Pope Francis denounced recent terrorist attacks as part of a “piecemeal war” comparable to the previous century’s world wars, saying that “the world is at war because it has lost the peace.”
Demonstrators took to the streets in Venezuela Wednesday to demand a recall referendum on President Nicolás Maduro, accusing election officials of dragging their feet.
The recent string of attacks by migrants in Germany has rattled many refugees and the Germans who work with them. The concerns underscore the stakes behind Germany’s decision to welcome one million refugees onto its soil.
The U.S. military is adding troops in Afghanistan for an offensive against Islamic State, a move intended to roll back the group’s recent gains in hard-hit eastern areas.
Morale among Afghan special forces is wearing thin as they are increasingly called upon to lead the fight against the Taliban, with teams feeling exploited by their leadership and missing U.S. support.
A drumbeat of terror attacks in Western Europe is forcing a political reckoning on the continent’s two main powers, Germany and France.
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The U.S. Army general in charge of American and NATO troops in Afghanistan says the Islamic State group presence in the country is directly linked to the parent organization in Iraq and Syria.
A lawyer in Kuwait says a criminal court there has sentenced an outspoken Shiite lawmaker to more than 14 years prison for insulting the governments of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
Turkish state media says close to 1,700 officers discharged from military following failed military coup.
The nation has been here before: Operatives apparently working undercover for a paranoid President break into the Washington headquarters of the Democratic National Committee months before the party convenes to select its presidential nominee. The breach is detected, and—at least in 1972, the first time this happened—the fuse is lit on a slow–building, world–shaking scandal named for the scene of the crime: Watergate.
Over the decades since, there have been efforts, never quite right, to dub this or that scandal the next Watergate. But now the sequel has clearly arrived, a heavily digitized remake that announced itself with a dirty trick worthy of Richard Nixon’s plumbers: the posting of nearly 20,000 DNC emails, some acutely embarrassing, on the see-it-here site WikiLeaks. It was the cyberwar equivalent of an armor–piercing shell, slipped into the exceedingly narrow space (just three days) between the close of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and the start of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign sustained most of the initial damage, the dirty laundry of her party fluttering like confetti onto the blue convention floor. But Donald Trump isn’t likely to come away unscathed either, inasmuch as the suspected author of his nascent good fortune—the paranoid President who allegedly set this scandal in motion—resides in the Kremlin.
The digital fingerprints of not one but two of Vladimir Putin’s intelligence agencies were found on the DNC server, according to Crowd-Strike, the digital–security firm the party hired to track down the intruder. The company, whose findings have been seconded by U.S. officials supporting an FBI probe, found that a known Russia–based “threat actor” known as Cozy Bear first breached the DNC’s digital defenses in the summer of 2015; the same Russian “bear”—possibly the FSB, the main successor to the Soviet Union’s KGB—had previously nosed around in the unclassified computer networks of the White House, State Department and Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Then, in April, a second intruder, this one known as Fancy Bear and suspected to be run out of Russia’s military intelligence, also breached the DNC, scooping up the same data. The repetition was unnecessary but a signature of Moscow: according to a May report by the European Council on Foreign Relations, Putin, a former FSB chief, is known to pit one agency against another while keeping both in the dark.
The breaches clearly qualified as news but weren’t by themselves all that surprising. Putin’s government uses illicit -methods—active measures, in the lingo of the KGB, where he made his career—to influence events ranging from European soccer tournaments to the Olympics to military incursions. When the former satellite republic Estonia dared to remove a memorial to Soviet war dead, it experienced a massive cyber-attack that crippled the country for weeks. Senior U.S. and E.U. diplomats have found private conversations posted online. (“F-ck the E.U.,” U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said into her cell phone, only to hear it played back on YouTube.)
And in the Crimea and Ukraine, disinformation has been a key component in the “hybrid war” that allows the Kremlin maneuvering room it would not have if reality were uncontested. The doctrine aims to keep off balance nations already shaken by events.
