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• Syrian opposition struggles for unity as battle rages
• Kerry presses Egypt on economic reform, says aid depends on it
• British police arrest 3 over soldier's killing
• French soldier stabbed while on patrol near Paris
• Swedish capital returning to normal after week of violence
• Kerry stresses respect for human rights with Nigerian president
• Boy Scouts: Will anti-gay troops emerge?
• Clinton leads 2016 poll in Iowa, but Rand Paul is close
• Obama, Hagel tell young officers: You must lead in ridding US military of sexual assault
• 'Black widow' suicide bomber injures 18 in Russia's Dagestan region
• Anti-Muslim actions rise in UK over slain soldier
• 2-child limit for Muslims in parts of Myanmar
• Hezbollah chief commits to victory in Syria
• Kerry makes 1st official sub-Saharan Africa trip
• French soldier stabbed in throat outside Paris
• Suspected rebels kill 17, wound 24 in east India
• AP PHOTOS: Bayern beats Dortmund 2-1 in final
• Between 180-200 French militants have fought in Syria: Le Monde
• France rules out Iran taking part in Syrian peace talks
• Nasrallah says Hezbollah will bring victory to Syrian ally Assad
• UK police arrest 3 more men in soldier's slaying
• At least five killed as Guinea protests escalate
• As border tightens, some U.S.-Mexico neighbors reach across the fence
• Suspected rebels kill 16, wound 25 in east India
• Roadside bomb kills 2 Yemeni soldiers
• Egypt top court rules against religious slogans
• Turkish couples kiss in subway in protest
• Bomb in Yemeni military vehicle kills two and injures six
• Nigerian army says rescues hostages taken by Islamists

Syrian opposition struggles for unity as battle rages Posted: 25 May 2013 02:02 PM PDT By Khaled Yacoub Oweis ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syria's opposition resumed talks on Saturday aimed at closing their fractious ranks, as government forces launched a fierce onslaught on a rebel-held border town to try to gain the upper hand in the civil war. A failure of the opposition to unite could weaken the hand of Russia and the United States, co-sponsors of a proposed peace conference on the war, which has killed 80,000 and threatens to spill over borders and whip up wider sectarian violence. The U.S. ...

Kerry presses Egypt on economic reform, says aid depends on it Posted: 25 May 2013 02:35 PM PDT By Arshad Mohammed ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry urged Egypt to act swiftly on economic reforms to secure a $4.8 billion International Monetary Fund loan, saying the measures were needed to get further aid from the U.S. Congress, an American official said. Kerry met Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi for about an hour on the sidelines of an African Union summit on Saturday, discussing Syria's civil war, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, human rights in Egypt and the country's faltering economy, the official said. ...

British police arrest 3 over soldier's killing Posted: 25 May 2013 03:39 PM PDT British counter-terrorism police on Saturday arrested three people suspected of involvement in the killing of a soldier hacked to death in a London street by two men shouting Islamist slogans. The killing of the soldier in what the government said appeared to be a terrorist attack has led to angry protests against radical Islam and fears of a possible anti-Muslim backlash. Michael Adebolajo, 28 and Michael Adebowale, 22, are under armed guard in hospital after being shot and arrested by police on suspicion of murder on Wednesday. ...

French soldier stabbed while on patrol near Paris Posted: 25 May 2013 01:06 PM PDT By Nicolas Bertin PARIS (Reuters) - A French soldier patrolling a business neighborhood west of Paris was stabbed in the neck and injured on Saturday by a man who fled the scene and is being sought by police, President Francois Hollande said. The 23-year-old was patrolling in uniform with two other soldiers as part of France's Vigipirate anti-terror surveillance plan when he was approached from behind around 6 p.m. and attacked with a knife or a box-cutter. ...

Swedish capital returning to normal after week of violence Posted: 25 May 2013 05:01 PM PDT By Mia Shanley and Simon Johnson STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's capital was relatively calm on Saturday night with only isolated incidents of violence by youths after nearly a week of car-burnings and vandalism that have highlighted growing inequality in Swedish society. Police had brought in reinforcements from around the country to stem the rioting and were out in force in the poorer suburbs of Stockholm that have seen the worst incidents. "It is pretty calm," police spokesman Lars Bystrom said. "It isn't worse than a normal night. ...

