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• Analysis: Mexico's creaky economy to test Pena Nieto's ambitions
• Syria strikes Damascus suburb; U.N. decries arms flow
• U.S., Pakistan deal seen soon on Afghan supply routes
• Insight: Voice of Mumbai attacks points finger at Pakistan
• U.N. confirms Saudi dissident, group off al Qaeda list
• Military draft dispute shakes Israel coalition
• Russia's PM Medvedev launches Far East bridge
• Afghanistan accuses Pakistan army of rocket attacks
• Libya frees detained ICC staff after apology
• Egypt's new president faces burden of expectation
• Egypt's new leader claims revolution's mantle
• Syrian opposition makes new push to unite
• Officials: Iranians targeted Israeli, US interests
• APNewsBreak: Evidence of 'God particle' found
• Islamists continue destroying Timbuktu heritage
• Mexico's next president faces uphill fight
• Pakistan: NATO supply deal looking more likely
• Google makes bid to dodge European antitrust fine
• Palestinians detain dozens in weapons crackdown
• ICC staffers held in Libya released, fly to Italy

Analysis: Mexico's creaky economy to test Pena Nieto's ambitions Posted: 02 Jul 2012 02:16 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's creaky domestic economy, riddled with monopolies and inefficiencies, makes the next government's goal of boosting growth to rates last seen in the 1970's seem like a pipe dream. The return to power of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, in Sunday's presidential election may be Mexico's best chance for significant economic remodeling in a generation. But the checkered history of reforms in Latin America's second-biggest economy, producing failure as often as success, underscores the size of the challenge. ...

Syria strikes Damascus suburb; U.N. decries arms flow Posted: 02 Jul 2012 02:10 PM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian helicopters bombarded a Damascus suburb on Monday and Turkey scrambled warplanes near the border in the north, as the U.N. human rights chief warned that arms supplies to both the government and rebels were deepening the 16-month conflict. Fighting has come to the gates of the capital in recent weeks and is also raging throughout the country as the battle to unseat President Bashar al-Assad increasingly takes on the character of an all-out civil war, fuelled by sectarian hatred. ...

U.S., Pakistan deal seen soon on Afghan supply routes Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:18 PM PDT ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The United States and Pakistan are expected to agree soon on the reopening of land routes crucial to supplying NATO troops in Afghanistan, a Pakistani official said on Monday, a move that could ease a seven-month crisis in the two countries' ties. A senior Pakistani security official told Reuters a deal could be announced soon, potentially ending the long stalemate following a U.S. air attack last November that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers along the border with Afghanistan. ...

Insight: Voice of Mumbai attacks points finger at Pakistan Posted: 02 Jul 2012 02:02 PM PDT NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Forty-eight hours into the bloody assault on Mumbai in November 2008, smoke was billowing from the wreckage of the Taj Mahal hotel and commandos were flushing out the last gunmen holed up in the opulent landmark of India's financial capital. A short distance away in the city's southernmost peninsula, security forces were still battling at Nariman House, a Jewish centre where two of the Islamist militants had taken half a dozen people hostage, including a rabbi and his pregnant wife. ...

U.N. confirms Saudi dissident, group off al Qaeda list Posted: 02 Jul 2012 02:04 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. Security Council committee has removed Saudi dissident Saad al-Faqih and his Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia from the U.N. al Qaeda sanctions list, Germany's U.N. envoy confirmed on Monday. The move came despite Saudi Arabia's opposition and U.S. concerns about Faqih, U.N. diplomats told Reuters. Reuters reported on Sunday that the decision to delist Faqih came after the 15-nation council's al Qaeda sanctions committee failed to reach a consensus to override the ombudsman of the al Qaeda sanctions list, who recommended removing Faqih. ...

Military draft dispute shakes Israel coalition Posted: 02 Jul 2012 11:49 AM PDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A dispute over military draft exemptions exposed cracks in Israel's ruling coalition on Monday, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed a panel charged with drafting reforms of the law on the emotive issue. Vice Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz, head of coalition partner Kadima, threatened to end their two-month-old alliance unless Netanyahu pushed for reforms to make more ultra-Orthodox Israelis and Arab citizens eligible for military or national service. ...

Russia's PM Medvedev launches Far East bridge Posted: 02 Jul 2012 11:51 AM PDT VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev unveiled a $1 billion bridge to a remote Far East island on Monday, seen as a symbol of the Kremlin's eagerness to retain influence in the region at any cost to counter the rise of China. "We must fully realize the Far East's potential, integrate this territory into the national economic space," Medvedev said in a meeting with regional officials, after inaugurating the bridge. The 3.1-km (1. ...

