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Iran rejects U.S. action in Iraq, ISIL tightens Syria border grip

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 03:00 PM PDT

Members of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces take positions during patrol looking for militants of ISIL, explosives and weapons in RamadiBy Kamal Namaa ANBAR Iraq (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader accused the United States on Sunday of trying to retake control of Iraq by exploiting sectarian rivalries, as Sunni insurgents drove towards Baghdad from new strongholds along the Syrian border. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's condemnation of U.S. action came three days after President Barack Obama offered to send 300 military advisers to help the Iraqi government.


Equipped with Humvees, ISIL clashes with rivals in Syria

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 01:06 PM PDT

A Kurdish security forces convoy travels during clashes with Sunni militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on the outskirts of DiyalaThe Islamic State of Iraq in the Levant (ISIL) battled with rival opposition fighters in northern Syria on Sunday, using U.S.-made military vehicles captured from neighboring Iraq for the first time, a monitoring group said. ISIL, a splinter group of al Qaeda which wants to set up an Islamic caliphate encompassing both Iraq and Syria, has made rapid gains in Iraq in the past two weeks, taking control of the northern city of Mosul and major border crossings with Syria. Its advances in Iraq appear to have spurred on the Syrian branch, which is fighting both the army of President Bashar al-Assad and also rival opposition groups such as the Western-backed Free Syrian Army, a more moderate force.


Fighting strains Ukraine ceasefire, Putin urges dialogue

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 08:49 AM PDT

MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Fighting flared between Ukrainian and pro-Moscow separatist forces, both sides reported on Sunday, further straining a unilateral ceasefire declared by Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin pressed Kiev to talk to the rebels. Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, at separate ceremonies marking the anniversary of Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, both stressed the need to bring peace to Ukraine's rebellious east.

Attack from Syria kills Israeli teen on Golan, Israel says

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 04:58 PM PDT

An Israeli soldier carries a tank shell near Alonei Habashan on the Israeli occupied Golan HeightsAn attack from inside Syria on Sunday killed a 13-year-old Israeli boy on the occupied Golan Heights, the first fatality on Israel's side of the frontier since the Syrian civil war began, relatives and the military said. Israeli tanks fired at Syrian army positions in response to what an Israeli military spokesman described as an intentional attack. Israel launched more strikes later from the air and land at nine Syrian army positions, including a military headquarters, the army said. The Defense Ministry said the teenager, an Arab citizen of Israel from a village in the Galilee, had accompanied his father, one of the ministry's civilian contractors, to the Golan, and that two other people were wounded in the incident.


U.S. wants inclusive Iraq but won't choose its rulers: Kerry

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 10:09 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Hassan Shoukry speak to journalists before a meeting at a hotel in Cairo, Egypt Sunday, June 22, 2014. Kerry arrived Sunday in the Egyptian capital to meet with Egyptian officials including President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in the highest-level American outreach since he took office. The United States is moving forward with attempts to thaw relations with Egypt that have cooled over concerns that the government in Cairo has conducted sham trials, imprisoned journalists and issued a violent crackdown on its political enemies. (AP Photo/Brendan Smalowski, Pool)By Lesley Wroughton CAIRO (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday the United States wanted Iraqis to find an inclusive leadership to contain a sweeping Islamist insurgency but Washington would not pick or choose who rules in Baghdad. Kerry was speaking at the start of a Middle East tour after talks in Cairo with Egypt's new President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi which covered Western concerns over Egypt's crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood and the fallout of the crisis in Iraq. Governments across the Middle East and beyond have been alarmed at the speed with which Sunni militants drove Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's troops out of large parts of north and west Iraq and pushed towards the capital.


Egypt to set rules next month for parliamentary vote

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 11:29 AM PDT

Egypt's President al-Sisi sits in his office before a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Kerry at the Presidential Palace in CairoEgypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced on Sunday that procedures that would pave the way for a parliamentary election would start before July 18, state television reported. The procedures are expected to include the regulations and set the time frame and eligible candidates for the vote. Sisi orchestrated the ousting in July of the elected Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi after mass unrest against him. In the end, the presidential vote came first, won by Sisi last month.


Judge: Bad science led to murder-by-arson sentence

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 04:48 PM PDT

FILE - Han Tak Lee gestures in this undated file photo made at an unknown location in Pennsylvania. Lee is serving a life sentence for murder and arson for setting a fire in 1989 at a church retreat cabin in Stroudsburg, Pa., in which his daughter died. In June 2014, U.S. District Judge Martin Carlson concluded the science underlying Han Tak Lee's conviction in northeastern Pennsylvania was wrong. Judge Carlson is recommending that Lee either be given a new trial or released from prison. (AP Photo/The Philadelphia Inquirer, Todd Buchanan, File) MAGS OUT; NEWARK OUTA South Korean immigrant convicted nearly 25 years ago of setting a fire that killed his daughter has long maintained he didn't do it.


