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• Muslim Brotherhood calls rallies across Egypt after day of bloodshed
• BASF says closed Egyptian operations amid unrest
• Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline bombed: officials
• Tunisian labor leader rejects parallels with Egypt
• Zuma draws fire on South Africa mine killings anniversary
• Travel firms cancel holidays as violence grips Egypt
• UPS pilots warned of low altitude 7 seconds before crash
• Iraq seeks help from US amid growing violence
• Egypt street battles leave at least 64 dead
• Freezing U.S. aid to Egypt would not be easy or cost-free
• Reactions to developments in Egypt
• Turmoil in Egypt: TIME Journalist Gets Caught in Cairo’s Latest Day of Rage
• Military judge finds Manning's WikiLeaks acts 'wanton and reckless'
• Iraq seeking US drones to curb al-Qaida threat
• Egypt clashes leave at least 60 dead nationwide
• Zimbabwe opposition withdraws election challenge
• Seventeen dead, hundreds rescued after ferry sinks in Philippines
• Norway's opposition widens poll lead weeks before election
• Islamic militants kill 13 in northeast Nigeria
• Israel extradites war crimes suspect to Bosnia
• Beirut bomb ups fear of fallout from Syria war
• Syrian airstrike kills at least 15, wounds dozens
• At least 60 killed across country in Egypt clashes
• Pistorius to face new weapons charges in South African court: media
• EU urges members to consider response to Egypt violence
• Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood calls for a week of protests
• Greece ticket inspection death prompts protest
• Bahrain authorities crush prison riot, 40 injured
• Zimbabwe's MDC withdraws court challenge to Mugabe re-election
• At least 37 killed across country in Egypt clashes
• Ferry sinks in collision in Philippines; 17 dead
• Pistorius to be indicted, trial in early 2014
• Beirut bomb may have been suicide attack: minister
• Private funeral for Dutch Prince Friso

Muslim Brotherhood calls rallies across Egypt after day of bloodshed Posted: 16 Aug 2013 03:02 PM PDT By Crispian Balmer and Yasmine Saleh CAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood defiantly called for a week of protests across Egypt starting on Saturday, a day after more than 100 people died in clashes between Islamists and the security forces that pushed the country ever closer to anarchy. Undeterred by the bloodshed in which about 700 have been killed since Wednesday, the Brotherhood urged its supporters back onto the streets to denounce the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and a crackdown on his followers. ...

BASF says closed Egyptian operations amid unrest Posted: 16 Aug 2013 03:44 PM PDT FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German chemicals group BASF said on Friday it closed its Egyptian operations on Thursday because of the violent political protests in the country. "The safety of our employees has top priority. We are observing the situation carefully. All our employees are fine. The offices have been closed since yesterday," a spokeswoman for the world's largest chemical maker said. BASF has about 100 employees based in Egypt, with offices in Alexandria and Cairo and a plant producing construction chemicals in Sadat City. ...

Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline bombed: officials Posted: 16 Aug 2013 01:17 PM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb attack halted the flow of crude oil through a pipeline running from Iraq's Kirkuk oil fields to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan in Turkey, two Iraqi oil officials said on Friday. The attack took place at around 0100 GMT on Friday near the al-Shura area 60 km (40 miles) to the south of the city of Mosul. The officials said repair work would be complete in around 48 hours. "Attackers planted a roadside bomb near a section of the pipeline," one official said. ...

Tunisian labor leader rejects parallels with Egypt Posted: 16 Aug 2013 12:45 PM PDT By Tarek Amara and Tom Heneghan TUNIS (Reuters) - Hussein Abassi doesn't like it when his Tunisian trade union federation is compared to the Egyptian army and he is likened to a general who can make or break a government. The Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) has neither tanks nor military ambitions, but it does boast an "army" of a million members that dwarfs the political parties now at loggerheads in Tunis. ...

Zuma draws fire on South Africa mine killings anniversary Posted: 16 Aug 2013 09:25 AM PDT By Xola Potelwa MARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) - Opponents of President Jacob Zuma turned the anniversary of South Africa's bloodiest post-apartheid mine violence into an attack on his failure to tackle poverty and inequality on Friday after his government shunned a memorial event for slain miners. In a decision highlighting the ruling African National Congress (ANC)'s loss of support among many mineworkers, Zuma's government backed out of the ceremony commemorating 34 striking platinum workers killed by police at Lonmin's Marikana mine. ...

Travel firms cancel holidays as violence grips Egypt Posted: 16 Aug 2013 04:54 PM PDT By Victoria Bryan and Belinda Goldsmith FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - Violence sweeping Egypt has hit its tourism - a vital part of the economy - as governments warn holidaymakers to stay away, prompting some foreign travel agents to stop all trips there. The latest unrest looks likely to kill off a tentative recovery of a sector that accounted for more than a tenth of GDP before the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, starting a period of political uncertainty which worsened with events of this week. ...

