| Five die in Christian-Muslim clashes in Egypt Posted: 06 Apr 2013 03:06 PM PDT  By Ashraf Fahim EL KHUSUS, Egypt (Reuters) - Five Egyptians were killed and eight wounded in clashes between Christians and Muslims in a town near Cairo, security sources said on Saturday, in some of the worst sectarian violence in Egypt for months. Christian-Muslim confrontations have increased in Muslim-majority Egypt since the overthrow of former president Hosni Mubarak in 2011 gave freer rein to hardline Islamists repressed under his rule. ...
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| Powers and Iran fail to end nuclear deadlock in Almaty Posted: 06 Apr 2013 01:54 PM PDT  By Justyna Pawlak and Yeganeh Torbati ALMATY (Reuters) - World powers and Iran failed again to end the deadlock in a decade-old dispute over Tehran's nuclear program in talks that ended in Kazakhstan on Saturday, prolonging a standoff that could yet spiral into a new Middle East war. No new talks were scheduled but big power negotiators, who earlier this year were insisting that time was running out, were at pains to say the diplomatic process would continue. Iran's critics accuse it of covertly seeking the means to produce nuclear bombs. ...
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| Embassies staying put in North Korea despite tension Posted: 06 Apr 2013 11:06 AM PDT  By Jane Chung SEOUL (Reuters) - Staff at embassies in North Korea appeared to be remaining in place on Saturday despite an appeal by authorities in Pyongyang for diplomats to consider leaving because of heightened tension after weeks of bellicose exchanges. North Korean authorities told diplomatic missions they could not guarantee their safety from next Wednesday - after declaring that conflict was inevitable amid joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises due to last until the end of the month. Whatever the atmosphere in Pyongyang, the rain-soaked South Korean capital, Seoul, was calm. ...
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| Air strike kills 15 in Aleppo, Assad warns of regional turmoil Posted: 06 Apr 2013 11:59 AM PDT  By Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Syrian government air strike killed 15 people on Saturday, including nine children, in a district of the northern city of Aleppo where Kurdish fighters have been battling forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, a violence monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a warplane had bombarded the western edges of the Sheikh Maqsoud district of Aleppo, Syria's biggest city, where Assad's forces have been battling rebels for nine months. ...
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| Egyptian police fire tear gas to disperse Cairo protest Posted: 06 Apr 2013 01:37 PM PDT  CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police fired tear gas to prevent opponents of President Mohamed Mursi storming a court and the prosecutor-general's office in central Cairo on Saturday, witnesses said. Eight people were injured in Cairo during another protest in al-Fayoum south of the capital, the state news agency MENA said. Some 500 people marched for much of the day through central Cairo, chanting "The people want to topple the regime" on the fifth anniversary of the founding of the opposition April 6 youth movement. ...
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| Portugal ruling poses difficulties for bailout goals: government Posted: 06 Apr 2013 12:39 PM PDT  LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's government said on Saturday the constitutional court's rejection of key austerity measures from this year's budget creates "serious difficulties" in meeting international commitments under a bailout. Following an extraordinary cabinet meeting after the court ruling late on Friday, State Secretary for Cabinet Affairs Luis Marques Guedes told reporters the decision "jeopardizes the country's hard-earned credibility" gained with its European partners and lenders. ...
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| Two new bird flu cases in China amid poultry crackdown Posted: 06 Apr 2013 10:08 AM PDT  By Adam Jourdan SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Two more people have contracted bird flu in Shanghai, China's health ministry said on Saturday, as authorities closed live poultry markets and culled birds to combat a new virus strain that has killed six people. State-run Xinhua news agency said authorities planned to slaughter birds at two live poultry markets in Shanghai and another in Hangzhou after new samples of the H7N9 virus were detected in birds at the three sites. More than 20,000 birds have been culled at another Shanghai market where traces of the virus were found this week. ...
