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• Russians protest against Putin despite pressure
• Syria in civil war, U.N. official says
• Tycoon, former envoy at centre of new Pakistan turmoil
• "Worried" Monti calls for support from Italy's parties
• Murdoch confidante in court over hacking scandal
• At least 11 Haitian migrants die in capsizing
• U.N. experts recommend sanctioning two Iran firms
• Right-to-die movement sees gains as world ages
• Ivory Coast says it has uncovered coup plot
• Analysis: Mexico election favorite faces stiff test on oil reform
• Homes burn, gunfire heard in riven western Myanmar
• Aussie coroner agrees dingo took baby in 1980 case
• Opposition rally in Moscow draws tens of thousands
• A glance at key Russian opposition activists
• Olympics to open in an English meadow
• China announces 23 arrests in US gun scheme
• Japan's music sensation: a band chosen by its fans
• Activists: Mortar hits protest in Syria, 10 killed
• Chavez makes energetic start in re-election bid

Russians protest against Putin despite pressure Posted: 12 Jun 2012 11:26 AM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Russians marched through Moscow amid a stream of banners demanding President Vladimir Putin step down and challenging new laws designed to curb protest against his strongly centralized rule. Protesters chanting "Russia without Putin!" and "Putin is a thief!" moved in pouring rain down a central boulevard and packed a square in the first big opposition rally since the former KGB officer's return to the Kremlin for a six-year term on May 7. ...

Syria in civil war, U.N. official says Posted: 12 Jun 2012 02:51 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's 15-month uprising has grown into a full-scale civil war where President Bashar al-Assad's forces are trying to recapture swathes of urban territory lost to rebels, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said on Tuesday. "Yes, I think we can say that," U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Herve Ladsous said when asked if the Syrian crisis could now be characterized as a civil war. ...

Tycoon, former envoy at centre of new Pakistan turmoil Posted: 12 Jun 2012 01:34 PM PDT ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani real estate tycoon on Tuesday accused the chief justice of turning a blind eye to his son's alleged corrupt financial practices, in a scandal that could damage one of the few public figures willing to take on the powerful military. Malik Riaz, who fashions himself as a billionaire philanthropist, said he had given almost $3.6 million in bribes to Arsalan Iftikhar, son of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. Riaz, who has been accused of fraud, suggested that Chaudhry knew about the matter in advance of the Supreme Court's hearings on the issue this week. ...

"Worried" Monti calls for support from Italy's parties Posted: 12 Jun 2012 03:36 PM PDT (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti met the leaders of the parties backing him in parliament on Tuesday and called on them to give their unified support to help Italy through current market turmoil. Monti said in a statement he was "worried by the situation of emergency" on financial markets, and had told the party chiefs that "cohesion" was needed "to overcome the critical situation and give an image of unity abroad". ...

Murdoch confidante in court over hacking scandal Posted: 12 Jun 2012 04:04 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Rebekah Brooks, a trusted confidante of Rupert Murdoch and friend to a succession of British prime ministers, appears in a London court on Wednesday accused of hindering a police investigation into phone hacking and corruption by staff at his British tabloids. Huge media interest is guaranteed for the first appearance in the dock of the 44-year-old, a former editor of two of Britain's top-selling newspapers who counts the upper echelons of the British establishment and senior politicians in her network of friends. ...

At least 11 Haitian migrants die in capsizing Posted: 12 Jun 2012 01:16 PM PDT MIAMI (Reuters) - At least 11 people drowned and up to 10 others, including five children, were unaccounted for after a small boat packed with Haitian migrants seeking to enter the United States illegally capsized off the Bahamas, authorities said on Tuesday. Haitian President Michel Martelly voiced "consternation" over news of the sinking in a statement issued in Port-au-Prince, saying 28 "illegal Haitian travelers" had been crowded aboard the 25-foot (7.6 meter) boat when it sank in rough seas off North Abaco island in the Bahamas. ...

