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Suicide bomber kills guard at U.S. embassy in Turkey

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 04:39 PM PST

A security officer runs after an explosion at the entrance of the U.S. embassy in AnkaraANKARA (Reuters) - A far-leftist suicide bomber killed a Turkish security guard at the U.S. embassy in Ankara on Friday, officials said, blowing open an entrance and sending debris flying through the air. The attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body after entering an embassy gatehouse. The blast could be heard a mile away. A lower leg and other human remains lay on the street. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said the bomber was a member of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), a far-left group which is virulently anti-U.S. ...

Suicide bomb kills 22 near mosques in northwest Pakistan

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 06:02 AM PST

Residents gather at the site of a suicide bomb attack in the northwestern town of HanguHANGU, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 22 people on Friday in a crowded market outside two mosques from separate Muslim sects in Pakistan's restive northwest, police and hospital officials said. Two of the dead were policemen. Forty-eight people were wounded in the attack in a narrow lane in the town of Hangu that houses both a Shi'ite and a Sunni Muslim mosque. Officials said the anti-Taliban Sunni Supreme Council often holds its meetings in the Sunni mosque, which made it a possible target. ...

One dead, dozens hurt as police clash with Egypt protesters

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 02:50 PM PST

Protesters throw stones and molotov cocktails at security forces inside the presidential palace during clashes between protesters and police in front of the palace, in CairoCAIRO/PORT SAID, Egypt (Reuters) - At least one protester was shot dead and dozens wounded on Friday when riot police clashed with demonstrators demanding the overthrow of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi. Youths threw petrol bombs and shot fireworks at the outer wall of Mursi's Cairo presidential compound as night fell. Police responded by firing water cannon and teargas leading to skirmishes in the surrounding streets. Two witnesses said they had seen a protester shot dead in Cairo with live ammunition in front of them. "It's verified. I am at the morgue. ...

Envoy makes "last appeal" for Syria as officials meet

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 03:31 PM PST

A Free Syrian Army fighter walks in a building destroyed during clashes in Haresta neighbourhood of DamascusAMMAN/MUNICH (Reuters) - Senior U.S., Russian and U.N. officials, along with the leader of the Syrian opposition, were all expected at a security conference in Munich on Saturday, providing a rare opportunity for talks to revive efforts to end the civil war in Syria. Moscow and the United Nations, however, played down Syrian opposition assertions that its leader would hold a joint meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi in Munich. ...

Stalingrad victory offers Putin patriotic platform

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 02:29 PM PST

Russia's President Putin arrives at the reception in honor of the Battle of Stalingrad in MoscowVOLGOGRAD, Russia (Reuters) - Stalingrad will be back on the map for a few hours on Saturday, and Josef Stalin's face will be splashed on buses, as Russia remembers the epic battle that turned the tide of World War Two. President Vladimir Putin is expected in the city, now known as Volgograd, for a military parade to mark 70 years since the German surrender after the six-month Battle of Stalingrad, which became a symbol for Russians of patriotic sacrifice and unity. ...

Rights allegations in Mali cloud France Hollande's visit

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 10:52 AM PST

Children celebrate holding a French flag during reopening ceremony of Mahamane Fondogoumo elementary school in the town centre of TimbuktuBAMAKO/TIMBUKTU, Mali (Reuters) - A French-led offensive against Islamists in Mali has led to civilian deaths from air strikes and ethnic reprisals by Malian troops, human rights groups said on Friday, a day before President Francois Hollande was due to visit the country. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch cited witness reports of extrajudicial killings by Malian government soldiers of dozens of civilians in the towns of Sevare and Konna. At least five civilians were killed in a helicopter attack on the first day of France's military intervention, Amnesty also said. ...

Sudan riot police clash with students at Khartoum university

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 03:20 PM PST

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese riot police fired teargas at students on Friday as government supporters stormed the main university in the capital Khartoum, activists and witnesses said, in a second day of unrest on the campus. Sudan has avoided the Arab Spring style uprisings which unseated rulers in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, but spiraling inflation sparked small protests which have broadened into demonstrations of discontent with veteran President Omar Hassan al-Bashir's rule. ...

Assassination attempt in Armenia threatens stability

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 11:35 AM PST

Armenia's President Sarksyan visits injured Presidential candidate Hayrikyan at the hospital in YerevanYEREVAN (Reuters) - An assassination attempt on a presidential candidate in Armenia has thrown this month's election into doubt and could threaten stability in the volatile Caucasus region that carries oil and natural gas to Europe. Paruyr Hayrikyan, an outsider in the February 18 presidential vote, was shot in the shoulder on Thursday night close to his home in the capital Yerevan. Doctors removed the bullet on Friday and said his life was not in danger. ...

Brazil nightclub owners, band detained 30 more days after fire

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:22 PM PST

Handout photo of a view of the Boate Kiss nightclub in Santa MariaSAO PAULO (Reuters) - A judge in southern Brazil ordered 30 more days of detention on Friday for the owners of a nightclub and band members involved in a fire that killed 236 in the college town of Santa Maria last weekend. The order came after a 20-year-old woman succumbed to her injuries late Thursday, pushing up the death toll from the country's second most deadly fire ever. Civil defense authorities in Rio Grande do Sul, the state where Santa Maria is located, said the victim suffered a heart attack while struggling with injuries that included burns on more than half her body. ...

