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Moscow suggests missiles have yet to reach Assad

Posted: 30 May 2013 02:59 PM PDT

Damaged mosque is seen in Qusair village, where forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebel forces have been fightingBy Mariam Karouny and Erika Solomon BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday Moscow was still committed to sending him advanced anti-aircraft weapons, although a source close to the Russian defense ministry said the missiles had yet to arrive. The prospect of the missiles arriving is a serious worry for Western and regional countries opposing Assad which have called on Moscow not to send them. ...


Iran's sponsorship of terrorism sees "marked resurgence" : U.S.

Posted: 30 May 2013 04:32 PM PDT

A bus that was damaged in a bomb blast on Wednesday is seen outside Burgas AirportBy Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran's sponsorship of terrorism overseas underwent "a marked resurgence" in 2012, reaching levels not seen in 20 years, the U.S. State Department charged on Thursday in its annual report on trends in political violence. The report cited a series of actual and planned attacks in Europe and Asia linked to Hezbollah, Iran's Lebanon-based ally, including a July 2012 bombing in Bulgaria that killed five Israeli citizens and a Bulgarian, and wounded 32 others. "The year 2012 was ... ...


International court tells El Salvador to allow abortion of deformed fetus

Posted: 30 May 2013 03:56 PM PDT

A member of Amnesty International attends a demonstration outside the El Salvador embassy in Mexico CityBy Isabella Cota SAN JOSE (Reuters) - The regional human rights court for the Americas on Thursday told El Salvador it must let doctors perform an abortion on a woman carrying a seriously deformed fetus that has put her life at risk, but the Central American nation was not bound by the move. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights took the action after El Salvador's Supreme Court issued a ruling on Wednesday rejecting an appeal brought by the 22-year-old woman at the center of the case. She had sought an abortion even though El Salvador banned all types of abortion in 1999. ...


Rwandans held in Britain on genocide extradition request

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:14 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Five Rwandans accused of involvement in the genocide that killed 800,000 people in just 100 days were arrested in Britain on Thursday after an extradition request from Rwanda, London police said. Emmanuel Nteziryayo, Charles Munyaneza, Celestin Ugirashebuja, Vincent Bajinya and Celestin Mutabaruka appeared at a London court under extradition warrants alleging genocide and murder, a police spokesman said. Four of the five were freed by the High Court in 2009, overturning a ministerial extradition order because of fears they would not get a fair trial in Rwanda. ...

Who's next? Putin critics worry as Russia clampdown spreads

Posted: 30 May 2013 01:09 PM PDT

Russian President Putin takes part in a live broadcast nationwide phone-in in MoscowBy Timothy Heritage MOSCOW (Reuters) - A widening clampdown on groups and individuals critical or independent of Russian President Vladimir Putin has left his opponents asking: "Who's next?" Liberal economist Sergei Guriev's flight from Russia under pressure from state investigators has deepened the sense of alarm as the Kremlin broadens a drive to stifle dissent and quell protests that began in December 2011. ...


Toronto mayor vows to run again despite crack scandal, staff exodus

Posted: 30 May 2013 02:54 PM PDT

Toronto Mayor Ford walks with his staffer and policy advisor Johnston, moments before Johnston resigned from his position in TorontoBy Julie Gordon and Allison Martell TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford lost two more staff members on Thursday, two weeks after allegations first surfaced that the leader of Canada's largest city was caught smoking crack cocaine on camera, something he has strongly denied. Security ushered policy advisor Brian Johnston out of city hall around midday on Thursday, and he told reporters he had resigned. Kia Nejatian, the mayor's executive assistant, also left his job, the city confirmed in a statement sent to local media. ...


Disneyland dry-ice blast threatens aura of 'happiest place on earth'

Posted: 30 May 2013 04:34 PM PDT

The sign at the entrance to Disneyland famously reads "The Happiest Place on Earth." But this week, the worries of the everyday world have intervened.

Afghan massacre: In US soldier plea deal, signs combat stress was considered

Posted: 30 May 2013 03:03 PM PDT

With news that Staff. Sgt. Robert Bales will plead guilty to the 2012 massacre of 16 Afghan civilians near his base in Kandahar province in order to avoid being executed come questions, too, about the extent to which veterans' pleas of post-traumatic stress might impact the sentences they receive.

