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Huge crowds rally in Egypt, political talks stalled

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 03:00 PM PDT

Supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi shout slogans during a protest in CairoBy Shadia Nasralla and Tom Perry CAIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of supporters and opponents of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi gathered in Cairo and Alexandria on Sunday, two days after similar gatherings led to nationwide clashes that claimed more than 30 lives. The huge rallies, which began to thin out towards midnight, have been largely peaceful, but a military-backed plan to resolve the political crisis remained bogged down by infighting over who should be interim prime minister. ...


Syrian opposition head expects advanced weapons to reach rebels

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 03:24 PM PDT

Free Syrian Army fighters prepare for an offensive against forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Aleppo's Salaheddine neighborhoodISTANBUL (Reuters) - The new president of the opposition Syrian National Coalition said on Sunday he expected advanced weapons supplied by Saudi Arabia to reach rebel fighters soon and change their military situation, which he described as weak. Ahmad Jarba, who has close links to Saudi Arabia, told Reuters in the first interview since he was elected president of the coalition on Saturday that the opposition will not go to a proposed U.S.- and Russian-sponsored peace conference in Geneva unless its military position becomes strong. "Geneva in these circumstances is not possible. ...


Cuba's Raul Castro criticizes U.S., backs allies on Snowden

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 02:49 PM PDT

Cuba's President Raul Castro salutes at the May Day parade in Havana's Revolution SquareBy Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro on Sunday backed offers of asylum by Venezuela and other Latin American countries to fugitive U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden and criticized the United States for what he described as bullying other nations. Castro, speaking behind closed doors to Cuba's National Assembly, said Venezuela and other countries in the region have the right to grant asylum "to those persecuted for their ideals or struggles for democracy, according to our tradition," according to the official Prensa Latina News Agency. ...


Gunmen kill Iraqi policeman with four family members

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 02:09 PM PDT

HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen killed a police officer along with four members of his family inside their home in the southern Iraqi city of Hilla late on Sunday, police and medics said. The attackers, who were driving a private vehicle, broke into the officer's house in the evening, holding him and his mother, wife and two children in one room before shooting them dead, a military source said. ...

Japan PM Abe seeks personal redemption in upper house election

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 02:39 PM PDT

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is also leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks to voters atop a campaign van in TokyoBy Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is a man with a mission: to erase the bitter stain of defeat and attain personal political redemption with a victory in a national election this month. With his Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition (LDP) back in power since December and all but assured of a handsome win in a July 21 poll for parliament's upper house, Abe might forgiven for slowing his pace a bit. ...


Gunmen attack Sinai checkpoints close to Israel border

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 04:15 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Armed men launched a series of attacks on Sunday on security checkpoints in the North Sinai towns of Sheikh Zuweid and El Arish close to Egypt's border with Israel and the Gaza Strip, and one soldier was killed. The attacks were part of a spike in violence in the lawless province since Wednesday's overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. Gunmen in pickup trucks exchanged gunfire with soldiers and police in Sheikh Zuweid in the early hours of the morning, but there were no casualties, security sources said. ...

Official probes if rescuers ran over crash victim

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 04:58 PM PDT

Parents of Wang Linjia, center, are comforted by parents of some other students who were on the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 that crashed at San Francisco International Airport, at Jiangshan Middle School in Jiangshan city, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Sunday July 7, 2013. Chinese state media have identified the two people who died in the plane crash at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday as Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, students at Jiangshan Middle School in China's eastern Zhejiang province. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco-area coroner whose office received the bodies of two teenage victims of the Asiana plane crash says officials are conducting an autopsy to determine if one of the girls was run over and killed by a rescue vehicle.


