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• Defiant Erdogan denounces riots in Turkish cities
• French conservatives pick woman for Paris mayor race
• U.S. targets Iran with currency, auto-sector sanctions
• Nations line up to sign U.N. arms trade treaty, U.S. not yet
• China lends Costa Rica $400 million on Xi visit
• Guinea media set strike after government shuts opposition radio
• Powerhouse wildfire north of L.A. heralds a much longer fire season
• Whitey Bulger on trial: what last-minute legal maneuvers portend
• Pricey tickets for Rolling Stones tour test limits of live-concert market
• American public has few qualms with drone strikes, poll finds
• Many trapped in China poultry plant fire, 119 dead
• Bomb kills 9 Afghan children, 2 US troops
• Israel to send African migrants to third country
• Wounded and civilians trapped in Syria's Qusair
• More than 65 countries sign Arms Trade Treaty
• Turkish PM, president at odds over protests
• US experts: Townley could not have killed Neruda
• Egyptian politicians: Sabotage Ethiopia's new dam
• Woman in red becomes leitmotif for Istanbul's female protesters
• Britain's Queen Elizabeth to mark six-decade reign
• Raul Castro turns 82, with heir-apparent on deck
• Latvia to get green light for euro zone membership on Wednesday
• Somalia cases of killing, maiming, abuse of children halved: U.N.
• Dutch airline excused from 'underwear bomber' suit
• Officials: Kerry returning to Mideast next week
• Hague court may try Kenyan vice president in Africa
• U.S. calls for restraint by Turkish police confronting protests
• "Blade Runner" Pistorius set to return to court in murder case
• Prince Philip unwell, misses palace reception
• Pitt says Muse provides perfect soundtrack to film
• Haiti hosts 1st conference on mining efforts
• Mali government accuses Tuareg rebels of ethnic violence

Defiant Erdogan denounces riots in Turkish cities Posted: 03 Jun 2013 02:48 PM PDT By Birsen Altayli and Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Anti-government protesters responsible for Turkey's worst riots in years are "arm-in-arm with terrorism", Prime Minister Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said, in a defiant response to three days of unrest in dozens of cities across the country. Hundreds of police and protesters have been injured since Friday, when a demonstration to halt construction in a park in an Istanbul square grew into mass protests against a heavy-handed police crackdown and what opponents call Erdogan's authoritarian policies. ...

French conservatives pick woman for Paris mayor race Posted: 03 Jun 2013 12:08 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - The spokeswoman for Nicolas Sarkozy's re-election campaign last year won a primary election on Monday to become the conservative UMP party's candidate for the 2014 Paris mayoral race. Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, 40, an up-and-coming opposition figure who was also Sarkozy's environment minister, beat three little-known candidates to win the UMP candidacy with 58 percent of the electronic vote. ...

U.S. targets Iran with currency, auto-sector sanctions Posted: 03 Jun 2013 03:42 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Monday ratcheted up its efforts to isolate Iran for its suspected nuclear weapons program, targeting Tehran with currency and auto-sector sanctions. President Barack Obama imposed sanctions on foreign financial institutions that conduct or facilitate significant transactions in the Iranian rial, meant to further weaken a currency that has already lost two-thirds of its dollar value since late 2011 as a result of Western sanctions. A senior administration official said the low level of the rial was a key vulnerability for the Iranian government. ...

Nations line up to sign U.N. arms trade treaty, U.S. not yet Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:35 PM PDT By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Delegates from dozens of countries gathered in New York on Monday and signed the first treaty to regulate the $70 billion global conventional arms trade, but the United States was not among them. On April 2, the 193-nation U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty that aims to keep weapons out of the hands of human rights abusers and criminals. Argentina's foreign minister, Hector Timerman, was the first to put pen to paper when the signing ceremony opened at U.N. headquarters on Monday. ...

China lends Costa Rica $400 million on Xi visit Posted: 03 Jun 2013 03:41 PM PDT By Isabella Cota SAN JOSE (Reuters) - China lent Central American ally Costa Rica nearly $400 million on Monday during a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to a region where Beijing has traditionally vied with rival Taiwan for influence. Costa Rica recently backed China in its dispute with Taiwan, which Beijing regards as a renegade province, in votes at the United Nations. Members of the Costa Rican opposition said the deals announced on Monday raised questions about what China expected in return. ...

