Palestinian teenager found dead in suspected revenge attack
Youth seen being bundled into car in east Jerusalem was found dead hours later, Israeli army radio says
A Palestinian teenager from annexed east Jerusalem has been kidnapped and killed in a suspected act of revenge for the murder of three Israeli youths, army radio reported.
The radio said the youth was seen being forced into a car in the Arab eastern half of the city.
His body was found several hours later early on Wednesday morning in another part of the city, the radio said, describing it as a "suspected revenge attack."
Three Israeli teenagers were snatched from a road in the southern West Bank on June 12 and their bodies were found on Monday in a murder Israel has blamed on the Islamist Hamas movement.
Fighting Google: Europe Eyes Digital Agenda to Better Compete with the US
Jean-Claude Juncker, the next head of the European Commission, plans to implement a new digital strategy for the Continent. Europe, he believes, needs to become better equipped to defend itself from the US and Asia.
To the competition regulators in Brussels, Google has something akin to frequent flier status. Hardly a week goes by that an injured company doesn't deliver incriminating information about the Internet giant to the European Union capital.
Horrific levels of violence as patients shot in hospitals in South Sudan
Violence in South Sudan's civil war including the execution of scores of hospital patients is the worst seen for decades and is an "affront to human dignity", said Doctors Without Borders.
"The conflict has at times seen horrific levels of violence, including against healthcare facilities," said Raphael Gorgeu, South Sudan chief for Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, MSF).
"Patients have been shot in their beds, and lifesaving medical facilities have been burned and effectively destroyed. These attacks have far-reaching consequences for hundreds of thousands of people who are cut off from medical services."
Thousands have been killed in the conflict in the world's youngest country, while more than 1.5 million have been forced to flee since the war broke out in mid-December. Peace talks are stalled.
In bid to extend his grip, Turkish PM Erdogan to run for president (+video)
In power since 2003, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is now running for president, a less powerful post. If he wins, he's expected to retool the largely symbolic position.
ISTANBUL — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, undaunted by a year of intermittent street protests and a lingering graft scandal, will run in the country's first direct presidential elections in August, his party announced on Tuesday.
The announcement came as no surprise. Mr. Erdogan, Turkey's most powerful politician in a generation, is nearing the end of his second term as prime minister, the maximum allowed by his party's bylaws. Winning the presidency, a hitherto less powerful post, offers him a chance to extend its rule, provided he can keep control of his party and of whoever succeeds him.
Hundreds arrested at sit-in following huge pro-democracy rally in Hong Kong
July 2, 2014 -- Updated 0515 GMT (1315 HKT)
Hundreds of demonstrators, including prominent lawmakers, were arrested at a peaceful sit-in in Hong Kong early Wednesday, following a huge rally calling for democracy in the Chinese territory.
Large crowds had turned out for a 5 km march through the city's central business district Tuesday, in a massive show of defiance against Beijing's vision for the city's political future.
Police said 98,600 people took part in the march, while organizers said 510,000 participated. Statisticians from the University of Hong Kong estimated the turnout as between 154,000 and 172,000.
At the end of the rally, student activist groups held illegal sit-ins at two locations, at Chater Road in the heart of the business district, and outside the office of Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying.
Iraq's Baghdadi calls for 'holy war' |
Leader of so-called Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, calls on all Muslims to flock to new 'caliphate'.
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The leader of the so-called Islamic State has called on Muslims worldwide to take up arms and flock to the "caliphate" it had declared on captured Syrian and Iraqi soil.
Proclaiming a "new era" in which Muslims will ultimately triumph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi issued the call to jihad - holy war - in an audio message lasting nearly 20 minutes that was posted online on Tuesday.
Baghdadi, who has assumed the mediaeval title of caliph, used the message to seek to assert authority over Muslims everywhere. He called on them to rise up and avenge the alleged wrongs committed against their religion, from Central African Republic to Myanmar (Burma).
"By Allah, we will take revenge, by Allah we will take revenge, even if after a while," he said.
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