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• Islamists attack French church, slit priest's throat
• Turkish troops hunt remaining coup plotters as crackdown widens
• Kerry hopes to work with Russia on Syria, U.N. aims to restart talks
• Obama says it is possible Russia would try to sway U.S. election
• Knife attacker in Japan moved from jail to see prosecutors: NHK
• Venezuela government aims to sink Maduro recall, opposition protests
• Venezuela to reassign private, public workers to agriculture
• 'Anything's possible' _ Obama points to Russia on DNC hack
• Mickelson not close to being over runner-up in British Open
• Australia's AGL and state-owned funds establish renewables fund
• Authorities blame weather for Panama Canal ship scrape
• Montreal dreaming of show court roof at Uniprix Stadium
• Honduras reports 8 babies born with Zika-related defects
• UN secretary-general calls for truce during Rio Olympics
• Top Asian News 12:16 a.m. GMT
• Favored by Obama, TPP deal draws ire at Dem, GOP conventions
• Crews battling California wildfire face renewed blast of heat
• Indonesia's energy minister to be replaced in cabinet reshuffle: sources
• Venezuela government seeks to ban opposition over recall 'fraud'
• Priest murdered in French church attack: what we know so far
• California wildfire displaces exotic animals, horses, cats and dogs, too
• French Open champ Muguruza withdraws from Montreal
• Cirque du Soleil cancels 40 shows in Turkey
• Olympics present problem in US qualifying for Ryder Cup
• UN wants more staff to return to Western Sahara mission
• 2 Brazil warplanes collide while training for Olympics duty
• Husky says Canadian oil spill started day before pipeline was shut
• India's parliament passes controversial child labor bill
• Patient shoots, kills doctor in Berlin then kills himself
• Man shot in Swedish mall, no links to militants: police
• Guyana to deport 14 Venezuelans who crossed border for food
• Malaysia's Najib gets new powers amid planned protests over fund scandal
• 3 wounded in shooting at Armenian police station
• The Latest: UN calls for Olympic Truce during Rio Games
• Stenson's search for perfection doesn't end with a major
• French jihadist attacks church while under house arrest
• U.N. Western Sahara mission still recovering from Morocco dispute

Islamists attack French church, slit priest's throat Posted: 26 Jul 2016 02:40 PM PDT By Noemie Olive SAINT-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France (Reuters) - Knife-wielding attackers interrupted a French church service, forced the priest to his knees and slit his throat on Tuesday, a murder made even more shocking as one of the assailants was a known would-be jihadist under supposedly tight surveillance. The men arrived during morning mass in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, a working-class town near Rouen, northwest of Paris, where the 85-year-old parish priest, Father Jacques Hamel, was leading prayers. News agency Amaq, which is affiliated with Islamic State, a group France is bombing in Iraq and Syria as part of a U.S.-led coalition, said two of its "soldiers" had carried out the attack.

Turkish troops hunt remaining coup plotters as crackdown widens Posted: 26 Jul 2016 12:01 PM PDT By Daren Butler and Orhan Coskun ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish special forces backed by helicopters, drones and the navy hunted a remaining group of commandos thought to have tried to capture or kill President Tayyip Erdogan during a failed coup, as a crackdown on suspected plotters widened on Tuesday. More than 1,000 members of the security forces were involved in the manhunt for the 11 rogue soldiers in the hills around the Mediterranean coastal resort of Marmaris, where Erdogan was holidaying on the night of the coup attempt, officials said. Erdogan and the government accuse U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen of orchestrating the attempted power grab and have launched a crackdown on his suspected followers.

Kerry hopes to work with Russia on Syria, U.N. aims to restart talks Posted: 26 Jul 2016 03:36 PM PDT By Lesley Wroughton and Stephanie Nebehay VIENTIANE/GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States said on Tuesday it hoped to announce in early August details of planned military cooperation and intelligence sharing with Russia on Syria, and a United Nations envoy said he would also aim to resume peace talks next month. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington and Moscow, which support opposing sides in Syria's five-year-old conflict, had made progress in recent days towards working more closely together. The proposals would have the two powers share intelligence to coordinate air strikes against the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front and prohibit the Syrian air force from attacking rebel groups labeled as moderate.

