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Battle at Donetsk airport; new Ukraine leader says no talks with 'terrorists'

Posted: 26 May 2014 11:45 AM PDT

By Alastair Macdonald and Yannis Behrakis KIEV/DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukraine launched air strikes and a paratrooper assault against pro-Russian rebels who seized an airport on Monday, as its newly elected leader rejected any talks with "terrorists" and said a robust military campaign in the east should be able to put down a separatist revolt in "a matter of hours". Ukrainians rallied overwhelmingly in Sunday's election behind Petro Poroshenko, a political veteran and billionaire owner of chocolate factories, hoping the burly 48-year-old can rescue the nation from the brink of bankruptcy, civil war and dismemberment by its former Soviet masters in the Kremlin. Monday's rapid military response to separatists who seized the airport in Donetsk was a defiant answer to Moscow, which said it was ready for dialogue with Poroshenko but demanded he first scale back the armed forces' campaign in the east. Even as the fighting was getting under way, Poroshenko held a news conference in Kiev where he said the government's military offensive needed to be "quicker and more effective".

Nigeria military says knows where girls are, rules out force

Posted: 26 May 2014 02:27 PM PDT

By Tim Cocks LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's military knows where the more than 200 girls abducted by Boko Haram are but has ruled out using force to rescue them, the state news agency quoted Chief of Defence Staff Air Marshal Alex Badeh as saying on Monday. Seven weeks since Boko Haram militants abducted more than 200 girls taking exams at secondary school in the remote northeastern village of Chibok, little is known of their whereabouts or what the military is doing to get them out. "The good news for the parents of the girls is that we know where they are, but we cannot tell you," Badeh was quoted by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) as saying. Since the girls were captured, according to a Reuters count, at least 470 civilians have died violent deaths in various locations at the hands of Boko Haram, which says it is fighting to establish an Islamic state in religiously mixed Nigeria.

Gunmen kill four soldiers southeast of Nigeria's Jos: official

Posted: 26 May 2014 12:51 PM PDT

Gunmen killed four Nigerian soldiers on Monday in an ambush on a military patrol in central Plateau state, about 180 km (110 miles) southeast of Jos, a local government official said. Islamist militant group Boko Haram has made inroads into Plateau state in the past month, setting off a bomb in Jos last Tuesday that killed 118 people. Bendel Nancwat, head of the local council that administers the village of Gida Bua, where the attack happened, said it was not known if the assailants were Boko Haram or just bandits.

Sisi closes on presidency on final day of Egypt vote

Posted: 26 May 2014 02:12 PM PDT

A man shows his ink-marked finger after casting his vote at a polling station during the Egyptian presidential election in CairoBy Tom Perry and Yasmine Saleh CAIRO (Reuters) - Former army chief Abdel Fatah al-Sisi is expected to emerge from a second and final day of voting on Tuesday as Egypt's next president, with supporters seeing him as the man who can pull the Arab world's most populous nation back from the brink. Since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in 2011 raised hopes of new freedoms, the country of 85 million, where one in four Egyptians lives in poverty, has been convulsed by political, security and economic turmoil. The vote - with initial results expected hours after polls close at 9 p.m. (1800 GMT) on Tuesday evening - means Egypt will likely revert to rule by men from the military after Sisi toppled the country's first freely elected leader, Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood. Former army chief Sisi faces only one challenger: the leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi.


Eastern Libya oil rebel rejects new government

Posted: 26 May 2014 03:14 PM PDT

Members of the new Libyan government pose for a group photo in TripoliBy Ulf Laessing and Ahmed Elumami TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The leader of the protesters occupying Libyan oil ports said on Monday he did not recognize Prime Minister Ahmed Maiteeq's new government and suggested a previously agreed deal to end his blockade could be in jeopardy. Ibrahim Jathran, who wants more autonomy from Tripoli for his eastern region, had agreed with Maiteeq's predecessor to steadily end the protests, which have cut the OPEC member country's oil exports after the ports fell under his control last summer. Libya's parliament, the General National Congress, has been paralyzed by infighting among pro- and anti-Islamist, tribal and regional factions vying for influence in the chaos that followed the 2011 uprising against Muammar Gaddafi. "If the parliament keeps with its decision on the new government, then we will take a different position than we have before." Keeping ports closed will be a blow to Maiteeq's new government, with the country's oil production down to 160,000 barrels per day (bpd) compared with 1.4 million bpd because of the Jathran blockade and other pipeline protests.


