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• U.N. launches record appeal for victims of Syrian war
• First U.S. drone strike under new Pakistan prime minister kills seven
• Mob in Bolivian town buries alive suspected rapist
• IMF says agrees to monitor Zimbabwe, first since 1999
• United States urges Madagascar to hold free, fair elections
• Sudan police use teargas to break up protest
• Obama touts California as health-care reform model. Will costs really fall?
• Obama on NSA data-mining: ‘Nobody is listening to your telephone calls’
• Obama helps nip pot legalization in Latin America. How about in US?
• Is the price of 'security' worth it?
• Global netizens worried over US spying
• Hezbollah entry in Syria fans Shiite-Sunni fires
• Protests crack Turkey's international image
• Paper: UK government getting US spy agency's data
• 4 die in shooting in Mexico City neighborhood
• Francis gets personal: 'I didn't want to be pope'
• Gunman shot dead by police after six die in California shooting spree
• U.S. urges Zimbabwe to allow international monitors
• Thousands of Turks defy Erdogan as protests rumble on
• Nicaragua fast-tracks huge project
• Pope Francis says he didn't want to be pope
• U.N. says it can't accept Russia's offer of Golan troops
• Russia offers peacekeepers for Golan Heights
• Guardian makes splash in US with security scoops
• A glance at some of Erdogan's supporters
• Pakistan officials say US drone strike kills 7
• Egypt's president dismisses calls for early vote
• Pakistan swears in 25-member Cabinet
• Cash stolen from father of Usain Bolt in Jamaica
• Sermons on Syria fan Mideast sectarian flames
• Iranian candidates quarrel over nuclear talks
• Correction: France-D-Day Anniversary story

U.N. launches record appeal for victims of Syrian war Posted: 07 Jun 2013 12:36 PM PDT By Crispian Balmer and Erika Solomon BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United Nations warned on Friday half of all Syrians would need humanitarian aid by the end of 2013 and launched what it said was the biggest emergency appeal in history to cope with the civil war crisis. "Syria as a civilization is unraveling," said the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, announcing the call for some $5 billion before the end of the year. The joint statement by U.N. ...

First U.S. drone strike under new Pakistan prime minister kills seven Posted: 07 Jun 2013 12:52 PM PDT DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - A U.S. drone strike killed seven people and wounded three in northwest Pakistan late on Friday, security officials said, in the first such attack since the swearing-in of Nawaz Sharif as prime minister this week. In his inaugural address to parliament, Sharif called for an immediate end to U.S. drone strikes on militants, which many view as a breach of Pakistan's sovereignty. The bombing comes 10 days after a similar U.S. drone attack killed the Pakistani Taliban's second-in-command, Wali-ur-Rehman, and six others in a major blow to the militant group. ...

Mob in Bolivian town buries alive suspected rapist Posted: 07 Jun 2013 03:55 PM PDT LA PAZ (Reuters) - A mob in a Bolivian town buried alive a teenager alongside the body of a woman they suspected he had raped and murdered, Bolivian media reported on Friday. The local prosecutor told reporters that he would start criminal proceedings against two people in the town of Colquechaca suspected of instigating the vigilante justice, which is not uncommon in the majority indigenous Andean country. ...

IMF says agrees to monitor Zimbabwe, first since 1999 Posted: 07 Jun 2013 04:25 PM PDT WASHINGTON/HARARE (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund said on Friday it has agreed with Zimbabwe to monitor the country's programs until the end of the year, paving the way for this sub-Saharan nation to clear billions of dollars of its debt arrears. The move marks a major step towards Zimbabwe normalizing relations with the IMF, which suspended its voting rights in 2003 over policy differences with President Robert Mugabe and non-payment of arrears. ...

United States urges Madagascar to hold free, fair elections Posted: 07 Jun 2013 03:34 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday called on Madagascar to restore democratic rule through free and fair elections, after the African nation's government said it was postponing a presidential vote by a month to August 23. "We call on the country's political leaders to work toward free, fair, and internationally recognized elections that restore democratic rule, and for free, fair, and independent elections to be held," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. President Andry Rajoelina pledged to hold elections shortly after he seized power with military support in 2009. ...

