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• Gaza dead reach 78 as Israelis hint at invasion
• Berlin tells CIA station chief to leave in spy scandal
• Ukraine readies plan against rebels; Germany, France press Putin
• Kerry, ministers to join Iran nuclear talks in Vienna: official
• Kerry arrives in Afghanistan to broker resolution in disputed election
• U.S. imposes sanctions on Lebanese firm for Hezbollah ties
• Neymar thankful he's not in a wheelchair now
• Opposition sides claim Haiti elections jeopardized
• Possible compromise emerges on US border crisis
• US: Dinosaur skeletons returning home to Mongolia
• Manhunt after FIFA partner exec flees arrest: police
• Queen Latifah, Beyonce and Jay Z heading to HBO
• Biden, Ukraine leader discuss cease-fire efforts
• Obama tells Israel U.S. ready to help end hostilities
• US officials: Dinosaurs returning home to Mongolia
• Obama offers US help negotiating Israel cease-fire
• Germany kicks out top U.S. spy over espionage claims
• Haiti leader vows action on documents for migrants
• Possible compromise emerges on border request
• Crime spree helps Pakistani Taliban squirrel away cash before raids begin
• Obama names new US ambassador to Russia
• FIFA rejects Suarez appeal against ban for biting
• Church of England breaks ties with payday lender Wonga
• Gaza dead tops 85 as Israel presses its offensive
• FIFA appoints temporary committee in banned Gambia
• Haiti PM vows action on documents for migrants
• Ukraine's Poroshenko tells Biden that ceasefire offers rebuffed
• Neymar thankful he's not a wheelchair now
• Di Maria racing time to be fit for World Cup final
• Trial: dengue shot offers some protection
• Obama tells Netanyahu of concern Gaza fighting could escalate  
• Sensing rivals, calm Nibali defends Tour lead
• UN agency: Seized Iraq nuclear material is no risk
• 5 things about the Tour de France 6th stage
• 1,300 migrants avoid harm as Mexico train derails

Gaza dead reach 78 as Israelis hint at invasion Posted: 10 Jul 2014 03:46 PM PDT By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jeffrey Heller GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - At least 78 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in Israel's Gaza offensive, Palestinian officials said on Thursday as militants in the enclave kept up rocket attacks on Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities. As Israeli officials seemed to hint at a possible invasion by ground forces, eight members of one family, including five children, were killed in an early morning air strike that levelled two homes at Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip near the Egyptian border, the Palestinian Health ministry said. Israel's military made no comment on what would be the deadliest strike since its began its assault on Tuesday. U.S. President Barack Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call that the United States was willing to help negotiate a ceasefire, the White House said.

Berlin tells CIA station chief to leave in spy scandal Posted: 10 Jul 2014 02:02 PM PDT By Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany told the CIA station chief in Berlin to leave the country on Thursday in a dramatic display of anger from Chancellor Angela Merkel at the behaviour of a close ally after officials unearthed two suspected U.S. spies. The scandal has chilled relations with Washington to levels not seen since Merkel's predecessor opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. It follows allegations that Merkel herself, who grew up in Stasi-ridden East Germany, was among thousands of Germans whose mobile phones have been bugged by American agents. Today there are completely new threats," Merkel said in Berlin, once a key CIA listening post behind the Iron Curtain during the superpower duel with Moscow and now the reunited capital of Europe's most powerful economy.

Ukraine readies plan against rebels; Germany, France press Putin Posted: 10 Jul 2014 01:16 PM PDT By Richard Balmforth and Maria Tsvetkova KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces regained more ground but sustained further casualties on Thursday in clashes with separatists, while two Western allies urged Russia's Vladimir Putin to exert more pressure on the rebels to find a negotiated end to the conflict. Government forces have recently gained the upper hand in the three-month conflict against separatists in the Russian-speaking eastern regions in which more than 200 government troops have been killed as well as hundreds of civilians and rebel fighters. The Ukrainian military says it has a plan to deliver a "nasty surprise" to the heavily-armed separatists who have dug in in Donetsk, a city of 900,000 people, after being pushed out of their bastion in Slaviansk last weekend.

