Three police officers were killed and three injured in a shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on today, police said.
	"One suspect is dead, law enforcement believes two others may be at large," the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office said in a statement.

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The Nice truck attacker staked out the seafront for two days before striking, it emerged today as investigators pieced together details of the IS-claimed massacre and questioned possible accomplices.
	A source close to the investigation told AFP that Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian, sent a text message just before the attack in which he "expresses satisfaction at having obtained a 7.65mm pistol and discusses the supply of other weapons".
	He also took a selfie at the wheel of the 19-tonne truck in the days before he ploughed it into a crowd of people who had been enjoying a fireworks display on Bastille Day, France's national day, killing 84 and injuring about 300.
	Mangled bodies were left strewn across the Riviera city's seafront in the grisly attack by a man described by those who knew him as a loner with a history of violence and depression.
	While some relatives and friends described the delivery driver as someone who drank heavily and never attended the local ..

Attacker staked out Nice site, accomplice suspected

Three US police officers killed, several injured in Baton

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan broke down in tears while speaking at the funeral of an old friend in Istanbul killed during the coup, images from Turkish television showed.
	Erol Olcak and his 16-year-old son were shot dead on the Bosphorous bridge in the city during Friday's attempted coup.
	They had been on the bridge to protest against the putsch launched by a group within the military, according to local media.
	Erdogan told the crowd of hundreds chanting Allahu akbar, "God is greatest": "Erol was an old friend of mine."
	Unable to control his tears, Erdogan then said: "I cannot speak any further. Condolences to our nation."
	He concluded: "May God have mercy on your soul."
	Olcak had worked with Erdogan and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and had been described as "masterminding" Erdogan's presidential campaign in 2014 by Turkish media.
	The ceremony on the Asian side of the city was also attended by Ahmet Davutoglu, the former prime minister.
	Earlier in ..

Erdogan breaks down at funeral for friend killed in coup

A military aide of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was taken into custody today after Friday's attempted coup, state-run news agency Anadolu reported.
	Ali Yazici is accused of involvement in the coup plot and was in Ankara during the putsch, CNN-Turk said. He had only begun working for the president in August last year, according to Anadolu.

Erdogan aide in custody after attempted coup: state-run media

A gunman killed at least two police officers and injured at least five more in Baton Rouge, Louisiana today, local media reported.
	Several of those injured were reported to be in critical condition.
	"The scene seems to be contained right now," Baton Rouge police spokesman Don Coppola told television station WAFB.

Two US police officers dead, five injured in Baton Rouge

Two US police officers dead, four shot in Baton Rouge:

Renewed fighting in South Sudan that has claimed more than 300 lives dominated discussions at an African Union summit that opened today in the Rwandan capital Kigali.
	A shaky ceasefire has held since late Monday following the fighting that raged for four days in Juba, leaving hundreds dead and forcing 40,000 to flee their homes.
	The violence in the South Sudan capital echoed the fighting that triggered the civil war and marks a fresh blow to last year's deal to end the bitter conflict that began when President Salva Kiir accused ex-rebel and now Vice President Riek Machar of plotting a coup.
	The unrest has also plunged into doubt a peace deal struck in August 2015 between the two sides.
	After meeting with the UN Secretary-General yesterday night leaders of the regional bloc IGAD supported Ban Ki-moon's calls for an arms embargo, targeted sanctions and a strengthened peacekeeping mission and called for "the deployment of a regional protection force to separate the warring ...

South Sudan violence tops African Union summit agenda

The Israeli army said it fired two Patriot missiles at a drone that "infiltrated" from war-ravaged neighbouring Syria today.
	"Moments ago two Patriot air defence missiles were fired towards a drone which infiltrated Israeli airspace from Syria," the military said in a statement.
	The statement did not say whether the missiles hit the drone, which crossed in the Golan Heights where the demarcation line between Israel and Syria is located.
	Stray fire from Syria's five-year civil war has occasionally landed on the Israeli side of the demarcation line.
	Earlier this month, the Israeli army attacked two Syrian military targets on the Golan Heights after stray Syrian fire damaged the security fence along the line.
	While Israel has sought to avoid being dragged into the Syrian civil war, it has attacked Syrian military targets when fire from the conflict spills over into its territory.
	Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also acknowledged in April that Israel had attacked dozens of convoys 