Kerry stresses respect for human rights with Nigerian president Posted: 25 May 2013 03:47 PM PDT ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry, who last week expressed concern about allegations of gross human rights violations by Nigerian forces fighting the Boko Haram Islamist sect, raised the issue with the country's president directly on Saturday, a U.S. official said. ...

Boy Scouts: Will anti-gay troops emerge? Posted: 25 May 2013 12:36 PM PDT The decision by the Boy Scouts of America to stop seeing homosexuality as a moral failing and accept gay boys raises an important question for troops from Sheboygan to Atlanta: Will Cub scouts and Eagle scouts exodus en masse, and, if so, to where?

Clinton leads 2016 poll in Iowa, but Rand Paul is close Posted: 25 May 2013 12:09 PM PDT Hillary Clinton for president in 2016?

Obama, Hagel tell young officers: You must lead in ridding US military of sexual assault Posted: 25 May 2013 11:52 AM PDT Speaking to the nation's future military leaders this Memorial Day weekend, their Commander in Chief and Secretary of Defense made a point of addressing an important issue in today's armed services: sexual assault.

'Black widow' suicide bomber injures 18 in Russia's Dagestan region Posted: 25 May 2013 10:15 AM PDT A female suicide bomber blew herself up in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Saturday, injuring at least 18, including two children and five police officers, authorities said. The attacker was later identified as a widow of two Islamic radicals killed by security forces.

Anti-Muslim actions rise in UK over slain soldier Posted: 25 May 2013 02:43 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — Police, politicians and activists in Britain are warning of rising anti-Muslim sentiment following the slaughter of an off-duty British soldier in a London street, an apparent act of Islamic extremism that has horrified the nation.

2-child limit for Muslims in parts of Myanmar Posted: 25 May 2013 05:35 AM PDT YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Authorities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state have imposed a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families, a policy that does not apply to Buddhists in the area and comes amid accusations of ethnic cleansing in the aftermath of sectarian violence.

Hezbollah chief commits to victory in Syria Posted: 25 May 2013 01:11 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group vowed to help propel President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria's bloody civil war, warning that the fall of the Damascus regime would give rise to extremists and plunge the Middle East into a "dark period."

Kerry makes 1st official sub-Saharan Africa trip Posted: 25 May 2013 01:08 PM PDT ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Making his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday demanded that Nigeria respect human rights as it cracks down on Islamist extremists and pledged to work hard in the coming months to ease tensions between Sudan and South Sudan.

French soldier stabbed in throat outside Paris Posted: 25 May 2013 02:36 PM PDT PARIS (AP) — A French soldier was stabbed in the throat in a busy commercial district outside Paris on Saturday, and the government said it was trying to determine if there were any links to the brutal killing of a British soldier by suspected Islamic extremists.

Suspected rebels kill 17, wound 24 in east India Posted: 25 May 2013 01:11 PM PDT NEW DELHI (AP) — Suspected Maoist rebels set off a land mine and opened fire Saturday on a convoy of cars carrying local leaders and supporters of India's ruling Congress party in eastern India, killing at least 17 people and wounding 24 others, police said.

AP PHOTOS: Bayern beats Dortmund 2-1 in final Posted: 25 May 2013 03:59 PM PDT Bayern Munich defeated German rival Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in the Champions League final Saturday night, ending four years of frustration for Bayern in Europe's biggest soccer tournament. Arjen Robben ran onto Franck Ribery's backheeled flick in the penalty area and put the ball past goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller in the 89th minute to send Bayern to its first Champions League victory since 2001. Bayern had lost two of the last three finals, including a penalty-kicks defeat to Chelsea last year in Munich. Bayern entered as the favorite, although that message didn't seem to have filtered through to Juergen Klopp's Dortmund team, which seemed intent on dictating play from the start. It largely succeeded for the first 25 minutes as well, although it was Bayern that ended up with the best chances of the first half.

Between 180-200 French militants have fought in Syria: Le Monde Posted: 25 May 2013 02:02 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - Between 180 and 200 French citizens have traveled to Syria in the past year to join a two-year-old rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad, le Monde reported on Saturday, citing figures from France's internal DCRI and external DGSE security services. That number, which is higher than a previous estimate of about 50, includes fighters who took up arms with rebel groups like the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front. About two dozen have already returned to France, Le Monde said. ...

