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Brotherhood leader arrested, Egypt's Islamists call protests

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 02:02 PM PDT

Adli Mansour, Egypt's chief justice and head of the Supreme Constitutional Court, speaks at his swearing in ceremony as interim president in CairoBy Asma Alsharif and Shadia Nasralla CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces arrested the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday, security sources said, in a crackdown against the Islamist movement after the army ousted the country's first democratically elected president. The dramatic exit of President Mohamed Mursi was greeted with delight by millions of jubilant people on the streets of Cairo and other cities overnight, but there was simmering resentment among Egyptians who opposed military intervention. ...


Analysis: Cautious toward Middle East, Obama gets second chance in Egypt

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 03:44 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks at a business leaders forum in Dar es Salaam July 1, 2013. REUTERS/Jason ReedBy Steve Holland and Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When President Barack Obama sat down with his top national security aides this week to determine how to react to a military takeover in Egypt, he had a tough choice to make. He could denounce what had taken place as a coup launched against a legitimately elected president in Cairo and suspend U.S. military aid. Or he could embrace the move as a reaction to popular discontent with the Muslim Brotherhood-controlled government. That he chose a middle ground, urging a swift return to civilian government and ordering a U.S. ...


Coup? What coup? Egyptians see no evil

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 02:57 PM PDT

Protesters against ousted President Mursi wave Egyptian flags in Tahrir Square in CairoBy Alastair Macdonald CAIRO (Reuters) - Don't mention the coup. Certainly not on Tahrir Square, or pretty much anywhere in polite, liberal society in Egypt. As military jets periodically screamed over Cairo, even performing a formation salute with colored smoke trails, many Egyptians took pains to stress that the toppling of their elected president, announced by a general, was not a "coup". "A coup? No!" said Ahmed Eid, 19, a business studies student at Cairo University, as he and his friends snapped souvenir pictures of each other, draped in the national flag, on Tahrir Square. ...


Sudan's Turabi denounces Mursi's ousting

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 04:33 PM PDT

Leading Sudanese opposition figure Hassan al-Turabi gestures during an interview in Khartoum October 3, 2012.REUTERS/StringerBy Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's Islamist opposition leader, Hassan al-Turabi, a prominent Sunni scholar, denounced on Thursday the overthrow of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi as a "coup against legitimacy", while the Khartoum government gave a cautious response. Sudan's Islamist government had welcomed last year's election of Mursi, who was ousted along with his Muslim Brotherhood by the army after millions of Egyptians demanded he go. ...


Egypt army says right to protest protected, urges restraint

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 03:52 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Egyptian armed forces said on Thursday they would not take arbitrary measures against any political group and would guarantee the right to protest, as long as demonstrations did not threaten national security. The statement was posted on Facebook after the arrests of leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood following the army's removal of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and ahead of protest rallies that the Brotherhood was planning to hold on Friday. ...

South Africa says Mandela still 'critical but stable'

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 03:12 PM PDT

A well-wisher prays for Nelson Mandela in front of the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital, where he is being treated at, in PretoriaJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ailing anti-apartheid hero and former President Nelson Mandela remained in a "critical but stable" condition after nearly four weeks in hospital, the government said on Thursday. Mandela is receiving treatment for a recurring lung infection, his fourth hospitalization in six months. The latest health update from the government followed a visit to the hospital by current President Jacob Zuma. ...


In his final days, Morsi was isolated but defiant

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 04:48 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo released by the Egyptian Presidency Monday, July 1, 2013, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, right, meets with Prime Minister Hesham Kandil, center, and Egyptian Minister of Defense, Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, left in Cairo, Egypt. "Over my dead body!" Mohammed Morsi told his army chief who came to him asking the Islamist president to step down on his own and not resist a military ultimatum and the demands of giant crowds out in the streets. Morsi found himself isolated, with trusted aides abandoning him, and in the end, the ring of Presidential Guards protecting him simply stepped away to allow the military to take him under its custody, according to army, security and Brotherhood officials giving The Associated Press an account of his last hours.(AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency, File)CAIRO (AP) — The army chief came to President Mohammed Morsi with a simple demand: Step down on your own and don't resist a military ultimatum or the demands of the giant crowds in the streets of Egypt.


