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Pro-Mursi protester shot dead as Egypt standoff intensifies

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 03:15 PM PDT

By Tom Finn and Tom Perry CAIRO (Reuters) - One Muslim Brotherhood member was shot dead and at least 11 people wounded in Egypt on Tuesday, security sources said, with the Islamist group accusing plain clothes police of firing on their march. The killing could harden the standoff between the Brotherhood, which is demanding the reinstatement of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, and the army-backed government. ...

Kerry visit to Brazil overshadowed by NSA spying controversy

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 02:01 PM PDT

Brazil's President Rousseff reacts during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Kerry at Planalto Palace in BrasiliaBy Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - The United States pledged on Tuesday that Brazil and other allies will get answers about American communications surveillance aimed at thwarting terrorism, but gave no indication it would change the way it gathers such information. Secretary of State John Kerry urged Brazil not to let recent revelations of secret internet surveillance by the United States derail growing trade, diplomatic and cultural relations between the two largest economies in the Americas. ...


Malians applaud as Cisse vows to create opposition

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 11:52 AM PDT

Defeated presidential candidate Cisse speaks at a news conference in BamakoBy Daniel Flynn and Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO (Reuters) - The loser of Mali's presidential election vowed on Tuesday to build the war-torn West African country's first real opposition in years, as Malians applauded his admission of defeat that dispelled fears of fresh conflict. Soumaila Cisse conceded late on Monday as it became clear former prime minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita had swept Sunday's second-round vote with a promise to restore the pride of a nation riven by a military coup and Islamist revolt last year. ...


Talks resume as Israel frees Palestinians, pursues settlements

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 04:36 PM PDT

People greet freed Palestinian prisoners in a bus upon their arrival near Erez crossingBy Dan Williams and Noah Browning JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israel freed 26 Palestinian prisoners on Wednesday to keep U.S.-sponsored peacemaking on course for a second round of talks, but diplomacy remained dogged by Israeli plans for more Jewish homes on land the Palestinians claim for a future state. Negotiators are due to convene in the afternoon in Jerusalem, the city at the heart of the decades-old conflict, after a three-year stand-off ended with the first round of talks in Washington last month. ...


U.N. says still negotiating with Syria on chemical weapons inquiry

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 04:17 PM PDT

A general view shows Khan al-Assal area near the northern city of Aleppo, near the site where forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad say was Tuesday's chemical weapon attackBy Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. experts are ready to visit Syria to investigate claims of chemical weapons use during the country's two-year civil war, but a deal has not yet been reached with the Syrian government on safety assurances, the United Nations said on Tuesday. "The devil is in the details and the details are being worked out," U.N. spokesman Eduardo del Buey told reporters. It has been nearly two weeks since the United Nations said the Syrian government had agreed to let the U.N. ...


Kerry works to prevent settlement dispute from harming Mideast talks

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 12:48 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gives a speech to employees of the U.S. Embassy and their relatives in BrasiliaBy Warren Strobel BRASILIA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sought on Tuesday to prevent the fracturing of his Middle East peace initiative, which faces its greatest threat to date from a series of Israeli announcements of new settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Even as he was making his first visit to South America as secretary of state, Kerry reached out to the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority a day before Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are due to resume in Jerusalem. ...


Israel frees 26 Palestinian prisoners before talks

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 04:46 PM PDT

Palestinian relatives of Atif Shaat, celebrate while waiting for his release at the checkpoint at the entrance of Beit Hanoun between north of Gaza Strip and Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013. Israel agreed to release 26 Palestinian prisoners, most of them held for deadly attacks and most have already served around 20 years, as a part of a U.S.-brokered deal that led to a resumption of Mideast negotiations. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel released 26 Palestinian inmates, including many convicted in grisly killings, on the eve of long-stalled Mideast peace talks, angering families of those slain by the prisoners, who were welcomed as heroes in the West Bank and Gaza.


Mexico to fight release of drug lord behind U.S. agent's murder

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 04:38 PM PDT

UNDATED FILER OF RAFAEL CARO QUINTEROBy Luc Cohen MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico said on Tuesday it would seek to void a court decision that freed a Mexican drug boss imprisoned for ordering the 1985 torture and murder of a U.S. drug enforcement agent, a ruling that has angered the United States. A Mexican court on Friday cut short the 40-year sentence Rafael Caro Quintero was serving for orchestrating the killing of Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, ending his 28-year stay behind bars. It ruled that he should have been tried in a state court instead of a federal one. The decision outraged the U.S. ...


