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• Egypt's Brotherhood cries foul over prison deaths
• Insight: North Korea's Kim tries new tack with defectors - being nice
• Okinawa shows vulnerability of Japan PM's popular appeal
• In turnaround, ruling Tunisia Islamists will meet rivals
• Saudi Arabia warns against pressing Egypt on crackdown
• Ex-rebel sworn in as Central African Republic president
• Partner of reporter at center of NSA leak detained
• Petition drive to recall San Diego mayor begins
• Mexico's new gov't follows old drug war strategy
• Mexico boosts security on northeast border after cartel boss arrest
• Obama plays final golf round before vacation ends
• UK detains partner of journalist linked to Snowden
• Lawyer: Norwegian imprisoned in Congo has died
• Egypt: 36 killed in prison truck escape attempt
• Utah girl dies after wind sends trampoline flying
• U.N. chemical weapons inspectors to start work in Syria on Monday
• AP PHOTOS: Scenes from world championships
• EU to 'urgently review' its relations with Egypt
• Egyptian capital becomes battle zone amid crisis
• EU weighs aid, commercial links with Egypt
• Egypt: 36 killed in Brotherhood escape attempt
• Some 38 Brotherhood supporters die in Egypt prison: security sources
• Egypt army chief: New clashes won't be tolerated
• Some of Guantanamo's hardest cases to get new look
• Death toll hits 39 in Philippines ferry accident
• Report: Clashes on Saturday in Egypt killed 79
• Southern African leaders back re-election of Zimbabwe's Mugabe
• UN chemical arms experts arrive in Syrian capital
• Liberia's president marks decade of peace
• Pistorius trial: What happens next
• UN inspectors arrive in Damascus on chemical probe
• Liberia booming but still needs peacekeepers: president
• Growing number of U.S. lawmakers urge suspension of Egyptian aid
• C. African Republic: Rebel chief is new president
• Insight: Egypt seen as graveyard of Islamist ambitions for power
• Egypt government says 79 people died in violence Saturday: report

Egypt's Brotherhood cries foul over prison deaths Posted: 18 Aug 2013 02:44 PM PDT By Crispian Balmer and Yasmine Saleh CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, fighting for its political survival, has accused security forces of killing dozens of detained Islamists, upping the pressure in a crisis that has rocked the Arab world's most populous state. At least 850 people have died since last Wednesday in clashes pitting followers of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi against the army-backed government in the worst bloodletting in Egypt's modern history. ...

Insight: North Korea's Kim tries new tack with defectors - being nice Posted: 18 Aug 2013 02:52 PM PDT (Contains profanity in third paragraph) By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is taking a new approach to defectors who have fled his impoverished and repressive state, promising they will not be harmed if they come home, and even offering cash rewards, according to some in the exile community. ...

Okinawa shows vulnerability of Japan PM's popular appeal Posted: 18 Aug 2013 02:08 PM PDT By Nathan Layne NAHA, Japan (Reuters) - Masatoshi Onaga says Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is out of touch with Okinawa, one of Japan's poorest prefectures and the reluctant host to half the U.S. forces in the country. To understand the island's pain, Onaga would like to see Tokyo-based leaders try living in the shadows of the Futenma air base, a facility targeted for closure since 1996 because of its location in a densely populated area, with warplanes taking off and landing over surrounding houses, hospitals and schools. ...

In turnaround, ruling Tunisia Islamists will meet rivals Posted: 18 Aug 2013 03:27 PM PDT By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's governing Islamist party Ennahda switched course on Sunday and agreed to meet with opposition parties to seek a consensus on resolving the country's worst political crisis since its 2011 Arab Spring revolution. Fethi Ayadi, chairman of the party's supreme council, told journalists the talks could start by the end of the week and could consider opposition demands for a caretaker technocrat government to find a way out of the current standoff. ...

Saudi Arabia warns against pressing Egypt on crackdown Posted: 18 Aug 2013 01:19 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia on Sunday warned the West against putting pressure on Egypt's military-backed government to halt a crackdown on supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. "We will not achieve anything through threats," Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, told reporters through an interpreter during a visit to Paris. The prince spoke after meeting French President Francois Hollande, who on Thursday called for a swift end to a state of emergency imposed by Egypt's military authorities. ...

Ex-rebel sworn in as Central African Republic president Posted: 18 Aug 2013 01:38 PM PDT BANGUI (Reuters) - Former rebel leader Michel Djotodia was formally sworn in as the Central African Republic's president on Sunday, starting the clock on his interim administration's 18-month deadline to restore order and organize elections. Djotodia has been in charge of the country during the chaos that followed the rebels' seizure of control in March, when they swept into power from their northern bases, overpowering South African forces protecting former leader Francois Bozize. ...

Partner of reporter at center of NSA leak detained Posted: 18 Aug 2013 04:46 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — The partner of a journalist who received leaks from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden was detained for nearly nine hours Sunday under anti-terror legislation at Heathrow Airport, triggering claims that authorities are trying to interfere with reporting on the issue.