But even for the Kremlin, delivering 20,000 DNC emails to WikiLeaks would be an extraordinarily bold move. The site is both famous and notorious for publishing whatever it decides the public ought to see. The site’s founder, Julian Assange—who signaled that he had the emails in June—boasted of timing their release for the eve of the convention in order to maximize damage to Clinton, whose candidacy he says he opposes. The effect was to greatly amplify the evident involvement of the Russians.
“There’s nothing surprising about the idea of Russia collecting information by clandestine means and leaking it for political effect,” says Ed Lucas, author of The New Cold War. “What would be new is that they’re doing it to try to swing an election in America. And that is quite a big deal.”
Quite. This U.S. presidential race entered uncharted waters many months ago. Seeing it further roiled pushes every-thing into a whole new realm. Governments often meddle in the affairs of other governments—who will rule Ukraine is one of the sore points between the Kremlin and Washington—but foreign actors understandably fear the consequences of being caught tainting the democratic process of the world’s only super-power. Previous attempts—by South Vietnam to bolster Nixon in 1968 and even by Iran to punish Jimmy Carter in 1980—were small potatoes by comparison.
The effect of the leak was immediate. Democratic chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz was forced to announce her resignation on the eve of the convention she was supposed to gavel to order. The leaked emails suggested what partisans of Bernie Sanders had long maintained: national committee officials clearly favored Clinton. “I think I read he is an atheist,” reads one email from DNC chief financial officer Brad Marshall, plotting against the insurgent. “My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist.”
The flap fired the embers of the die-hard Sanders supporters at the very moment Democrats in Philadelphia were trying to line up one and all behind the nominee. “In 2016, elections are stolen in front of people’s eyes,” said Paula -Olivares, a defiant alternate Sanders delegate from Georgia, when she joined a walkout in protest on the second day.
Democrats are braced for more. Assange (who has hosted a show on Russian state television) hinted as much, and Clinton supporters fretted about breaches wherever politicos gathered online in her name. Bloomberg reported in June of a breach at the Clinton Foundation, long regarded as a point of particular vulnerability for the nominee, who held the office of Secretary of State while her husband solicited funds from world leaders.
Putin would not have been among them. His antipathy for Clinton is a matter of record—and the most visible motive for a hack. In 2011, when Clinton was still President Obama’s top diplomat, Putin publicly blamed her for encouraging the massive 2011 street protests that amounted to the strongest threat to his rule to date. “She set the tone for some actors in our country and gave them a signal,” Putin said at the time. “They heard the signal and with the support of the U.S. State Department began active work.”
Putin’s feelings toward Trump are a bit more complicated. Republicans typically make opposition to Russia’s leader a center-piece of their foreign policy. Mitt Romney famously called Russia “our No. 1 geopolitical foe.” But Trump has been far more kind, declining to condemn the Kremlin’s human-rights record during the campaign. Although the two have never met, Trump has tweeted his admiration for the strongman: “Putin has become a big hero in Russia with an all time high popularity.” While announcing the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow, Trump asked, “Do you think Putin will be going … if so, will he become my new best friend?”
As a candidate for President, Trump relies on aides deeply involved in Russian affairs. One campaign adviser, Carter Page, was an adviser to Gazprom, the Russian state–owned energy goliath. Campaign chairman Paul Manafort was a strategist for Putin’s choice for President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, who now lives under Putin’s protection in Russia after being overthrown by a popular movement in 2014. In a detail that Democratic operatives call both chilling and telling, the DNC staffer who was investigating Manafort’s Russian and Ukrainian ties stopped when she learned her personal email was being hacked. Alexandra Chalupa took a screenshot of the prompt from Yahoo security that came up when she logged into her personal account, warning, “We strongly suspect that your account has been the target of state–sponsored actors.”
