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Israel, Palestinians strive for peace deal within nine months

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 03:55 PM PDT

Chief Palestinian negotiator Erekat, U.S. Secretary of State Kerry and Israel's Justice Minister Livni shake hands at a news conference at the end of talks at the State Department in WashingtonBy Arshad Mohammed and Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian negotiators on Tuesday gave themselves about nine months to try to reach an agreement on ending their conflict of more than six decades in U.S.-brokered peace talks. The two sides held their first peace negotiations in nearly three years in Washington on Monday and Tuesday, a diplomatic victory for Secretary of State John Kerry, but one that foreign policy analysts believe has low chances of success. ...


Egypt allows EU envoy to see deposed president

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 03:43 PM PDT

By Maggie Fick and Matt Robinson CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt allowed Europe's top diplomat to meet deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi on Monday, flying her after dark to Mursi's secret detention facility but ruling out any role for him in ending the turmoil convulsing the country. Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, became the first outsider to see Mursi since he was deposed by the army on July 3, taken into detention and placed under investigation on charges including murder. ...

Al Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility for Iraq bombings

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 03:57 PM PDT

Street cleaners remove debris on the road at the site of a car bomb attack in Basra, southeast of BaghdadBy Raheem Salman BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-affiliated group claimed responsibility for a wave of bombings across Iraq that killed 60 people on Monday and the Interior Ministry said it was facing an "open war" from insurgents bent on plunging the country into sectarian strife. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which was formed earlier this year through a merger between al Qaeda's affiliates in Iraq and Syria, said in a statement posted online it had carefully selected its targets, which were mainly Shi'ites. ...


Ex-Prime Minister Keita holds wide lead in Mali vote

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 03:35 PM PDT

Presidential candidate Ibrahim Boubacar Keita speaks at a news conference during Mali's presidential election in BamakoBy David Lewis and Adama Diarra BAMAKO (Reuters) - Former Malian Prime Minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita holds a comfortable lead and could win an outright first-round victory in the West African nation's high-stakes presidential election, the minister of territorial administration said on Tuesday. Keita's rivals immediately rejected the partial results, calling for the minister, who is in charge of the elections, to resign and an international commission to be established to tally the vote, which they said must go to a second round. ...


Spanish train driver was on the phone at time of crash

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 11:44 AM PDT

An overhead view of the wreckage of a train crash is seen near Santiago de CompostelaMADRID (Reuters) - The driver of the train that derailed in northwestern Spain last week, killing 79 people, was talking on the phone with state train operator Renfe at the time of the accident, a court said on Tuesday after analyzing the train's data recording devices. The initial reading of the so-called black boxes said driver Francisco Garzon received a call from Renfe minutes before the accident to discuss the path to Ferrol, the final destination for the high-speed train that departed from Madrid on Wednesday with 218 passengers aboard. ...


Obama asks Republican Senators McCain, Graham to visit Egypt

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 04:23 PM PDT

Senators McCain and Graham confer at the Senate Armed Services Committee in WashingtonBy Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has asked two senior Republican senators to travel to Egypt to meet with its military leaders and the opposition, as Cairo's allies struggle with how to address the turmoil convulsing the country. Senator John McCain and Lindsey Graham, both members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, hope to travel to Egypt next week, Graham said on Tuesday. "The president reached out to us, and I said obviously I'd be glad to go," Graham told reporters outside the Senate. ...


Zimbabweans face third Mugabe-Tsvangirai showdown

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 05:03 PM PDT

Zimbabwe's President Mugabe addresses a media conference at State house in Harare, on the eve of the country's general electionsBy Ed Cropley HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabweans go to the polls on Wednesday in a fiercely contested election pitting President Robert Mugabe against Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who has vowed to push Africa's oldest leader into retirement after 33 years in power. With no reliable opinion polls, it is hard to say whether the 61-year-old Tsvangirai will succeed in his third attempt to unseat the 89-year-old Mugabe, who has run the southern African nation since independence from Britain in 1980. ...


Commentary: Manning is a Disgrace to the Uniform and a Traitor to His Country

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 04:47 PM PDT

Yahoo asked military service members, veterans and others to react to Bradley Manning's acquittal on charges that he aided the enemy when he leaked classified government documents. Manning, a former U.S. Army soldier arrested in 2010, was found guilty of lesser charges on Tuesday. Here's one perspective.

Bradley Manning Not Guilty, But Still a Traitor

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 04:47 PM PDT

Yahoo asked military service members, veterans and others to react to Bradley Manning's acquittal on charges that he aided the enemy when he leaked classified government documents. Manning, a former U.S. Army soldier arrested in 2010, was found guilty of lesser charges on Tuesday. Here's one perspective.

