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• Pilot avoided home before ditching jet after Obama speech
• Congressional committee seeks gunman's VA record
• Security concerns fail to quell cheers at German Wagner fest
• U.S. lawmaker wants new budget requests for Iraq, Afghanistan troops
• Brazil police arrest last suspect in Olympics terrorism case
• IS attacker: Germans "won't be able to sleep peacefully"
• Bavarian bomber pledged allegiance to Islamic State: minister
• In sign of regional disarray, many leaders forgo Arab summit
• K of C-Sponsored Mercy Centre Brings Important English Language Programming to WYD Pilgrims at Tauron Arena Krakow
• Nearby, but far away: Why aid doesn't make it from Baghdad to refugee camp
• UN mission in Afghanistan finds children bear brunt of war
• IS suicide bomber kills 12 at Iraq checkpoint
• In a display of unity, Turkey's opposition rallies against coup attempt
• After truck attack in Nice, Italy frets about European security cooperation
• Ukraine, after war, becomes a trove for black market arms trade
• Suicide bomber kills 14 at Iraq checkpoint; 9 die in Baghdad
• Suicide bombing north of Baghdad kills 16, Islamic State claims attack
• Austria breaks up migrant-smuggling ring: police
• As Party Platforms Raise Issue of Genocide against Christians, New Commercial Airs
• Afghan teenager met Munich gunman just before attack: prosecutor
• 10 Things to Know for Today
• Iraq finally bans fake bomb detectors after July 3 blast
• Discovery Ad Sales Chief Joe Abruzzese to Retire; Network Vet Ben Price to Take Over
• Olympic hoodoo still haunts hosts Brazil
• Soccer-Olympic hoodoo still haunts hosts Brazil
• Dancing, drugs, extremism _ multiple lives of Nice

Pilot avoided home before ditching jet after Obama speech Posted: 25 Jul 2016 05:48 PM PDT DENVER (AP) — A Thunderbirds pilot who ditched his jet moments after flying over the Air Force Academy's commencement ceremony reported engine trouble and told air traffic controllers he was aiming the plane away from a home before he ejected safely into a field.

Congressional committee seeks gunman's VA record Posted: 25 Jul 2016 05:12 PM PDT ST. MARYS, Kan. (AP) — The chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Veterans Affairs has requested all VA medical records for the former Marine who killed three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Security concerns fail to quell cheers at German Wagner fest Posted: 25 Jul 2016 04:13 PM PDT By Michael Roddy BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) - Security concerns after killings in Germany, coupled with Islamic elements in a new production of Richard Wagner's opera "Parsifal", created a nervous opening for the annual Wagner festival in Bayreuth on Monday. A police roadblock at the bottom of the drive leading up the "Green Hill" to Wagner's specially built 19th-century opera house forced people in formal evening wear to walk in the muggy summer air. Peter Emmerich, the festival's spokesman, said security concerns were clearly having an impact.

U.S. lawmaker wants new budget requests for Iraq, Afghanistan troops Posted: 25 Jul 2016 03:00 PM PDT By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee called on the Obama administration on Monday to ask Congress for more money to fund its plans for Iraq and Afghanistan, amid expectations of a defense budget battle when lawmakers return to Washington this fall. "The administration needs to come over with a supplemental (budget request)," Republican Representative Mac Thornberry said at a roundtable discussion with reporters shortly after returning from a trip to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Brazil police arrest last suspect in Olympics terrorism case Posted: 25 Jul 2016 01:25 PM PDT RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police arrested the last suspect wanted so far in a case of Brazilian sympathizers of the Islamic State who allegedly discussed attacking the Olympic Games next month in Rio de Janeiro.

IS attacker: Germans "won't be able to sleep peacefully" Posted: 25 Jul 2016 11:58 AM PDT ANSBACH, Germany (AP) — A Syrian man who tried unsuccessfully to claim asylum in Germany pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and vowed the nation's people "won't be able to sleep peacefully anymore" in a cell phone video before blowing himself up outside a wine bar, wounding 15 people, authorities said Monday.