Belgium World Cup hero an unknown just last month

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 04:44 PM PDT

Belgium's Divock Origi, center, reacts near Russia's Viktor Fayzulin, right, after Origi scored the opening goal during the group H World Cup soccer match between Belgium and Russia at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, June 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Teenage striker Divock Origi is Belgium's World Cup hero of the moment. Just last month, many of his teammates didn't even know who he was.


Halilhodzic hails 'heroic' Algeria

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 04:42 PM PDT

Algeria's Bosnian coach Vahid Halilhodzic (R) celebrates his team's victory during a Group H football match between South Korea and Algeria at the Beira-Rio Stadium in Porto Alegre during the 2014 FIFA World Cup on June 22, 2014Algeria coach Vahid Halilhodzic told his players before Sunday's clash with South Korea that now was not the time to start crying with yet another first round knock-out a depressing possibility after an opening loss to Belgium. There were tears alright on an idyllic sunny afternoon in Porto Alegre, but of joy, after a pulsating "heroic" 4-2 win over the 2002 semi-finalists pushed the North Africans to the brink of an historic passage to the second round. The Desert Foxes were celebrating their first World Cup win since beating Chile in the 1982 finals shortly after a remarkable victory over football superpower, the former West Germany. "Now we play a third match, a play-off against Russia and anything is possible."


Israeli military carries out airstrikes in Syria

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 04:36 PM PDT

Israeli soldiers load shells in their tank following the first death on the Israeli side of the Golan since the Syrian civil war erupted more than three years ago, near the Israeli village of Alonei Habashan, in the area of Tel Hazeka, close to the Quneitra border crossing in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Sunday, June 22, 2014. A civilian vehicle in the Golan Heights was targeted by forces in neighboring Syria on Sunday in an attack that killed a 15-year-old boy and prompted Israeli tanks to retaliate by firing on Syrian government targets, the Israeli military said. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli warplanes bombed the Syrian military headquarters and a number of other targets inside Syria, the Israeli military said Monday, in a blistering response to a cross-border attack that left an Israeli teenager dead the previous day.


US student dies after falling off cliff in India

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 04:32 PM PDT

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) — A graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who went missing more than a week ago in northern India has been found dead in a ravine after she reportedly slipped while jogging and fell several hundred feet off a cliff, MIT officials said Sunday.

World Cup stickers sweep soccer-agnostic Venezuela

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 04:26 PM PDT

People exchange stickers of soccer players to complete their World Cup sticker albums at a meeting of collectors in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, June 21, 2014. Adults and children alike are spilling into plazas around the country to swap and buy business card-sized stickers with the faces of players and photos of Brazilian stadiums. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela is again sitting out the World Cup, but many people in this soccer-agnostic nation have been swept up in the race to complete their World Cup sticker albums.


Ghana federation calls in police on fixing sting

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 04:26 PM PDT

Ghana players dance after Asamoah Gyan, right, scored his side's second goal during the group G World Cup soccer match between Germany and Ghana at the Arena Castelao in Fortaleza, Brazil, Saturday, June 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Francois Xavier Marit, pool)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Ghana's football association says it called in police after being linked to match-fixing in a British media undercover sting.


Kosovo police disperse protesters in tense north

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 04:21 PM PDT

Kosovo police in riot gear deploy to disperse a crowd of hundreds of stone-throwing protestors demanding removal of a blockade of flower pots on a bridge linking ethnic Albanians and Serbs in the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica on Sunday, June 22, 2014. Police said at least seven officers were injured as some 5 cars set ablaze as ethnic Albanian protested ethnic Serbs barricading the Serb run north from the ethnic Albanian south. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo police fired tear gas and used batons Sunday to disperse hundreds of ethnic Albanians upset because minority Serbs had reinforced a barricade in the center of the city of Mitrovica.


Denmark's Cappelen wins Web.com Tour event

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 04:17 PM PDT

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Monday qualifier Sebastian Cappelen of Denmark won the Air Capital Classic on Sunday for his first Web.com Tour title, finishing with a 4-under 66 for a one-stroke victory over Matt Weibring.

Runaway S. Korean soldier who killed 5 surrounded

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 04:15 PM PDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A day after trading gunfire, troops on Monday tightened a cordon around a runaway South Korean soldier who killed five comrades at an outpost near the border with North Korea.

