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• Eurozone looks at Greek exit as leaders meet
• General says Afghanistan will need "combat power"
• Egyptians back at the polls to pick president
• Piers Morgan "showed journalist how to hack phone"
• China activist worried about nephew's legal plight
• Mexico opposition party chides ex-governor in drug probe
• Mexico extradites drug boss involved in corruption probe
• Amnesty accuses U.N. council of "failed leadership"
• Accomplice to arms dealer Bout handed five-year prison term
• Obama officials press Senate to ratify sea treaty
• Eager Egyptians hold landmark presidential vote
• Iran nuclear talks snag over dueling demands
• Faces in the crowd in Egypt's election
• Pressure on EU leaders to solve Greek crisis
• Scotland Yard deploys mobile fingerprint devices
• Officials: Injured Mali president heads to France
• Report: Iran holds military maneuvers
• Medvedev chats with US cowboys working in Russia
• TV presenter: Piers Morgan told me how to hack
• Pakistan convicts doctor who helped find bin Laden
• Iran is offered new plans to ease nuclear concerns
• Iran seeks concessions in Baghdad nuclear talks

Eurozone looks at Greek exit as leaders meet Posted: 23 May 2012 04:12 PM PDT BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European leaders, at odds over how to resolve the deepening crisis in the euro zone on Wednesday, have been advised by senior officials to prepare contingency plans in case Greece quits the single currency area. Three officials told Reuters the instruction to be ready was agreed on Monday during a teleconference of the Eurogroup Working Group (EWG) - experts who work for the bloc's finance ministers - and the German central bank said losing Greece would be testing but "manageable". ...

General says Afghanistan will need "combat power" Posted: 23 May 2012 01:09 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will require "significant firepower" in Afghanistan in 2013-14, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces there said, but decisions about further U.S. troop reductions will only be made after this fall at the earliest. "We're going to need combat power. I don't think anyone questions that," Marine General John Allen said on Wednesday. "I owe the president some real analysis on this. ...

Egyptians back at the polls to pick president Posted: 23 May 2012 03:35 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt resumes its first free presidential election on Thursday after voting passed off mostly calmly on the first day apart from a stone-throwing attack on candidate Ahmed Shafiq, who was premier for a few days before Hosni Mubarak fell. The race broadly pits Islamist candidates against secular ones like Shafiq and Amr Moussa, the former Arab League chief who previously served as Mubarak's foreign minister. Long queues formed at polling stations early on Wednesday, and some were packed late into the evening. ...

Piers Morgan "showed journalist how to hack phone" Posted: 23 May 2012 10:45 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - One of Britain's most respected journalists said on Wednesday that former tabloid newspaper editor Piers Morgan showed him how to hack into phones 10 years ago, the latest twist in a scandal that has so far centered on Rupert Murdoch. Morgan, now a CNN talk-show host in the United States, has consistently denied authorizing phone hacking during his time as editor of the Daily Mirror. The criminal practice has damaged Murdoch's reputation, led to the closure of his News of the World newspaper and prompted a judicial inquiry into media standards. ...

China activist worried about nephew's legal plight Posted: 23 May 2012 02:00 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is worried his nephew will be subjected to a revenge show trial by Chinese officials and will work to publicize his plight from New York, a supporter said on Wednesday after meeting Chen. Chen, who escaped from house arrest last month and sought refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, arrived in New York with his family on Saturday after China let him leave a hospital to quell a diplomatic rift with the United States. ...

Mexico opposition party chides ex-governor in drug probe Posted: 23 May 2012 02:30 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's opposition party, leading by double digits in presidential polls, on Wednesday said one of its former governors must face up to charges in the United States of accepting millions of dollars from drug cartels. In an effort to contain what is likely to become a hot campaign issue, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) said they are deciding if Tomas Yarrington, former governor of the state of Tamaulipas, should be thrown out of the party. On Tuesday, U.S. ...

Mexico extradites drug boss involved in corruption probe Posted: 23 May 2012 04:33 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico extradited to the United States an alleged drug kingpin who has testified that high-ranking military officers worked with drug cartels, Mexican officials said Wednesday. Sergio Villarreal, also known as "El Grande" and "King Kong," was flown to the United States where he faces federal charges of cocaine trafficking, the Mexican federal attorney general's office said in a news release. Villarreal, who was arrested in 2010, is alleged to be a leading member of the Beltran Leyva cartel, a drug trafficking syndicate based in the Pacific state of Sinaloa. ...