Questions and answers about Egypt's latest turmoil

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 04:38 PM PDT

Supporters of ousted Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans during a rally, in Nasser City, Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, July 4, 2013. The chief justice of Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court was sworn in Thursday as the nation's interim president, taking over hours after the military ousted the Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. Adly Mansour took the oath of office at the Nile-side Constitutional Court in a ceremony broadcast live on state television. According to military decree, Mansour will serve as Egypt's interim leader until a new president is elected. A date for that vote has yet to be set. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)CAIRO (AP) — The military has removed Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, from office to the joy of millions of anti-government protesters accusing the Islamist leader of abusing his authority. The chief judge of the Supreme Constitutional Court has been installed as an interim leader more than two years after autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak was ousted. The military also has moved swiftly against Morsi's Islamist allies, including the Muslim Brotherhood. Here are a few questions and answers about the latest turmoil in the Arab world's most populous country.


Top Brotherhood figures seized in Egypt sweep

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 04:33 PM PDT

Egyptian soldiers deploy near Cairo University, where Muslim Brotherhood supporters have gathered to support ousted president Mohammed Morsi in Cairo, Thursday, July 4, 2013. The chief justice of Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court was sworn in Thursday as the nation's interim president, taking over hours after the military ousted the Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. Adly Mansour took the oath of office at the Nile-side Constitutional Court in a ceremony broadcast live on state television. According to military decree, Mansour will serve as Egypt's interim leader until a new president is elected. A date for that vote has yet to be set.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military moved swiftly Thursday against senior figures of the Muslim Brotherhood, targeting the backbone of support for ousted president Mohammed Morsi. In the most dramatic step, authorities arrested the group's revered leader from a seaside villa and flew him by helicopter to detention in the capital.


Egypt military vows no "exceptional" measures

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 04:10 PM PDT

Egyptian soldiers deploy near Cairo University, where Muslim Brotherhood supporters have gathered to support ousted president Mohammed Morsi in Cairo, Thursday, July 4, 2013. The chief justice of Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court was sworn in Thursday as the nation's interim president, taking over hours after the military ousted the Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. Adly Mansour took the oath of office at the Nile-side Constitutional Court in a ceremony broadcast live on state television. According to military decree, Mansour will serve as Egypt's interim leader until a new president is elected. A date for that vote has yet to be set.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)CAIRO (AP) — The spokesman of Egypt's military says it will not carry out any exceptional or arbitrary measures against any political group, amid a swift crackdown on the group of the ousted Islamist president, the Muslim Brotherhood.


South American leftist leaders rally to Bolivia's side in Snowden saga

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 03:57 PM PDT

Bolivia's President Evo Morales and Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera sing the national anthem after Morales' arrival at the El Alto airport on the outskirts of La PazBy David Mercado COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (Reuters) - South America's most outspoken leftist leaders gathered on Thursday to rally behind Bolivian President Evo Morales, whose plane was diverted in Europe this week on suspicions that fugitive U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden was aboard. The summit in Cochabamba, Bolivia - where Morales began his political career as a leader of coca leaf farmers - is aimed at expressing outrage over his "virtual kidnapping" and the U.S. pressure they believe spurred it. ...


Catholic nun's Brazilian killer gets early release from prison

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 03:39 PM PDT

By Lucas Iberico-Lozada SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The man convicted of killing American nun and Amazon activist Dorothy Stang in 2005, has been released from a Brazilian prison after serving less than a third of his sentence, adding controversy to the long-running struggle over land rights in the rainforest. The penitentiary system of Pará, the northern state where Stang was murdered, confirmed that confessed killer Rayfran das Neves Sales was released on Tuesday, though they were unable to specify if he was released on parole or into house arrest. He had been sentenced to 27 years in prison. ...

