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At least 51 killed in Egypt as Islamists urge defiance

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 11:53 AM PDT

Medics prevents supporters of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi from entering a field hospital as they treat the wounded victims after clashes with the army soldiers, in CairoBy Alexander Dziadosz and Shadia Nasralla CAIRO (Reuters) - At least 51 people were killed on Monday when the Egyptian army opened fire on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Mursi, in the deadliest incident since the elected Islamist leader was toppled by the military five days ago. Protesters said shooting started as they performed morning prayers outside the Cairo barracks where Mursi is believed to be held. But military spokesman Ahmed Ali said that at 4 a.m. (0200 GMT) armed men attacked troops in the area around the Republican Guard compound in the northeast of the city. ...


Former Egyptian finance minister favorite for interim PM post

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 01:34 PM PDT

Egypt's Finance Minister Samir Radwan arrives for a meeting in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - Former finance minister Samir Radwan has emerged as the favorite to become Egypt's interim prime minister, senior political sources said on Monday, as the military-backed transitional administration seeks a way out of political deadlock. Radwan said he had not yet been approached. Interim head of state Adli Mansour has been trying since last week to form a temporary government that can guide the country towards fresh elections at a time of growing unrest, triggered by the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi five days ago. ...


Exclusive: Congress delaying U.S. aid to Syrian rebels - sources

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 03:55 PM PDT

Free Syrian Army fighters, holding their weapons, stand during military training north of IdlibBy Mark Hosenball and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional committees are holding up a plan to send U.S. weapons to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad because of fears that such deliveries will not be decisive and the arms might end up in the hands of Islamist militants, five U.S. national security sources said. Both the Senate and House of Representatives intelligence committees have expressed reservations behind closed doors at the effort by President Barack Obama's administration to support the insurgents by sending them military hardware. ...


Germany defends 'strictly legal' cooperation with NSA

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 08:26 AM PDT

Broken antenna covers of Former National Security Agency (NSA) listening station are seen at the Teufelsberg hill (German for Devil's Mountain) in BerlinBy Stephen Brown BERLIN (Reuters) - Angela Merkel's government said on Monday that its cooperation with American intelligence was fully regulated by strict legal guidelines after a magazine reported that the U.S. National Security Agency was in close cahoots with German spies. Germany's opposition, with an eye on September's election, when the chancellor will seek a third term, demanded that her government explain how much it knew about U.S. surveillance tactics ahead of talks with Washington about the NSA. ...


Snowden affair clouds U.S. attempts to press China to curb cyber theft

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 02:33 PM PDT

By Paul Eckert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Revelations by former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden will make it harder for the United States to confront China at talks this week over the alleged cyber theft of trade secrets worth hundreds of billions of dollars each year. Snowden's disclosures of American electronic surveillance around the world give China an argument to counter U.S. complaints that it steals private intellectual property (IP) from U.S. companies and research centers. ...

Bin Laden's life on the run revealed by Pakistani inquiry

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 03:02 PM PDT

A boy plays with a tennis ball in front of the compound in AbbottabadBy Maria Golovnina ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden lived in plain sight for almost a decade and was once even pulled over for speeding but not apprehended, thanks to the incompetence of Pakistan's intelligence and security services, an official report into his killing said on Monday. The report, leaked to Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera which circulated it late on Monday, offers fascinating details about life on the run for the world's most wanted man, who, it says, wore a cowboy hat to avoid being spotted from above. ...


Crash investigators turn to cockpit decisions

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 04:56 PM PDT

In this Saturday, July 6, 2013 aerial photo, the wreckage of Asiana Flight 214 lies on the ground after it crashed at the San Francisco International Airport, in San Francisco. The pilot at the controls of airliner had just 43 hours of flight time in the Boeing 777 and was landing one for the first time at San Francisco International. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Investigators trying to understand why Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash-landed focused Monday on the actions of an experienced pilot learning his way around a new aircraft, fellow pilots who were supposed to be monitoring him and why no one noticed that the plane was coming in too slow.