Petition drive to recall San Diego mayor begins Posted: 18 Aug 2013 04:06 PM PDT SAN DIEGO - A campaign to oust embattled San Diego Mayor Bob Filner began Sunday, as volunteers armed with clipboards and petitions fanned out to collect thousands of signatures needed to authorize a recall election.

Mexico's new gov't follows old drug war strategy Posted: 18 Aug 2013 03:49 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — With the capture of two top drug lords in little more than a month, the new government of President Enrique Pena Nieto is following an old strategy it openly criticized for causing more violence and crime.

Mexico boosts security on northeast border after cartel boss arrest Posted: 18 Aug 2013 03:41 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities have increased security along the country's northeastern border with the United States after arresting the suspected leader of the Gulf Cartel, one of the oldest drug trafficking groups in Mexico, a spokesman said on Sunday. The Mexican army on Saturday captured Mario Ramirez Trevino in Reynosa in Tamaulipas state, across the border from McAllen, Texas, Interior Ministry spokesman Eduardo Sanchez said at a press conference without providing further details. ...

Obama plays final golf round before vacation ends Posted: 18 Aug 2013 03:30 PM PDT EDGARTOWN, Mass. - U.S. President Barack Obama returned to the golf course Sunday to play his sixth and final round of a weeklong vacation on Martha's Vineyard.

UK detains partner of journalist linked to Snowden Posted: 18 Aug 2013 03:26 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - British authorities used anti-terrorism powers to detain the partner of a journalist with close links to Edward Snowden, the fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor, as he passed through London's Heathrow airport on Sunday. The 28-year-old David Miranda, a Brazilian citizen and partner of U.S. journalist Glenn Greenwald who writes for Britain's Guardian newspaper, was questioned for nine hours, before being released without charge, a report on the Guardian website said. Rio de Janeiro-based Greenwald has interviewed Snowden, wanted by U.S. ...

Lawyer: Norwegian imprisoned in Congo has died Posted: 18 Aug 2013 03:21 PM PDT STOCKHOLM (AP) — Tjostolv Moland, one of two Norwegian citizens imprisoned in Congo since 2009 on murder charges, has died in prison, his lawyer and government officials said Sunday. He was 32.

Egypt: 36 killed in prison truck escape attempt Posted: 18 Aug 2013 03:10 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian police fired tear gas Sunday in an attempt to free a guard from rioting detainees, killing at least 36 as the country's military leader vowed to tolerate no more violence after days of clashes that killed nearly 900 people.

Utah girl dies after wind sends trampoline flying Posted: 18 Aug 2013 02:57 PM PDT PANGUITCH, Utah - A nine-year-old southern Utah girl is dead after a strong wind gust picked up the backyard trampoline she was sitting on and sent it flying more than 45 metres.

U.N. chemical weapons inspectors to start work in Syria on Monday Posted: 18 Aug 2013 02:50 PM PDT DAMASCUS (Reuters) - A team of U.N. chemical weapons experts have arrived in Damascus and will start work on Monday to investigate the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria's civil war. President Bashar al-Assad's government and the rebels fighting him have accused each other of using chemical weapons, a step which the United States had said would cross a "red line" in a conflict which has killed 100,000 people. Like the broader Syrian conflict, the issue of chemical weapons has divided world powers. ...

AP PHOTOS: Scenes from world championships Posted: 18 Aug 2013 02:29 PM PDT Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt captures three golds in Moscow on Sunday to become the most decorated athlete in the history of the world championships. With an overall eight golds and two silvers, Bolt overtakes Carl Lewis (8 golds, 1 silver, 1 bronze) and Michael Johnson (8 golds).

EU to 'urgently review' its relations with Egypt Posted: 18 Aug 2013 02:28 PM PDT BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union said Sunday it will "urgently review" its relations with Egypt, warning the authorities there that the people's calls for democracy and fundamental rights "cannot be disregarded, much less be washed away in blood."

Egyptian capital becomes battle zone amid crisis Posted: 18 Aug 2013 02:21 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Soldiers fired their rifles in the air to keep a crowd from attacking supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi as they were being taken, one by one, out of the Al-Fath mosque in Cairo where they had been besieged by security forces overnight.

EU weighs aid, commercial links with Egypt Posted: 18 Aug 2013 01:58 PM PDT By Justyna Pawlak BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union governments will this week question how to best use their economic ties with Egypt to pressure Cairo's army-backed rulers into finding a peaceful compromise with supporters of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. At stake could be a 5 billion euro ($6.7 billion) package of grants and loans promised by the EU, its member governments and international financial institutions last year, as well as various trade incentives, EU officials and experts say. ...

Egypt: 36 killed in Brotherhood escape attempt Posted: 18 Aug 2013 12:13 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's official news agency says 36 people were killed when Muslim Brotherhood detainees tried to escape from a prison truck convoy in northern Cairo.

