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Yahoo! News: World News


Tanks in Beirut as Syria protest leaves one dead

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 02:19 PM PDT

Hezbollah supporters attack a bus carrying anti-Hezbollah protesters in front of the Iranian embassy in BeirutBy Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese troops blocked streets in Beirut with tanks and barbed wire for several hours on Sunday after the killing of a protester outside the Iranian embassy raised factional tensions already inflamed by the war in Syria. The man died during a clash between rival groups of Shi'ite Muslims after militiamen from the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement opened fire when protesters drew up at the embassy, the latest sign of Syria's violence spilling over to its neighbors. ...


Tens of thousands on streets, Turkish PM Erdogan defiant

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 02:12 PM PDT

Riot policemen chase protesters at Kizilay Square in central AnkaraBy Nick Tattersall and Parisa Hafezi ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told flag-waving supporters on Sunday that his patience with mass anti-government protests had its limits, and moved to seize back the initiative by announcing counter-rallies next weekend. As Erdogan spoke in the capital Ankara, tens of thousands massed in an Istanbul square to demand his resignation. In Ankara's Kizilay district, riot police fired tear gas and water cannon to flush anti-government demonstrators from a square. ...


Insight: Murder trial of Italian marines in India navigates murky waters

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 02:08 PM PDT

Girone and Massimiliano members of the navy security team of Italian merchant vessel Enrica Lexie are seen at the lawns of a guest house as a policeman stands guard in KochiBy Annie Banerji and D. Jose NEW DELHI/KANYAKUMARI (Reuters) - The thud of bullets smacking into his wooden fishing boat jolted captain John Freddy out of his afternoon nap. He saw one of his crew slumped dead over the helm and then, seconds later, another shot in the chest. The man cried out for his mother before falling dead on the deck, Freddy would later tell Indian police. ...


Nigeria Islamists hide guns in coffin, kill 13: witnesses

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 01:22 PM PDT

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist insurgents who hid weapons inside a coffin have shot dead 13 people in an attack targeting informants in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, two witnesses said on Sunday. Friday's attack came as Nigeria's military makes its most concerted effort yet to end a four-year insurgency by Boko Haram, a sect that has killed thousands in a campaign to create a state governed by Islamic law in Nigeria's northeast. ...

The hard yards begin in Myanmar's quest for foreign investment

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 02:43 PM PDT

People sit in the reception at the World Economic Forum in NaypyitawBy Jared Ferrie NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (Reuters) - In a cramped auditorium in Myanmar's capital, pro-democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi had a message for the world's business elite: her country is teeming with foreign investors scouting for opportunities in one of Asia's final frontier markets, but not many are actually investing. Interviews with foreign and local business leaders on the sidelines of last week's World Economic Forum in the Myanmar capital, Naypyitaw, show why. Shoddy infrastructure, opaque regulations, red tape, recent bouts of sectarian violence and lingering uncertainty over U. ...


U.N. mediator sees breakthrough in Guinea election talks

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 03:28 PM PDT

CONAKRY (Reuters) - The Guinean government and opposition parties in the West African nation have made a breakthrough during talks on Sunday that could end a violent political impasse and pave the way for legislative elections, a United Nations envoy said. President Alpha Conde's government and Guinea's opposition parties are locked in a United Nations-mediated talk over the organization of a long-delayed legislative election. ...

How do Americans feel about NSA surveillance? Ambivalent

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 03:07 PM PDT

Every time foreign-influenced attackers successfully strike the United States – the mass shooting at Ft. Hood, the Boston Marathon bombing – government agencies are faulted for failure to "connect the dots."

Edward Snowden: NSA leaker reveals himself, expects retribution

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 02:00 PM PDT

The most famous – and possibly the most influential – leaker of classified information in recent times has been revealed: Edward Joseph Snowden, a 29 year-old systems administrator working for defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.

In Nelson Mandela's village of Qunu, prayers and well-wishes

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 01:50 PM PDT

Even as residents of Qunu in the rural Eastern Cape offered up prayers for the health of former South African president Nelson Mandela on Sunday, many have come to realize that they may never again see their village's "father" walking its dusty dirt roads, greeting and joking with fellow residents.