After Grisly Mosque Attack, Nigeria’s Boko Haram Terrorist Group Calls Out Obama

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 04:30 PM PDT

Konduga is a tiny community on the banks of a river in northeastern Nigeria. Its residents are mostly farmers who are accustomed to a simple life filled with days that pass like the one before. That has recently changed, as an insurgency waged by Islamist terror group Boko Haram has spilled over from the heart of the war, in nearby city Maiduguri, and into the rural reaches of Borno State, where Konduga is located.

Railway in Quebec train tragedy loses license

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 04:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 16, 2013 file photo, workers stand before mangled tanker cars at the crash site of a train derailment and fire in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, that happened on July 6. Canada's transportation agency said Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013 that it has taken away the operating license of the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway and its Canadian subsidiary, the U.S.-based rail company whose runaway oil train derailed and exploded in a Quebec town, killing 47 people. (AP Photo/Ryan Remiorz, Pool, File)TORONTO (AP) — Canada's transportation agency is suspending the operating license of the U.S.-based rail company whose runaway oil train derailed and exploded in a Quebec town, killing 47 people.


Bahrain tightens security ahead of planned protests

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 03:56 PM PDT

Riot police officer stands on the side of a highway as patrol vehicles are seen behind him during early hours of the evening in ManamaBy Farishta Saeed MANAMA (Reuters) - Bahrain has tightened security around restive Shi'ite Muslim villages in an effort to block anti-government protests planned for Wednesday by activists pressing the Sunni Muslim ruling family to allow democracy. In statements disseminated on social media, the activists say they were inspired by mass protests in Egypt last month that prompted the army to oust Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. ...


Al-Qaida militants kill 3 Yemeni soldiers

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 03:36 PM PDT

A Yemeni police trooper inspects documents at a checkpoint amid an increase in security following an announcement last week by Yemeni authorities that they had discovered an al-Qaida plot to target foreign embassies and international shipping in the Red Sea, in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, Aug. 12, 2013. The leader of the Yemen-based al-Qaida offshoot vowed in a message posted Monday to free fellow militants from prisons and urged jailed fighters to remain faithful to the terror group's ideology. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Al-Qaida militants have killed three Yemeni soldiers in the southwestern tip of the Arabian Peninsula in what the military said Tuesday was an attempt to capture a city.


Analysts: Shining Path bruised, far from defeated

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 03:32 PM PDT

In this photo released by Peru's Defense Minister, police officers stand guard during the arrive the bodies of two leaders of remains of the Shining Path rebel group at police base in Lima, Peru, Monday, Aug. 12, 2013. Peru's President Ollanta Humala tentatively identified them as "Comrade Gabriel," or Marco Antonio Quispe Palomino, the youngest of three brothers from the Quispe Palomino clan that commands an estimated 500 fighters, and "Comrade Alipio" or Alejandro Borda Casafranca, the group's military chief. (AP Photo/ Defense Minister, Alberto Orbegoso)LIMA, Peru (AP) — The ambush killing of what Peruvian authorities say is almost certainly half the Shining Path's four-man leadership comes amid a territorial expansion by the cocaine-fueled insurgency and, analysts say, is not apt to cripple it.


Nigerians want weapons after deadly mosque attack

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 03:13 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)KONDUGA, Nigeria (AP) — Residents of a village in northeastern Nigeria where suspected Islamic extremists gunned down 47 worshippers praying in a mosque demanded on Tuesday that the government give them weapons to defend themselves.


Egypt's rival sides upset with new governors

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 03:09 PM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi wave his posters and national flags as one carries her daughter with a mask of him during a protest in Nahda Square, where protesters have installed their camp near Cairo University in Giza, southwestern Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013. Egypt's interim president swore in 20 new provincial governors on Tuesday, a move that reinforces the new leadership's authority and removes all Muslim Brotherhood members previously installed in the posts by Mohammed Morsi before his ouster as president. The Arabic on the posters reads, "Yes for legitimacy, no for coup." (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian revolutionary and Islamist groups voiced concern on Tuesday that the appointment of new governors by the interim president includes too many army and police officers, raising fears among critics that the old regime of longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak is making a comeback.


Even worse odds than in 2008 for Mideast deal

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 02:46 PM PDT

A man holds a sign which reads, "Red week, the Israeli government releases twenty six murderers," during a protest in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Aug. 12, 2013, as people protested Israel's decision to release 26 Palestinian prisoners, most of them held for deadly attacks, as part of a U.S.-brokered deal that led to a resumption of Mideast negotiations. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)JERUSALEM (AP) — The same negotiators, the same issues, a familiar venue: The sense of deja vu is overwhelming as Israelis and Palestinians start Wednesday on their third attempt in 13 years to draw a border between them.