Senator wants entire Chicago gang arrested. Would that work?

Posted: 30 May 2013 02:46 PM PDT

Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk (R) is recommending that the next US attorney in Chicago step up federal efforts to combat street gang violence through mass arrests of the Gangster Disciples, the prevailing criminal outfit operating on Chicago streets.

Americans see religion in decline yet want more of it. What's up with that?

Posted: 30 May 2013 01:10 PM PDT

In many professional fields, from neuroscience to evolutionary biology, it's popular today to build entire careers on the study of religion. Where does faith come from? What does it achieve? Why is it so prevalent? And so on.

Syria's Assad 'confident in victory' in civil war

Posted: 30 May 2013 02:35 PM PDT

This image made from video shows Syrian President Bashar Assad during an interview broadcast on Al-Manar Television on Thursday, May 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Al-Manar Television via AP video)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview broadcast Thursday that he is "confident in victory" in his country's civil war, and he warned that Damascus would retaliate for any future Israeli airstrike on his territory.


Boston bombing suspect is walking, mother says

Posted: 30 May 2013 01:45 PM PDT

Report: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Confessed to the Boston Bombings in a NoteMAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — The remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has recovered enough to walk and assured his parents in a phone conversation that he and his slain brother were innocent, their mother told The Associated Press on Thursday.


Tale of 2 converts shows Egypt's sectarian divide

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:04 PM PDT

In this Monday, May 14, 2013 photo, Maria Sourial, center, mother of Romani Farhan Amir, mourns for her son at the family's home, some 180 miles (300 kilometers) south of Cairo in the province of Assiut, Egypt. Police say Amir, a 35-year-old laborer who did odd jobs for a day's wage, jumped to his death from a fourth-floor window in a court complex in Assiut, a city of 1 million people. His May 11 death came minutes before he was to be questioned by a judge on the stabbing and wounding nearly 12 hours earlier of his estranged wife, Azza William, who had vanished in January and reappeared the following month declaring she had converted to Islam. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)ASSIUT, Egypt (AP) — In one case, an Egyptian Christian man stabs his wife after she converts to Islam with the support of hard-line Islamists. Then after surrendering to police, he dies in mysterious circumstances, falling from a court building window.


Russians find mammoth carcass with liquid blood

Posted: 30 May 2013 01:30 PM PDT

In this image made available on Thursday, May 30, 2013 from Rossiya television a mammoth carcass lies in snow on the Arctic Lyakhovsky Island, Russia. Russian researchers say they have discovered a perfectly preserved woolly mammoth carcass with liquid blood on a remote Arctic island, fueling hopes of cloning the Ice Age animal. The frozen remains of a female mammoth were so well preserved that blood came running out after it was recovered from ice. (AP Photo/Rossiya Television, AP Video) TV OUTMOSCOW (AP) — A perfectly preserved woolly mammoth carcass with liquid blood has been found on a remote Arctic island, fueling hopes of cloning the Ice Age animal, Russian scientists said Thursday.


Pakistani Taliban withdraw peace talks offer

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:24 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 28, 2011 file photo, Taliban No 2 commander Waliur Rehman talks to the Associated Press during an interview in Shawal area of South Waziristan along the Afghanistan border in Pakistan. Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. drone strike has killed the commander of the Pakistani Taliban. The militant group denies he is dead. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud, File)PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — The Pakistani Taliban withdrew their offer of peace talks Thursday, following the death of the group's deputy leader in an American drone attack, a spokesman for the group said, a blow to the incoming government of Nawaz Sharif that was elected partly on promises to restore security after years of deadly attacks.


Nigeria lawmakers pass anti-gay marriage bill

Posted: 30 May 2013 01:11 PM PDT

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's House of Representatives voted Thursday to ban gay marriage and outlaw any groups actively supporting gay rights, endorsing a measure that also calls for 10-year prison sentences for any "public show" of affection by a same-sex couple.

Cuban blogger Sanchez back after world tour

Posted: 30 May 2013 04:33 PM PDT

In this March 19, 2013 file photo, Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. Sanchez will return to Cuba from a prolonged global tour on Thursday, May 30, 2013. Communist authorities allowed Sanchez and several lesser-known opposition figures to travel as part of landmark migration reforms that took effect in January, eliminating exit visa requirements for all Cubans. Sanchez has said she wants to start an independent online newspaper upon her return. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)HAVANA (AP) — Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez is back home after a more than three-month globe-trotting tour that has turned her into the most internationally recognizable face in the island's small dissident community.


