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• Exclusive: China leadership rules Bo case isolated, limits purge: sources
• Egypt to pick Islamist or military man as president
• Lebanese Syria hostage release delayed, massacre claimed
• Exclusive: Syria grain trade signals alarm for Assad
• Exclusive: U.S. probes China's ZTE over tech sales to Iran
• Qaeda-linked suicide bomber kills 12 in Yemen
• U.S. debates "terrorist" sanctions for Nigerian militants
• French left ahead in parliament vote: poll
• U.N. inspectors find high-grade uranium traces in Iran
• Murdoch private eye targeted U.S. hedge fund boss
• Egypt results point to deeply divisive runoff race
• Activists: Troops kills up to 50 in central Syria
• UN agency finds higher enrichment at Iranian site
• New telescope to be in South Africa, Australia
• Ex-Senegalese president denies he stole cars, art
• VOA correspondent reported detained in Ethiopia
• Hurricane Bud roars toward Mexican coast
• French president: All combat troops out in 2012
• Is China poor? Key question at climate talks
• Israeli archaeologists find rare ancient jewelry

Exclusive: China leadership rules Bo case isolated, limits purge: sources Posted: 24 May 2012 11:07 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao has demanded senior Communist Party officials stifle tensions over the ousting of ambitious politician Bo Xilai and show unity as they prepare for a change of leadership, sources briefed on recent meetings said. Hu urged the party to close ranks at a meeting of about 200 officials early this month at a Beijing hotel, declaring the downfall of Bo - China's biggest political scandal in two decades - to be an "isolated case", the three sources said. ...

Egypt to pick Islamist or military man as president Posted: 25 May 2012 02:08 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptians must choose between a Muslim Brother or an ex-military man in a presidential run-off that highlights the stark rifts in a nation united in euphoria when Hosni Mubarak fell 15 months ago, first-round results indicated on Friday. With most votes counted, the Muslim Brotherhood said its candidate Mohamed Mursi had topped this week's polls and would compete in next month's second round with former air force chief Ahmed Shafiq, who served as Mubarak's last prime minister. ...

Lebanese Syria hostage release delayed, massacre claimed Posted: 25 May 2012 04:04 PM PDT BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Lebanon said on Friday that a group of Lebanese Shi'ites kidnapped in Syria had been freed and were safe in Turkey, but produced no sign of the hostages at the centre of a kidnap drama heightening tensions over the conflict in neighboring Syria. The twist in a hostage drama that has inflamed political tensions in a country divided between foes and friends of the uprising in Syria came as Syrian activists said government troops killed at least 50 people in the centre of the country. ...

Exclusive: Syria grain trade signals alarm for Assad Posted: 25 May 2012 08:12 AM PDT LONDON/HAMBURG (Reuters) - Syria is struggling to meet its grain import needs because of sanctions, raising the risk of bread shortages that could sap public support for President Bashar al-Assad as he tries to snuff out a 15-month-old uprising. Trade sources said a reluctance among foreign banks, shipowners and grain traders to sell to import-dependent Syria - even though food is not itself subject to sanctions - has forced Damascus into an array of unusually small deals, many arranged by shadowy middlemen around the Middle East and Asia. ...

Exclusive: U.S. probes China's ZTE over tech sales to Iran Posted: 25 May 2012 09:40 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Department of Commerce is investigating Chinese telecommunications equipment maker ZTE Corp for allegedly selling embargoed U.S. computer products to Iran. The investigation was launched following reports by Reuters in March and April that ZTE had signed contracts to ship millions of dollars worth of hardware and software from some of America's best-known tech firms to Telecommunication Co of Iran (TCI) and a unit of the consortium that controls it along with the Iranian regime. TCI is Iran's largest telecom carrier. ...

Qaeda-linked suicide bomber kills 12 in Yemen Posted: 25 May 2012 02:19 PM PDT SANAA (Reuters) - Two al Qaeda-linked suicide bombers targeting Shi'ite Muslims blew themselves up at a school and a protest march in northern Yemen on Friday killing at least 12 people, the defence ministry said. The attacks came less than a week after a suicide bomber in army uniform detonated an explosive belt at a military parade rehearsal in Sanaa, killing more than 90 soldiers and wounding at least 200 more. ...