For Trump, the most damaging element of a Kremlin hack might be the focus it puts on the similarities between his foreign policy priorities and those of Putin. “Trump presents a different narrative, which in many ways corresponds to what Putin has always said,” notes Fyodor Lukyanov, a Russian expert on foreign policy with close ties to the Kremlin. “So yes, people here view his chances, at the very least, with a certain level of interest.” The candidate, for instance, has pointedly refused to say that he will honor the NATO charter and guarantee U.S. military support for countries like Estonia—a fellow NATO member that borders Russia—were the Baltic nation to come under military attack by Moscow. And as the GOP platform was hammered out in Cleveland before the convention, Trump aides rose to water down language that originally called for “providing lethal defensive weapons” to Ukrainian rebels fighting Russian forces in their country. The softer language inserted by the Trump campaign called for “appropriate assistance.”
On the question of the DNC hack, however, Trump has maintained his trademark airiness. Others may be alarmed by mounting evidence that a foreign power penetrated and pillaged one of the nation’s major political parties. For Trump, it was another opportunity to color outside the lines.
“I will tell you this, Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” the GOP nominee said at a July 27 news conference, alluding to the messages that Clinton deleted from her private server after deeming them personal. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”
So far, the only thing we know for sure about the hacks is that they’ve proven the DNC’s ham-handedness. U.S. officials declare themselves increasingly convinced that Russia was behind the hack. But the view from Moscow is different. Experts inside Russia acknowledge that the Kremlin has the capability to root through the files of the DNC, and worse. But they express doubt that Putin actually did it—partly because it turned out so badly.
“You would need approval from a very high level, and you would need to be sure that this will work,” says Gleb Pavlovsky, who served as Putin’s adviser on political affairs and propaganda from 2000 to 2011. “I don’t think he would interfere in such an improvisational way. It’s too slapdash. It’s an improvisation that involves exposing your own methods, your technology.”
Nor is it clear that the Kremlin actually wants to see Trump elected. As Lukyanov put it, “Hillary is the worst, but Trump is a question mark.” On the other hand, in Russia, ambiguity is a central goal of the strategic approach articulated most recently in February 2013 by Valery Gerasimov, chief of the Russian general staff. The “Gerasimov doctrine” holds that modern conflicts are not waged with guns so much as by dirty tricks, which aim to destabilize and covertly weaken the enemy from within. “In practice,” says analyst Konstantin Sivkov, “you can say that hybrid warfare can be successful when the opponent’s political system is unstable.”
By that standard, the U.S. presidential campaign qualifies as both a ripe target and a satisfying spectacle. Tom Graham, who was George W. Bush’s top national–security adviser on Russia, says the real aim of the hack may not have been to help Trump or hurt Clinton but simply to publicize the unseemly side of U.S. politics. “The conduct of the campaign up to this point plays into a narrative that the Kremlin finds quite positive: the U.S. has enormous problems, the democratic system doesn’t work nearly as well as we say it does,” he says.
Any tilting of the scales would just be a bonus. “The Kremlin team does take pleasure, as does the Russian establishment more generally, in seeing Trump’s brutality,” says Pavlovsky. “The fact that this brutality is not directed at Russia is enjoyable in itself.”
Less enjoyable, even for a U.S. that already monitors almost every corner of the wired world, is the vulnerability that seems part and parcel of digital life. Only a year ago, the Office of Personnel Management ruefully announced that a foreign power (by all accounts China) had vacuumed up the records of more than 21 million people—millions of them government job applicants for positions with top-secret clearance. The breach may have been the worst in U.S. history, lasting at least a year.
The ultimate binary action—on or off, yes or no—may well be casting a vote. And Graham says we would do well to bear that in mind as Election Day approaches. Most electronic ballots are backed up by paper, so a hack would not be easy. But the former National Security Council aide conjures a nightmare scenario of waking up on Nov. 9 to an astounding result from one or two states, perhaps a 20-point victory for Trump in California. “If someone wanted to do great damage to the U.S., this is a way they could do it,” Graham says. “Russia has the capability to do something like this. And you can be sure they are probing in a very active way the vulnerabilities.”
