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• Assad's forces battle to tighten control of central Syria
• Blast in Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 28
• Bomb kills 12 soccer players, fans in Iraq
• Obama urges Africa to follow spirit of Nelson Mandela
• Partiers outnumber protesters in Rio at Confederations Cup final
• Kazakhstan trade trip poses human rights test for UK's Cameron
• Seven dead in Egypt clashes, scores wounded
• Protests target Confederation Cup match in Rio
• FBI: Murder-for-hire suspect arrested in Spain
• Egypt erupts with protests demanding Morsi ouster
• Pakistan utility company fights to power chaotic port megacity
• Millions flood Egypt's streets to demand Mursi quit
• Croatia celebrates its EU membership
• Cairo's Tahrir bursts into life after months of quiet
• Mumfords close Glastonbury after Stones triumph
• Egypt's Mursi working to fix errors: spokesman
• Egypt: 4 killed in clashes with Islamists
• Four dead in Egypt clashes, scores wounded
• New NSA spying allegations rile European allies
• Egypt Islamist party says Mursi must give ground
• Kerry says progress made in peace talks
• WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Tutu welcomes Obama 'home'
• EU confronts U.S. over reports it spies on European allies
• Ecuador president: Snowden can't leave Moscow
• Crowds march in Egypt, pushing for Morsi removal
• Car hits crowd, injures 17, at car show in Poland
• Obama asserts Mandela's values are Africa's future
• A look at Egypt's political standoff
• Bomb attacks kill 49 people in Pakistan
• Kurdish protesters clash with Turkish security forces
• Gunmen free 175 prisoners in Nigeria jailbreak
• Bomb attacks kill 43 people in Pakistan
• Iraq's Kurdish parliament extends leader's term
• Obama says Zimbabwe has opportunity, needs free and fair poll
• Ecuador's Correa says Snowden's fate in hands of Russia

Assad's forces battle to tighten control of central Syria Posted: 30 Jun 2013 04:19 PM PDT By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad's forces pounded Sunni Muslim rebels in the city of Homs with artillery and from the air on Sunday, the second day of their offensive in central Syria, activists said. They said rebels defending the old center of Homs and five adjacent Sunni districts had largely repelled a ground attack on Saturday by Assad's forces, backed by guerrillas from the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah, but reported clashes and deaths within the city on Sunday. ...

Blast in Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 28 Posted: 30 Jun 2013 12:00 PM PDT By Gul Yousufzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 28 people were killed and dozens wounded in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Sunday when a suicide bomber attacked a largely Shi'ite Muslim neighborhood, police said. The blast appeared to be the latest in an escalating campaign of gun and bomb attacks by militants on ethnic Hazaras in Quetta because they belong to Pakistan's Shi'ite minority. ...

Bomb kills 12 soccer players, fans in Iraq Posted: 30 Jun 2013 12:24 PM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb planted near a yard where people were playing soccer in Iraq killed 12 people on Sunday, police and medics said. A further 24 people were wounded in the blast in the town of Nahrawan, south of the capital Baghdad. 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 2006-7. ...

Obama urges Africa to follow spirit of Nelson Mandela Posted: 30 Jun 2013 12:44 PM PDT By Jeff Mason and Mark Felsenthal CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Sunday the United States would help propel Africa along a path of prosperity and peace, and urged the continent to follow the example of Nelson Mandela. In South Africa on the second leg of a three-nation Africa trip, the U.S. leader and his family visited the bleak former prison of Robben Island to pay tribute to ex-inmate and former president Mandela, now critically ill in hospital. ...

Partiers outnumber protesters in Rio at Confederations Cup final Posted: 30 Jun 2013 02:36 PM PDT By Pedro Fonseca RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The climax of a major international soccer tournament that provided the backdrop for the biggest mass protests to sweep Brazil in 20 years was set to kick off late Sunday as scattered demonstrations proceeded amid an otherwise festive feel. A deployment of about 10,000 police and other security forces was largely idle before game time as Brazil, playing in Rio's Maracanã stadium, geared up to play Spain, the reigning world champions, in the final of the Confederations Cup. ...