U.S. debates "terrorist" sanctions for Nigerian militants Posted: 25 May 2012 04:07 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department is debating the wisdom of designating the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram a "foreign terrorist organization" despite entreaties from lawmakers and the Justice Department to do so. U.S. diplomats are giving serious consideration to the arguments of a group of academics who sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week urging her department not to apply the "terrorist" label to the al Qaeda-linked group. ...

French left ahead in parliament vote: poll Posted: 25 May 2012 10:32 AM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - The French left will comfortably beat the conservative UMP party in next month's parliamentary election, a poll showed on Friday, as rivalries triggered by Nicolas Sarkozy's defeat in the race for the presidency risk splitting the right-wing vote. President Francois Hollande's Socialists and other left-wing partner parties could together win 44 percent of the vote in the June 10 first round of the election, compared with just over a third for the UMP. ...

U.N. inspectors find high-grade uranium traces in Iran Posted: 25 May 2012 02:04 PM PDT VIENNA (Reuters) - United Nations nuclear inspectors have found uranium particles refined to a higher-than-expected level at an underground site where Iran has installed more than 50 percent more enrichment centrifuges, a U.N. watchdog report said on Friday. It said Tehran had told the U.N. agency that the presence of traces of highly refined uranium - still well below potential nuclear weapons-grade material - "may happen for technical reasons beyond the operator's control". ...

Murdoch private eye targeted U.S. hedge fund boss Posted: 25 May 2012 10:54 AM PDT (Reuters) - A private detective working for Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers used a legally questionable tactic to obtain a hotel bill that a New York financier ran up at one of London's swankest hotels, records reviewed by Reuters show. ...

Egypt results point to deeply divisive runoff race Posted: 25 May 2012 04:05 PM PDT The Muslim Brotherhood's candidate and a veteran of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak's autocratic regime will face each other in a runoff election for Egypt's president, according to first-round results Friday. The divisive showdown dismayed many Egyptians who fear either one means an end to any democratic gains produced by last year's uprising.

Activists: Troops kills up to 50 in central Syria Posted: 25 May 2012 02:50 PM PDT President Bashar Assad's forces killed at least 50 civilians, including 13 children, in central Syria on Friday, activists said, in one of the highest death tolls in one specific area since an internationally-brokered cease-fire went into effect last month.

UN agency finds higher enrichment at Iranian site Posted: 25 May 2012 03:01 PM PDT Inspectors have located radioactive traces at an Iranian underground bunker, the U.N. atomic agency said Friday — a finding that could mean Iran has moved closer to reaching the uranium threshold needed to arm nuclear missiles.

New telescope to be in South Africa, Australia Posted: 25 May 2012 04:03 PM PDT Australia and South Africa will share hosting of a giant radio telescope made up of thousands of separate dishes and intended to help scientists figure out the make-up of the universe, the international consortium overseeing the project announced Friday.

Ex-Senegalese president denies he stole cars, art Posted: 25 May 2012 03:36 PM PDT The ex-president of Senegal won praise from around the world earlier this year when he gracefully conceded defeat, even picking up the phone to congratulate his longtime rival, a move that momentarily erased the memories of a violent election season.

VOA correspondent reported detained in Ethiopia Posted: 25 May 2012 02:41 PM PDT Voice of America says it is investigating reports that a correspondent in Ethiopia's capital has been detained by authorities.

Hurricane Bud roars toward Mexican coast Posted: 25 May 2012 02:38 PM PDT Hurricane Bud lost a little of its sting early Friday, but remained a potent Category 2 storm as it headed toward a string of laid-back beach resorts and small mountain villages on Mexico's Pacific coast south of Puerto Vallarta.

French president: All combat troops out in 2012 Posted: 25 May 2012 12:30 PM PDT French President Francois Hollande for the first time provided details of his plan to pull France's combat troops out of Afghanistan by the end of the year, saying Friday he would leave around 1,400 soldiers behind to help with training and logistics.

Is China poor? Key question at climate talks Posted: 25 May 2012 01:25 PM PDT Another round of U.N. climate talks closed Friday without resolving how to share the burden of curbing man-made global warming, mainly because countries don't agree on who is rich and who is poor.

Israeli archaeologists find rare ancient jewelry Posted: 25 May 2012 10:26 AM PDT Israeli archaeologists have discovered a rare trove of 3,000-year-old jewelry, including a ring and earrings, hidden in a ceramic jug near the ancient city of Megiddo, where the New Testament predicts the final battle of Armageddon.

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