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U.N. says Syria killings targeted opposition

Posted: 14 Jul 2012 03:28 PM PDT

Demonstrators protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad after Friday Prayers in HoulaBEIRUT (Reuters) - United Nations observers found blood, burned homes and signs of artillery fire in the Syrian village of Tremseh on Saturday but were unable to confirm activists' reports that about 220 people were massacred in an attack that prompted international outrage. The United States has branded Syria's leaders murderers after the assault by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's troops, but there was no break in the deadlock among world powers over how to bring about an end to the bloodshed. ...


Exclusive: Red Cross ruling raises questions of Syrian war crimes

Posted: 14 Jul 2012 12:42 PM PDT

Demonstrators protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad after Friday Prayers in Houla near HomsGENEVA (Reuters) - The Red Cross now views fighting in Syria as an internal armed conflict - a civil war in layman's terms - crossing a threshold experts say can help lay the ground for future prosecutions for war crimes. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is the guardian of the Geneva Conventions setting down the rules of war, and as such is considered a reference in qualifying when violence has evolved into an armed conflict. ...


Suicide bomber kills top official, 22 more at Afghan wedding

Posted: 14 Jul 2012 02:50 AM PDT

Afghan officials stand at the site of attack in Samangan provinceMAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed a prominent anti-Taliban politician and 22 other guests at a wedding reception in the northern Afghan province of Samangan on Saturday, officials said. The bomber blew himself up as he hugged lawmaker Ahmad Khan Samangani, who was celebrating his daughter's marriage, police said. The blast also killed the provincial intelligence chief and a senior police commander. Samangani was close to Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, and commanded thousands of men in the area. ...


Clinton backs Egypt army return to security role

Posted: 14 Jul 2012 02:40 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Clinton speaks during U.S.-ASEAN Business Forum's dinner in Siem Reap provinceCAIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of people chanted anti-U.S. and anti-Islamist slogans outside Hillary Clinton's hotel on Saturday as the U.S. secretary of state urged Egypt's military and Muslim Brotherhood to complete a transition to full democratic rule. Clinton met Egypt's newly-elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi on Saturday and was to see military chief Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi on Sunday, two of the central players in the power struggle playing out in the country. ...


German court must decide on rescue fund by Sept: Juncker

Posted: 14 Jul 2012 01:55 PM PDT

BERLIN (Reuters) - Eurogroup head Jean-Claude Juncker does not expect Germany's top court to block the new version of the euro zone's ESM bailout fund and believes judges are aware of the need for a verdict before a new round of crisis meetings in September. The Constitutional Court agreed on Tuesday to examine complaints lodged against the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and financial markets have been unsettled by the prospect of it taking up to three months before it comes to a decision. ...

France's Hollande vows to fight job cuts, graft

Posted: 14 Jul 2012 11:03 AM PDT

France's President Francois Hollande waves to visitors in the gardens of the Elysee Palace in ParisPARIS (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande marked Bastille day celebrations on Saturday with a pledge to fight industrial layoffs and clean up French politics, after watching troops parade down the Champs Elysees as jets streamed the national colors overhead. The Socialist leader's first National Day since winning office in May was overshadowed by outcry at mass job cuts announced by carmaker Peugeot and a scandal over his private life threatening to undermine his image as "Mr. Normal". ...


Greek funding hangs on troika mission: official

Posted: 14 Jul 2012 12:13 PM PDT

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - It is too early to say how Greece will meet its financing needs and discussions can only begin once a lenders' mission returns to Athens, two EU officials said on Saturday, but a senior policymaker has said there was no cause for concern. Prior to Greece's elections, the previous government said its cash reserves would be exhausted by the end of July, and a report on Saturday suggested the European Central Bank could consider allowing Greece to delay a bond payment in August. ...

Iran issues new oil blockade warning

Posted: 14 Jul 2012 06:22 AM PDT

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran could prevent even "a single drop of oil" passing through the Strait of Hormuz if its security is threatened, a naval chief said on Saturday, as tensions simmer over Tehran's nuclear program. Tehran will increase its military presence in international waters, said Ali Fadavi, naval commander in Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). "If they (the U.S.) do not obey international laws and the IRGC's warnings, it will have very bad consequences for them," Fadavi said, according to Iran's Fars News Agency. ...

Leaders of Sudans meet in boost to oil, border talks

Posted: 14 Jul 2012 04:06 PM PDT

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir gives a speech as he tours the White Nile Sugar Co sugar plant during its opening in Al-DiwaimADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan on Saturday held their first talks since their countries came close to war in April, raising hopes for a negotiated settlement of oil and border disputes before an August 2 U.N. Security Council deadline. The face to face encounter between Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his southern counterpart Salva Kiir at the Sheraton hotel in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa followed an African Union session in which both men committed to peaceful negotiations over conflict. ...


