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• Police fire tear gas in Cairo, U.S. envoy spurned by parties
• Kerry to discuss Israeli-Palestinian peace with Arabs
• Russia, China block U.N. condemnation of Iran missile tests
• Russia's Putin wants Snowden to go, but asylum not ruled out
• U.S. lawmakers' doubts ease on arming Syrian rebels: official
• France confirms body found in Mali is French hostage
• Leader of Mexico's Zetas drug cartel captured
• Even funerals on hold in blast-ravaged Quebec town
• Kerry set to return to roiling Middle East
• Chile court rules for Indians against Barrick Gold
• Survivors of Quebec train crash to file class action suit
• American diplomat: US not backing a side in Egypt
• Two killed as ethnic clashes grip eastern Guinea town
• Italy’s First Black Minister Suffers Even More Racial Abuse
• EU sets sanction deadline in Iceland mackerel dispute
• Mexico sets $100 billion rail, ports, roads plan
• Spain PM resists resignation demands amid scandal
• Nigerian activists: Arrest Sudan leader for crimes
• France confirms body found in Mali is hostage
• Salvage crews rush for 1 chance to move Concordia
• Syrian refugees in Egypt swept up in turmoil
• Myanmar leader pledges prisoner release on visit to Britain
• Cairo security forces fire tear gas after scuffles
• Hundreds protest Israeli Bedouin resettlement plan
• Cuban, US diplomats increasingly allowed to travel
• Rebel infighting in Syria undermining revolt
• Loblaw bid for Shoppers would expand Weston family empire
• Syrian regime attacks on villages in north kill 29
• Asiana to sue San Francisco TV station over names
• Nigerian activists demand arrest of Sudan's Bashir in court
• Arabs ready anti-Israeli resolution over nukes
• Nigeria says offensive has destroyed most Islamist bases
• Rwanda complains to U.N. about new Congo brigade
• Syria coalition plans council to hasten rebel restructuring

Police fire tear gas in Cairo, U.S. envoy spurned by parties Posted: 15 Jul 2013 03:35 PM PDT By Ulf Laessing and Tom Finn CAIRO (Reuters) - Police fired tear gas in central Cairo on Monday when protesters calling for the reinstatement of the ousted Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, scuffled with drivers and passers-by annoyed that they had blocked major roads. Supporters of Mursi, Egypt's first freely elected president, threw rocks at police near Ramses Street, one of the capital's main thoroughfares, and on the Sixth of October Bridge over the Nile in the first outbreak of violence in Egypt in a week. ...

Kerry to discuss Israeli-Palestinian peace with Arabs Posted: 15 Jul 2013 01:26 PM PDT By Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will discuss his effort to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks with Arab officials in Jordan on Wednesday, according to the State Department, which declined to comment on whether a resumption may be at hand. Kerry will leave Washington on Monday night to fly to Amman to see officials from Jordan and the Arab League, which put forward a peace proposal in 2002 that offered full Arab recognition of Israel if it gave up land seized in a 1967 war and accepted a "just solution" for Palestinian refugees. ...

Russia, China block U.N. condemnation of Iran missile tests Posted: 15 Jul 2013 03:33 PM PDT By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. Security Council committee is split over whether Iran's missile tests last year violated U.N. sanctions imposed on Tehran because of its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, Australia's U.N. envoy said on Monday. That division effectively rules out any expansion of sanctions against Tehran over the tests for the time being, U.N. envoys said on condition of anonymity. Diplomats said it was Russia, backed by China, that refused to declare Tehran's missile launches a violation of the U.N. restrictions, as a U.N. ...

Russia's Putin wants Snowden to go, but asylum not ruled out Posted: 15 Jul 2013 12:46 PM PDT By Alexei Anishchuk GOGLAND ISLAND, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Monday he wanted Edward Snowden to leave after three weeks holed up at a Moscow airport, but also signaled that the former U.S. spy agency contractor was moving towards meeting Russia's asylum conditions. Snowden flew to Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport from Hong Kong on June 23 in the hope of travelling on to a country that would offer him protection from the United States after he divulged details of U.S. government intelligence programs. ...

