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Ukraine, rebels argue over wreck; Europeans give Putin 'last chance'

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 03:41 PM PDT

Armed pro-Russian separatist stands at a site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash in the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk regionBy Anton Zverev and Peter Graff HRABOVE/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukraine accused Russia and pro-Moscow rebels on Saturday of destroying evidence to cover up their guilt in the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner that has accelerated a showdown between the Kremlin and Western powers. As militants kept international monitors away from wreckage and scores of bodies festered for a third day, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the rebels to cooperate and insisted that a U.N.-mandated investigation must not leap to conclusions. Moscow denies involvement and has pointed a finger at Kiev's military. The Dutch government, whose citizens made up most of the 298 aboard MH17 from Amsterdam, said it was "furious" at the manhandling of corpses strewn for miles over open country and asked Ukraine's president for help to bring "our people" home.


Two Israeli soldiers die in Gaza clash; Palestinian toll tops 300

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 02:39 PM PDT

An Israeli convoy manoeuvres on a field outside central Gaza StripBy Nidal al-Mughrabi and Crispian Balmer GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Two Israeli soldiers were killed in a cross-border attack by Hamas militants on Saturday, the army said, as the Palestinian death toll from the conflict rose above 300 with no diplomatic solution in sight. The Israeli military said four other soldiers were wounded in the raid by fighters who reached Israel through a concealed tunnel. One Hamas gunman was killed, while the rest of the group managed to escape back into the Gaza Strip, the military added. Israel sent ground forces into Hamas-controlled Gaza on Thursday after 10 days of air and naval barrages failed to stop rocket fire from the Palestinian territory.


Gunmen kill 21 Egyptian military border guards near Libya

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 02:57 PM PDT

By Michael Georgy CAIRO (Reuters) - Gunmen killed 21 Egyptian military border guards near the frontier with Libya on Saturday, highlighting a growing threat from an area that security officials say has become a haven for militants seeking to topple the Cairo government. Security officials said the assailants were smugglers. The attack took place in Wadi al-Gadid governorate, which borders both Sudan and Libya. Two smugglers were killed in clashes with the guards, security officials said.

Wave of bombings in Baghdad kills 27 people: police, medics

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 12:09 PM PDT

Iraqi security forces ride on vehicles during an intensive security deployment on the outskirts of DiyalaBy Raheem Salman BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 27 people were killed in a wave of bombings in mostly Shi'ite Muslim areas of Baghdad on Saturday, police and medics said, in the deadliest day of attacks in the capital since a Sunni insurgency overran large parts of Iraq's north last month. In the first explosion, a suicide car bomber drove into a police checkpoint, killing nine people including seven policemen and wounding 21 people in the Abu Dsheer district in the south of the capital, the sources said. ...


Iran warned of 'last chance' in nuclear talks after deadline missed

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 07:21 AM PDT

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and diplomats leave a news conference in ViennaBy Louis Charbonneau and Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran faced Western pressure on Saturday to make concessions over its atomic activities after it and six world powers failed to meet a July 20 deadline for a deal to end the decade-old dispute but agreed to keep talking. The countries agreed to extend the high-stakes negotiations by four months, and let Iran access another $2.8 billion of its cash frozen abroad during that period, though most sanctions on the Islamic Republic stayed in place. Germany - one of the major powers trying to persuade Iran to curb its nuclear program - warned that the extended talks might be the last chance for a long time to reach a peaceful solution. Echoing the views of other envoys, a Western diplomat said there had been some progress during nearly three weeks of marathon discussions in Vienna's 19th century Coburg palace and that gaps in positions were not "unbridgeable".


