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• Turkish security forces fire on protest in southeast, one dead
• Obama pledges to help Africa, pays tribute to Mandela
• Egypt violence builds, American among dead
• Bombs hit Iraq funeral and football stadium, killing 22
• Kerry steps up shuttle talks with Abbas and Netanyahu
• Exclusive: Fearing death, Congo's 'Terminator' fled with help of family
• Dominican groups reject gay US ambassador nominee
• From Egypt petition drive, a new grassroot wave
• Violence flares in Egypt before weekend protests
• Kerry's palate gets workout in Mideast peace talks
• Vatican monsignor arrested in 20M euro plot
• Mexican ex-governor gets 11 years in U.S. for money laundering
• Brazilian president's plan to import doctors faces resistance
• Violence flares in Egypt before weekend rallies
• In key Mexican state, opposition leads in poll for July vote
• U.S. citizen killed in Egyptian violence: officials
• Egypt: American killed in clashes
• Tanker cars removed from broken bridge in Canada
• Mandela family feud over where he should be buried
• South Africa's Mandela 'improving' as Obama flies in
• Croatia's president: No doubts on joining EU
• Senegalese president defends anti-gay law
• Lebanese troops disperse Sunni protesters
• Egypt’s Morsi Faces Political D-Day One Year After Being Sworn in as President
• Obama's ties to Mandela loom over S. Africa visit
• Brazil truckers call for 72-hour strike starting Monday
• Bombs in Iraq kill 19 people
• Small plane crashes in Guatemala, killing all six on board
• Syrian rebels capture major checkpoint in south
• Obama yet to have African legacy like predecessors
• Obama in South Africa for next leg of Africa tour
• Analysis: Brazil's mass protests peak, ball in politicians' court
• Mandela's ex-wife: Former S. African leader better
• Trapped in Transit: Orwellian Moscow airport hotel
• Clash in Egypt's Alexandria kills one: official

Turkish security forces fire on protest in southeast, one dead Posted: 28 Jun 2013 01:20 PM PDT By Seyhmus Cakan DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish security forces killed one person and wounded ten on Friday when they fired on a group protesting against the construction of a new gendarmerie outpost in Kurdish-dominated southeastern Turkey, a Kurdish party lawmaker said. The incident, in Kayacik village in Diyarbakir province, appeared to be the most violent in the region since a ceasefire declaration by Kurdish rebel chief Abdullah Ocalan in March in the conflict between his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Turkish state. ...

Obama pledges to help Africa, pays tribute to Mandela Posted: 28 Jun 2013 10:03 AM PDT By Mark Felsenthal and Jeff Mason ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama paid tribute to anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela as he flew to South Africa on Friday but played down expectations of a meeting with the ailing black leader during an Africa tour promoting democracy and food security. White House officials hope Obama's three-nation tour of Africa - his first substantial visit to the continent since taking office in 2009 - will compensate for what some view as years of neglect by America's first black president. ...

Egypt violence builds, American among dead Posted: 28 Jun 2013 04:17 PM PDT By Abdelrahman Youssef and Tom Perry ALEXANDRIA/CAIRO (Reuters) - Two people, one an American, were killed when protesters stormed an office of Egypt's ruling Muslim Brotherhood in Alexandria, adding to growing tension ahead of mass rallies aimed at unseating the Islamist president. A third man was killed and 10 injured in an explosion during a protest in Port Said, at the mouth of the Suez Canal. Police on Saturday said the cause was unclear but protesters, believing it was a bomb, attacked an Islamist party office in the city. ...

Bombs hit Iraq funeral and football stadium, killing 22 Posted: 28 Jun 2013 02:26 PM PDT RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - A series of bombs near a bakery, at a funeral, inside a senior police officer's car and at a football stadium killed at least 22 people across Iraq on Friday, police and medics said. The violence is part of a trend of increasing militant attacks since the start of the year, which claimed more than 1,000 lives in May alone, making it the deadliest month since the sectarian bloodletting of 2006-07. ...

Kerry steps up shuttle talks with Abbas and Netanyahu Posted: 28 Jun 2013 02:53 PM PDT By Lesley Wroughton JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry accelerated his Middle East shuttle diplomacy on Friday in the hope of persuading Israel and the Palestinians to resume direct peace negotiations. After seeing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jordan, Kerry flew by helicopter to Jerusalem for evening talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. ...

Exclusive: Fearing death, Congo's 'Terminator' fled with help of family Posted: 28 Jun 2013 01:29 PM PDT By Michelle Nichols and Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Facing defeat by a rival rebel and fearing death at the hands of Rwandan troops, Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda quietly slipped into Rwanda on a small path with a single escort to turn himself in at the U.S. Embassy in Kigali, according to a U.N. report. Details of the March 18 surrender of Ntaganda, who evaded arrest on international war crimes charges for seven years, were contained in the confidential interim report by the U.N. Group of Experts to the Security Council's Congo sanctions committee. ...