U.S. lawmakers' doubts ease on arming Syrian rebels: official Posted: 15 Jul 2013 12:51 PM PDT By Susan Cornwell and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has made progress in overcoming lawmakers' objections to its plans to arm Syrian rebels, but some details remain unresolved, a U.S. official said on Monday. Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee who questioned the wisdom of arming the insurgents have tentatively agreed the administration can go ahead with its plans, but asked for updates as the covert effort proceeds, a senior administration official told Reuters. There was no immediate comment from the committee. ...

France confirms body found in Mali is French hostage Posted: 15 Jul 2013 12:24 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - France confirmed on Monday that a body found in northern Mali was that of the French geologist Philippe Verdon, taken hostage in November 2011. Al Qaeda's North African arm, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), said in March that it had beheaded Verdon in response to France's military intervention in Mali. "The remains will be transferred to our country as soon as possible and autopsies will allow us to know the cause of death," President Francois Hollande said in a statement. ...

Leader of Mexico's Zetas drug cartel captured Posted: 15 Jul 2013 05:03 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — A U.S. federal official says Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, head of the brutal Zetas drug cartel, has been captured in northern Mexico.

Even funerals on hold in blast-ravaged Quebec town Posted: 15 Jul 2013 04:59 PM PDT By Phil Wahba LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (Reuters) - A small Quebec town devastated by the deadliest North American rail crash in more than 20 years faces a slow and painful return to a more normal way of life, with even the funerals of the dozens of victims likely to be delayed by weeks or months. About 50 people are believed to have died when a runaway train with 72 oil tanker cars crashed and exploded in the center of the Quebec lakeside town just over a week ago, although not all the bodies have yet been recovered, and only 11 have so far been identified. ...

Kerry set to return to roiling Middle East Posted: 15 Jul 2013 04:46 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is returning to the Middle East this week amid rising tensions in Egypt and deteriorating conditions in Syria that threaten to put his signature effort to re-launch Israeli-Palestinian peace talks on the back burner.

Chile court rules for Indians against Barrick Gold Posted: 15 Jul 2013 03:50 PM PDT SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A Chilean appeals court ruled against the world's largest gold mining company on Monday, favoring Chilean Indians who accuse Barrick Gold Corp. of contaminating their water downstream and creating more doubts about the future of the world's highest gold mine.

Survivors of Quebec train crash to file class action suit Posted: 15 Jul 2013 03:46 PM PDT By Phil Wahba LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (Reuters) - Two residents of the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic, where a runaway train derailed and exploded into a wall of fire that killed 50 people, have launched a class action lawsuit to win compensation for the small community. The plaintiffs, Guy Ouellet and Yannick Gagné, are seeking damages after the Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway train of 72 oil tanker cars crashed on July 6 into the center of the lakeside town near the Maine border, destroying buildings and businesses, and leaving a community in mourning. ...

American diplomat: US not backing a side in Egypt Posted: 15 Jul 2013 03:43 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — The most senior U.S. official to visit Egypt since its elected president was ousted said Monday that Washington is committed to helping the Arab country succeed in its "second chance" at democracy, adding this can only happen with the participation of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Two killed as ethnic clashes grip eastern Guinea town Posted: 15 Jul 2013 03:36 PM PDT CONAKRY (Reuters) - At least two people were killed and six others injured in clashes in south-eastern Guinea on Monday, a resident and a police source said, underscoring ethnic tensions simmering in the country in the run-up to parliamentary elections. Mobs from rival ethnic groups took to the streets and gunfire rang out across Nzerekore, Guinea's second largest town, after a man accused of being a thief was killed, residents said. "The situation is still very tense as I speak to you," the police source, who asked not to be named, told Reuters. ...