UPS pilots warned of low altitude 7 seconds before crash Posted: 16 Aug 2013 04:46 PM PDT By Verna Gates BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - U.S. government investigators looking into the crash of a UPS cargo plane said on Friday the pilots received a low altitude warning barely seven seconds before the sound of impact, according to data recovered from the cockpit voice recorder. Investigators retrieved data from the cockpit and flight data recorders on Friday that could shed light on Wednesday's fiery crash in Alabama that killed the jet's pilot and co-pilot. ...

Iraq seeks help from US amid growing violence Posted: 16 Aug 2013 03:10 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A resurgence of violence and a renewed threat from al-Qaida have recently revived flagging U.S. interest in Iraq, officials said Friday as Baghdad asked for new help to fight extremists less than two years after it forced American troops to withdraw.

Egypt street battles leave at least 64 dead Posted: 16 Aug 2013 03:10 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's capital descended into chaos Friday as vigilantes at neighborhood checkpoints battled Muslim Brotherhood-led protesters denouncing the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi and a deadly crackdown. The fiercest street clashes the city has seen in more than two years of turmoil left more than 60 people dead, including several policemen.

Freezing U.S. aid to Egypt would not be easy or cost-free Posted: 16 Aug 2013 02:56 PM PDT By Susan Cornwell and Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some U.S. lawmakers are calling for the Obama administration to shut off aid to Egypt in the aftermath of the army's lethal crackdown on protesters. But untangling the aid relationship with Cairo would not be simple and could be costly for the United States as well as Egypt. A special financing arrangement Cairo uses could leave U.S. ...

Reactions to developments in Egypt Posted: 16 Aug 2013 02:28 PM PDT Reactions on Friday around the world to developments in Egypt following clashes in which hundreds of people were killed and thousands injured:

Turmoil in Egypt: TIME Journalist Gets Caught in Cairo’s Latest Day of Rage Posted: 16 Aug 2013 12:48 PM PDT There was a crackle of gunfire. Birdshot hit the buildings overhead and the crowd of demonstrators on Cairo's 15 May Bridge took off running from the shots. I felt a dull object hit my back. It was a brake disk from a car. Thrown by whom—it was unclear. Demonstrators shouted that police were shooting from the rooftops. I kept running.

Military judge finds Manning's WikiLeaks acts 'wanton and reckless' Posted: 16 Aug 2013 12:20 PM PDT By Tom Ramstack FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The military judge who will determine how long U.S. soldier Bradley Manning will spend in prison for the biggest breach of classified data in the nation's history on Friday said she found that his acts were "wanton and reckless." Judge Colonel Denise Lind last month found Manning, 25, guilty of 20 criminal counts, including espionage and theft, for handing over some 700,000 secret U.S. documents to the WikiLeaks pro-transparency website. On Monday, she will begin deliberations on Manning's sentence. ...

Iraq seeking US drones to curb al-Qaida threat Posted: 16 Aug 2013 12:19 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Iraq's top diplomat says lethal U.S. drones could be based in Iraq to help fight a growing threat by al-Qaida.

Egypt clashes leave at least 60 dead nationwide Posted: 16 Aug 2013 12:18 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Heavy gunfire rang out Friday throughout Cairo as tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters clashed with armed vigilantes in the fiercest street battles to engulf the capital since the country's Arab Spring uprising. At least 60 people were killed in the fighting nationwide, including eight police officers.

Zimbabwe opposition withdraws election challenge Posted: 16 Aug 2013 12:10 PM PDT HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change said Friday that it is withdrawing a court challenge over disputed election results that gave long-time President Robert Mugabe a commanding victory, saying it did not believe it would get a fair hearing.

Seventeen dead, hundreds rescued after ferry sinks in Philippines Posted: 16 Aug 2013 12:08 PM PDT By Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - At least 17 people were killed but hundreds were rescued after a passenger ferry sank following a collision with a cargo vessel in the central Philippines, a coastguard commander said. "We don't know if there are still people missing," Rear Admiral Luis Tuason told local radio early on Saturday, citing a discrepancy between the actual numbers killed or rescued and the ferry's manifest, which showed 692 crew and passengers on board. ...

Norway's opposition widens poll lead weeks before election Posted: 16 Aug 2013 12:01 PM PDT OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's center-right opposition pulled further ahead of the Labor-led government with just weeks to go before elections on September 9, a poll showed on Friday, putting the Conservatives and their allies on course for a landslide victory. Support for Erna Solberg's Conservative Party rose to 31.1 percent from 29.7 percent two weeks ago, while combined support for the four opposition parties reached 59 percent, state broadcaster NRK said. ...

Islamic militants kill 13 in northeast Nigeria Posted: 16 Aug 2013 11:51 AM PDT MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian legislator and a survivor say suspected Islamic militants have killed 13 people in an attack on a northeast village near where a massacre occurred at a mosque.

Israel extradites war crimes suspect to Bosnia Posted: 16 Aug 2013 11:41 AM PDT SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A former Bosnian Serb soldier accused of taking part in the Srebrenica massacre has been placed into custody to face trial after his extradition from Israel.

