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U.S. conducts raid in Syria, says it kills senior Islamic State leader

Posted: 16 May 2015 04:30 PM PDT

Defense Secretary Ash Carter speaks at a news conference in WashingtonBy Will Dunham and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American special operations forces killed a senior Islamic State leader in a raid in Syria, U.S. officials said on Saturday, an operation that marked a departure from Washington's strategy of relying primarily on air strikes to target militants there. Delta Force commandos used UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft to punch deep into eastern Syria from Iraq. They engaged in a firefight and hand-to-hand combat with Islamic State fighters, killed a key figure in the group named as Abu Sayyaf and captured his wife, U.S. officials said.


U.S. hits Islamic State in Syria as jihadists press attacks

Posted: 16 May 2015 11:22 AM PDT

Smoke rises after what activists said were clashes between Al-Rahman corps and forces of Syria's President Assad in Al-Hajez garages, near the Damascus countryside governorate buildingBy Will Dunham and Tom Perry WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S special forces killed a man identified as a senior Islamic State leader during a raid into Syria, U.S. officials said, as the jihadists battled for the Iraqi city of Ramadi and ancient Palmyra in Syria. The White House said President Barack Obama ordered the raid that killed the Islamic State figure identified as Abu Sayyaf, who helped direct the group's oil, gas and financial operations.


U.S., China clash over disputed South China Sea

Posted: 16 May 2015 03:42 AM PDT

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shake hands prior to meetings at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in BeijingBy David Brunnstrom and Michael Martina BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States and China clashed over a territorial dispute in the South China Sea on Saturday, as China's foreign minister asserted its sovereignty to reclaim reefs saying its determination to protect its interests is "as hard as a rock". After a private meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi showed no sign of backing down despite Kerry urging China to take action to reduce tension in the South China Sea. "With regard to construction on the Nansha islands and reefs, this is fully within the scope of China's sovereignty," Wang told reporters, using the Chinese name for the Spratly islands.


Drone strike in northwest Pakistan kills several militants

Posted: 16 May 2015 12:36 PM PDT

By Haji Mujtaba BANNU, Pakistan (Reuters) - A U.S. drone strike in northwestern Pakistan's Shawal region killed at least four militants on Saturday, officials said, as Pakistani military forces dug into positions in the area ahead of what officials described as an anti-Taliban offensive. ‎"According to internal conversations of the militants, members of the Punjabi Taliban and foreign militants believed to be Arabs were killed in the drone strike," said a security official in Miranshah, the headquarters of the mountainous region of North Waziristan along the border. Punjab is a province in Pakistan.

Egyptian court seeks death penalty for ex-president Mursi

Posted: 16 May 2015 04:58 PM PDT

Former Egyptian President Mursi waves during his trial at a court in the outskirts of CairoBy Stephen Kalin CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court on Saturday sought the death penalty for former president Mohamed Mursi and 106 supporters of his Muslim Brotherhood in connection with a mass jail break in 2011. Mursi and his fellow defendants, including top Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie, were convicted for killing and kidnapping policemen, attacking police facilities and breaking out of jail during the uprising, against then-president Hosni Mubarak. The court's request drew condemnations from Amnesty International and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. The court sought capital punishment in a separate case for Brotherhood leader Khairat el-Shater and 15 others for conspiring with foreign militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah against Egypt.


Strong aftershock hits Nepal, near Kathmandu: USGS

Posted: 16 May 2015 05:32 AM PDT

(Reuters) - A magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit Nepal on Saturday, about 76 km east south east of the capital Kathmandu, at a shallow depth of 10 km, the U.S. Geological Survey said. A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck on April 25, killing more than 8,000 people and there have been a series of aftershocks since then. (Editing by David Clarke)

Australia captain Clarke feels for mate Kevin Pietersen

Posted: 16 May 2015 04:58 PM PDT

SYDNEY (AP) — Australian test cricket captain Michael Clarke says he feels for Kevin Pietersen and would like to see him back in the England side — to a degree.