Israelis begin releasing 26 Palestinian prisoners

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 02:34 PM PDT

Relatives of Taher Zyoud hang a banner with his picture at his home in the West Bank village of Selat Al-Harithyah near Jenin, Monday, Aug. 12, 2013. Zyoud is one of the 26 Palestinian prisoners, most of them held for deadly attacks, Israel agreed to release this week as a part of a U.S.-brokered deal that led to a resumption of Mideast negotiations. Arabic reads, "He made me good, He let me out of prison" and "The hero released prisoner Taher Mohammed Zyoud welcome back to your home and to your family." (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel began the process of releasing 26 Palestinian prisoners late Tuesday, an initial gesture on the eve of renewed Mideast negotiations.


Official says 47 killed in Nigerian mosque attack

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 02:27 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)KONDUGA, Nigeria (AP) — Residents of a village in northeastern Nigeria where suspected Islamic extremists gunned down 47 worshippers praying in a mosque demanded on Tuesday that the government give them weapons to defend themselves.


Tunisian secularists and Islamists in rival rallies, no clashes

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 02:19 PM PDT

Anti-government protesters wave flags and shout slogans during a demonstration in TunisTUNIS (Reuters) - Around 40,000 secularists rallied in Tunis on Tuesday to call for the departure of the Islamist-led ruling coalition, but there were no reported clashes with another demonstration by thousands of Islamists elsewhere in the Tunisian capital. Beset by a severe economic downturn, a suspension of parliament and a surge in Muslim militant attacks, Tunisia's government, led by the moderate Islamist Ennahda party, is grappling with secularists' calls for its resignation. "Go, Go Ennahda ... ...


One pro-Mursi protester shot dead in Cairo march

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 02:09 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - A supporter of Egypt's deposed president, Mohamed Mursi, was shot dead during a protest march in Cairo on Tuesday, two security sources said. Earlier, Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood said the protester had been shot by police in plain clothes. Security sources said the protester had died during clashes between supporters and opponents of Mursi. (Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

Egypt: pro-Morsi vigil takes on permanent look

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 01:59 PM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi stand behind sand barriers recently set up where supporters of Morsi have installed a camp and held daily rallies outside Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013. Instead of rushing for the exits, Islamist supporters of Egypt's ousted president are replacing tents with wooden huts in their sprawling Cairo encampment. Barbershops have sprung up and many tents now have satellite dishes. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)CAIRO (AP) — Instead of rushing for the exits, Islamist supporters of Egypt's ousted president are replacing tents with wooden huts in their sprawling Cairo encampment. Barbershops have sprung up and many tents now have satellite dishes.


Egypt restores ex-generals' role in provinces

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 01:24 PM PDT

Egypt's interim President Mansour and his minsters meet with newly-appointed governors at El-Thadiya presidential palace in CairoBy Tom Perry CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's interim president named at least 18 new provincial governors on Tuesday, half of them retired generals, in a shake-up that pushed out Muslim Brotherhood members and restored the influence of men from army and police backgrounds. Deposed president Mohamed Mursi had appointed a number of civilians as provincial governors during his year in office, some of them members of his Brotherhood. That marked a break with the Hosni Mubarak era, when the posts typically went to retired army and police officers. ...


Brazil demands clarifications on NSA surveillance

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 01:18 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Brazil's Foreign Minister Antonio de Aguiar Patriota give a press conference at Itamaraty palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013. Patriota criticized U.S. surveillance in Brazil and said the trust between the U.S. and Brazil would be damaged if U.S. explanations about the program are not satisfactory. (AP Photo/Evaristo Sa, Pool)BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil demanded answers Tuesday from the U.S. about National Security Agency spying in the country and warned that trust between the two nations would be damaged if U.S. explanations about the program were not satisfactory.


Fidel Castro turns 87 behind closed doors

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 01:13 PM PDT

A poster of Cuba's Fidel Castro hangs on the wall of a food market next to plate that reads in Spanish "I'm looking at you" in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013. Castro turns 87 on Tuesday. Castro's brother Raul Castro has been in power since a near-fatal illness forced Fidel to step aside in 2006. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)HAVANA (AP) — Fidel Castro turned 87 behind closed doors Tuesday, with official tributes in state media serving as a reminder that the clock is ticking on his revolutionary generation's grip on power.


Eurozone turning a corner as recession set to end

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 01:00 PM PDT

A construction worker reaches out for a stone while working on a building in downtown Lisbon, Friday, Aug. 9, 2013. Portugal's unemployment rate has fallen for the first time in two years according to the bailed-out country's statistics agency that reported preliminary estimates show the jobless rate in the second quarter dropped to 16.4 percent from a record 17.7 percent in the first quarter. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)LONDON (AP) — The recession that's gripped the eurozone since late 2011 is likely over.