Suicide bomber kills guard at US Embassy in Turkey

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 12:19 PM PST

Medics carry an injured woman on a stretcher to an ambulance after a suspected suicide bomber detonated an explosive device at the entrance of the U.S. Embassy in the Turkish capital, Ankara, Turkey, Friday Feb. 1, 2013. The bomb appeared to have exploded inside the security checkpoint at the entrance of the visa section of the embassy. A police official said at least two people are dead. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — In the second deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in five months, a suicide bomber struck the American Embassy in Ankara on Friday, killing a Turkish security guard in what the White House described as a terrorist attack.

At palace, Egypt protesters, police clash

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 03:29 PM PST

Egyptian riot police beat a man, after stripping him, and before dragging him into a police van, during clashes next to the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 1, 2013. Protesters denouncing Egypt's Islamist president hurled stones and firebombs through the gates of his palace gates on Friday, clashing with security forces who fired tear gas and water cannons, as more than a week of political violence came to Mohammed Morsi's symbolic doorstep for the first time. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)CAIRO (AP) — Protesters denouncing Egypt's Islamist president hurled stones and firebombs through the gates of his palace gates on Friday, clashing with security forces who fired tear gas and water cannons, as more than a week of political violence came to Mohammed Morsi's symbolic doorstep for the first time.

Mali jihadists in custody say tortured by military

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:16 PM PST

A man suspected of being a Jihadist, arrested by Malian forces in Lere, sits at the police station where he is being held in Timbuktu, Mali, Friday Feb. 1, 2013. French President Francois Hollande is scheduled to visit the fabled city Saturday. (AP Photo/Harouna Traore)TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) — Three suspected jihadists arrested in the days since the liberation of Timbuktu said Friday that Malian soldiers were torturing them with a method similar to waterboarding.

No priest, no sheik means no marriage in Lebanon

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 03:03 PM PST

In this picture taken on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, Lebanese couple Kholoud Sukkarieh, left, and her husband Nidal Darwish, right, pose during an interview with the Associated Press, in Beirut, Lebanon. She was an English language tutor with an easy smile and an independent streak. He was a gym receptionist who wanted to better himself. They met for English lessons, swapped views on life and fell in love. Three months ago, a notary married them before their friends and family _ but not in the eyes of the Lebanese government. The would-be marriage of Kholoud Sukkarieh and Nidal Darwish _ which the government has not recognized because a religious official did not register it _ has sparked a fierce debate in Lebanon over civil marriage and how its legalization would affect the country's tenuous sectarian system. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)BEIRUT (AP) — She was an English language tutor with an easy smile and an independent streak. He was a gym receptionist who wanted to better himself.

Syrian opposition: willing to meet with regime

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 03:11 PM PST

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, right, and Sheikh Moaz Al-Khatib, President of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, shake hands during the Security Conference in Munich, southern Germany, on Friday, Feb. 1, 2013. The 49th Munich Security Conference starts Friday afternoon with experts from 90 delegations including US Vice President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)MUNICH (AP) — Syria's top opposition leader said Friday that he was willing to sit down for talks with President Bashar Assad's government to "ease the pain of the Syrian people," but emphasized that his goal is to "overthrow the regime by peaceful means."

A glance at Mexico oil company incidents

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 02:57 PM PST

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Jan. 31, 2013: A blast collapses the lower floors of a building in the headquarters of Mexico's state-owned oil company, crushing at least 33 people beneath tons of rubble and injuring 121. It is being looked at as an accident although all lines of investigation remain open, the head of Petroleos Mexicanos said Friday.

Russian WWII vet recalls the Battle of Stalingrad

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 09:36 AM PST

In this photo made Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, Alexei Stefanov, 90, recalls his participation in the battle of Stalingrad between Nazi Germany and its allies and Red Army that began in mid 1942 and ended in February 1943, in Moscow, Russia. The battle on the Volga River city named after Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was a turning point in World War II and claimed almost 1,5 million lives on both sides. His wife of 67 years, Lyudmila Stefanova, sits at left, behind him. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet soldiers used their own bodies as shields, covering women and children escaping on ferry boats from a Nazi bombardment that killed 40,000 civilians in a single day. It was the height of the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest conflicts of World War II.

Dramatists liken Venezuela saga to telenovela

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 02:58 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2013 file photo, supporters of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez carry a life-size cut out image of him during a symbolic inauguration ceremony for Chavez, who was in Cuba for cancer treatment at the time, in Caracas, Venezuela. The long and at times surreal saga surrounding the cancer treatment of President Hugo Chavez has many Venezuelan writers and intellectuals likening the nation's drama to a telenovela. Venezuela has long produced soap operas, and some say no one could have imagined a more bizarre plot than the one unfolding in the more than seven weeks since Chavez traveled to Cuba for his operation and disappeared from public view. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A president who vanishes for weeks in a mysterious battle with cancer. Supporters who chant their allegiance in the streets. And in the midst of it all, an announcement by the government that it detected a plot to kill his chosen successor.

