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North Korea wants to hold high-level talks with U.S.

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 11:30 AM PDT

KCNA picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visiting the Yuphyong Revolutionary SiteBy Jane Chung and Roberta Rampton SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea on Sunday offered high-level talks with the United States to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula, but the White House said that any talks must involve Pyongyang taking action to show it is moving toward scrapping its nuclear weapons. The offer came only days after North Korea abruptly canceled planned official talks with South Korea, the first planned talks in more two years. The North blamed the South for scuttling discussions that sought to mend estranged ties between the rival Koreas. ...


Sporadic clashes in Turkey as Erdogan asserts authority

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 03:13 PM PDT

Anti-government protesters shout slogans as they stand on barricades in IstanbulBy Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Sporadic clashes between police and protesters flared up in Istanbul overnight after a weekend in which Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan sought to steal back the agenda, rallying his supporters and expelling demonstrators from an Istanbul park. Two union federations called a nationwide strike for Monday over the forced eviction of protesters from Gezi Park, a leafy corner of Istanbul's central Taksim Square and the focus of two weeks of fierce anti-government demonstrations that have spread to other big cities. ...


Putin says West arming Syrian rebels who eat human flesh

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 01:53 PM PDT

Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a joint news conference with Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron in 10 Downing StreetBy Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Alexei Anishchuk AMMAN/LONDON (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin, arriving in Britain ahead of an international summit set to be dominated by disagreement over the U.S. decision to send weapons to Syria's rebels, said the West must not arm fighters who eat human flesh. In Syria, rebels fought back on Sunday against forces of President Bashar al-Assad and his Lebanese Hezbollah allies near Aleppo, where Assad has announced a campaign to recapture the rebel-held north after seizing a strategic town this month. ...


Egypt's Mursi tightens Islamist grip with governor appointments

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 03:11 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi named a member of an Islamist group remembered for a bloody attack on Western tourists in the ancient city of Luxor over a decade ago as governor of that province on Sunday. It was one of 17 gubernatorial appointments that put Islamist allies in key positions across the country as Mursi braces for protests on the first anniversary of his inauguration at the end of the month. ...

Iranians count on president-elect Rohani to bring change

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 12:33 PM PDT

Supporters of moderate cleric Hassan Rohani hold a picture of him as they celebrate his victory in Iran's presidential election on a pedestrian bridge in TehranBy Zahra Hosseinian DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian president-elect Hassan Rohani, who won a landslide victory promising better relations abroad and more freedom at home, on Sunday paid his first visit since the vote to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who will ultimately decide the pace of any change. Rohani, a mid-ranking Shi'ite cleric, is an Islamic Republic insider who has held senior political and military posts since the 1979 Islamic revolution and maintained a good rapport with Khamenei, Iran's most powerful man. ...


Czech prime minister steps down after graft scandal

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 02:55 PM PDT

Czech Republic's PM Necas speaks during a press briefing at the Royal Castle in WarsawBy Jana Mlcochova and Robert Muller PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas was forced to quit on Sunday by a graft and spying scandal involving his closest aide, pitching the European Union member state into a period of uncertainty over who will form the next government. Under the Czech constitution, the whole government will now have to step down, and there is likely to be horse-trading between the governing coalition, the opposition and the president before a replacement is in place. ...


Gun control backfires? Rick Perry to lure blue-state gunmakers to Texas

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 04:13 PM PDT

The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., have brought into high relief one of the anachronisms of the American economy: Some of the biggest and most influential makers of firearms in the United States are located in some of its bluest – and most antigun – states.

In Stanley Cup final, Boston Bruins prove era of the superstar is over

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 04:13 PM PDT

There is a saying in hockey that always sprouts at this time of year: "Your best players need to be your best players."

Erdogan's supporters rally, dismissing Turkish protests as a 'big game'

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 01:52 PM PDT

Turkey's largest city was divided on Sunday by competing shows of force, between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who staged a mammoth rally of loyalists, and anti-government demonstrators, who clashed with police on Istanbul's streets once again to protest his rule.

Dick Cheney: Edward Snowden a 'traitor' who likely spied for China

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 11:46 AM PDT

As officials and the media try to figure out where National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden is these days, details about the massive anti-terrorist surveillance program he revealed to a startled world are starting to be made public.