With reporting by Massimo Calabresi, Sam Frizell, Zeke J. Miller and Jay Newton-Small/Washington and Simon Shuster/BERLIN
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Turkish crackdown on press continues with journalists' arrest
Irish Times A number of Turkish journalists accused of involvement in the Fethullah Gulen organisation have been arrested as part of a widening crackdown against the press following the failed July 15th coup attempt. Bulent Mumay, a 39-year-old reporter and board ... and more » |
Irish Independent |
Turkey shuts down 130 media outlets after failed military coup
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All Charges Dropped Against Baltimore Police in Freddie Gray Trial by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Prosecutors in the Mid-Atlantic state of Maryland have dropped all remaining charges against Baltimore city police officers awaiting trial in the death of Freddie Gray, bringing a high-profile case that garnered national attention to an unremarkable end. Gray was an African American man who suffered severe spinal cord injuries in April 2015 while he was handcuffed and unrestrained in the back of a police van. Gray's death added fuel the Black Lives Matter movement and sparked riots...
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Trump Invites Russia to Hack Clinton's Computer to Find 'Missing' Emails by webdesk@voanews.com (Ken Bredemeier)
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump encouraged Russia on Wednesday to hack into the email server of his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, to find "the 30,000 emails that are missing" from her time as the country's secretary of state. “It would be interesting to see. I will tell you this, Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," Trump told reporters. "I think you will probably be rewarded...
How Much More Can France Take?by webdesk@voanews.com (Jamie Dettmer)
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What Is in the Democratic Party Platform?by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
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Donald Trump: "I have nothing to do with Russia"
CBS News Donald Trump denies in a new interview that he has any ties to the Russian government or Russian investors. In an interview released early Wednesday with the CBS Miami, the GOP presidential nominee was asked to respond to allegations that the ... It's Official: Trump 'Will Not Be Releasing' His Tax ReturnsMediaite Trump campaign: No tax returns for youMSNBC The Ironclad Case for Trump Releasing Tax Returns YesterdayTPM (blog) Washington Examiner (blog) -Tri-City Herald -Washington Post -PoliticusUSA all 23 news articles » |
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Obama on Trump winning: 'Anything's possible'
CNN (CNN) Barack Obama has long insisted that Donald Trump will be defeated in November. But these days, the President won't rule anything out. "Anything's possible," Obama said in an interview with NBC's "Today" that aired Wednesday. "It is the nature of ... Trump: Obama is 'the most ignorant president' in historyPolitico Obama says he's worried about Trump's knowledge of issuesUSA TODAY WATCH: President Barack Obama Says Democrats Should 'Stay Worried' That Donald Trump Could Win the ElectionPeople Magazine MarketWatch-International Business Times-Breitbart News-UPI.com all 106 news articles » |
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Obama says he's worried about Trump's knowledge of issues
USA TODAY President Obama is worried about Donald Trump becoming president because there are a lot of things “that he doesn't know and hasn't seemed to spend a lot of time trying to find out about.” Obama spoke to NBC in an interview that aired Wednesday ... US election: Obama tells Democrats to be scared of TrumpBBC News Trump as president? 'Anything is possible,' Obama saysUPI.com 'Anything Is Possible': Obama Now Worried About 'Scary' Donald Trump PresidencyBreitbart News Business Insider-Today.com-TheBlaze.com-Mediaite all 55 news articles » |
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Obama and Biden tag-team to slam Trump on foreign policy
Politico With both men set to take the stage Democratic National Convention stage Wednesday night in Philadelphia, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden spent the morning hammering Donald Trump. In separate TV interviews Wednesday, both ... Obama Says Trump's Lack of Global Savvy Is 'Scary' Before SpeechBloomberg Joe Biden says Democrats have stopped talking to white, working-class votersWashington Post Bernie Sanders supporters: Your shouting will not protect youChicago Tribune International Business Times -Breitbart News -Atlanta Journal Constitution -Washington Examiner (blog) all 188 news articles » |
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Bill Clinton Defends His Wife's Greatest Criticisms: Trust, Selfishness