Official: Asiana flight flew too slow before crash

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 04:43 PM PDT

Parents of Wang Linjia, center, are comforted by parents of some other students who were on the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 that crashed at San Francisco International Airport, at Jiangshan Middle School in Jiangshan city, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Sunday July 7, 2013. Chinese state media have identified the two people who died in the plane crash at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday as Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, students at Jiangshan Middle School in China's eastern Zhejiang province. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pilots of Asiana Flight 214 were flying too slowly as they approached San Francisco airport, triggering a warning that the jetliner could stall, and then tried to abort the landing seconds before crashing, according to federal safety officials.


Iran says overthrow of Egypt president improper

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 04:36 PM PDT

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's Foreign Ministry on Sunday criticized the Egyptian military's toppling of the nation's Islamist president, calling the move improper in its first official reaction.

Mexican border, mayoral, state vote raises tempers

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 04:26 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Elections for governor of a key border state as well as for legislatures and mayorships in 13 other states Sunday have raised tempers, along with fears that violence may be becoming endemic in local Mexican politics.

Talks on Egypt leaders hit Islamist block

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 04:20 PM PDT

Supporters of the Tamarrod or "Rebe"l movement wave Egyptian flags in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday 7, 2013 . Egypt's new leadership wrangled over the naming of a prime minister, as both the Muslim Brotherhood and their opponents called for new mass rallies Sunday, renewing fears of another round of street violence over the military's ousting of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. The calls for competing rallies come after clashes two days ago between the rival camps left at least 36 dead and more than 1,000 injured nationwide. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)CAIRO (AP) — Secular and liberal factions trying to install one of their own as Egypt's new prime minister collided into strong resistance Sunday from the sole Islamist faction that backed the military's ouster of President Mohammed Morsi, reflecting the difficulties in building a broad coalition behind a new leadership.


Cuba's Raul Castro backs asylum offers for Snowden

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 03:46 PM PDT

Cuba's President Raul Castro, greets members to parliament at the opening of the second day of a twice-annual legislative sessions, at the National Assembly in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, July 7, 2013. Observers will be watching to see if the new vice president is taking on increasing responsibility since assuming the post in what was seen as the beginning of a generational leadership transition. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, Cubadebate)HAVANA (AP) — Raul Castro stood shoulder-to-shoulder Sunday with Latin American countries willing to take in NSA leaker Edward Snowden, but made no reference to whether Cuba itself would offer him refuge or safe passage.


Official: Asiana flight tried to abort landing

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 03:40 PM PDT

Parents of Wang Linjia, center, are comforted by parents of some other students who were on the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 that crashed at San Francisco International Airport, at Jiangshan Middle School in Jiangshan city, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Sunday July 7, 2013. Chinese state media have identified the two people who died in the plane crash at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday as Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, students at Jiangshan Middle School in China's eastern Zhejiang province. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal safety official said Sunday the cockpit voice recorder from Asiana Flight 214 showed the jetliner received a warning that it could stall because it was flying too slowly and tried to increase its speed before it crashed.


Crew tried to abort landing before San Francisco air crash

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 03:28 PM PDT

Evacuated passengers are seen on the tarmac as firefighting truck spray water on Asiana Airlines flight 214 as it sits on the runway burning at San Francisco International AirportBy Sarah McBride and Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 that crashed at San Francisco's airport on Saturday was traveling "significantly below" its intended speed and its crew tried to abort the landing just seconds before it hit the seawall in front of the runway, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Sunday. ...


Quebec police: 5 dead in oil train derailment

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 03:23 PM PDT

Burnt buildings are seen following a train derailment causing explosions of railway cars carrying crude oil Sunday, July 7, 2013 in Lac Megantic, Quebec. Two more bodies were discovered overnight after a runaway train carrying crude oil derailed in eastern Quebec, igniting explosions and fires that destroyed a town's downtown center. The confirmed death toll is now three, and is expected to rise further. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul ChiassonLAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (AP) — As firefighters doused still burning oil tanker cars, more bodies were recovered Sunday in this devastated town in eastern Quebec, raising the death toll to five after a runaway train derailed, igniting explosions and fires that destroyed the downtown district. With dozens of people reported missing, authorities feared they could find more bodies once they reached the hardest-hit areas.


