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• Saudi Crown Prince Nayef to be buried on Sunday
• Libya says it wants ICC's cooperation over detained staff
• Two Russian parties merge in push against Putin
• U.N. suspends Syria monitoring as violence rages
• World War Two graves in Libya desecrated again
• Sudan says Darfur rebels attack town
• Hollande set for win in French parliament run-off
• Mali Islamist leader rejects independence
• Egypt makes stark choice for president
• Greenland's minerals loom in China-Denmark ties
• UN observers in Syria suspend patrols
• Saudi heir's death opens door to younger voices
• Egypt votes for president to succeed Mubarak
• Greeks to vote with a global audience
• 26 die as last day of Iraq pilgrimage hit by bombs
• Spain PM brushes off IMF austerity advice for now
• Mexican president expects big IMF firewall boost
• Stage collapses before Radiohead concert; 1 dead
• Suu Kyi: Nobel Peace Prize shattered my isolation
• The 'vanishing ink' plot in Egypt vote

Saudi Crown Prince Nayef to be buried on Sunday Posted: 16 Jun 2012 03:40 PM PDT RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah will bury his former heir, Crown Prince Nayef, in Mecca on Sunday, and must now name a new successor to rule the world's biggest oil exporter. The most likely candidate to take the position to succeed the 89-year-old king is Prince Salman, 76, and like all former kings a son of Saudi Arabia's founder Abdulaziz ibn Saud. "There will be a meeting where the next crown prince will be decided. If you take a historical perspective it has always been done in an orderly and organized manner. ...

Libya says it wants ICC's cooperation over detained staff Posted: 16 Jun 2012 10:25 AM PDT TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdel Aziz said on Saturday Libya wanted the International Criminal Court's cooperation as it investigates detained ICC staff accused of smuggling documents to Muammar Gaddafi's captured son. Australian lawyer Melinda Taylor and Lebanese-born interpreter Helene Assaf were detained on June 7 while visiting Saif al-Islam Gaddafi in the town of Zintan, for allegedly giving him documents from his supporters. Two male colleagues travelling with them have stayed with them out of "solidarity", Libyan officials have said. ...

Two Russian parties merge in push against Putin Posted: 16 Jun 2012 09:57 AM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian opposition activists, who led tens of thousands of people onto the streets in anti-government rallies in recent months, merged two parties into one on Saturday to strengthen their fight against President Vladimir Putin. Mikhail Kasyanov, prime minister from 2000 to 2004 during Putin's first term as president but now a fierce critic, and former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, united their People's Freedom Party with former lawmaker Vladimir Ryzhkov's Republican Party of Russia (RPR). "Our main goal is a change in the country's political course. ...

U.N. suspends Syria monitoring as violence rages Posted: 16 Jun 2012 03:01 PM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - Escalating violence in Syria forced United Nations observers to suspend operations on Saturday, in the clearest sign yet that a peace plan brokered by international mediator Kofi Annan has collapsed. Chief monitor General Robert Mood said the fighting posed a threat to his unarmed observers, one of whose patrols was fired upon four days ago, and prevented them from carrying out their mandate to oversee Annan's widely ignored April 12 ceasefire. ...

World War Two graves in Libya desecrated again Posted: 16 Jun 2012 02:22 PM PDT BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Headstones on World War Two military graves in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi have been desecrated again, a local official said on Saturday, in the second such attack in four months. Khaled Al-Jazwi, a spokesman for the Benghazi local council, said the attack occurred on Thursday. "We don't know yet who did this," said Jazwi. "We have spoken to the local council's security committee about investigating who is behind this. This cemetery has been here for decades and nothing like this has ever happened before. ...

Sudan says Darfur rebels attack town Posted: 16 Jun 2012 02:10 PM PDT KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese government forces fought off rebels attacking a town in the war torn western region of Darfur on Saturday, state news agency SUNA said. Rebels attacked Abu Agoura in the al-Salam district in southern Darfur, looting property from citizens, a local government spokesman told SUNA. The army repelled the attack, he added. The agency did not identify the rebel group. A spokesman for the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), the most powerful rebel group, could not be immediately reached. ...

Hollande set for win in French parliament run-off Posted: 16 Jun 2012 03:30 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande is on track to win a Socialist bloc majority in France's parliamentary election run-off on Sunday that would bolster his position in looming legislative battles over euro zone crisis policy. A clear majority reliant neither on opposition conservatives nor eurosceptic hard leftists, as opinion polls point to, would be a boon as Hollande prepares legislation to raise taxes, adjust budget spending and ratify an EU fiscal discipline pact. ...