Israel accelerates cybersecurity know-how as early as 10th grade

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 01:41 PM PDT

Amid a rapid rise in cyber attacks on Israel, the state is accelerating efforts to recruit and develop the cyber expertise it needs to keep pace with emerging threats in the Middle East and beyond.

South Africa: family visits Nelson Mandela

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 07:20 AM PDT

FILE - In this file image taken from video, the ailing anti-apartheid icon Nelson Madela is filmed Monday April 29, 2013, more than three weeks after being released from hospital. The office of South Africa's president said Saturday, June 8, 2013 that Mandela has been taken to a hospital because of a lung infection. (AP Photo/SABC TV) SOUTH AFRICA OUTJOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela received visits from family members on Sunday at a hospital where the former president and anti-apartheid leader was being treated for a recurring lung infection, while South Africans expressed their appreciation for a man widely regarded as the father of the nation.


Report: NSA contract worker is surveillance source

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 04:27 PM PDT

This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, on Sunday, June 9, 2013, in Hong Kong. The Guardian identified Snowden as a source for its reports on intelligence programs after he asked the newspaper to do so on Sunday. (AP Photo/The Guardian)WASHINGTON (AP) — A 29-year-old contractor who claims to have worked at the National Security Agency and the CIA allowed himself to be revealed Sunday as the source of disclosures about the U.S. government's secret surveillance programs, risking prosecution by the U.S. government.


Libya army chief resigns after clash in Benghazi

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 02:04 PM PDT

In this June 8, 2013 image made from video provided by Associated Press Television, Libyans run for cover after fighting broke out outside the office of Libya Shield pro-government militia in Benghazi, Libya. The violence which left dozens of people dead broke out Saturday when protesters stormed a base belonging to Libya Shield, a grouping of pro-government militias tasked with maintaining security. The protesters were demanding militias leave their camp and submit to the full authority of Libya's security forces. (AP Photo/APTV) ** TV OUT **TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — One of Libya's highest military officers resigned Sunday after clashes between protesters and a government-aligned militia he was in charge of left 31 people dead in the eastern city of Benghazi, the deadliest such violence in a country where armed factions hold sway.


Turkey's leader lambasts protesters

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 02:01 PM PDT

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan waves to supporters upon arriving in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, June 9, 2013. In a series of increasingly belligerent speeches to cheering supporters Sunday, Turkey's prime minister launched a verbal attack on the tens of thousands of anti-government protesters who flooded the streets for a 10th day, accusing them of creating an environment of terror. Recep Tayyip Erdogan made the most inflammatory of his speeches as he arrived in the capital, Ankara. Erdogan belittled his opponents, again calling them ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — In a series of increasingly belligerent speeches to cheering supporters Sunday, Turkey's prime minister demanded an end to the 10-day anti-government protests that have spread across the country, saying those who do not respect the government will pay.


Anti-Hezbollah protester killed in Lebanon

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 04:34 PM PDT

Hezbollah supporters clash with supporters of the Lebanese Option Party during a protest in front of the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, June 9, 2013. A senior Lebanese military official says clashes have erupted outside the Iranian embassy in the capital between protesters opposing Hezbollah's participation in the Syrian war and unidentified Lebanese, killing one demonstrator. (AP Photo)BEIRUT (AP) — Men wielding batons and wearing yellow arm bands evoking Lebanon's Hezbollah attacked protesters outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut Sunday during a rally against the militant group's participation in the Syrian civil war. One protester was killed, a senior Lebanese military official and witnesses said.


2 Koreas to hold senior-level meeting in Seoul

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 03:40 PM PDT

In this photo released by the South Korean Unification Ministry, Kim Song Hye, center, the head of North Korea's delegation, shakes hands with an unidentified South Korean officer before crossing a military demarcation line, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, for a meeting with South Korean delegates at Panmunjom in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, June 9, 2013. Government delegates from North and South Korea began preparatory talks Sunday at the "truce village" on their heavily armed border aimed at setting ground rules for a higher-level discussion on easing animosity and restoring stalled rapprochement projects. (AP Photo/South Korean Unification Ministry, HO)SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The rival Koreas agreed Monday to hold senior-level talks this week in Seoul, a breakthrough of sorts after Pyongyang's recent threats of nuclear war and Seoul's vows of counterstrikes.


