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• Clinton accuses Trump of scapegoating Muslim soldier's parents
• The Latest: Sen. Ayotte rejects Trump statements about Khans
• Olympics-Soccer-Brazil call up keeper Weverton after injury to Prass
• Rio Games: Brazil loses starting goalkeeper in men's soccer
• Clinton accuses Trump of 'degrading comments about Muslims'
• Slain soldier's father calls Trump a 'black soul'
• Death toll in Baghdad bombing rises to 324: ministry
• Trump Melts Down Spectacularly in ABC Interview
• The Latest: GOP Senate leader stops short of rebuking Trump
• After attacks, German president says absolute security impossible
• Brazil lose goalkeeper Prass for Olympic campaign
• CAIR Demands Apology from Donald Trump for Disparagement of Muslim Gold Star Family
• Twin PKK attacks kill 4 Turkish soldiers: report
• The Latest: Trump again criticizes fallen veteran's father
• Kuwait's Zain telecom Q2 profits rise 14%
• Olympics-Soccer-Brazil to replace keeper after injury forces out Prass
• Turkey culls nearly 1,400 from army, overhauls top military council
• Retaking IS-held Mosul likely to be tricky, costly for Iraq
• Islamic State calls slain Muslim American soldier an 'apostate'
• Four Turkish soldiers killed in clashes with Kurdish militants
• As 'caliphate' shrinks, Islamic State looks to global attacks
• Iraq minister says IS leaders, families flee Mosul
• Official: gas facility still burning after IS attack
• Germany's far-right AfD claws back some support after attacks
• Attacks on Iraq gas facility, oil field kill five
• Islamic State attacks two energy plants in north Iraq, kills five
• Militants attack second energy facility in northern Iraq: security sources
• Rights group says ban militias with record of abuses from Mosul battle

Clinton accuses Trump of scapegoating Muslim soldier's parents Posted: 31 Jul 2016 05:12 PM PDT By Amanda Becker CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump on Sunday of scapegoating the parents of a Muslim soldier killed in Iraq, after the Republican nominee took issue with remarks the soldier's father made at the Democratic National Convention. Trump, in an ABC interview that aired on Sunday, questioned why Ghazala Khan, mother of U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, stood quietly by her husband, Khizr Khan, as he took the stage at last week's Democratic convention in Philadelphia. Trump suggested the mother might not have been "allowed" to speak.

The Latest: Sen. Ayotte rejects Trump statements about Khans Posted: 31 Jul 2016 03:55 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):

Olympics-Soccer-Brazil call up keeper Weverton after injury to Prass Posted: 31 Jul 2016 03:54 PM PDT (Rewrites throughout) RIO DE JANEIRO, July 31 (Reuters) - Brazil have called on uncapped goalkeeper Weverton to replace Fernando Prass after the Palmeiras player was ruled out of the Rio Olympics with an elbow injury, the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) said on Sunday. "The coach of the Olympic team Rogerio Micale called up goalkeeper Weverton (Atletico Paranaense) to replace Fernando Prass, who was released after his right elbow injury was confirmed," the CBF said in a statement.

Rio Games: Brazil loses starting goalkeeper in men's soccer Posted: 31 Jul 2016 03:49 PM PDT SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's hopes of winning its first Olympic gold medal in soccer took a hit Sunday when starting goalkeeper Fernando Prass was removed from the squad because of a right elbow injury.

Clinton accuses Trump of 'degrading comments about Muslims' Posted: 31 Jul 2016 03:28 PM PDT ASHLAND, Ohio (AP) — Hillary Clinton said Sunday that Donald Trump repaid the "ultimate sacrifice" of a U.S. Army captain killed in Iraq with insults and degrading comments about Muslims, as the soldier's bereaved father pressured Republican Party leaders to distance themselves from the GOP presidential nominee.

Slain soldier's father calls Trump a 'black soul' Posted: 31 Jul 2016 03:20 PM PDT The father of a slain Muslim American soldier assailed Donald Trump as a "black soul" Sunday in an impassioned exchange with the Republican presidential candidate over the qualities required in a US leader. Khizr Khan electrified the Democratic convention last week with a tribute to his fallen son that ended with a steely rebuke that Trump had "sacrificed nothing" for his country. Trump defended himself in an interview with ABC's "This Week," insisting he had made "a lot of sacrifices" while suggesting that Khan's wife, who stood silent on the convention stage as her husband spoke, had not been allowed to talk.

Death toll in Baghdad bombing rises to 324: ministry Posted: 31 Jul 2016 02:20 PM PDT By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The death toll from a suicide bombing in central Baghdad on July 3 has reached 324 and might climb further, Iraq's health minister said on Sunday. The attack, claimed by the militant group Islamic State whose fighters government forces are trying to eject from large parts of the north and west, was the deadliest bombing in Iraq since U.S.-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein 13 years ago. The toll could climb further as forensic teams are still working to identify bodies, the minister, Adela Hmoud, said.