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| New premier pledges to shield Lebanon from Syria dangers Posted: 06 Apr 2013 10:04 AM PDT  By Dominic Evans and Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese politician Tammam Salam was named prime minister on Saturday after he won a sweeping parliamentary endorsement, pledging to bridge the country's deep divisions and shield it from the dangers of neighboring Syria's civil war. Salam was designated after the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Mikati, whose two years in office were dominated by efforts to contain sectarian tensions, violence and economic fallout from the Syrian conflict. ...
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| Saudi king orders three-month delay to illegal worker crackdown Posted: 06 Apr 2013 01:19 PM PDT RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah on Saturday ordered a three-month delay to a crackdown on migrant workers which has led to thousands of deportations, to give foreigners in the kingdom a chance to sort out their papers. The world's top oil exporter has more than nine million expatriates whose remittances home provide important revenue for countries including Yemen, India, Pakistan and the Philippines. ... |
| Three dead in Mozambique bus shooting Posted: 06 Apr 2013 12:16 PM PDT MAPUTO (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked a bus and a truck in central Mozambique on Saturday near the opposition stronghold of Muxungue, killing three people and raising fears of sustained political violence ahead of elections next year, local media said. The bus travelling from the capital, Maputo, to the second city of Beira was ambushed from the front and side, the first such attack on a civilian vehicle in the war-scarred southern African nation in a decade, the O Pais newspaper said. ... |
| EU: No deal reached at nuclear talks with Iran Posted: 06 Apr 2013 02:18 PM PDT  ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — Iran and six world powers failed to reach agreement Saturday on how to reduce fears that Tehran might use its nuclear technology to make weapons, extending years of inconclusive talks and adding to concerns the diplomatic window on reaching a deal with Tehran may soon close.
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| South Africa: Mandela discharged from the hospital Posted: 06 Apr 2013 08:23 AM PDT  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former President Nelson Mandela was discharged from a hospital on Saturday following treatment for pneumonia, the presidency said in news that cheered South Africans who had waited tensely for health updates on a beloved national figure.
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| Syrian airstrike kills at least 15 in Aleppo Posted: 06 Apr 2013 12:28 PM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian government airstrike on a heavily contested neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo on Saturday killed at least 15 people, including nine children, activists said.
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| Warsaw ghetto survivor in Israel recalls uprising Posted: 06 Apr 2013 10:40 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Two days before her comrades embarked on an uprising that came to symbolize Jewish resistance against the Nazis in World War II, 14-year-old Aliza Mendel got her orders: Escape from the Warsaw Ghetto.
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| Suicide bomber kills 20 at political rally in Iraq Posted: 06 Apr 2013 01:47 PM PDT  BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up Saturday at a lunch hosted by a Sunni candidate in Iraq's upcoming regional elections, killing 20 people, officials said.
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| Calif. governor looks to China for investments Posted: 06 Apr 2013 12:02 PM PDT  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown has designs on building some of the most expensive public works projects in the nation and wants to keep the state moving forward in its slow recovery from the recession.
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| 6 Americans, doctor killed in Afghan attacks Posted: 06 Apr 2013 01:31 PM PDT  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — Militants killed six Americans, including a young female diplomat, and an Afghan doctor Saturday in a pair of attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday. It was the deadliest day for the United States in the war in eight months.
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| Matisse in Norwegian museum was once Nazi loot Posted: 06 Apr 2013 12:16 PM PDT  OSLO, Norway (AP) — The family of a prominent Parisian art dealer is demanding that a Norwegian museum return an Henri Matisse painting seized by Nazis under the direction of Hermann Goering, in the latest dispute over art stolen from Jews during World War II.
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| Kerry heads back to Mideast for fresh peace push Posted: 06 Apr 2013 07:32 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry headed to the Middle East on Saturday, his third trip to the region in two weeks, in a fresh bid to unlock long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
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| Online translation on the rise, changing lives Posted: 06 Apr 2013 12:15 PM PDT  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — You might use Google Translate to read a hard-to-find Manga comic book or to decipher an obscure recipe for authentic Polish blintzes. Or, like Phillip and Niki Smith in rural Mississippi, you could use it to rescue a Chinese orphan and fall in love at the same time.
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