The ex-wife of the man believed to have ploughed a truck into a crowd of revellers in Nice, killing 84 people, was held for questioning today, a police source said.
	Investigators are seeking to establish the motives of the suspect, 31-year-old Tunisian-born Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, but are also looking for possible accomplices.

'Ex-wife of France truck attack suspect held for questioning'

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The United Nations said Yemen's peace talks were expected to resume later today or the next day despite a threat by the government to boycott the negotiations.
	The rebel delegation of Shiite Huthis and representatives of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh's General People's Congress party was on its way to Kuwait City for the talks, a rebel spokesman said.
	UN special envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed arrived in Riyadh for talks with Yemen's President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi in an apparent last-ditch effort to convince the government to attend the talks.
	Ould Cheikh Ahmed "will leave to Kuwait along with the government delegation", a spokesman for the UN envoy told AFP, adding that the talks were scheduled to resume later in the day "or tomorrow".
	The rebel delegation left for Kuwait after a day-long stop in Oman during which they said they met Foreign Minister Yussef bin Alawi.
	Unlike its Gulf neighbours, Oman maintains good ties with Shiite Iran, a key backer of the Huthi .

UN says Yemen talks still on despite boycott threat

The first known case of a woman spreading the Zika virus to a man during unprotected sex was reported today in New York City, health authorities said.
	Until now, experts were aware only of cases in which men spread the virus to their partners during sex, as well as transmission by mosquito bites.
	The New York case involved a "nonpregnant woman in her twenties who reported she had engaged in a single event of condomless vaginal intercourse with a male partner the day she returned to New York City from travel to an area with ongoing Zika virus transmission," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
	Its report did not specify where the woman may have been infected.
	The next day, she developed fever, back pain, swelling and numbness and tingling in her hands and feet.
	She tested positive for Zika, a typically mosquito-borne virus that is spreading rapidly through the Caribbean and Latin America.
	Her male partner said he had not traveled outside the United States during ..

First case of Zika spread by sex from woman to man

Support for the EU in Europe has surged following Britain's shock vote to leave the bloc, according to a French opinion poll published today.
	With Britain in post-referendum crisis, more people polled in six EU nations by researchers IFOP said it was better to be in the bloc than they did two years ago.
	"Citzens are reacting to both the perceived impact of Brexit on the European project and on the economy of their own country, but also in terms of their own relationship to the EU," IFOP said.
	In France 67 per cent of people agreed, up 19 per cent on 2014, in Germany 81 per cent (up 18 per cent), Italy 59 per cent (up four), Spain 81 per cent (up nine) and Belgium 75 per cent (up 10).
	In Poland 89 per cent said it was better to be in the EU, but there was no previous poll in that country.
	Reflecting the growing support for the EU, a majority of Germans (55 per cent), French (53 per cent) and Spanish (51 per cent) want the EU to make "no concessions" in exit talks.
	In both Italy ..

Brexit sparks surge in European support for EU

Ten children and teenagers were among those killed by a Tunisian-born man who drove a lorry into crowds at a Bastille Day fireworks display in Nice, a prosecutor said today.
	As well as the 84 dead, 202 people were hurt in last night's attack, anti-terrorism prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters, "of which 10 were children and adolescents".

Ten children and teens among Nice attack dead: prosecutor

Yasir Shah restored Pakistan's grip on the first Test after the returning Mohammad Amir was twice denied the wicket of England captain Alastair Cook on today's second day at Lord's.
     At tea, England were 153 for for four in reply to Pakistan's first innings 339, a deficit of 186 runs.
     Cook was 75 not out, having gone past India great Sunil Gavaskar's record of 9,607 runs to become Test cricket's highest-scoring opener.
     Jonny Bairstow was unbeaten on one after leg-spinner Shah accounted for Joe Root (48), James Vince (16) and the recalled Gary Ballance (six).
     Amir, making his return to Test cricket at Lord's -- the scene of his 2010 spot-fixing crime which saw him given a five-year ban from cricket and a jail term for deliberately bowling no balls as part of a betting scam, opened the attack.
     What made the fact it was Cook who was twice reprived off his bowling all the more poignant, was that the England skipper had said that if it was down to him, all fixers, ..