Bavarian bomber pledged allegiance to Islamic State: minister Posted: 25 Jul 2016 10:30 AM PDT By Andreas Burger ANSBACH, Germany (Reuters) - The Syrian who blew himself up in southern Germany, wounding 15 people, had pledged allegiance to Islamic State on a video found on his mobile phone, the Bavarian Interior Minister said on Monday. "A provisional translation by an interpreter shows that he expressly announces, in the name of Allah, and testifying his allegiance to (Islamic State leader) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ... an act of revenge against the Germans because they're getting in the way of Islam," Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told a news conference. "I think that after this video there's no doubt that the attack was a terrorist attack with an Islamist background." Islamic State claimed responsibility for the bombing, according to Amaq, a news agency that supports Islamic State.

In sign of regional disarray, many leaders forgo Arab summit Posted: 25 Jul 2016 10:04 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Arab officials gathered in a tent in the Mauritanian capital Monday, in the most poorly attended Arab League summit in years, a sign of the region's disarray.

K of C-Sponsored Mercy Centre Brings Important English Language Programming to WYD Pilgrims at Tauron Arena Krakow Posted: 25 Jul 2016 09:47 AM PDT KRAKÓW, Poland, July 25, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two of the major themes of Kraków's history are Divine Mercy and religious freedom. Both of these themes – along with others – will be highlighted during World Youth Day 2016 at the Knights of Columbus-sponsored Mercy Centre at Tauron Arena Kraków, which serves as World Youth Day's international English-language catechetical and youth festival site.

Nearby, but far away: Why aid doesn't make it from Baghdad to refugee camp Posted: 25 Jul 2016 09:12 AM PDT "They called me and said, 'They are killing us,' " says Jeremy Courtney, founder of the US group Preemptive Love, adding that the Iraqi and US air strikes were close enough to damage the relief vehicles and the hearing of one of the aid workers huddled in the sand. The anti-IS security operation trapped the Preemptive Love staff and their partners from the Iraq Health Aid Organization in the desert overnight. It was a vivid illustration of the uncharted hazards of delivering aid in the world's increasingly dangerous conflict zones that are leading to what some officials say is a crisis in the worldwide relief distribution system.

UN mission in Afghanistan finds children bear brunt of war Posted: 25 Jul 2016 09:10 AM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The number of children killed or wounded in Afghanistan's conflict surged in the first half of 2016, compared to the same period last year, the United Nations mission in Afghanistan said on Monday.

IS suicide bomber kills 12 at Iraq checkpoint Posted: 25 Jul 2016 08:21 AM PDT A suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group killed 12 people at a crowded checkpoint north of Baghdad on Monday, security and medical officials said. The blast at the entrance to the town of Khales also wounded 37, according to Diyala province police spokesman Colonel Ghalib al-Attiyah and health department spokesman Faris al-Azzawi. Attiyah said the checkpoint was crowded with cars, and that a number of them were burned in the blast.

In a display of unity, Turkey's opposition rallies against coup attempt Posted: 25 Jul 2016 07:11 AM PDT The "Republic and Democracy" rally, held in Istanbul's central Taksim Square, comes after the failed coup on July 15, in which at least 246 people were killed and more than 2,000 wounded, and a subsequent crackdown by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. "The coup attempt was done against our democratic, secular, social state, governed by rule of law," said Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, head of the Republican People's Party, in a speech. Recommended: Think you know Turkey?

After truck attack in Nice, Italy frets about European security cooperation Posted: 25 Jul 2016 06:54 AM PDT By Emilio Parodi MILAN (Reuters) - After the truck attack that killed 84 people in Nice, Italy tightened controls at four border crossings with France over fears an assailant could sneak across onto Italian soil. The rapid action reflected growing Italian concern about weak cooperation on security matters in the European Union after a spate of deadly attacks -- in France, Belgium and now Germany. "What happened in Nice, and in a sense also what happened in Munich, only reinforces what I am saying: that we need to focus everything on prevention and share all useful information," said Claudio Galzerano, a senior official with Italian anti-terrorism police in charge of international cooperation.

Ukraine, after war, becomes a trove for black market arms trade Posted: 25 Jul 2016 05:59 AM PDT By Alessandra Prentice and Anton Zverev SLOVIANSK, Ukraine/MOSCOW (Reuters) - On Feb. 12 last year, the same day that a ceasefire ended the worst of the fighting in eastern Ukraine between rebels and government forces, a former rebel fighter seized a chance to turn his inside knowledge of the conflict into hard cash. In February 2015, the sides in the conflict agreed a ceasefire.

Suicide bomber kills 14 at Iraq checkpoint; 9 die in Baghdad Posted: 25 Jul 2016 05:34 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a checkpoint outside a Shiite town north of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 14 people, Iraqi officials said, while a string of bombings in the Iraqi capital killed nine more people.