Venezuela's cardinal: Pope should urge coexistence

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 02:46 PM PDT

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is greeted by far left-wing activists holding a photo of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, as he arrives to make a press statement, in Rome, Sunday, June 16, 2013. Maduro is scheduled to meet Pope Francis Monday, June 17, during a private audience at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Pope Francis should pressure Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to focus on promoting democracy and peaceful coexistence to ease tensions with the socialist government's opponents, the Catholic Church's top representative in the country said Sunday.


AP Analysis: Iran president may help shield rulers

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 01:06 PM PDT

Supporters of Iranian presidential candidate Hasan Rowhani attend a celebration gathering following his victory in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 15, 2013. Wild celebrations broke out on Tehran streets that were battlefields four years ago as reformist-backed Rowhani capped a stunning surge to claim Iran's presidency on Saturday, throwing open the political order after relentless crackdowns by hard-liners to consolidate and safeguard their grip on power. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — For a lesson in what Hasan Rowhani's reformist-backed presidency could mean for Iran, a promise Sunday by the ultra-powerful Revolutionary Guard to cooperate with him is a good guide.


Series of attacks kill 51 people across Iraq

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 12:52 PM PDT

An Iraqi man and Iraqi security force members inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 16, 2013. Most of the car bombs hit Shiite-majority areas and were the cause of most of the casualties. The blasts hit half a dozen cities and towns in the south and center of the country. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)BAGHDAD (AP) — A blistering string of apparently coordinated bombings and a shooting across Iraq killed at least 51 and wounded dozens Sunday, spreading fear throughout the country in a wave of violence that is raising the prospect of a return to widespread sectarian killing a decade after a U.S.-led invasion.


Afghans poised to take security lead from US, NATO

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 10:33 AM PDT

In this Thursday, June 13, 2013 photo, Afghan National Army soldiers march in Sangin district of Kandahar province southern Afghanistan. One of the most significant turning points in one of America's longest and costliest wars is imminent: Afghanistan's fledgling security forces are taking the lead for security nationwide, bringing the moment of truth on the question of whether they are ready to fight an insurgency that remains resilient after nearly 12 years of conflict. That question is especially pressing here in this border region where insurgents regularly ambush government forces and control parts of the countryside. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — One of the most significant turning points in one of America's longest and costliest wars is imminent: Afghanistan's fledgling security forces are taking the lead for security nationwide, bringing the moment of truth on the question of whether they are ready to fight an insurgency that remains resilient after nearly 12 years of conflict.


Egypt seen to give nod toward jihadis on Syria

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 01:39 PM PDT

In this image released by the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi waves as he arrives at a rally called for by hardline Islamists loyal to the Egyptian president to show solidarity with the people of Syria, in a stadium in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, June 15, 2013. Egypt's Islamist president announced Saturday that he was cutting off diplomatic relations with Syria and closing Damascus' embassy in Cairo, decisions made amid growing calls from hard-line Sunni clerics in Egypt and elsewhere to launch a "holy war" against Syria's embattled regime. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)CAIRO (AP) — Under Hosni Mubarak's rule, Egypt's authorities took a tough line on Egyptians coming home after waging "jihad" in places like Afghanistan, Chechnya or the Balkans, fearing they would bring back extremist ideology, combat experience and a thirst for regime change. In most cases, they were imprisoned and tortured.


Turkey unrest goes on despite end to park protest

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 01:44 PM PDT

Police chase protesters as Turkish riot police spray water cannon at demonstrators who remained defiant after authorities evicted activists from an Istanbul park, making clear they are taking a hardline against attempts to rekindle protests that have shaken the country, in city's main Kizilay Square in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, June 16, 2013.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)ISTANBUL (AP) — Riot police firing tear gas and water cannons repelled thousands of anti-government protesters attempting to converge on Istanbul's central Taksim Square on Sunday, unbowed even as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan defended his crackdown at a rally of his supporters.