Disfigured Spanish fresco is hit for artist, town

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 12:58 PM PDT

En este combo de fotos sin fecha proporcionadas por el Centro de Estudios Borjanos, el fresco de Cristo de 1930 "Ecce Homo", a la izquierda, y la versión "restaurada", a la derecha. Lo que inicialmente fue motivo de mofa se ha convertido en una mina de oro: sólo en este año, más de 40.000 personas han visitado el fresco en su capilla original de Borja, un municipio de apenas 5.000 habitantes al nordeste de España. En septiembre, el ayuntamiento decidió cobrar 1 euro (1,32 dólares) por visita, y entre la entrada y los donativos voluntarios se calcula que la recaudación ha superado los 50.000 euros (66.285 dólares). (AP Foto/Centro de Estudios Borjanos, Archivo)MADRID (AP) — A year ago, Cecilia Gimenez's botched attempt to restore a fresco of Christ inspired ridicule and references to monkeys. Now, the 81-year-old Spanish artist is having the last laugh.


Insight: As Afghanistan endgame looms, India-Pakistan tensions rise

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 12:57 PM PDT

File photo of Indian army soldiers standing next to the coffins of their colleagues during a wreath laying ceremony in Poonch districtBy Frank Jack Daniel and Sanjeev Miglani BARAMULLA/NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) - Pakistan-based militants are preparing to take on India across the subcontinent once Western troops leave Afghanistan next year, several sources say, raising the risk of a dramatic spike in tensions between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan. ...


Italian president says Berlusconi conviction definitive

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 12:54 PM PDT

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano waves to reporters at the Quirinale palacBy Barry Moody and Naomi O'Leary ROME (Reuters) - President Giorgio Napolitano on Tuesday ruled out any reversal of a tax fraud conviction against Silvio Berlusconi and issued a stern warning to his party against trying to bring down the government over the issue. Napolitano's statement that the law must take its course dashed hopes in Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PDL) party that the head of state would find a way to allow the former prime minister to continue his leadership of the center-right without restriction despite a jail sentence. ...


Hand grenade attacks kill 2, wound 30 in Pakistan

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 12:50 PM PDT

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Police say a pair of hand grenade attacks on minority Ismaili prayer houses in southern Pakistan have killed two people and wounded 30 others.

Bahrain on edge ahead of opposition-called protest

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 12:34 PM PDT

A Bahraini anti-government protester wearing a national flag watches for riot police as tires burn on a street in the western village of Malkiya, Bahrain, on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013. Inspired by the movement behind Egypt's military coup, pro-democracy activists in Bahrain are hoping to gain new momentum by calling for nationwide protests Wednesday. Authorities warned they will "forcefully confront" any large demonstrations, raising fears of more violence in the strategic Gulf kingdom. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Inspired by the movement behind Egypt's military coup, anti-government activists seeking more influence in Bahrain are hoping to gain new momentum by calling for nationwide protests Wednesday. Authorities warned they will "forcefully confront" any large demonstrations, raising fears of more violence in the strategic Gulf kingdom.


UN chief says drone strikes must comply with law

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 12:24 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The head of the United Nations said Tuesday during a visit to Pakistan that drone strikes must comply with international law, touching on an issue that has created friction between Islamabad and Washington.

Police fired on Cairo march, Muslim Brotherhood says

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 12:21 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood said on Tuesday that Egyptian policemen dressed in plain clothes had opened fire with live rounds at one of its marches in Cairo, wounding five people. A security source said seven protesters had been wounded but added that it was not immediately clear who had opened fire. (Reporting by Shaimaa Fayed; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

Soccer-loving pope cheers Messi, other players

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 12:18 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis is applauded by Italy goalie Gianluigi Buffon, left, and Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi during a private audience at the Vatican, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013. Two big-name Argentines have had a VIP meeting at the Vatican, Pope Francis and Barcelona football star Lionel Messi. The player, his fellow teammates on the Argentine national soccer squad as well as Italy's national team players were enjoying a private audience Tuesday with the first Latin American-born pontiff in the Apostolic Palace. The teams meet Wednesday in Rome in a friendly match. Francis told the players to remember they are role models on and off the field "for better or worse." He asked for their prayers for himself "on the playing field God put me on. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis cheered fellow Argentine Lionel Messi and other soccer stars Tuesday as he led a morality-focused pep rally of sorts at the Vatican for Argentina and Italy's national teams ahead of their eagerly awaited friendly match.


Brazil says it needs answers on NSA surveillance

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 11:52 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry waves journalist after a press conference at the headquarters of the Colombian National Police Counter-Narcotics in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Aug. 12, 2013. Kerry is on a one-day official visit to Colombia. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota on Tuesday criticized U.S. surveillance in Brazil and said the trust between the U.S. and Brazil would be damaged if U.S. explanations about the program are not satisfactory.


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