Suicide bombing north of Baghdad kills 16, Islamic State claims attack Posted: 25 Jul 2016 05:27 AM PDT A suicide car bombing claimed by Islamic State killed 16 people including a group of women and children packed into a minibus outside an Iraqi town on Monday morning, police and hospital sources said. "We still have charred bodies inside many vehicles including a minibus packed with women and children," the police captain said, requesting anonymity. Amaq, a news agency that supports Islamic State, said the attack had targeted Iraqi troops in Khalis, which is located in the eastern province of Diyala, a mixed Sunni-Shi'ite Muslim area bordering Iran.

Austria breaks up migrant-smuggling ring: police Posted: 25 Jul 2016 05:26 AM PDT Austria has broken up an international people-smuggling ring that illegally spirited more than 1,000 migrants into Germany, France and other countries from Hungary, police said on Monday. Austrian, German and Hungarian authorities have arrested 17 people over the ring, most of whom were from the southern Russian region of Chechnya, Austrian police said. "Members (of the organization) were almost exclusively people from the Russian region of Chechnya based in Austria," and many of the drivers were Polish, a police statement said.

As Party Platforms Raise Issue of Genocide against Christians, New Commercial Airs Posted: 25 Jul 2016 04:50 AM PDT The commercial is sponsored by the Knights of Columbus and can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o_wsjk4Vwo . The spot highlights the genocide against Christians by ISIS, an issue that has created a rare bipartisan consensus in a year that has seen often sharp political divisions. The U.S. State Department declared this year that Christians and other religious minorities faced genocide at the hands of ISIS.

Afghan teenager met Munich gunman just before attack: prosecutor Posted: 25 Jul 2016 04:34 AM PDT A 16-year-old Afghan youth who was arrested on Sunday had been in contact via WhatsApp with an 18-year-old gunman who killed nine people in Munich two days earlier and also met him just before the attack, Bavarian officials said. Thomas Steinkraus-Koch, senior public prosecutor in Munich, told a news conference on Monday the Afghan had been in contact with the gunman via WhatApp until shortly before the attack. "This (WhatsApp) chat and questioning of a suspect has shown that the Afghan met the gunman directly before the gun attack at what was later the scene of the crime," Steinkraus-Koch told a news conference in Munich.

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Iraq finally bans fake bomb detectors after July 3 blast Posted: 24 Jul 2016 11:16 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — For nearly a decade, anyone driving through one of Baghdad's many checkpoints was subjected to a search by a soldier pointing a security wand at their vehicle and watching the device intently to see if its antenna moved. If it pointed at the car, it had supposedly detected a possible bomb.

Discovery Ad Sales Chief Joe Abruzzese to Retire; Network Vet Ben Price to Take Over Posted: 24 Jul 2016 09:00 PM PDT Ben Price, a 27-year veteran of the company, will be elevated to head of Discovery's U.S. ad sales division.

Olympic hoodoo still haunts hosts Brazil Posted: 24 Jul 2016 06:13 PM PDT By Andrew Downie SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Soccer fans of a certain age will always remember Falcao at the World Cup in 1982 and his starring role alongside Zico, Socrates and Cerezo in one of the greatest Brazil sides of all time. The 1972 Munich Olympics was a disappointment for Brazil's players but losses to Denmark and Iran, sandwiching a draw against Hungary, tell only half the story. The Olympics, Falcao told Reuters, was something special.

Soccer-Olympic hoodoo still haunts hosts Brazil Posted: 24 Jul 2016 06:00 PM PDT By Andrew Downie SAO PAULO, July 25 (Reuters) - Soccer fans of a certain age will always remember Falcao at the World Cup in 1982 and his starring role alongside Zico, Socrates and Cerezo in one of the greatest Brazil sides of all time. The 1972 Munich Olympics was a disappointment for Brazil's players but losses to Denmark and Iran, sandwiching a draw against Hungary, tell only half the story. The Olympics, Falcao told Reuters, was something special.

Dancing, drugs, extremism _ multiple lives of Nice Posted: 24 Jul 2016 03:22 PM PDT PARIS (AP) — A 31-year-old father of three obsessed with fitness and sex, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel led multiple lives. His darkest side appears to have been his best-kept secret: a calculated, committed jihadi ready to kill scores of people in a French Riviera rampage.

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