Beirut bomb ups fear of fallout from Syria war Posted: 16 Aug 2013 11:38 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah's leader blamed Sunni extremists Friday for a car bombing that killed 22 people in a Shiite neighborhood south of Beirut, heightening fears that Lebanon will be dragged further into sectarian fallout from the war in neighboring Syria.

Syrian airstrike kills at least 15, wounds dozens Posted: 16 Aug 2013 11:33 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian warplanes struck targets in a rebel-held district in the contested northern city of Aleppo Friday, killing at least 15 people, wounding dozens of others and leaving some buried under the rubble of buildings, activists said.

At least 60 killed across country in Egypt clashes Posted: 16 Aug 2013 11:17 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Security officials in Egypt say the death toll in clashes across the country has risen to at least 60 people killed.

Pistorius to face new weapons charges in South African court: media Posted: 16 Aug 2013 11:16 AM PDT JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Paralympic gold medalist Oscar Pistorius will face new charges of recklessly discharging a weapon in public when he appears in a South African court next week accused of murdering his girlfriend, local media reported on Friday. Neither prosecutors nor lawyers for Pistorius would comment on the reports carried by TV broadcaster ENCA, radio's Eyewitness News and the national SAPA news agency, citing law enforcement officials. ...

EU urges members to consider response to Egypt violence Posted: 16 Aug 2013 10:57 AM PDT BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Union asked its members on Friday to consider "appropriate measures" it could take in reaction to violence in Egypt, while European leaders stressed the importance of a united response. Around 50 people were killed in Cairo alone on Friday, a "Day of Rage" called by Muslim Brotherhood followers of ousted President Mohamed Mursi to denounce a police crackdown on the Islamists in which hundreds have died this week. ...

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood calls for a week of protests Posted: 16 Aug 2013 10:50 AM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood group called on Friday for a week of daily nationwide protests after thousands of its supporters rallied in different cities to denounce a violent crackdown on their followers this week. "We call on the Egyptian people and national forces to protest daily until the coup ends," the Islamist group said in a statement in reference to the army's overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi last month. (Reporting by Yasmine Saleh; Editing by Crispian Balmer)

Greece ticket inspection death prompts protest Posted: 16 Aug 2013 10:30 AM PDT ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek youths clashed with riot police in Athens on Friday as they protested the death of a teenage trolley passenger during a ticket inspection, a death that anti-austerity groups have blamed on the government's harsh economic policies.

Bahrain authorities crush prison riot, 40 injured Posted: 16 Aug 2013 10:28 AM PDT MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Bahraini authorities crushed a prison riot on Friday, leaving at least 40 injured after they fired stun grenades and tear gas, rights groups said.

Zimbabwe's MDC withdraws court challenge to Mugabe re-election Posted: 16 Aug 2013 10:17 AM PDT JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's opposition MDC on Friday withdrew a court challenge to the re-election of President Robert Mugabe which it had alleged was fraudulent, saying it had not received crucial information from the election commission. "I can confirm that we have withdrawn the presidential election petition. There are a number of reasons, including the failure by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to release critical evidence in this matter," MDC spokesman Douglas Mwonzora said. (Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe; Writing by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Pascal Fletcher)

At least 37 killed across country in Egypt clashes Posted: 16 Aug 2013 10:17 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Heavy gunfire rang out Friday throughout Cairo as tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters clashed with armed vigilantes in the fiercest street battles to engulf the capital since the country's Arab Spring uprising. At least 37 people were killed in the fighting nationwide, including police officers.

Ferry sinks in collision in Philippines; 17 dead Posted: 16 Aug 2013 10:16 AM PDT MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A ferry with nearly 700 people aboard sank near the central Philippine port of Cebu on Friday night after colliding with a cargo vessel, killing at least 17 people. Hundreds of others were rescued.

Pistorius to be indicted, trial in early 2014 Posted: 16 Aug 2013 10:12 AM PDT JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Oscar Pistorius will be indicted for premeditated murder on Monday and the double-amputee Olympian will go on trial in early 2014, about a year after shooting dead girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Beirut bomb may have been suicide attack: minister Posted: 16 Aug 2013 10:08 AM PDT By Stephen Kalin BEIRUT (Reuters) - The death toll from a car bomb which ripped through the southern Beirut stronghold of Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah rose to 24 on Friday, and the government said the explosion may have been a suicide attack. Thursday's blast, a month after a car bomb wounded more than 50 people in the same district of the Lebanese capital, came amid sectarian tensions over the intervention of Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah against Sunni rebels in Syria's civil war. ...

Private funeral for Dutch Prince Friso Posted: 16 Aug 2013 09:59 AM PDT AMSTERDAM (AP) — Flags around the Netherlands hung at half-staff on Friday as the Dutch royal family gathered to bury Prince Johan Friso, who died this week at the age of 44 of complications from a skiing accident last year.

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