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• More than 200 dead after Egypt forces crush protest camps
• Police fire teargas, birdshot at Bahrain demonstrators
• U.N. says chemical weapons investigators to visit Syria imminently
• Roadside bombs kill 14 north of Baghdad: police
• Japan visits to war shrine likely to anger Asian neighbors
• U.S. asks Mexico to detain freed drug lord so can be extradited
• Brazil Congress rejects motion that threatened oil rights auction
• Fcatbox: Japan's Yasukuni Shrine honoring war dead
• Top Cuban baseball player missing, reported to have defected
• Manning tells court he's 'sorry' for U.S. secrets breach to WikiLeaks
• Hundreds reported killed as Egypt smashes protests
• Japan visit to war shrine likely to anger Asian neighbors
• Ecuador recalls ambassador to Egypt after bloodshed in Cairo
• Japanese cabinet minister Shindo visits shrine to war dead
• U.S. weighs canceling military exercise with Egypt
• Egypt’s Military Cracks Down on Muslim Brotherhood: Will Chaos Follow Killings?
• Talks resume as Israel frees Palestinians, pursues settlements
• ElBaradei quits Egypt government, other liberals stay
• NTSB says downed UPS cargo jet's flight recorders still unrecovered
• Over 200 dead after Egypt forces crush protest camps
• 3 journalists killed in Egypt turmoil
• Scotland soccer fans descend on London for match
• Insight: Japan's nuclear clean-up: costly, complex and at risk of failing
• U.S. weighs calling off military exercise with Egypt
• Two Koreas agree to reopen shuttered factory park
• Jordan seeks U.S. surveillance aircraft as Syria war rages
• Two journalists killed in Cairo violence
• Mali's coup-leading army captain promoted to general
• Key events in Egypt's uprising and unrest
• McKinsey consultant Krstic to be Serbian finance minister
• Hezbollah leader: We bombed Israeli soldiers
• Egypt clashes kill 235 as sit-ins dispersed: state media
• Police storm protest camps; 278 dead across Egypt
• Police storm protest camps; 192 dead across Egypt
• Egypt's interior minister promises Mubarak-era security
• Bahrain protests fizzle under security clampdown
• Exclusive - West warned Egypt's Sisi to the end: don't do it

More than 200 dead after Egypt forces crush protest camps Posted: 14 Aug 2013 02:51 PM PDT By Yasmine Saleh and Tom Finn CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces crushed the protest camps of thousands of supporters of the deposed Islamist president on Wednesday, shooting almost 200 of them dead in the bloodiest day in decades and polarizing the Arab world's most populous nation. At least 235 people were killed in all, including at least 43 police, and 2,000 wounded, a health official said, in fierce clashes that spread beyond Cairo to towns and cities around Egypt. ...

Police fire teargas, birdshot at Bahrain demonstrators Posted: 14 Aug 2013 12:24 PM PDT MANAMA (Reuters) - Bahraini police fired teargas and birdshot to disperse scattered protests across the country on Wednesday, as Shi'ite Muslims responded to a call by online activists for pro-democracy demonstrations. The main opposition group said around 60 rallies were held in 40 locations, in an upsurge of a two-and-a-half-year-old campaign to push the Sunni Muslim ruling family for more democracy in the Shi'ite-majority nation of 1.25 million people. ...

U.N. says chemical weapons investigators to visit Syria imminently Posted: 14 Aug 2013 04:51 PM PDT By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. experts will travel to Syria imminently to investigate claims of chemical weapons use during that country's civil war after the United Nations and the Syrian government agreed on details of the trip, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday. The United Nations announced two weeks ago that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government had agreed to let the U.N. inspectors, led by Swedish scientist Ake Sellstrom, travel to three sites where chemical weapons were reported to have been used. ...

Roadside bombs kill 14 north of Baghdad: police Posted: 14 Aug 2013 01:31 PM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Twin roadside bombs exploded in the Iraqi city of Baquba on Wednesday, killing 14 people and wounding 26, police said, the latest in a wave of summer attacks close to the capital Baghdad. One bomb detonated in a cafe in the center of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, while the other explosion hit an ice cream shop on a commercial street, police said. Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for similar attacks in the past week in which scores of Iraqi civilians were killed during celebrations marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. ...

Japan visits to war shrine likely to anger Asian neighbors Posted: 14 Aug 2013 05:06 PM PDT By Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese cabinet ministers paid their respects to the nation's war dead at a controversial shrine seen as a symbol of Japan's past militarism on Thursday, a move likely to anger China and risk undermining recent tentative diplomatic overtures by Tokyo. ...

