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Bulgarians vote in election unlikely to soothe anger

Posted: 11 May 2013 04:09 PM PDT

Bulgarian police stand guard outside a printing house in the town of KostinbrodBy Angel Krasimirov SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarians vote on Sunday in an election forced by protests over poverty and corruption, with expectations of a close result that could leave the poorest EU country without a working government. The rightist GERB party, which resigned after violent demonstrations in February, is running neck-and-neck with the Socialists. GERB pledges to keep debts under control, while the Socialists say they will spend more and create jobs. ...

Pickaxe attacker kills one, injures four others in Milan

Posted: 11 May 2013 08:58 AM PDT

ROME (Reuters) - A Ghanaian immigrant in the northern Italian city of Milan killed one man and injured four others in a frenzied and apparently random attack with a pickaxe on Saturday, police said. Witnesses told SkyTG24 television that the man, who Italian media reports said was in Italy illegally, struck out at passersby in a residential district of the city early on Saturday morning. A 40-year-old unemployed man apparently on his way to a cafe died after being struck on the head and falling to the ground where the attacker continued to hit him. ...

Rafsanjani's last-minute entry transforms Iranian race

Posted: 11 May 2013 08:12 AM PDT

Rafsanjani speaks during the 7th session of the Assembly in TehranBy Yeganeh Torbati and Marcus George DUBAI (Reuters) - Former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani threw himself into Iran's election race on Saturday as a flurry of heavyweight candidates rushed to beat the registration deadline in the most unpredictable contest for decades. Iranian media reported that Rafsanjani - a relative moderate - had registered for the June 14 presidential election with just minutes to spare. His candidacy radically alters what was previously seen as a contest between rival conservative groups. ...

Coastguard rescues 139 migrants off Italian coast

Posted: 11 May 2013 12:13 PM PDT

ROME (Reuters) - Italian coastguards picked up 139 people in two inflatable boats off the southern coast of Sicily, authorities said on Saturday, the latest in a series of arrivals of clandestine immigrants. Hundreds of migrants, most from Africa, have been rescued in small, flimsy vessels while crossing to Italy since the start of the year, with numbers increasing since the beginning of spring. ...

Italy's Berlusconi attacks judges but backs Letta government

Posted: 11 May 2013 12:08 PM PDT

By James Mackenzie ROME (Reuters) - Silvio Berlusconi launched a fierce attack on magistrates at a stormy political rally on Saturday, accusing them of trying to eliminate him politically but he pledged to keep supporting the fragile coalition of center-left Prime Minister Enrico Letta. The leader of Italy's center right, whose appeal against a tax fraud conviction was rejected this week and who still faces trial on charges of paying for sex with a minor, repeated his longstanding accusations against prosecutors. ...

Georgian PM names pro-Western ally presidential candidate

Posted: 11 May 2013 04:59 PM PDT

Georgia's Education and Since Minister Margvelashvili listens to Prime Minister Ivanishvili speaks during a news conference in TbilisiBy Margarita Antidze TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili on Saturday named a pro-Western ally as the ruling party candidate for October's presidential election, in which incumbent Mikheil Saakashvili is barred from running. Ivanishvili's Georgian Dream coalition won control of parliament in October last year, defeating the party of Saakashvili, a leader of the 2003 Rose Revolution protest movement, and is favorite in opinion polls to take the presidency. ...

Cleveland kidnappings: Was Ariel Castro record of abuse a red flag?

Posted: 11 May 2013 01:36 PM PDT

What if Ariel Castro's past record of alleged domestic violence had resulted in legal action against him?

Tim Tebow blackballed by NFL?

Posted: 11 May 2013 01:28 PM PDT

Has Tim Tebow been unofficially blackballed from the NFL?

Has Benghazi become the Obama administration’s Watergate?

Posted: 11 May 2013 12:18 PM PDT

What sent Richard Nixon into political disgrace during the time of Watergate was "not the crime, but the cover-up." Or so historians and pundits have been saying for nearly 40 years.

West Wing evacuated: Smoke from a transformer prompts action

Posted: 11 May 2013 10:42 AM PDT

Reporters and photographers were evacuated briefly from the West Wing of the White House early Saturday because of smoke from an overheated transformer in a mechanical room.