Mandela on life support, faces 'impending death'

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 03:36 PM PDT

Family members of former South African President Nelson Mandela carry a coffin of a deceased child to be buried near his house in Qunu, South Africa, Thursday, July 4, 2013. In a macabre family feud fought as Nelson Mandela remained in critical condition, a South African court ruled Wednesday that the former president's grandson must return the bodies of the 94-year-old's three deceased children to their original burial site. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela is being kept alive by a breathing machine and faces "impending death," court documents show.


US airlines cancel Mexico flights due to volcano

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 03:30 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — At least six U.S. airlines canceled more than 40 flights into and out of Mexico City and Toluca airports Thursday after the Popocatepetl volcano spewed out ash, steam and glowing rocks, airport officials said.

Aid worker killed in fighting in biggest city in Darfur

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 03:12 PM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - One aid worker was killed and three others wounded when a grenade hit their office during a gunfight between competing security forces on Thursday in the biggest city of Sudan's Darfur region, the United Nations and witnesses said. Clashes between the army, rebels and rival tribes have surged in the vast and mostly lawless region in recent months, but had until now been confined to rural areas. Residents said heavy gunfire could be heard for hours near the security headquarters in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state and the second-biggest city in Sudan. ...

World Bank chief says hopes to continue Egypt programs

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 03:11 PM PDT

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim speaks at a Thomson Reuters Newsmaker event, at Canary Wharf in east London June 19, 2013. REUTERS/Stefan WermuthSANTIAGO (Reuters) - The World Bank hopes to continue its programs in Egypt following the military ousting of the country's first democratically elected leader, bank president Jim Yong Kim told reporters on Thursday during a visit to Chile. The bank, which Kim said has a $4.7 billion loan program for Egypt, is still trying to understand the situation in the country, he added. "Our hope is that we'll be able to continue with our programs to provide essential services and essential support," said Kim, flanked by Chile's president and finance minister. ...


Rights groups decry Egyptian media crackdown

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 03:09 PM PDT

Egyptians watch Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's announcement on TV at a tea house in Cairo's Zamalek district Wednesday, July 3, 2013. A statement on the Egyptian president's office's Twitter account has quoted Mohammed Morsi as calling military measures "a full coup." The denouncement was posted shortly after the Egyptian military announced it was ousting Morsi, who was Egypt's first freely elected leader but drew ire with his Islamist leanings. The military says it has replaced him with the chief justice of the Supreme constitutional Court, called for early presidential election and suspended the Islamist-backed constitution. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities shut down four Islamist TV stations, banned the Muslim Brotherhood's newspaper and raided the office of Al-Jazeera's Egypt affiliate in crackdown on media considered sympathetic to ousted President Mohammed Morsi, bringing an outcry Thursday from rights groups.


Egypt: Interim president sworn in amid crackdown

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 03:07 PM PDT

Egyptian soldiers deploy near Cairo University, where Muslim Brotherhood supporters have gathered to support ousted president Mohammed Morsi in Cairo, Thursday, July 4, 2013. The chief justice of Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court was sworn in Thursday as the nation's interim president, taking over hours after the military ousted the Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. Adly Mansour took the oath of office at the Nile-side Constitutional Court in a ceremony broadcast live on state television. According to military decree, Mansour will serve as Egypt's interim leader until a new president is elected. A date for that vote has yet to be set.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military moved swiftly Thursday against senior figures of the Muslim Brotherhood, targeting the backbone of support for ousted president Mohammed Morsi. In the most dramatic step, authorities arrested the group's revered leader from an oceanside villa and flew him by helicopter to detention in the capital.


Mandela on life support as family grave restored

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 02:51 PM PDT

Family members of former South African President Nelson Mandela carry a coffin of a deceased child to be buried near his house in Qunu, South Africa, Thursday, July 4, 2013. In a macabre family feud fought as Nelson Mandela remained in critical condition, a South African court ruled Wednesday that the former president's grandson must return the bodies of the 94-year-old's three deceased children to their original burial site. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela is being kept alive by a breathing machine and faces "impending death," court documents show, as his family gravesite was restored Thursday.