C-section OKed for pregnant woman in El Salvador

Posted: 30 May 2013 04:18 PM PDT

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A seriously ill Salvadoran woman whose struggle to get a medical abortion drew international attention received permission on Thursday to end the troubled pregnancy with a cesarean section.

11 vanish from Mexico City bar in suspected kidnap

Posted: 30 May 2013 03:46 PM PDT

A man holds up a sign with details of his recently disappeared relative during a protest in Mexico City, Thursday, May 30, 2013. Eleven young people were kidnapped in broad daylight from a Mexico City bar, just 20 days after the grandson of civil rights leader Malcolm X was beaten to death at a nightclub in the capital, anguished relatives said Thursday. The sign reads in Spanish "Help us find him. Rafael Rojas Marines. Disappeared in the after-hours Heaven. Asking for your support!" The mother of one of the missing youths says 11 people in all vanished from the after-hours club about 1 ½ blocks from the U.S. embassy, on the other side of Reforma Avenue. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)MEXICO CITY (AP) — Eleven young people were brazenly kidnapped in broad daylight from an after-hours bar in Mexico City's Zona Rosa, a normally calm district of offices, restaurants, drinking spots and dance clubs, anguished relatives said Thursday.


Ricin attack puts spotlight on Bloomberg's gun control push

Posted: 30 May 2013 03:39 PM PDT

New York City Mayor Bloomberg exits following speech to Real Estate Board of New York in New YorkBy Edith Honan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Letters laced with the deadly poison ricin sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the lobbying organization Mayors Against Illegal Guns illustrate how the group has emerged as a focal point of anger for opponents of gun control. Three letters containing an "oily substance" that turned out to be ricin were intercepted on their way to Bloomberg's office and the mayors group. A similar envelope was sent to President Barack Obama, the Secret Service confirmed on Thursday. ...


C-section OK for pregnant woman in El Salvador

Posted: 30 May 2013 02:17 PM PDT

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador's government gave permission Thursday for doctors to perform a premature delivery for a seriously ill woman whose pregnancy attorneys say is putting her life at risk.

Russian, U.S. and U.N. officials to meet on Syria on June 5

Posted: 30 May 2013 01:58 PM PDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian, U.S. and U.N. officials will meet next week to prepare for a proposed peace conference in June between warring sides in Syria, U.N. and U.S. officials said on Thursday. "We can confirm that on 5 June 2013 in Geneva, US, Russian and UN officials will hold a three-way meeting to further the preparations for the international conference on Syria envisioned under the U.S.-Russian initiative," a U.N. spokeswoman said in a statement. The meeting was agreed to in talks last week between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. ...

In shift, Pope Francis walks procession

Posted: 30 May 2013 01:52 PM PDT

Pope Francis celebrates the Corpus Domini mass in front of St. John at the Lateran Basilica, to mark the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, in Rome, Thursday, May 30, 2013. The event is dedicated to the mystery of the Eucharist and concludes the cycle of feasts following Easter. Pope Francis celebrated the evening Mass at St. John in Lateran Basilica then traveled a short distance in a procession to St. Mary Major Basilica. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has again broken with the practice of his predecessors, walking the full length of an annual 1.5 kilometer (mile-long) procession from one Roman basilica to another.


US accused of withholding evidence in drug case

Posted: 30 May 2013 01:26 PM PDT

MIAMI (AP) — Two Colombians who were facing the prospect of spending the rest of their lives in a U.S. prison for drug trafficking will go home much sooner after prosecutors were accused of withholding evidence about payments by the Drug Enforcement Administration to police in the South American country.

Threatening letter sent to Obama, U.S. Secret Service says

Posted: 30 May 2013 01:18 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the rebuilding of the Jersey Shore following Hurricane Sandy, from Asbury Park in New JerseyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities intercepted a threatening letter addressed to President Barack Obama that was similar to ones sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the Secret Service said on Thursday. Letters sent to Bloomberg and his gun control group contained material believed to be the deadly poison ricin and contained a reference to gun control, New York police said on Wednesday. A Secret Service official said the White House letter was similar but did not elaborate. ...