Pakistan's Sharif declares election victory

Posted: 11 May 2013 04:32 PM PDT

Former Prime Minister and leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N party Nawaz Sharif waves to his supporters at a party office in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, May 11, 2013. Sharif declared victory following a historic election marred by violence Saturday, as unofficial, partial vote counts showed his party with an overwhelming lead. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)ISLAMABAD (AP) — Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif declared victory following a historic election marred by violence Saturday, a remarkable comeback for a leader once toppled in a military coup and sent into exile.

Syria-linked group blamed in Turkey blasts; 43 die

Posted: 11 May 2013 01:22 PM PDT

The site of one of the explosions after several explosions killed at least 40 people and injured dozens in Reyhanli, near Turkey's border with Syria, Saturday, May 11, 2013, Turkish Interior Minister Muammer Guler said. (AP Photo/IHA) TURKEY OUTREYHANLI, Turkey (AP) — In one of the deadliest attacks in Turkey in recent years, two car bombs exploded near the border with Syria on Saturday, killing 43 and wounding 140 others. Turkish officials blamed the attack on a group linked to Syria, and a deputy prime minister called the neighboring country's intelligence service and military "the usual suspects."

Woman rescued from Bangladesh rubble recovering

Posted: 11 May 2013 07:08 AM PDT

In this photo taken by a mobile phone camera, survivor of a collapsed building Reshma Begum lie down on a bed as she receives treatment at a hospital in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, May 11, 2013. Begum was working in a factory on the second floor of Rana Plaza when the building began collapsing around her April 24. For 17 days, the 19-year-old seamstress lay trapped in a dark basement pocket beneath thousands of tons of wreckage as temperatures outside climbed into the mid-30s Celsius (mid-90s Fahrenheit) and was finally rescued on Friday. (AP Photo/Ismail Ferdous)SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — A seamstress who survived 17 days before being rescued from a collapsed garment factory building was panicked, dehydrated and suffering from insomnia as she recovered in a Bangladesh hospital Saturday, but was in generally good condition, according to her doctors.

World grapples with rise in cyber crime

Posted: 11 May 2013 08:53 AM PDT

In this undated photo provided by the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, Elvis Rafael Rodriguez, left, and Emir Yasser Yeje, pose with bundles of cash allegedly stolen using bogus magnetic swipe cards at cash machines throughout New York. Prosecutors in New York on Thursday, May 9, 2013 said that they are members of worldwide gang of criminals who stole $45 million in hours by hacking into a database of prepaid debit cards and draining cash machines around the globe. An indictment unsealed Thursday accused U.S. cell ringleader Alberto Yusi Lajud-Pena and seven other New York suspects of withdrawing $2.8 million in cash from hacked accounts in less than a day. (AP Photos/U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York)LONDON (AP) — International law enforcement agencies say the recent $45 million dollar ATM heist is just one of many scams they're fighting in an unprecedented wave of sophisticated cyberattacks.

Spacewalking repair halts station leak - for now

Posted: 11 May 2013 02:53 PM PDT

In this image made from video provided by NASA, astronaut Christopher Cassidy, foreground, holds a power wrench as he stows away a suspect coolant pump on the International Space Station on Saturday, May 11, 2013. Thomas Marshburn is at left. The two astronauts made the spacewalk to replace the pump after flakes of frozen ammonia coolant were spotted outside the station on Thursday. (AP Photo/NASA)CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts making a rare, hastily planned spacewalk replaced a pump outside the International Space Station on Saturday in hopes of plugging a serious ammonia leak.

AP IMPACT: Cars made in Brazil are deadly

Posted: 11 May 2013 11:04 AM PDT

SAO PAULO (AP) — The cars roll endlessly off the local assembly lines of the industry's biggest automakers, more than 10,000 a day, into the eager hands of Brazil's new middle class. The shiny new Fords, Fiats, and Chevrolets tell the tale of an economy in full bloom that now boasts the fourth largest auto market in the world.

For Cleveland women, ordeal of recovery begins now

Posted: 11 May 2013 04:45 PM PDT

Workers board up the house Saturday, May 11, 2013 where three women were held in Cleveland on Saturday, May 11, 2013. Suspect Ariel Castro, who allegedly held three women captive for nearly a decade, is charged with rape and kidnapping. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)Year after year, the clock ticked by and the calendar marched forward, carrying the three women further from the real world and pulling them deeper into an isolated nightmare.

