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• Bomb kills 64 in Pakistan's Quetta
• Russia cleans up after meteor blast injures more than 1,000
• NATO air strikes for Afghan security forces must end: Karzai
• Pistorius, slain girlfriend had planned future: uncle
• Egypt's political rivals meet amid tension
• U.N. says delayed Congo peace deal due to be signed February 24
• Bahrain police, youths clash after funeral
• Syrian opposition won't talk to officials linked to crackdown
• Gunmen shoot Sri Lanka investigative journalist
• Photos of ailing Chavez stir emotions in Venezuela
• TV show with Pistorius' dead girlfriend airs
• Pistorius' family strongly denies murder charge
• Russian region begins recovery from meteor fall
• Bomb rips through Pakistan market, killing 65
• Vatican raises possibility of early March conclave
• Sectarian kidnappings spread strife in north Syria
• Afghan leader says he'll ban airstrike requests
• Conclave's rituals, oaths and secrecy explained
• Libya arrests suspected Christian missionaries
• Egypt court orders belly dancing station off air
• In wake of Russian meteor, a scramble for new windows

Bomb kills 64 in Pakistan's Quetta Posted: 16 Feb 2013 10:54 AM PST QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Sixty-four people including school children died on Saturday in a bomb attack carried out by extremists from Pakistan's Sunni Muslim majority, police said. A spokesman for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Sunni group, claimed responsibility for the bomb in Quetta, which caused casualties in the town's main bazaar, a school and a computer center. Police said most of the victims were Shi'ites. Burned school bags and books were strewn around. ...

Russia cleans up after meteor blast injures more than 1,000 Posted: 16 Feb 2013 01:02 PM PST CHELYABINSK, Russia (Reuters) - Thousands of Russian emergency workers went out on Saturday to clear up the damage from a meteor that exploded over the Ural mountains, damaging buildings, shattering windows and showering people with broken glass. Divers searched a lake near the city of Chelyabinsk, where a hole several feet wide had opened in the ice, but had so far failed to find any large fragments, officials said. ...

NATO air strikes for Afghan security forces must end: Karzai Posted: 16 Feb 2013 03:17 AM PST KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan security forces will be banned from calling for NATO air strikes in residential areas to help in their operations, President Hamid Karzai said on Saturday, three days after 10 civilians died in such a strike in the country's east. NATO air strikes and civilian casualties have become a significant stress point in the relationship between Karzai and his international backers. The issue threatens to further destabilize a precarious international withdrawal, to be completed by the end of 2014. ...

Pistorius, slain girlfriend had planned future: uncle Posted: 16 Feb 2013 01:05 PM PST JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius, known as the "Blade Runner", was planning a future with the girlfriend he is accused of shooting dead this week, his uncle said on Saturday. Pistorius, 26, one of the world's most recognizable athletes, was charged on Friday with murdering swimsuit model and law graduate Reeva Steenkamp in the early hours of the previous day. He broke down during a 40-minute bail hearing at a Pretoria court but was not asked to enter a plea. ...

Egypt's political rivals meet amid tension Posted: 16 Feb 2013 03:57 PM PST CAIRO (Reuters) - Liberal and Islamist political leaders met privately on Saturday to try to ease tensions that have sparked protests in which some 60 Egyptians have died since late January, politicians said. The protests erupted after the second anniversary of the uprising which overthrew Hosni Mubarak and reflected competing visions for Egypt's future. Political turbulence has slowed negotiations for a $4.8 billion dollar loan from the International Monetary Fund. ...

U.N. says delayed Congo peace deal due to be signed February 24 Posted: 16 Feb 2013 12:05 PM PST UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A delayed U.N.-mediated peace deal aimed at ending two decades of conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is due to be signed in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on February 24, the United Nations said on Saturday. African leaders failed to sign the deal last month due to the concerns of some countries over who would command a new regional force that would deploy in eastern Congo and take on armed groups operating in the conflict-torn region. The so-called intervention brigade would be contained within the existing U.N. ...

Bahrain police, youths clash after funeral Posted: 16 Feb 2013 04:39 PM PST ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Police firing tear gas clashed with hundreds of stone-throwing youths in Bahrain on Saturday in heightened unrest that could complicate new efforts to end political deadlock in the strategically placed Gulf Arab kingdom. The violence has clouded the atmosphere around talks begun on February 10 between the mostly Shi'ite Muslim opposition and the Sunni Muslim-dominated government to find a way out of the impasse over Shi'ite demands for more democracy. ...