Kazakhstan trade trip poses human rights test for UK's Cameron Posted: 30 Jun 2013 01:11 PM PDT By Andrew Osborn ATYRAU, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron helped inaugurate the world's costliest oil project in Kazakhstan on Sunday on a trip aimed at sealing business deals but quickly beset by questions over the Central Asian nation's poor human rights record. Kazakhstan hopes Cameron's visit, the first by a serving British prime minister, will cement its status as a rising economic power and confer a degree of the legitimacy from the West it has long sought. ...

Seven dead in Egypt clashes, scores wounded Posted: 30 Jun 2013 05:09 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - At least seven people were killed in Egypt and more than 600 wounded on Sunday in clashes between supporters and opponents of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, security and medical sources said. Five of the dead were shot in towns south of Cairo, one each in Beni Suef and Fayoum and three in Assiut. Two more were killed by gunfire during an attack on the national headquarters of Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood in a suburb of the capital, medical sources said. ...

Protests target Confederation Cup match in Rio Posted: 30 Jun 2013 05:06 PM PDT RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — More than 5,000 anti-government protesters marched Sunday near the Maracana stadium before a major international soccer match, venting their anger about the billions of dollars the Brazilian government is spending on major sporting events rather than public services.

FBI: Murder-for-hire suspect arrested in Spain Posted: 30 Jun 2013 05:00 PM PDT KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A woman accused of hiring someone to kill her wealthy Canadian husband on the U.S. Caribbean island of Puerto Rico was arrested Sunday by police in Spain after being sought for five years in the alleged murder-for-hire scheme, according to the FBI.

Egypt erupts with protests demanding Morsi ouster Posted: 30 Jun 2013 04:57 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Hundreds of thousands thronged the streets of Cairo and cities around the country Sunday and marched on the presidential palace, filling a broad avenue for blocks, in an attempt to force out the Islamist president with the most massive protests Egypt has seen in 2½ years of turmoil.

Pakistan utility company fights to power chaotic port megacity Posted: 30 Jun 2013 04:39 PM PDT By Katharine Houreld KARACHI (Reuters) - Since Pakistan's biggest electricity company was privatized, its headquarters have been looted, its employees kidnapped and the government tried to arrest its boss. It's been a roaring success. Power cuts lasting 12 hours a day or more have devastated Pakistan's economy. The loss of millions of jobs has fuelled unrest in a nuclear-armed nation already beset by a Taliban insurgency. ...

Millions flood Egypt's streets to demand Mursi quit Posted: 30 Jun 2013 04:37 PM PDT By Shaimaa Fayed and Yasmine Saleh CAIRO (Reuters) - Millions of Egyptians flooded into the streets on the first anniversary of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi's inauguration on Sunday to demand that he resign in the biggest challenge so far to rule by his Muslim Brotherhood. Waving national flags and chanting "Get out!", a crowd of nearly 500,000 massed in and around Cairo's central Tahrir Square in by far the largest demonstration since the 2011 uprising that overthrew Mursi's predecessor, Hosni Mubarak. ...

Croatia celebrates its EU membership Posted: 30 Jun 2013 03:45 PM PDT ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Fireworks lit the sky and festive crowds gathered on the streets to mark Croatia's entry Monday into the European Union, a major milestone some 20 years after the country won independence in a bloody civil war that shook the continent.

Cairo's Tahrir bursts into life after months of quiet Posted: 30 Jun 2013 03:29 PM PDT By Alexander Dziadosz CAIRO (Reuters) - A few blocks from Tahrir Square, the eery silence of a shuttered downtown Cairo suddenly erupts into a roar of horns, drums, whistles and chants. The smell of popcorn, cigarette smoke, grilled meat and freshly-squeezed oranges fills the air, as hundreds of thousands of protesters clap, cheer and wave the red-white-and-black Egyptian flag. After months of calm, Tahrir, the festive heart of the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, has burst back into life. ...