U.S. asks Mexico to detain freed drug lord so can be extradited Posted: 14 Aug 2013 04:56 PM PDT By Gabriel Stargardter MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States has asked Mexico to detain freed drug kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero to face charges brought decades ago by a U.S. court, the Mexican attorney general's office said on Wednesday, setting the stage for a formal extradition request. Caro Quintero, one of the infamous godfathers of Mexican drug trafficking, was freed last week from the Puente Grande prison after serving nearly three decades of a 40-year sentence for ordering the 1985 murder of undercover Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique Camarena. ...

Brazil Congress rejects motion that threatened oil rights auction Posted: 14 Aug 2013 05:08 PM PDT BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Congress on Wednesday rejected an amendment to an oil-royalty bill that threatened to derail the world's largest-ever sale of rights to develop offshore oil resources scheduled for October 21. The amendment had sought to set the Brazilian government's minimum share of "profit oil" from the sale of the giant Libra offshore prospect and other fields in Brazil's most productive oil area at 60 percent. ...

Fcatbox: Japan's Yasukuni Shrine honoring war dead Posted: 14 Aug 2013 05:06 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese cabinet ministers paid their respects to the nation's war dead at a controversial shrine seen as a symbol of Japan's past militarism on Thursday, a move likely to anger China and risk undermining recent tentative diplomatic overtures by Tokyo. * In Japanese, "yasu" means peace and "kuni" means country. * Established in 1869 and funded by the government until 1945, Yasukuni is dedicated to the nation's 2.5 million war dead, including about 1,000 convicted war criminals. No human remains are housed there. ...

Top Cuban baseball player missing, reported to have defected Posted: 14 Aug 2013 04:43 PM PDT By Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - One of Cuba's top baseball players is reported to have abandoned the Communist-run island to become the latest emigre seeking a multi-million-dollar Major League contract in the United States. José Dariel Abreu, 26, an all-star first baseman for one of the island's best teams, the Elephants of Cienfuegos, failed to show up this week for training for Cuba's upcoming national championship, fueling rumors of his defection. Baseball America magazine, a leading U.S. ...

Manning tells court he's 'sorry' for U.S. secrets breach to WikiLeaks Posted: 14 Aug 2013 04:31 PM PDT By Ian Simpson FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. soldier Bradley Manning on Wednesday told a military court "I'm sorry" for giving war logs and diplomatic secrets to the WikiLeaks website three years ago, the biggest breach of classified data in the nation's history. "I am sorry that my actions hurt people. I'm sorry that they hurt the United States," the 25-year-old U.S. Army Private First Class told the sentencing phase of his court-martial. "I am sorry for the unintended consequences of my actions ... The last few years have been a learning experience. ...

Hundreds reported killed as Egypt smashes protests Posted: 14 Aug 2013 04:22 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — In Egypt's bloodiest day since the Arab Spring began, riot police Wednesday smashed two protest camps of supporters of the deposed Islamist president, touching off street violence that officials said killed nearly 300 people and forced the military-backed interim leaders to impose a state of emergency and curfew.

Japan visit to war shrine likely to anger Asian neighbors Posted: 14 Aug 2013 04:21 PM PDT By Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese cabinet minister paid respects to the nation's war dead at a controversial shrine seen as a symbol of Japan's past militarism on Thursday, a move likely to anger China and risk undermining recent tentative diplomatic overtures by Tokyo. ...

Ecuador recalls ambassador to Egypt after bloodshed in Cairo Posted: 14 Aug 2013 04:15 PM PDT QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador recalled its ambassador to Egypt for consultations on Wednesday after Egyptian security forces crushed the protest camps of supporters of the deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and shot nearly 200 of them dead. In a brief statement, Ecuador's Foreign Ministry said the Egyptian people had chosen Mursi as their constitutional leader. "Following the coup d'etat which toppled President Mursi in July of this year, Egyptian society has been wrapped up in a climate of civil protest and repression on the part of the de facto government," the statement said. ...

Japanese cabinet minister Shindo visits shrine to war dead Posted: 14 Aug 2013 04:09 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese internal affairs minister Yoshitaka Shindo visited a shrine to war dead seen as a symbol of Japan's past militarism on Thursday, a move likely to anger China and further strain icy ties between Asia's two largest economies. China and South Korea, which suffered under Japan's occupation and colonization in the 20th century, are expected to be upset by the visit on the anniversary of Tokyo's World War Two defeat because the shrine also honors Japanese leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal. ...

U.S. weighs canceling military exercise with Egypt Posted: 14 Aug 2013 03:43 PM PDT By Arshad Mohammed and Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is considering calling off a major military exercise with the Egypt after Egyptian security forces killed scores of protesters on Wednesday, U.S. officials said. The bloodshed appears to have forced U.S. President Barack Obama's administration to consider adopting a more muscular stance toward the Egyptian military, which toppled Mohamed Mursi, Egypt's first freely elected president, on July 3. The United States, which gives Egypt $1. ...