Kerry, ministers to join Iran nuclear talks in Vienna: official Posted: 10 Jul 2014 02:18 PM PDT By Louis Charbonneau PRAGUE (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and foreign ministers from the six powers negotiating with Iran on its nuclear programme will travel to Vienna this weekend to help break the logjam in the talks, a senior Western official said on Thursday. "I can tell you that Kerry will be in Vienna this weekend, probably on Saturday," the official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. A French diplomatic source said Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius would arrive on Sunday for the talks. Iran and the powers - the United States, France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China - aim to reach a long-term deal to end the decade-old nuclear standoff by a July 20 deadline.

Kerry arrives in Afghanistan to broker resolution in disputed election Posted: 10 Jul 2014 04:25 PM PDT By Lesley Wroughton KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Afghanistan on Friday for talks in an effort to broker a resolution to a disputed election that threatens to stir up ethnic tensions and undermine a peaceful political transition. State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke said Kerry would meet with the country's two presidential candidates Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani, as well as Afghan President Hamid Karzai and officials from the United Nations. The Independent Election Commission declared Ghani the winner of the second round of voting on June 14 with 56.44 percent of the vote, a difference of almost a million votes, according to preliminary results.

U.S. imposes sanctions on Lebanese firm for Hezbollah ties Posted: 10 Jul 2014 11:37 AM PDT By Moriah Costa WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday imposed financial sanctions on a Lebanese consumer electronics company, saying it purchased supplies used to develop military drones for the militant Hezbollah movement. Stars Group Holding secretly bought electronics in the United States, Canada and Europe to help Hezbollah make drones for military activities in Syria and to conduct surveillance operations in Israel, the U.S. Treasury said in a statement.

Neymar thankful he's not in a wheelchair now Posted: 10 Jul 2014 04:33 PM PDT BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Neymar became emotional when talking Thursday about the injury that ruled him out of the World Cup, saying that if the knee to his back had been slightly more to one side he "could be in a wheelchair" right now.

Opposition sides claim Haiti elections jeopardized Posted: 10 Jul 2014 04:35 PM PDT PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Leading opposition factions are alleging that Haiti's presidentially appointed electoral council is stacking the deck in favor of President Michel Martelly, who has scheduled long-delayed legislative and municipal elections for October.

Possible compromise emerges on US border crisis Posted: 10 Jul 2014 04:46 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Outlines of a possible compromise that would more quickly deport minors arriving from Central America emerged Thursday as part of President Barack Obama's $3.7 billion emergency border request to address the immigration crisis on the U.S. border with Mexico.

US: Dinosaur skeletons returning home to Mongolia Posted: 10 Jul 2014 04:43 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. officials on Thursday turned over to the Mongolian government enough 80 million-year-old dinosaur skeletons to stock a museum, including two relics of a kind of dinosaur that a prosecutor said "memorably stampeded" in a Hollywood movie.

Manhunt after FIFA partner exec flees arrest: police Posted: 10 Jul 2014 04:40 PM PDT An executive from the World Cup's hospitality services firm escaped out the back door of his plush Rio de Janeiro hotel Thursday to avoid arrest on charges of illegally selling tickets, police said. Raymond Whelan, a British director of FIFA partner company Match Services, fled the luxurious Copacabana Palace Hotel after a judge ordered him and 10 other suspects to be held in detention, the Rio prosecutor's office said. "The Englishman fled through the hotel's back door and is considered a fugitive," Rio police said in a separate statement, just three days before Sunday's Germany-Argentina final aMt the Maracana Stadium.

Queen Latifah, Beyonce and Jay Z heading to HBO Posted: 10 Jul 2014 04:38 PM PDT BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) — Beyonce and Jay Z will co-star in an HBO concert special, and Queen Latifah will play legendary blues singer Bessie Smith in a movie for the network.