Afghanistan accuses Pakistan army of rocket attacks Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:47 PM PDT KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan accused Pakistan's army on Monday of launching months of rocket attacks on its territory and threatened to report Islamabad to the U.N. Security Council, straining already troubled ties between the neighbors. Kabul has regularly accused elements in Islamabad's government and army of backing militants fighting the U.S.-backed Kabul government - charges denied by Pakistan. ...

Libya frees detained ICC staff after apology Posted: 02 Jul 2012 12:49 PM PDT ZINTAN, Libya (Reuters) - Libya freed four officials from the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday, whose detention since early June on spying allegations had plunged the interim government into its biggest diplomatic controversy since last year's revolution. Australian lawyer Melinda Taylor and Lebanese-born interpreter Helene Assaf were held in the town of Zintan and accused of smuggling documents and hidden recording devices to Muammar Gaddafi's captured son Saif al-Islam. Two male ICC staff who were travelling with Taylor and Assaf stayed with them. ...

Egypt's new president faces burden of expectation Posted: 02 Jul 2012 05:02 AM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - If Egypt's new president, Mohamed Mursi, needs any reminder of the weight of expectations bearing down as he begins work, he can glance from a window of the presidential palace. Citizens seeking jobs, compensation from the state or clemency for jailed relatives crowded at the palace gates on Sunday, showing how Mursi's unprecedented popular mandate has raised hopes for a more responsive kind of government. "My name is Alaa Ahmed Bayoumy and I am here to ask for a higher pension," said one 52-year-old among the group mingling with palace security officials. ...

Egypt's new leader claims revolution's mantle Posted: 02 Jul 2012 02:43 PM PDT Standing before tens of thousands of adoring supporters in Tahrir Square, President Mohammed Morsi opened his jacket in a show of bravado to prove he was not wearing a bullet-proof vest. The message was clear: He has nothing to fear because he sees himself as the legitimate representative of Egypt's uprising.

Syrian opposition makes new push to unite Posted: 02 Jul 2012 02:28 PM PDT The Arab League chief urged exiled Syrian opposition figures to unite at a meeting Monday as a new Western effort to force President Bashar Assad from power faltered. Another 85 soldiers, including a general, fled to Turkey in a growing wave of defections.

Officials: Iranians targeted Israeli, US interests Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:36 PM PDT Two Iranians who led authorities to a cache of explosives after their arrest planned to attack Israeli, U.S., British or Saudi targets inside Kenya, officials told The Associated Press on Monday.

APNewsBreak: Evidence of 'God particle' found Posted: 02 Jul 2012 03:50 PM PDT Physicists say they have all but proven that the "God particle" exists. They have a footprint and a shadow, and the only thing left is to see for themselves the elusive subatomic particle believed to give all matter in the universe size and shape.

Islamists continue destroying Timbuktu heritage Posted: 02 Jul 2012 12:10 PM PDT Muslim extremists continued destroying the heritage of the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu on Monday, razing tombs and attacking the gate of a 600-year-old mosque, despite growing international outcry.

Mexico's next president faces uphill fight Posted: 02 Jul 2012 12:56 PM PDT The apparent victor of Mexico's presidential race, Enrique Pena Nieto, struggled Monday with the sticky bonds of his party's notorious past, the limitation of his mandate and an opponent who has yet to concede defeat.

Pakistan: NATO supply deal looking more likely Posted: 02 Jul 2012 12:35 PM PDT U.S. and Pakistani officials expressed optimism Monday that Islamabad was close to reopening its Afghan border to NATO troop supplies after a 7-month blockade, a move that could significantly reduce tension between the two countries.

Google makes bid to dodge European antitrust fine Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:39 PM PDT Google chairman Eric Schmidt has submitted a proposal to European regulators in Brussels aimed at avoiding a showdown on the some of the Internet search leader's business practices.

Palestinians detain dozens in weapons crackdown Posted: 02 Jul 2012 11:36 AM PDT Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has launched his broadest weapons crackdown in years, for the first time confronting his own loyalists, including rogue security officers and gunmen linked to his Fatah movement.

ICC staffers held in Libya released, fly to Italy Posted: 02 Jul 2012 03:04 PM PDT Libya released on Monday four International Criminal Court staffers who had been held for nearly four weeks on allegations that they shared documents that could harm national security with Moammar Gadhafi's imprisoned son Seif al-Islam Gadhafi.

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