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Mursi supporters stand firm, brace for Egypt crackdown

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 12:26 PM PDT

By Yasmine Saleh and Angus MacSwan CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamist supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi refused to abandon their protest camps in Cairo on Monday and said they would fend off any police crackdown with sticks, stones and their faith. By nightfall, though, the streets of the capital were relatively quiet as the security forces held back from any action despite warnings on Sunday that they were ready to dismantle the camps. Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy said every effort was being made to resolve the situation through dialogue. ...

Settlement expansion clouds peace talks, Palestinian prisoners to be freed

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 04:40 PM PDT

Israelis hold pictures of their family members who were killed by Palestinians during a protest against the release of Palestinian prisoners, in JerusalemBy Allyn Fisher-Ilan JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's announcement of plans to expand Jewish settlements on land Palestinians seek for a state clouded the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks convening in the Middle East this week for the first time in three years. The talks, which opened in Washington on July 30, were due to resume on Wednesday in Israel, with further talks expected later in the West Bank. Peace talks broke down three years ago in a dispute over settlement building. Israel on Monday named 26 Palestinians who it will free from jail this week as a goodwill gesture for the peace talks. ...


Cisse concedes, congratulates Keita for winning Mali vote

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 03:30 PM PDT

Poll workers count ballots in BamakoBy Daniel Flynn and Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO (Reuters) - Soumaila Cisse on Monday conceded defeat in Mali's presidential election runoff, congratulating his rival Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on winning a vote meant to draw a line under more than a year of turmoil in the West African nation. Cisse's concession, hours after he complained the election had been marred by fraud, will deepen optimism for Mali's recovery. Keita, a former prime minister, inherits a broken nation and must still negotiate peace with northern rebels. ...


Deadly Iraq bombings target cafe, school and playground

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 11:04 AM PDT

By Sylvia Westall BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 16 people were killed and 41 wounded on Monday in a suicide bomb attack on a crowded cafe in Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, part of the worst wave of violence in Iraq in around five years. Two roadside bombs - one planted near a playground and another near a school - also killed six people and wounded dozens, some of them children, in the town of Muqdadiya, 80 km northeast of the capital. ...

Kerry backs peace talks during visit to U.S. ally Colombia

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 03:26 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry smiles with Colombia's FM Maria Angela Holguin during a news conference at the presidential palace in BogotaBy Warren Strobel BOGOTA (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday promised strong U.S. backing for peace talks aimed at ending Colombia's half-century of conflict, calling the country a success story in a world where many states have failed or are failing. "The United States of America will support that peace," Kerry said after talks with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos in Bogota. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, is negotiating with the government to bring an end to a conflict that has killed more than 200,000 people since it began nearly five decades ago. ...


U.S. eyeing Syrian opposition alliances, chemical weapons moves

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 03:12 PM PDT

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Martin Dempsey testifies at a Senate Armed Services Committee in WashingtonBy Phil Stewart TEL AVIV (Reuters) - The United States is gaining more insight into Syria's moderate opposition but must watch carefully to determine when occasional collaboration with Islamist radicals might turn into real alliances, the top U.S. military officer said on Monday. The comments by General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, came at the start of a trip to close U.S. allies Israel and Jordan likely to be dominated by discussions about Syria's conflict and broader regional unrest. ...


Dalai Lama's China site hacked, infects others: expert

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 04:17 PM PDT

Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama poses for a picture with the students of a Tibetan school after inaugurating its auditorium at Gurupura in the southern Indian state of Karnataka July 14, 2013. REUTERS/StringerBy Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - A prominent computer security firm warned that the Dalai Lama's Chinese-language website has been hacked and is infecting visitors' computers with viruses in what may to be an effort to spy on human rights activists who frequently visit the site. Kaspersky Lab researcher Kurt Baumgartner told Reuters on Monday that he is advising web surfers to stay away from the Chinese-language site of the Central Tibetan Administration, or CTA, until the organization fixes the bug. He described the attack on his company's blog: http://bit.ly/16LuBoP. ...