NPR Bill Clinton had a formidable challenge on Tuesday: to sell the American people on one of the most disliked politicians in political history. He had to "humanize" her, in punditspeak — Hillary Clinton is more of an idea or icon to people than a person ... Bill Clinton embraces role of political spouseCNN Bill Clinton Talked for 42 Minutes About How Much He Loves His Wife. Will Voters Care?Slate Magazine Read Bill Clinton's Full Speech From the Democratic National ConventionRollingStone.com Politico -Brookings Institution (blog) -TIME -Wall Street Journal all 167 news articles » |
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Court of Appeals: Slender Man stabbing defendants stay in adult court
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Explosion near migration reception centre in Germany, say reports
The Guardian Bayerischer Rundfunk said it was not yet known whether there were any casualties. Photograph: Guardian Graphics for the Guardian. Reuters in Berlin. Wednesday 27 July 2016 11.00 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 27 July 2016 11.22 EDT. Share on ... 'Violent Explosion' Outside German Office For Migration — 'Arab Men' Fled SceneBreitbart News Germany explosion: Suitcase blast outside refugee and migrant centre in Zirndorf near NurembergThe Independent Nuremberg: Explosion seen next to migration centre in GermanyDaily Star The Local.de -Express.co.uk -Mirror.co.uk -NDTV all 39 news articles » |
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Trump urges Russia to hack Clinton's emails
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Bill Clinton Presents His Wife as an Object of Desire
New York Times Former President Bill Clinton spoke about Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on Tuesday. Credit Josh Haner/The New York Times. PHILADELPHIA — He spoke of desiring her: her thick blonde hair, her flowery white skirt, ... The surprising secret to Bill and Hillary Clinton's marriageCNN How Hillary Clinton's Rocky 1993 Washington Debut Bred Her Political CautionWall Street Journal As Hillary makes history, Bill takes the spotlightUSA TODAY BBC News -ABC News -New York Post -Slate Magazine (blog) all 412 news articles » |
Turkish state media says close to 1700 officers discharged from military following failed military coup
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Post-convention, Clinton to make her case on Fox News
USA TODAY With the Democratic nomination in hand, Hillary Clinton is looking to appeal to a new audience: Fox News viewers. The former secretary of State will appear on Fox News Sunday this weekend. This will be her first time on the show in almost five years. 'Fox News Sunday' to present exclusive interview with Clinton on July 31Fox News Fox News Snares First Post-Convention Interview With Hillary ClintonVariety Hillary Clinton gives first post-nomination TV interview to 'Fox News Sunday' Los Angeles Times all 10 news articles » |
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What If Russia Invaded the Baltics—and Donald Trump Was President?
The Atlantic In 2014, shortly after Russia forcefully intervened in Ukraine and admitted Crimea into the Russian Federation, Richard Shirreff stepped down as NATO's deputy supreme allied commander Europe, one of the highest-ranking positions in the military alliance. and more » |
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Donald Trump's Crimean Gambit
The Atlantic Donald Trump's call on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's emails Wednesday resulted in widespread criticism. But his comments on Crimea, coupled with ones he made last week on NATO, are likely to have greater significance if he is elected president in ... The strange Trump-Putin dancePhilly.com How Trump Could Start a War With RussiaBloomberg The other remarkable, pro-Russia thing that Donald Trump just saidSTLtoday.com The Daily Dot -TPM (blog) -Jerusalem Post Israel News -The National all 32 news articles » |
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Union Station Evacuated Due to Suspicious Package
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U.S. diplomatic strategy on South China Sea appears to founder
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ABOARD PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Wednesday that a string of recent attacks, including the murder of a priest in France, was proof that the "world is at war".
ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's failed coup was financed by the CIA and directed by a retired U.S. army general using a cell in Afghanistan, said one Turkish pro-government newspaper. CIA agents used an island hotel off Istanbul as a nerve center for the plot, said another.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.-backed forces fighting to drive Islamic State out of northern Syria have gathered a massive trove of documents and data belonging to the militant group, potentially shedding more light on its operations, a U.S. military official said on Wednesday.
CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An Indian activist who helped to set up a human rights group campaigning for the eradication of manual scavenging, a euphemism for disposing of faeces by hand, was awarded Asia's equivalent of the Nobel prize on Wednesday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A mortar attack south of Baghdad at a camp for people displaced from the war with Islamic State killed four children and a woman on Wednesday, while a separate suicide bombing in a northern district killed a policeman, security sources said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Wednesday it is looking into reports that Iran has detained a third U.S. citizen of Iranian descent but declined to provide details.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the lead-up to an international court ruling on China's claims in the South China Sea this month, United States officials talked about rallying a coalition to impose "terrible" costs to Beijing's international reputation if flouted the court's decision.
BERLIN (Reuters) - The leader of Poland's ruling eurosceptic Law and Justice (PiS) party on Thursday rejected a European Union disciplinary procedure that is pressuring the government, and said the European Commission was overstepping its bounds.
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Gunmen stormed a police station in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, and have kept control of it for the past 10 days amid a tense standoff with security forces. What are they trying to achieve? And why are crowds of supporters marching in the streets? (Margot Buff and RFE/RL's Armenian Service)
Around 9,000 Orthodox Christians arrived in Kyiv amid tight security, after threats of violence from Ukrainian nationalists. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
Azerbaijan's Interior Ministry and Prosecutor-General's Office said on July 27 that a deadly explosion in a munitions plant involved a stockpile of old ammunition that was being prepared for disposal.
Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for the U.S. presidency, has made an extraordinary plea for Russia to find 30,000 e-mails missing from the private e-mail server used by Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton when she was the U.S. Secretary of State
The Russian lawmaker responsible for the country's notorious "gay propaganda" law has proposed new legislation that would decriminalize domestic violence.
Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump has suggested Russia should find missing e-mails belonging to his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. He made the comment at a news conference in Miami, Florida on July 27. (AP)
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James B. Comey warned that eventual victory over the Islamic State could lead to an uptick of terrorist attacks in Europe and possibly the United States.
The constitutional court in Warsaw upheld a 2015 law that substantially restricts potential claims by former property owners.
A fighter with an American-backed militia blindfolded a reputed Islamic State prisoner last month in the northern Syrian town of Manbij, where the intelligence was found.
But a detailed Islamic State obituary asserted the bomber plotted the attack independently.
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Pope Francis: The world's at war, but not a war of religionsby By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
KRAKOW, Poland (AP) -- The world is at war, but it is not a war of religions, Pope Francis said Wednesday as he traveled to Poland on his first visit to Central and Eastern Europe in the shadow of the slaying of a priest in France....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 35 years after he tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in an effort to impress actress Jodie Foster, John Hinckley Jr. will be allowed to leave a Washington mental hospital and live full time with his mother in Virginia, a federal judge ruled Wednesday....
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Trump says Russia should find Clinton's missing emailsby By JILL COLVIN and JONATHAN LEMIRE
MIAMI (AP) -- Donald Trump has a message for Russia: find Hillary Clinton's missing emails....
Bloomberg to warn of Trump economic plans at Dem convention by By JONATHAN LEMIRE and LISA LERER
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Michael Bloomberg, elected mayor of New York City as a Republican, will offer a forceful denunciation of fellow New York billionaire Donald Trump on Wednesday at the Democratic convention....
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- A judge on Wednesday dismissed a manslaughter charge against a Florida deputy who claimed self-defense in the 2013 fatal shooting of a 33-year-old black man carrying what turned out to be an air rifle....
Conservative leader Marine Le Pen said the attack threatened “the cultural identity of the nation.”
The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack.
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Russia Boasts of Troop Buildup on Flank, Draws Flakby webdesk@voanews.com (Steve Herman)
The U.S. State Department expressed concern Wednesday about new troop buildups that Russia has announced that it says are meant to counterbalance an increased military presence near its borders. “If true, we believe this would appear to run contrary to ongoing efforts to stop violence and to de-escalate the tensions in eastern Ukraine in line with Russia’s commitments [under the 2014-15 Minsk agreements],” State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters. The remark came hours...
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