Suicide bomber in northern Nigeria kills at least 7: witnesses

Posted: 16 May 2015 04:56 PM PDT

A young female suicide bomber blew herself up in Damaturu, the capital of northern Nigeria's Yobe State, killing at least seven people on Saturday, witnesses said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, but it bore the hallmark of Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which has been fighting a six-year insurgency in a bid to establish an Islamic state in northern Nigeria. Boko Haram took over a territory larger than Belgium last year, killing thousands of people and displacing some 1.5 million. The militants overran most of Borno state and parts of Adamawa and Yobe.

Army officer faces discharge over Afghanistan accusations

Posted: 16 May 2015 04:53 PM PDT

In this photo taken Jan. 4, 2011, U.S Army Capt. Mathew Golsteyn is congratulated by fellow soldiers following the Valor Awards ceremony for 3rd Special Forces Group at Fort Bragg, N.C. Golsteyn, stripped of a medal for heroism under fire and his right to call himself a Green Beret is fighting for his military career after accusations he tracked down and killed a suspected bomb-maker in Afghanistan. Though a criminal investigation failed to find remains of his alleged victim and didn't result in charges against Golsteyn, he's been targeted for possible dismissal from the Army and the consequent loss of veteran's benefits with a less-than-honorable discharge. (James Robinson/The Fayetteville Observer via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT. NO SALES.RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) — An Army officer stripped of a medal for heroism under fire is fighting for his military career after accusations he tracked down and killed a suspected bomb-maker in Afghanistan.


Guyana swears in new president after multiracial bloc wins vote

Posted: 16 May 2015 04:46 PM PDT

Granger, leader of Guyana's opposition APNU coalition, speaks during a rally in GeorgetownBy Neil Marks GEORGETOWN (Reuters) - Former army brigadier David Granger was sworn in as Guyana's new president on Saturday after his multiracial opposition coalition narrowly won a national election, heralding a new chapter in the ethnically-divided South American nation. Granger's APNU+AFC coalition, a recent fusion between the traditional black party and a smaller third party, broke the ruling Indo-Guyanese PPP party's 23 year grip on power in Monday's election. Thousands flocked to Georgetown's Parliament Square to cheer on Granger, a 69-year-old Afro-Guyanese who has vowed to crack down on corruption and govern for citizens of both Indian and African descent. "I shall be a good president for all the people of Guyana," Granger said after taking the oath of office for his five-year term.


Pampling shoots 69 to keep lead in BMW Charity Pro-Am

Posted: 16 May 2015 04:43 PM PDT

GREER, S.C. (AP) — Australia's Rod Pampling shot a 2-under 69 at Thornblade Club on Saturday to take a two-stroke lead into the final round of the Web.com Tour's BMW Charity Pro-Am.

McIlroy shoots stunning 61 for Quail Hollow lead

Posted: 16 May 2015 04:40 PM PDT

Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland tees off on the 11th hole during round three at the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow Club on May 16, 2015 in Charlotte, North CarolinaWorld number one Rory McIlroy fired an electrifying 11-under par 61 in Saturday's third round to vault into a four-shot lead at the US PGA Tour Wells Fargo Championship. The 26-year-old from Northern Ireland had 11 birdies with no bogeys to break his own Quail Hollow course record of 62.


Condemned Boston Marathon bomber may spend years in prison during appeal

Posted: 16 May 2015 04:39 PM PDT

Judy Clarke, defense attorney for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, walks out of the federal courthouse in BostonBy Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - Condemned to die for his part in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is likely to await his fate over the course of years, if not decades, locked up in grim prisons under extreme conditions while his lawyers appeal his sentence. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has not yet decided where Tsarnaev will go, but he is likely end up in one of two high-security detention facilities, Colorado's ADX or Indiana's Terre Haute, according to U.S. District Attorney for Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz. First the judge will hold a hearing where he will formally pronounce the sentence, Ortiz said after a jury decided on Friday that Tsarnaev, 21, deserved the death penalty. He will then pass into the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which will determine where he should be held.


France's Perrine Delacour leads Kingsmill Championship

Posted: 16 May 2015 04:35 PM PDT

Perrine Delacour takes her tee shot on the seventh hole of the LPGA Tour's Kingsmill Championship golf tournament on Saturday, May 16, 2015, in Williamsburg, Va. (Rob Ostermaier/The Daily Press via AP)WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — France's Perrine Delacour took advantage of Alison Lee's late two-hole meltdown to take the third-round lead Saturday in the Kingsmill Championship.