Mexico proposes energy reform, some investors skeptical

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 04:16 PM PDT

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto listens to an attendee at the annual Allen and Co. conference at the Sun ValleyBy David Alire Garcia and Simon Gardner MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - President Enrique Pena Nieto on Monday proposed an overhaul of Mexico's energy industry to offer private companies profit-sharing contracts, but investors said it might be too cautious and some sold Mexican assets. The proposal calls for changes to key articles of the constitution that ban certain contracts and make oil, gas, petrochemicals and electricity the sole preserve of the state, in a bid to lure investment to stem sliding oil output. ...


Keita wins Mali election after opponent concedes

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 04:00 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 7, 2013 file photo, presidential candidate Ibrahim Boubacar Keita waves to supporters during a campaign rally at the March 26 Stadium, in Bamako, Mali. The former prime minister has won Mali's presidency after his opponent conceded defeat before official results were announced. Soumaila Cisse went late Monday, Aug. 12 to Keita's home to congratulate him on his victory, according to spokesmen for both candidates. (AP Photo/Harouna Traore)BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Former prime minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita won Mali's presidency after his opponent conceded defeat late Monday in an election aimed at restoring stability to a country wracked by a rebellion, a coup and an Islamic insurgency.


Mexico proposes private firms in oil industry

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 03:46 PM PDT

Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, right, shows to the audience his proposal that would allow private firms to participate in the oil industry as his Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong applauds in Mexico City, Monday, Aug.12, 2013. Pena Nieto is making his most daring gamble yet, with a proposal to lift a decades-old ban on private companies in the state-run oil industry, a cornerstone of Mexico's national pride. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto proposed on Monday lifting a decades-old ban on private companies investing in the state-run oil industry, a cornerstone of Mexico's national pride that's seen production plummet in recent decades.


Agents: 44 gunned down in Nigeria mosque

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 03:46 PM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, Nigeria Muslims attend Eid al-Fitr prayers in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Suspected Islamic militants wearing army fatigues gunned down 44 people praying at a mosque in northeast Nigeria, while another 12 civilians died in an apparently simultaneous attack, security agents said Monday Aug. 12, 2013. The slayings occurred Sunday morning at a mosque in Konduga town, some 35 kilometers (22 miles) outside Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria's Borno state. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Suspected Islamic militants wearing army fatigues gunned down 44 people praying at a mosque in northeast Nigeria, while another 12 civilians died in an apparently simultaneous attack, security agents said Monday.


Israeli pain, Palestinian joy over inmate release

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 02:59 PM PDT

Relatives of Mustafa al-Haj hang banners showing him in the village of Brukin, south of Nablus, in the West Bank, Monday, Aug. 12, 2013. Al-Haj is one of the 26 Palestinian prisoners, most of them held for deadly attacks, Israel agreed to release this week as part of a U.S.-brokered deal that led to a resumption of Mideast negotiations. (AP Photo /Nasser Ishtayeh)BRUKIN, West Bank (AP) — Mustafa al-Haj expected to die in an Israeli prison for killing an American-born settler hiking in the West Bank in 1989. Now lights decorate his home to celebrate the planned release of the 45-year-old and more than 100 other Palestinian convicts in a deal that revived Mideast peace talks.


Kerry still hopeful on Mideast peace talks

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 02:59 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a joint news conference with Colombia's Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin, unseen, at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Aug. 12, 2013. Kerry is on a one-day official visit to Colombia. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday the recent flap over Israeli settlement announcements likely won't derail Mideast peace talks, which are scheduled to resume this week.


Cisse concedes defeat, congratulates Keita for Mali vote win

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 02:51 PM PDT

Presidential candidate Cisse speaks at a news conference in BamakoBAMAKO (Reuters) - Soumaila Cisse has conceded defeat in Mali's presidential election runoff and congratulated his rival Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Cisse's campaign manager said on Monday. "Yes, it just happened ... He went to see IBK to congratulate him," Gougnon Coulibaly told Reuters, referring to Keita by the initials he is universally known by. (Reporting by Daniel Flynn; Writing by David Lewis; Editing by David Brunnstrom)


Protests swell, prompt Egypt to postpone dispersal

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 02:27 PM PDT

A supporter of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chants slogans against the Egyptian Army during a protest at the sit-in at Rabaah al-Adawiya Mosque, which is fortified with multiple walls of bricks, tires, metal barricades and sandbags, where protesters have installed their camp in Nasr City, in suburban Cairo, Monday, Aug. 12, 2013. Egyptian authorities on Monday postponed a move to disperse the two Cairo sit-ins by Morsi supporters to CAIRO (AP) — Supporters of toppled President Mohammed Morsi increased the pressure on Egypt's interim leadership by defiantly flooding into two protest camps Monday, prompting police to postpone moving against the 6-week-old sit-ins because they feared a "massacre."