Egypt Islamist party in bind after killings

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 04:34 PM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans against the military near Cairo University, where protesters have installed their camp in Giza, southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 8, 2013. Egyptian soldiers and police opened fire on supporters of the ousted president early Monday in violence that left dozens of people killed, including one officer, outside a military building in Cairo where demonstrators had been holding a sit-in, government officials and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)CAIRO (AP) — An Islamist party that is a key member of the factions that backed the military's ouster of President Mohammed Morsi threatened to break with the country's new military-backed leadership after the killing of more than 50 Islamist protesters Sunday, trying to salvage its position in the face of criticism it had turned against its own movement.


Canada train derailment death toll rises to 13

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 04:23 PM PDT

Searchers dig through the rubble for victims of the inferno in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, Monday, July 8, 2013, as firefighter continue to hose down tanker cars to prevent explosions. A runaway train derailed igniting tanker cars carrying crude oil early Saturday. (AP Photo/ THE CANADIAN PRESS,Ryan Remiorz)LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (AP) — Traumatized survivors of an oil train derailment that wiped out the heart of a small town braced for more bad news as inspectors were finally cleared to enter the charred site and look for remains late Monday, more than two days after the disaster that killed at least 13 people. A total of 50 were missing and the death toll was sure to rise.


Brazil opens investigation into US spying

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 04:20 PM PDT

Thomas Shannon, U.S. ambassador to Brazil, sits in a car after meeting with the Brazil's Minister of the Cabinet of Institutional Security Gen. Jose Elito Carvalho as he leaves the presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, July 8, 2013. The Brazilian government began an investigation Monday into whether telecommunications firms operating in the country cooperated with the U.S. as part of a spying program that has collected data on billions of telephone and email conversations. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)SAO PAULO (AP) — The Brazilian government began an investigation Monday into whether telecommunications firms operating in the country cooperated with the U.S. as part of a spying program that has collected data on billions of telephone and email conversations.


Clashes by Egypt army, protesters kill at least 54

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 04:19 PM PDT

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt was rocked Monday by the deadliest day since its Islamist president was toppled by the military, with more than 50 of his supporters killed by security forces as the country's top Muslim cleric raised the specter of civil war.

Report assails Pakistani officials over bin Laden

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 04:06 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 2, 2011 file photo, a Pakistani soldier stands near a compound where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden lived in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Bin Laden was able to live in Pakistan undetected for nine years because of a breathtaking scale of negligence and incompetence at practically all levels of the Pakistani government, according to an official government report published by the pan-Arab Al-Jazeera satellite channel on Monday, July 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)ISLAMABAD (AP) — Al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden was able to live in Pakistan undetected for nine years because of a breathtaking scale of negligence and incompetence at practically all levels of the Pakistani government, according to an official government report published by a TV channel on Monday.


Brazil to probe local telecom operators over alleged U.S. spying

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 04:06 PM PDT

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's telecommunications agency said on Monday it would investigate whether local operators had violated customer privacy rules in alleged surveillance of Brazilian telecommunications data by U.S. spy agencies. The decision came as U.S. officials, including the American ambassador in Brasilia, sought to reassure Brazil following reports in the O Globo newspaper that the American Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency had gathered telephone and email data in Brazil and used Brazil-based equipment to do so. ...

Factbox: Key issues in annual U.S.-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 03:57 PM PDT

(Reuters) - Top U.S. and Chinese officials will meet in Washington this week for the annual U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, a process launched five years ago to help the world's two largest economies manage an increasingly complex relationship. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will host Chinese co-chairs, State Councilor Yang Jiechi and Vice Premier Wang Yang. All four officials are new in their positions and leading their first S&ED talks, which include the heads of 14 U.S. government agencies and 16 Chinese state bodies. ...

No cutoff in US aid to Egyptian military _ for now

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 03:46 PM PDT

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House in Washignton, Monday, July 8, 2013. The overthrow of Egypt's Islamist president, and National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, were among the topics Carney discussed. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration signaled Monday that U.S. national security interests will trump its promotion of Egypt's budding democracy, stressing the importance of continued aid to the Egyptian military, which overthrew the elected president last week.