Dominican groups reject gay US ambassador nominee Posted: 28 Jun 2013 04:02 PM PDT SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Religious groups in the Dominican Republic said Friday they are outraged by the nomination of a gay U.S. ambassador to the conservative Caribbean country.

From Egypt petition drive, a new grassroot wave Posted: 28 Jun 2013 03:54 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Teenager Gehad Mustafa wears an ultraconservative veil over her face and was raised in a family of staunch Muslim Brotherhood supporters. Yet for the past weeks, she has been walking though chaotic street markets and crowded subway stations, collecting signatures on a petition demanding Islamist President Mohammed Morsi step down.

Violence flares in Egypt before weekend protests Posted: 28 Jun 2013 03:42 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Tens of thousands of supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi rallied Friday in Cairo, and both sides fought each other in the second-largest city of Alexandria, where two people were killed — including an American — and 85 were injured while at least five offices of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood were torched, officials said.

Kerry's palate gets workout in Mideast peace talks Posted: 28 Jun 2013 03:35 PM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — Red tuna and sea bream with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A two-hour lunch of shish tawook and rice with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Back again with Netanyahu, it was hummus and mixed nuts. Secretary of State John Kerry's palate is getting a workout during his stepped-up rounds of Mideast diplomacy.

Vatican monsignor arrested in 20M euro plot Posted: 28 Jun 2013 03:17 PM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — The plot involved an armed police escort, a wealthy shipping family and a plan to secretly transport $26 million (20 million euros) from a Swiss bank account into Italy aboard a private jet. At the heart of the story of greed: a silver-haired Vatican monsignor.

Mexican ex-governor gets 11 years in U.S. for money laundering Posted: 28 Jun 2013 02:47 PM PDT By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Mexican state governor was sentenced to 11 years in prison in the United States on Friday after pleading guilty to conspiring to launder millions of dollars in bribes from a notorious drug cartel. With credit for time served and good behavior, Mario Villanueva, 64, could be released from U.S. custody in two to three years, his lawyer, Richard Lind, said after the hearing. He faces another 23 years in prison in Mexico stemming from similar charges, Lind said. ...

Brazilian president's plan to import doctors faces resistance Posted: 28 Jun 2013 02:13 PM PDT By Esteban Israel SAO PAULO (Reuters) - President Dilma Rousseff's plan to import foreign doctors to work in rural and poor parts of Brazil, part of a move to quell massive street protests over poor public services, has run into stiff opposition from the powerful medical lobby. Public dissatisfaction over the quality of healthcare has helped fuel nationwide protests over the past month and spurred Rousseff, a pragmatic leftist, to announce earlier this week the "emergency action" plan to bring in foreign doctors. ...

Violence flares in Egypt before weekend rallies Posted: 28 Jun 2013 02:09 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Tens of thousands of supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi rallied Friday in Cairo, and both sides fought each other in the second-largest city of Alexandria, where two people were killed — including an American — and 85 were injured, officials said.

In key Mexican state, opposition leads in poll for July vote Posted: 28 Jun 2013 01:26 PM PDT By Miguel Gutierrez MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's main opposition conservatives are on track to retain the key electoral bastion of Baja California next month, according to a poll released on Friday, in a vote that could strengthen a fragile cross-party alliance built by President Enrique Pena Nieto to re-energize the economy. Falling short of a majority in Congress when he won office last year, Pena Nieto forged a loose pact with the two major opposition parties to work together on economic reforms. ...

U.S. citizen killed in Egyptian violence: officials Posted: 28 Jun 2013 01:07 PM PDT ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen was stabbed to death in the Egyptian city of Alexandria on Friday during clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Mursi, a doctor and three security officials said. A U.S. embassy official said: "The U.S. embassy has heard of the reports of the death of an American citizen and is seeking to confirm them." The young American man died from a wound to the chest, said General Amin Ezzeddin, a senior Alexandria security official. Another man, an Egyptian, was killed by a gunshot wound to the head. ...

Egypt: American killed in clashes Posted: 28 Jun 2013 12:43 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security and medical officials say an American has been killed in the Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria during clashes between supporters and opponents of Egypt's embattled President Mohammed Morsi.

Tanker cars removed from broken bridge in Canada Posted: 28 Jun 2013 12:38 PM PDT CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Six tanker cars that teetered on a partially collapsed railway bridge over Calgary's swollen Bow River were successfully removed Friday.

Mandela family feud over where he should be buried Posted: 28 Jun 2013 12:18 PM PDT JOHANNESBURG (AP) — As Nelson Mandela remained in critical condition in hospital Friday, a family feud over where the 94-year-old former president should be buried went to the courts, according to South Africa's national broadcaster.

South Africa's Mandela 'improving' as Obama flies in Posted: 28 Jun 2013 12:13 PM PDT By Peroshni Govender and Jeff Mason PRETORIA/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ailing anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela is doing much better in hospital, his ex-wife Winnie said on Friday, as U.S. President Barack Obama arrived for a visit that will pay homage to a man he calls his "personal hero". The faltering health of the first black president of South Africa, a revered symbol of racial reconciliation, has drawn world attention since the 94-year-old was rushed to hospital with a recurring lung infection nearly three weeks ago. ...