Scottish fiction writer Iain Banks dies at 59

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 03:49 PM PDT

LONDON (AP) — Scottish writer Iain Banks, who alternately wowed and disturbed readers with his dark jokes and narrative tricks, has died, his publisher said Sunday. He was 59.

Islamists said to execute 15-year-old Syrian boy for heresy

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 03:41 PM PDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - Members of an al Qaeda-linked Islamist group in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo executed a 15-year-old boy in front of his parents on Sunday as punishment for what the group regarded as a heretical comment, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Mohammad Qataa was shot in the face and neck a day after being seized, said the pro-opposition monitoring group, which is based in Britain and uses a network of observers across Syria. ...

2 Koreas to hold senior-level talks in Seoul

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 03:07 PM PDT

In this photo released by the South Korean Unification Ministry, Kim Song Hye, center, the head of North Korea's delegation, shakes hands with an unidentified South Korean officer before crossing a military demarcation line, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, for a meeting with South Korean delegates at Panmunjom in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, June 9, 2013. Government delegates from North and South Korea began preparatory talks Sunday at the "truce village" on their heavily armed border aimed at setting ground rules for a higher-level discussion on easing animosity and restoring stalled rapprochement projects. (AP Photo/South Korean Unification Ministry, HO)SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says the rival Koreas will hold senior-level talks this week in Seoul in a bid to ease tensions.


In Iran vote, reformists struggle with few options

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 02:22 PM PDT

In this Friday, June 7, 2013 photo, an Iranian man reads one of electoral leaflets, covering the street, after Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran. Despite four years of non-stop arrests and intimidation, Iran's dissidents still find ways to show their resilience. Protest messages ricochet around social media and angry graffiti pops up. But it only takes a closer look at the lockdown atmosphere across Iran ahead of Friday's presidential election to show how much the organized opposition has fallen since massive protests in 2009. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Despite four years of non-stop pressure, arrests and intimidation, Iran's dissidents still find ways to show their resilience.


Austria still open to sending peacekeepers back to Golan

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 02:21 PM PDT

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria does not rule out returning its U.N. peacekeepers to the Golan Heights if their mandate is improved, its foreign minister told Sunday's newspaper Oesterreich. The Alpine republic, whose peacekeepers account for 380 of the 1,000 members of a U.N. force monitoring a 40-year-old ceasefire between Syria and Israel, said on Thursday it would pull them out after battles between Syrian troops and rebels. Asked whether the peacekeepers should be better armed, Michael Spindelegger told the paper: "Something in the mandate will have to change. ...

Turkey's Erdogan vows to 'choke' financial speculators

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 01:59 PM PDT

By Jonathon Burch ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Sunday to "choke" financial market speculators who he said were growing rich off "the sweat of the people", and urged Turks to put their money in state not private banks. Speaking at a series of rallies in the capital Ankara after a week of the fiercest anti-government demonstrations in years, Erdogan blamed a "high-interest-rate lobby" for causing volatility in financial markets and vowed to stop them. "The lobby has exploited the sweat of my people for years. ...

Jordan hosts U.S. jets and missiles in drills in Syria's shadow

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 01:56 PM PDT

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Robert Catalanotti speaks during a news conference with Maj. Gen. Awni el-Edwan in AmmanBy Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - U.S. troops equipped with Patriot missiles and fighter jets began military exercises in Jordan that have drawn condemnation from Russia, which accuses the West of fanning the conflict in neighboring Syria. Washington confirmed last week it was sending the F-16 jets and missiles - which can be used against planes and other missiles - to its ally Jordan, and said it may consider keeping them there after the drills. ...