Mumfords close Glastonbury after Stones triumph Posted: 30 Jun 2013 03:02 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — Mumford & Sons brought the Glastonbury Festival to a foot-stomping close Sunday, with many music fans still on a high from the Rolling Stones' first-ever gig at Britain's leading music extravaganza.

Egypt's Mursi working to fix errors: spokesman Posted: 30 Jun 2013 02:49 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi knows he has made mistakes and is working to fix them, a spokesman for the Egyptian leader said on Sunday after a day of mass protests demanding that the head of state quit. Presidential spokesman Omar Amer said Mursi was serious in his repeated calls for national dialogue. "(Mursi) announced to all of Egypt's people he made mistakes and that he is in the process of fixing these mistakes," Amer told a late-night news conference after millions took to the streets to demand Mursi leave power. ...

Egypt: 4 killed in clashes with Islamists Posted: 30 Jun 2013 02:26 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Security officials say suspected Islamists have killed three protesters in the southern city of Assiut, taking to four the number of people killed on a day of massive protests demanding the ouster of Egypt's president.

Four dead in Egypt clashes, scores wounded Posted: 30 Jun 2013 02:25 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - At least four people were killed in Egypt and nearly 200 wounded on Sunday in clashes between supporters and opponents of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, security and medical sources said. All four dead were shot in Nile Valley towns south of Cairo, one in Beni Suef and three in Assiut. Across the country, the Health Ministry said, 174 people were given medical treatment as a result of factional fighting in the streets. In Cairo and Alexandria, more than one million demonstrated. ...

New NSA spying allegations rile European allies Posted: 30 Jun 2013 02:25 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration faced a breakdown in confidence Sunday from key foreign allies who threatened investigations and sanctions against the U.S. over secret surveillance programs that reportedly installed covert listening devices in European Union offices.

Egypt Islamist party says Mursi must give ground Posted: 30 Jun 2013 02:24 PM PDT By Tom Perry CAIRO (Reuters) - The leader of Egypt's Islamist Nour party urged his sometime ally President Mohamed Mursi to make concessions to avert bloodshed and presented himself on Sunday as a mediator with protesters on the streets. Mursi's opponents staged the biggest rallies since the downfall of dictator Hosni Mubarak on Sunday to demand the resignation of Mursi a year after he took office. ...

Kerry says progress made in peace talks Posted: 30 Jun 2013 01:57 PM PDT TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry completed a new round of shuttle diplomacy Sunday without a hoped-for breakthrough in relaunching Mideast peace talks, but optimistically said he had narrowed the gaps between Israel and the Palestinians and vowed to return to the region soon to complete his mission.

WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Tutu welcomes Obama 'home' Posted: 30 Jun 2013 01:19 PM PDT CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Retired archbishop Desmond Tutu locked eyes with President Barack Obama on Sunday in an emotional moment between two men who have been pioneers for racial progress a world apart.

EU confronts U.S. over reports it spies on European allies Posted: 30 Jun 2013 01:07 PM PDT By Ben Deighton and Annika Breidthardt BRUSSELS/BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Union has demanded that the United States explain a report in a German magazine that Washington is spying on the group, using strong language to confront its closest trading partner over its alleged surveillance activities. EU High Representative Catherine Ashton said on Sunday the U.S. authorities was immediately contacted about a report in Der Spiegel magazine that the U.S. spy agency had tapped EU offices in Washington, Brussels and at the United Nations. ...

Ecuador president: Snowden can't leave Moscow Posted: 30 Jun 2013 12:57 PM PDT PORTOVIEJO, Ecuador (AP) — Edward Snowden is "under the care of the Russian authorities" and can't leave Moscow's international airport without their consent, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa told The Associated Press Sunday in an interview telegraphing the slim and diminishing possibility that the National Security Agency leaker will end up in Ecuador.