After Manning Verdict, Something About the Story Isn't Being Told

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 04:47 PM PDT

Yahoo asked military service members, veterans and others to react to Bradley Manning's acquittal on charges that he aided the enemy when he leaked classified government documents. Manning, a former U.S. Army soldier arrested in 2010, was found guilty of lesser charges on Tuesday. Here's one perspective.

Syrian war takes center stage on Ramadan TV series

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 03:19 PM PDT

In this picture taken on Wednesday July 24, 2013, Lebanese and Syrian citizens gather at an outdoor coffee shop, as one of the Syrian popular series Al-Wiladah Men Al-Khasira (Birth from the Waist), is broadcast on a giant screen, in Beirut, Lebanon. Birth from the Waist is one of several Syrian soap operas airing during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan this year, almost all of them dealing with the Syrian civil war, now in its third year, spotlighting a conflict in which more than 100,000 people have been killed and millions of others uprooted from their homes. The series have captivated millions of viewers across the Arab world. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)BEIRUT (AP) — Blasts echo in the distance as two longtime friends and neighbors sit along a narrow street in old Damascus chatting about Syria, when one of them calls the civil war raging in their home country a "crisis."


Nigeria says to begin Mali troop pullout on Wednesday

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 03:18 PM PDT

Nigerian soldiers walk on the tarmac of the Bamako airportABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria will begin withdrawing some of its 1,200 troops in Mali on Wednesday and redeploy them in security operations at home, the military said on Tuesday. Nigeria has been planning the withdrawal mainly due to the need for more soldiers to fight its own homegrown Islamist insurgency. "The troops are mainly those not accommodated in the structures of the newly formed United Nations ... mission in Mail," Brigadier-General Chris Olukolade said in a statement. "They are to join the ongoing internal security operations. ...


Israeli-Palestinian aim: A peace deal in 9 months

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 02:41 PM PDT

From left, Secretary of State John Kerry, Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat leave the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 30, 2013, after a meeting with President Obama. President Barack Obama on Tuesday delicately waded into the first round of Middle East peace talks in years, meeting privately at the White House with lead negotiators for the Israeli and Palestinian delegations. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)WASHINGTON (AP) — Pressing ahead in a new U.S.-backed push for Middle East peace, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators agreed Tuesday to meet again within two weeks to start substantive talks in hopes of reaching a long-elusive settlement within nine months.


Morsi gets a visit, but Egypt crisis stalemated

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 02:36 PM PDT

A supporter of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi cries during a fake funeral in tribute to colleagues killed on Saturday during a clash, at Nasr City, where protesters have installed a camp and hold daily rallies, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military gave the ousted president his first contact with the outside world since removing him from office, allowing Europe's top diplomat Tuesday to meet with Mohammed Morsi in his secret detention. She emerged from her two-hour talks with him urging all sides to move on toward a peaceful transition.


Shorter public office ban sought for Berlusconi

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 02:15 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Friday, July 19, 2013 Silvio Berlusconi attends a voting session at the Senate in Rome. Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media baron and former premier, sometimes quipped that he was running out of money after two decade of steadily paying millions of euros (dollars) to a stable of Italy's leading lawyers to defend him in a raft of criminal cases. The legal team earned its keep, either eventually scoring acquittals or devising strategies that helped stretch out the court calendar for so long the cases died when statutes of limitations ran out. But this time, they failed to deliver him from final judgment day for a guilty verdict that arrives Tuesday at Italy's highest court, and Berlusconi's no longer joking. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)ROME (AP) — A prosecutor on Tuesday pressed Italy's top criminal court to uphold Silvio Berlusconi's tax fraud conviction, but recommended shortening his ban on holding public office.


Stiff Sentence in Bradley Manning Case Would Dissuade Others

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 02:13 PM PDT

Yahoo asked military service members, veterans and others to react to Bradley Manning's acquittal on charges that he aided the enemy when he leaked classified government documents. Manning, a former U.S. Army soldier arrested in 2010, was found guilty of lesser charges on Tuesday. Here's one perspective.

Is Bradley Manning a Hero or Traitor?

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 02:13 PM PDT

Is Bradley Manning a Hero or Traitor?Yahoo asked military service members, veterans and others to react to Bradley Manning's acquittal on charges that he aided the enemy when he leaked classified government documents. Manning, a former U.S. Army soldier arrested in 2010, was found guilty of lesser charges on Tuesday. Here's one perspective.


