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• Blast hits Damascus, Turkey sends troops to border
• Iraq bomb attacks kill 21, wound scores
• U.S. grants Iran sanctions exceptions to China
• Analysis: Sudan rulers dig in as foes look for Arab Spring
• France's Strauss-Kahn, wife have separated: media
• Ex-Marxist guerrilla to run for El Salvador presidency
• French government to cut staff, operating costs: PM
• Jordan king pushes parliament to widen election law
• United Technologies sent military copter tech to China
• Egypt's new president to take oath before court
• Turkey fortifies Syrian border; bomb hits Damascus
• Italy, Spain demand help in return for growth deal
• Egypt president's wife: Don't call me first lady
• 'Miss Holocaust Survivor' crowned in Israel
• Mexican drug cartels work to sway local vote
• Egypt's president-elect to be sworn in Saturday
• APNewsBreak: 2 terror suspects arrested in London
• Brotherhood shelves Egypt's Islamization, for now
• McGuinness says he regrets all Troubles deaths
• Officials slam Iran on anti-Semitic statement

Blast hits Damascus, Turkey sends troops to border Posted: 28 Jun 2012 04:14 PM PDT BEIRUT/ISKENDERUN, Turkey (Reuters) - Rebel forces attacked Syria's main court in central Damascus on Thursday, state television said, while Turkey deployed troops and anti-aircraft rocket launchers to the Syrian border, building pressure on President Bashar al-Assad. A loud explosion echoed through the streets and a column of black smoke rose over Damascus, an Assad stronghold that until the last few days had seemed largely beyond the reach of rebels. State television described it as a "terrorist" blast. Dozens of wrecked and burning cars were strewn over a car park used by lawyers and ...

Iraq bomb attacks kill 21, wound scores Posted: 28 Jun 2012 12:21 PM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombings in and around Baghdad killed at least 21 people and wounded over 100 on Thursday, health and security sources said, the latest attacks in a bloody month that have stoked fears Iraq could return to broad sectarian fighting. Tensions have been high in the country since the last U.S. troops left in December, with ongoing political crises between Iraq's main Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish factions further aggravating concerns. ...

U.S. grants Iran sanctions exceptions to China Posted: 28 Jun 2012 02:47 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States gave China a six-month reprieve from Iran financial sanctions on Thursday, avoiding a diplomatic spat with a country whose support it needs to try to quell violence in Syria and rein in Tehran's nuclear ambitions. With Thursday's decision to grant exceptions to China, which buys up to a fifth of Iran's oil exports, and Singapore, which buys Iranian fuel oil, the Obama administration has now spared all 20 of Iran's major oil buyers from its unilateral sanctions. ...

Analysis: Sudan rulers dig in as foes look for Arab Spring Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:06 PM PDT KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Outside the University of Khartoum, riot police in blue fatigues perch on pickup trucks, keeping watch as young women in bright headscarves and men in button-down shirts walk by carrying textbooks to class in Sudan's intense summer heat. Less than a week earlier, the campus - just a few hundred meters (yards) from the national security headquarters - was a battleground. Police fired teargas and used batons to break up hundreds of protesters, who threw rocks back at them. No one expects the shaky truce to last. ...

France's Strauss-Kahn, wife have separated: media Posted: 28 Jun 2012 04:08 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his wife have separated, as his legal battles run on over a New York sex assault case and his alleged involvement with a prostitution ring, weekly magazine Closer reported on Thursday. Anne Sinclair, a wealthy heiress who recently relaunched her media career as a news editor at the Huffington Post's French edition, threw Strauss-Kahn out of their home in central Paris a month ago and the two are living separately, the magazine said. The magazine did not cite any sources for the story that appeared in its online edition. ...

Ex-Marxist guerrilla to run for El Salvador presidency Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:37 PM PDT SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador's ruling leftist party on Thursday tapped Vice President Salvador Sanchez, a former Marxist guerrilla commander, as its candidate for the 2014 presidential race. Sanchez, 68, a teacher by profession, was one of the leaders of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) guerrillas during 12 years of civil war that ended in 1992. El Salvador's ruling political party of the same name formally nominated him as its candidate on Thursday. ...

French government to cut staff, operating costs: PM Posted: 28 Jun 2012 11:28 AM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - France's new Socialist government will cut staff at most ministries by 2.5 percent annually for the next three years as it seeks to reduce its budget deficit to meet European Union targets, the prime minister's office said on Thursday. Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault also wrote in a letter to the ministries that government operating costs - which exclude staffing but cover things like car fleets and office supplies - would drop by 7 percent on average in 2013 versus 2012. Ayrault, however, did not provide a target figure for overall central government spending. ...