Algeria beats South Korea 4-2 in Group H

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 04:07 PM PDT

Algeria's Madjid Bougherra kicks the ball away from South Korea's Son Heung-min (9) during the group H World Cup soccer match between South Korea and Algeria at the Estadio Beira-Rio in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Sunday, June 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Jon Super)PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (AP) — Islam Slimani scored one goal and made two more as Algeria swept to a 4-2 victory over South Korea on Sunday to become the first African team to score four goals in a World Cup match.


Ghana FA calls police over match-fixing reports

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 04:07 PM PDT

President of the Ghanaian Football Association Kwesi Nyantakyi speaks in Cologne, on June 16, 2006The Ghana Football Association (GFA) said on Sunday it had asked police to investigate reports in a British newspaper that the national team was set to play in a friendly organised by match fixers. The Daily Telegraph report claimed that GFA president Kwesi Nyantakyi had agreed a $170,000 (125,000 euros) contract for the national team to play in a match in which the officials had been selected by a bogus investment firm, against FIFA rules. It named the two men as Christopher Forsythe, a registered FIFA agent, and Obed Nketiah, a senior figure in the GFA.


Israeli military confirms airstrikes on 9 targets in Syria, including military headquarters

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 04:00 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli military confirms airstrikes on 9 targets in Syria, including military headquarters.

Israel air raids target Syrian positions in Golan

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 03:53 PM PDT

Israeli soldiers near the Quneitra checkpoint on the border with Syria, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, on June 22, 2014Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel carried out retaliatory air raids on Syrian army positions in the Golan Heights overnight, after a teenager on the Israeli side was killed by mortar fire, local media said early Monday.


BRAZIL BEAT: Tripping to World Cup in orange van

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 03:49 PM PDT

Laurens Kraal, left and Udo Van Heteren stand next to their Kombi van after driving from Bolivia to Brazil at the Oranjecamping site during the 2014 soccer World Cup in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, June 22, 2014. The group of seven Dutch men arrived at Sao Paulo after a 13-day journey from Bolivia in the orange hippie van that dates back to at least 45 years. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)SAO PAULO (AP) — A group of seven Dutch men have arrived in Sao Paulo after a 13-day journey from Bolivia in an orange hippie van that dates back at least 45 years.


Nani give Portugal 1-0 lead over US at halftime

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 03:48 PM PDT

Portugal's Nani celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the group G World Cup soccer match between the USA and Portugal at the Arena da Amazonia in Manaus, Brazil, Sunday, June 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Paulo Duarte)MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Nani scored the only goal of the first half after a defensive error to give Portugal a 1-0 halftime lead over the United States on Sunday at the World Cup.


Eto'o won't start for Cameroon against Brazil

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 03:35 PM PDT

Cameroon's head coach Volker Finke looks at his team during an official training session the day before the group A World Cup soccer match between Brazil and Cameroon at the Estadio Nacional in Brasilia, Sunday, June 22, 2014. Cameroon began the tournament with a 1-0 loss to Mexico and a 4-0 defeat to Croatia and they will want to leave the World Cup by beating the hosts. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Cameroon captain Samuel Eto'o will not start against Brazil, further hampering the African team's chances of upsetting the hosts in their World Cup match on Monday.


Militants blitz through Iraq's western desert

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 03:21 PM PDT

A fighter with the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) distributes a copy of the Quran, Islam's holy book, to a driver in central northern city of Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 22, 2014. Sunni militants on Sunday captured two border crossings, one along the frontier with Jordan and the other with Syria, security and military officials said, as they pressed on with their offensive in one of Iraq's most restive regions. (AP Photo)BAGHDAD (AP) — Sunni militants have blitzed through the vast desert of western Iraq, capturing four towns and three border crossings and deepening the predicament of the Shiite-led government in Baghdad led by Nouri al-Maliki.


Hazard at World Cup: 2 decisive assists in 2 games

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 03:19 PM PDT

Belgium's Eden Hazard, right, battles for the ball with Russia's Dmitry Kombarov during the group H World Cup soccer match between Belgium and Russia at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, June 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It has been tough at times to spot Eden Hazard at the World Cup so far. When he has been highly visible, it has led to goals that have moved Belgium into the second round.


WCup sticker fad sweeps soccer-agnostic Venezuela

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 03:10 PM PDT

A child wearing the team jersey of Argentina holds photos of soccer players he needs to get, to complete his World Cup sticker album, at a meeting of collectors in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, June 21, 2014. While soccer has long taken a backseat to baseball and even basketball in Venezuela, the ritual of sicker collection still sparks a frenzy. Politicians, TV personalities, and professional collectors can all be found at ad-hoc trading centers, searching for the more than 600 stickers that constitute a complete 2014 collection. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela is again sitting out the World Cup, but many people in this soccer-agnostic nation have been swept up in the race to complete their World Cup sticker albums.