National Geographic Photos Document Massive Bird Slaughter

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 03:45 PM PDT

Last song for migrating birdsEach year, millions of songbirds are killed for food, for profit or just for the joy of shooting something, as they move from their winter grounds in Africa to their summer breeding territories in Europe.


Insight: From power to protest, Egypt's Brotherhood fights for life

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 03:40 PM PDT

Clerics supporting deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi attend a rally at the Raba El-Adwyia square where Mursi's supporters are camping in CairoBy Tom Perry CAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood is facing an old adversary in the fight of its life, but has few means to confront the Egyptian military that has swept it from power. Reduced to camping out on the Cairo streets, all it can do, it seems, is mourn its dead. The deaths of 51 Brotherhood supporters killed when the army opened fire on them on Monday was the latest and bloodiest blow to a group reeling from President Mohamed Mursi's dramatic ouster from office at the hands of the generals. ...


U.S. will not cut off aid to Egypt immediately

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 03:34 PM PDT

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney answers questions at the White House in WashingtonBy Steve Holland and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House refused to label the military ouster of Egypt's president a coup on Monday and said there would be no immediate cut-off in U.S. aid to Egypt in a move that distances Washington from the country's toppled Muslim Brotherhood leadership. White House spokesman Jay Carney, peppered with questions about Egypt at a daily briefing, struggled to explain how Washington could avoid calling the ouster of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi a coup. ...


Egypt to hold parliamentary vote in about six months

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 03:32 PM PDT

Supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi attend a protest outside the Rabaa Adawiya mosque in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt will hold new parliamentary elections once amendments to its suspended constitution are approved in a referendum, the interim head of state decreed on Monday, setting out a timeframe that could see a legislative vote in about six months. A presidential vote would be called once the new legislative chamber convenes, the decree said. It set a four-and-a-half month timeframe for amendments to the state's controversial, Islamist-tinged constitution that was passed in December. ...


Analysis: Egyptian military's new look challenged

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 03:28 PM PDT

Egyptian army soldiers take their positions near armored vehicles to guard the entrances of Tahrir square, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 8, 2013. Egyptian military officials said gunmen killed at least five supporters of the former president when people tried to storm a military building in Cairo. The official, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to brief reporters, also said a group had tried to storm the headquarters of the Republican Guard. He added that those killed had been supporters of former President Mohammed Morsi camped outside the building in protest at his overthrow. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)CAIRO (AP) — Led by a savvy commander, Egypt's powerful military returned to politics with a new look and a new approach. It built a coalition behind the removal of the president and rode a stunning wave of popular support.


Asiana plane was far below target speed before San Francisco crash

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 03:20 PM PDT

The interior of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 at San Francisco International Airport in San FranciscoBy Sarah McBride and Hyunjoo Jin SAN FRANCISCO/SEOUL (Reuters) - The Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 that crashed at San Francisco's international airport was flying 25 percent below its intended air speed before slamming into the ground, U.S. safety officials said on Monday as attention increasingly focused on the actions of the pilots. All four pilots were being interviewed on Monday by investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and other agencies, NTSB chairwoman Deborah Hersman said at a news conference in San Francisco. ...


Pakistan’s Bin Laden Report: What You Need to Know

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 03:17 PM PDT

A leaked Pakistani report on the May 1, 2011 U.S. raid on Osama bin Laden's compound provides a first-hand view into the dysfunctions of a Pakistani government that both managed to play host to the world's most wanted man and then failed to react to the U.S. operation which had to breach Pakistani sovereignty in order to kill him.

Judge faults Gitmo force-feeding but won't stop it

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 03:16 PM PDT

MIAMI (AP) — A U.S. federal judge ruled Monday that she lacks the authority to halt the force-feeding of prisoners on hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, while pointedly noting that the practice appears to violate international law and that President Barack Obama can resolve the issue.