Croatia's president: No doubts on joining EU Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:57 AM PDT ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia has no second thoughts about joining the European Union despite the continent's economic crisis, and it supports enlarging the bloc even further to help bring about reconciliation in the once-warring Balkans, the country's president said Friday.

Senegalese president defends anti-gay law Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:47 AM PDT DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese President Macky Sall has defended his refusal to decriminalize homosexuality one day after publicly clashing with President Barack Obama on the issue at a joint press conference.

Lebanese troops disperse Sunni protesters Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:39 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese troops fired in the air Friday to disperse dozens of Sunni Muslims demonstrating in support of a hardline cleric who has been on the run since the military crushed his fighters earlier this week.

Egypt’s Morsi Faces Political D-Day One Year After Being Sworn in as President Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:39 AM PDT Sunday will mark the one-year anniversary of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's inauguration. It will be met not by celebration but by nationwide anxiety and large-scale — possibly violent — protests. Egypt's opposition is planning far more than an expression of dissatisfaction; protesters see the demonstrations as the start of a push bring Morsi's four-year term to a premature end.

Obama's ties to Mandela loom over S. Africa visit Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:29 AM PDT JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Inspired by Nelson Mandela's struggles in South Africa, a young Barack Obama joined campus protests in the U.S. against the racist rule that kept Mandela locked away in prison for nearly three decades.

Brazil truckers call for 72-hour strike starting Monday Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:27 AM PDT SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's trucking union is calling for a 72-hour strike starting on Monday, potentially slowing the movement of record soy, corn and sugar crops to ports, although unlikely to stop exports. MUBC, as the most influential truckers union in Brazil is known, encouraged all sectors involved in transporting cargoes in the country to participate in a "passive protest" starting 6 a.m. (1000 GMT) on Monday, in a written statement posted online. ...

Bombs in Iraq kill 19 people Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:22 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Bombs in Iraq targeting a checkpoint run by government-allied Sunni militiamen, a Shiite tribal leader's funeral and a soccer field killed at least 19 people on Friday, in the latest strikes by militants seeking to destabilize the country.

Small plane crashes in Guatemala, killing all six on board Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:20 AM PDT GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A small airplane crashed in a wooded area in western Guatemala near the border with Mexico on Friday morning, killing all six men on board, rescue workers at the scene said. Authorities are investigating the cause of the crash, which occurred around 6:30 a.m., but said they do not know where the Cessna twin-engine plane departed from or where it was headed. Rescuers found the identifications of two Mexican men in debris near the crash site, and said that the remaining victims were also likely from Mexico. (Reporting by Mike McDonald; Editing by Sandra Maler)

Syrian rebels capture major checkpoint in south Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:19 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Rebels captured a major army post in the southern city of Daraa Friday after nearly two weeks of intense fighting, as battles raged between troops and opposition forces in the province that borders Jordan, activists said.

Obama yet to have African legacy like predecessors Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:18 AM PDT CENTURION, South Africa (AP) — President Barack Obama is receiving the embrace you might expect for a long-lost son on his return to his father's home continent, even as he has yet to leave a lasting policy legacy for Africa on the scale of his two predecessors.

Obama in South Africa for next leg of Africa tour Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:15 AM PDT CENTURION, South Africa (AP) — President Barack Obama is in South Africa, embarking on the second leg of his three-country African journey. The visit comes at a poignant time, with former South African president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela ailing in a Johannesburg hospital.

Analysis: Brazil's mass protests peak, ball in politicians' court Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:15 AM PDT By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - The massive protests that paralyzed Brazil last week appear to have peaked after sending the country's shaken political establishment a loud message that it needs to change its ways. It's now up to the politicians to deliver improvements to the country's deficient public services and more transparent and accountable government demanded by frustrated Brazilians, or the crescendo of angry protests could suddenly return. ...

Mandela's ex-wife: Former S. African leader better Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:06 AM PDT JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The ex-wife of critically ill Nelson Mandela said Friday that the 94-year-old beloved former president is showing a "great improvement" compared to a few days ago.

Trapped in Transit: Orwellian Moscow airport hotel Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:03 AM PDT SHEREMETYEVO AIRPORT (AP) — "An interesting route, Mr. Phillips," says the airport transit desk employee. "This activity makes for suspicion."

Clash in Egypt's Alexandria kills one: official Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:01 AM PDT ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - A man was killed by gunfire on Friday in the Egyptian city of Alexandria during clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Mursi, a health ministry official said. It was not clear whether the victim was a Mursi supporter or opponent, added Amal Sharawi, the health ministry official. He was killed in clashes near the Muslim Brotherhood's local offices in the city's Sidi Gaber neighborhood. State news agency MENA said 70 people had been injured. (Reporting by Abdelrahman Youssef; Writing by Tom Perry; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)

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