Top Asian News at 12:00 a.m. GMT

Posted: 16 May 2015 05:02 PM PDT

BEIJING (AP) — China and the United States budged not a bit Saturday over Beijing's assertive development in disputed parts of the South China Sea, with Foreign Minister Wang Ji politely but pointedly dismissing Washington's push for a diplomatic solution to ease tensions. Wang and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stressed the importance of dialogue to resolve competing claims in the waterway. But neither diplomat showed any sign of giving ground over Chinese land reclamation projects that have alarmed the United States and China's smaller neighbors.

Nepal army: All 8 bodies found in crashed US Marine chopper

Posted: 16 May 2015 04:20 PM PDT

A Nepalese army chopper, that spotted the suspected wreckage of a U.S. Marine helicopter, lands at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, May 15, 2015. Nepalese rescuers on Friday found three bodies near the wreckage of the chopper that was carrying six Marines and two Nepalese army soldiers. The U.S. Marines said they were sending their own rescue team to assess the wreckage and determine if it was the missing helicopter, the UH-1 "Huey." (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The bodies of all eight people on board the U.S. Marine helicopter that crashed during a relief mission in earthquake-hit Nepal have been recovered, Nepal's army said Saturday.


Sailboat race is latest sign of better US-Cuba relations

Posted: 16 May 2015 04:15 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Hobie Cat sailboats and support boats head towards Havana after departing Key West, Fla., Saturday, May 16, 2015. Five 16-foot-long Hobie Cats are participating in the the Havana Challenge, believed to be the first U.S. government-sanctioned sailing race between Key West and Cuba in more than 50 years. (Bert Budde/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP)HAVANA (AP) — U.S. sailors raced across the Florida Straits to Cuba on Saturday in a regatta propelled by strong winds and an easing of tensions between the two countries.


France's Alaphilippe wins to take Tour of California lead

Posted: 16 May 2015 04:12 PM PDT

MOUNT BALDY, Calif. (AP) — France's Julian Alaphilippe took the overall lead in the Tour of California on Saturday with a victory in the mountainous seventh stage.

McIlroy sets course record with 61, leads at Wells Fargo

Posted: 16 May 2015 03:57 PM PDT

Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, reacts after making a birdie putt on the 16th hole during the third round of the Wells Fargo Championship golf tournament at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C., Saturday, May 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — When Rory McIlroy rolled in an 8-foot birdie putt on the 13th hole, he started thinking about shooting 59.


Hull manager in shock at player's failed drugs test

Posted: 16 May 2015 03:36 PM PDT

HULL, England (AP) — Hull manager Steve Bruce said he was "shocked, saddened, disappointed and angry" after his midfielder Jake Livermore failed a drugs test.

PSG clinches 3rd successive Ligue 1 title

Posted: 16 May 2015 03:33 PM PDT

Paris Saint-Germain players, celebrate, after defeating Montpellier, and winning the French League One title, at the end of the League One soccer match between Montpellier and Paris Saint-Germain, at the La Mosson Stadium, in Montpellier, southern France, Saturday, May 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)PARIS (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain clinched a third successive Ligue 1 with a 2-1 win at Montpellier on Saturday, securing the first trophy of a possible domestic treble.


Vienna hosts Europe's biggest AIDS research charity event

Posted: 16 May 2015 03:32 PM PDT

US model Yasmine Petty, left, arrives for the largest annual AIDS charity gala in Europe known as the Life Ball, at the Vienna International Airport near Schwechat, Austria, Friday, May 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)VIENNA (AP) — Vienna's central City Hall Square was transformed Saturday into a mythical world of pagan rites and fantastic spectacle as the city hosted its biggest annual party of the year.