Trump Melts Down Spectacularly in ABC Interview Posted: 31 Jul 2016 01:17 PM PDT If Donald Trump's weekend was already a train wreck, the derailed cars burst spectacularly into flame on Sunday morning with the release of a taped interview the Republican presidential nominee gave to ABC's George Stephanopoulos. Trump appeared to be unaware that Russian troops are fighting in Ukraine, and have been for some time. In a discussion about US policy toward Ukraine, Stephanopoulos asked Trump about his campaign operatives' successful effort to block the addition of a plank to the GOP platform that would have advocated providing lethal weapons to Ukraine to help defend against the Russian-backed insurgency in its eastern Donbas region.

The Latest: GOP Senate leader stops short of rebuking Trump Posted: 31 Jul 2016 12:19 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):

After attacks, German president says absolute security impossible Posted: 31 Jul 2016 11:32 AM PDT No government can guarantee its citizens full security from terror strikes, Germany's president said on Sunday, calling for national unity as the best defense after attacks in the past two weeks left 15 people dead. "Nowhere on earth are there politicians who can make such a guarantee," Joachim Gauck, a former Christian pastor in communist East Germany, told a memorial ceremony for the attack victims in Munich. This is the best possible cover against the rise of the cynical calculus of violent attackers." Five separate attacks between July 18 and July 26, two of them claimed by Islamic State, also left dozens wounded and have burst any illusions in Germany that the country is immune to attacks like those also claimed by Islamic State in neighboring France.

Brazil lose goalkeeper Prass for Olympic campaign Posted: 31 Jul 2016 11:08 AM PDT Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Brazil ruled goalkeeper Fernando Prass out of their Olympic campaign on Sunday after he injured an elbow warming up for a friendly against Japan.

CAIR Demands Apology from Donald Trump for Disparagement of Muslim Gold Star Family Posted: 31 Jul 2016 10:01 AM PDT WASHINGTON, July 31, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today demanded that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump apologize for disparaging the parents of a Muslim who died while serving in the U.S. Army in Iraq.[NOTE: CAIR today also joined a #CanYouHearUsNow social media campaign by Muslim women activists challenging Trump's Islamophobic remarks. See below. ...

Twin PKK attacks kill 4 Turkish soldiers: report Posted: 31 Jul 2016 09:52 AM PDT Militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) killed four Turkish soldiers Sunday in two separate attacks, local media reported. Three soldiers were killed during a military operation in Ordu, located on the Black Sea coast in northeastern Turkey, the province's governor said in comments carried by private Dogan news agency. Irfan Balkanlioglu said the soldiers were shot by PKK militants and two others were injured, Dogan, said.

The Latest: Trump again criticizes fallen veteran's father Posted: 31 Jul 2016 08:27 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):

Kuwait's Zain telecom Q2 profits rise 14% Posted: 31 Jul 2016 08:16 AM PDT Kuwaiti telecom giant Zain's net profits in the second quarter rose 14 percent despite currency losses and its operations in conflict zones, the company said Sunday. Zain said it posted a net profit of 45 million dinars ($149.5 million) in the three months to June compared with the same period in 2015. The net profit of Kuwait's largest mobile operator in the first six months also rose by 2.0 percent to 82 million dinars ($272 million), compared to a year earlier, Zain said in a statement.

Olympics-Soccer-Brazil to replace keeper after injury forces out Prass Posted: 31 Jul 2016 08:15 AM PDT Brazil were mulling over options to replace goalkeeper Fernando Prass on Sunday after injury forced the Palmeiras goalkeeper to withdraw from the country's Olympic squad, the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) said. "I worked hard to fulfil my dream of playing for Brazil but unfortunately it's not going to happen this time," the uncapped Prass said on Twitter. "The exam showed a fractured elbow and I won't be able to compete in the Olympics." The CBF said they would call up another keeper to replace Prass, one of the three permitted over-age players in the under-23 squad.

Turkey culls nearly 1,400 from army, overhauls top military council Posted: 31 Jul 2016 08:08 AM PDT By Yesim Dikmen and David Dolan ANKARA/ISTANBUL, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey dismissed nearly 1,400 more members of its armed forces and stacked the top military council with government ministers on Sunday, moves designed by President Tayyip Erdogan to put him in full control of the military after a failed coup. The scale of Erdogan's crackdown - more than 60,000 people in the military, judiciary, civil service and schools have been either detained, suspended or placed under investigation since the July 15-16 coup - has unnerved Turkey's NATO allies, fuelling tension between Ankara and the West. Adding to the acrimony, Turkey's EU Affairs minister hit out at Germany on Sunday after its constitutional court upheld a ban on Erdogan making a televised address to a rally of pro-government Turks in Cologne.

Retaking IS-held Mosul likely to be tricky, costly for Iraq Posted: 31 Jul 2016 08:01 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — It promises to be the biggest and perhaps last major battle against the Islamic State group in Iraq.