Peru police fire tear gas on protesting students, civil servants

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 02:37 PM PDT

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian police fired tear gas at hundreds of students and civil servants in Lima on Thursday as they marched towards Congress to protest reforms that would impose tougher standards on universities and bureaucrats. Protesters lashed out at President Ollanta Humala for proposing the laws, which he says would improve the quality of sluggish government services and a lagging higher-education system. Critics say they would force thousands from their jobs and compromise the autonomy of Peru's universities. ...

US officials approach tumult in Egypt with caution

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 02:37 PM PDT

Opponents of Egypt's Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi celebrate outside the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, July 3, 2013. A statement on the Egyptian president's office's Twitter account has quoted Mohammed Morsi as calling military measures "a full coup." The denouncement was posted shortly after the Egyptian military announced it was ousting Morsi, who was Egypt's first freely elected leader but drew ire with his Islamist leanings. The military says it has replaced him with the chief justice of the Supreme constitutional Court, called for early presidential election and suspended the Islamist-backed constitution. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and his national security team tread delicately Thursday in the aftermath of the ouster of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, urging the restive nation to quickly return authority to a democratically elected civilian government and avoid violence. The administration still declined to take sides in the volatile developments as Egypt's military installed an interim government leader.


Obama aides press for swift return to civilian rule in Egypt

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 02:18 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks on energy at Ubungo Power Plant in Dar es Salaam July 2, 2013. REUTERS/Jason ReedWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's national security aides are pressing Egyptian officials to move quickly to a democratic government after a military takeover ousted President Mohamed Mursi, the White House said on Thursday. Obama met with top advisers in the White House Situation Room to discuss the crisis in Egypt, a day after the tumultuous ouster of Egypt's first democratically elected president that the United States has carefully avoided calling a coup. ...


Bolivia's Morales says US aimed to intimidate

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 02:06 PM PDT

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, center, waves to journalists upon his arrival to the airport accompanied by Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino, right, and Bolivia's Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Thursday, July 4, 2013. Correa said that the situation lived by Bolivian President Evo Morales is very serious and is in Cochabamba for an extraordinary meeting of South American leaders to discuss the rerouting of Morales' plane in Europe, over suspicions that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden was on board. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian President Evo Morales said Thursday that the rerouting of his plane over suspicions that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden was on board was a plot by the U.S. to intimidate him and other Latin American leaders.


African Union likely to suspend Egypt after army deposes president

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 01:56 PM PDT

Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, chairperson of African Union Commission, delivers her speech during the closing ceremony of the African Union 21st Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of States and Government in capital Addis Ababa May 27, 2013. REUTERS/Tiksa NegerBy Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The African Union is likely to suspend Egypt after what it called the "unconstitutional" removal of President Mohamed Mursi by the army, AU officials said on Thursday. The AU's Peace and Security Council (PSC) will discuss the Egyptian situation on Friday and, according to an AU source, is likely to implement the usual response to any interruption of constitutional rule by a member state, and suspend it. The AU issued a statement saying said the organization's head, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, "observes that the removal of ... ...


Rights groups decry Egypt media crackdown

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 01:52 PM PDT

Egyptians watch Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's announcement on TV at a tea house in Cairo's Zamalek district Wednesday, July 3, 2013. A statement on the Egyptian president's office's Twitter account has quoted Mohammed Morsi as calling military measures "a full coup." The denouncement was posted shortly after the Egyptian military announced it was ousting Morsi, who was Egypt's first freely elected leader but drew ire with his Islamist leanings. The military says it has replaced him with the chief justice of the Supreme constitutional Court, called for early presidential election and suspended the Islamist-backed constitution. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities shut down four Islamist TV stations, banned the Muslim Brotherhood's newspaper and raided the office of Al-Jazeera's Egypt affiliate in crackdown on media considered sympathetic to ousted President Mohammed Morsi, bringing an outcry Thursday from rights groups.


After Morsi’s Ousting, Egypt Swears in New President, Cracks Down on the Muslim Brotherhood

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 01:28 PM PDT

Egypt's sudden military-enforced transition from the reign of former President Mohamed Morsi continued on Thursday as Adli Mansour was sworn in as interim president while the security crackdown on Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood deepened with the arrest of most of the Brotherhood's senior leadership.