Obama says it is possible Russia would try to sway U.S. election Posted: 26 Jul 2016 04:51 PM PDT U.S. President Barack Obama said it was possible that Russia would try to influence the U.S. presidential election, after a leak of Democratic National Committee emails that experts have attributed to Russian hackers. "Anything is possible," Obama told NBC News in an interview broadcast on Tuesday when asked if the Russians would try to influence the Nov. 8 election. Obama said the Federal Bureau of Investigation was investigating the leak on Friday of more than 19,000 DNC emails, which showed the committee had favored Hillary Clinton over Senator Bernie Sanders for the party's presidential nomination.

Knife attacker in Japan moved from jail to see prosecutors: NHK Posted: 26 Jul 2016 04:28 PM PDT A Japanese man accused of breaking into a facility for the disabled in a small town near Tokyo before stabbing and killing 19 patients was taken from a regional jail to see prosecutors on Wednesday, footage on public broadcaster NHK showed. Satoshi Uematsu, the 26-year-old suspect and former employee of the facility, was sent from the town of Sagamihara, about 45 km (25 miles) southwest of Tokyo, to the Yokohama District Public Prosecutors Office in Kanagawa prefecture. Dozens of other residents were wounded in Tuesday's early-morning attack at the Tsukui Yamayuri-En facility for the disabled in Sagamihara.

Venezuela government aims to sink Maduro recall, opposition protests Posted: 26 Jul 2016 06:04 PM PDT By Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government sought on Tuesday to scupper a push by the opposition to oust him this year via a referendum, while his opponents called for protests. Government supporters lodged a complaint at the election board saying the Democratic Unity (MUD) coalition falsified signatures in an initial collection to trigger the process. "They are committing grave fraud and corruption," senior Socialist Party leader Jorge Rodriguez told reporters outside the election council, saying signatures of nearly 11,000 dead people and 3,000 minors were included.

Venezuela to reassign private, public workers to agriculture Posted: 26 Jul 2016 06:45 PM PDT Venezuela said private and public companies will be obliged to let their workers be reassigned to grow crops, in a dramatic move in the middle of the country's crippling economic crisis. President Nicolas Maduro's government is fighting for its life amid staggering inflation and shortages of everything from food to toilet paper, diapers and shampoo. Maduro, like his predecessor Hugo Chavez, has increasingly moved the country towards taking over parts of the economy.

'Anything's possible' _ Obama points to Russia on DNC hack Posted: 26 Jul 2016 06:20 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia may have been behind the leak of hacked Democratic National Committee documents, President Barack Obama said Tuesday in his first public comments on the breach.

Mickelson not close to being over runner-up in British Open Posted: 26 Jul 2016 06:19 PM PDT SPRINGFIELD, N.J. (AP) — If you thought two weeks was enough time for Phil Mickelson to get over his second-place finish in the British Open duel with Henrik Stenson, guess again.

Australia's AGL and state-owned funds establish renewables fund Posted: 26 Jul 2016 06:01 PM PDT By Tom Westbrook SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's second-largest energy retailer AGL Energy Ltd said on Wednesday it had set up the nation's largest renewable energy fund, worth A$2-3 billion, with Australia's sovereign wealth fund and a Queensland government-owned fund. The Powering Australian Renewables Fund (PARF) plans to develop 1000MW of renewable energy and will acquire two existing AGL solar plants, which together produce 155MW, AGL said in a statement. "It demonstrates that funding is available for large scale renewable projects and demonstrates that AGL is able to do these projects if the risks are shared," AGL chief financial officer Brett Redman told Reuters by telephone.

Authorities blame weather for Panama Canal ship scrape Posted: 26 Jul 2016 05:43 PM PDT PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama Canal authorities say a Chinese container ship's damaging scrape with the canal's new wider locks was caused by bad weather and the vessel not lining up correctly.