Pope Francis visits Lampedusa as migrant arrivals pick up

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 03:12 PM PDT

A banner depicting Pope Francis with the words, "Welcome Pope - The Pope of fishermen" is displayed on a boat in LampedusaBy Alessandro Bianchi LAMPEDUSA, Italy (Reuters) - Pope Francis makes his first official trip outside Rome on Monday with a visit to Lampedusa, the tiny island off Sicily that has been the first port of safety for untold thousands of migrants crossing by sea from North Africa to Europe. The choice of Lampedusa is a highly symbolic one for Francis, who has placed the poor at the center of his papacy and called on the Church to return to its mission of serving them. His trip comes at the start of summer when the island sees a steady stream of migrant boats arriving on its shores. ...


Rail company in Quebec explosion says brakes may have been released

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 02:28 PM PDT

A firefighter works on the scene of a train derailment in Lac Megantic(Reuters) - The operator of a train that rolled downhill and careened into a Quebec town, causing a deadly explosion, said on Sunday that the air brakes used to hold the locomotive in place may have been released after the train was parked. The train had been hauling crude oil from North Dakota to eastern Canada, and was sitting parked, without a driver, outside town when it began to roll downhill, gathered speed and derailed on a curve at 1 a.m. (0500 GMT) on Saturday. ...


Syrian prison shelled, part of Aleppo battle

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 02:28 PM PDT

In this Wednesday, July 3, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Lens Young Homsi, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows buildings damaged by Syrian government airstrikes and shelling, in the Jouret al-Chiyah neighborhood of Homs, Syria. Gunfire echoed and tank shells slammed in Homs Friday in what activists and residents described as one of the worst barrages on the central city in a furious attempt to recapture opposition-held districts in the country's strategic heartland. The U.N. warns of a humanitarian catastrophe involving up to 4,000 civilians trapped in city amid severe shortages of food, water and medicine. (AP Photo/Lens Young Homsi)BEIRUT (AP) — Shells smashed into a central prison in the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo, killing prisoners, a rights group said Sunday, part of a long battle for control of the ancient city.


Magnitude 7.2 quake strikes below sea east of Papua New Guinea

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 02:24 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - An earthquake measuring 7.2 magnitude struck deep below the sea east of Papua New Guinea on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake, which was 379 kms (235 miles) deep, struck 110 km (68 miles) northeast of the town of Taron, said the USGS. There was no tsunami warning. It was followed by a second, 6.8 magnitude earthquake on the country's New Britain island, at 30 km (19 miles) northeast of the town of Kandrian at a depth of 62 km (39 miles), the USGS said. (Reporting By Raissa Kasolowsky)

Wanted militia leader hurt in clashes in Darfur's biggest city

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 02:10 PM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A prominent Sudanese pro-government militia leader wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court was wounded during clashes in the biggest city in the strife-torn Darfur region on Sunday, officials and witnesses said. Western powers are worried about an upsurge in violence and instability in the vast western region at a time when Islamic militants roam porous sub-Saharan borders and fight French troops in Mali. Residents said gunfire erupted in Nyala, capital of South Darfur state and Sudan's second-largest city. ...

Egypt overthrow shakes Islamists in the region

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 02:00 PM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi rise a banner with his portrait during a protest outside the Republican Guard building in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, July 7, 2013. Egypt's new leadership wrangled over the naming of a prime minister, as both the Muslim Brotherhood and their opponents called for new mass rallies Sunday, renewing fears of another round of street violence over the military's ousting of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. The calls for competing rallies come after clashes two days ago between the rival camps left at least 36 dead and more than 1,000 injured nationwide .(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)CAIRO (AP) — The military's overthrow of Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood's fall from power in Egypt have sent Islamist parties around the region scrambling to preserve gains made in the Middle East and North Africa as a result of the Arab Spring uprisings.