Israel fires missiles at drone from Syria: army

Yasir Shah grabbed two wickets in quick succession as Pakistan moved closer to victory in the first Test against England at Lord's on Sunday's fourth day.
     At tea England were 155 for six needing a further 128 runs to reach their victory target of 283.
     Jonny Bairstow (28 not out) and all-rounder Chris Woakes (five not out) -- who had already taken 11 wickets in this match -- were still at the crease but with just the tail to come. The most England had ever made before to win in the fourth innings of a Lord's Test was 282 for three against New Zealand in 2004.
     If England achieve their target in this match, it would be the second-highest such chase in a Lord's Test behind the West Indies' 344 for one back in 1984.
     England were making steady progress at 135 for four when leg-spinner Shah, who took six for 72 in the first innings, struck Sunday. A ball after Gary Ballance had pulled him for four, Shah bowled the recalled left-hander behind his legs for 43 with a ...

Shah double puts Pakistan on top

The Tunisian who rammed a truck into Bastille Day crowds in Nice, killing 84 people, sent a text message just before the attack about the supply of weapons, a source close to the investigation said today.
	In the message, 31-year-old Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel "expresses satisfaction at having obtained a 7.65mm pistol and discusses the supply of other weapons", the source said.
	The driver, who was shot dead by police after his deadly rampage, took pictures of himself at the wheel that he shared by SMS, the source added.
	Over 200 investigators are working on identifying the recipients of the messages, one of the officers told AFP.
	Six people are still being held for questioning over the third major attack in France since January 2015.
	Among the six is a 38-year-old Albanian, who was arrested this morning on suspicion of supplying the pistol that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel used to fire at police trying to block his route.
	Police later found the gun in the truck, along with two replica ...

France truck attacker sent SMS on weapons just before attack

Scoreboard at tea on the fourth day
of the first Test between England and Pakistan at Lord's today:
     Pakistan 1st Innings: 339
     England 1st Innings: 272
     Pakistan 2nd Innings (overnight: 214-8):
	Mohammad Hafeez c Root b Broad            0
	Shan Masood c Cook b Woakes              24
	Azhar Ali lbw b Woakes                   23
	Younis Khan b Ali                        25
	Misbah-ul-Haq c Hales b Ali               0
	Asad Shafiq b Woakes                     49
	Sarfraz Ahmed c Bairstow b Woakes        45
	Yasir Shah c Bairstow b Broad            30
	Wahab Riaz c Bairstow b Woakes            0
	Mohamad Amir c Bairstow b Broad           1
	Rahat Ali not out                         0
	Extras: (B-6, LB-11, NB-1)               18
	Total: (all out in 79.1 overs)          215
	Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-44, 3-59, 4-60, 5-129, 6-168, 7-208, 8-214, 9-214, 10-215
	Bowling: Broad 19.1-7-38-3; Ball 16-7-37-0; Finn 13-4-42-0; Woakes 18-6-32-5; Ali 13-3-49-2
     England 2nd Innings ...

London, July 17 (AFP) Scoreboard at tea on the fourth day

The US-led coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group has resumed air strikes from a Turkish air base that were suspended after a failed military coup d'etat, the Pentagon said today.
	"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 yesterday 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 government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday put down the bloody coup attempt, but it raised concerns in the West about the .

US-led coalition resumes strikes against IS from Turkey base

Three US police officers shot in Baton Rouge: media.

A grenade explosion killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded three others today near a military outpost in the Golan Heights, the army said in a statement.
	The incident occurred at Mount Hermon near the demarcation line with Syria. Details on how the Israeli grenade went off were being investigated.
	The two soldiers killed were identified as Staff Sergeant Hussam Tafesh, a 24-year-old Druze, and Sergeant Shlomo Rindenow, 20 and originally from the United States.
	Israeli media reported that one of the soldiers exited an army vehicle holding the grenade and approached another soldier standing outside the outpost when it exploded.
	Israel seized 1,200 square kilometres (460 square miles) of the Golan Heights from Syria in the Six-Day War of 1967 and later annexed it in a move never recognised by the international community.

Grenade blast kills 2 Israeli soldiers

Turkish authorities have detained a senior air force general and a dozen other suspects accused of backing the failed coup, at a key air base used by US forces for raids in Syria, an official said today.
	Brigadier air force general Bekir Ercan Van was detained along with 11 lower-ranking officers on Saturday at the air force base of Incirlik in Turkey's southern Adana province, the official said.
	One police officer from the base was also arrested. All are suspected of "complicity" in the coup plot, the official said.
	Officials have said the authorities suspect that Incirlik was used by rogue troops to refuel military aircraft "hijacked" by the coup plotters on Friday night.
	The base has become a key hub for US forces after Turkey last year agreed to allow the United States to use Incirlik to carry out lethal raids against jihadists in Syria.
	The US said today that strikes had resumed from the base, after Turkish authorities imposed a security lockdown in the wake of the coup ...