Syrian opposition won't talk to officials linked to crackdown Posted: 16 Feb 2013 07:48 AM PST AMMAN (Reuters) - Syria's opposition coalition is ready to negotiate President Bashar al-Assad's exit with any member of his government who has not participated in his military crackdown on the uprising, coalition members said on Friday. Syrian authorities have given no formal response to several offers of talks in recent weeks. But officials say they cannot accept pre-conditions about Assad's departure and have privately dismissed what they say are no more than media initiatives. ...

Gunmen shoot Sri Lanka investigative journalist Posted: 16 Feb 2013 12:37 PM PST COLOMBO (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen shot and seriously wounded a Sri Lankan investigative journalist, colleagues and officials said on Saturday, prompting condemnation from the United Nations' top human rights official. Three unidentified gunmen entered a guest house where Faraz Shaukatally, who works at the Sunday Leader, was staying, broke into his room and opened fire, police said. The journalist was on the telephone discussing a story to appear in this week's edition when he was shot, Sunday Leader Editor Sakunthala Perera said. ...

Photos of ailing Chavez stir emotions in Venezuela Posted: 16 Feb 2013 12:10 PM PST CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez's supporters joyfully brandished first photographs of him since cancer surgery two months ago while opposition activists said the images were worrying evidence of Venezuela's political vacuum. In a first proof of life since his six-hour operation in Cuba on December 11, authorities published four photos on Friday showing Chavez lying in a hospital bed smiling next to his daughters. ...

TV show with Pistorius' dead girlfriend airs Posted: 16 Feb 2013 03:51 PM PST JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Reeva Steenkamp's last wish for her family before she was shot dead at boyfriend Oscar Pistorius' home was for them to watch her in a reality TV show that went on air in South Africa on Saturday night, two days after her killing.

Pistorius' family strongly denies murder charge Posted: 16 Feb 2013 09:12 AM PST PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius is "numb with shock as well as grief" after the shooting death of his model girlfriend at his home in South Africa, the runner's uncle said Saturday, as his family strongly denied prosecutors' claims that he murdered her.

Russian region begins recovery from meteor fall Posted: 16 Feb 2013 03:57 PM PST CHELYABINSK, Russia (AP) — As a small army of people worked to replace acres of windows shattered by the enormous explosion from a meteor, many joked on Saturday about what had happened in this troubled pocket of Russia.

Bomb rips through Pakistan market, killing 65 Posted: 16 Feb 2013 11:51 AM PST QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A bomb hidden in a water tank ripped through a crowded vegetable market in a mostly Shiite neighborhood in a southwestern Pakistani city Saturday, killing at least 65 people and wounding nearly 200, officials said.

Vatican raises possibility of early March conclave Posted: 16 Feb 2013 02:06 PM PST VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican raised the possibility Saturday that the conclave to elect the next pope might start sooner than March 15, the earliest date possible under current rules that require a 15 to 20 day waiting period after the papacy becomes vacant.

Sectarian kidnappings spread strife in north Syria Posted: 16 Feb 2013 01:23 PM PST BEIRUT (AP) — A rural patch of north Syria has been shaken by a series of tit-for-tat, sectarian kidnappings, anti-regime activists said Saturday, highlighting how much the country's civil war has enflamed tensions between different religious groups.

Afghan leader says he'll ban airstrike requests Posted: 16 Feb 2013 10:25 AM PST KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Angry over civilian deaths, President Hamid Karzai announced plans Saturday to ban Afghan security forces from requesting international airstrikes on residential areas.

Conclave's rituals, oaths and secrecy explained Posted: 16 Feb 2013 01:56 PM PST VATICAN CITY (AP) — It's a ritual as rich in tradition and symbolism as the Catholic Church can muster: secret oaths, hypnotic Gregorian chants, scarlet-decked cardinals filing through the Sistine Chapel — all while the public outside in St. Peter's Square watches for white smoke or black to learn if it has a new pope.

Libya arrests suspected Christian missionaries Posted: 16 Feb 2013 12:32 PM PST TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Four foreigners were arrested in Libya on suspicion of distributing books about Christianity and proselytizing, a Libyan police spokesman said on Saturday.

Egypt court orders belly dancing station off air Posted: 16 Feb 2013 12:30 PM PST CAIRO (AP) — A court in Egypt has ordered a TV channel that airs belly dancing clips off the air for showing "sexually explicit" content and operating without a broadcast license.

In wake of Russian meteor, a scramble for new windows Posted: 16 Feb 2013 06:25 AM PST A small army of workers set to work Saturday to replace the estimated 200,000 square meters (50 acres) of windows shattered by the shock wave from a meteor that exploded over Russia's Chelyabinsk region.

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