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TURKEY: Turkish authorities on Sunday pressed on with a ruthless crackdown against suspects in the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with 6,000 people,
including generals and judges detained.
PAKISTAN: The brother of a murdered Pakistani celebrity said Sunday he is "not embarrassed" to have killed her, as Qandeel Baloch's death reignited polarizing calls for
action against honor killings.
SYRIA: Opposition-controlled parts of Syria's battered northern city Aleppo came under total siege Sunday, after government forces severed the last route out of the east.
UKRAINE: Villagers held a vigil Sunday at the site in eastern Ukraine where Flight MH17 was shot down two years ago, as bereaved relatives marked the anniversary with emotional memorial services.
FRANCE: The Nice truck attacker staked out the seafront for two days before striking, it
emerged Sunday as investigators pieced together details of the IS-claimed massacre.
SWITZERLAND: UNESCO on Sunday listed Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier's works - including the Indian city of Chandigarh which he planned in the 1950s- among its World Heritage Sites.
Three police officers killed in Baton Rouge
A black gunman shot dead three police officers in the Louisiana capital of Baton Rouge on Sunday, in the latest spate of violence involving law enforcement. The shooting, which also wounded three other officers, took place in a city scarred by high racial tensions and numerous protests against police brutality since the death earlier this month of Alton Sterling, a black man shot at point-blank range by police. Louisiana State Police Superintendent Colonel Mike Edmonson told reporters the gunman behind the shootings was killed and there are no suspects at large. The motive was not immediately clear. One of the wounded officers "is in critical condition fighting for his life as we speak, (a) 41-year-old,"
Edmonson said. The other two officers were in stable condition. "WithGod's help, we will get through this. To me, this is not so much about gun control as it is about what's in men's hearts," said Edmonson, who like some of his colleagues who spoke in the press conference was clearly shaken. "And until we come together as a nation, as a people, to heal as a people, if we don't do that and this madness continues, we will surely perish as a people." The shooting took place along a highway at 8:40am, after police responded to a call about a man carrying a rifle.
US-led strikes resume from Turkey base
The US-led coalition against the Islamic State group has resumed air strikes from a Turkish air base that were suspended after a failed military coup d'etat, the Pentagon said on Sunday. "After close coordination with our Turkish allies, they have reopened their airspace to military aircraft," Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement. "As a result, counter-ISIL coalition air operations at all air bases in Turkey have resumed," he added, using an acronym for the IS group. "US facilities at Incirlik are still operating on internal power sources, but we hope to restore commercial power soon. Base operations have not been affected." The Turkish authorities on Saturday imposed a security lockdown at the Incirlik air base in the southern province of Adana used by US and other coalition forces in the fight against jihadists in Syria and Iraq. The facility is 68 miles from the Syrian border and houses 1,500 US troops. The base has notably been used to deploy drones, Prowler electronic warplanes and A-10 ground attack aircraft in the fight against the IS group. The US military has a total of around 2,200 service members and civilian employees in Turkey, which is a crucial partner forWashington.
US-based cleric denies coup involvement
The US-based cleric that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says is behind an attempted military coup in Turkey has denied any involvement, suggesting that the coup could have been staged by the president himself. Erdogan has accused Gulen, a reclusive Muslim cleric living in self-imposed exile in a mountain town in Pennsylvania, of being behind Friday's bloody putsch attempt. He wants Washington to extradite Gulen to Turkey. The 75-year-old Gulen was once a close Erdogan ally but the two fell out in recent years as the Turkish president became suspicious of Gulen's movement, Hizmet, and its powerful presence in Turkish society, including in the media, police and judiciary. Gulen condemned the military uprising "in the strongest terms" shortly after the coup attempt began late Friday. And in a rare meeting Saturday with a small group of reporters at his compound in the town of Saylorsburg, in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, Gulen rejected charges of being the coup mastermind. "I don't know who my followers are," Gulen said when asked if any of his backers were involved in the coup attempt, according to The New York Times. "Since I do not know these individuals, I cannot speak of their potential involvement."