US slams Gambia's president for 'unconscionable' gay comments

Posted: 16 May 2015 03:30 PM PDT

President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia reportedly threatened to slit the throats of gay men in his countryThe United States slammed Gambian President Yahya Jammeh on Saturday for "unconscionable" remarks, after the West African leader reportedly threatened to slit the throats of gay men in his country. In a public speech this month, Jammeh said he would slit the throats of men who wanted to marry other men in the small West African nation, according to Human Rights Campaign. Without quoting his remarks, US National Security Advisor Susan Rice said the comments were part of an "alarming deterioration of the broader human rights situation" in Gambia. "The recent unconscionable comments by Gambian President Yahya Jammeh underscore why we must continue to seek a world in which no one lives in fear of violence or persecution because of who they are or whom they love," Rice said in a statement.


Jeff Maggert leads Champions Tour's Regions Tradition

Posted: 16 May 2015 03:20 PM PDT

Jeff Maggert hits out of the bunker on the sixth hole during the Regions Tradition Champions Tour golf tournament at Shoal Creek Country Club, Saturday, May 16, 2015, in Birmingham, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The 18-round battle between Jeff Maggert and Kevin Sutherland ended with dueling putts in a sudden downpour.


Cuba says migrants aboard US ship to be let back in country

Posted: 16 May 2015 03:17 PM PDT

This undated handout photo provided by the US Coast Guard shows US Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant. Thirty-eight Cuban migrants caught trying to sail to the U.S. are stranded aboard a U.S. Coast Guard vessel, waiting for permission from the Cuban government to return home, The Associated Press has learned. The migrants were among about 96 Cubans who were intercepted at sea and taken aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant. The Cuban government allowed the return of the other 58 people. (Coast Guard via AP)HAVANA (AP) — A group of migrants from Cuba who had been stuck in a legal limbo aboard a U.S. Coast Guard ship after they were detained at sea are being allowed to return to their homeland, the Cuban government said Saturday.


Melbourne continues unbeaten home run over Souths in NRL

Posted: 16 May 2015 03:01 PM PDT

SYDNEY (AP) — Melbourne maintained its home-field mastery over the defending champion South Sydney Rabbitohs with a 16-12 win, moving the Storm into first place in the National Rugby League.

Mom, daughter land in US after Mexico judge returns custody

Posted: 16 May 2015 02:55 PM PDT

Alondra Diaz, 13, and her mother, Dorotea Garcia, embrace after after Diaz was returned to the United States, following an 8-year cross-border custody case, on Saturday, May 16, 2015, in Fresno, Texas. Garcia got her long-missing daughter back and headed for home, concluding an eight-year search after Alondra was taken to Mexico in 2007 by her father, Reynaldo Diaz, without her mother's consent, and her whereabouts had not been known until recently. The case gained international attention last month after Mercado erroneously ruled that 14-year-old Alondra Luna was the missing girl and ordered her turned over to Garcia. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)FRESNO, Texas (AP) — The joyful tears shed by a Texas woman and her long-missing daughter after they returned to Houston from Mexico on Saturday signaled the end of an eight-year cross-border custody case that had mistakenly sent another girl to the U.S. against her will.


2 men aboard boat adrift for a week rescued near Puerto Rico

Posted: 16 May 2015 02:51 PM PDT

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says it has rescued two men aboard a boat named Fools Wisdom that had been adrift for a week near Puerto Rico.

Top SAmerican official: Expect 'severe' penalty against Boca

Posted: 16 May 2015 02:36 PM PDT

Matias Kranevitter of River Plate talks to his team's staff after he and his fellow players were affected by an unknown substance before the start of the second half of a Copa Libertadores soccer match with Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, May 14, 2015. The match between the bitter the Argentine rivals was suspended after River Plate players were sprayed with a substance that seemed to affect their vision and irritated their eyes. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Boca Juniors should be severely penalized after a Copa Libertadores playoff with bitter rival River Plate was suspended at Boca's La Bombonera Stadium, a top South American football official said on Saturday.


Cabrera hits 400th homer, had to wait out rain to count

Posted: 16 May 2015 02:34 PM PDT

Detroit Tigers' Miguel Cabrera rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Saturday, May 16, 2015, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)ST. LOUIS (AP) — Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers has hit his 400th career home run, a milestone that became official after an early rain delay.


Mexico disarms cops in 2 towns near site of copter attack

Posted: 16 May 2015 02:32 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in the Mexican state of Jalisco have disarmed police in two towns in the area where a military helicopter was shot down during an operation against the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel. Eight people on the aircraft died.