Some 38 Brotherhood supporters die in Egypt prison: security sources Posted: 18 Aug 2013 11:40 AM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Some 38 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood died on Sunday in an incident at an Egyptian prison, security and legal sources said, giving conflicting versions of the deaths. The Interior Ministry did not immediately confirm the death toll, but said in a statement that a number of detainees had tried to escape from a prison on the outskirts of Cairo and had taken a police officer hostage. In subsequent clashes, the ministry said an undisclosed number of people had died from inhaling tear gas rounds. It added that the officer was freed but badly wounded. ...

Egypt army chief: New clashes won't be tolerated Posted: 18 Aug 2013 11:22 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military leader vowed Sunday that the army will not tolerate further political violence after nationwide clashes killed hundreds, as security forces detained Muslim Brotherhood members in raids aimed at disrupting planned rallies.

Some of Guantanamo's hardest cases to get new look Posted: 18 Aug 2013 11:11 AM PDT GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — As the U.S. renews its effort to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, it will soon begin reconsidering the fate of prisoners such as Mohammed al-Shimrani.

Death toll hits 39 in Philippines ferry accident Posted: 18 Aug 2013 11:04 AM PDT CEBU, Philippines (AP) — As the MV Thomas Aquinas cruised toward Cebu city in the central Philippines, navy marshal Richard Pestillos prepared for a brief stop while some passengers watched a band and others soaked in the night breeze on the deck.

Report: Clashes on Saturday in Egypt killed 79 Posted: 18 Aug 2013 11:01 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's interim government says clashes on Saturday between police and supporters of the country's ousted president killed 79 people.

Southern African leaders back re-election of Zimbabwe's Mugabe Posted: 18 Aug 2013 10:48 AM PDT By Mabvuto Banda LILONGWE (Reuters) - Southern African leaders on Sunday endorsed the re-election of veteran President Robert Mugabe, brushing aside a campaign from Zimbabwe's opposition MDC who said the vote July was rigged and its results should be overturned. The decision by the 15-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC), which helped broker a power-sharing deal after disputed elections in 2008, clears the way for Mugabe, 89, to be sworn as early as this week for a fresh five-year term. ...

UN chemical arms experts arrive in Syrian capital Posted: 18 Aug 2013 10:40 AM PDT DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — After months of drawn-out negotiations, United Nations experts arrived in Damascus on Sunday to begin their investigation into the purported use of chemical weapons in Syria's civil war.

Liberia's president marks decade of peace Posted: 18 Aug 2013 10:39 AM PDT MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf celebrated a decade of peace on Sunday by attending a prayer service held at the scene of one of the worst massacres recorded during the country's 14-year civil war.

Pistorius trial: What happens next Posted: 18 Aug 2013 10:31 AM PDT JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Oscar Pistorius is due to re-appear in a South African court on Monday to face charges of killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Here's what is expected to happen next:

UN inspectors arrive in Damascus on chemical probe Posted: 18 Aug 2013 10:17 AM PDT DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A team of U.N. weapons inspectors arrived in Damascus on Sunday for a long-delayed mission to investigate the alleged use of chemical arms in Syria's civil war.

Liberia booming but still needs peacekeepers: president Posted: 18 Aug 2013 10:08 AM PDT By Alphonso Toweh MONROVIA (Reuters) - Investments in mining, agriculture and oil will push Liberia's economic growth into double-digits within five years, but it will still need U.N. peacekeepers to help keep order until 2017, the president said. Speaking on the 10th anniversary of the end of 14 years of on-off civil war, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf told Reuters peace, investment and an eightfold-fold increase in government revenues were concrete signs of recovery. ...

Growing number of U.S. lawmakers urge suspension of Egyptian aid Posted: 18 Aug 2013 10:04 AM PDT By Doug Palmer and Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A growing bipartisan chorus of U.S. lawmakers said on Sunday that the United States should suspend its $1.5 billion in military and economic aid to Egypt following a violent crackdown on protesters that has left nearly 800 dead. Senator John McCain, a top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he now supported suspending the aid, even though he initially believed it should be continued after the Egyptian military removed democratically elected President Mohamed Mursi from office last month. ...

C. African Republic: Rebel chief is new president Posted: 18 Aug 2013 10:00 AM PDT BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — The rebel leader whose fighters toppled the government of Central African Republic earlier this year was sworn in as president on Sunday, beginning an 18-month countdown to elections in a country that aid organizations say is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe.

Insight: Egypt seen as graveyard of Islamist ambitions for power Posted: 18 Aug 2013 09:32 AM PDT By Samia Nakhoul BEIRUT (Reuters) - As the army ruthlessly crushes the Muslim Brotherhood on the streets of Cairo, having swept away its elected president, Egypt is being painted as the graveyard of the Arab Spring and of Islamist hopes of shaping the region's future. This week's bloody drama has sent shockwaves out of Egypt, the political weathervane and cultural heart of the Arab world. ...

Egypt government says 79 people died in violence Saturday: report Posted: 18 Aug 2013 09:19 AM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Seventy-nine people died across Egypt on Saturday during political violence and 549 were wounded, the state news agency MENA said on Sunday, quoting government figures. The latest tally means at least 830 people have died in Egypt since Wednesday in clashes pitting supporters of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi against the security forces. (Writing by Tom Perry; editing by Crispian Balmer)

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