Brazil's Batista steps down as chairman of MPX

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 01:10 PM PDT

In this April 7, 2009 file photo, Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista attends a ceremony in which Batista donated about $4.5 U.S. million dollars for the the Rio 2016 Olympic games bid, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Batista has stepped down as chairman of energy company MPX Energia after it was forced to call off a long-sought IPO. (AP Photo/Ricardo Moraes, File)SAO PAULO (AP) — Eike Batista, not long ago Brazil's richest man, has resigned as chairman of energy company MPX Energia after it was forced to call off a planned IPO, the company said Thursday.


Israelis strip-search Arab journalist at US party

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 01:05 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.S.-funded Alhurra network said Thursday that one of its cameramen was interrogated and strip-searched by Israeli security men while covering a July 4 party at the U.S. ambassador's residence near Tel Aviv.

Egypt foreign minister to Kerry: no "military coup"

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 12:59 PM PDT

Egypt's Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr speaks during a joint news conference with Algeria's Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci (not pictured) in Algiers June 27, 2013. REUTERS/Louafi LarbiBy Shadia Nasralla CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr said he assured U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in a telephone call on Thursday that the overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi had not been a military coup. The definition of what happened in Egypt on Wednesday is important because a military overthrow of an elected leader would generally trigger economic sanctions and could entail cutting of vital U.S. aid to Egypt. ...


Reactions to Morsi ouster reveal domestic politics

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 12:56 PM PDT

Egyptian army soldiers stand alert in front of the constitutional court where Egypt's chief justice Adly Mansour was sworn in the nation's interim president Thursday, July 4, 2013. The chief justice of Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court was sworn in Thursday as the nation's interim president, taking over hours after the military ousted the Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)The reactions of some countries to the military overthrow of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi offer a revealing glimpse at their own domestic politics. Here is a look at which side key countries are supporting.


'Mandela vs. Mandela' family feud sinks to soap opera

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 12:29 PM PDT

Mandla Mandela, grandson of Nelson Mandela, talks during a news conference in Mvezo, a day after a court order to exhume the remains of three of the anti-apartheid hero's childrenBy Yvonne Bell MTHATHA, South Africa (Reuters) - A feud between factions of Nelson Mandela's family descended into soap opera farce on Thursday when his grandson and heir, Mandla, accused relatives of adultery and milking the fame of the revered anti-apartheid leader. In a news conference broadcast live on TV that stunned South Africans, Mandla Mandela confirmed rumors that his young son, Zanethemba, was in fact the child of an illicit liaison between his brother Mbuso and Mandla's now ex-wife Anais Grimaud. ...


Portugal politicians try to save government

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 12:12 PM PDT

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The leaders of Portugal's governing coalition parties remained locked in negotiations Thursday as they attempted to repair differences that threatened to pitch the bailed-out country into turmoil and reignite concerns over Europe's debt crisis.

Russia urges North Korea to help enable new international talks

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 12:10 PM PDT

North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan arrives at the Ronald H. Brown United States Mission to the United Nations in New York, July 29, 2011 file photo. REUTERS/Jamie FineMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia urged North Korea on Thursday to help pave the way for a resumption of international talks and told Pyongyang that ending the standoff over its nuclear program would bring economic benefits. North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-Gwan met separately in Moscow with two Russian deputy foreign ministers, Vladimir Titov and Igor Morgulov, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. ...


U.N. seeks $1 billion to feed Sahel, says Syria distracting

Posted: 04 Jul 2013 11:59 AM PDT

By Daniel Flynn DAKAR (Reuters) - The United Nations appealed on Wednesday for more than $1 billion to help feed 11 million people at risk across Africa's arid Sahel belt, warning that the crisis in Syria was distracting donors from the humanitarian situation there. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that this year's war in northern Mali, where a French-led military campaign destroyed an Islamist enclave, had worsened annual food shortages across the region. ...

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