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• Turkey says tests confirm leftist bombed U.S. embassy
• Mali hails "savior" Hollande, he says fight not over
• Video of protester stripped and beaten fires Egypt fury
• Iran threat is paramount for new Israeli government: Netanyahu
• Syrian opposition talks with Russia and Iran
• French parliament backs main clause in gay marriage law
• Venezuela's Maduro accuses rival of "conspiring" against country
• Yemen says intercepted ship carrying weapons was Iranian
• Spain's Rajoy denies wrongdoing in kickbacks scandal
• Russia commemorates pivotal Battle of Stalingrad
• Turkey: Embassy bombers cling to Cold War ideology
• Video of police abuse stokes anger in Egypt
• Turkey: US Embassy bomber had terror conviction
• Biden: US would hold direct talks if Iran serious
• Report: Missing NYC woman found dead in Turkey
• French president visits Mali to cheers of support
• Egypt 'bodyguards' take stand against sex assault
• Syrian rebels advance near Aleppo airport
• 23 killed in Taliban attack on Pakistan army post
• Why is Beckham sitting on the bench for nothing?
• Chaos and police brutality at Egypt's presidential palace (video)
• What's in a name? Russian city mulls returning to its Stalinist moniker.

Turkey says tests confirm leftist bombed U.S. embassy Posted: 02 Feb 2013 02:34 PM PST ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A member of a Turkish leftist group that accuses Washington of using Turkey as its "slave" carried out a suicide bomb attack on the U.S. embassy, the Ankara governor's office cited DNA tests as showing on Saturday. Ecevit Sanli, a member of the leftist Revolutionary People's Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C), blew himself up in a perimeter gatehouse on Friday as he tried to enter the embassy, also killing a Turkish security guard. ...

Mali hails "savior" Hollande, he says fight not over Posted: 02 Feb 2013 04:47 PM PST TIMBUKTU, Mali/BAMAKO (Reuters) - Cheering, grateful Malians mobbed French President Francois Hollande on Saturday as he visited French troops fighting Islamist jihadist rebels, and he pledged France would finish the job of restoring government control in the Sahel state. In a one-day trip to Mali accompanied by his ministers for defense, foreign affairs and development, Hollande was hailed as a liberator in the ancient northern city of Timbuktu, which French and Malian forces retook from the rebels six days ago. ...

Video of protester stripped and beaten fires Egypt fury Posted: 02 Feb 2013 04:19 PM PST CAIRO (Reuters) - After eight days of protests that killed nearly 60 people, a video of one demonstrator stripped naked, dragged across the ground and beaten with truncheons by helmeted riot police has fired Egyptians to a new level of outrage. Hamada Saber, 48, lay in a police hospital on Saturday, the morning after he was shown on television naked, covered in soot and thrashed by half a dozen policemen who had pulled him to an armoured vehicle near the presidential palace. ...

Iran threat is paramount for new Israeli government: Netanyahu Posted: 02 Feb 2013 02:36 PM PST JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday took on the job of forming a new government and said its most important task would be to ensure that Iran does not gain nuclear arms. President Shimon Peres formally called on Netanyahu to assemble a new coalition following the January 22 general election in which Netanyahu's rightist Likud-Beitenu emerged as the biggest party. It controls 31 seats in the 120-seat parliament. ...

Syrian opposition talks with Russia and Iran Posted: 02 Feb 2013 03:11 PM PST MUNICH (Reuters) - The Syrian opposition leader met the foreign ministers of Russia and Iran on Saturday, opening a window to a possible breakthrough in efforts to broker an end to Syria's civil war. Russia and Iran have been the staunchest allies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad throughout an armed uprising, and any understandings they might reach with Assad's foes could help overcome the two sides' refusal to negotiate. ...

French parliament backs main clause in gay marriage law Posted: 02 Feb 2013 02:29 PM PST PARIS (Reuters) - The French parliament on Saturday adopted the main clause of a bill that would allow same-sex marriage and grant gay couples the right to adopt children. Deputies voted 249-97 to back the clause eliminating opposite gender as a condition of the right to marriage. The draft law, the first major social reform of Francois Hollande's presidency, has sparked major protests. Several hundred thousand people massed at the Eiffel Tower in Paris last month to protest against the plan. The approval of the key clause prompted fresh protests in several towns on Saturday. ...

Venezuela's Maduro accuses rival of "conspiring" against country Posted: 02 Feb 2013 03:55 PM PST CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro accused opposition leader Henrique Capriles on Saturday of "conspiring" against the OPEC nation during meetings in neighboring Colombia, stepping up his attacks on his most likely potential election rival. The government is upbeat about President Hugo Chavez's recovery from cancer surgery in Cuba. But the socialist maverick has not been seen in public or heard from in eight weeks, calling into question the future of his self-styled revolution. ...

Yemen says intercepted ship carrying weapons was Iranian Posted: 02 Feb 2013 12:37 PM PST SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen confirmed on Saturday that a ship intercepted last month off its coast was an Iranian vessel trying to smuggle explosives and surface-to-air missiles to the country, the state news agency Saba reported. Officials in Washington said earlier this week that the seizure of the ship on January 23 had been coordinated with the U.S. Navy and that the intercepted shipment was believed to have been from Iran and destined for insurgents, likely to be Shi'ite Muslim Houthi rebels mainly based in northern Yemen. ...

