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• Turkish PM Erdogan calls for end to protests as clashes flare
• China accuses U.S. of 'prejudice' over 1989 protest comments
• Fighting in Syria's Qusair, U.N. says world watching
• Frankfurt 'Blockupy' protesters clash with police
• Three NATO soldiers, civilian killed in attacks in Afghanistan
• Spain PM sees hope for unemployment on day of protests
• Rand Paul: 'When Republican Party looks like the rest of America, we'll win'
• Is Justin Bieber’s driver’s license at risk? Neighbors allege recklessness in Ferrari
• Sexual assault: Women lawmakers push for change in US military
• In Turkey's Taksim protest, angry citizens and a defiant prime minister
• Protesters swarm Istanbul square after clashes
• Police charge 2nd suspect in UK soldier death
• Rockets from Syria hit Hezbollah stronghold
• SKorea's gay film maker in news over wedding plans
• Egypt's long-scorned legislature deepens rift
• More than 1,000 killed in Iraq violence in May
• China president makes first ever visit to Trinidad
• 3 NATO service members killed in Afghanistan
• For 90th birthday, pilot plans 90 border crossings
• Leading Sunni Muslim cleric calls for "jihad" in Syria
• Turkish police detained 939 people in protests: Interior Minister
• 2 Egypt policemen in uprising case free from jail
• Brash Iran campaign stirs echoes of Ahmadinejad
• Second man charged with murder of soldier in London
• London police contain rival protests over soldier's killing
• Cyprus revokes citizenship of Assad's cousin
• Egyptian Christian lawyer convicted of blasphemy
• Italy aims to axe youth jobless rate below 30 percent: PM
• US denies Mauritania got 2 Guantanamo prisoners
• Two dead, around 10 wounded in prison raid in Niger's capital
• Convicted murderer Sloot eyes Peru marriage for 'love,' says lawyer

Turkish PM Erdogan calls for end to protests as clashes flare Posted: 01 Jun 2013 01:23 PM PDT By Nick Tattersall and Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan made a defiant call for an end to the fiercest anti-government demonstrations in years on Saturday as authorities arrested almost a thousand people in protests across the country. Riot police backed by armored vehicles and helicopters fired tear gas and water cannons in Istanbul and Ankara for a second day. Interior Minister Muammer Guler said 939 arrests had been made in more than 90 separate demonstrations. ...

China accuses U.S. of 'prejudice' over 1989 protest comments Posted: 01 Jun 2013 10:13 AM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China accused the United States of "prejudice" on Saturday after the U.S. State Department renewed a call for Beijing to fully account for its bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in June 1989. The United States should "immediately rectify its wrongdoings and stop interfering in China's internal affairs so as not to sabotage China-U.S. relations", Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in an English-language statement released via the official Xinhua news agency. China has already reached a "clear conclusion" about the events of 1989, Hong said. The U.S. ...

Fighting in Syria's Qusair, U.N. says world watching Posted: 01 Jun 2013 08:58 AM PDT By Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian troops and Hezbollah guerrillas besieging the border town of Qusair fought with rebels on Saturday as the United Nations warned all sides they would be held accountable for the suffering of trapped civilians. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said fighting was taking place inside Qusair and in villages around it, largely controlled by President Bashar al-Assad's forces who have cut off access to the town. ...

Frankfurt 'Blockupy' protesters clash with police Posted: 01 Jun 2013 02:48 PM PDT By Eva Kuehnen FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German police used pepper spray and batons against thousands of anti-capitalist demonstrators from the Blockupy movement on Saturday during a second day of protests in Frankfurt against Europe's austerity policies. Planned rallies in struggling euro zone members Spain and Portugal drew fewer people than expected, but in Germany's financial capital around 7,000 protesters marched with signs reading "Make love, not war" and "IMF - get out of Greece". ...

Three NATO soldiers, civilian killed in attacks in Afghanistan Posted: 01 Jun 2013 01:19 PM PDT KABUL (Reuters) - Three NATO soldiers and a civilian working with the international military coalition in Afghanistan were killed in three incidents on Saturday, officials said. The attacks underscored the dangers faced by ISAF troops, even as they hand over much of the fighting to Afghan security forces ahead of a planned withdrawal next year. In the east, a soldier and a civilian were killed in one incident, and a second soldier was killed in another, said a spokeswoman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). ...

Spain PM sees hope for unemployment on day of protests Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:36 PM PDT By Clare Kane MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish unemployment figures next week may strike a more encouraging note, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy told an economic conference on Saturday, holding out some hope for an economy deep in its second year of recession. Anger is high in Spain over the budget cuts and labor market changes that have left more than six million out of work, and a protest in Madrid on Saturday drew up to several thousand protestors, although that was fewer than similar events in the recent past. Unemployment in Spain, the euro zone's fourth-biggest economy, jumped to a record 27. ...