United States in Brief
SHOOTING: A gunman entered a Florida hospital through the emergency room early Sunday, went to the third floor and fatally shot a patient and an employee apparently at random, police said. David Owens, 29, used a handgun to fatally shoot 88-year-old patient
Cynthia Zingsheim and employee Carrie Rouzer, 36, in Zingsheim's room, Titusville police said. (AP)
PLANE CRASH: Officials say three people were killed when their small plane crashed in upstate New York. The Federal Aviation Administration says the single-engine Piper PA-28 crashed Saturday in a heavily wooded area and was destroyed by fire. (AP)
CANCER RESEARCH: Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday unveiled a series of agreements between the US and Australia to create an "unprecedented" international research database of cancer patients as he kicked off a three-day visit in Melbourne.
GANG SUMMIT: Rappers The Game and Snoop Dogg are organizing a summit with Los Angeles-area gang members to discuss ways to curb violence. The Game put the word out on social media, inviting leaders of the Crips, Bloods and other street gangs to come together at a town hall style meeting Sunday in South LosAngeles. (AP)
RACE RELATIONS: An overwhelming majority of Americans think the next president should place "major" focus on improving race relations, which most see as "generally bad."
ALAN VEGA: Punk pioneer Alan Vega, whose band Suicide brought a confrontational edge to rock with its jarring electronics, nihilistic lyricism and physically violent shows, has died. He was 78.
POKEMON GO: Police in New Hampshire's largest city have gotten the Pokemon Go bug, trying to lure fugitives with the popular app. A post on the Manchester Police Department Facebook page announces that police recently detected one of the more rare Pokemon characters - a Charizard - in the booking area. (AP)
NUDITY: American photographer Spencer Tunick merged nudity and politics in a dramatic way Sunday in his latest work, posing 100 unclothed women for a shoot in sight of the Republican National Convention. Tunick's large-scale arty installation, "Everything She Says Means Everything," featured women of all shapes, colors and sizes, holding up mirrors toward the arena where Republicans are set to formally name Donald Trump as their presidential nominee.
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SATURDAY'S SCOREBOARD
MLB: INTERLEAGUE
Chicago Cubs 3 Texas 1
MLB: AMERICAN LEAGUE
Oakland 5 Toronto 4
Boston 5 N.Y. Yankees 2
Seattle 1 Houston 0
Baltimore 2 Tampa Bay 1
Kansas City 8 Detroit 4
Minnesota 5 Cleveland 4 (11 innings)
L.A. Angels 1 ChicagoWhite Sox 0
MBL: NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 4 N.Y. Mets 2
Washington 6 Pittsburgh 0
Colorado 4 Atlanta 3
Milwaukee 9 Cincinnati 1
St. Louis 5 Miami 0
Arizona 2 L.A. Dodgers 1 (12 innings)
San Diego 7 San Francisco 6 (10 innings)
MLS
Orlando City 2 Vancouver 2
San Jose 2 Toronto FC 1
D.C. United 1 Columbus 1
FC Dallas 3 Chicago 1
Colorado 1 Sporting Kansas City 0
New England 0 Real Salt Lake 0
GOLF: Henrik Stenson won the British Open at Royal Troon on Sunday, pipping Phil Mickelson by producing a major championship record-equaling round of 63 on the final day. The Swede - for whom this was a first major win - led by one overnight and kept his nerve, shooting an eight-under 63 to finish on 20-under, three shots clear. Mickelson finished on 17-under after a final round of 65.
MLS: Maximiliano Urruti and Mauro Diaz scored in the first half Saturday as FC Dallas
bounced back from a mid-week defeat with a 3-1 victory over the Chicago Fire.
CYCLING: Jarlinson Pantano finally provided some joy for Colombia at the Tour de France by winning Sunday's 15th stage.
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