Egypt’s Military Cracks Down on Muslim Brotherhood: Will Chaos Follow Killings? Posted: 14 Aug 2013 03:13 PM PDT Wednesday's long-anticipated move by Egyptian security forces to violently clear a pair of Muslim Brotherhood protest sites in the capital was aimed at ending an impasse that had politically crippled the country. But the violence of the crackdown, which has led to hundreds of casualties, has paved the way for more chaos and instability in Egypt.

Talks resume as Israel frees Palestinians, pursues settlements Posted: 14 Aug 2013 03:02 PM PDT By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian negotiators reconvened U.S.-brokered peace talks in Jerusalem on Wednesday amid little fanfare and low expectations, dogged by plans for more Jewish settler homes on occupied land. An Israeli official, who declined to be named and who was briefed on the talks that were held at an undisclosed Jerusalem location, described them as serious and said the parties agreed to meet again soon. No details were given on the subject matter of the talks. ...

ElBaradei quits Egypt government, other liberals stay Posted: 14 Aug 2013 02:59 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's interim vice president, Mohamed ElBaradei, resigned on Wednesday after the security forces used force to crush protest camps of supporters of the deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, but fellow liberals did not follow suit. In a resignation letter to Interim President Adly Mansour, the former U.N. nuclear agency chief said: "The beneficiaries of what happened today are those who call for violence, terrorism and the most extreme groups. ...

NTSB says downed UPS cargo jet's flight recorders still unrecovered Posted: 14 Aug 2013 02:47 PM PDT BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - The National Transportation Safety Board said on Wednesday that it had not yet been able to retrieve the flight recorders from the UPS cargo jet that crashed and burst into flames in Birmingham, Alabama because the wreckage of the plane was still smoldering. The announcement was made at a briefing by senior NTSB official Robert Sumwalt who said he was optimistic the cockpit voice and flight data recorders, possibly shedding light on the cause of the predawn crash, would be recovered from the tail end of the aircraft. (Reporting by Verna Gates)

Over 200 dead after Egypt forces crush protest camps Posted: 14 Aug 2013 02:41 PM PDT By Yasmine Saleh and Tom Finn CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces crushed the protest camps of thousands of supporters of the deposed Islamist president on Wednesday, shooting almost 200 of them dead in the bloodiest day in decades and polarising the Arab world's most populous nation. At least 235 people were killed in all, including at least 43 police, and 2,000 wounded, a health official said, in fierce clashes that spread beyond Cairo to towns and cities around Egypt. ...

3 journalists killed in Egypt turmoil Posted: 14 Aug 2013 02:35 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Three journalists, including a cameraman for British broadcaster Sky News and a Dubai-based newspaper reporter, were killed and several were injured in the violence that erupted in Egypt on Wednesday.

Scotland soccer fans descend on London for match Posted: 14 Aug 2013 02:13 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — Wearing traditional kilts and bonnets, thousands of Scotland soccer fans descended on London's Trafalgar Square on Wednesday before their homeland's first game in 14 years against neighbor and fierce rival England.

Insight: Japan's nuclear clean-up: costly, complex and at risk of failing Posted: 14 Aug 2013 02:04 PM PDT By Sophie Knight KAWAUCHI, Japan (Reuters) - The most ambitious radiation clean-up ever attempted has proved costly, complex and time-consuming since the Japanese government began it more than two years in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown. It may also fail. Doubts are mounting that the effort to decontaminate hotspots in an area the size of Connecticut will succeed in its ultimate aim - luring more than 100,000 nuclear evacuees back home. ...

U.S. weighs calling off military exercise with Egypt Posted: 14 Aug 2013 02:01 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is considering calling off a major military exercise with Egypt following the killing of scores of people in an assault by Egyptian security forces on a protest camp, a U.S. official said on Wednesday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the possibility of scrapping the biennial "Bright Star" exercise was discussed at a meeting of the so-called "deputies committee," which gathers the number two officials from key U.S. national security agencies. (Reporting By Arshad Mohammed; Editing by Sandra Maler)

Two Koreas agree to reopen shuttered factory park Posted: 14 Aug 2013 02:00 PM PDT By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - North and South Korea agreed on Wednesday to reopen a troubled joint industrial park after a series of talks on the fate of the symbol of economic cooperation, raising hopes of possible improvement in political ties. In a joint statement, the two sides said they had agreed to work together to get the Kaesong industrial zone, a few miles (km) inside North Korea from the heavily fortified border, up and running again and to prevent another shutdown. "South and North guarantee the industrial zone's normal operation ... ...