Biden, Ukraine leader discuss cease-fire efforts Posted: 10 Jul 2014 04:33 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has told U.S. Vice President Joe Biden that Ukraine's offers for cease-fire talks were all rejected by either Russia or pro-Russia separatists.

Obama tells Israel U.S. ready to help end hostilities Posted: 10 Jul 2014 04:33 PM PDT By Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama expressed concern to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday about the risk of an escalation of hostilities in the region and said the United States was ready to help bring them to an end, the White House said. "The United States remains prepared to facilitate a cessation of hostilities, including a return to the November 2012 ceasefire agreement," the White House said Obama told Netanyahu in a phone call. Obama reiterated U.S. condemnation of rocket fire into Israel by Hamas and reaffirmed Israel's right to defend itself against the attacks, the White House said.

US officials: Dinosaurs returning home to Mongolia Posted: 10 Jul 2014 04:28 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. officials on Thursday turned over to the Mongolian government enough 80 million-year-old dinosaur skeletons to stock a museum, including two relics of a kind of dinosaur that a prosecutor said "memorably stampeded" in a Hollywood movie.

Obama offers US help negotiating Israel cease-fire Posted: 10 Jul 2014 04:27 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama offered the help of the United States on Thursday in negotiating a cease-fire to end escalating violence between Israel and Hamas, as world leaders warned of an urgent need to avoid another Israeli-Palestinian war that could engulf the fragile region.

Germany kicks out top U.S. spy over espionage claims Posted: 10 Jul 2014 04:24 PM PDT Germany on Thursday demanded Washington's top spy in Berlin leave the country as a new round of allegations of U.S. espionage worsened the friction between the two allies.

Haiti leader vows action on documents for migrants Posted: 10 Jul 2014 04:24 PM PDT SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Haiti's government will soon begin a campaign to provide documents to thousands of its citizens seeking legal residency in the Dominican Republic, the Haitian prime minister said Thursday, addressing complaints that have sparked angry protests in recent weeks.

Possible compromise emerges on border request Posted: 10 Jul 2014 04:23 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Outlines of a possible compromise that would more quickly deport minors arriving from Central America emerged Thursday as part of President Barack Obama's $3.7 billion emergency border request to address the immigration crisis on the U.S. border with Mexico.

Crime spree helps Pakistani Taliban squirrel away cash before raids begin Posted: 10 Jul 2014 04:20 PM PDT By Katharine Houreld and Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR Pakistan (Reuters) - In the months before Pakistan jets began pounding Taliban hideouts in the lawless border region near Afghanistan, militants were busily conducting an unprecedented wave of kidnapping and extortion, stockpiling cash for the fight ahead. Businessmen in some areas say extortion increased five-fold before the long-awaited military offensive began in the frontier region of North Waziristan on June 15. Militant-related kidnappings also spiked in the commercial capital, Karachi. The crime wave means that, even if the military seizes control of remote and mountainous North Waziristan, the government still faces a well-armed and well-financed insurgency with roots dug deeply into Pakistan's big cities.

Obama names new US ambassador to Russia Posted: 10 Jul 2014 04:13 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is filling a critical diplomatic post by tapping a career diplomat experienced in eastern Europe to be the next U.S. ambassador to Russia.

FIFA rejects Suarez appeal against ban for biting Posted: 10 Jul 2014 04:05 PM PDT RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — FIFA has rejected Luis Suarez's appeal against his lengthy ban for biting an opponent in a World Cup match.

Church of England breaks ties with payday lender Wonga Posted: 10 Jul 2014 03:51 PM PDT The Church of England has sold an indirect investment in payday lender Wonga, severing an embarrassing tie with the firm it accused of exploiting the poor, the Church said Thursday. Last year it emerged that the Church's financial arm had indirectly backed the company through pooled funds, shortly after Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby criticised Wonga and other high-interest lenders. "The Church Commissioners no longer have any financial or any other interest in Wonga," the Church's financial arm said in a statement.