New app helping Venezuelans find scarce items

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 01:46 PM PDT

In this screen shot provided on Sunday, June 9, 2013 by Jose Augusto Montiel, shows a free application for mobile devices written by Jose Augusto Montiel that lets people notify one another where scarce food basics such as flour, sugar, milk, cooking oil and toilet paper are for sale in Venezuela. It has been downloaded more than 12,000 times. Abasteceme, or "Supply Me," is Android-based and relies on Google Maps for geolocation. It leverages what is known in the tech world as crowdsourcing with users notifying one another where a certain product is for sale. (AP Photo/Courtesy Jose Augusto Montiel)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Harried Venezuelans who devote hours scouring supermarkets for increasingly scarce food basics and toilet paper have just received some digital help thanks to a young software developer.


U.S. snooping revelations cause trouble for allies

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 01:27 PM PDT

An illustration picture shows the logo of the U.S. National Security Agency on the display of an iPhone in BerlinBy Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Revelations of a huge, secret U.S. Internet spying program have raised awkward questions for allies, forced to explain whether they let Washington spy on their citizens or benefited from snooping that would be illegal at home. U.S. officials have confirmed the existence of the secret program, codenamed PRISM, which according to documents leaked to the Washington Post and Britain's Guardian newspaper has given them access to emails, web chats and other communications from companies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and Skype. U.S. ...


Thousands of Germans evacuate as dam on Elbe river breaks

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 12:42 PM PDT

Volunteers rest on sandbags next to the river Elbe at Weder district in the eastern German town of MagdeburgBy Martin Schlicht and Oliver Keck MAGDEBURG/GROSS ROSENBURG, Germany (Reuters) - Thousands of people left their homes in eastern Germany on Sunday as a dam burst on the swollen River Elbe and swathes of farmland were flooded in an attempt to spare towns, with meteorologists forecasting more rain. In Magdeburg, one of the oldest cities in eastern Germany and a regional capital, some 23,000 people were asked to evacuate as water levels in the Elbe rose to a record 7.48 meters, around 5 meters above normal and surpassing the level reached in devastating floods in 2002. ...


Israeli figures show spike in settlement starts

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 12:30 PM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in his office in Jerusalem, Israel, June 9, 2013. A senior member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party said in an interview broadcast Sunday that the Israeli government will not accept a Palestinian state with the borders favored by the Palestinians and the international community, a new hurdle to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's effort to restart peace talks in his latest visit to the region. Netanyahu's office has tried to distance itself from the comments. (AP Photo/Abir Sultan, Pool)JERUSALEM (AP) — Official Israeli figures show housing starts in West Bank settlements rose significantly in the first three months of 2013 compared to the same period last year — numbers that are likely to cast a shadow on the upcoming visit of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.


Fighting intensifies in Syria's north after Assad gains

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 12:13 PM PDT

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) - Fighting is intensifying in northern Syria, where rebels say President Bashar al-Assad's forces and their Lebanese Hezbollah allies are preparing an offensive after success last week in seizing a strategic town further south. The capture by Assad's forces and Hezbollah of the town of Qusair, which controls vital supply routes across Syrian and with Lebanon, is a sign of reversing momentum after the rebels seized swathes of the country in the second half of last year. ...

Rome mayor race tests Berlusconi effect on voters

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 11:51 AM PDT

Rome's Mayor Gianni Alemanno and his wife Isabella Rauti cast their ballotts in Rome, Sunday, June 9, 2013. Voters are choosing mayors in Rome and other Italian municipalities in balloting seen as a test of Italian ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi's political weight, with possible repercussions on the national government. Media mogul Berlusconi campaigned for his center-right party's candidate in Rome, incumbent Gianni Alemanno, who is trying for a second term in a runoff Sunday against former transplant surgeon Ignazio Marino, who is backed by the center-left. (AP Photo/Lapresse)ROME (AP) — Italian voters were choosing mayors in Rome and other municipalities Sunday in balloting, whose results will be interpreted as a test of ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi's political influence with possible repercussions on the national government.


Scottish fiction writer Iain Banks dies aged 59

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 11:50 AM PDT

LONDON (AP) — Iain Banks, a Scottish writer known for his general and science fiction, has died. He was 59.

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