France rules out Iran taking part in Syrian peace talks Posted: 25 May 2013 02:02 PM PDT By John Irish ABU DHABI (Reuters) - France's foreign minister on Saturday ruled out Iran taking part in a proposed Syria peace conference, saying Tehran was involved in the conflict and had no desire for peace. Laurent Fabius will host Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at a dinner on Monday to discuss how to nudge Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian opposition into the talks in Geneva. ...

Nasrallah says Hezbollah will bring victory to Syrian ally Assad Posted: 25 May 2013 02:02 PM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - The leader of Lebanese guerrilla movement Hezbollah said on Saturday his group would stay in the Syrian war "to the end of the road" and bring victory to its ally President Bashar al-Assad. Hassan Nasrallah, head of the militant Shi'ite Muslim group, said in a televised speech that Syria and Lebanon were facing a threat from radical Sunni Islamists, which he argued was a plot devised by the United States and its allies to serve Israel's interests in the region. "We will not rely on anyone ... ...

UK police arrest 3 more men in soldier's slaying Posted: 25 May 2013 01:51 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — British police on Saturday arrested three more suspects in connection with the savage killing of an off-duty soldier that has raised fresh concerns about terrorism.

At least five killed as Guinea protests escalate Posted: 25 May 2013 01:28 PM PDT CONAKRY (Reuters) - At least five people were killed on Saturday when security forces in Guinea opened fire on protesters in opposition strongholds in the capital, medical sources and witnesses said. The violence brings to 11 the number of people killed since Thursday in unrest that began over election preparations but has frequently degenerated into looting and clashes between ethnic groups. "According to our information, they (the five) all died after being shot," said Thierno Maadjou Sow, president of the OGDH human rights group. ...

As border tightens, some U.S.-Mexico neighbors reach across the fence Posted: 25 May 2013 12:32 PM PDT By Tim Gaynor NACO, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican activist Maria Elena Borquez takes up a paintbrush and daubs a bright splotch of color on the rusted steel fence separating the small Mexican town of Naco from a neighboring town in the United States. "The wall projects hostility," she said, paint pot in hand and surrounded by youngsters from both the United States and Mexico. "The idea is to transform it with art, friendship, colors and life ... into something that unites us," said Borquez, who is director of the local museum. ...

Suspected rebels kill 16, wound 25 in east India Posted: 25 May 2013 12:20 PM PDT NEW DELHI (AP) — Suspected Maoist rebels set off a land mine and opened fire Saturday on a convoy of cars carrying local leaders and supporters of India's ruling Congress party in eastern India, killing at least 16 people and wounding 25 others, police said.

Roadside bomb kills 2 Yemeni soldiers Posted: 25 May 2013 12:15 PM PDT SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Security officials say two Yemeni soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in a restive province where high-level intelligence officers have been assassinated in the past.

Egypt top court rules against religious slogans Posted: 25 May 2013 11:58 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on Saturday against parts of an election law approved by the Islamist-led legislature that had lifted a long-standing ban on the use of religious slogans during campaigning.

Turkish couples kiss in subway in protest Posted: 25 May 2013 11:55 AM PDT ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Dozens of couples have locked lips at a subway stop in Turkey's capital, Ankara, to protest subway authorities' admonishment of a couple that kissed in public.

Bomb in Yemeni military vehicle kills two and injures six Posted: 25 May 2013 11:42 AM PDT ADEN (Reuters) - A remotely-detonated bomb planted in a military vehicle killed a soldier and a civilian and injured six other soldiers in the Hadramaut region of eastern Yemen on Saturday evening, a local security official said. The explosion took place in the town of al-Shehr as the vehicle drove along a main road, the official said. He added Islamist militants were suspected of the bombing. Islamist militants seized control of swathes of south and east Yemen during the political chaos of the Arab Spring in 2011. ...

Nigerian army says rescues hostages taken by Islamists Posted: 25 May 2013 11:26 AM PDT ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's military has freed a number of women and children held hostage by Islamist sect Boko Haram, the army said on Saturday, after its offensive in the northeast of the country overran three of the insurgents' camps. Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said in a video earlier this month that the group had kidnapped several women and children in retaliation against security forces who, it says, detained the wives and children of its members without cause. ...

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