Q&A on anti-gay legislation in Russia

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 02:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday, June 29, 2013 file photo riot police (OMON) guard gay rights activists who have been beaten by anti-gay protesters during an authorized gay rights rally in St.Petersburg, Russia. Police detained several gay activists, who were outnumbered by the protesters. Dozens of gay activists had to be protected by police as they gathered for the parade, which proceeded with official approval despite recently passed legislation targeting gays. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, file)MOSCOW (AP) — The law on "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations among minors" was signed into law by President Vladimir Putin on July 29. Originally titled the law on "homosexual propaganda," the bill criminalizes public expression of support for nontraditional relationships. Russian lawmakers say the law doesn't outlaw homosexuality but merely discourages discussion of it among people younger than 18. However, the law has outraged Russian liberals and some sectors of the international community just six months before the start of the Winter Olympic Games in the Russian city of Sochi.


Fidel Castro's role in Cuba is chiefly offstage as he turns 87

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 01:59 PM PDT

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro sits at inauguration of the ´Vilma Espin Guillois´ school in HavanaBy Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) - Fidel Castro turns 87 on Tuesday, largely out of sight but not out of mind, as Cuba struggles to move on from his half-century rule and as many of his policies are reconsidered under the leadership of his younger brother Raul. The birthday of one of Latin America's most iconic revolutionary figures has been a low key celebration in recent years. A choral concert in his honor at the Jose Marti national monument in Havana on Monday evening was the only official event planned. ...


Top Syria rebel visits fighters in Assad homeland

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 01:38 PM PDT

In this image taken from Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013, video obtained from the Sham News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a rebel fighter fires a gun in a valley in an unidentified location in Latakia province, Syria. Rebel military chief Gen. Salim Idris, the military commander of Syria's main Western-backed opposition group, visited rebels in the coastal province that is President Bashar Assad's ancestral homeland following recent opposition advances in the area, a spokeswoman said Monday. (AP Photo/Sham News Network via AP video)BEIRUT (AP) — The military commander of Syria's main Western-backed opposition group visited rebels in the coastal province that is President Bashar Assad's ancestral homeland following recent opposition advances in the area, a spokeswoman said Monday.


Attacks kill 26 in central and western Iraq

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 01:08 PM PDT

Mourners unload the coffin of an Iraqi man who was killed along with his wife in a car bomb attack during their honeymoon, his family said, during the funeral in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013. A wave of car bombings targeting those celebrating the end of Ramadan across Iraq killed scores of people Saturday, a bloody reminder of the inability of Iraqi authorities to stop violence threatening to spiral out of control. (AP Photo/ Haider Hamdani)BAGHDAD (AP) — Three blasts including a suicide bomb in a cafe killed 26 people in central and western Iraq on Monday evening, officials said. They were the latest attacks in a months-long surge of violence.


Bombs in cafe, near restaurant kill 21 in Iraq

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 12:47 PM PDT

Mourners unload the coffin of an Iraqi man who was killed along with his wife in a car bomb attack during their honeymoon, his family said, during the funeral in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013. A wave of car bombings targeting those celebrating the end of Ramadan across Iraq killed scores of people Saturday, a bloody reminder of the inability of Iraqi authorities to stop violence threatening to spiral out of control. (AP Photo/ Haider Hamdani)BAGHDAD (AP) — Two bombs including a suicide attack on a cafe killed 21 people in central Iraq on Monday evening, officials said. They were the latest attacks in a months-long surge of violence.