Yasir strikes after Amir denied against England

Scoreboard at tea on the second day
of the first Test between England and Pakistan at Lord's today.
     Pakistan 1st Innings (overnight: 282-6)
     Mohammad Hafeez c Bairstow b Woakes      40
     Shan Masood c Bairstow b Woakes           7
     Azhar Ali lbw b Ball                      7
     Younis Khan c Ali b Broad                33
     Misbah-ul-Haq b Broad                   114
     Asad Shafiq c Bairstow b Woakes          73
     Rahat Ali b Woakes                        0
     Sarfraz Ahmed c Vince b Woakes           25
     Wahab Riaz b Woakes                       0
     Mohammad Amir c Root b Broad             12
     Yasir Shah not out                       11
     Extras (b4, lb10, w2, nb1)               17
     Total (all out, 99.2 overs)              339
     Fall of wickets: 1-38, 2-51, 3-77, 4-134, 5-282, 6-282, 7-310, 8-310, 9-316, 10-339
     Bowling: Broad 27.2-9-71-3; Ball 19-5-51-1; Woakes 24-7-70-6; Finn 21-2-86-0; Ali 7-0-46-0; Vince 1-0-1-0.
     England ...

London, July 15 (AFP) Scoreboard at tea on the second day

Thousands of protesters marched in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir today to denounce recent deadly clashes with Indian security forces, with some calling for war over the disputed frontier.
	About 4,000 people gathered in Muzaffarabad, some carrying photos of slain rebel leader Burhan Wani, whose killing last week sparked unrest that killed 32 people -- the deadliest clashes in Kashmir since 2010 when massive demonstrations were held against Indian rule.
	Students, lawyers, traders, political activists and members of militant groups gathered at today's protest, where the local head of hardline militant group, Jamat-ud-Dawa, issued a call to arms.

Thousands protest in PoK after unrest

The direct sales nutrition company Herbalife was cleared by the US Federal Trade Commission today of accusations that it is essentially an illegal pyramid scheme.
	But the company still must pay USD 200 million to settle complaints that it deceived consumers over the potential gains for selling its products, the FTC said.
	The decision cleared the air for Herbalife, which has been the focus of a multi-year open battle between powerful Wall Street activist investors including Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman, and sent its share rocketing more than 18 per cent to USD 70.07 in early trade.
	The FTC investigation focused on how Herbalife's sales structure depended on multiple levels of people buying its products and finding others to further redistribute them. That created a chain of distributors without clear evidence of actual retail demand for the products.
	The FTC had charged that Herbalife had deceived consumers to believe they could make substantial profits bringing their products to ...

Herbalife ruled not a pyramid scheme

The family of one of the most notorious Islamic State jihadist group commanders, Omar al-Shishani, today received condolences from locals in his home village in ex-Soviet Georgia, apparently confirming reports of his death.
	Dozens of mourners flocked to the house of Shishani's brother Tengiz Batirashvili in the village of Birkiani, telling AFP there was no doubt of the death of the warlord nicknamed "Omar the Chechen."
	Amaq, a news service linked to the Islamic State group, announced this week that Shishani died while defending Mosul, the principal city held by IS in Iraq.
	The Pentagon yesterday acknowledged targeting Shishani in an airstrike near Mosul on Sunday, but stopped short of confirming his death.
	"Tarkhan made a mistake and took a wrong path but his death is a tragedy nevertheless," Natia Tsatiashvili, a Birkiani resident, told AFP, using Shishani's real name.
	"I watched him growing up and will always remember him as a quiet and kind young man," she said.
	Shishani was .

Georgian family of top IS commander Shishani mourns his death

In striking the jewel of the French Riviera on a national holiday the truck attack on Nice delivered a new blow to France's tourism sector already reeling from repeated terror attacks.
	Today, several cultural events across France were cancelled or postponed as a mark of respect for the 84 people killed when a gunman drove a 19-tonne truck into a crowd of revellers following Bastille Day fireworks the previous evening.
	President Francois Hollande declared the incident a "terrorist" attack.
	The place of the attack was a top tourist destination: the palm-lined Promenade des Anglais along the Mediterranean coast in the city which is the number two destination in France behind Paris.
	The attack was the third major strike against France in less than 18 months. It comes eight months after Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers attacked bars, restaurants, a concert hall and the national stadium in Paris, killing 130 people. In January last year 17 were killed in another attack at ...