Super typhoon kills fourteen in southern China: Xinhua

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 09:36 AM PDT

Man pushes his electric bicycle against strong wind and heavy rainfalls along a flooded seaside street as Typhoon Rammasun hits HaikouA super typhoon has killed at least fourteen people in China since making landfall on Friday afternoon, state media said on Saturday, after hitting parts of the Philippines and leaving 77 dead. Typhoon Rammasun reached the southern Chinese island province of Hainan on Friday, before striking parts of the mainland later on Friday and early on Saturday, said the official Xinhua news agency. The government had ordered an all-out effort to prevent loss of life from the typhoon, which is shaping up to be the strongest to hit southern China in more than 40 years. The typhoon has hit several cities in the Chinese provinces of Guangxi, Guangdong and Hainan, tearing down trees and power lines and knocking out power grids.


Tunisia orders crackdown after militants kill 14 soldiers

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 05:00 PM PDT

Tunisia's PM Jomaa speaks during news conference at Chancellery in BerlinBy Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia on Saturday launched a crackdown on mosques and radio stations associated with hardline Islamists after militants killed 14 soldiers in an area near the country's border with Algeria. The move underscores the difficulty one of the Arab world's most secular countries faces in dealing with the rise of conservative Islamist movements and militants since the 2011 revolt that ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali and opened the way to democracy. Tunisia's armed forces have been carrying out a campaign to flush out militants from their remote hideout in the Chaambi mountains on the border with Algeria. Some of the militants are tied to al Qaeda and 14 soldiers were killed this week when dozens of gunmen with rocket-propelled grenades attacked two army checkpoints in the region.


Toronto IndyCar event postponed by rain

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 04:58 PM PDT

Helio Castroneves of Brazil leads a pack of cars during parade laps of race 1 of the Verizon IndyCar Series Honda Indy Toronto on the streets of Toronto on July 19, 2014Heavy rain that created visibility problems for drivers and slick conditions for cars forced postponement of Saturday's scheduled IndyCar race at Toronto by a day. The race, the first IndyCar event to be postponed due to bad weather since Sao Paulo in 2011, will be staged as part of a double-header Sunday along with the weekend's other planned event, creating a crucial day in the hunt for the season points title. Brazil's Helio Castroneves leads with 471 points, just nine ahead of Australian Will Power with American Ryan Hunter-Reay, the Indianapolis 500 winner, third at 32 points adrift. Power crashed in a warm-up lap and the pace car spun as officials tried in vain to start the race on rain tires.


Airlines symbolize nations' hopes or reflect shame

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 04:53 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 8, 2014, file photo a school utility worker mops a mural depicting the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 at the Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino High School campus at Makati city east of Manila, Philippines. After the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on Thursday, July 17, 2014, Malaysia is now grappling with the horrific loss of two of its airplanes, just four months apart. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)NEW YORK (AP) — The jetliner is much more than a machine used to get from one spot to another. It often carries deep symbolism, especially when flying for a national airline.


Qatar to host Gaza ceasefire talks with Abbas and U.N. chief

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 04:43 PM PDT

By Amena Bakr DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar will host a meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday to try to reach a ceasefire agreement with Israel to bring an end to 12 days of warfare, a senior Qatari source told Reuters. Due to take place in Doha, the meeting will be headed by the Gulf state's emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, who has been acting as a "channel of communication" between Hamas and the international community, said the senior source familiar with the matter. "Qatar has presented Hamas' requests to the international community, the list has been presented to France and to the U.N., the talks tomorrow will be to further negotiate these conditions." Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, has rejected Egyptian efforts to end fighting that has killed more than 300 Palestinians, mostly civilians, saying any deal must include an end to a blockade of the coastal area and a recommitment to a ceasefire reached in an eight-day war there in 2012.

Basque group ETA claims new step towards disarming

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 04:30 PM PDT

A sticker reading in Spanish and Basque "No to ETA" lies on the ground as thousands of Spaniards protest in Madrid on October 27, 2013Basque separatist group ETA said it has dismantled the "logistical and operational structures" of its armed campaign in a step towards full disarmament, in a declaration published Sunday. In the declaration sent to Basque newspaper Gara, ETA said it had completed "dismantlement of the logistical and operational structures linked to the waging of the armed struggle" and was preparing to seal up its stashes of weapons. Gara reported online on Saturday, along with advance excerpts from the declaration, that "a technical logistical structure is being created that aims to carry through to completion the sealing of the arms depots" held by ETA. In October 2011 it declared a "definitive end" to armed activity and in February this year international monitors released a video of weapons which it said ETA was putting out of use.


