Turkey coup bid: US warns against 'insinuations' of involvement
The US has warned Turkey against "public insinuations" of American involvement in a failed military coup, saying such claims are "utterly false and harmful" to their relations.
US Secretary of State John Kerry was speaking after Turkey's labour minister suggested the US was behind the coup.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the US to extradite US-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen.
Mr Erdogan has accused him of being behind the plot, which Mr Gulen denies.
Mr Gulen, speaking from his home in Pennsylvania, denied the claims and said "as someone who suffered under multiple military coups during the past five decades, it is especially insulting to be accused of having any link to such an attempt".
Vietnam removes protesters gathered for anti-China rally in Hanoi
About two dozen people are bused away even before they begin their protest against Beijing’s claims in the South China Sea
Dozens of Vietnamese who gathered for an anti-China protest in central Hanoi were taken away by authorities on Sunday as they tried to rally support for an international tribunal’s ruling rejecting Beijing’s claims in the South China Sea.
About two dozen people were bused away from around the landmark Hoan Kiem Lake in the capital even before they began their protest. There was heavy police presence around the lake with cars briefly banned from around it.
The rally was organised by No-U group in Hanoi, which opposes China’s expansive claims in the South China Sea. It came after the Hague-based permanent court of arbitration last week issued the ruling in a case initiated by the Philippines, which together with Vietnam is one of the claimants in the disputed waters.
Isis is feeling threatened in Syria – and that is why its reign of terror is spreading
Isis is under pressure on almost every front in Iraq and Syria. It cannot withstand ground attacks backed by precision bombing from the US-led air armada and the same is true of the Syrian army supported by Russian bombers
It was near inevitable that Isis should organise or inspire another atrocity in Western Europe after a string of defeats culminating in the loss of Fallujah to Iraqi government forces. Isis has always used acts of mass terrorism directed against civilians as a way of showing its strength and dominating the news agenda. It is part of its repertoire of tactics at all times, but particularly when it is suffering losses and hopes are rising that it is not only retreating but has gone into irreversible decline.
Isis had already reacted to defeat at Fallujah by sending a vehicle packed with explosives into the Karada district of Baghdad, where it exploded, killing 292 people. This happened just as the Iraqi government was congratulating itself on taking the city which people in the Iraqi capital believed was the source of many of bombs that have slaughtered them over the last three years.
Diesel Emissions: EU Commission Has Known for Years about Manipluation
The European Commission insists that it knew nothing about diesel emissions manipulations perpetrated by Volkswagen and other automobile manufacturers. Documents obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE show otherwise.
Since at least 2010, the European Commission has been in possession of concrete evidence that automobile manufacturers were cheating on emissions values of diesel vehicles, according to a number of internal documents that SPIEGEL ONLINE has obtained. The papers show that emissions cheating had been under discussion for years both within the Commission and the EU member state governments. The documents also show that the German government was informed of a 2012 meeting on the issue. The scandal first hit the headlines in 2015 when it became known that Volkswagen had manipulated the emissions of its diesel vehicles.
The records provide a rough chronology of the scandal, which reaches back to the middle of the 2000s
Brazil boosts Olympics security following attack in Nice
Brazil said Friday it will bolster security for next month's Olympics in Rio following the truck attack in the French city of Nice.
Brazil's interim president Michel Temer held an emergency meeting with his intelligence chief and members of his cabinet late Friday to weigh the next steps after the Nice attack, which killed at least 84 people.
As he left the meeting, intelligence chief Sergio Etchegoyen said new security measures would include extra checkpoints, barricades and traffic restrictions.
Brazil had already planned to deploy 85,000 police and soldiers to provide security for the Olympics -- running August 5-21 -- double the number used in the 2012 London Games.
Qandeel Baloch: How Pakistani model's death could curb 'honor killings'
A Pakistani model and social media icon who spoke out about women’s equality was reportedly killed by her brother.
Pakistan authorities announced Saturday that social media icon and fashion model Qandeel Baloch was killed by her brother in their family home in Multan, a city in central Pakistan.
Ms. Baloch was a rising star and a voice for women's freedom of expression in Pakistan. The 26-year-old model had catapulted herself to the spotlight by posting videos and selfies to her social media accounts, which have hundreds of thousands of followers. Baloch, who described herself as a proponent of “girl power” and who spoke of changing "the typical orthodox mindset" of Pakistani society, challenged conservative sensibilities with poses and outfits that some Pakistanis criticized as too sexual.
Yet while she pushed against social norms, her death was reportedly the product of a traditional form of reactionary violence, the so-called “honor killing.” These murders, monitored by human rights groups, typically involve a family member killing a woman who is perceived to have dishonored her family. While the term is often linked to Islam, the practice has been seen across culture and religions.
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