Sudan police use teargas to break up protest Posted: 07 Jun 2013 02:33 PM PDT KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese police used teargas to break up an anti-government protest in the capital Khartoum on Friday, witnesses said. Some 150 people gathered near a mosque in the Omdurman suburb to protest against high inflation, shouting "the people want to overthrow the regime" and throwing stones at police, several witnesses told Reuters. Among the protesters were residents from a region north of Khartoum displaced by a dam, who complained they had not been compensated for the loss of their homes. Police, who dispersed the crowd, were not immediately available for comment. ...

Obama touts California as health-care reform model. Will costs really fall? Posted: 07 Jun 2013 03:54 PM PDT President Obama used a visit to California Friday to promote his health-care reform law as widening access to affordable insurance.

Obama on NSA data-mining: ‘Nobody is listening to your telephone calls’ Posted: 07 Jun 2013 02:04 PM PDT President Obama sought to reassure Americans that the government is not spying on them or unduly violating their civil liberties, after a spate of press leaks that exposed top-secret federal data-mining programs.

Obama helps nip pot legalization in Latin America. How about in US? Posted: 07 Jun 2013 01:51 PM PDT For all the political flak that President Obama is receiving for digital surveillance of Americans, he deserves some praise for protecting Americans on another front. His administration has helped dampen moves by some Latin American leaders to legalize marijuana in the Western Hemisphere.

Is the price of 'security' worth it? Posted: 07 Jun 2013 01:39 PM PDT The revelations of the extent of National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance on US telecommunications this week bring up a chicken and egg problem: Are Americans so safe from terrorist attacks because the surveillance program works, or are they sacrificing privacy so that the government can protect them from a statistically marginal and rare occurrence?

Global netizens worried over US spying Posted: 07 Jun 2013 02:53 PM PDT CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — News that the U.S. government has been snooping on Internet users worldwide came as little surprise to global netizens, who said Friday they have few expectations of online privacy as governments increasingly monitor people's digital lives, often with Internet companies' acquiescence.

Hezbollah entry in Syria fans Shiite-Sunni fires Posted: 07 Jun 2013 01:29 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — The Egyptian cleric was in a fervor. With Hezbollah's Shiite fighters helping Bashar Assad crush Syrian rebels, he wanted to sound the alarm to Sunnis across the Middle East: "Now is the time for jihad."

Protests crack Turkey's international image Posted: 07 Jun 2013 01:39 PM PDT ISTANBUL (AP) — A violent police crackdown on a small environmental sit-in at Istanbul's central Taksim Square has done more than spawn a week of protests across the country. It has left cracks in the shiny international image of a tolerant and deeply democratic Turkey.

Paper: UK government getting US spy agency's data Posted: 07 Jun 2013 08:22 AM PDT LONDON (AP) — The U.K. has been secretly gathering communications data from American Internet giants with the help of fellow spooks at the U.S. National Security Agency, the Guardian newspaper reported Friday, a demonstration of the international scope of America's top-secret espionage program.

4 die in shooting in Mexico City neighborhood Posted: 07 Jun 2013 03:44 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two masked gunmen stormed into a gym yelling "everyone hit the floor" and opened fire, killing four people in a tough Mexico City neighborhood that is home to the area's biggest black market, authorities said Friday.

Francis gets personal: 'I didn't want to be pope' Posted: 07 Jun 2013 02:34 PM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis revealed Friday that he never wanted to be pope and joked that he's living in the Vatican hotel for his "psychiatric" health.

Gunman shot dead by police after six die in California shooting spree Posted: 07 Jun 2013 04:51 PM PDT By Dana Feldman SANTA MONICA, California (Reuters) - A gunman killed at least six people in Santa Monica, California, on Friday before he was shot dead by police at a library of a community college, Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks said. Seabrooks said a second individual she described as a "person of interest" had been taken into custody in connection with the violence, which unfolded a few miles from where President Barack Obama was attending a political fundraiser. ...

U.S. urges Zimbabwe to allow international monitors Posted: 07 Jun 2013 04:28 PM PDT By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday urged Zimbabwe to allow outside observers led by a regional consortium of African nations to monitor elections to ensure the vote is peaceful and credible. The 15-member Southern African Development Community, which includes South Africa, has called a summit this weekend to help Zimbabwe raise an estimated $132 million needed for an election. ...

Thousands of Turks defy Erdogan as protests rumble on Posted: 07 Jun 2013 04:12 PM PDT By Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Thousands of Turks dug in on Saturday for a weekend of anti-government demonstrations despite Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's demand for an immediate end to the worst political unrest of his decade in power. In central Istanbul's Taksim Square, where riot police backed by helicopters and armored vehicles clashed with protesters a week ago, activists spent the night in a makeshift protest camp, sleeping in tents and vandalized buses, or wrapped in blankets under plane trees. ...