Egypt presidential spokesman sees support for possible interim PM

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 01:43 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian presidential spokesman said on Sunday that there was cross-party support for Social Democratic lawyer Ziaad Bahaa el-Din to be appointed interim prime minister. He also said there was backing for liberal politician Mohamed ElBaradei as a possible interim deputy president. "The main goal is to achieve a national consensus from all parties, and I think that it was achieved," said the spokesman. ...

Greece, foreign lenders close in on deal to unlock aid

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 01:41 PM PDT

International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Deputy Director and Mission Chief to Greece Poul Thomsen arrives for a meeting at the Finance Ministry in AthensBy Lefteris Papadimas and Ingrid Melander ATHENS/AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France (Reuters) - Greece is likely to reach a deal with foreign lenders on its latest bailout review before a meeting of euro zone finance ministers on Monday to decide on further aid, EU and Greek officials said on Sunday. Athens has been in talks with inspectors from the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund "troika" for nearly a week to show it can deliver on its pledges after failing to meet public sector reform targets. Greece hopes euro zone finance ministers will free up its next 8. ...


Brazil expresses concern at report of NSA spying

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 05:04 PM PDT

PARATY, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's foreign minister said Sunday his government is worried by a report that the United States has collected data on billions of telephone and email conversations in his country and promised an effort for international protection of Internet privacy.

Brazil seeks U.S. response to alleged spying on citizens

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 01:08 PM PDT

An undated aerial handout photo shows the National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters building in Fort Meade, MarylandRIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil will demand an explanation from the United States over report its citizens' electronic communications have been under surveillance by U.S. spy agencies for at least a decade, foreign minister Antonio Patriota said on Sunday. Patriota's remarks were in response to a report in the Globo daily newspaper on Sunday saying that the U.S. National Security Agency has been monitoring the telephone and e-mail activity of Brazilian companies and individuals as part of U.S. espionage activities. The report cited documents obtained from U.S. ...


Russia official: Venezuela last chance for Snowden

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 01:05 PM PDT

Indian protestors show their support for NSA leaker Edward Snowden at India Gate in New Delhi, India, Sunday, July 7, 2013. Snowden has found supporters in Latin America, including three countries who have offered him asylum. But many obstacles stand in the way of the fugitive NSA leaker from leaving a Russian airport - chief among them the power and influence of the United States. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)MOSCOW (AP) — An influential Russian parliament member who often speaks for the Kremlin encouraged NSA leaker Edward Snowden on Sunday to accept Venezuela's offer of asylum.


Egypt factions work on compromise on premier post

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 01:01 PM PDT

Supporters of the Tamarrod or "Rebe"l movement wave Egyptian flags in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday 7, 2013 . Egypt's new leadership wrangled over the naming of a prime minister, as both the Muslim Brotherhood and their opponents called for new mass rallies Sunday, renewing fears of another round of street violence over the military's ousting of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. The calls for competing rallies come after clashes two days ago between the rival camps left at least 36 dead and more than 1,000 injured nationwide. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)CAIRO (AP) — Secular and liberal factions in Egypt's new leadership worked Sunday to reach a compromise with ultraconservative Islamists on a new prime minister, with a liberal economist emerging as a leading candidate for the post to run the country after the military's ouster of President Mohammed Morsi.


Survivor could see runway through hole in tail

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 12:24 PM PDT

Parents of Wang Linjia, center, are comforted by parents of some other students who were on the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 that crashed at San Francisco International Airport, at Jiangshan Middle School in Jiangshan city, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Sunday July 7, 2013. Chinese state media have identified the two people who died in the plane crash at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday as Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, students at Jiangshan Middle School in China's eastern Zhejiang province. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police officers threw utility knives up to crew members inside the burning wreckage of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 so they could cut away passengers' seat belts. Passengers jumped down emergency slides, escaping the smoke. One walked through a hole where a rear bathroom had been.