Gaza dead tops 85 as Israel presses its offensive Posted: 10 Jul 2014 03:47 PM PDT KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Al Haj family never heard it coming: An Israeli missile smashed into their home in the middle of the night, destroying the structure and killing eight relatives in a matter of seconds. A survivor said all the dead were civilians.

FIFA appoints temporary committee in banned Gambia Posted: 10 Jul 2014 03:46 PM PDT RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — FIFA will appoint a temporary "normalization" committee to run the troubled Gambia Football Federation's affairs until new elections are held.

Haiti PM vows action on documents for migrants Posted: 10 Jul 2014 03:44 PM PDT SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The prime minister of Haiti says his government will soon launch a program to help its citizens acquire documents needed to secure legal residency in the neighboring Dominican Republic.

Ukraine's Poroshenko tells Biden that ceasefire offers rebuffed Posted: 10 Jul 2014 03:43 PM PDT Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told U.S. Vice President Joe Biden that Russia and Ukrainian separatists had refused multiple proposals by Kiev for venues to negotiate a ceasefire, the White House said on Thursday. The two discussed the situation in eastern Ukraine in a phone call. "The Vice President told President Poroshenko that the United States was discussing with its partners in the international community the need to hold Russia accountable for its continued support for the separatists," the White House said.

Neymar thankful he's not a wheelchair now Posted: 10 Jul 2014 03:36 PM PDT BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Neymar got emotional when talking about the injury that ruled him out of the World Cup, saying that if the knee to his back had been just to the side he "could be in a wheelchair" right now.

Di Maria racing time to be fit for World Cup final Posted: 10 Jul 2014 03:33 PM PDT BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) — Argentina winger Angel Di Maria is racing against the clock to recover from a thigh injury in time for the World Cup final against Germany on Sunday.

Trial: dengue shot offers some protection Posted: 10 Jul 2014 03:32 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — The most advanced vaccine for dengue only offers modest protection but could still help millions of people avoid the devastating effects of the disease known as "breakbone fever," according to a large trial.

Obama tells Netanyahu of concern Gaza fighting could escalate   Posted: 10 Jul 2014 03:32 PM PDT US President Barack Obama on Thursday told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he was worried fierce fighting with Hamas in Gaza could escalate, and offered US help to broker a ceasefire. Obama spoke to the Israeli leader after Israeli warplanes pounded the Palestinian enclave but did not stop militants firing rockets at cities inside the Jewish state, and as global concern over rising Palestinian casualties mounted. "The president expressed concern about the risk of further escalation and emphasized the need for all sides to do everything they can to protect the lives of civilians and restore calm," the White House said in a statement. The 2012 deal, brokered by former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Egypt, ended eight days of Israeli airstrikes on Hamas targets in a previous showdown.

Sensing rivals, calm Nibali defends Tour lead Posted: 10 Jul 2014 03:30 PM PDT REIMS, France (AP) — Vincenzo Nibali is growing comfortable in his yellow jersey.

UN agency: Seized Iraq nuclear material is no risk Posted: 10 Jul 2014 03:26 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. nuclear agency said Thursday that nuclear material seized by the Islamic State extremist group when it overran the Iraqi city of Mosul is "low grade" and doesn't pose "a significant safety, security or nuclear proliferation risk."

5 things about the Tour de France 6th stage Posted: 10 Jul 2014 03:12 PM PDT REIMS, France (AP) — What could be more fitting than a German winning a Tour de France stage in Reims, a symbol of postwar reconciliation?

1,300 migrants avoid harm as Mexico train derails Posted: 10 Jul 2014 03:12 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — A cargo train derailed in southern Mexico without causing any injuries to about 1,300 Central American migrants who had jammed onto the freight cars on their way north toward the United States, authorities said Thursday.

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