Sweden orders retrial for convicted serial killer

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 10:35 AM PST

FILE - This is file photo of Sture Bergwalls, taken on Apr. 15, 2012. Once considered Sweden's worst serial killer, Sture Bergwall confessed to more than 30 murders over three decades, and was convicted of eight of them. Years later, he changed his mind and said his ghastly tales of slaughter, rape and even cannibalism were all lies, spawned by loneliness, a desire for attention and heavy medication. In what's become a major embarrassment for the Swedish justice system, Bergwall's convictions are now being overturned one by one. Courts that once found his chilling descriptions of the victims and the murder scenes enough proof to convict him now realize they may have been duped by a compulsive liar. STOCKHOLM (AP) — Once considered Sweden's worst serial killer, Sture Bergwall confessed to more than 30 murders over three decades, and was convicted of eight of them.

33 die in Mexico oil company office building blast

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 04:26 PM PST

An emergency responder carries a piece of concrete as emergency workers and firefighter dig for survivor at the site on an explosion at an adjacent building to the executive tower of Mexico's state-owned oil company PEMEX, in Mexico City, Thursday Jan. 31, 2013. The explosion killed more than 10 people and injured some 80 as it heavily damaged three floors of the building, sending hundreds into the streets and a large plume of smoke over the skyline. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)MEXICO CITY (AP) — A blast that collapsed the lower floors of a building in the headquarters of Mexico's state-owned oil company, crushing at least 33 people beneath tons of rubble and injuring 121, is being looked at as an accident although all lines of investigation remain open, the head of Petroleos Mexicanos said Friday.

Japan boosts defense as some in China and Taiwan agree on disputed islets

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:33 PM PST

High-risk friction in the East China Sea between Asia's top economic powers is scaling up in the new year, killing hopes of an early solution, as Beijing sends planes, Japan raises its defense budget, and Taiwan tests the waters again.

Protests surge in Iraq's Sunni regions, testing Maliki

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 12:56 PM PST

In Iraq's vast western Anbar province, anger over arrests by Iraqi security forces and government neglect has prompted spreading protests that pose the biggest challenge to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki since the country's 2006-2007 sectarian war.On Friday in Fallujah and Ramadi, hundreds of thousands of men held Friday prayers on the main highway instead of in the mosques. The peaceful demonstrations, the biggest in Anbar Province since Saddam Hussein was toppled, were called to commemorate the killings of at least seven protesters by Iraqi soldiers a week ago. ...

Corruption case threatens Spain's ruling party - and its economy

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 12:29 PM PST

Corruption allegations of alleged off-the-books payments to high-ranking officials of Spain's governing Popular Party – including Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy – are threatening to destabilize the government and damage its ability to steer the country through its economic crisis.

Pakistan opposition take aim at energy crisis ahead of elections

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 12:02 PM PST

Pakistan is struggling with a worsening energy crisis that will be top of mind for many Pakistanis as they head to the polls later this year.

Egyptians work to reclaim a Tahrir tainted by sexual assault

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 11:45 AM PST

The accounts always unfold similarly. They begin with a group of men surrounding a woman during a large protest in Tahrir Square, often after night falls. They form a tight circle, then attack.

Could France's empty office buildings ease its homeless crisis?

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 09:47 AM PST

In the big, bright green communal kitchen, Samia Lacombe wipes the counter clean and takes some of the soup that she's made to her new neighbors down the hall.

Can Timbuktu stay pacified after Islamist rebels are run out?

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 09:33 AM PST

Captain Yann of the French army's 6th Marine engineer battalion got into his jeep early in the morning, drove to the Djingareiber Mosque inside this city and, with a team of soldiers and other army personnel, started digging for bombs.

Legal piracy? Antigua gets OK to start selling copies of US hit movies, songs

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 09:16 AM PST

Antigua and Barbuda doesn't normally rank among threats to United States interests. The twin-island nation's population of 100,000 rivals that of Flint, Mich., and its $1 billion economy is about as much as New York City is spending to make infrastructure fixes like repairing bridges and filling potholes.

Parting blows: Clinton blasts Russia for inaction in Syria

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 08:40 AM PST

Outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton leveled an angry blast at Russia Thursday, making clear that the United States sees Moscow as bearing most of the blame for the international community's failure to broker any kind of peace deal for war-torn Syria.

Syria spillover? US embassy in Turkey attacked by suicide bomber

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 07:46 AM PST

A suicide bomber targeted the US Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, today, killing one Turkish guard and destroying a fortified embassy entrance.

Mexico explosion: How will the Pemex blast affect the country's race for oil?

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 06:19 AM PST

The deadly explosion that shook a national symbol of Mexico – its giant state-owned oil company – threatens to shake public confidence in an oil industry at a crossroads.

Syria's regime and rebels each try use Israeli airstrike to their advantage

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 05:58 AM PST

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Rodney Jackson hikes high into the Himalayas to help snow leopards

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 05:20 AM PST

People who drive an hour to work might complain about their commute. Rodney Jackson used to walk for 12 days.

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