Study suggests Neanderthals were more advanced

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 12:24 PM PDT

This undated photo provided Monday, Aug.12, 2013, by Abri Peyrony Project shows the most complete lissoir, or smoothing tool made of bone, smaller that a person's hand at just a few centimeters long, found during excavations at the Neanderthal site of Abri Peyrony. Researchers have found what they say are the first examples of specialized bone tools made by Neanderthals, a discovery that will add to debates about how advanced Neanderthals were and how much contact they had with modern humans. The discovery is being discussed by scientist, researchers and academics after the findings were published online Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (AP Photo/Image courtesy: Abri Peyrony Project)PARIS (AP) — Researchers have found what they say are specialized bone tools made by Neanderthals in Europe thousands of years before modern humans are thought to have arrived to share such skills, a discovery that suggests modern man's distant cousins were more advanced than previously believed.


Top candidate's party in Mali accused of fraud

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 12:17 PM PDT

An election worker tallies votes in a polling station, after the close of polls in Mali's presidential runoff, in Bamako, Mali, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013. From the ancient desert town of Timbuktu to refugee camps in neighboring countries, voters chose Sunday who should lead Mali out of the political upheaval that left the country's north in the hands of al-Qaida-linked militants for much of last year. Mali's next president will be tasked with not only rebuilding the country's shattered economy but also resolving a simmering separatist movement in the far north. (AP Photo/Thomas Martinez)BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Malian presidential candidate Soumaila Cisse's supporters on Monday accused the front-runner's party of stuffing ballot boxes as workers tallied votes on chalkboards from an election aimed at restoring stability after a rebellion, a coup and an Islamic insurgency.


Bahrain will 'forcefully confront' planned August 14 protests: PM

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 12:16 PM PDT

By Sami Aboudi DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain's prime minister said on Monday his government would "forcefully confront" protests called for later this week, and warned those behind planned demonstrations that they would be punished, state news agency BNA reported. Protesters inspired by youth-led protests in Egypt that pushed the army to oust Islamist President Mohamed Mursi last month called for rallies on Wednesday, at a time of escalating clashes between police and pro-opposition demonstrators. ...

Algeria issues arrest warrant for ex-OPEC chief

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 12:10 PM PDT

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria's chief prosecutor says an international arrest warrant has been issued for former OPEC president Chakib Khelil for his alleged role in a bribery scandal involving Algeria's state oil company, Sonatrach.

Israeli victims' families protest prisoner release

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 12:07 PM PDT

Relatives of Mustafa al-Haj hang banners showing him in the village of Brukin, south of Nablus, in the West Bank, Monday, Aug. 12, 2013. Al-Haj is one of the 26 Palestinian prisoners, most of them held for deadly attacks, Israel agreed to release this week as part of a U.S.-brokered deal that led to a resumption of Mideast negotiations. (AP Photo /Nasser Ishtayeh)BRUKIN, West Bank (AP) — Mustafa al-Haj expected to die in an Israeli prison for killing an American-born settler hiking in the West Bank in 1989. Now lights decorate his home to celebrate the planned release of the 45-year-old and more than 100 other Palestinian convicts in a deal that revived Mideast peace talks.


Islamist Nour Party to help shape new Egyptian constitution

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 12:03 PM PDT

By Shaimaa Fayed CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Nour Party said on Monday it could join the assembly writing a new constitution, adding Islamist support to the military's political transition plan following its overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi last month. Nour, the second largest Islamist party after Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood, said it had reservations about the fact that the constitutional amendments would take place under an appointed interim president as opposed to an elected one. It also wanted certain clauses in the constitution retained. ...

Dominican traffic death rate among world's highest

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 11:46 AM PDT

In this July 15, 2013 photo, a family of four travel on a motorcycle on the road between Dajabon and Montecristi, Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic is effectively the deadliest nation anywhere for drivers, second only to the tiny South Pacific island of Niue, where each death among its roughly 1,400 inhabitants spikes the fatality average. For every 100,000 inhabitants in the Dominican Republic, 42 die every year from traffic accidents, according to the World Health Organization. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Abiu Lopez)SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — High school student Adonis Tineo lay motionless in an overflowing emergency room on a recent afternoon after slamming his motorcycle into a truck laden with rice as he tried to pass a minivan.