Egypt's Mubarak says too early to judge Mursi: newspaper

Posted: 11 May 2013 03:51 PM PDT

Police officers sit with a guard dog at the police academy, where the trial of Egypt's former president Mubarak is taking place, in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - Former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak said it was too early to judge President Mohamed Mursi, saying the Islamist politician faced a difficult job, in comments billed as his first interview since his removal from power in 2011. El-Watan newspaper said its journalist broke through security lines to speak to Mubarak on Saturday before his retrial on charges of complicity in the death of protesters killed in the popular uprising that swept him from office. ...

Sudan says South Sudan helped rebels attacking major town

Posted: 11 May 2013 03:44 PM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan accused South Sudan of having supported rebels who launched a major assault two weeks ago, warning this could derail recent oil and security agreements between the African neighbors, state media said on Saturday. The two countries agreed in March to resume cross-border oil flows and end tension that has plagued them since South Sudan's secession in 2011. Since then ties have improved with Sudan receiving last week the first oil exports from the landlocked South, which had shut down its production in January 2012 in a dispute over pipeline fees. ...

Car bombs kill 43 in Turkey near Syrian border

Posted: 11 May 2013 02:32 PM PDT

Smoke rises from site of an explosion in the town of Reyhanli near the Turkish-Syrian borderBy Mehmet Emin Caliskan REYHANLI, Turkey (Reuters) - Twin car bombs killed 43 people and wounded many more in a Turkish town near the Syrian border on Saturday and the government said it suspected Syrian involvement. The bombing increased fears that Syria's civil war was dragging in neighboring states despite renewed diplomatic moves towards ending two years of fighting in which more than 70,000 people have been killed. ...

Turkey has right to respond after car bombs: foreign minister

Posted: 11 May 2013 02:19 PM PDT

BERLIN (Reuters) - Turkey reserves the right to take "every kind of measure" after car bomb attacks which killed more than 40 people in the southern town of Reyhanli near the border with Syria on Saturday, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said. Speaking to reporters in Berlin, Davutoglu said he would discuss the matter with Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan but said he saw no need for an emergency meeting of the NATO military alliance following the attacks. ...

Sharif poised to lead Pakistan again after long wait

Posted: 11 May 2013 01:55 PM PDT

By Michael Georgy and Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - After 14 years out of power, Nawaz Sharif is poised to become prime minister again, and he is a man in a hurry to clean up what he calls Pakistan's mess. Sharif said on Saturday his Pakistan Muslim League Party-Nawaz (PMLN) was the clear winner in general elections and that he hoped for a majority to avoid a coalition. He inherits a country with a dizzying array of troubles, from chronic power cuts to a Taliban insurgency. ...

Pakistanis defy violence in historic election

Posted: 11 May 2013 12:58 PM PDT

Pakistani women line up to enter a polling station and cast their ballots, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, May 11, 2013. Pakistanis streamed to the polls Saturday to vote in a historic election pitting a cricket star-turned-politician against an unpopular incumbent and a two-time prime minister, but twin bombings killing nine people and wounding dozens underlined the dangers voters face. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)ISLAMABAD (AP) — Despite attacks that killed 29 people, Pakistanis turned out in huge numbers Saturday to vote in an election that marked a historic democratic transfer of power in a country plagued by military coups.

2 divisive figures enter Iran's presidential race

Posted: 11 May 2013 12:45 PM PDT

Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani waves to reporters, as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, at the election headquarters of the interior ministry in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, May 11, 2013. Iranian election authorities say several new high-profile politicians including hardliners, reformists, and allies of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have registered for the June 14 presidential elections. The campaign is taking shape as open season on Ahmadinejad's legacy and his combative style that bolstered his stature among supporters but alarmed critics. Ahmadinejad is barred by law from seeking a third term due to term limits under Iran's constitution. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A pair of powerful and divisive figures registered Saturday to run in Iran's presidential election, jolting the political landscape ahead of next month's vote to pick a successor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

G7 says Japan playing by currency rules

Posted: 11 May 2013 12:45 PM PDT

From left, Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, Jim Flaherty, Finance Minister of Canada, Wolfgang Schauble Federal Minister of Finance of Germany and Taro Aso, Finance Minister of Japan, pose for the family group photo at the G7 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting in Aylesbury, England, Friday, May 10, 2013. The role of central banks in shoring up the global economic recovery is set to be a key point of discussion among top financial officials from the world's seven leading economies when they gather in the UK this weekend. In a statement Friday ahead of the Group of Seven's two-day meeting at a country house around 50 miles (80 kilometers) northwest of London, British finance minister George Osborne said the main task officials face over the coming two days is looking at how to "nurture" the recovery. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool)AYLESBURY, England (AP) — Finance leaders from the Group of Seven leading industrial economies say Japan's stimulus policies are directed at boosting its economy out of a two-decade period of stagnation, not an attempt to drive down its currency to make Japan's exports more competitive.