Nicaragua fast-tracks huge project Posted: 07 Jun 2013 03:46 PM PDT MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua is trying to revive a centuries-old dream of building an inter-ocean canal, a project experts say could take 11 years to build, cost $40 billion and require digging about 130 miles (200 kilometers) of waterway.

Pope Francis says he didn't want to be pope Posted: 07 Jun 2013 03:16 PM PDT ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Friday he had not wanted to become pontiff and that he had decided against moving into the luxurious papal apartments in order to preserve his mental health. Meeting thousands of children from Jesuit schools across Italy and Albania, Francis held a question-and-answer session in which one girl, Teresa, asked him if he had wanted to become the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. "Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope," he said. ...

U.N. says it can't accept Russia's offer of Golan troops Posted: 07 Jun 2013 03:08 PM PDT By Louis Charbonneau and Alissa de Carbonnel UNITED NATIONS/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Friday it could not accept Russia's offer to replace peacekeepers from Austria in the Golan Heights because an agreement between Israel and Syria bars permanent members of the Security Council from the U.N. observer mission. The United Nations expressed appreciation for the Russian offer, made on Friday by President Vladimir Putin after Austria said it would recall its troops from a U.N. monitoring force due to worsening fighting in Syria. ...

Russia offers peacekeepers for Golan Heights Posted: 07 Jun 2013 02:58 PM PDT MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin offered on Friday to send Russian troops to the Golan Heights to replace the Austrians who are withdrawing from the U.N. peacekeeping force that monitors the disengagement of Israeli and Syrian forces.

Guardian makes splash in US with security scoops Posted: 07 Jun 2013 02:44 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — Before this week, the Guardian newspaper's gradual move into the U.S. — hiring dozens of employees in the last two years — hadn't produced much of a splash in terms of scoops.

A glance at some of Erdogan's supporters Posted: 07 Jun 2013 02:17 PM PDT ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The crowd outside Istanbul's main airport initially numbered about 100. But as news came that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's plane was approaching from Tunisia on his return from a four-day North Africa tour, his supporters came in droves.

Pakistan officials say US drone strike kills 7 Posted: 07 Jun 2013 02:07 PM PDT PESHAWAR , Pakistan (AP) — A suspected U.S. drone strike killed seven militants in Pakistan near the Afghan border on Friday, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

Egypt's president dismisses calls for early vote Posted: 07 Jun 2013 01:46 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's embattled president on Friday dismissed calls for early presidential elections as clashes erupted in a northern Egyptian city and unidentified assailants torched a Cairo campaign headquarters of a youth group petitioning for Mohammed Morsi's removal from office.

Pakistan swears in 25-member Cabinet Posted: 07 Jun 2013 01:39 PM PDT ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's new prime minister unveiled a 25-member Cabinet on Friday, a group that many here hope will waste no time in tackling major economic, energy and security challenges facing the country.

Cash stolen from father of Usain Bolt in Jamaica Posted: 07 Jun 2013 01:39 PM PDT KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A day after a rare defeat for sprinter Usain Bolt, his father suffered another kind of loss back home in Jamaica.

Sermons on Syria fan Mideast sectarian flames Posted: 07 Jun 2013 01:27 PM PDT By Mariam Karouny and Alastair Macdonald BEIRUT/CAIRO (Reuters) - Sunni Muslim preachers condemned Iran and its "Satanic" Shi'ite allies in Friday sermons, after a battle in Syria that has inflamed sectarian rhetoric which risks spreading violence around the Middle East. In Tehran, the non-Arab power behind the Shi'ite strand of Islam followed by a minority of Muslims, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for restraint and unity, blaming Western powers and Israel for fomenting the sectarian strife. ...

Iranian candidates quarrel over nuclear talks Posted: 07 Jun 2013 01:25 PM PDT TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's eight presidential candidates quarreled about talks with world powers over the country's disputed nuclear program Friday as they held their final televised debate ahead of next week's election.

Correction: France-D-Day Anniversary story Posted: 07 Jun 2013 01:05 PM PDT COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — In a story June 6 about the 69th anniversary of the D-Day landings during World War II, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a U.S. cemetery in Normandy holds the graves of more than 9,000 Americans who died during the storming of the beaches. Those victims died during the D-Day landings as well as other operations, according to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

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