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Defiant Erdogan denounces riots in Turkish cities

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 02:48 PM PDT

Anti-government protesters clash with riot police in IstanbulBy Birsen Altayli and Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Anti-government protesters responsible for Turkey's worst riots in years are "arm-in-arm with terrorism", Prime Minister Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said, in a defiant response to three days of unrest in dozens of cities across the country. Hundreds of police and protesters have been injured since Friday, when a demonstration to halt construction in a park in an Istanbul square grew into mass protests against a heavy-handed police crackdown and what opponents call Erdogan's authoritarian policies. ...


French conservatives pick woman for Paris mayor race

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 12:08 PM PDT

French UMP party deputy Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, candidate in the UMP political party primary for the 2014 city mayoral elections, poses during a news conference in ParisPARIS (Reuters) - The spokeswoman for Nicolas Sarkozy's re-election campaign last year won a primary election on Monday to become the conservative UMP party's candidate for the 2014 Paris mayoral race. Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, 40, an up-and-coming opposition figure who was also Sarkozy's environment minister, beat three little-known candidates to win the UMP candidacy with 58 percent of the electronic vote. ...


U.S. targets Iran with currency, auto-sector sanctions

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 03:42 PM PDT

A woman enters a currency exchange shop in Tehran's business districtWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Monday ratcheted up its efforts to isolate Iran for its suspected nuclear weapons program, targeting Tehran with currency and auto-sector sanctions. President Barack Obama imposed sanctions on foreign financial institutions that conduct or facilitate significant transactions in the Iranian rial, meant to further weaken a currency that has already lost two-thirds of its dollar value since late 2011 as a result of Western sanctions. A senior administration official said the low level of the rial was a key vulnerability for the Iranian government. ...


Nations line up to sign U.N. arms trade treaty, U.S. not yet

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:35 PM PDT

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle speaks during a news conference in New YorkBy Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Delegates from dozens of countries gathered in New York on Monday and signed the first treaty to regulate the $70 billion global conventional arms trade, but the United States was not among them. On April 2, the 193-nation U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty that aims to keep weapons out of the hands of human rights abusers and criminals. Argentina's foreign minister, Hector Timerman, was the first to put pen to paper when the signing ceremony opened at U.N. headquarters on Monday. ...


China lends Costa Rica $400 million on Xi visit

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 03:41 PM PDT

China's President Xi Jinping and his wife Liyuan receive the Keys to the City from San Jose Mayor Johnny Araya in San JoseBy Isabella Cota SAN JOSE (Reuters) - China lent Central American ally Costa Rica nearly $400 million on Monday during a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to a region where Beijing has traditionally vied with rival Taiwan for influence. Costa Rica recently backed China in its dispute with Taiwan, which Beijing regards as a renegade province, in votes at the United Nations. Members of the Costa Rican opposition said the deals announced on Monday raised questions about what China expected in return. ...


Guinea media set strike after government shuts opposition radio

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:17 PM PDT

By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinean media called a 24-hour strike for Thursday in protest at the government's closure of an opposition-owned radio station for one month in the run-up to an election after a listener had called on air for an uprising. The long-delayed vote on June 30 is supposed to seal a transition to democracy after a 2008 military coup in the mineral-rich West African nation. But the opposition fears it will be rigged and has staged protests to try to block it. ...

Powerhouse wildfire north of L.A. heralds a much longer fire season

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 04:00 PM PDT

The Powerhouse fire, which erupted in scrub-covered rugged terrain north of Los Angeles and has blackened 30,000 acres, destroyed 6 homes, and forced the evacuation of thousands of people, is dramatizing the challenges facing states across the West, including a much longer fire season, analysts say.

Whitey Bulger on trial: what last-minute legal maneuvers portend

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 03:00 PM PDT

It's been a long time coming, thanks to a manhunt that took 16 years, but the trial of James "Whitey" Bulger is about to begin.

Pricey tickets for Rolling Stones tour test limits of live-concert market

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 02:29 PM PDT

Tickets to concerts this summer will cost more – not a big surprise to those whose summer rituals are as likely to include outdoor concerts as beachcombing and family vacations.

American public has few qualms with drone strikes, poll finds

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 02:21 PM PDT

When a US drone strike last week killed a top Taliban leader in Pakistan, critics of the strikes that have become a staple of President Obama's counterterrorism policy were quick to condemn it.

Many trapped in China poultry plant fire, 119 dead

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:49 PM PDT

BEIJING (AP) — Fire swept through a poultry processing plant in northeastern China on Monday, trapping workers inside a slaughterhouse with only a single open exit and killing at least 119 people in one of the country's worst industrial disasters in years.

Bomb kills 9 Afghan children, 2 US troops

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:41 PM PDT

An Afghan border policeman walks past a vehicle as he investigates the aftermath of a suicide bomb attack, in Paktia Province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, June, 3, 2013. A suicide bomber targeting an American military delegation outside a government office in eastern Afghanistan killed more than a dozen on Monday, including many schoolchildren who were walking nearby and two international service members, officials said. (AP Photo/Ihsanullah Majroh)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber targeting U.S. troops outside an Afghan government office killed nine children walking home from school and two of the Americans on Monday, the latest sign that this year's fighting season could be one of the deadliest of the 12-year-old war.