Christians flee jihadist ultimatum in Iraq's Mosul

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 04:26 PM PDT

Iraqi Christians who fled the violence in the northern city of Mosul, pray at the MarAfram church in the village of Qaraqush in the northern province of Nineveh, on July 19, 2014Hundreds of Christian families fled their homes in Mosul Saturday as a jihadist ultimatum threatening their community's centuries-old presence in the northern Iraqi city expired. President Jalal Talabani flew home after 18 months abroad for medical treatment but restricted access at the airport in his Kurdish fiefdom of Sulaimaniyah offered no clue as to his health. There was little hope in any case that the 80-year-old's return could buck Iraq's downward spiral as bickering politicians prepared to pick his successor and the country's worst crisis in years reaped its daily harvest of dead and wounded. An AFP correspondent in Mosul, the main Iraqi hub of the Islamic State (IS) group's proclaimed "caliphate", said Christians squeezed into private cars and taxis to beat the noon deadline.


Geelong hold out GWS rally to go 2nd in AFL

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 04:21 PM PDT

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Geelong held out a giant comeback from Greater Western Sydney — who kicked five of the last six goals — to beat the Giants 13.16 (94) to 12.15 (87) and to rise to second place on the Australian Football League ladder after the weekend's 18th round.

Israeli bulldozers destroy Hamas tunnels in Gaza

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 04:15 PM PDT

Palestinian boys read at a United Nations school where dozens of families have sought refuge after fleeing their homes following heavy Israeli forces' strikes in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli bulldozers on Saturday demolished more than a dozen tunnels the military said were being used by Hamas gunmen to sneak beneath the southern border of the Jewish state and carry out attacks on its soldiers and civilians.


Sharks, Brumbies win tough to reach Super semis

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 03:56 PM PDT

The ACT Brumbies earned a semifinal against the New South Wales Waratahs and South Africa's Sharks advanced to play New Zealand's Crusaders in Super Rugby after surviving similar and searching tests in first-round playoffs on Saturday.

Gunmen kill 21 Egyptian soldiers in checkpoint attack

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 03:47 PM PDT

An Egyptian soldier stands guard along the Rafah border with Israel on July 19, 2014Egypt's military said militants firing machineguns and rocket-propelled grenades attacked a border checkpoint Saturday, killing 21 soldiers in one of the biggest assaults on security forces in years. The attack in a desert area 630 kilometres (390 miles) west of Cairo also left four soldiers wounded, the military said in a statement, blaming "terrorists". It said a rocket propelled grenade fired by the militants set off an explosion in an ammunition depot at the El-Farafrah post, killing the soldiers. Militants have stepped up attacks on the security forces since Islamist president Mohamed Morsi was toppled in July 2013 as the army struggles to quell an Islamist insurgency that has killed scores of soldiers and police, mainly in the Sinai Peninsula bordering Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip.


Monitors try to secure Ukraine plane crash site

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 03:46 PM PDT

Emergency workers carry the body of a victim at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, July 19, 2014. World leaders demanded Friday that pro-Russia rebels who control the eastern Ukraine crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 give immediate, unfettered access to independent investigators to determine who shot down the plane. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — International monitors moved gingerly Saturday through fields reeking of the decomposing corpses that fell from a Malaysian airliner shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine, trying to secure the sprawling site in hopes that a credible investigation can be conducted.


British PM raises prospect of more Russia sanctions

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 03:45 PM PDT

Alexander Hug (2-L), Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, visits the site of the crash of a Malaysian airliner in rebel-held east Ukraine, on July 18, 2014British Prime Minister David Cameron raised the prospect Saturday of fresh EU sanctions against Russia over the Malaysian plane crash, saying the West must "fundamentally change our approach" unless Moscow alters course in Ukraine. "Russia can use this moment to find a path out of this festering, dangerous crisis. Cameron said that if it was confirmed that MH17 was downed by a surface-to-air missile fired from an area held by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine, then Moscow should be held accountable.