Montreal dreaming of show court roof at Uniprix Stadium Posted: 26 Jul 2016 05:34 PM PDT Rain that played havoc with programme at the Montreal WTA hardcourt tournament has officials dreaming of a roof for an ageing baseball facility which was re-purposed decades ago for tennis. "Before trying to fund the (roof) project, we need to have the agreement of the city, and we are working on this project. The Montreal project will hopefully not mimic the current political stalemate as Roland Garros tries to expand its ground and add a roof to the Chatrier court.

Honduras reports 8 babies born with Zika-related defects Posted: 26 Jul 2016 05:29 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — Honduras' health minister says eight babies with severe birth defects linked to the Zika virus have been born in the Central American country.

UN secretary-general calls for truce during Rio Olympics Posted: 26 Jul 2016 05:28 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling for an Olympic truce and urging all warring parties to lay down their weapons and put aside difference during the upcoming summer games in Rio de Janeiro.

Top Asian News 12:16 a.m. GMT Posted: 26 Jul 2016 05:16 PM PDT TOKYO (AP) — The killing of 19 people at a home for the mentally disabled raised questions about whether Japan's reputation as one of the safest countries in the world is creating a false sense of security. The deadliest mass killing in Japan in the post-World War II era unfolded early Tuesday in Sagamihara, a city about 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of central Tokyo, when authorities say a former employee broke into the facility and stabbed more than 40 people before calmly turning himself in to police. The suspect, identified as 26-year-old Satoshi Uematsu, had worked at the facility from 2014 until February, when he was let go.

Favored by Obama, TPP deal draws ire at Dem, GOP conventions Posted: 26 Jul 2016 05:16 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — It's 30 chapters long and almost nobody has read it, but the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal is the unlikely villain at both political conventions.

Crews battling California wildfire face renewed blast of heat Posted: 26 Jul 2016 05:10 PM PDT By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Crews battling a deadly wildfire in rugged drought-stricken terrain north of Los Angeles faced a return of brutal heat on Tuesday after a day-long respite of cooler weather and diminished winds that helped them gain some ground against the blaze. Stoked by triple-digit temperatures and erratic winds, the Sand Fire erupted near a cluster of communities about 40 miles north of Los Angeles and spread quickly over the weekend, destroying 18 homes and the landmark Sable Ranch, popular for TV and movie productions. One man perished on Saturday after he refused to heed firefighters' instructions to leave immediately.

Indonesia's energy minister to be replaced in cabinet reshuffle: sources Posted: 26 Jul 2016 05:06 PM PDT By Wilda Asmarini and Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's energy and mining minister Sudirman Said will be replaced as part of a cabinet reshuffle expected to be announced by President Joko Widodo on Wednesday, sources close to the minister told Reuters. Let's never tire of loving Indonesia." It was not clear who else would be part of the reshuffle. Widodo met a number of his ministers late on Tuesday at the presidential palace in central Jakarta.

Venezuela government seeks to ban opposition over recall 'fraud' Posted: 26 Jul 2016 04:58 PM PDT The Venezuelan government asked electoral authorities Tuesday to ban the opposition coalition seeking to oust President Nicolas Maduro in a recall vote, accusing them of massive fraud. Ratcheting up the tension in a country pushed to the brink of collapse by an economic crisis, Maduro's camp hit back with a vengeance on the same day the opposition was hoping to get a green light to go ahead with its bid to call a recall referendum. "We have just asked for the cancellation of the registration of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), for being involved in the worst vote fraud in the country's history," said Jorge Rodriguez, Maduro's designated aide to monitor the recall process.

Priest murdered in French church attack: what we know so far Posted: 26 Jul 2016 04:46 PM PDT An elderly priest had his throat slit in a church in northern France on Tuesday after two men stormed the building and took hostages. The attack in the Normandy town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray came as France was still coming to terms with the Bastille Day killings in Nice claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group. The victim was father Jacques Hamel, a semi-retired assistant parish priest, according to the archbishop of nearby Rouen, Dominique Lebrun.