Killing in Russia adds to concerns over treatment of gays

Posted: 11 May 2013 12:43 PM PDT

By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) - An apparent homophobic killing has increased concerns among Russian activists about prejudice against gays, which they fear will be encouraged by a bill banning homosexual "propaganda". The body of a 23-year-old man was found in the courtyard of an apartment building in the southern city of Volgograd early on Friday with multiple wounds including in the genital area, the federal Investigative Committee said on Saturday. It said a 22-year-old acquaintance of the victim and a 27-year-old ex-convict had been detained on suspicion of murder. ...

Thousands protest in Gabon against ritual killings

Posted: 11 May 2013 12:39 PM PDT

LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Several thousand people protested in Gabon on Saturday against a spate of ritual killings that has seen mutilated bodies washing up on beaches in the central African state this year. Sylvia Bongo, Gabon's first lady, led most of the demonstrators, while rights groups tried to lead a separate march but members said they were dispersed by tear gas and several leaders arrested by the security forces. ...

Syrian rebels, government fight over key highways

Posted: 11 May 2013 12:32 PM PDT

In this citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, anti-Syrian regime protesters hold a poster depicting Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, right, during a demonstration, at Kafr Nabil town, in Idlib province, northern Syria, Friday May 10, 2013. Arabic banner on the background reads, "Kafr Nabil." (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels on Saturday cut a newly built bypass road linking the capital Damascus with the northern city of Aleppo, an activist group said, while state media reported that government troops have secured a strategic highway between the capital and the southern city of Daraa.

Egypt Christian teacher's detention extended

Posted: 11 May 2013 12:13 PM PDT

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian prosecutors extended the detention Saturday of a Coptic Christian teacher held over accusations of blasphemy of Islam and proselytizing Christianity, security officials said.

Thousands in Israel protest proposed budget

Posted: 11 May 2013 12:04 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say protesters are marching in Tel Aviv over proposed tax hikes and benefit cuts.

43 dead in Turkey car bombings near Syria

Posted: 11 May 2013 12:00 PM PDT

The site of one of the explosions after several explosions killed at least 40 people and injured dozens in Reyhanli, near Turkey's border with Syria, Saturday, May 11, 2013, Turkish Interior Minister Muammer Guler said. (AP Photo/IHA) TURKEY OUTREYHANLI, Turkey (AP) — In one of the deadliest attacks in Turkey in recent years, two car bombs exploded near the border with Syria on Saturday, killing 43 and wounding 140 others. Turkish officials blamed the attack on a group linked to Syria, and one called the neighboring country's intelligence service and military "the usual suspects."

Bombs in Turkey linked to Syrian intelligence: deputy PM

Posted: 11 May 2013 12:00 PM PDT

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said initial findings of an investigation into car bombs that killed at least 43 people on Saturday showed the attackers were linked to Syria's intelligence agency, broadcaster NTV reported. The twin car bombs exploded in the Turkish town of Reyhanli near the Syrian border. (Writing by Ece Toksabay; Editing by Janet Lawrence)

Gabon: Thousands march against ritual killings

Posted: 11 May 2013 11:26 AM PDT

People protesting against ritual killings carry banners reading 'Stop ritual crime; support the president in his fight against ritual crimes' as they march in Libreville, Gabon, Saturday, May 11, 2013. Thousands of Gabonese people marched Saturday to protest ritual killings, in which people are murdered so their body parts can be used in amulets to bring good luck. The president of the Association for the Fight against Ritual Crimes, Elvis Ebang Ondo, estimates that Gabon has 20 mutilation killings a year. (AP Photo/Joel Bouopda Tatou)LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) — Thousands of Gabonese people marched to protest ritual killings, in which people are murdered so their body parts can be used in amulets to bring good luck. Sylvia Bongo Ondimba, Gabon's first lady, led the event Saturday along with Christian and Muslim religious leaders.

Pro-Berlusconi rally in Italy draws cheers, jeers

Posted: 11 May 2013 11:22 AM PDT

ROME (AP) — Thousands of supporters of former Premier Silvio Berlusconi rallied in a northern Italian city Saturday to protest the media mogul's recent conviction by a Milan appeals court for tax fraud, cheering their hero as police in riot gear separated them from jeering opponents.

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