Afghan forces will need help after NATO mission ends: Pentagon

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 02:12 PM PDT

Afghan policemen arrive at the site of an attack in KabulBy Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Afghan forces will require significant support from the U.S. military and its allies after the NATO combat mission ends next year, according to a new Pentagon report implicitly warning against a "zero option" of total withdrawal. A senior U.S. defense official said on Tuesday the Pentagon had not developed a plan for total pullout from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, but that failure to reach a deal with Kabul on legal guarantees for U.S. troops could force such a scenario. U.S. ...


Zimbabwe Heads to the Ballot Box, But Can It Finally Turn a Corner?

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 01:55 PM PDT

On July 31, Zimbabweans vote in what stands to be a pivotal presidential election. President Robert Mugabe, who, along with his ZANU-PF party, has been in power since the country's independence in 1980, risks defeat at the hands of his political foe, current Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who heads the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), a reformist party that some analysts believe commands more popular support. On July 30, Mugabe told reporters in Harare he would be willing to step down in the face of an electoral defeat—"If you lose, you must surrender," he said. ...

Spain investigators: Train driver was on phone

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 01:55 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 25, 2013 file photo, a derailed train car is lifted by a crane at the site of a train accident in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. A Spanish court official said Monday July 29, 2013 that judicial police would soon begin extracting information from the MADRID (AP) — The driver was on the phone with a colleague and apparently looking at a document as his train barreled ahead at 95 mph (153 kph) — almost twice the speed limit. Suddenly, a notorious curve was upon him.


Jewel heist on Riviera raises security questions

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 01:29 PM PDT

A view of the Carlton hotel, in Cannes, southern France, the scene of a daylight raid, Sunday, July 28, 2013. A staggering 40 million euro ($53 million) worth of jewels and diamonds were stolen Sunday from the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel in Cannes, in one of Europe's biggest jewelry heists recent years, police said. French Riviera hotel was hosting a temporary jewelry exhibit over the summer of the prestigious Leviev diamond house, which is owned by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)PARIS (AP) — The diamond show was staged on the ground floor of a hotel that thieves had targeted before — and which, in fact, had featured in Alfred Hitchcock's high-karat classic "To Catch a Thief." The guards were few and unarmed, and nobody thought to tell the police about the tens of millions of dollars worth of gems on display for more than a month.


Rwanda dismisses U.S. charges it backs Congo rebels

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 12:57 PM PDT

A M23 rebel trainer walks behind recruits during a training session in eastern Democratic Republic of CongoBy Richard Lough and Edmund Blair NAIROBI (Reuters) - Rwanda dismissed on Tuesday U.S. charges that it was supporting M23 rebels in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo and said leveling accusations would not help pacify the region. Rwanda's denial came as the United Nations announced that its newly deployed Intervention Brigade would begin securing a zone around the strategic eastern Congolese city of Goma, forcibly disarming people found carrying weapons there. Western donors halted some aid to Rwanda last year after U.N. ...


Poland's 1st face transplant patient goes home

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 12:56 PM PDT

Poland's first face transplant patient, identified only by his first name Grzegorz, speaks at a press conference after he was discharged from the hospital, in Gliwice, Poland, Tuesday, July 30, 2013. The 33-year-old man said he owes his doctor "everything" following a skin-and-bone transplant on May 15, three weeks after losing his nose, upper jaw and cheeks in an accident at the brick factory where he worked. (AP Photo/Tomasz Griessgraber) POLAND OUTWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's first face transplant patient was discharged from the hospital Tuesday, speaking with some effort at a press conference just 11 weeks after the extensive surgery that saved his life.


Nigeria: 24 die in blasts in Kano's Christian area

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 12:48 PM PDT

People gather at the site of an explosion at Sabon gari in Kano, Nigeria. Tuesday, July. 30, 2013. Multiple explosions at a bar and entertainment area in a Christian quarter of Nigeria's northern and mainly Muslim city of Kano killed at least 24 people, a hospital official said Tuesday. (AP Photo/ Muhammed Giginyu)KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Multiple explosions at a bar and entertainment area in a Christian quarter of Nigeria's northern and mainly Muslim city of Kano killed at least 24 people, a hospital official said Tuesday.


Zimbabwe president: I'll go if I lose crucial poll

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 12:40 PM PDT

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe speaks during a press conference at State House in Harare, Tuesday, July, 30, 2013. Mugabe, who is competing against his main rival, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in the presidential poll said he would accept results of the election set for Wednesday (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — On the eve of elections in Zimbabwe, longtime President Robert Mugabe denied on Tuesday that his supporters have engaged in vote-rigging despite widespread allegations of irregularities in the run-up to the polls. He also said he would step down if he loses the elections after 33 years at the helm of a once prosperous nation whose economy is now in dire shape.