Nice truck attack a new strike against French tourism

A Tunisian-born man zigzagged a truck through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in the French city of Nice, killing at least 84 and injuring dozens of children in what President Francois Hollande today called a "terrorist" attack.
	One witness said a motorcyclist tried to stop the rampage by drawing level with the truck and attempting to open the door of its cab before he fell and ended up under its wheels.
	Two children were confirmed among the dead and another 50 were being treated in hospital after the attack that left bodies strewn over the palm-lined Promenade des Anglais in the French Riviera resort.
	Some of the dead, covered with sheets, remained on the promenade in the bright sun on Friday.
	Two US citizens and a Ukrainian were among those killed, their countries said.
	Witnesses said the white truck drove at speed into a crowd over a distance of two kilometres (1.3 miles) after they had been watching a fireworks display on France's national day. City authorities said Friday ..

At least 84 dead in 'terrorist' Nice truck rampage

Ex-wife of France truck attack suspect held for

Asian and European leaders today condemned "heinous and cowardly terrorist attacks" such as the latest killings in Nice, where at least 84 people died when a truck rammed through a Bastille Day crowd.
	In a statement, leaders at the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit in the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator "reiterated our strong unequivocal condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations committed by whomever, wherever and for whatever purposes".
	ASEM brings together representatives from more than 50 European and Asian countries, along with the European Union and southeast Asian group ASEAN.
	They said that terrorist attacks in Europe, Asia and "many other places, as we have seen in Nice a few hours before our summit" had caused "the unacceptable loss of innocent lives and countless injuries".
	Expressing sympathy and condolences to the victims, they reaffirmed their commitment to "join forces to fight the plague of terrorism".

Asia-Europe leaders condemn 'heinous' terror attacks

A German journalist who witnessed the Nice attack said he saw a motorcyclist chase the killer truck and try to enter the cabin but fall and end up under the wheels.
	"I stood on the balcony, right on the Promenade des Anglais, and saw how people celebrated there, and how suddenly a truck drove through the crowd," Richard Gutjahr, 42, who shot smartphone video footage of the bloody Bastille Day rampage, told AFP today.
	"Surprisingly, he drove very slowly, not fast, he drove slowly and he was chased by a motorcyclist," recounted Gutjahr by telephone.
	"The motorcyclist attempted to overtake the truck and even tried to open the driver's door, but he fell and ended up under the wheels of the truck."
	Gutjahr, a freelance journalist, said he also saw two police officers open fire on the truck.
	"Then the driver stepped on the accelerator and the truck sped up, accelerated and drove in a zig-zag course into the crowd.
	"In the next 15 to 20 seconds there were shots from several guns. I ...

Motorcyclist crushed trying to stop killer truck: witness

The EU urged China and the Philippines to settle peacefully their dispute over the South China Sea but stopped short of pushing Beijing to abide by an international tribunal's ruling against Beijing's claims.
	The watered-down statement, which came after days of arguments among member states, did not follow the lead of the United States in specifically calling on China to honour the decision by the UN-backed tribunal in The Hague.
	EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said in a statement that the bloc's member states "acknowledge" the ruling but said the EU does not take a position on sovereignty rows.
	She added that the union "expresses the need for the parties to the dispute to resolve it through peaceful means, to clarify their claims and pursue them in respect and in accordance with international law."
	"The EU calls upon the parties concerned to address remaining and further related issues through negotiations and other peaceful means and refrain from activities likely to .