Spain's Rajoy denies wrongdoing in kickbacks scandal Posted: 02 Feb 2013 11:00 AM PST MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Saturday denied wrongdoing in a growing corruption scandal that threatens his credibility just as he makes headway against economic crisis. The ruling People's Party (PP) has been buffeted all week by media reports alleging its former treasurers operated a slush fund with donations from construction industry executives that were then doled out to Rajoy and other party leaders. "I need only two words: it's false," Rajoy said in a televised address after an extraordinary meeting of party leaders to discuss the allegations. ...

Russia commemorates pivotal Battle of Stalingrad Posted: 02 Feb 2013 10:34 AM PST VOLGOGRAD, Russia (Reuters) - The city of Volgograd re-adopted its old name of Stalingrad for a few hours on Saturday as Russia commemorated the 70th anniversary of the epic battle that turned the tide of World War Two. The victory in the six-month Battle of Stalingrad, which killed about 2 million people, is a symbol of national pride that has produced an outburst of patriotic fervor and, for some, nostalgia for the Soviet era and dictator Josef Stalin. President Vladimir Putin flew to Volgograd, which was known as Stalingrad from 1925 until 1961. ...

Turkey: Embassy bombers cling to Cold War ideology Posted: 02 Feb 2013 01:20 PM PST ISTANBUL (AP) — Long before al-Qaida, when the Cold War gripped the world, leftist terrorists staged spectacular attacks in a doomed campaign to overthrow governments and impose their vision of a socialist utopia. The bulk of these extremist groups eventually drifted into oblivion, gutted by police pressure, internal rifts and an ideology undercut by communism's fall.

Video of police abuse stokes anger in Egypt Posted: 02 Feb 2013 02:45 PM PST CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Interior Minister vowed Saturday to investigate the beating of a naked man by riot police that threatened to further inflame popular anger against security forces, but suggested that initial results absolve the police of direct abuse.

Turkey: US Embassy bomber had terror conviction Posted: 02 Feb 2013 04:06 PM PST ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The suicide bomber who struck the U.S. Embassy in Ankara spent several years in prison on terrorism charges but was released on probation after being diagnosed with a hunger strike-related brain disorder, officials said Saturday.

Biden: US would hold direct talks if Iran serious Posted: 02 Feb 2013 11:21 AM PST MUNICH (AP) — The United States is prepared to hold direct talks with Iran in the standoff over its nuclear ambitions, Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday — but he insisted that Tehran must show it is serious and Washington won't engage in such talks merely "for the exercise."

Report: Missing NYC woman found dead in Turkey Posted: 02 Feb 2013 01:55 PM PST ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A New York City woman who went missing while vacationing alone in Istanbul was found dead on Saturday, and police were questioning 11 people in connection with the case, Turkey's state-run news agency said.

French president visits Mali to cheers of support Posted: 02 Feb 2013 07:38 AM PST TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) — French President Francois Hollande bathed in the cheers and accolades of the thousands of people of this embattled city on Saturday, making a triumphant stop six days after French forces parachuted into Timbuktu to liberate the fabled city from the radical Islamists occupying it.

Egypt 'bodyguards' take stand against sex assault Posted: 02 Feb 2013 12:24 PM PST CAIRO (AP) — Amid a growing number of brutal attacks on women protesters in Egypt, one stood out: A mob of men on Cairo's Tahrir Square raped a 19-year-old woman with a sharp object, cutting her genitals in an attack that forced her to undergo emergency surgery.

Syrian rebels advance near Aleppo airport Posted: 02 Feb 2013 11:36 AM PST BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels captured a strategic neighborhood near Aleppo's international airport on Saturday, putting opposition fighters in control of a key road that the regime has used to ferry supplies and reinforcements to soldiers fighting in the embattled northern city, activists said.

23 killed in Taliban attack on Pakistan army post Posted: 02 Feb 2013 01:19 PM PST PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Taliban militants wearing suicide vests fired automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades at an army post in northwestern Pakistan in a pre-dawn raid Saturday, killing 23 people, including 10 civilians, officials said.

Why is Beckham sitting on the bench for nothing? Posted: 02 Feb 2013 08:15 AM PST PARIS (AP) — David Beckham has won league championships in three countries on two continents, earns millions of dollars in endorsements and his name is practically synonymous with celebrity itself. He has his own cologne, for goodness sake. So why is he even bothering to sit on the bench for the Paris Saint-Germain football club?

Chaos and police brutality at Egypt's presidential palace (video) Posted: 02 Feb 2013 08:21 AM PST Egyptian police abuse was there for all to see last night when television cameras captured police dragging a naked man across the pavement, beating and kicking him as he writhed on the ground, covered in dirt, his pants around his ankles.

What's in a name? Russian city mulls returning to its Stalinist moniker. Posted: 02 Feb 2013 06:00 AM PST Russia's southern city of Volgograd – where the most desperate, protracted, and destructive battle of World War II unfolded – is restoring its controversial wartime name of Stalingrad for several days, beginning today, for its commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Soviet victory that decisively turned the tide of war against the invading Nazis.

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