Study: Air pollution cut northern China lifespans

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 03:12 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, May 7, 2013 photo, visitors to Tiananmen Gate wear masks during a day of heavy pollution in Beijing. Air pollution significantly shortens people's life expectancy, according to a study published Tuesday that says bad air shortened the lives of 500 million people in north China by an average of more than five years. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)BEIJING (AP) — A new study links heavy air pollution from coal burning to shorter lives in northern China. Researchers estimate that the half-billion people alive there in the 1990s will live an average of 5½ years less than their southern counterparts because they breathed dirtier air.


Federal officials end inquiry into Wynn

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 02:58 PM PDT

In this April 22, 2010 photo, Music fountain performs at the Wynn Macau. Macau is in the midst of one of the greatest gambling booms the world has ever known. To rival it, Las Vegas would have to attract six times as many visitors essentially every man, woman and child in America. Wynn Las Vegas now makes nearly three-quarters of its profits in Macau. Sands, which owns the Venetian and Palazzo, earns two-thirds of its revenue there. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)LAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal investigators are done looking into a $135 million donation casino giant Wynn Resorts gave to a university in the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau.


Brazil now looking for Portuguese, Spanish doctors, not Cubans

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 02:48 PM PDT

Doctors work in the tomography section of Havana's main cardiology and heart surgery hospitalBRASILIA (Reuters) - The Brazilian government, under pressure to improve public health services, has dropped plans to import a contingent of Cuban doctors and is instead looking to hire physicians in Spain and Portugal, the Health Ministry said on Monday. The plan to bring in Cuban doctors created a backlash because of questions about their qualifications. Brazilian medical associations argued that standards at Cuba's medical schools were lower than in Brazil and equivalent in some cases to a nursing education. ...


Race tight for governor of key Mexico border state

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 02:45 PM PDT

In this Monday, July 1, 2013, state police and forensic experts stand outside the home of mayoral candidate Carlos Triana Garcia after unknown gunmen opened fire on his home in Tlalixcoyan, Mexico. With only days to go in the campaign for Sunday's elections in 14 states, at least eight local politicians or their family members have been killed. Others have reported being kidnapped or shot at. Triana Garcia of the conservative National Action Party woke up at 4 a.m. Monday to a spray of gunfire on his house in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. No one was injured in that incident, though 11 bullet casings were found. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Enrique Pena Nieto sought to calm tensions Monday over the still-undecided election for governor of the key Mexican border state of Baja California after both sides claimed victory and authorities said mistakes were made in preliminary vote counts.


Afghanistan arrests former US translator

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 02:45 PM PDT

A missing-persons poster, with pictures of nine men who their relatives say were last seen being arrested by U.S. special operations forces, is held by a villager in Maidan Shahr, Afghanistan on Sunday, March 10, 2013. The posters were up for several months, but taken down after the bodies were found buried in a field near a U.S. base in Narkh district, about 15 kilometers (about 10 miles) from Maidan Shahr, capital of the Wardak province. An Afghan who once translated for the U.S. Special Forces was arrested on allegations of widespread torture and murder in connection with the disappearance and deaths of at least nine Afghans, the Afghan intelligence confirmed Monday, July 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan intelligence on Monday announced the arrest of an Afghan who translated for the U.S. Special Forces and was linked to the mysterious deaths of at least nine civilians in an affair that has further strained relations between the U.S. and President Hamid Karzai.


Egypt interim president sets election timetable

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 02:42 PM PDT

Egyptian army stand guard around the Republican Guard building in Nasr City in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 8, 2013. Egyptian soldiers and police opened fire on supporters of the ousted President Mohammed Morsi early Monday in violence that left dozens of people killed, including one officer, outside the military building in Cairo where demonstrators had been holding a sit-in, government officials and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's interim president has issued a swift timetable for the process of amending the constitution, setting parliamentary and presidential elections for early 2014.