Putin says Super Bowl ring was gift

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 04:31 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 25, 2005, file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a diamond-encrusted 2005 Super Bowl ring belonging to New England Patriots NFL football team owner Robert Kraft during a meeting of American business executives at the 18th century Konstantin Palace outside St. Petersburg, Russia. When Putin arrived in London on Sunday, June 16, 2013, his spokesman was asked about a New York Post story quoting Kraft saying Putin pocketed his Super Bowl ring in 2005. Putin said he's happy to buy New England Patriots' owner Robert Kraft another ring, but it's absurd to suggest he stole the Super Bowl one. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)LONDON (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is denying insinuations that he stole New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft's Super Bowl ring that's on display in the Kremlin, but says he's ready to buy him another ring as a gift.


G-8 leaders to mull Syria, tax evasion, free trade

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 04:25 PM PDT

Police trucks patrol the streets around the G8 summit venue in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on Sunday, June 16, 2013. In a two-day meeting, beginning on Monday, global leaders will discuss the economy and exchange views on foreign affairs and security issues. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) — Police are expected to outnumber protesters Monday at the G-8 summit in Northern Ireland, where leaders will seek to narrow their differences on Syria's civil war, promoting freer trade between Europe and North America, and combating global tax evasion.


Obama, Putin face tough talks on Syria at G8 summit

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 04:04 PM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and Russia's President Vladimir Putin hold a joint news conference in 10 Downing Street, central LondonBy Guy Faulconbridge LOUGH ERNE, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will seek the help on Monday of Russia's Vladimir Putin, Syria's most powerful ally, to bring Bashar al-Assad to the negotiating table and end a two-year civil war. At their first private face-to-face meeting in a year, Obama will try to find common ground with Putin on the sidelines of a G8 summit in Northern Ireland after angering the Kremlin by authorising U.S. military support for the Syrian president's opponents. ...


Czech prime minister says he will resign

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 03:34 PM PDT

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas announced Sunday that he will resign over a spy and bribery scandal involving his government.

AP PHOTOS: Police end 2 weeks of Turkey protests

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 03:31 PM PDT

FILE- In this Saturday, June 15, 2013 file photo, fireworks fired by protesters explode during clashes with Turkish riot police in Istanbul, Turkey. Riot police stormed the park after protesters ignored government appeals and a warning from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the two-week standoff that has fanned nationwide demonstrations to end. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)The park that was the center of defiance against the rule of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been cleared by riot police after more than two weeks of protests. As thousands of demonstrators try to regroup in Taksim Square, smaller skirmishes between police and protesters have broken out in other parts of Istanbul.


Colombia's long-elusive goal: land reform

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 03:13 PM PDT

In this May 28, 2013 photo, Doris del Carmen Carrascal, right, walks her children Juan Manuel, center, and Ximena, back from the school to their home in El Yeso, in Colombia's northwestern Sucre state. Carrascal and her relatives were among 40 families who abandoned their farm in Pechilin nearly a decade ago caught in the crossfire between leftist rebels, paramilitary groups and security forces. Her husband Luis, was hacked to death with machetes in September 2005 on the farm for trying to prevent his unidentified killers from stealing some cows. In April a court ordered that the land, that had gone through the hands of different owners before ending in the hands of a Venezuelan businessman, must return to the families.(AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)MORROA, Colombia (AP) — Caught in the crossfire between far-right militias and leftist rebels, 40 families abandoned the farm they shared in the foothills of Colombia's Montes de Maria range. The land repeatedly switched hands before being sold to a businessman.


Niger police 'attack' may be guards' over-reaction: minister

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 03:09 PM PDT

NIAMEY (Reuters) - An inquiry into shooting at a military police academy in Niger's capital Niamey found no evidence of an attack on the camp, suggesting it could have been an over-reaction by nervous guards, the foreign minister said on Sunday. Niger's government had said its security forces had repelled an overnight assault by gunmen on the academy on Tuesday, stoking concerns over an Islamist threat in the West African nation. ...

Explosion hits military airport in Damascus: activists

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 03:06 PM PDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - A huge explosion shook the Mezze military airport on the western edge of Damascus on Sunday, and ambulances were seen heading to the compound, a major base for President Bashar al-Assad's elite forces, activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group based in Britain with a network of observers in Syria, said it appeared that a booby-trapped car had exploded at a road block near the airport, killing or wounding around 20 members of Assad's forces. Video footage taken by activists showed flames rising from the area. ...

