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Annan arrives in Damascus, Syria tests missiles

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 03:41 PM PDT

U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan arrives at a hotel in DamascusBEIRUT (Reuters) - Kofi Annan is due to hold talks on Monday with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who said U.S. political support for "terrorists" was hindering the peace envoy's plan to end 16 months of bloodshed. Assad also accused Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey of supplying the rebels trying to overthrow him with arms and other support. "We know that (Annan) is coming up against countless obstacles but his plan should not be allowed to fail, it is a very good plan," Assad told German television channel Das Erste. ...


Putin seeks answers after deadly southern Russia floods

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 11:58 AM PDT

A local resident stands near a damaged car stuck in a flooded street in the town of Krymsk in Krasnodar regionKRYMSK, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has ordered an investigation into accusations that officials could have done more to prevent floods killing at least 150 people in southern Russia, hoping to limit the criticism that has followed earlier disasters. Putin moved quickly to visit Krymsk - the worst-hit town - on Saturday and promised compensation for victims the day after water rose above head-height in some houses and turned streets into raging torrents. ...


Bombs, clashes in Afghanistan kill 35 including seven NATO soldiers

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 02:47 PM PDT

KABUL (Reuters) - At least 35 people, including seven NATO soldiers, were killed in a string of roadside bombs and clashes on Sunday, one of the most violent days in the country for months. A bomb killed six NATO troops in the east, the coalition said without elaborating, after an insurgent attack in the south killed one foreign soldier. Twenty-eight Afghan civilians and police were killed in southern Kandahar and Helmand provinces, officials said. ...

Greek government wins confidence vote, bigger battles loom

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 03:44 PM PDT

Newly appointed Greek PM Samaras looks on during the first cabinet meeting of his government at the parliament in AthensATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's new conservative-led government won parliamentary approval on Monday, but faced the much tougher task of convincing European partners and the IMF to give it more time to meet the terms of its bailout. There had been little doubt the government would sail through the confidence vote after a heated three-day debate in which it pledged to win back the trust of foreign lenders. All 179 ruling coalition deputies backed the motion in the 300-seat parliament. ...


Libya's Jibril calls for grand coalition

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 03:53 PM PDT

A woman celebrates on the streets after casting her vote during the National Assembly election in Tripoli's Martyrs squareTRIPOLI/BENGHAZI (Reuters) - Libya's wartime rebel prime minister Mahmoud Jibril called for the some 150 political parties in the North African nation to back the creation of a grand coalition government, as election results were due to come in on Monday. The call came as Libyans celebrated Saturday's largely peaceful national assembly election, the first free national poll in Libya after 42 years of Muammar Gaddafi which went ahead despite widespread fears of violence. ...


Donors offer $16 billion Afghan aid at Tokyo conference

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 07:25 AM PDT

German Foreign Minister Westerwelle, U.S. Secretary of State Clinton, Japanese Foreign Minister Gemba, Afghan President Karzai and Japan's Prime Minister Noda pose at the Tokyo Conference in TokyoTOKYO (Reuters) - Major donors pledged on Sunday to give Afghanistan $16 billion in development aid through 2015 as they try to prevent it from sliding back into chaos when foreign troops leave, but demanded reforms to fight widespread corruption. Donor fatigue and war weariness have taken their toll on how long the global community is willing to support Afghanistan and there are concerns about security following the withdrawal of most NATO troops in 2014 if financial backing is not secured. "Afghanistan's security cannot only be measured by the absence of war," U.S. ...


Mexican electoral officials confirm Pena Nieto win

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 12:08 PM PDT

Mexico's President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto delivers a speech to the media at a hotel in Mexico CityMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Enrique Pena Nieto won Mexico's July 1 presidential election by 3.3 million ballots, or almost 7 percentage points, although allegations of excessive campaign spending and voter fraud could be reviewed by the electoral tribunal, officials said on Sunday. Vote counts also confirmed that Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and its allies in the Green Party would have a minority in both houses of Congress, which could complicate his agenda when he takes office in December. According to the final count, Pena Nieto got 19.2 million votes, or 38. ...


Blood and oil tinge South Sudan's first birthday

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 03:59 PM PDT

JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudanese celebrating their nation's first birthday on Monday will bask in the pride of their hard-won political freedom, but many may ask when they will enjoy the material benefits promised by the government of former rebels. Cleaners have swept Juba's dusty streets, hawkers have been peddling red, green and black national flags, and government workers have hung colorful bunting from lampposts to prepare for the ceremonies. ...

Saudi police arrest prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 04:58 PM PDT

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - A prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric wanted for "sedition" was arrested in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province late on Sunday after being shot in the leg by police in an exchange of fire, the Interior Ministry said. Activists said reports that Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr had been arrested prompted demonstrations in the mostly Shi'ite Qatif region of the Eastern Province, which has been the focal point of protests alleging discrimination, and where the cleric was seen as a leading radical. ...

Egypt president recalls parliament, generals meet

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 02:52 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's new president on Sunday ordered a parliament dominated by his Islamist party to reconvene, challenging the authority of the generals who had dissolved the assembly in line with a court order. President Mohamed Mursi's decree appeared to catch off guard the generals who handed power to him on June 30. State media said the army's supreme council held an emergency meeting and a council member, declining to be named, told Reuters the generals had not been given prior warning. The military had been running Egypt since Hosni Mubarak was ousted last year. ...