Italy’s First Black Minister Suffers Even More Racial Abuse Posted: 15 Jul 2013 03:33 PM PDT This April, Cécile Kyenge — a Congolese immigrant who has lived in Italy since 1983 — was appointed as Italy's Minister for Integration, a position that made her the first black Cabinet minister in Italian history. But what should have be remembered as a momentous triumph of racial progress in Italy has turned into a national embarrassment. In the two and half months since Kyenge accepted her new post, she has been subject to an almost unceasing barrage of racism from both sections of the Italian public and fellow politicians.

EU sets sanction deadline in Iceland mackerel dispute Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:52 PM PDT BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's fisheries chief said she will decide by the end of the month whether to propose sanctions against Iceland in a row over mackerel quotas, which could see the island's fishermen banned from landing catches at EU ports. The warning on Monday by EU fisheries commissioner Maria Damanaki came on the eve of a visit to Brussels by Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson, who in May suspended Iceland's bid to join the 28-nation bloc, pending a referendum. ...

Mexico sets $100 billion rail, ports, roads plan Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:51 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government announced plans Monday to invest about $100 billion in rail, road, telecom and port projects over the next five years, including Mexico's first high-speed rail links.

Spain PM resists resignation demands amid scandal Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:48 PM PDT MADRID (AP) — Spain's prime minister on Monday brushed off demands he should resign after text messages emerged showing him comforting a political party treasurer under investigation over a slush fund and secret Swiss bank accounts. The spectacle of alleged greed and corruption has enraged Spaniards hurting from austerity and sky high unemployment with no end in sight.

Nigerian activists: Arrest Sudan leader for crimes Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:08 PM PDT ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Angry that Nigeria is hosting a fugitive accused of genocide and war crimes, human rights lawyers Monday asked the Federal High Court to issue an arrest warrant for Sudan's leader Omar al-Bashir.

France confirms body found in Mali is hostage Posted: 15 Jul 2013 01:59 PM PDT PARIS (AP) — President Francois Hollande's office formally confirmed on Monday the death of a French hostage in Mali, ending the uncertainty about the status of one of six French citizens captured by al-Qaida's North African arm.

Salvage crews rush for 1 chance to move Concordia Posted: 15 Jul 2013 01:49 PM PDT GIGLIO, Italy (AP) — Salvage crews are working against time to remove the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship, which is slowly being crushed under its own weight on its perch of granite seabed off the Tuscan island of Giglio. Officials said Monday that if this attempt fails, there won't be a second chance.

Syrian refugees in Egypt swept up in turmoil Posted: 15 Jul 2013 01:27 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian officials turn back a planeload of Syrians at Cairo airport. A popular presenter on Egyptian television warns Syrians to steer clear of protests or face the consequences. An Egyptian state school refuses admission to Syrian children.

Myanmar leader pledges prisoner release on visit to Britain Posted: 15 Jul 2013 01:25 PM PDT By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - President Thein Sein, the first leader of Myanmar to visit Britain in more than 25 years, promised to release all his country's political prisoners by the year's end after his host, Prime Minister David Cameron, pressed him to speed up reforms. Cameron, who visited the former military dictatorship last year, asked Thein Sein to ensure the constitution was changed to allow opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to contest a presidential election in 2015 and urged him to halt inter-ethnic violence against Myanmar's Muslim minority. ...

Cairo security forces fire tear gas after scuffles Posted: 15 Jul 2013 12:56 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police fired tear gas in central Cairo on Monday after scuffles broke out between supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi and locals in and around Ramses Street, eyewitnesses said. It was the first violent confrontation involving pro-Mursi protesters for a week. One witness said the police fired tear gas at the Mursi supporters after they cut off access to Ramses Street, one of Cairo's main thoroughfares, and the October 6th Bridge across the Nile, angering drivers and passers-by and leading to scuffles. ...

Hundreds protest Israeli Bedouin resettlement plan Posted: 15 Jul 2013 12:50 PM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of protesters have staged demonstrations in Israel against a plan to resettle nomadic Bedouin Arabs in the southern Negev desert.