California wildfire displaces exotic animals, horses, cats and dogs, too Posted: 26 Jul 2016 04:44 PM PDT By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A virtual Noah's Ark of wild beasts and livestock has been relocated to save them from a massive wildfire burning north of Los Angeles in a region that is home to exotic animal sanctuaries and horse ranches. Officials and volunteers at the Wildlife Waystation in the northern Los Angeles suburb of Sylmar moved about three-quarters of the sprawling facility's 400 animals on Saturday, including dozens of large animals such as tigers, lions, bears and cougars, founder Martine Colette said in a telephone interview. The so-called Sand Fire has charred 59 square miles (153 sq km) since it broke out on Friday in a mostly rural area around the community of Acton on the northwestern fringes of the Angeles National Forest.

French Open champ Muguruza withdraws from Montreal Posted: 26 Jul 2016 04:41 PM PDT French Open champion Garbine Muguruza of Spain pulled out of her opening match at the WTA hardcourt tournament in Montreal on Tuesday minutes before she was to take on Britain's Naomi Broady. Muguruza, the world number three who is seeded third in a tournament already hit by the withdrawal of Serena Williams, cited a gastrointestinal illness. "I'm pretty disappointed, I practiced a lot for this tournament," Garbine said.

Cirque du Soleil cancels 40 shows in Turkey Posted: 26 Jul 2016 04:25 PM PDT Montreal (AFP) - Canada-based Cirque du Soleil has canceled 40 shows in Turkey for fear of political instability there after a deadly failed coup attempt, the acrobatic troupe said Tuesday.

Olympics present problem in US qualifying for Ryder Cup Posted: 26 Jul 2016 04:25 PM PDT SPRINGFIELD, N.J. (AP) — The Olympics has thrown another wrinkle into the golf schedule, this one affecting the American team for the Ryder Cup.

UN wants more staff to return to Western Sahara mission Posted: 26 Jul 2016 04:24 PM PDT The UN Security Council said Tuesday that more UN staff must return to the peace mission in Western Sahara after Morocco allowed a first group of 25 staffers back at their posts. Morocco expelled dozens of UN personnel in March in angry retaliation for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's use of the term "occupation" to describe the status of Western Sahara. The council adopted a resolution in April demanding that the mission known as MINURSO return to "full functionality" and gave Morocco three months to reach the goal.

2 Brazil warplanes collide while training for Olympics duty Posted: 26 Jul 2016 04:19 PM PDT RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Authorities in Brazil say two Brazilian navy jets have collided near Rio de Janeiro while training for protecting the Olympic Games that open in 10 days.

Husky says Canadian oil spill started day before pipeline was shut Posted: 26 Jul 2016 04:18 PM PDT By Rod Nickel and Nia Williams WINNIPEG/CALGARY (Reuters) - An oil spill into a major Canadian river from a Husky Energy Inc pipeline started late on July 20, but flows were not shut down until the following morning, the company said on Tuesday. Husky's incident report, released by the Saskatchewan government, said the leak started on July 20 at 8 p.m. CST (0200 GMT) in the western province. Crews arrived at the site of the Saskatchewan Gathering System pipeline the next morning, Husky executive Al Pate told reporters on a conference call.

India's parliament passes controversial child labor bill Posted: 26 Jul 2016 04:13 PM PDT By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India's parliament on Tuesday approved a controversial law that would allow children to work for family businesses, despite widespread concern by the United Nations and other rights advocates that it will push more children into labor. A week after the bill was passed by the upper house of parliament, India's lower house approved the measure that brings a raft of changes to a three-decade-old child labor prohibition law. The bill now goes for the President's assent before becoming law. The U.N. ...