Turkey detains 'coup plotters' at base used by US: official

Dozens of villagers carried flowers and lit candles today at the site in rebel-held eastern Ukraine where flight MH17 crashed two years ago, killing all 298 people on board.
	About 60 people joined the vigil on the small square of the village of Petropavlivka where some of the remains and personal belongings of passengers on the Malaysia Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur fell to the ground in 2014.
	Some youngsters from the village - still controlled by pro-Russian separatists fighting pro-Western government forces - also carried paper planes in memory of children killed in the downing of the plane.
	"Some of the relatives of people who were killed phoned us and asked us to find things that were valuable for them, for example, the toys that belonged to children aboard," village council head Natalia Voloshina told AFP.
	Local residents continue to find small fragments of the jet's wreckage in the nearby forests, she said.
	Some of the small pieces of wreckage that have not 

Two years on, Ukraine villagers mourn at MH17 crash site

Saudi authorities executed a murderer in the holy city of Mecca today, the first death sentence to be carried out since before the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
	Fahd al-Hasni, a Saudi, was put to death after being convicted of stabbing dead a fellow citizen, the interior ministry said in a statement published on the official SPA news agency.
	Most people executed in Saudi Arabia are beheaded with a sword.
	It was the 96th execution of the year in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom, which imposes the death penalty for offences including murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and apostasy.
	The last execution in the Gulf country took place on May 29, more than a week before Ramadan began.
	There were no beheadings during the fasting month and the following Eid al-Fitr feast.
	Rights group Amnesty International says the kingdom carried out at least 158 death sentences last year, making it the third most prolific executioner after Iran and Pakistan. Its figures do not ...

Saudis carry out first execution since Ramadan

A gunman fatally shot an elderly patient and a hospital employee in an apparently random attack inside a Florida hospital early today, police said.
	"Victims are an elderly female patient, & female hospital employee. Unk motive," the Titusville Police Department said on Twitter.
	The shooting took place on the third floor of the Parrish Medical Center in Titusville -- 64 kilometres east of Orlando -- local police said earlier via Twitter, adding that the victims had died.
	Police arrested the gunman at the hospital, local television station WFTV reported. The authorities have not yet identified him.
	Unarmed security guards had subdued and detained the suspect before the police arrived.
	The suspect apparently did not know the victims or have any connection with the hospital, Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey told local reporters.
	"It appears to be extremely random," he said, local channel WKMG reported. However, he cautioned that it was still early in the investigation.
	Last ...

Gunman kills two in Florida hospital: reports

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed today to purge the "virus" within state bodies, during a speech at the funeral of victims killed during the coup bid he blames on his enemy Fethullah Gulen.
	"We will continue to clean the virus from all state bodies because this virus has spread. Unfortunately like a cancer, this virus has enveloped the state.
	"We knew this and told all relevant authorities," he warned thousands of mourners at the Fatih mosque in Istanbul.
	During a passionate speech, the president paid tribute to the "martyrs" of democracy, insisting that the people were stronger.
	"They may have tanks but we have our faith. We will not leave the squares ... But we will continue defiantly.
	"I said this yesterday, the people's demand for democracy cannot be swept aside. This is your right."
	During the attempted coup, 161 civilians and regular troops lost their lives in Istanbul and Ankara, according to government figures.
	More than 100 coup plotters were also killed, ..

Erdogan vows purge of 'virus' from state bodies after coup bid

France's foreign minister warned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today against using his country's failed coup as a "blank cheque" to silence his opponents.
	"We want the rule of law to work properly in Turkey," Jean-Marc Ayrault told France 3 television, warning Turkey's government against "purges".
	His remarks came as Turkish authorities continued a crackdown over the coup, arresting over 6,000 people accused of involvement in the putsch or of supporting the coup plotters.
	Ayrault said the events of the past two days had raised questions about Turkey's "reliability" in the fight against Islamic State.
	Turkey is a member of the US-led coalition that has been carrying out airstrikes against the group in Syria.
	"There's (the question of) reliability on the one hand and, indeed, an element of suspicion on the other," he told France 3 television.

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