Amnesty accuses U.N. council of "failed leadership" Posted: 23 May 2012 04:14 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Rights group Amnesty International lambasted the United Nations Security Council on Thursday as "tired, out of step and increasingly unfit for purpose". In its annual report, Amnesty said the failure of world powers to take stronger action on Syria was evidence that a sclerotic security council was hamstrung by vested interests, and also warned of abuses arising from Europe's economic crisis. Permanent security council members Russia, a key arms supplier to Syria, and China have shielded Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from tough sanctions. ...

Accomplice to arms dealer Bout handed five-year prison term Posted: 23 May 2012 04:16 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - A South African pilot who testified against his former associate and jailed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout was himself sentenced to five years in federal prison on Wednesday. Andrew Smulian, 71, was arrested in 2008 in Thailand along with Bout in an undercover sting by U.S. agents posing as Colombian guerrillas looking to buy weapons. Bout, the subject of a book titled "Merchant of Death," was sentenced to 25 years in prison by Manhattan federal court Judge Shira Scheindlin in April after being convicted at trial. Bout has maintained his innocence. ...

Obama officials press Senate to ratify sea treaty Posted: 23 May 2012 03:02 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington's failure to ratify the Law of the Sea Convention puts the U.S. military at increasing risk of confrontation with rising powers like China, U.S. officials said on Wednesday as the Obama administration began a new push to join the 30-year-old treaty. Senior defense officials told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that without the treaty, the U.S. military is forced to base rights of navigation around the globe on customary international law, or long-standing practice, which is subject to differing interpretations. ...

Eager Egyptians hold landmark presidential vote Posted: 23 May 2012 02:24 PM PDT After a lifetime of being told who will rule them, Egyptians dove enthusiastically into the uncertainty of the Arab world's first competitive presidential race Wednesday, wrestling with a polarizing choice between secularists rooted in Hosni Mubarak's old autocracy and Islamists hoping to infuse the state with religion.

Iran nuclear talks snag over dueling demands Posted: 23 May 2012 03:32 PM PDT Talks between Iran and six world powers snagged Wednesday over dueling proposals concerning Tehran's nuclear program, a tug-of-war that pits international concerns about the Islamic Republic's potential to build atomic weapons against enforcing crippling sanctions on its people.

Faces in the crowd in Egypt's election Posted: 23 May 2012 11:14 AM PDT Egyptian voters of many ages, occupations and beliefs stood in line for hours Wednesday to cast their ballots for a new president. The winner would replace Hosni Mubarak, deposed in a popular uprising last year. He was voted in several times, but those elections were generally regarded as blatantly rigged, and turnout was low.

Pressure on EU leaders to solve Greek crisis Posted: 23 May 2012 05:01 PM PDT The head of the eurogroup says that the 17 nations using the euro as their currency "have to consider all kinds of events" but insists that "the working assumption" of European leaders remains that Greece will remain part of the euro.

Scotland Yard deploys mobile fingerprint devices Posted: 23 May 2012 02:55 PM PDT Scotland Yard says it's equipping its police officers with handheld fingerprint devices, something the force says will help identify suspects in a matter of seconds.

Officials: Injured Mali president heads to France Posted: 23 May 2012 11:03 AM PDT Mali's interim president, who was beaten by a mob of demonstrators who broke into his office this week, has left the country to seek medical treatment in France, an adviser and two French government officials said Wednesday.

Report: Iran holds military maneuvers Posted: 23 May 2012 10:21 AM PDT Iran's official news agency says Iran's military has wound up a one-day exercise in the center of the country.

Medvedev chats with US cowboys working in Russia Posted: 23 May 2012 12:09 PM PDT Russia's prime minister paid a visit Wednesday to a farm that has imported cattle from the United States and also some American cowboys to help the Russians develop their struggling meat industry.

TV presenter: Piers Morgan told me how to hack Posted: 23 May 2012 12:20 PM PDT A prominent British TV presenter said Wednesday that CNN talk show host Piers Morgan gave him a primer on phone hacking, a revelation that suggests he knew a fair amount about how the shady practice was carried out.

Pakistan convicts doctor who helped find bin Laden Posted: 23 May 2012 04:44 PM PDT A doctor who helped the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden was convicted Wednesday of conspiring against the state and sentenced to 33 years in prison, adding new strains to an already deeply troubled relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan.

Iran is offered new plans to ease nuclear concerns Posted: 23 May 2012 09:20 AM PDT Iran traded proposals with six world powers, including the United States, Wednesday in a new round of talks aimed at persuading Tehran to curb its nuclear program and ease concerns it wants to make atomic weapons. But divisions over sanctions complicated the discussions.

Iran seeks concessions in Baghdad nuclear talks Posted: 23 May 2012 04:11 AM PDT Iran and six world powers resumed talks Wednesday over Tehran's nuclear program, with the Iranians pushing for specific timetables and goals but Westerns leaders signaling they want more disclosures before offering rewards.

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