Israel to send African migrants to third country

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:18 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2012 file photo, migrant workers from Africa gather at an outdoor square in Tel Aviv. Israel has reached an agreement to send thousands of African migrants to an unidentified country, a court document obtained Monday revealed, a plan that has elicited criticism over its potential harm to migrants' rights. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File)JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has reached an agreement to send thousands of African migrants to an unidentified country, according to a court document obtained Monday, a plan that has elicited criticism over its potential harm to the migrants.


Wounded and civilians trapped in Syria's Qusair

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 12:41 PM PDT

FILE - This Tuesday, May 21, 2013 file citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian citizens inspecting the rubble of damaged buildings that were damaged from a Syrian forces air strike in the town of Qusair, near the Lebanon border, Homs province, Syria. Cut off for three weeks by a regime siege, doctors in the Syrian town of Qusair keep hundreds of wounded in storerooms and underground shop cellars, short on antibiotics and anesthesia, using un sterilized cloth for bandages and blowing air with pumps because there's no oxygen canisters, amid relentless shelling and sniper fire. More than a dozen have died from untreated wounds and at least 300 others need immediate evacuation, one doctor says. (AP Photo/Qusair Lens, File)BEIRUT (AP) — Cut off for three weeks by a regime siege, doctors in the Syrian town of Qusair are treating hundreds of wounded in battle-damaged homes and underground shop storerooms, short on antibiotics and anesthesia and using unsterilized cloth for bandages and hand pumps instead of oxygen canisters.


More than 65 countries sign Arms Trade Treaty

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 03:06 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 65 countries signed the landmark treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade Monday and the United States announced it will sign soon, giving a strong kickoff to the first major international campaign to stem the illicit trade in weapons that fuel conflicts and extremists.

Turkish PM, president at odds over protests

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 02:58 PM PDT

A protester holding a fire extinguisher moves away from a burning car during a protest at Taksim Square in Istanbul, Monday, June 3, 2013. Demonstrations that grew out of anger over excessive police force have spiraled into Turkey's biggest anti-government demonstrations in years, challenging Prime Minister's Recep Tayyip Erdogan power. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish riot police launched round after round of tear gas against protesters on Monday, the fourth day of violent demonstrations, as the president and the prime minister staked competing positions on the unrest.


US experts: Townley could not have killed Neruda

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 04:32 PM PDT

This drawing done by Chile's police and released by Communist Party attorney Eduardo Contreras on Monday, June 3, 2013, shows a representation of the face of Dr. Price, who allegedly attended Pablo Neruda at the hospital when he died forty years ago. Judge Mario Carroza is formally investigating the cause of death of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda. A judge ordered the police sketch based on the collections of Dr. Sergio Draper, a key witness who attended Neruda at the hospital. Draper said in the 1970s that he was at Neruda's side when he died. But Draper recently told the judge a different story — that a "Dr. Price" took over Neruda's care just before he died, and disappeared shortly thereafter. The police notes below the sketch describe the subject as about 28 years old, with blue eyes, white skin and short blonde. (AP Photo/Chile Police)SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — U.S. experts on Chile's dictatorship-era human rights violations said Monday that a judicial investigation into the death of poet Pablo Neruda risks going off track if it seriously looks at Michael Townley, an American who later worked as an assassin for Chile's spy chief.


Egyptian politicians: Sabotage Ethiopia's new dam

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 03:50 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013 file, a traditional felucca sailing boat carries a cargo of hay as it transits the Nile river passing the Pyramids of Giza in Cairo, Egypt. Politicians meeting with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi have proposed hostile acts against Ethiopia to try and stop it from building a massive dam over the River Nile. Some of the politicians attending Monday's meeting with President Mohammed Morsi were not it was carried live on television. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)CAIRO (AP) — Politicians meeting with Egypt's president on Monday proposed hostile acts against Ethiopia, including backing rebels and carrying out sabotage, to stop it from building a massive dam on the Nile River upstream.


Woman in red becomes leitmotif for Istanbul's female protesters

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 03:46 PM PDT

By Alexandra Hudson ISTANBUL (Reuters) - In her red cotton summer dress, necklace and white bag slung over her shoulder she might have been floating across the lawn at a garden party; but before her crouches a masked policeman firing teargas spray that sends her long hair billowing upwards. Endlessly shared on social media and replicated as a cartoon on posters and stickers, the image of the woman in red has become the leitmotif for female protesters during days of violent anti-government demonstrations in Istanbul. ...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth to mark six-decade reign

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 03:11 PM PDT

Britain's Queen Elizabeth smiles as she attends the Epsom Derby, in Epsom, south of LondonBy Costas Pitas LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will go back to the scene of her coronation on Tuesday to mark a reign that has weathered six decades of social transformation and the end of her country's global empire. Millions of Britons gathered round brand new black-and-white television sets to watch her get crowned in Westminster Abbey in June 1953. Sixty years on, the cameras will be back to film her joining around 2,000 guests, including British Prime Minister David Cameron, for the official anniversary celebrations in the historic church. ...