Britain says Russia to blame over air disaster if rebels found responsible

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 03:28 PM PDT

British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Saturday that if it were proven that Ukrainian separatists were behind the downing of a Malaysian jet carrying 298 passengers, Russia would be to blame for having destabilized the country. "If this is the case then we must be clear what it means: this is a direct result of Russia destabilizing a sovereign state, violating its territorial integrity, backing thuggish militias and training and arming them," he wrote in The Sunday Times newspaper. "And yet we sometimes behave as if we need Russia more than Russia needs us." (Reporting by Costas Pitas;

Rory McIlroy builds 6-shot lead at British Open

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 03:23 PM PDT

Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland celebrates after playing an eagle on the 16th hole during the third day of the British Open Golf championship at the Royal Liverpool golf club, Hoylake, England, Saturday July 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Jon Super)HOYLAKE, England (AP) — Rory McIlroy looked as though he had just thrown a knockout punch at the British Open, and it was only Saturday.


Israeli military seek and destroy Gaza tunnels

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 03:22 PM PDT

A Palestinian medic is overwhelmed by emotion as he takes a break treating wounded people by Israeli strikes, at the emergency room of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, Saturday, July 19, 2014. According to the hospital, there were more than 35 wounded Palestinians from different Israeli strikes that arrived at the hospital Saturday -- five with serious wounds, and three were dead on arrival. A health official said Saturday's strikes raised the death toll from the 12-day offensive to more than 330 Palestinians, many of them civilians and nearly a fourth of them under the age of 18. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli bulldozers on Saturday demolished more than a dozen tunnels the military said were being used by Hamas gunmen to sneak beneath the southern border of the Jewish state and carry out attacks on its soldiers and civilians.


Woods keeps going wrong direction at British Open

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 03:14 PM PDT

Tiger Woods of the US plays his tee shot from the 14th during the third day of the British Open Golf championship at the Royal Liverpool golf club, Hoylake, England, Saturday July 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)HOYLAKE, England (AP) — Tiger Woods was the last to tee off Saturday in the British Open. He had the biggest gallery. It might have seemed like old times for Woods in the major championships except for one tiny detail.


Fugitive found in Nepal back in New Mexico custody

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 03:08 PM PDT

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (AP) — A New Mexico man who fled sex abuse and kidnapping charges 14 years ago returned to the state Saturday following his capture in Nepal, the FBI said.

Owner of raided Mexico child shelter was admired

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 03:06 PM PDT

A boy peers out through the door of a cell-like room inside The Great Family group home in Zamora, Mexico, Thursday, July 17, 2014. After a police raid on the refuse-strewn group home Tuesday, residents of the shelter told authorities that some employees beat residents, fed them rotting food or locked them in a tiny "punishment" room. Shelter residents were still being kept at the home while officials look for places to transfer them. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)ZAMORA, Mexico (AP) — For more than six decades, poor parents struggling to support their children or raise troubled youths sent them to a group home in western Mexico run by a woman who gained a reputation as a secular saint.


Britain says other sanctions 'available' against Russia following plane disaster

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 03:04 PM PDT

Britain said on Saturday that a range of further sanctions were available for use against Russia following the downing of a Malaysian aircraft, and the country's defense minister urged Moscow to "get out of Ukraine." "There's a range of other sanctions available, cutting off more links with Russia. He (Russian President Vladimir Putin) needs to trade with the West and relies on the City of London," Defence Minister Michael Fallon told the Mail on Sunday in an article published on the newspaper's website late on Saturday. "If Russia is the principal culprit, we can take further action against them and make it clear this kind of sponsored war is completely unacceptable," he said. We don't know if somebody said, 'let's bring down a civil airliner, wherever it's from', - but we need to find out." Earlier Britain said that the European Union will have to re-evaluate its approach to Russia due to evidence that Ukrainian separatists downed the aircraft, which had 298 passengers aboard, of whom 10 were Britons.