Crowds march in Egypt, pushing for Morsi removal Posted: 30 Jun 2013 12:54 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of opponents of Egypt's Islamist president poured onto the streets in Cairo and across much of the nation Sunday, launching an all-out push to force Mohammed Morsi from office on the one-year anniversary of his inauguration. Fears of violence were high, with Morsi's Islamist supporters vowing to defend him.

Car hits crowd, injures 17, at car show in Poland Posted: 30 Jun 2013 12:49 PM PDT WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Authorities say a luxury sports car skidded into the crowd during a car show in Poland, injuring 17 people.

Obama asserts Mandela's values are Africa's future Posted: 30 Jun 2013 12:40 PM PDT CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Challenging African youth to seize a "moment of great promise," President Barack Obama declared Sunday that the future of the young and growing continent still rests in ailing South African leader Nelson Mandela's vision for equality and opportunity. Seeking to carve out his own piece of that legacy, Obama unveiled an ambitious initiative to double electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa, vowing to bring "light where there is darkness."

A look at Egypt's political standoff Posted: 30 Jun 2013 11:50 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets Sunday, some in support of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and others to call for his ouster. Here is a look at Egypt's current political standoff, what it means and where it could lead:

Bomb attacks kill 49 people in Pakistan Posted: 30 Jun 2013 11:39 AM PDT QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Bombings killed 49 people in three different areas of Pakistan on Sunday, just as Britain's prime minister was in the capital pledging to help to fight extremism.

Kurdish protesters clash with Turkish security forces Posted: 30 Jun 2013 11:24 AM PDT By Seyhmus Cakan DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Police fired teargas and water cannon on Sunday to disperse thousands of protesters in Diyarbakir, the main city in Turkey's Kurdish-dominated southeast, during demonstrations across the country to pressure the government to carry out reforms. Turkey's main pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party, the BDP, had called for marches in at least three major cities, to launch a summer of protests against what it sees as a lack of commitment by Ankara to a peace process with Kurdish militants. ...

Gunmen free 175 prisoners in Nigeria jailbreak Posted: 30 Jun 2013 11:23 AM PDT ONITSHA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead two civilians and then used explosives to free 175 inmates from a prison in Nigeria's southern town of Akure overnight, a prison official said on Sunday. Islamist sect Boko Haram and al Qaeda-linked group Ansaru have been behind several prison raids in recent years. It was not clear whether they were behind this jail break at Olokuta prison in Ondo state or whether they had members held there. ...

Bomb attacks kill 43 people in Pakistan Posted: 30 Jun 2013 11:13 AM PDT QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Bombings killed at least 43 people in three different areas of Pakistan on Sunday, just as Britain's prime minister was in the capital pledging to help to fight extremism.

Iraq's Kurdish parliament extends leader's term Posted: 30 Jun 2013 11:11 AM PDT IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The parliament of Iraq's Kurdish region voted Sunday to extend the term of its leader by two years, a sign of internal conflicts in the oil-rich, semi-autonomous Iraqi area.

Obama says Zimbabwe has opportunity, needs free and fair poll Posted: 30 Jun 2013 11:07 AM PDT JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday Zimbabwe's economic recovery gave the southern African country an opportunity to advance but only if upcoming elections were "free and fair." Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, at 89 Africa's oldest leader, is seeking to extend his three-decade rule in elections scheduled for July 31. The opposition wants to delay the poll to allow reforms designed to prevent a repeat of the bloodshed that marred the 2008 election. "Zimbabweans have a new constitution. The economy is beginning to recover. ...

Ecuador's Correa says Snowden's fate in hands of Russia Posted: 30 Jun 2013 11:03 AM PDT By Alexandra Valencia PORTOVIEJO, Ecuador (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said on Sunday the fate of former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden is in the hands of the authorities in Russia, where he is holed up in hope of obtaining asylum in the South American nation. Correa said his government cannot begin considering asylum for Snowden, wanted by Washington for leaking confidential information about a surveillance program, until he reaches Ecuador or an Ecuadorean embassy. ...

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