Guinea media set strike after government shuts opposition radio Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:17 PM PDT By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinean media called a 24-hour strike for Thursday in protest at the government's closure of an opposition-owned radio station for one month in the run-up to an election after a listener had called on air for an uprising. The long-delayed vote on June 30 is supposed to seal a transition to democracy after a 2008 military coup in the mineral-rich West African nation. But the opposition fears it will be rigged and has staged protests to try to block it. ...

Powerhouse wildfire north of L.A. heralds a much longer fire season Posted: 03 Jun 2013 04:00 PM PDT The Powerhouse fire, which erupted in scrub-covered rugged terrain north of Los Angeles and has blackened 30,000 acres, destroyed 6 homes, and forced the evacuation of thousands of people, is dramatizing the challenges facing states across the West, including a much longer fire season, analysts say.

Whitey Bulger on trial: what last-minute legal maneuvers portend Posted: 03 Jun 2013 03:00 PM PDT It's been a long time coming, thanks to a manhunt that took 16 years, but the trial of James "Whitey" Bulger is about to begin.

Pricey tickets for Rolling Stones tour test limits of live-concert market Posted: 03 Jun 2013 02:29 PM PDT Tickets to concerts this summer will cost more – not a big surprise to those whose summer rituals are as likely to include outdoor concerts as beachcombing and family vacations.

American public has few qualms with drone strikes, poll finds Posted: 03 Jun 2013 02:21 PM PDT When a US drone strike last week killed a top Taliban leader in Pakistan, critics of the strikes that have become a staple of President Obama's counterterrorism policy were quick to condemn it.

Many trapped in China poultry plant fire, 119 dead Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:49 PM PDT BEIJING (AP) — Fire swept through a poultry processing plant in northeastern China on Monday, trapping workers inside a slaughterhouse with only a single open exit and killing at least 119 people in one of the country's worst industrial disasters in years.

Bomb kills 9 Afghan children, 2 US troops Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:41 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber targeting U.S. troops outside an Afghan government office killed nine children walking home from school and two of the Americans on Monday, the latest sign that this year's fighting season could be one of the deadliest of the 12-year-old war.

Israel to send African migrants to third country Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:18 PM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has reached an agreement to send thousands of African migrants to an unidentified country, according to a court document obtained Monday, a plan that has elicited criticism over its potential harm to the migrants.

Wounded and civilians trapped in Syria's Qusair Posted: 03 Jun 2013 12:41 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Cut off for three weeks by a regime siege, doctors in the Syrian town of Qusair are treating hundreds of wounded in battle-damaged homes and underground shop storerooms, short on antibiotics and anesthesia and using unsterilized cloth for bandages and hand pumps instead of oxygen canisters.

More than 65 countries sign Arms Trade Treaty Posted: 03 Jun 2013 03:06 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 65 countries signed the landmark treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade Monday and the United States announced it will sign soon, giving a strong kickoff to the first major international campaign to stem the illicit trade in weapons that fuel conflicts and extremists.

Turkish PM, president at odds over protests Posted: 03 Jun 2013 02:58 PM PDT ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish riot police launched round after round of tear gas against protesters on Monday, the fourth day of violent demonstrations, as the president and the prime minister staked competing positions on the unrest.

US experts: Townley could not have killed Neruda Posted: 03 Jun 2013 04:32 PM PDT SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — U.S. experts on Chile's dictatorship-era human rights violations said Monday that a judicial investigation into the death of poet Pablo Neruda risks going off track if it seriously looks at Michael Townley, an American who later worked as an assassin for Chile's spy chief.

Egyptian politicians: Sabotage Ethiopia's new dam Posted: 03 Jun 2013 03:50 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Politicians meeting with Egypt's president on Monday proposed hostile acts against Ethiopia, including backing rebels and carrying out sabotage, to stop it from building a massive dam on the Nile River upstream.

Woman in red becomes leitmotif for Istanbul's female protesters Posted: 03 Jun 2013 03:46 PM PDT By Alexandra Hudson ISTANBUL (Reuters) - In her red cotton summer dress, necklace and white bag slung over her shoulder she might have been floating across the lawn at a garden party; but before her crouches a masked policeman firing teargas spray that sends her long hair billowing upwards. Endlessly shared on social media and replicated as a cartoon on posters and stickers, the image of the woman in red has become the leitmotif for female protesters during days of violent anti-government demonstrations in Istanbul. ...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth to mark six-decade reign Posted: 03 Jun 2013 03:11 PM PDT By Costas Pitas LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will go back to the scene of her coronation on Tuesday to mark a reign that has weathered six decades of social transformation and the end of her country's global empire. Millions of Britons gathered round brand new black-and-white television sets to watch her get crowned in Westminster Abbey in June 1953. Sixty years on, the cameras will be back to film her joining around 2,000 guests, including British Prime Minister David Cameron, for the official anniversary celebrations in the historic church. ...