Raul Castro turns 82, with heir-apparent on deck

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 02:52 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2013 file photo, Cuba's President Raul Castro smiles after arriving at the Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport in Santiago, Chile, to attend te CELAC-EU economic summit. On Monday, June 3, 2013, Castro turned 82-years-old. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo, File)HAVANA (AP) — Cuba's Raul Castro marked his 82nd birthday Monday in another reminder that time is running out for the aging generation that has led the country since the 1959 revolution.


Latvia to get green light for euro zone membership on Wednesday

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 02:20 PM PDT

By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission will give Latvia on Wednesday the go-ahead to become the 18th member of the euro zone from the start of next year, European Union officials said on Monday. The EU executive will publish a report on whether the small Baltic state meets all the criteria for membership of the single currency, which include low inflation and long-term interest rates, a stable exchange rate and low public debt and deficit. ...

Somalia cases of killing, maiming, abuse of children halved: U.N.

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 02:13 PM PDT

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The number of children killed, maimed, abused and recruited to fight in Somalia dropped by more than half in the first quarter of 2013 due to less fighting between Islamist al-Shabaab militants and government forces, the United Nations said on Monday. In a report to the U.N. Security Council on Somalia, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said there had been 552 verified "grave violations" against children between January and March, down from 1,288 cases during the same period in 2012. ...

Dutch airline excused from 'underwear bomber' suit

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:55 PM PDT

Booking photograph of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from the US Marshals ServiceBy Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday dismissed claims against KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in a lawsuit holding it liable for injuries a New York man says he sustained while helping to stop the so-called "underwear bomber" from blowing up a plane in 2009. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon ruled that the federal court in New York lacked jurisdiction to rule on KLM, in part because the company is based in the Netherlands. ...


Officials: Kerry returning to Mideast next week

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:39 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is returning to the Middle East next week in another bid to revitalize peace hopes, officials said Monday, with the contours of a package possibly emerging to lure Israel and the Palestinians back into direct negotiations.

Hague court may try Kenyan vice president in Africa

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:34 PM PDT

Ruto sits in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court in The HagueBy Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court could hold a trial outside The Hague for the first time, after ICC judges said on Monday they may hear the case against Kenya's deputy president in his own country or neighboring Tanzania. Judges were responding to requests from William Ruto's lawyers, who said it would be "in the interests of justice" for the politician's trial to be held closer to home. ...


U.S. calls for restraint by Turkish police confronting protests

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:29 PM PDT

By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States expressed concern on Monday about the Turkish police's rough treatment of anti-government protesters, in a rebuke to a NATO ally that Washington has often held up as an example of a Muslim democracy. "We are concerned by the reports of excessive use of force by police," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters. "We obviously hope that there will be a full investigation of those incidents and full restraint from the police force. ...

"Blade Runner" Pistorius set to return to court in murder case

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:28 PM PDT

Pistorius's lawyers Roux and Webber prepare documents before the start of the application to appeal some of his bail conditions at a Pretoria court in PretoriaPRETORIA (Reuters) - South African athletics star Oscar Pistorius is set to attend a court hearing in Pretoria on Tuesday in his first formal appearance since his release on bail in February for the Valentine's Day killing of his girlfriend. Pistorius, 26, has admitted to shooting Reeva Steenkamp, 29, four times through a locked bathroom door on February 14 at his home in an affluent Pretoria community. In pre-trial testimony, his lawyers told the court the shooting was a tragic mistake and Pistorius was acting in self-defence against what he thought was an intruder. ...


Prince Philip unwell, misses palace reception

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:22 PM PDT

LONDON (AP) — Royal officials say Britain's Prince Philip has missed a gala reception at the last minute because he has fallen ill.

Pitt says Muse provides perfect soundtrack to film

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:21 PM PDT

Matt Bellamy performs with Muse during the band's live performance at the Horse Guards Parade following the World Premiere of 'World War Z' in London on Sunday June 2nd, 2013. (Photo by Jon Furniss/Invision/AP Images)LONDON (AP) — Brad Pitt wants the music for "World War Z" to be much more than a footnote.


Haiti hosts 1st conference on mining efforts

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:17 PM PDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti brought in mining experts from around the world Monday in hopes of developing precious metals in one of the world's poorest countries.

Mali government accuses Tuareg rebels of ethnic violence

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:02 PM PDT

BAMAKO (Reuters) - The Malian government on Monday accused Tuareg separatist rebels of violence against non-Tuaregs in the northeastern town of Kidal and said the army would retake it before a presidential election in July. Tension over Kidal risk turning public opinion against France, which was feted for liberating Mali's north from nine months of Islamist occupation in February but has come under criticism for allowing the MNLA Tuareg rebels to retain their grip on the desert town. ...

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