Pope heads to Sicily to pray with new migrants

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 12:15 PM PDT

A poster reading "Welcome Pope Francis, the fishermen's Pope" is displayed on a boat moored at the Lampedusa harbor, Italy, Sunday, July 7, 2013. Pope Francis heads Monday to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa for his first pastoral visit outside Rome, going to the farthest reaches of Italy to pray with migrants who have recently arrived and remember those who have died trying. Francis, a pope from "the end of the Earth" whose ancestors immigrated to Argentina from Italy, has a special place in his heart for refugees: As archbishop of Buenos Aires, he denounced the exploitation of migrants as "slavery" and said those who did nothing to stop it were complicit by their silence. On Monday, he will arrive at Lampedusa's port by boat and will throw a floral wreath into the sea in memory of those who died trying to reach the island, which is closer to Africa than the Italian mainland. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)LAMPEDUSA, Sicily (AP) — Pope Francis heads Monday to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa for his first pastoral visit outside Rome, going to the farthest reaches of Italy to pray with migrants who have recently arrived by boat and mourn those who have died trying.


Doctor: At least 2 paralyzed in SF plane crash

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 11:47 AM PDT

Parents of Wang Linjia, center, are comforted by parents of some other students who were on the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 that crashed at San Francisco International Airport, at Jiangshan Middle School in Jiangshan city, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Sunday July 7, 2013. Chinese state media have identified the two people who died in the plane crash at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday as Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, students at Jiangshan Middle School in China's eastern Zhejiang province. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police officers threw utility knives up to crew members inside the burning wreckage of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 so they could cut away passengers' seat belts. Passengers jumped down emergency slides, escaping the smoke. One walked through a hole where a rear bathroom had been.


AP IMPACT: MIA work 'acutely dysfunctional'

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 11:31 AM PDT

In this photo taken Monday, July 1, 2013, in Chapel Hill, N.C., Shelia Reese, right, holds hands with her mother Chris Tench while holding a portrait of Tench and her father Kenneth F. Reese, a soldier who is still Missing In Action from the Korean War. Tench, who was later remarried, has never known what happened to her husband. The Pentagon's effort to account for tens of thousands of Americans missing in action from foreign wars is so inept, mismanaged and wasteful that it risks descending from WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon's effort to account for tens of thousands of Americans missing in action from foreign wars is so inept, mismanaged and wasteful that it risks descending from "dysfunction to total failure," according to an internal study suppressed by military officials.


Brazil says worried by report of NSA spying

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 11:27 AM PDT

PARATY, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's foreign minister says is government his "seriously concerned" by a newspaper report that the United States has collected data on millions of telephone and email conversations in his country.

Zimbabwe's prime minister accepts July polls

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 11:07 AM PDT

Movement For Democratic Change (MDC) President Morgan Tsvangirai delivers his speech at the launch of the party's election campaign in Marondera about 100 kilometres east of Harare, Zimbabwe, Sunday, July, 7, 2013. Morgan Tsvangirai is set to kick of his election campaign which will see him contest against President Robert Mugabe in an election set for July 31 2013. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)MARONDERA, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe's prime minister said Sunday his party is ready to contest elections on July 31 despite worries that the poll is taking place before democratic reforms can be completed.


Fire Chief: 6 still critical from SF plane crash

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 11:04 AM PDT

Parents of Wang Linjia, center, are comforted by parents of some other students who were on the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 that crashed at San Francisco International Airport, at Jiangshan Middle School in Jiangshan city, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Sunday July 7, 2013. Chinese state media have identified the two people who died in the plane crash at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday as Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, students at Jiangshan Middle School in China's eastern Zhejiang province. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police officers threw utility knives up to crew members inside the burning wreckage of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 so they could cut away passengers' seat belts. Passengers jumped down emergency slides, escaping the smoke. One walked through a hole where a rear bathroom had been.


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