Mali Islamist leader rejects independence Posted: 16 Jun 2012 01:32 PM PDT KIDAL, Mali (Reuters) - The leader of the Ansar Dine Islamic group in northern Mali has rejected any form of independence of the northern half of the country and has vowed to pursue plans to impose sharia law throughout the West African nation. Iyad Ag Ghali's stance could further deepen the rift between his group and the separatist Tuareg rebels of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) as both vie for the control of the desert region. "We are not asking for much: just the application of sharia law in the northern and southern regions. ...

Egypt makes stark choice for president Posted: 16 Jun 2012 02:22 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptians voted on Saturday in the first free presidential election in their history to make what many find an unpalatable choice between a military man who served deposed autocrat Hosni Mubarak and an Islamist who says he is running for God. Reeling from a court order two days ago to dissolve a new parliament dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, many question whether generals who pushed aside fellow officer Mubarak last year to appease the pro-democracy protests of the Arab Spring will honor a vow to relinquish power by July 1 to whoever wins. ...

Greenland's minerals loom in China-Denmark ties Posted: 16 Jun 2012 11:55 AM PDT COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao's three-day visit to Denmark may ostensibly have been about signing billions worth of business deals, but a stake in Greenland's huge mineral wealth may have been the elephant in the room. Greenland, a self-governing dependency of Denmark, has some of the world's biggest deposits of rare earth elements, strategically important metals in which China has a near monopoly. ...

UN observers in Syria suspend patrols Posted: 16 Jun 2012 02:37 PM PDT U.N. observers suspended their patrols in Syria on Saturday due to a recent spike in violence, the strongest sign yet that an international peace plan was unraveling despite months of diplomatic efforts to prevent the country from plunging into civil war.

Saudi heir's death opens door to younger voices Posted: 16 Jun 2012 11:19 AM PDT For the second time in less than a year, Saudi Arabia was thrown into the process of naming a new heir to the country's 88-year-old king following the death Saturday of Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz.

Egypt votes for president to succeed Mubarak Posted: 16 Jun 2012 02:38 PM PDT Egyptians on Saturday voted to choose between a conservative Islamist and Hosni Mubarak's ex-prime minister in a presidential runoff once billed as the country's long-awaited shift to democracy but now clouded by pessimism over the future.

Greeks to vote with a global audience Posted: 16 Jun 2012 06:50 AM PDT Elections are supposed to determine the will of the people, to set a nation on a new course with a government that enjoys the mandate of the majority. In splintered Greece, the vote on Sunday is shaping up as a challenge to this time-honored rule of democracy.

26 die as last day of Iraq pilgrimage hit by bombs Posted: 16 Jun 2012 01:50 PM PDT Two car bombs in Iraq's capital killed at least 26 people Saturday on the last day of a Shiite pilgrimage already hit by multiple bombings. The blasts, one in a heavily guarded area close to a revered shrine, raised the week's death toll to more than 100 and cast further doubt on the divided government's ability to secure the country after the American withdrawal.

Spain PM brushes off IMF austerity advice for now Posted: 16 Jun 2012 12:42 PM PDT Spain will not immediately implement the International Monetary Fund's latest recommendations, which include cutting government workers' wages further, because they are nonbinding advice, the prime minister said Saturday.

Mexican president expects big IMF firewall boost Posted: 16 Jun 2012 03:21 PM PDT G20 summit host President Felipe Calderon of Mexico said Saturday that he expects the world's largest economies to deliver more than the $430 billion pledged to stop the spread of the European financial crisis.

Stage collapses before Radiohead concert; 1 dead Posted: 16 Jun 2012 02:23 PM PDT Toronto paramedics say one person is dead and another is seriously hurt after a stage collapsed while setting up for a Radiohead concert.

Suu Kyi: Nobel Peace Prize shattered my isolation Posted: 16 Jun 2012 11:38 AM PDT Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi declared Saturday that the Nobel Peace Prize she won while under house arrest 21 years ago helped to shatter her sense of isolation and ensured that the world would demand democracy in her military-controlled homeland.

The 'vanishing ink' plot in Egypt vote Posted: 16 Jun 2012 12:26 PM PDT Rumor had it a devious conspiracy was afoot: Egyptians voting for a new president Saturday were being tricked into using pens with disappearing ink so their choice on the ballot would vanish before it was counted.

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