Jordan king pushes parliament to widen election law Posted: 28 Jun 2012 01:05 PM PDT AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan's King Abdullah instructed parliament on Thursday to reconvene next month to amend a controversial election law that has provoked Islamist disaffection and a potential boycott of polls that could deal a blow to democratic reforms. A palace statement said the monarch's message was conveyed in a meeting with heads of the lower and upper houses of parliament, composed mainly of pro-government deputies with strong tribal backing. ...

United Technologies sent military copter tech to China Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:39 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - United Technologies Corp on Thursday admitted selling China software that helped Beijing develop its first modern military attack helicopter, one of hundreds of export control violations over nearly two decades. At a federal court hearing in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United Technologies and its two subsidiaries, Pratt & Whitney Canada and Hamilton Sundstrand Corp, agreed to pay more than $75 million to the U.S. government to settle criminal and administrative charges related to the violations. ...

Egypt's new president to take oath before court Posted: 28 Jun 2012 04:09 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Islamist President-elect Mohamed Mursi will give a speech to crowds in Tahrir Square on Friday but his party appears to have lost in a power struggle with the ruling military council over where he will take his oath of office. Details about the historic swearing-in ceremony were announced in a late statement from the presidency on Thursday which stated that Mursi will take the oath of office in front of the Supreme Constitutional Court on Saturday at 11 a.m. Cairo time (0900 GMT). ...

Turkey fortifies Syrian border; bomb hits Damascus Posted: 28 Jun 2012 01:00 PM PDT Turkey deployed anti-aircraft guns, rocket launchers and other weapons along its border with Syria on Thursday, a military buildup that came as world powers showed new urgency to resolve the crisis before it ignites the region.

Italy, Spain demand help in return for growth deal Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:29 PM PDT Diplomats at a European Union summit say the leaders of Spain and Italy are blocking final agreement on a stimulus package until they win promises of immediate help in reducing their borrowing costs.

Egypt president's wife: Don't call me first lady Posted: 28 Jun 2012 10:48 AM PDT Egypt's new first lady Naglaa Ali Mahmoud and her predecessor Suzanne Mubarak have at least one thing in common: Both have seen their husbands and sons detained in Egyptian prisons.

'Miss Holocaust Survivor' crowned in Israel Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:08 PM PDT Grinning and waving, 14 women who survived the horrors of World War II paraded Thursday in an unusual pageant, vying for the honor of being crowned Israel's first "Miss Holocaust Survivor."

Mexican drug cartels work to sway local vote Posted: 28 Jun 2012 02:29 PM PDT Before the sun climbed above the hills around this central Mexican town, Saul Garcia and his family awoke to the sound of bullets piercing the front gate. A masked motorcyclist had opened fire on their brick home, leaving behind a poster signed by the La Familia drug cartel, warning the mayoral candidate to withdraw from the race or the gang would kill him, his wife and three children.

Egypt's president-elect to be sworn in Saturday Posted: 28 Jun 2012 02:06 PM PDT Egypt's official news agency says the newly elected Islamist president will be sworn in Saturday before a high court.

APNewsBreak: 2 terror suspects arrested in London Posted: 28 Jun 2012 10:52 AM PDT London police have detained two British Muslim converts on suspicion of terror offenses Thursday, a U.K. security official told The Associated Press.

Brotherhood shelves Egypt's Islamization, for now Posted: 28 Jun 2012 12:55 PM PDT The Muslim Brotherhood has stopped talking about its longtime dream of an Islamic Egypt and expelling Israel's ambassador to Cairo. Instead, President-elect Mohammed Morsi is hurriedly building a diverse alliance with leftists, liberals and Christians to bolster his battle to end military rule.

McGuinness says he regrets all Troubles deaths Posted: 28 Jun 2012 02:20 PM PDT IRA commander-turned-political peacemaker Martin McGuinness said Thursday that he regrets "every single life" lost in Northern Ireland's decades of violence and expressed hope that his handshake with Queen Elizabeth II would be a key building block in a new relationship between Britain and Ireland.

Officials slam Iran on anti-Semitic statement Posted: 28 Jun 2012 01:57 PM PDT International officials have condemned statements made by Iran's vice president at a U.N.-sponsored drug conference in Tehran where he blamed Jews for the international drug trade.

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