Cuban, US diplomats increasingly allowed to travel Posted: 15 Jul 2013 12:45 PM PDT MIAMI (AP) — For decades, Cuban and U.S. diplomats have faced strict limits on their travel within the Cold War enemy countries.

Rebel infighting in Syria undermining revolt Posted: 15 Jul 2013 12:41 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — On Syria's front lines, al-Qaida fighters and more mainstream Syrian rebels have turned against each other in a power struggle that has undermined the effort to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Loblaw bid for Shoppers would expand Weston family empire Posted: 15 Jul 2013 12:37 PM PDT By Andrea Hopkins TORONTO (Reuters) - The bid by Canada's largest grocer for its largest pharmacy chain is just the latest move by the Weston family, Canada's second-richest clan, to expand a food and clothing empire that began 131 years ago with a Toronto bread factory. The C$12.4 billion friendly bid from the Weston family's Loblaw Companies Ltd for Shoppers Drug Mart Corp would add another jewel to a crown that already includes Selfridges and Fortnum & Mason in Britain, upscale retailers like Holt Renfrew in Canada and Brown Thomas in Ireland, and bakeries and groceries across North ...

Syrian regime attacks on villages in north kill 29 Posted: 15 Jul 2013 12:27 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government troops pounded rebel-held villages around the northern city of Idlib with rockets, artillery and airstrikes, killing at least 29 people, including six children, activists said Monday.

Asiana to sue San Francisco TV station over names Posted: 15 Jul 2013 11:24 AM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Asiana announced Monday that it will sue a San Francisco TV station that it said damaged the airline's reputation by using bogus and racially offensive names for four pilots on a plane that crashed earlier this month in San Francisco.

Nigerian activists demand arrest of Sudan's Bashir in court Posted: 15 Jul 2013 11:17 AM PDT LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian activists filed a suit with the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday demanding that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir be arrested and handed over to the International Criminal Court, which is seeking him on an international arrest warrant. Bashir arrived in Nigeria on Sunday for an African Union summit on HIV/AIDS, angering human rights groups who said he should not have been made welcome. Bashir has been charged by ICC prosecutors with masterminding genocide and other crimes during the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, which has left some 200,000 people dead. ...

Arabs ready anti-Israeli resolution over nukes Posted: 15 Jul 2013 11:10 AM PDT VIENNA (AP) — After a two-year hiatus, Arab nations are relaunching efforts to single out Israel for criticism at a major international conference by preparing a resolution over the country's alleged nuclear arsenal, suggesting that the Jewish state's refusal to acknowledge it has such arms is threatening Middle East peace.

Nigeria says offensive has destroyed most Islamist bases Posted: 15 Jul 2013 11:08 AM PDT ABUJA (Reuters) - The Nigerian military said on Monday that a two month old offensive in the northeast had "substantially achieved" the aim of destroying Islamist bases, as well as killing or capturing a number of fighters and freeing victims of abductions. In a statement, defense spokesman Brigadier-General Chris Olukolade also said 23 women and 35 children being held on charges of aiding Islamist militant group Boko Haram had been released as a gesture of peace to its more moderate sympathizers. ...

Rwanda complains to U.N. about new Congo brigade Posted: 15 Jul 2013 10:48 AM PDT By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Rwanda is accusing the United Nations' new intervention brigade in eastern Congo of discussing collaboration with Hutu rebels linked to the Rwandan genocide of 1994, thereby jeopardizing regional peace efforts. In a letter to U.S. Ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo in her role as this month's president of the U.N. Security Council that was released on Monday, Rwandan U.N. ...

Syria coalition plans council to hasten rebel restructuring Posted: 15 Jul 2013 10:39 AM PDT By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) - Syria's opposition coalition wants to create a 10-person executive council to reorganize disparate rebel factions into a structured army with adequate financing and weapons, one of its senior members said on Monday. Islamist militant groups that have come to the fore in Syria reject the authority of the Western- and Gulf Arab-backed Syrian National Coalition, whose leaders live mostly abroad. Last week foreign Islamist fighters killed a commander of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), which is aligned with the coalition. ...

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