Thai coup leader threatens crackdown if protests resume

Posted: 26 May 2014 11:39 AM PDT

Thai Army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha is accompanied by his officers as he addresses reporters at the Royal Thai Army Headquarters in BangkokBy Panarat Thepgumpanat and Paul Mooney BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai coup leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Monday he had been formally endorsed by the king as head of a military council that will run the country, and warned he would use force if political protests flare up again. Among them, Italian-Thai Development Pcl, the country's largest construction firm, rose 0.5 percent even though the army has summoned its president, Premchai Karnasuta, to appear on Monday, along with 37 others including political associates and big business allies of Thaksin.


Top Asian News at 12:30 a.m. GMT

Posted: 26 May 2014 05:32 PM PDT

BANGKOK (AP) — Bolstered by an endorsement from Thailand's king, the nation's new military ruler issued a stark warning Monday to anyone opposed to last week's coup: don't cause trouble, don't criticize, don't protest — or else the nation could revert to the "old days" of turmoil and street violence. Speaking in his first public appearance since the coup, Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha defended the army's takeover, saying he had to restore order after seven months of increasingly violent confrontations between the now-ousted government and demonstrators who had long urged the army to intervene.

Colombia's president heads to runoff in 2nd place

Posted: 26 May 2014 05:32 PM PDT

Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos speaks at his campaign headquarters in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, May 25, 2014. Santos finished second in the opening round of the presidential election and will face winner Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, of the Democratic Center, in a runoff on June 15. At right first lady Maria Clemencia Rodriguez. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — He presides over one of Latin America's fastest-growing economies and has taken peace negotiations with Marxist rebels further than anyone in decades.


Developing countries see swelling middle class

Posted: 26 May 2014 05:31 PM PDT

Motorcyclists ride past a newly built luxury shopping center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on November 20, 2013Workers in developing countries are increasingly moving to better jobs and joining the middle class, but 839 million workers still earn less than $2.00 a day, the International Labour Organization said. "The developing countries are generally in a process of catching up with the advanced economies," ILO chief Guy Ryder told reporters in Geneva ahead of the release of the agency's annual World of Work Report on Tuesday. Between 1980 and 2011, per capita income in the developing countries like Senegal, Vietnam and Tunisia on average grew 3.3 percent each year, which is far faster than the 1.8 percent growth seen in advanced economies, the report said. Today, more than four in 10 workers in the such countries are considered to be in the so-called "developing middle class" -- meaning that they earn more than $4.00 a day -- up from fewer than two in 10 two decades ago, it said.


Coach cuts 3 from Australia's World Cup squad

Posted: 26 May 2014 05:24 PM PDT

SYDNEY (AP) — Coach Ange Postecoglou has cut three players from Australia's preliminary World Cup squad before leaving for Brazil.

Pope to hold first meeting with sexual abuse victims

Posted: 26 May 2014 05:16 PM PDT

By Philip Pullella ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Monday that he will have his first meeting with a group of sex abuse victims at the Vatican early next month and said he would show zero tolerance for anyone in the Catholic Church who abused children, including bishops."Sexual abuse is such an ugly crime ... because a priest who does this betrays the body of the Lord. "We must go ahead with zero tolerance," he said, adding that three bishops were currently under investigation. Francis said he would meet with eight victims and Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley of Boston, who is head of a commission set up to study ways of dealing with the crisis. The 77-year-old pontiff fielded questions on a range of topics, including Vatican finances, priestly celibacy, his concern for the environment, and whether he himself would one day retire like his predecessor Benedict XVI instead of serving for life.

Murders in El Salvador spike to record high for May

Posted: 26 May 2014 05:04 PM PDT

Murders in El Salvador shot up in May, surpassing previous homicide rates in one of the world's deadliest countries and pushing the president to claim criminal groups were trying to destabilize the government. With 356 homicides so far in May compared with 174 in the same month last year, the murder rate has surpassed the highs seen in early 2012 before a truce between the country's powerful street gangs, according to Miguel Fortin, head of the prosecutor's office forensic unit. The truce between the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and rival gang Barrio 18 helped cut the Central American country's murder rate in mid-2013 to around five per day, a 10-year low, from an early 2012 high of 14 per day, one of the world's highest. Mauricio Funes, the outgoing president of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) that was formed by ex-guerrillas from the country's civil war, said at least some of the violence had been caused by groups with "political motivations." "They want to give the impression that there is a failed state that is incapable of facing crime," Funes said on Monday in the final week of his administration.