Islamic State calls slain Muslim American soldier an 'apostate' Posted: 31 Jul 2016 07:48 AM PDT Islamic State on Sunday condemned as an "apostate" a U.S. Muslim soldier killed in Iraq whose story has re-ignited debate in the 2016 presidential election on the role of Muslims in American life. Dabiq, the militant group's online magazine, showed a picture of U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan's tombstone in Arlington National Cemetery with a caption, "Beware of Dying as an apostate." An accompanying article, penned by an unnamed "American convert in the Islamic State," urged Muslims to resist Western influences and to either migrate to Islamic State-controlled lands or carry out lone attacks. Khan's death in a bomb attack in Iraq in 2004 re-emerged as an election issue when his father gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday in which he paid homage to his son.

Four Turkish soldiers killed in clashes with Kurdish militants Posted: 31 Jul 2016 07:07 AM PDT Four Turkish soldiers were killed on Sunday in two separate clashes with militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), officials said. In the first incident, the militants opened fire on soldiers in a forested area of Ordu province in northeast Turkey, killing three and injuring two others, the provincial governor, Irfan Balkanlioglu, said in a statement. In a separate incident, PKK fighters killed one soldier and injured six others during a security operation in a remote corner of Hakkari province in southeast Turkey near the borders with Iran and Iraq, security sources said.

As 'caliphate' shrinks, Islamic State looks to global attacks Posted: 31 Jul 2016 06:08 AM PDT By Stephen Kalin and Ahmed Tolba BAGHDAD/CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State, losing territory and on the retreat in Iraq and Syria, has claimed credit for a surge in global attacks this summer, most of them in France and Germany. Instead of urging supporters to travel to its self-proclaimed caliphate, it encouraged them to act locally using any means available. "If the tyrants close the door of migration in your faces, then open the door of jihad in theirs and turn their actions against them," said an audio clip purportedly from spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, referring to Western governments' efforts to keep foreign fighters from traveling to the join the group.

Iraq minister says IS leaders, families flee Mosul Posted: 31 Jul 2016 04:42 AM PDT Iraq's Defence Minister Khalid al-Obeidi has said that Islamic State group leaders and their families have sold their belongings and fled Mosul as Iraqi forces close in on the northern city. Iraqi forces are conducting operations to set the stage for an assault on Mosul, the country's second city that has been held by IS since June 2014, but the final push to retake it is likely still months away. "A number of the families... and leaders of (IS) in Mosul, they and their families sold their belongings and withdrew towards Syria," whose border west of the city, Obeidi told Iraqiya state television.

Official: gas facility still burning after IS attack Posted: 31 Jul 2016 04:21 AM PDT IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — An Iraqi official says part of a gas facility attacked by militants is still burning.

Germany's far-right AfD claws back some support after attacks Posted: 31 Jul 2016 04:20 AM PDT The anti-immigrant party Alternative for Germany (Afd) gained support as Germany was hit by a spate of attacks this month, including by Islamist militants, but support for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives held steady, a poll showed. Germany remains deeply unsettled after 15 people were killed and dozens wounded in five separate attacks between July 18-July 26. Two were claimed by Islamic State, and three of the attackers were asylum seekers.

Attacks on Iraq gas facility, oil field kill five Posted: 31 Jul 2016 03:50 AM PDT Militants assaulted a gas facility and a nearby oil field in north Iraq on Sunday, killing five people in rare attacks inside Kurdish-controlled areas of Kirkuk province, officials said. Gunmen travelling on motorbikes opened fire on the gas facility's guards, then killed four of its employees and planted multiple bombs before escaping, officials from Iraq's North Oil Company and the Kurdish peshmerga forces said. Militants also attacked the nearby Bai Hassan oil field, the largest in oil-rich Kirkuk province, killing an engineer and sparking a major fire, officials said.

Islamic State attacks two energy plants in north Iraq, kills five Posted: 31 Jul 2016 03:10 AM PDT By Mustafa Mahmoud KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Islamic State militants stormed two energy facilities in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing at least five workers and shutting down a major oil pumping station, security and oil sources said. Security sources believe the attackers escaped to the Bai Hassan oil station, 25 km further northwest, the sources said. The attack forced the suspension of activity at an oil station which had been pumping 55,000 barrels per day to the northern Kurdish region, oil sources said.

Militants attack second energy facility in northern Iraq: security sources Posted: 31 Jul 2016 12:12 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Militants in northern Iraq stormed an oil facility on Sunday and detonated explosives at an oil storage tank, sending flames into the sky, security sources said. The assault on the Bai Hassan station, about 40 km (25 miles) northwest of Kirkuk, followed an attack in the early morning on a gas station nearby which left at least four workers dead. The sources said clashes were ongoing. It was not clear if there were casualties in the second incident. ...

Rights group says ban militias with record of abuses from Mosul battle Posted: 30 Jul 2016 11:27 PM PDT Iraqi military commanders should prevent militias with records of serious abuses from taking part in a planned offensive on the Islamic State-held city of Mosul, campaign group Human Rights Watch said on Sunday. The battle for Mosul, the ultra-hardline militants' de facto capital in Iraq and the largest city anywhere in their self-proclaimed caliphate, is expected later this year but plans have not been finalised, officials and diplomats in Baghdad say. The role of Kurdish peshmerga forces and Shi'ite Muslim militias from the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) is unresolved and remains a point of contention.

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