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• Tahrir Square protests as Egypt awaits result
• Syrian fighter pilot defects to Jordan, gets asylum
• Greek bailout wish-list sets up showdown with Europe
• Afghan Taliban gunmen attack popular Kabul lakeside hotel
• Argentina truckers get deal, end strike but plan new protest
• Top Rwandan officials backing Congo rebels: leaked U.N. findings
• Paraguay's president faces impeachment
• Mexico catches son of top drug lord "Shorty"
• Nearly 100 still missing in boat capsize near Australia
• In first, U.S. adds Boko Haram members to "terrorist" list
• Mexico troops detain son of most-wanted drug lord
• 90 still missing after boat capsizes off Indonesia
• AP IMPACT: Syria rebels divided, at times violent
• Bolivian police mutiny over pay
• Syrian pilot flies his MiG to Jordan, gets asylum
• Media demonize Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood
• Paraguay president faces impeachment trial
• New Pakistan PM candidate faces arrest warrant
• Norway prosecutors assert that Breivik insane
• IMF head warns of 'acute stress' in Europe

Tahrir Square protests as Egypt awaits result Posted: 21 Jun 2012 04:00 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters filled Cairo's Tahrir Square overnight as Egypt's rival presidential candidates, an Islamist and former general, accused each of trying to steal an election whose result is still not known five days after polling ended. Another two days of uncertainty and name calling seem likely over the weekend which begins on Friday, though there was no immediate violence. ...

Syrian fighter pilot defects to Jordan, gets asylum Posted: 21 Jun 2012 01:37 PM PDT AMMAN (Reuters) - A Syrian air force pilot flew his MiG-21 fighter plane over the border to Jordan and was granted political asylum on Thursday, the first defection with a military aircraft since the start of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. Colonel Hassan Hamada landed at the King Hussein military air base 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Amman and immediately asked for sanctuary, Jordanian officials told Reuters. "The cabinet has decided to grant the Syrian pilot political asylum upon his request," Jordanian Minister of State for Information Samih al-Maaytah told Reuters. ...

Greek bailout wish-list sets up showdown with Europe Posted: 21 Jun 2012 12:25 PM PDT ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's new government promised on Thursday to renegotiate the terms of the country's bailout without endangering its future in the euro, responding to intense pressure to ease mounting social tensions but also risking a showdown with European powers. The three-party coalition called for changes to the deal that is helping Greece avoid bankruptcy after the announcement of an 18-member cabinet dominated by the conservative New Democracy party of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. ...

Afghan Taliban gunmen attack popular Kabul lakeside hotel Posted: 21 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan Taliban gunmen, some armed with rocket propelled grenades and heavy machine guns, have attacked a hotel in Kabul's popular Qargha Lake recreation area, triggering a gunbattle, Afghan police said on Friday. "Insurgents armed with RPG rockets, and heavy and light weapons, are inside the Spozhmai Hotel and fighting with security forces. We don't know their numbers and if there have been casualties," said Mohammad Zahir, head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Kabul police. ...

Argentina truckers get deal, end strike but plan new protest Posted: 21 Jun 2012 03:34 PM PDT BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's most powerful union leader, Hugo Moyano, called off a strike by fuel truckers on Thursday after securing a pay increase, but announced a one-day walkout next week to demand that President Cristina Fernandez cut taxes. Striking truckers blocked fuel depots and refineries for a second day on Thursday, sparking shortages at gas stations and some homes in one of the biggest trade-union challenges to Fernandez in her five years in office. Drivers left picket lines after Moyano, head of the CGT labor federation, agreed to a 25. ...

Top Rwandan officials backing Congo rebels: leaked U.N. findings Posted: 21 Jun 2012 05:01 PM PDT DAKAR (Reuters) - U.N. experts have evidence Rwanda's defense minister and two top military officials have been backing an army mutiny in the east of neighboring Congo, according to notes of their briefing to a closed-door U.N. committee seen by Reuters on Thursday. The evidence is the strongest yet to indicate high-level support within President Paul Kagame's government for the so-called M23 rebellion, whose stand-off with Congolese forces has caused thousands to flee their homes in the east of the country. ...

Paraguay's president faces impeachment Posted: 21 Jun 2012 04:15 PM PDT ASUNCION (Reuters) - Paraguay's Congress moved to impeach leftist President Fernando Lugo on Thursday over charges that he mishandled a land eviction in which 17 police and peasant farmers were killed last week, and the Senate will decide his fate on Friday. As political allies deserted him, the president refused to resign and vowed to defend himself in a trial in the Senate on Friday afternoon that could result in his removal from office. Paraguay's lower house of Congress agreed in a swift, near-unanimous vote on Thursday to start impeachment proceedings. ...