Ukraine launches airstrike on pro-Moscow rebels

Posted: 26 May 2014 04:49 PM PDT

Smoke rises at the airport outside Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, May 26, 2014. Ukraine's military launched airstrikes Monday against the separatists who had taken over the airport in the eastern city of Donetsk, suggesting that fighting in the east is far from over. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's president-elect said Monday he wants to begin talks with Moscow and end a pro-Russia insurgency in the east, but the rebels escalated the conflict by occupying a major airport, and the government in Kiev responded with an airstrike.


Nigerian defense chief says abducted girls located

Posted: 26 May 2014 04:42 PM PDT

Nigeria's chief of defense staff Air Marshal Alex S. Badeh, centre, speaks during a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped girls of the government secondary school in Chibok, in Abuja, Nigeria, Monday, May 26, 2014. Scores of protesters chanting "Bring Back Our Girls" marched in the Nigerian capital Monday to protest the abductions of more than 300 schoolgirls by Boko Haram, the government's failure to rescue them and the killings of scores of teachers by Islamic extremists in recent years. (AP Photo/Gbenga Olamikan)ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's military has located nearly 300 school girls abducted by Islamic extremists but fears using force to try to free them could get them killed, the country's chief of defense said Monday.


Pope ends delicate Mideast trip with peace call

Posted: 26 May 2014 04:41 PM PDT

Pope Francis, center, attends a mass at the site known as the Cenacle, or Upper Room, where Christians believe Jesus had his last supper, in Jerusalem on Monday, May 26, 2014. Francis honored Jews killed in the Holocaust and other attacks and kissed the hands of Holocaust survivors as he capped his three-day Mideast trip with poignant stops Monday at some of the holiest and most haunting sites for Jews. (AP Photo/Jack Guez, Pool)JERUSALEM (AP) — Pope Francis wrapped up his Mideast pilgrimage Monday with a balancing act of symbolic and spontaneous gestures to press his call for peace between Israel and the Palestinians and friendship between Jews and Muslims in the land of Jesus' birth.


Pope to meet sex abuse victims at Vatican

Posted: 26 May 2014 04:39 PM PDT

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis announced Monday he would meet soon with a group of sex abuse victims at the Vatican and declared "zero tolerance" for any member of the clergy who would violate a child.

French Open watch: 'So what happened out there?'

Posted: 26 May 2014 04:39 PM PDT

John Isner of the U.S. returns the ball during the first round match of the French Open tennis tournament against France's Pierre-Hugues Herbert at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, France, Sunday, May 25, 2014. (AP Photo/David Vincent)PARIS (AP) — Poor Nicolas Mahut. Probably was deflating enough that he lost his first-round match at the French Open. Then the Frenchman went to his news conference.


Blinded soldier, widow sue former Gitmo prisoner

Posted: 26 May 2014 04:32 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2010, file photo, Tabitha Speer, widow of Sgt. 1st Class Chris Speer, who was killed by a hand grenade that Omar Khadr admitted throwing, speaks to reporters on the sentencing of Khadr at his military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as former sergeant Layne Morris, blinded in one eye by shrapnel during the firefight where Khadr was captured, looks on. An American soldier blinded in Afghanistan and the widow of another soldier killed there have filed a $44.7 million wrongful death and injury lawsuit against a Canadian man who was held at Guantanamo Bay and pleaded guilty to committing war crimes when he was 15. Layne Morris of Utah and Tabitha Speer of North Carolina filed their lawsuit Friday, MAY 23, 2014, in federal court in Utah against Omar Khadr, who signed a plea deal in 2010 that he committed five war crimes, including the killing of U.S. soldier Christopher Speer, in 2002. As part of the deal, Khadr admitted to throwing the grenade that killed Speer and injured other soldiers, including Morris, who lost sight in one eye from the shrapnel, the lawsuit states. The Toronto-born Khadr is serving the remainder of his eight-year sentence in Canada. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Colin Perkel, File)SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An American soldier blinded in Afghanistan and the widow of another soldier killed there have filed a $44.7 million wrongful death and injury lawsuit against a Canadian man who was held at Guantanamo Bay and pleaded guilty to committing war crimes when he was 15.