Man self-immolates at Israel cost-of-living protest

Posted: 14 Jul 2012 02:15 PM PDT

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - A man sustained serious burns after he poured flammable liquid on himself and lit it, said police, at a protest on Saturday in Tel Aviv against the economic policies of Israel's conservative government. "From what I understand, he claimed money had been taken from him. Obviously he did it for financial reasons, though further details are not yet clear," said police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld. He said the man was aged around 40. ...

Suicide bomber kills 23 at Afghan wedding

Posted: 14 Jul 2012 11:30 AM PDT

Afghan men inspect a damaged wedding hall that was the site of a bombing in Samangan province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July, 14, 2012. A suicide bomber blew himself up Saturday in a wedding hall in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 23 people including a prominent warlord-turned-politician and three Afghan security force officials, in an attack that deals a setback to efforts to unify the nation's ethnic factions, Afghan officials said. (AP Photo/Jawed Dehsabzi)A suicide bomber blew himself up among guests at a wedding hall Saturday in northern Afghanistan, killing 23 people including a prominent ex-Uzbek warlord turned lawmaker who was the father of the bride.


UN team investigates reported Syria massacre

Posted: 14 Jul 2012 02:29 PM PDT

This image made from amateur video from Hama Revolution 2011 and accessed by AP video Friday, July 13, 2012 purports to show families gathered around bodies of victims killed by violence that, according to anti-regime activists, was carried out by government forces in Tremseh, Syria, about 15 kilometers (nine miles) northwest of the central city of Hama. Anti-regime activists in Syria said Friday that government gunners rained shells on a poor, farming village before armed thugs moved in, leaving scores of people dead in what rebels claim is one of the worst single days of bloodshed in the uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime. (AP Photo/ Hama Revolution 2011 via AP video)U.N. observers investigating a reported mass killing in a Syrian village on Saturday found pools of blood in homes and spent bullets, mortars and artillery shells, adding details to the emerging picture of what anti-regime activists have called one of the deadliest events of Syria's uprising.


Clinton to Egypt's Morsi: Find way out of crisis

Posted: 14 Jul 2012 01:11 PM PDT

U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reacts during a joint press conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr, not shown, at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, July 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton used her first meeting with Egypt's new Islamist president to press Mohammed Morsi to start a dialogue with military leaders as a way of preserving the country's transition to democracy.


British newspaper demands it simply stop raining

Posted: 14 Jul 2012 08:58 AM PDT

Festival goers brave the falling rain at the Hard Rock Calling music festival in Hyde Park, London, Friday, July 13, 2012. The weekend music event was planned to be held on the grass of Hyde Park, but the land turned into a muddy quagmire and had to be covered with wood chips to enable the festival to go ahead, as part of the build-up to the upcoming 2012 London Olympic Games. (AP Photo / Lewis Whyld, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVEJust. Stop. Raining.


Security boss sorry for bungled Olympics contract

Posted: 14 Jul 2012 12:50 PM PDT

The boss of British security group G4S said Saturday he was sorry that his company had bungled the contract to help protect the 2012 Olympic Games, a humbling televised apology that followed days of ugly news about his firm's failures.

Israeli protester sets himself on fire at rally

Posted: 14 Jul 2012 02:04 PM PDT

An Israeli protester set himself alight during a rally Saturday night marking the anniversary of a wave of demonstrations that swept the country to protest the high cost of living and other social issues, authorities said.

Poles honor Reagan, John Paul II with new statue

Posted: 14 Jul 2012 11:50 AM PDT

People look at a new statue of former President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II that was unveiled in Gdansk, Poland, on Saturday, July 14, 2012. The statue honors the two men whom many Poles credit with helping to topple communism. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)Polish officials unveiled a statue of former President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II on Saturday, honoring two men widely credited in this Eastern European country with helping to topple communism 23 years ago.


GE signs Myanmar deals after US eases sanctions

Posted: 14 Jul 2012 07:17 AM PDT

President and CEO of General Electric ASEAN, Stuart Dean, second from left, signs documents during the signing ceremony between Sea Lion Co. Ltd., General Electric Healthcare and Bahosi and Pun Hlaing Hospitals in Yangon, Myanmar, Saturday, July. 14, 2012. General Electric became the first American firm to sign a business deal in Myanmar after Washington eased key investment sanctions on the former pariah state. Witness at the signing are from left., U.S. ambassador to Myanmar Derek Mitchell, Stuart Dean, U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, Francisco Sanchez, Managing Director of SEA Lion, Win Zaw Aung and U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment, Robert Hormats. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)Just days after the U.S. eased key sanctions on Myanmar, General Electric became the first American company to invest in the former pariah state, signing deals Saturday to provide medical equipment to a pair of hospitals in the country's biggest city.


Freed Israeli soldier a mystery despite exposure

Posted: 14 Jul 2012 12:12 AM PDT

Nine months after he was freed from Hamas captivity in a lopsided prisoner swap, Gilad Schalit is emerging from the shadows — showing up at parties, sporting events and even writing a newspaper column.

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