Mexico catches son of top drug lord "Shorty" Posted: 21 Jun 2012 05:02 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican marines on Thursday captured the son of the country's most wanted man, cocaine king Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, who is the head of the Sinaloa Cartel and has a $5 million price on his head in the United States. Jesus Alfredo Guzman, who is also wanted by U.S. courts on drug trafficking charges, was arrested in the western state of Jalisco on Thursday morning, the Mexican Navy said. Marines said they caught the younger Guzman, who is known as El Gordo or "The Fat One," in a residential house with an arsenal of rifles, pistols, grenades and about $160,000 in cash. ...

Nearly 100 still missing in boat capsize near Australia Posted: 21 Jun 2012 03:29 PM PDT SYDNEY (Reuters) - Nearly 100 suspected asylum seekers are still missing a day after a boat capsized about 200 km north of Australia's Christmas Island, Australia's minister for home affairs said on Friday. Jason Clare said four more ships and three aircraft were on the way to aid the search for survivors from the boat carrying an estimated 210 people. A number of Australian defense and civilian vessels are already in the area. "We are still in the critical window where more lives can be saved. The advice I have is that the water temperature is about 29 degrees. ...

In first, U.S. adds Boko Haram members to "terrorist" list Posted: 21 Jun 2012 01:14 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday named three alleged leaders of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram as "foreign terrorists," the first time it has blacklisted members of the Islamist group blamed for attacks across Africa's most populous nation. The State Department identified the three as Abubakar Shekau, calling him the "most visible" leader of the group, and Abubakar Adam Kambar and Khalid al-Barnawi, who it said were tied both to Boko Haram and to al Qaeda's north African wing. ...

Mexico troops detain son of most-wanted drug lord Posted: 21 Jun 2012 04:16 PM PDT Mexican marines on Thursday detained a young man they believe is one of the sons of Mexico's most-wanted drug kingpin, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel.

90 still missing after boat capsizes off Indonesia Posted: 21 Jun 2012 03:51 PM PDT A search continued Friday for scores of men still missing after a boat carrying about 200 suspected asylum seekers bound for Australia capsized in heavy seas south of Indonesia.

AP IMPACT: Syria rebels divided, at times violent Posted: 21 Jun 2012 01:35 PM PDT Rebel commander Ahmed Eissa al-Sheikh keeps a paper on his desk bearing the names of the dead from his brigade. The first 16 are neatly typed below a Quranic verse extolling martyrdom. The next 14 are handwritten and crammed into the margin, because the paper is full.

Bolivian police mutiny over pay Posted: 21 Jun 2012 03:57 PM PDT About 30 members of an elite Bolivian police commando unit mutinied in La Paz on Thursday, expelling their commanders and seizing their barracks along with their wives to demand higher wages.

Syrian pilot flies his MiG to Jordan, gets asylum Posted: 21 Jun 2012 01:22 PM PDT A Syrian fighter pilot on a training mission flew his MiG-21 warplane to neighboring Jordan, where he was given asylum Thursday in a defection from the fiercely loyal air force that signals some of the most ironclad allegiances in Damascus could be fraying. Syria immediately denounced the pilot as a traitor.

Media demonize Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Posted: 21 Jun 2012 02:30 PM PDT Egypt's media are demonizing the Muslim Brotherhood as the state's worst enemy, claiming the fundamentalist group plans to plunge the country into chaos if its candidate does not emerge as the winner from the presidential runoff.

Paraguay president faces impeachment trial Posted: 21 Jun 2012 04:50 PM PDT Paraguayan lawmakers voted to impeach President Fernando Lugo for his role in a deadly clash involving landless farmers and announced that the former Roman Catholic bishop's impeachment trial would begin on Friday in the Senate.

New Pakistan PM candidate faces arrest warrant Posted: 21 Jun 2012 12:23 PM PDT A Pakistani judge issued an arrest warrant Thursday for the ruling party's candidate for prime minister over allegations he illegally imported drugs, injecting fresh uncertainty into efforts to replace the previous premier who was ousted by the Supreme Court.

Norway prosecutors assert that Breivik insane Posted: 21 Jun 2012 12:37 PM PDT If Norwegian prosecutors get their way, no one will be held criminally responsible for the deaths of 77 people in a bomb and shooting rampage that roiled the peaceful nation.

IMF head warns of 'acute stress' in Europe Posted: 21 Jun 2012 04:43 PM PDT The head of the International Monetary Fund warned Thursday that the euro is under "acute stress" and piled pressure on Germany by advocating a series of measures to pull Europe out of its crisis that its Chancellor Angela Merkel has strenuously opposed.

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