Venezuela announces debt deal with airlines

Posted: 26 May 2014 04:25 PM PDT

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's cash-strapped government has agreed to pay part of $4 billion owed to foreign airlines and may soon allow them to aggressively raise airfares as it works to head off more carriers from leaving the country.

Pope compares sexual abuse to "satanic Mass", says will meet victims

Posted: 26 May 2014 04:21 PM PDT

Pope Francis Greets Pilgrims in JordanPope Francis on Monday branded sexual abuse of children by priests a crime comparable to a "satanic Mass" and said he would show zero tolerance for anyone in the Catholic Church who abused children, including bishops. Asked about whether he would move against bishops who were accused of sexual abuse, he said "there will be no daddy's boys" and no privileges, adding that three bishops were currently under investigation. "Sexual abuse is such an ugly crime ... because a priest who does this betrays the body of the Lord. It is like a satanic Mass," he said in some of the toughest language he has used on a crisis which has rocked the Church for more than a decade." We must go ahead with zero tolerance" he said.


Pope says favors celibacy for priests but door open to change

Posted: 26 May 2014 04:21 PM PDT

Pope Francis talks to reporters aboard the papal flight on his way back to the Vatican from JerusalemPope Francis on Monday said he believed that Roman Catholic priests should be celibate but the rule was not an unchangeable dogma, and "the door is always open" to change. Francis made similar comments when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires but his remarks to reporters on a plane returning from a Middle East trip were the first he has made since becoming pope. "Celibacy is not a dogma," he said in answer to a question about whether the Catholic Church could some day allow priests to marry as they can in some other Christian Churches.


Pope Francis says papal retirements could become normal in Church

Posted: 26 May 2014 04:18 PM PDT

Pope Francis said on Monday he would be open to retiring eventually like his predecessor, Benedict XVI, instead of ruling for life, adding that the concept of a "pope emeritus" could someday become normal in the Church "I will do what the Lord tells me to do," he told reporters on the plane returning from a trip to the Middle East, when asked if he someday would retire if his health did not permit him to rule the 1.2 billion-member Church properly. "I think that Benedict XVI is not a unique case.

Puerto Rico woman propped up in chair for wake

Posted: 26 May 2014 04:17 PM PDT

The body of Georgina Chervony Lloren, who died of natural causes on Sunday at the age of 80, is propped up in a rocking chair during her wake in a funeral home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, May 26, 2014. Miriam Chervony, daughter of Georgina, explained that her mother had asked her family that in the case of her death, she wanted her funeral to be in her favorite rocking chair and in her wedding gown from her second marriage 32 years ago. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An 80-year-old Puerto Rican woman has been memorialized at her wake sitting in her favorite rocking chair and wearing her old wedding gown.


Pope to meet with sex abuse victims at Vatican

Posted: 26 May 2014 04:16 PM PDT

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis announced Monday he would meet soon with a group of sex abuse victims at the Vatican and declared "zero tolerance" for any member of the clergy who would violate a child.

Brazil begins World Cup preparations amid protests

Posted: 26 May 2014 04:15 PM PDT

Demonstrators hold up signs that read in Portuguese "There won't be a Cup. There will be strikes," center, and "We need schools, not stadiums" as they walk in front of the bus carrying members of Brazil's national soccer team as it leaves a hotel for the Granja Comary training center, where the team will train and reside during the World Cup, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, May 26, 2014. Demonstrators are protesting the money being spent by the local government on the World Cup. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)SAO PAULO (AP) — The Brazil squad's preparations for a World Cup on home soil got underway Monday amid chants of protests instead of support.


Pope to meet with sex abuse victims next month

Posted: 26 May 2014 03:55 PM PDT

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis announced Monday he would meet with a group of sex abuse victims next month at the Vatican and declared "zero tolerance" for any member of the clergy who would violate a child.

Search for Dutch tourists resumes in Panama

Posted: 26 May 2014 03:50 PM PDT

PANAMA CITY (AP) — A search for two female Dutch tourists who went missing in Panama almost two months ago is resuming.

