WORLD
FRANCE: IMF chief Christine Lagarde was ordered Friday to stand trial in France over a massive state payout to a colorful tycoon when she was French economy minister, dealing a setback to her stellar career.
TURKEY: Turkey detained 283 members of the presidential guard of Recep Tayyip Erdogan after last week's attempted coup, a government official said Friday.
RUSSIA: Russia could miss the Paralympics in Rio as well as the Olympics after the International Paralympic Committee decided to open suspension proceedings following a report into state-sponsored doping.
SERBIA: Wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on Friday lodged an appeal against his genocide conviction and 40-year jail sentence, accusing UN judges of "subjecting him to a political trial".
FRANCE: French President Francois Hollande Friday defended his government from accusations it relaxed its anti-terror defenses, and announced plans to arm the fight against the Islamic State group.
MALAYSIA: Hope of finding flight MH370's final resting place is "fading" and the search for the doomed jet will be suspended if nothing turns up in the suspected crash zone, Malaysia, Australia and China said Friday.
UK: Britain's economy was battered by the Brexit vote last month and faced a "dramatic deterioration" in activity as orders dried up and business investments were canned.
Munich manhunt after eight killed
At least eight people died Friday in a shooting rampage at a shopping mall in the German city of Munich, with the gunmen still at large, police said. "Sad news: the number of dead has risen to eight," Munich police said on Twitter. Police warned of an "acute terror" situation in the locked-down southern German city, which saw panicked shoppers fleeing the mall as armed police roamed the streets in the search for the attackers. "We suspect terrorism," a Munich police spokesman said. The shooting spree began before 1600 GMT at a McDonald's restaurant and continued on a nearby street before the gunmen moved into the OEZ shopping center, a police spokeswoman said. Germany has so far escaped the kind of
large-scale jihadist attacks seen in France. But it is the third strike against civilian targets in Europe in just over a week, following an axe rampage on a train in the same German state of Bavaria on Monday and the truck attack in France on July 14. DPA quoted police as warning of an "acute terror situation" with three assailants at large armed with "long guns". A video posted on social media appeared to show a man dressed in black walking away from the McDonald's while firing repeatedly on people as they fled. Munich's main train station has been evacuated and metro and bus transport in the city suspended.
Trump vows to restore 'safety'
A triumphant Donald Trump accepted the Republican White House nomination Thursday, promising fearful Americans that "safety will be restored" if they shun Hillary Clinton and politics as usual to make him president. Trump "humbly and gratefully" accepted the nomination before 2,000 raucous Republican Party activists in Cleveland, offering a strikingly populist pitch for the White House. Between defining chants of "U.S.A" and "Trump, Trump, Trump" Trump cast himself as the "law and order candidate" and vowed to champion "people who work hard but no longer have a voice." "I am your voice," he declared pointing into the cameras, promising a return to more secure times with "millions of new jobs and trillions in new wealth." Trump offered a tough on crime message that was reminiscent of Richard Nixon's election- winning strategy in 1968. The "crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon, and I mean very soon, come to an end," he said. "Beginning on January 20, of 2017, safety will be restored." He repeated common controversial themes of his bruising primary campaign - banning foreigners from countries linked to terrorism, building a wall on the Mexican border and renegotiating trade deals with China.
Ebullient Trump raps Cruz hard
Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump took a victory lap Friday after accepting his party's nomination at a raucous convention in Cleveland, proclaiming it "the summer of Trump." But while insisting that the four-day confab brought "amazing" unity to divided Republicans, Trump harshly criticized his rival Ted Cruz for pointedly declining in a convention speech to endorse his candidacy. He called the Texas senator "dishonorable," adding that Cruz "may have ruined his political career." The New York mogul said that even if Cruz now offered an endorsement, he would not accept it. Cruz, he said, had been "booed the hell out of the place." Trump added, "What difference does it make? I don't want his endorsement." Cruz said that he could not support a man who hadcriticized both his wife and father during theprimary campaign. Trump had tweeted apicture of an angry-looking Heidi Cruz appearing next to a photo of his own wife.
United States in Brief
HILLARY CLINTON: Hillary Clinton fired off a icy rebuke Thursday to her rival Donald Trump after he savaged her record upon accepting the Republican nomination for president, telling him: "We are better than this."
PRESIDENT OBAMA: President Obama Friday dismissed Donald Trump's depiction of the United States as a nation in deep crisis as just plain wrong and not the experience of ordinary Americans. Trump had painted a gloomy picture of the United States, describing it as awash in urban violence and illegal immigration, among other problems.
JOHN KERRY: Secretary of State John Kerry Friday urged signatories of an international ozone pact to back the phasing-out of hydrofluorocarbons. "Climate change is happening - and it is happening quicker than most of us ever anticipated," Kerry said.
COUP: President Obama Friday flatly rejected reports that the US had prior intelligence about or was involved in the coup attempt in Turkey, calling such suggestions "unequivocally false."
SENATE BID: White supremacist David Duke, apparently inspired by the grassroots support for Donald Trump's unconventional presidential bid, announced Friday he was launching a Senate run in the southern state of Louisiana and called for a "revolution."
WORLD TRADE CENTER: The sculpture "The Sphere Plaza Fountain," which stood in front of New York's World Trade Center before the September 11, 2001 attacks, is set to return to the site.
GEORGE HARRISON: George Harrison's estate has denounced Donald Trump for playing The Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun" at the Republican convention.
OLIVER STONE: Oliver Stone warned at the start of the San Diego Comic-Con that Pokemon Go was part of a march toward "totalitarianism". Stone said the app was part of a larger culture of "surveillance capitalism."
BALDWIN BROTHERS: Donald Trump has stoked a firestorm among Republican leaders and divided middle America. But the real estate tycoon is also pitting brother against brother in one of Hollywood's most famous families, veteran actor Alec Baldwin revealed Thursday. "I have one brother at the Republican convention. It's okay - my other brother is there protesting Trump," he said.
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THURSDAY'S SCOREBOARD
MLB: AMERICAN LEAGUE
Baltimore 4 N.Y. Yankees 1
Boston 13 Minnesota 2
Detroit 2 ChicagoWS 1 (7 innings)
Tampa Bay 7 Oakland 3
MLB: NATIONAL LEAGUE
L.A. Dodgers 6 Washington 3
Miami 9 Philadelphia 3
Pittsburgh 5 Milwaukee 3
St. Louis 6 San Diego 5
Colorado 7 Atlanta 3
NBA: A North Carolina law limiting the state's anti-discrimination protections has prompted the NBA to move next year's NBA All-Star Game from Charlotte, league commissionerAdam Silver said Thursday.
TENNIS: US top seed John Isner and French second seed Gael Monfils breezed into the
ATP and WTA Washington Open quarter-finals Thursday with impressive serving performances in straight-set triumphs. Isner blasted 15 aces in downing Cypriot 15th seed Marcos Baghdatis 7-6 (7/3), 6-2 while Monfils fired 12 aces and won 22 of 23 first-serve points in defeating Croatian teen 16th seed Borna Coric 6-2, 6-3. Neither winner faced a break point.
STANFORD: Dominika Cibulkova defeated Urszula Radwanska 7-6 (7/3), 6-3 in her opening match at the WTA Stanford tournament Thursday.
GOLF: Reigning US Open champion Dustin Johnson fired a six-under par 66 Thursday to seizeashareoftheleadatthePGA Tour's Canadian Open at Glen AbbeyGolf Club.
SOCCER: A consortium headed by American businessmen Jason Levien and Steve Kaplan completed its takeover of Swansea, the Premier League club announced Thursday.
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