Patient shoots, kills doctor in Berlin then kills himself Posted: 26 Jul 2016 04:08 PM PDT A patient shot a doctor in a university clinic in Berlin on Tuesday before killing himself, but there were "no signs at all" of a link with Islamist militancy, police in the German capital said. Berlin police said the doctor had sustained life-threatening injuries in the attack at the Benjamin Franklin campus of the Charite university hospital in the southwest of the city and died shortly afterwards. Winfrid Wenzel, a spokesman for Berlin police, said the crime took place in the jaw surgery area of an outpatient clinic where the doctor was in a treatment session with the patient.

Man shot in Swedish mall, no links to militants: police Posted: 26 Jul 2016 04:08 PM PDT An unidentified assailant shot and wounded a man in a shopping mall in the Swedish city of Malmo on Tuesday, but police said the attack had nothing to do with recent Islamist militant violence elsewhere in Europe. A Malmo police statement said the victim was shot in the leg and taken to a local hospital. A police spokesperson later told regional daily Sydsvenska Dagbladet that the incident, in a mainly immigrant neighborhood of Sweden's third largest city, was being investigated as a case of aggravated assault or attempted murder, and had no connection with Islamist militancy, he said.

Guyana to deport 14 Venezuelans who crossed border for food Posted: 26 Jul 2016 04:07 PM PDT GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A group of 14 Venezuelans who crossed illegally into neighboring Guyana apparently to flee the economic crisis engulfing their country will be deported by the end of the week, Guyanese officials said Tuesday.

Malaysia's Najib gets new powers amid planned protests over fund scandal Posted: 26 Jul 2016 04:07 PM PDT By A. Ananthalakshmi KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak will get sweeping security powers on Monday amid planned protests calling for his resignation over U.S. allegations that millions of dollars from a state fund wound up in his personal bank account. The new National Security Council (NSC) Act, which comes into force on Aug. 1, allows Najib to designate any area as a "security area", where he can deploy forces to search any individual, vehicle or premise without a warrant. Najib's ruling coalition promoted the law as a means to counter threats to security in predominantly Muslim Malaysia, which has long dealt with a fringe element of radical Islamists.

3 wounded in shooting at Armenian police station Posted: 26 Jul 2016 03:51 PM PDT YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — A spokesman for Armenia's police says two of the gunmen who have been holding a police station in the capital for more than a week have surrendered after an exchange of gunfire.

The Latest: UN calls for Olympic Truce during Rio Games Posted: 26 Jul 2016 03:51 PM PDT RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the Rio Games (all times local to Rio de Janeiro):

Stenson's search for perfection doesn't end with a major Posted: 26 Jul 2016 03:50 PM PDT SPRINGFIELD, N.J. (AP) — Henrik Stenson was baking in the hot sun of Baltusrol, chipping out of the thick grass in the short-game area until the bag of golf balls was nearly empty. One chip dropped into the cup on its last turn.

French jihadist attacks church while under house arrest Posted: 26 Jul 2016 03:44 PM PDT Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray (France) (AFP) - A French jihadist who was under house arrest on terror charges took part in a church attack in which a priest was killed Tuesday, further inflaming tensions over security failures in the violence-weary nation. Adel Kermiche, 19, was one of two attackers who stormed a Catholic church in the northern town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray during morning mass, slitting the throat of an 86-year-old priest, Jacques Hamel, and leaving a worshipper with serious injuries, said Paris prosecutor Francois Molins. The attack, claimed by the Islamic State group, comes with France still in mourning less than two weeks after Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel ploughed a truck into a crowd in the Riviera city of Nice, killing 84 people and injuring over 300.

U.N. Western Sahara mission still recovering from Morocco dispute Posted: 26 Jul 2016 03:40 PM PDT By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A United Nations peace keeping mission in disputed Western Sahara is still not fully functional, the U.N. Security Council president said on Tuesday, months after Morocco expelled dozens of civilian staff in anger at remarks by U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon. During a visit to refugee camps for Sahrawi people in March, Ban described Morocco's 1975 annexation of Western Sahara as an "occupation," sparking the worst dispute between Rabat and the world body since the U.N. brokered a ceasefire to end a war over the disputed region and established the U.N. mission MINURSO.

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