Pope says 'no privileges' for bishops on abuse

Posted: 26 May 2014 03:46 PM PDT

Pope Francis gives a speech at the Church of All Nations in the Garden of Gethsemane, in east Jerusalem, on May 26, 2014ABOARD PAPAL PLANE (Undefined) (AFP) - Pope Francis on Monday warned there were "no privileges" for bishops when it came to child sex crimes and said he would hold a special mass with victims next week in the Vatican. "Three bishops are being investigated," Francis told reporters on his return flight from the Middle East when asked about the thousands of scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church. There are no privileges. At a UN hearing earlier this year, Vatican officials revealed that 3,420 abuse cases had been handled over the past decade by the Catholic Church's Canon Law prosecutors.


German fugitive detained in Dominican tourist town

Posted: 26 May 2014 03:38 PM PDT

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Interpol agents in the Dominican Republic have taken into custody a suspected German fugitive in a popular tourist town of the Caribbean country.

Germany's first far-right NPD deputy in European Parliament

Posted: 26 May 2014 03:31 PM PDT

The leader of Germany's far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) Udo Voigt in Neuruppin, northeastern Germany, on November 12, 2011Udo Voigt, the first member of Germany's far-right anti-immigrant party to enter the European Parliament, has faced legal action in the past with comments such as Hitler was "a great man". The son of a Nazi SA assault division member, Voigt, 62, was the chief candidate for the extremist National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), which scored one percent in the German vote for the EU-wide election Sunday. And in 2011 the NPD stirred controversy again, with posters depicting Voigt, on his motorbike, wearing a black leather jacket, with the motto "Gas geben" (Step on It) or literally "give gas" in what some saw as a reference to gas chambers where millions of Jews perished in Nazi extermination camps. Despite its meagre score in Sunday's elections, the NPD has benefited from the recent scrapping of a three-percent threshold for European elections in Germany, enabling it to now send a lawmaker to the European Parliament.


What to look for Tuesday at the French Open

Posted: 26 May 2014 03:17 PM PDT

Britain's Andy Murray runs for the ball during a training session for the French Open tennis tournament, at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Friday, May 23, 2014. The French Open tennis tournament starts Sunday. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)PARIS (AP) — Here are five things to look for Tuesday at the French Open:


New homes for Mexican village after landslide

Posted: 26 May 2014 03:17 PM PDT

Aerial view of the landslide that buried part of La Pintada village, Guerrero state, Mexico, after heavy rains hit the area, on September 19, 2013Mexico's government presented on Monday 125 new homes to residents of a southwestern mountain village that was buried by a massive landslide that killed 71 people last year. President Enrique Pena Nieto visited La Pintada, a coffee-growing village in Guerrero state, to unveil the two-story cement houses in the hamlet of 400 people whose wooden homes were crushed in September 2013. La Pintada became a tragic symbol of the devastation brought by twin hurricanes Ingrid and Manuel that pummelled Mexico's east and west coasts last year. "I am very moved to see the faces of the men and women who went through tough times, and today are still standing, and committed to moving forward," Pena Nieto told townspeople as he inaugurated a memorial park.


Top Asian News at 10:00 p.m. GMT

Posted: 26 May 2014 03:02 PM PDT

BANGKOK (AP) — Bolstered by an endorsement from Thailand's king, the nation's new military ruler issued a stark warning Monday to anyone opposed to last week's coup: don't cause trouble, don't criticize, don't protest — or else the nation could revert to the "old days" of turmoil and street violence. Speaking in his first public appearance since the coup, Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha defended the army's takeover, saying he had to restore order after seven months of increasingly violent confrontations between the now-ousted government and demonstrators who had long urged the army to intervene.

French Open at a glance

Posted: 26 May 2014 02:55 PM PDT

PARIS (AP) — A look at the French Open on Monday:

Protesters clash with police over Spain squat eviction

Posted: 26 May 2014 02:54 PM PDT

Catalan police officers try to clear the street during clashes with protesters following the evictions of activists from the "Can Vies" social centre, owned by the Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona company, in Barcelona on May 26, 2014Police clashed with protesters who burned bins and vehicles in Barcelona on Monday as anger boiled over at the eviction of activists from a well-known squat. Officers made several arrests as hooded youths smashed windows and hurled stones at police and journalists in the streets of the northeastern city. A police spokesman told AFP there had been arrests but could not confirm how many.


Protest over Jamaica university firing AIDS doctor

Posted: 26 May 2014 02:49 PM PDT

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Religious activists, students and colleagues gathered outside Jamaica's biggest university Monday to protest the firing of an HIV expert who testified on behalf of church groups defending an anti-sodomy law.

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