Egypt's army distances itself from regional conflict

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 02:44 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Egyptian army will not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, the state news agency quoted a military source as saying on Sunday, a day after President Mohamed Mursi backed the idea of a no-fly zone in Syria. "The Egyptian army is to protect Egypt and its national security only ... The Egyptian army will not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries and will not be lured or used in any regional conflicts," the military source said. A military spokesman declined to comment. ...

Is it a bird? A plane? No, it's a G-8 drone

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 02:34 PM PDT

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) — Northern Ireland police have a new eye in the sky just in time for the G-8 summit of world leaders. A unit of surveillance drones will be used here for the first time to keep tabs on protest marches and scan the countryside for terrorist threats.

Far-right candidate pushes out Socialist in French by-election

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 02:32 PM PDT

BORDEAUX, France (Reuters) - A far-right candidate beat France's ruling Socialist party on Sunday to a place in a by-election run-off vote, reducing the government's slim parliamentary majority and highlighting the rise of the National Front. The seat, vacated by former budget minister Jerome Cahuzac, who resigned after admitting to holding a previously undeclared Swiss bank account, will now be contested by the National Front and the main conservative opposition UMP party, after the Socialist candidate received only 23.69 percent of the vote. ...

UK spied on G20 officials in London: report

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 02:30 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain intercepted phone calls and monitored computers used by officials taking part in two high-level international finance meetings in London in 2009, a British newspaper said on Sunday. The Guardian said some delegates from countries in the Group of 20 - which comprises top economies around the world - used Internet cafes that had been set up by British intelligence agencies to read their emails. The report was published hours before leaders of the Group of Eight countries - all of which are in the G20 - start a two-day summit in Northern Ireland. ...

Killing of 4 Shiites in Lebanon deepens tension

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 02:13 PM PDT

FILE -- Sunni protesters wave Islamist flags while others chant slogans at an anti-government rally in Fallujah, Iraq, Friday, May 3, 2013. The leader of al-Qaida's Iraq arm, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, defiantly rejected an order from the terror network's global command to scrap a merger with the organization's Syria affiliate, according to a message purporting to be from Al-Baghdadi that was posted online Saturday, June 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Bilal Fawzi, File)BEIRUT (AP) — Four Shiite Lebanese men were killed Sunday in an ambush in a volatile area by the border with Syria, hiking already high sectarian tensions and concerns over the spillover of the civil war raging next door.


N.Ireland police chiefs optimistic of peaceful G-8

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 01:55 PM PDT

Police trucks patrol the streets around the G8 summit venue in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on Sunday, June 16, 2013. In a two-day meeting, beginning on Monday, global leaders will discuss the economy and exchange views on foreign affairs and security issues. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) — Northern Ireland police commanders said Sunday they're optimistic that the G-8 summit will pass peacefully, with only 2,000 protesters expected to travel to the remote lakeside venue for the main demonstration.


Israel toughens law against anti-Palestinian vandals

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 01:28 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel approved new measures on Sunday against Jewish ultranationalists who vandalise Palestinian property in a drive to mire security forces in sectarian violence in the occupied West Bank. Saying they sought to avenge attacks on Jewish settlers, the vandals have torched and spray-painted Palestinian mosques and cars and chopped olive trees in so-called "Price Tag" raids. Churches and Arab property inside Israel have also been hit. ...

Bulgarians rally against government in power for two weeks

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 01:17 PM PDT

Protesters shout anti-government slogans during a demonstration in central in SofiaSOFIA (Reuters) - Thousands of Bulgarian protesters demanded the resignation of their new Socalist-led government on Sunday, but the prime minister dismissed the prospect of stepping down as "highly irresponsible" and "destabilising". The two-week-old government bowed to public anger on Saturday to reverse its appointment of a powerful media figure and coalition ally to lead state security after rushing the move through parliament on Friday. Some 15,000 protesters poured onto the streets of Bulgaria's capital Sofia for a third day on Sunday, chanting "Resignation" and "Red trash". ...


Obama chooses lawyer as Guantanamo closure envoy

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 01:02 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has chosen a high-powered Washington lawyer with extensive experience in all three branches of the government to be the State Department's special envoy for closing down the military-run prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

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