Egypt's president reconvenes dissolved parliament

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 04:24 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 file photo, a general view of the first Egyptian parliament session after the revolution that ousted former President Hosni Mubarak, in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's official news agency says President Mohammed Morsi has ordered the return of the country's Islamist-dominated parliament that was dissolved by the powerful military. (AP Photo/Asmaa Waguih,Pool, File)Egypt's Islamist president fired the first volley Sunday in his battle with the nation's powerful generals, calling on the Islamist-dominated parliament to reconvene despite a military-backed court ruling that dissolved it.


NATO: 6 service members killed in Afghanistan

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 01:27 PM PDT

A bomb in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed six NATO service members, on a day where a total of 29 people died from roadside bombs and insurgent attacks.

Syrian military holds exercises in show of force

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 12:05 PM PDT

This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN, taken on Monday, July 4, 2012, purports to show a Free Syrian Army soldier aiming his weapon in the northern town of Sarmada, in Idlib province, Syria. Syria's military began large-scale exercises simulating defense against outside "aggression," the state-run news agency said Sunday an apparent warning to other countries not to intervene in the country's crisis. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, SNN)THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTOIn a show of force, Syria began large-scale military exercises Sunday to simulate defending the country against outside "aggression." Damascus' staunch ally Iran warned of a "catastrophe" in the region if no political solution to the 16-month-old Syrian conflict is found.


Greek government wins confidence vote

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 02:56 PM PDT

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, left, speaks with Socialist Leader Evangelos Venizelos at the Parliament during a debate on the new government's policy agenda before staging a vote of confidence in Athens, late Sunday July 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)The new three-party coalition government in Greece has won a vote of confidence in parliament early Monday.


58 killed in central Nigeria raids and reprisals

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 01:25 PM PDT

Raids and reprisal attacks have left 58 people dead in Christian villages near a Nigerian city where authorities have struggled to contain religious violence, officials said Sunday.

Pakistan shuns physicist linked to 'God particle'

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 11:50 AM PDT

In this picture taken on May 29, 2010, people from a minority Muslim Ahmadi Community stand guard as others preparing to bury the victims of attack by Islamic militants, in Rabwa, some 150 kilometers (93 miles) northwest from Lahore Pakistan. The first Pakistani Nobel Prize laureate Professor Abdus Salam, the country's greatest scientist, who passed away in 1996, has been disowned by many of Pakistan's 190 million citizens because he was a member of a minority Muslim sect that has been persecuted by the government and targeted by Taliban militants who view Ahmadis as heretics. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)Pakistan's only Nobel laureate helped develop the theoretical framework that led to the apparent discovery of the subatomic "God particle" last week, yet his legacy has been largely scorned in his homeland because of his religious affiliation.


Libyan election hints at blow to Islamists

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 01:34 PM PDT

Polling station officials count ballots at a polling station in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, July 7, 2012. Jubilant Libyans chose a new parliament Saturday in their first nationwide vote in decades, but violence and protests in the restive east underscored the challenges ahead as the oil-rich North African nation struggles to restore stability after the ouster of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)Libya's first nationwide elections in nearly five decades brought hints Sunday of an Arab Spring precedent: Western-leaning parties making strides over Islamist rivals hoping to follow the same paths to power as in neighbors Egypt and Tunisia.


Syria's Assad rejects comparison with Egypt, Libya

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 11:31 AM PDT

This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN, taken on Friday, July 6, 2012, purports to show Syrian children chanting slogans during a demonstration in Idlib, north Syria. Syria's military began large-scale exercises simulating defense against outside "aggression," the state-run news agency said Sunday an apparent warning to other countries not to intervene in the country's crisis. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, SNN)THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTOSyrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview broadcast Sunday that he is not afraid of meeting the same fate as the deposed and disgraced leaders of Libya and Egypt, saying he has nothing in common with them.


Islamists protest NATO supply line in Pakistan

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 09:50 AM PDT

Maulana Samiul Haq, second left, head of a coalition of hardline Islamist religious leaders and politicians 'Defense of Pakistan Council', along with other coalition leaders wave to supporters as they lead a rally, in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, July 8, 2012. Prominent hardline Islamists led thousands of people in a protest against Pakistan's decision to allow the U.S. and other NATO countries to resume shipping troop supplies through the country to Afghanistan. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)Thousands of hardline Islamists streamed toward Pakistan's capital in a massive convoy of vehicles Sunday to protest the government's decision to allow the U.S. and other NATO countries to resume shipping troop supplies through the country to Afghanistan.


Putin orders probe into Russia flood deaths

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 11:37 AM PDT

A local resident walks at a flooded house in Krimsk, about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) south of Moscow, Russia, Sunday, July 8, 2012. The death toll from severe flooding in the Black Sea region of southern Russia has risen to at least 150. (AP Photo/Ignat Kozlov)Russia's president moved quickly to address anger over the deaths of at least 171 people in severe flooding in the Black Sea region that turned streets into swirling muddy rivers and inundated thousands of homes as many residents were sleeping.


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