NTSB: Plane parts found in San Francisco Bay

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 02:30 PM PDT

This image released by the National Transportation Safety Board Sunday, July 7, 2013, shows NTSB workers near the Boeing 777 Asiana Airlines Flight 214 aircraft. The Asiana flight crashed upon landing Saturday, July 6, at San Francisco International Airport, and two of the 307 passengers aboard were killed. (AP Photo/NTSB)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Asiana jet that crashed at San Francisco International Airport left lower sections of its tail on a rocky seawall and in the bay, then scattered debris several hundred feet down the runway, the NTSB reported Monday in describing the plane's deadly path.


Runaway train devastates small town in Quebec

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 02:23 PM PDT

Family watches the scene of an explosion by the track that leads to derailed trains in Lac MeganticBy Richard Valdmanis and Julie Gordon LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (Reuters) - The only warning Lac-Megantic residents had of the coming disaster was the louder-than-usual rumble of a train - a runaway locomotive laden with crude oil that would jump the tracks, explode and burn down the center of town. "I heard a rattle, louder than usual, so I went out on the balcony and I saw the train going at extremely high speed," said Ghislain Bisson, 52, who was watching late-night television as the train approached. "Then, I saw it. It just left the track and headed right for the building. ...


Bolivia demands answers from Europe in plane spat over Snowden

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 02:23 PM PDT

Supporters of Bolivia's President Morales burn a head mask of U.S. President Obama during a protest in La PazBy Daniel Ramos LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivia demanded on Monday that France, Portugal, Spain and Italy reveal who told them that former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden was on board President Evo Morales' flight from Moscow last week. Bolivia said it was an act of "state terrorism" by the United States and its European allies that the four countries banned Morales' plane from their airspace on suspicions it was carrying the U.S. fugitive to Bolivia in defiance of Washington. ...


Egypt puts travel restrictions on Syrians

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 02:20 PM PDT

In this Sunday, July 7, 2013, citizen journalism image provided by Lens Young Homsi, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, black smoke rises from buildings damaged by Syrian government airstrikes and shelling in Homs, Syria. A Syrian government official claimed that the army wrested a contested district of the key city from rebels on Monday after ten days of fierce fighting. But two activists based in the city denied the claim, saying rebels were under heavy fire but still holding on. (AP Photo/Lens Young Homsi)BEIRUT (AP) — Egypt restricted the ability of Syrians to enter the country on Monday, with officials citing reports that a large number of Syrians were backing the Muslim Brotherhood, which is engaged in a bloody standoff over the military's ouster of Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi.


US, China discuss cybersecurity

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 02:18 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. and Chinese officials began formal discussions on cybersecurity Monday, kicking off four days of talks to build cooperation and broach issues that divide the two world powers.

Judge denies bin Laden son-in-law request for restraining order

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 02:14 PM PDT

An artist sketch shows Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a militant who appeared in videos as a spokesman for al Qaeda after the September 11, 2001 attacks, appearing at the U.S. District Court in ManhattanBy Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday declined to temporarily block U.S. government agencies from conducting special surveillance on lawyers representing Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, which those lawyers view as illegal spying. Even if the agencies monitor the communications of lawyers for Suleiman Abu Ghaith, "there isn't a shred of evidence" that prosecutors are privy to that information and using it to Abu Ghaith's disadvantage, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan said at a hearing. ...


Cambodian opposition leader vows to end exile

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 02:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 27, 2008 photo, Sam Rainsy leader of Sam Rainsy Party greets his supporters after casting his vote at a polling station in kampong Cham province north of Phnom Penh. Cambodia's charismatic self-exiled opposition leader vowed to return to Cambodia ahead of this month's general election to help challenge the 28-year rule of Prime Minister Hun Sen. The Cambodian government said Rainsy is welcome home but could face arrest if he returns. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia's charismatic self-exiled opposition leader has vowed to return to Cambodia ahead of this month's general election to help challenge the 28-year rule of Prime Minister Hun Sen.


Ship seized by Somali pirates sinks

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 01:36 PM PDT

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A hijacked Malaysian-flagged ship that pirates have held off the coast of Somalia since November 2010 sank in rough seas, the European Union Naval Force said Monday, and a pirate commander said the ship had faced mechanical problems.

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