U.N. experts recommend sanctioning two Iran firms Posted: 12 Jun 2012 02:27 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - An independent panel of experts has recommended that the U.N. Security Council's Iran sanctions committee add two Iranian firms to a U.N. blacklist for violating a U.N. ban on arms exports by Tehran. The recommendation to sanction Iran's Yas Air and SAD Import-Export is included in a confidential report by the panel of experts, seen by Reuters last month, which U.N. Security Council diplomats said was due to be released in the near future. That report said Syria remained the top destination for Iranian arms shipments in violation of a U.N. ...

Right-to-die movement sees gains as world ages Posted: 12 Jun 2012 01:32 PM PDT ZURICH (Reuters) - Right-to-die activists hope more countries will allow assisted suicide or euthanasia in coming years as the world population ages, but opponents are determined to stop them, a dispute that flared ahead of competing conferences in Switzerland. "We have seen over the last 20 years a general migration of positivity towards this being a just cause," Ted Goodwin, the American president of the World Federation of Right-to-Die Societies, told a news conference in Zurich on Tuesday. ...

Ivory Coast says it has uncovered coup plot Posted: 12 Jun 2012 04:41 PM PDT ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Authorities in Ivory Coast have discovered and prevented a plot to overthrow the government organized by exiled military officers and a close advisor to former President Laurent Gbagbo, the interior minister said late on Tuesday.ccr The minister, Hamed Bakayoko, said the security services had arrested several participants in the alleged plot and seized documents outlining a plan to topple new President Alassane Ouattara and create a transitional military authority. ...

Analysis: Mexico election favorite faces stiff test on oil reform Posted: 12 Jun 2012 11:45 AM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's state oil giant Pemex, the country's most celebrated symbol of self-sufficiency, risks becoming a net importer of crude within a decade unless it can find more oil. To rescue it, presidential front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto has pledged to open up the firm to more private investment, breaking with the traditions of his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which nationalized Mexico's oil industry in 1938. ...

Homes burn, gunfire heard in riven western Myanmar Posted: 12 Jun 2012 03:02 AM PDT Gunshots rang out and residents fled blazing homes in western Myanmar on Tuesday as security forces struggled to contain deadly ethnic and religious violence that has killed at least a dozen people and forced thousands to flee.

Aussie coroner agrees dingo took baby in 1980 case Posted: 12 Jun 2012 04:29 AM PDT Settling a notorious 1980 case that split the nation and led to a mistaken conviction, an Australian coroner ruled Tuesday that a dingo took a baby from a campsite in the Outback, just as her mother said from the beginning.

Opposition rally in Moscow draws tens of thousands Posted: 12 Jun 2012 07:50 AM PDT Undeterred by a sudden escalation in the Kremlin's crackdown on the opposition, tens of thousands of Russians flooded Moscow's tree-lined boulevards Tuesday in the first mass protest against President Vladimir Putin since his inauguration in May.

A glance at key Russian opposition activists Posted: 12 Jun 2012 06:21 AM PDT Russian investigators searched the homes of several key opposition figures and summoned them for questioning shortly before Tuesday's anti-Putin rally started. Here is a look at some of those leading the protests.

Olympics to open in an English meadow Posted: 12 Jun 2012 02:47 AM PDT The 2012 London 0lympics will open in an English meadow, complete with cows and sheep, a cricket match — and a mosh pit.

China announces 23 arrests in US gun scheme Posted: 12 Jun 2012 10:16 AM PDT Chinese police on Tuesday announced the arrests of 23 people as part of a joint U.S.-Chinese investigation into a gun trafficking ring that smuggled dozens of firearms into the country.

Japan's music sensation: a band chosen by its fans Posted: 12 Jun 2012 10:19 AM PDT AKB48 is not exactly a band. It's an army of girls-next-door, ranked by its fans, and after taking Japan by storm it's getting ready to go global.

Activists: Mortar hits protest in Syria, 10 killed Posted: 12 Jun 2012 05:28 AM PDT Syrian forces barraged an eastern city with mortar shells as anti-government protesters were dispersing before dawn Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, while government troops kept up an offensive in a coastal province where Washington says regime forces may be preparing a massacre, activists said.

Chavez makes energetic start in re-election bid Posted: 12 Jun 2012 11:20 AM PDT Venezuelan President Hugo is releasing a lengthy plan to deepen his socialist policies as he officially launches his campaign to win another six-year term in October.

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