Raul Castro turns 82, with heir-apparent on deck Posted: 03 Jun 2013 02:52 PM PDT HAVANA (AP) — Cuba's Raul Castro marked his 82nd birthday Monday in another reminder that time is running out for the aging generation that has led the country since the 1959 revolution.

Latvia to get green light for euro zone membership on Wednesday Posted: 03 Jun 2013 02:20 PM PDT By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission will give Latvia on Wednesday the go-ahead to become the 18th member of the euro zone from the start of next year, European Union officials said on Monday. The EU executive will publish a report on whether the small Baltic state meets all the criteria for membership of the single currency, which include low inflation and long-term interest rates, a stable exchange rate and low public debt and deficit. ...

Somalia cases of killing, maiming, abuse of children halved: U.N. Posted: 03 Jun 2013 02:13 PM PDT By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The number of children killed, maimed, abused and recruited to fight in Somalia dropped by more than half in the first quarter of 2013 due to less fighting between Islamist al-Shabaab militants and government forces, the United Nations said on Monday. In a report to the U.N. Security Council on Somalia, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said there had been 552 verified "grave violations" against children between January and March, down from 1,288 cases during the same period in 2012. ...

Dutch airline excused from 'underwear bomber' suit Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:55 PM PDT By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday dismissed claims against KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in a lawsuit holding it liable for injuries a New York man says he sustained while helping to stop the so-called "underwear bomber" from blowing up a plane in 2009. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon ruled that the federal court in New York lacked jurisdiction to rule on KLM, in part because the company is based in the Netherlands. ...

Officials: Kerry returning to Mideast next week Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:39 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is returning to the Middle East next week in another bid to revitalize peace hopes, officials said Monday, with the contours of a package possibly emerging to lure Israel and the Palestinians back into direct negotiations.

Hague court may try Kenyan vice president in Africa Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:34 PM PDT By Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court could hold a trial outside The Hague for the first time, after ICC judges said on Monday they may hear the case against Kenya's deputy president in his own country or neighboring Tanzania. Judges were responding to requests from William Ruto's lawyers, who said it would be "in the interests of justice" for the politician's trial to be held closer to home. ...

U.S. calls for restraint by Turkish police confronting protests Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:29 PM PDT By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States expressed concern on Monday about the Turkish police's rough treatment of anti-government protesters, in a rebuke to a NATO ally that Washington has often held up as an example of a Muslim democracy. "We are concerned by the reports of excessive use of force by police," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters. "We obviously hope that there will be a full investigation of those incidents and full restraint from the police force. ...

"Blade Runner" Pistorius set to return to court in murder case Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:28 PM PDT PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African athletics star Oscar Pistorius is set to attend a court hearing in Pretoria on Tuesday in his first formal appearance since his release on bail in February for the Valentine's Day killing of his girlfriend. Pistorius, 26, has admitted to shooting Reeva Steenkamp, 29, four times through a locked bathroom door on February 14 at his home in an affluent Pretoria community. In pre-trial testimony, his lawyers told the court the shooting was a tragic mistake and Pistorius was acting in self-defence against what he thought was an intruder. ...

Prince Philip unwell, misses palace reception Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:22 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — Royal officials say Britain's Prince Philip has missed a gala reception at the last minute because he has fallen ill.

Pitt says Muse provides perfect soundtrack to film Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:21 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — Brad Pitt wants the music for "World War Z" to be much more than a footnote.

Haiti hosts 1st conference on mining efforts Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:17 PM PDT PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti brought in mining experts from around the world Monday in hopes of developing precious metals in one of the world's poorest countries.

Mali government accuses Tuareg rebels of ethnic violence Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:02 PM PDT BAMAKO (Reuters) - The Malian government on Monday accused Tuareg separatist rebels of violence against non-Tuaregs in the northeastern town of Kidal and said the army would retake it before a presidential election in July. Tension over Kidal risk turning public opinion against France, which was feted for liberating Mali's north from nine months of Islamist occupation in February but has come under criticism for allowing the MNLA Tuareg rebels to retain their grip on the desert town. ...

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