Texas lawmakers call for mass graves probe

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 03:08 PM PDT

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The mass graves of suspected unidentified immigrants buried haphazardly in a South Texas cemetery and uncovered this month by anthropologists should be secured by state police until a criminal investigation can be carried out, a Texas lawmaker said Sunday.

Mauritanian President Abdel Aziz easily re-elected in boycotted vote

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 02:58 PM PDT

A woman has her finger dipped in ink after voting during the presidential elections in NouakchottMauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has won another five-year term with 82 percent of the vote, officials said on Sunday, after an election boycotted by most of the opposition. Abdel Aziz, an ally of Western powers in the fight against al Qaeda-linked Islamists in West Africa, faced no major challenger to his rule in Saturday's election in his vast desert nation, which straddles black and Arab Africa. Abdel Aziz's closest rival, anti-slavery campaigner Biram Ould Dah Ould Abeid, came in a distant second with nine percent of the vote, the head of the national election commission, Abdellahi Ould Soueid Ahmed, told a news conference. Abdel Aziz came to power in an army coup in 2008 and won a contested election the following year.


Jamaica to encourage bamboo industry for island

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 02:58 PM PDT

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica hopes to kick-start a local bamboo industry as the tropical plant becomes more common in flooring, furniture and household accessories.

BRAZIL BEAT: Argentinian announcer stokes rivalry

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 02:56 PM PDT

Argentina's Lionel Messi, second right, celebrates after scoring the first goal during the group F World Cup soccer match between Argentina and Iran at the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Saturday, June 21, 2014. Argentina won 1-0. (AP Photo/Jon Super)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — One man appears to have taken it upon himself to stoke a rivalry that needs little additional heat.


Polish foreign minister called ties to U.S. 'worthless': report

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 02:56 PM PDT

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Polish counterpart Radoslaw Sikorski arrive to attend a news conference in St. PetersburgA Polish news magazine said on Sunday it had obtained a secret recording of Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, in contention for a senior European Union job, saying that Poland's relationship with the United States was worthless. The Wprost news magazine said the recording was of a private conversation earlier this year between Sikorski and Jacek Rostowski, a member of parliament with the ruling Civic Platform who until last year was finance minister. The magazine did not say who recorded the conversation or how it obtained the recording. Aides to Sikorski and Rostowski said they had no immediate comment.


Croatia confident it can crack Mexico defense

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 02:51 PM PDT

Head coach of Croatia Niko Kovac smiles during a press conference after a training session at the Arena Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil, Sunday, June 22, 2014. Croatia will play Mexico in group A of the 2014 soccer World Cup. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)RECIFE, Brazil (AP) — Croatia coach Niko Kovac says his attackers are too good to be intimidated by a Mexico defense that has shut out its first two World Cup opponents, including host country Brazil.


Jordan beefs up Iraq border defenses as frontier post falls

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 02:41 PM PDT

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan beefed up its border defenses with Iraq on Sunday after Sunni gunmen seized territory close to its border in Anbar province and appeared to have also taken control of the only land crossing with its large eastern neighbor, officials and witnesses said.

Greek authorities uncover second big heroin stash

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 02:39 PM PDT

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek Coast Guard officials say they have uncovered a nearly 1-ton stash of heroin at a warehouse in an eastern Athens suburb.

Power fails in southern part of Rio de Janeiro

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 02:37 PM PDT

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Power failed late Sunday afternoon in a densely populated area in the southern part of Rio de Janeiro that is popular with tourists visiting for the World Cup.

Injured Eto'o remains in doubt for Cameroon

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 02:36 PM PDT

Cameroon's forward and captain Samuel Eto'o (C) takes part in a training session at the Estadio Nacional Stadium in Brasilia, on June 22, 2014Brasília (AFP) - Cameroon captain Samuel Eto'o remains a serious doubt for Monday's World Cup Group A clash with Brazil in Brasilia as he continues to struggle with a knee injury. The 33-year-old played no part in training with the rest of the Cameroon squad at the impressive National Stadium, preferring instead to chat with members of the Cameroonian police who are accompanying the squad and watch the session from the dugout. The striker injured his right knee in the Indomitable Lions' 1-0 defeat to Mexico in Natal on June 13 and has not trained since, playing no part in the 4-0 loss to Croatia in Manaus last Wednesday. When asked about Eto'o's chances of playing against Brazil, coach Volker Finke said: "It's the same situation as before the Croatia game.


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