a "reckless gamble."

Some questions and answers about the Russian doping report Posted: 18 Jul 2016 02:49 PM PDT GENEVA (AP) — A report by the World Anti-Doping Agency included more details from investigators about how Russian athletes — with help from government officials — doped and got away with it at the Sochi Olympics.

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