Rand Paul: 'When Republican Party looks like the rest of America, we'll win' Posted: 01 Jun 2013 01:40 PM PDT Rand Paul is the latest Republican to tell his party to open up to a wider range of views within its ranks.

Is Justin Bieber’s driver’s license at risk? Neighbors allege recklessness in Ferrari Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:50 PM PDT Sporty cars and celebrities are a part of California culture, but the Golden State also has things called rules of the road.

Sexual assault: Women lawmakers push for change in US military Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:08 PM PDT Sexual assault in the US military is accelerating toward likely change in the way such cases are handled by senior uniformed officers – which is to say, it may be taken out of their hands.

In Turkey's Taksim protest, angry citizens and a defiant prime minister Posted: 01 Jun 2013 11:44 AM PDT After two days of violent street battles, Turkish anti-government protesters today scored a symbolic victory against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, by forcing police to retreat in hail of stones and debris from Taksim Square in Istanbul.

Protesters swarm Istanbul square after clashes Posted: 01 Jun 2013 03:21 PM PDT ISTANBUL (AP) — In a scene reminiscent of the Arab Spring, thousands of people on Saturday flooded Istanbul's main square after a crackdown on an anti-government protest turned city streets into a battlefield clouded by tear gas.

Police charge 2nd suspect in UK soldier death Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:12 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — British police charged a second suspect Saturday with the murder of a soldier who was hacked to death in a London street, as right-wing and antifascist groups both demonstrated in response to a slaying that has heightened religious tensions in Britain.

Rockets from Syria hit Hezbollah stronghold Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:15 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Eighteen rockets and mortars rounds from Syria slammed into Lebanon on Saturday, the largest cross-border salvo to hit a Hezbollah stronghold since Syrian rebels threatened to retaliate for the Lebanese militant group's armed support of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

SKorea's gay film maker in news over wedding plans Posted: 01 Jun 2013 03:20 AM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The first time a South Korean celebrity announced he was gay, in 2000, the reaction was quick and without empathy. Popular actor and entertainer Hong Suk-chon was banished from television and radio programs for three years, and he said in a talk-show interview this year that he regrets coming out.

Egypt's long-scorned legislature deepens rift Posted: 01 Jun 2013 10:50 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — When voters went to the polls more than a year ago to vote for Egypt's upper house of parliament, most presumed the legislature would be the powerless talk shop that it had always been for 30 years. Few candidates were known outside their families, parties or neighborhoods. Only seven percent of the electorate bothered to cast a ballot.

More than 1,000 killed in Iraq violence in May Posted: 01 Jun 2013 01:51 PM PDT By Patrick Markey BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More than 1,000 people were killed in violence in Iraq in May, making it the deadliest month since the sectarian slaughter of 2006-07, the United Nations said on Saturday, as fears mounted of a return to civil war. Nearly 2,000 people have been killed in the last two months as al Qaeda and Sunni Islamist insurgents, invigorated by the Sunni-led revolt in Syria and by Sunni discontent at home, seek to revive the kind of all-out inter-communal conflict that killed tens of thousands five years ago. "That is a sad record," Martin Kobler, the U.N. ...

China president makes first ever visit to Trinidad Posted: 01 Jun 2013 01:30 PM PDT PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping met for the first time with officials in Trinidad and Tobago Saturday on the first stop of a four-country regional tour.

3 NATO service members killed in Afghanistan Posted: 01 Jun 2013 01:26 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — NATO says three of its service members and one civilian working with the international coalition in Afghanistan have been killed in three separate attacks in the country's east and south.

For 90th birthday, pilot plans 90 border crossings Posted: 01 Jun 2013 01:20 PM PDT GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. (AP) — Loved ones of John Lawton will gaze heavenward on his 90th birthday Monday.

Leading Sunni Muslim cleric calls for "jihad" in Syria Posted: 01 Jun 2013 01:04 PM PDT DOHA (Reuters) - Leading Sunni Muslim cleric Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi called on Saturday for holy war against the Syrian government after fighters from Shi'ite Lebanese group Hezbollah intervened to help President Bashar al-Assad. His website said Qaradawi had "called on all those able to undertake jihad and fighting to head to Syria to stand by the Syrian people who are being killed at the hands of the regime and are now being killed at the hands of what he called the party of Satan". ...