Assad says Russia will honor weapons deals

Posted: 30 May 2013 01:17 PM PDT

By Dominic Evans and Thomas Grove BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has yet to send advanced anti-aircraft missiles to Syria, a source close to the Russian defense ministry said on Thursday, but President Bashar al-Assad said Moscow was still committed to the contract to deliver them. A Lebanese newspaper had earlier quoted Assad as saying in an interview that Moscow had already sent a first shipment of S-300 missiles. When the actual interview was broadcast, however, the Syrian leader stopped short of saying the missiles had arrived. ...

Turkey arrests 12 in raids on 'terrorist' organization

Posted: 30 May 2013 01:09 PM PDT

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish authorities have arrested 12 people on suspicion of being members of a terrorist organization in raids across the country, a provincial governor said on Thursday. The police raids were carried out in Turkey's largest city Istanbul as well as in the southern provinces of Mersin, Adana and Hatay near the Syrian border, said Adana governor Huseyin Avni Cos. Cos said unknown chemical materials were found during the raids and sent away for investigation. He denied media reports that a small amount of the nerve agent sarin had been uncovered. ...

Tunisian Femen activist fined, remains jailed

Posted: 30 May 2013 01:05 PM PDT

Tunisian protesters, gathered in front of the courthouse in Kairouan, Tunisia, chant slogans against Amina Tyler accusing her of attacking the city and Islam, Thursday, May 30, 2013. The trial for Tyler, a Tunisian member of the Ukrainian feminist group Femen, opened Thursday in the religious center of Kairouan. Tyler scandalized Tunisia in March by posting online photos of herself topless with the slogan "my body is my own" written on her torso. (AP Photo/Nawfel)KAIROUAN, Tunisia (AP) — A court convicted the Tunisian member of the Ukrainian feminist group Femen Tuesday for carrying an "incendiary object" and fined her $182. She remains in custody pending more serious charges.


Induced labor OK for pregnant woman in El Salvador

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:56 PM PDT

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador's health minister says the government has given permission to induce labor for a woman denied the right to terminate a pregnancy that her lawyers argue is putting her life at risk.

Cuban blogger Sanchez due back after world tour

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:52 PM PDT

In this March 19, 2013 file photo, Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. Sanchez will return to Cuba from a prolonged global tour on Thursday, May 30, 2013. Communist authorities allowed Sanchez and several lesser-known opposition figures to travel as part of landmark migration reforms that took effect in January, eliminating exit visa requirements for all Cubans. Sanchez has said she wants to start an independent online newspaper upon her return. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)HAVANA (AP) — Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez was heading home Thursday after a more than three-month globetrotting tour that has turned her into the most internationally recognizable face in the island's small dissident community.


Israel to build 300 units in Jewish settlement

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:33 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 15, 2010 file photo, a Palestinian man works on a construction site in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot. Israel's Housing Ministry said it has given the final go-ahead for the construction of 300 new homes in a Jewish settlement in east Jerusalem, an official said Thursday, May 30, 2013, complicating the mission of the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to renew Mideast peace talks. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill, File)JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Housing Ministry said Thursday it has given the final go-ahead for the construction of 300 new homes in a Jewish settlement in east Jerusalem, complicating the mission of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to renew Mideast peace talks.


Alarm grows as Iraqi forces fail to stem violence

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:27 PM PDT

Civilians inspect the site of a parked car bomb attack near a popular restaurant in the Ur neighborhood in northern Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 30, 2013. A series of morning bomb explosions in Baghdad and the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, killed and wounded dozens of people, police said, in the latest eruption of violence rattling the country. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials in Iraq are growing increasingly concerned over an unabated spike in violence that claimed at least another 33 lives on Thursday and is reviving fears of a return to widespread sectarian fighting.


US VP Biden wraps up first leg of Brazil visit

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:27 PM PDT

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, center, speaks with Pacification Unit Major Priscilla Azevedo, gesturing second from right, during his visit to the Santa Marta slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, May 30, 2013. Biden is wrapping up his visit to Rio de Janeiro with a visit to a slum before traveling to Brasilia for a Friday meeting with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden wrapped up his visit to Rio de Janeiro with a visit to a slum on Thursday before traveling to Brasilia for a Friday meeting with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.


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