EU urges 'peaceful' resolution to South China Sea row

Russia will deploy its most advanced S-400 air defence systems to the annexed Crimea peninsula in August, a military official said today.
	Russia is currently using its older S-300 systems on the peninsula it annexed from Ukraine in March 2014 in a move condemned by the West that led to the imposition of US and EU sanctions.
	"In August 2016 the (S-400) systems are expected to be unloaded in Feodosia where they will be permanently located," Yevgeny Oleinikov, deputy commander of the Russian army's 18th surface-to-air missile regiment, told RIA Novosti state news agency, referring to an eastern Crimean town.
	The S-400 "Triumph" systems are Russia's most modern anti-aircraft and missile defence systems. They are being deployed in Syria, where Moscow is conducting a bombing campaign in support of long-time ally Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
	The system can track some 300 targets and shoot down around three dozen simultaneously over a range of several hundred kilometres.
	Since ...

Russia to deploy latest air defence systems in Crimea

Pakistan's Mohammad Amir was denied a wicket on his long-awaited return to Test cricket as England dominated the second morning of the first Test at Lord's today.
     England all-rounder Chris Woakes took a Test-best six for 70 as Pakistan, 282 for six overnight, were bowled out for 339.
     England then raced to 64 for one at lunch, with captain Alastair Cook -- dropped off Amir -- 35 not out and new number three Joe Root 23 not out.
     The duo's second-wicket stand was so far worth 56 in 54 balls. But it might all have been different had Cook been out, as he should have been, on 22, with England then 38 for one.
     The left-hander was drawn forward by an excellent Amir delivery on off stump only for first slip Mohammad Hafeez to drop the routine catch.
     Pakistan resumed with captain Misbah-ul-Haq 110 not out after the 42-year-old became the oldest player in 82 years to make a Test century yesterday.
     But Misbah added just four runs to his overnight score, with Pakistan 

Amir denied as England dominate

Neighbours of the man suspected to have killed scores of people in a truck attack on the Nice seafront described him today as a loner with no visible religious affiliation, as forensic experts searched his flat.
	AFP reporters interviewed about a dozen neighbours of the man, named by police as 31-year-old Franco-Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, whose identity papers were found in the truck.
	They portrayed him as a solitary figure who rarely spoke and did not even return greetings when their paths crossed in the four-storey block, located in a working-class neighbourhood of Nice.
	Sebastien, a neighbour who spoke on condition that his full name was not used, said Lahouaiej-Bouhlel did not seem overtly religious, often dressed in shorts and sometimes wore work boots.
	He had a van parked nearby and owned a bike, which he brought up into his first-floor apartment.
	Of those who were interviewed, only one, a neighbour on the ground floor, said she had had any concerns about him -- he .

Neighbours of Nice truck suspect describe a loner

Angry protestors threw eggs and water bottles at South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-Ahn today, demanding the decision to deploy a US anti-missile defence system in their hometown be scrapped.
	Hwang was in Seongju to try and appease residents who are furious over the joint Seoul-Washington decision to install the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, or THAAD, in their town by the end of next year as a deterrent to repeated sabre-rattling by North Korea.
	The mob of around 3,000 surrounded a bus that Hwang had taken refuge in to escape the projectile eggs, saying they would not let him go until he promised to retract the decision.
	The ongoing standoff lasted several hours and it was unclear when-or how-a compromise would be reached.
	The protesters also blocked the entrance to the government compound where Hwang was trapped with a tractor as security guards struggled to keep the crowd at bay.
	It was the third consecutive day of protests in Seongju, about 200 kilometres ...

S Korea PM egged in protest at US anti-missile system

An Indonesian woman who allegedly posed as a man in order to get married was arrested after the shocked wife discovered the deception, police said today.
	Suwarti, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, was detained yesterday after the wife alerted authorities, several months after the pair tied the knot in a ceremony on Java island.
	The wife, Heniyati, became suspicious when her "husband" refused to consummate the marriage.
	Suwarti has admitted to the deception and could face up to seven years in prison for falsifying her identity, according to local chief detective Muhamad Kariri.
	"She falsified all the documents for the marriage... My family and I were deceived. We feel so embarrassed," Heniyati, 25, told the Jakarta Post newspaper.
	Police said they were still investigating the reason for Suwarti's deception.
	All Suwarti would say is that she had been disappointed by a previous marriage, from which she had a 17-year-old child, Kariri added.
	When they met, 40-year-old ...

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