Turkish police detained 939 people in protests: Interior Minister Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:30 PM PDT ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police detained 939 people in 90 different demonstrations across Turkey, interior minister Muammer Guler said on Saturday. "There have been 939 detentions in various cities. Some of them have already been released," Guler told reporters in comments broadcast by Turkish state television. He added that 79 people were wounded during the unrest, which was triggered by government plans for a replica Ottoman-era barracks housing shops or apartments in Istanbul's Taksim Square but widened into a broader show of defiance against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. ...

2 Egypt policemen in uprising case free from jail Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:25 PM PDT ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) — An Egyptian judge on Saturday released from jail two policemen who were convicted of beating a young man to death in a killing that helped inspire the country's 2011 uprising.

Brash Iran campaign stirs echoes of Ahmadinejad Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:23 PM PDT TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranians have seen it before: A youngish presidential candidate firing up crowds with fist-waving rants against the West, then displaying his Islamist bona fides with courtesy calls to hard-line clerics.

Second man charged with murder of soldier in London Posted: 01 Jun 2013 11:50 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - British counter-terrorism police charged a second man on Saturday with the May 22 murder of Lee Rigby, a serving soldier, on a London street. Michael Adebolajo, 28, was also charged with the attempted murder of two police officers and with possession of a firearm, a 9.4 mm revolver, with intent to cause others to believe that violence would be used. Adebolajo was remanded in custody to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday, police said in a statement. ...

London police contain rival protests over soldier's killing Posted: 01 Jun 2013 11:23 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Police intervened to separate about 150 far-right protesters from a much larger anti-racism crowd in London on Saturday to stop them from coming to blows over the killing of a British soldier on a busy street last week. A number of protests and counter-protests have taken place in the wake of the May 22 killing of Lee Rigby, a serving soldier and veteran of the war in Afghanistan, which the authorities are treating as a terrorist incident. Michael Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo are now in custody on suspicion of killing Rigby. ...

Cyprus revokes citizenship of Assad's cousin Posted: 01 Jun 2013 11:23 AM PDT NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus' government spokesman says Cypriot citizenship that was granted to the Syrian president's cousin two years ago has been revoked.

Egyptian Christian lawyer convicted of blasphemy Posted: 01 Jun 2013 11:04 AM PDT ASSIUT, Egypt (AP) — An Egyptian court has convicted a Coptic Christian lawyer in the southern province of Assiut on charges of blasphemy and sentenced him to one year in prison with hard labor.

Italy aims to axe youth jobless rate below 30 percent: PM Posted: 01 Jun 2013 11:03 AM PDT TRENTO, Italy (Reuters) - Italy's Prime Minister Enrico Letta said on Saturday his government aims to reduce youth unemployment to below 30 percent in the next few years with a mixture of fiscal breaks and different contracts for young employees. Italy's overall jobless rate and youth unemployment edged up in April to the highest levels on record, data showed on Friday, with the youth jobless rate at 40.5 percent. Reducing unemployment in the midst of Italy's longest recession since World War Two is likely to be no easy task. ...

US denies Mauritania got 2 Guantanamo prisoners Posted: 01 Jun 2013 11:03 AM PDT NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — The United States Department of Defense denied claims by a prisoner's rights group in Mauritania, which announced on Saturday that the U.S. had returned three prisoners to the African country, including two men who had been held at the Guantanamo Bay prison.

Two dead, around 10 wounded in prison raid in Niger's capital Posted: 01 Jun 2013 10:59 AM PDT NIAMEY (Reuters) - Gunmen killed two guards and wounded around 10 other people in an attack on a prison in Niger's capital Niamey on Saturday, a week after al Qaeda-linked groups raided a uranium mine and an army barracks. Local residents said the assault began at around 3 p.m. (1500 GMT) when a group of attackers opened fire on guards at the entrance to the prison. They said they also heard a loud explosion. Ila Yaye, who lives near the prison, told Reuters she saw several of the guards fall and not get back up. It was not immediately clear who had carried out the attack. ...

Convicted murderer Sloot eyes Peru marriage for 'love,' says lawyer Posted: 01 Jun 2013 10:58 AM PDT LIMA (Reuters) - Jailed murderer Joran van der Sloot plans to wed his Peruvian girlfriend for love, not to avoid extradition to the United States in connection with the disappearance of an Alabama teenager, his lawyer said on Saturday. Van der Sloot, a 25-year-old Dutch citizen, is serving 28 years in prison for killing Peruvian business student Stephany Flores, 21, in 2010 after meeting her playing poker in a Lima casino. When his term ends, he is also slated to be sent to the United States to face charges of extortion stemming from the unsolved disappearance of U.S. ...

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