Jordan seeks U.S. surveillance aircraft as Syria war rages Posted: 14 Aug 2013 01:56 PM PDT By Phil Stewart AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan on Wednesday asked the United States to provide manned U.S. surveillance aircraft to help keep an eye on its border with Syria, the top U.S. military officer said, as the kingdom struggles to contain fallout from Syria's civil war. The request came during a visit by General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and would further bolster the U.S. military support to Jordan after U.S. decisions to station F-16 aircraft and Patriot missiles there. ...

Two journalists killed in Cairo violence Posted: 14 Aug 2013 01:53 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Two journalists were killed in Cairo on Wednesday as Egyptian forces crushed protests by thousands of supporters of the deposed president, shooting scores of people dead. Television cameraman Mick Deane, 61, worked for Britain's Sky News. Habiba Ahmed Abd Elaziz, 26, reported for the Dubai-based news weekly Xpress. Troops opened fire on demonstrators who had staged a sit-in for the past six weeks to demand the reinstatement of the Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi. Deane was shot as he covered the operation. ...

Mali's coup-leading army captain promoted to general Posted: 14 Aug 2013 01:48 PM PDT By Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's outgoing government has promoted to the rank of general an army captain who led a coup last year that plunged the West African nation into crisis and allowed al Qaeda-linked fighters to seize the desert north. Diplomats in Bamako said the surprise move by the government of interim President Dioncounda Traore was meant to push Captain Amadou Aya Sanogo towards retirement to allow president-elect Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to start with a clean slate. ...

Key events in Egypt's uprising and unrest Posted: 14 Aug 2013 01:45 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Riot police on Wednesday cleared two sprawling encampments of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, sparking running street battles that killed at least 278 people. The presidency declared a monthlong state of emergency across the nation as Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei resigned in protest over the assaults.

McKinsey consultant Krstic to be Serbian finance minister Posted: 14 Aug 2013 01:43 PM PDT By Aleksandar Vasovic BELGRADE (Reuters) - A U.S.-educated McKinsey consultant is to be named Serbia's new finance minister as part of a cabinet reshuffle agreed in July, an official and local media said on Wednesday. Serbian Yale graduate Lazar Krstic, who is about 30, agreed to take the post after meetings with Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade, said a government official familiar with the talks who asked not to be named. "Krstic has agreed to take the post, he also presented his plans to Vucic," the source said without elaborating further. ...

Hezbollah leader: We bombed Israeli soldiers Posted: 14 Aug 2013 01:43 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Hezbollah said Wednesday that militants from his group were behind last week's bombing that wounded four Israeli soldiers, threatening to attack any other Israeli forces that cross the border into Lebanon.

Egypt clashes kill 235 as sit-ins dispersed: state media Posted: 14 Aug 2013 01:41 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Clashes between security forces and supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohamed Mursi killed 235 people across the country on Wednesday, the state news agency MENA said. The report quoted Mohamed Sultan, head of Egypt's emergency services, as saying another 2,001 people were wounded in clashes that broke out after security forces broke up two pro-Mursi vigils in Cairo. A Health Ministry official confirmed the 235 figure to Reuters and said it included both police and protesters. (Reporting by Alexander Dziadosz; Editing by Alison Williams)

Police storm protest camps; 278 dead across Egypt Posted: 14 Aug 2013 01:36 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Riot police backed by armored vehicles, bulldozers and helicopters Wednesday swept away two encampments of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, setting off running street battles in Cairo and other Egyptian cities. At least 278 people were killed nationwide, many of them in the crackdown on the protest sites.

Police storm protest camps; 192 dead across Egypt Posted: 14 Aug 2013 01:29 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian officials have raised the overall number of people killed in nationwide clashes between police and supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi to 278, most civilians.

Egypt's interior minister promises Mubarak-era security Posted: 14 Aug 2013 01:14 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's interior minister pledged on Wednesday to restore the kind of security seen in the days of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, a sign of renewed confidence permeating a police force whose reputation for brutality fuelled the 2011 uprising. Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim was speaking to journalists after the police used force to break up two sit-in camps set up by supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi, triggering violence in which scores of people were killed. ...

Bahrain protests fizzle under security clampdown Posted: 14 Aug 2013 01:01 PM PDT MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Bahraini protesters clashed with riot police in neighborhoods around the capital Wednesday as they called for greater political freedom in the Gulf island nation, but a tight security clampdown stopped large-scale demonstrations.

Exclusive - West warned Egypt's Sisi to the end: don't do it Posted: 14 Aug 2013 12:57 PM PDT By Paul Taylor PARIS (Reuters) - Western allies warned Egypt's military leaders right up to the last minute against using force to crush protest sit-ins by supporters of the ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi, arguing they could ill afford the political and economic damage. A violent end to a six-week standoff between Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood and the armed forces that toppled Egypt's first freely elected president seemed likely once the new authorities declared last week that foreign mediation had failed. ...

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