Algeria issues arrest warrants for former oil minister, others

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 11:31 AM PDT

Algeria's Energy Minister Khelil addresses a news conference after the Gas Exporting Countries Forum in OranBy Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria has issued international arrest warrants for nine individuals, including former oil minister Chakib Khelil, the official APS news agency said on Monday. Also on the Attorney General's list of warrants were Khelil's wife, two of his sons, and Farid Noureddine Bedjaoui. Bedjaoui is accused by Italian prosecutors of channeling nearly 198 million euros ($230 million) in bribes for Italian oil service group Saipem, controlled by Eni, to officials in Algeria via a company called Pearl Partners Limited. ...


Rwanda opposition party to sit out vote after late registration

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 11:15 AM PDT

KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda's Democratic Green Party said on Monday it will sit out September's parliamentary election after the electoral commission took three years to register it, finally doing so just days before the deadline. Analysts say President Paul Kagame has a well-documented record of blocking, threatening or infiltrating rival parties to stifle even nascent political opposition, and that the belated registration of the Democratic Green Party can hardly be seen as a real opening of the democratic space. ...

Key events in Egypt's uprising and unrest

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 11:06 AM PDT

A supporter of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi lies on the floor next to anti-Egyptian Army Chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi poster in Nahda Square, where protesters have installed their camp near Cairo University in Giza, southwestern Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Aug. 12, 2013. Egyptian authorities on Monday postponed a move to disperse two Cairo sit-ins by supporters of the country's ousted president to "avoid bloodshed," an official said, as Islamist supporters stepped up rallies to demand his return to power. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities on Monday postponed plans to disperse two Cairo protest camps demanding the return of ousted President Mohammed Morsi after thousands of his supporters reinforced the sit-ins when news leaked to the press.


UK bars trash cans from tracking people with Wi-Fi

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 10:59 AM PDT

A youth uses a trash bin in central London, Monday, Aug. 12, 2013. Officials say that an advertising firm must immediately stop using its network of high-tech trash cans, like this one, to track people walking through London's financial district. The City of London Corporation says it has demanded Renew pull the plug on the program, which measures the Wi-Fi signals emitted by smartphones to follow commuters as they pass the garbage cans. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)LONDON (AP) — Officials demanded Monday that an advertising firm stop using a network of high-tech trash cans to track people walking through London's financial district.


Main issues behind Egypt's political stalemate

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 10:58 AM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi sleep their tent at the sit-in at Rabaa Al-Adawiya mosque, which is fortified with multiple walls of bricks, tires, metal barricades and sandbags, where protesters have installed their camp in Nasser City, Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Aug. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)The main issues behind Egypt's political stalemate that threatens to spiral into more violence:


Egypt postpones dispersing pro-Morsi protest camps

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 10:55 AM PDT

Security members for supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi exercise at a sit-in at Rabaah al-Adawiya Mosque in Nasr City, in surburban Cairo, Monday, Aug. 12, 2013. Egyptian authorities on Monday postponed a move to disperse the two Cairo sit-ins by Morsi supporters to CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities on Monday postponed plans to disperse two Cairo protest camps demanding the return of ousted President Mohammed Morsi after thousands of his supporters reinforced the sit-ins when news leaked to the press, military and security officials said.


Official: US, Germany to negotiate 'no spy' pact

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 10:51 AM PDT

BERLIN (AP) — Germany and the United States will begin negotiations this month on an agreement not to spy on one another in wake of the revelations by NSA leaker Edward Snowden about massive electronic surveillance by the National Security Agency, a senior German official said Monday.

Peru says top two Shining Path rebels killed in jungle shootout

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 10:38 AM PDT

LIMA (Reuters) - The Shining Path rebel group's top two fighters are believed to have been killed in a shootout with Peruvian security forces in a drug-trafficking region of the jungle late on Sunday, President Ollanta Humala said on Monday. The clash with rebels in the south-central Ayacucho region likely killed Marco Antonio Quispe, or "Comrade Gabriel," a cocaine-running heavyweight, and Alejandro Borda Casafranca, or "Comrade Alipio," the second-in-command of the group's reduced jungle faction. "Intelligence sources that took part in this operation confirm ... ...

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