WORLD
FRANCE: The Islamic State group said Tuesday that two of its "soldiers" stormed a French church and slit a priest's throat, the latest attack in the country.
JAPAN: A man who had threatened attacks on disabled people went on a knife rampage Tuesday at the care center where he previouslyworked, leaving 19 people dead.
AUSTRALIA: The Australian government ordered an inquiry Tuesday after evidence emerged of prison guards assaulting teenage boys, with one shown hooded and shackled in scenes likened to Guantanamo Bay.
GERMANY: A patient shot and killed a doctor before turning the gun on himself at a Berlin hospital Tuesday, police said.
MALAWI: Malawi police have arrested an HIV-infected man who was paid to have sex with more than 100 adolescent girls as part of a traditional ritual marking their passage to womanhood, officials said Tuesday.
UAE: Solar Impulse 2 on Tuesday completed its historic round-the-world journey, becoming the first plane to circle the globe powered only by the sun to promote renewable energy.
Hillary poised for nomination
Hillary Clinton stood poised to win her party's presidential nomination Tuesday with husband Bill tasked with steeling fractious Democrats for the White House fight against Republican Donald Trump. She was due to be formally proclaimed the party's nominee after a roll call vote at the Democratic National Convention, making the former first lady and secretary of state the first female presidential candidate of a major party. Although the outcome is a foregone conclusion, the vote could be an occasion for rowdy displays on the convention floor by diehard Bernie Sanders frustrated with their candidate's loss to Clinton in the party's
primaries. After a chaotic opening day disrupted by protests and a rancorous fight over leaked emails showing party bias against Sanders, the Vermont senator called on supporters to get behind Clinton. "What we must do, or forever look back in regret, is defeat Donald Trump and elect Hillary Clinton," Sanders said Tuesday while addressing the California delegation. "In my view, it's easy - it's easy to boo, but it is harder to look your kids in the face who would be living under a Donald Trump presidency," he said. Trump, meanwhile, took the usual shots at Clinton during a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Charlotte, North Carolina, calling her "Crooked Hillary". A Clinton campaign official said Tuesday's events aim to draw a sharp contrast with Trump with a line-up of speakers who will talk about her life-long fights to make a difference.
Kremlin dismisses email hack claims as 'absurd'
The Kremlin on Tuesday dismissed allegations that Russia was behind a hack of the Democratic National Committee's emails as absurd, mocking what it called obsessive references to Russia in the US presidential campaign. "This absurd news was immediately refuted by the family of the well-known presidential candidate," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists, referring to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov earlier shrugged off the accusations by the Hillary Clinton campaign that Russia was involved in the embarrassing leak of emails, saying: "I don't want to use four-letter words." Peskov also rubbished a report that Trump's foreign policy adviser Carter Page had met Kremlin chief of staff Sergei Ivanov in Russia this month to speak at the graduation ceremony of the New Economic School in Moscow. Peskov said he had asked Ivanov about the allegation, adding that the Kremlin chief of staff had responded that "he does not comment on such delusional reports."
Green Berets accept first female candidates
Two women will soon be the first female soldiers to undergo training to become members of the Green Berets, the Army's special forces, the military said Monday. "They are the first two women who have been selected for special forces assessment" following the elimination of the ban on women in combat roles, said Major Melody Faulkenberry, a spokeswoman for the United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School. She did not give additional details about the candidates. President Barack Obama's administration decided in 2013 that all combat positions should be open to women by 2016, including the infantry and special operations forces. The Marines had requested some exemptions, but these were overruled by Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. Two female Marines were assigned to frontline infantry roles in May, though it will take some time before they are placed in their new roles. Rules stipulate that a female "leadership cadre" needs to be established in their units at least three months beforehand. Although women warriors have frequently found themselves in combat situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, they had previously been barred from joining frontline combat roles. Currently, women account for 15.6 percent of the 1.34 million active duty personnel in the Army,Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force.
United States in Brief
OBAMA: First Lady Michelle Obama on Monday told the Democratic convention in Philadelphia that Hillary Clinton was the one candidate ready to be president, as she poured scorn on Donald Trump's behavior and temperament.
ATTACK: The United States condemned an apparent jihadist attack at a church in France Tuesday in which two assailants took hostages and slit a priest's throat before being killed by police. "The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms the horrific terrorist attack today at a Catholic church in Normandy, France," National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said.
WEAPONS: North Korea said any decision to conduct another nuclear test depends entirely on the behavior of the United States as the two sides traded blame Tuesday over tensions on the Korean peninsula. Ri Yong-Ho, Pyongyang's newly appointed foreign minister, accused the US of being behind the failure of the long-dormant six-party talks on the country's nuclear program.
SEA PATROLS: The US will continue naval patrols in the disputed South China Sea, Washington's National Security Adviser Susan Rice told Chinese representatives during a series of meetings in Beijing, a senior American official said Tuesday.
DEPARTURE: The State Department has authorised the voluntary departure of the families of staff posted in Turkey after an abortive coup targeting the government, the embassy said on its website on Tuesday.
HEIGHT: South Korean women and Iranian men are significantly taller than they were 100 years ago but Americans have barely grown, according to a new study that reflects nutritional and environmental factors.
CONCERT: Heavy metal greats Metallica and pop superstar Rihanna will headline the latest Global Citizen Festival, which will mobilize fans to fight the world's most extreme poverty. The festival, to take place on September 24 in New York's Central Park, "sells" tickets based on actions taken such as social media postings and letters to promote development goals.
NETFLIX: Netflix said on Monday it had signed a deal with 20th Century Fox to be the global streaming home for FX's Emmy-nominated smash hit "American Crime Story." The first season - "The People v. O.J. Simpson" - will be available around the world in 2017.
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MONDAY'S SCOREBOARD
MLB: INTERLEAGUE
Baltimore 3, Colorado 2, 10 Inns
Toronto 4, San Diego 2
MLB: AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 4, Boston 2
Texas 7, Oakland 6
ChicagoWhite Sox 5, Chicago Cubs 4
N.Y. Yankees 2, Houston 1
L.A. Angels 6, Kansas City 2
MLB: NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 4, Miami 0
St. Louis at N.Y. Mets, ppd.
Milwaukee 7, Arizona 2
ChicagoWhite Sox 5, Chicago Cubs 4
Cincinnati 7, San Francisco 5
NFL: Cleveland Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon has been conditionally reinstated to the NFL after meeting with commissioner Roger Goodell about his indefinite drug ban.
CONCUSSIONS: The NFL is stepping up penalties on teams that fail to follow its concussion protocol designed to protect players from the dangers of repeated head injuries. Clubs found in violation could face fines of up to $150,000 and the forfeiture of future draft selections.
BELL: Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le'Veon Bell, reportedly facing a four game suspension for missing multiple drug tests, Monday vowed on media that he wouldn't miss any games in the upcoming NFL season.
OLYMPICS: Seven athletes including a canoeing gold medalist became the latest Russian competitors to be banned Tuesday from next month's Rio Olympics after an explosive report revealed state-run doping across Russian sport. Five canoeists and two in modern pentathlon were barred, taking the number of Russians banned from the Games - which start in little over a week - to at least 20 since Sunday.
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