Kuwait's ruler pardons people convicted of insulting him

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 12:39 PM PDT

Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah waves as he finishes opening the 14th session of Parliament in Kuwait CityKUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait's ruler said on Tuesday he was pardoning all the people convicted of insulting him, after a year-long crackdown on politically sensitive comments about Gulf Arab state's leadership. Dozens of Kuwaitis have been charged with insulting Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, especially online, and those convicted for a variety of offences against the ruler have been sentenced to up to 11 years in jail. People charged have included political activists of both sexes, as well as prominent opposition politicians. Some have already been acquitted by the court of appeal. ...


UK police arrest man over Twitter threats

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 12:34 PM PDT

LONDON (AP) — British police on Tuesday arrested a second man in connection with an investigation into violent threats made against a lawmaker and a feminist campaigner on Twitter.

UN Congo mission to establish Goma security zone

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 12:22 PM PDT

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo announced Tuesday that it plans to disarm anyone outside the national security forces who is caught with a firearm in the eastern city of Goma and its northern suburbs.

US hopes trade talks will spur changes in Europe

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 12:20 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. hopes negotiations for a free trade deal with the European Union will drive growth-oriented reforms in the EU economy, the top American trade official said Tuesday.

Italy's top court hears crucial Berlusconi appeal

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 11:59 AM PDT

Reporters stand on the staircase of Italy's supreme court building in RomeBy Roberto Landucci and Barry Moody ROME (Reuters) - Italy's supreme court on Tuesday began hearing Silvio Berlusconi's last appeal against a jail sentence and ban from public office in a case which could endanger the country's shaky coalition government if the conviction is confirmed. On the first day of the hearing, public prosecutor Antonello Mura rejected most of Berlusconi's arguments that a lower appeal court verdict convicting him of tax fraud was flawed, but requested a reduction of his ban from public office to three years from five on technical legal grounds. ...


Bradley Manning's Heart in Right Place, but He Still Erred

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 11:53 AM PDT

Yahoo asked military service members, veterans and others to react to Bradley Manning's acquittal on charges that he aided the enemy when he leaked classified government documents. Manning, a former U.S. Army soldier arrested in 2010, was found guilty of lesser charges on Tuesday. Here's one perspective.

Marchionne says Fiat investment plans up for grabs

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 11:49 AM PDT

MILAN (AP) — Fiat and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne said Tuesday his plans to invest to ramp up Alfa Romeo and Maserati production in Italy was "up for grabs" after a court ruled a key labor statute unconstitutional.

Facebook rebuffs UN team request on Somali pirates

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 11:47 AM PDT

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — United Nations investigators hoped they would get some help from Facebook when they asked to see information on suspected pirates operating in Somalia.

Al-Qaida claims responsibility for Iraq bombings

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 11:45 AM PDT

Iraqis inspect the aftermath of a car bomb attack, in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July. 29, 2013. A wave of over a dozen car bombings hit central and southern Iraq during morning rush hour on Monday, officials said, killing scores in the latest coordinated attack by insurgents determined to undermine the government. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — Al-Qaida's branch in Iraq claimed responsibility Tuesday for a wave of bombings across the country, as shootings and explosions into the night killed at least 12 people.


Gazan in Israeli custody was abducted in Egypt, Palestinians say

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 11:36 AM PDT

Palestinian Abu Rida sits next to Israeli prison guards before his indictment at the district court in BeershebaBy Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank released a report on Tuesday quoting a Palestinian held by Israel as saying he had been snatched while visiting Egypt's Sinai region last month. The report by the Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners could embarrass Israel and the Egyptian government, which is struggling to impose order in the lawless Sinai desert. ...


Syria's Kurds mobilize to fight al-Qaida groups

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 11:34 AM PDT

This Saturday, July 27, 2013 photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows the inside of the Khalid Ibn al-Walid Mosque in the heavily disputed northern neighborhood of Khaldiyeh, in Homs, Syria. Syrian government forces captured a historic mosque in the central city of Homs on Saturday, expelling rebel forces who had been in control of the 13th century landmark for more than a year and dealing a symbolic blow to opposition forces. (AP Photo/SANA)BEIRUT (AP) — A powerful Kurdish militia said Tuesday it is mobilizing against al-Qaida-linked rebels in northeastern Syria after a Kurdish opposition leader was killed in the area.


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