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

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 03:02 PM PDT

HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — International monitors moved gingerly Saturday through fields reeking of the decomposing corpses that fell from a Malaysian airliner shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine, trying to secure the sprawling site in hopes that a credible investigation can be conducted. But before inspectors ever reach the scene, doubts arose about whether evidence was being compromised.

Hundreds rally, seek end to strikes on Gaza

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 03:01 PM PDT

DENVER (AP) — Hundreds gathered for a rally at the State Capitol and a march through downtown Denver to call for an end to what they called a humanitarian crisis brought on by conflict in Gaza.

South Africa's Pace grabs share of LPGA lead

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 02:47 PM PDT

Lee-Anne Pace of South Africa watches her tee shot on the seventh hole during the third round of the Marathon Classic at Highland Meadows Golf Club on July 19, 2014 in Sylvania, OhioSouth Africa's Lee-Anne Pace, seeking her first LPGA title, fired a three-under par 68 Saturday to match Laura Diaz for the lead after the third round of the Marathon Classic. South Korean Ryu So-Yeon and 20-year-old American Jaye Marie Green shared third on 203 with New Zealand's Lydia Ko fifth on 204.


Erdogan launches new attack on Israel with Hitler comparison

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 02:42 PM PDT

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on July 15, 2014 in AnkaraTurkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday launched a fresh virulent attack against Israel over its actions in Gaza, comparing the mentality of some in the Jewish state to Adolf Hitler. Erdogan, who portrays himself as the global Muslim leader who speaks up for Palestinian rights, has intensified his rhetoric against Israel over its actions in Gaza, ahead of an August 10 presidential election in Turkey. They curse Hitler day and night, but they have surpassed Hitler in barbarism," Erdogan told supporters at a campaign rally in the Black Sea city of Ordu. The premier had already accused far-right Israeli politician Ayelet Shaked of sharing the same mentality as Hitler after she posted controversial remarks on social media suggesting Palestinians deserved to die.


Israel warns foreign journalists covering Gaza fighting

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 02:39 PM PDT

Israel's Government Press Office on Saturday warned foreign journalists it was not responsible for their safety in the Gaza Strip, where the Jewish state has launched an offensive against Palestinian militants. Israel sent ground forces into Hamas-dominated Gaza on Thursday after heavy air and naval barrages failed to stop rocket fire from the Palestinian territory. "Gaza and its vicinity are a battleground. Covering the hostilities exposes journalists to life-threatening danger," an e-mailed Government Press Office (GPO) statement said.

Russia bans congressman, 12 other Americans

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 02:36 PM PDT

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has placed a U.S. lawmaker and 12 other people connected with the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq on its list of those banned from entering the country.

Top Asian News at 9:30 p.m. GMT

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 02:33 PM PDT

HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — International monitors moved gingerly Saturday through fields reeking of the decomposing corpses of the victims of a Malaysian airliner shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine, trying to secure the sprawling site in hopes that a credible investigation of the disaster can be conducted. The crash that killed all 298 people aboard the plane two days earlier intensified the already-high animosity on all sides of the conflict.

Mexico starts moving children out of squalid shelter

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 02:11 PM PDT

A Federal Police officer stands guard inside the shelter "La Gran Familia" in Zamora, Michoacan State, Mexico on July 19, 2014Mexican authorities began Saturday moving children out of a shelter where investigators say hundreds of minors were kept in squalid conditions and subjected to physical and sexual abuse. Police raided the home, known as "La Gran Familia" and located in the western town of Zamora, Tuesday amid reports that five kidnapped children were being held there. They found those children and much more: large piles of rotting food and other fetid trash, as well as horror stories about sleeping amid rats and insects -- and even being forced to perform oral sex on adults. Of the shelter's more than 400 children, 48 were moved to the city of Guadalajara and were placed in the custody of the federal agency overseeing child welfare issues, representative Melissa Jonguitud told AFP.


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