Seattle flotilla protests Shell's Arctic drilling plans

Posted: 16 May 2015 02:30 PM PDT

By Bryan Cohen and Victoria Cavaliere SEATTLE (Reuters) - Hundreds of activists in kayaks and small boats fanned out on a Seattle bay on Saturday to protest plans by Royal Dutch Shell to resume oil exploration in the Arctic and keep two of its drilling rigs stored in the city's port. Environmental groups have vowed to disrupt the Anglo-Dutch oil company's efforts to use the Seattle as a home base as it outfits the rigs to return to the Chukchi Sea off Alaska, saying drilling in the remote Arctic waters could lead to an ecological catastrophe. Demonstrators have planned days of protests, both on land and in Elliott Bay, home to the Port of Seattle, where the first of the two rigs docked on Thursday. Kayakers on Saturday paddled around the rig yelling "Shell No." Others unfurled a large banner that read "Climate Justice." Environmental groups contend harsh and shifting weather conditions make it impossible to drill in the Arctic, a region with a fragile environment that helps regulate the global climate because of its vast layers of sea ice.

CANNES WATCH: Winehouse documentary shows fame's dark side

Posted: 16 May 2015 02:14 PM PDT

Video editor Chris King and director Asif Kapadia pose for photographers during a photo call for the film Amy, at the 68th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)CANNES, France (AP) — Celebrity-worshipping Cannes got a sobering reminder of fame's dark side Saturday with "Amy," a powerful documentary about the late singer Amy Winehouse.


With swoop on Islamic State compound, U.S. commandos seek to disrupt financing

Posted: 16 May 2015 02:13 PM PDT

By Matt Spetalnick and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After weeks of planning and surveillance focused on a compound near the oilfields of eastern Syria, elite American commandos were finally given the green light to swoop in on their target – an Islamic State commander considered to have acted as the group's "chief financial officer." Mounting a rare raid in a war-ravaged country where U.S. President Barack Obama has long been reluctant to commit "boots on the ground," the Delta Force unit flew in from Iraq under cover of darkness in the early hours of Saturday on Black Hawk helicopters and Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. Their objective, according to U.S. officials: to capture alive a Tunisian-born militant leader, Abu Sayyaf, believed responsible for overseeing the group's black-market sales of oil and gas and other financial operations to help fund a brutal Jihadist campaign that has seized swathes of Syria and Iraq. As U.S. special operations forces assaulted the compound housing Islamic State leadership in the town of al-Amr,, they were confronted by militant fighters.

CANNES WATCH: Natalie Portman dazzles in Dior

Posted: 16 May 2015 02:00 PM PDT

Actress and director Natalie Portman, center, introduces actor Amir Tessler, second from left, to festival director Thierry Fremaux, third from left, as she and other cast members of her film A Tale of Love and Darkness arrive for the screening of the film Mia Madre (My Mother) at the 68th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)CANNES, France (AP) — Natalie Portman is at home on the Cannes red carpet, but her appearance Saturday was her first as director as well as star.


Taiwanese student injured by bison in Yellowstone Park

Posted: 16 May 2015 01:57 PM PDT

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyoming (AP) — A 16-year-old girl from Taiwan has been gored by a bison in Yellowstone National Park while posing for a picture near the animal.

Teen who died after failed euthanasia plea buried in Chile

Posted: 16 May 2015 01:56 PM PDT

MELIPILLA, Chile (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered in a Chilean town Saturday at the funeral for a teenager who got international attention by going on YouTube to make an unsuccessful plea for permission to end her life.

Juventus wins 2-1 at Inter in the Derby d'Italia

Posted: 16 May 2015 01:45 PM PDT

Juventus' Claudio Marchisio, right scores on a penalty kick during a Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and Juventus, at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Saturday, May 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)MILAN (AP) — Champions League finalist and Italian champion Juventus came from behind to win 2-1 at Inter Milan in Serie A on Saturday, while its cup final opponent Lazio moved provisionally above city rival Roma into second spot.


Gerrard loses last home game for Liverpool

Posted: 16 May 2015 01:42 PM PDT

Liverpool's Steven Gerrard acknowledges the crowd after the English Premier League soccer match between Liverpool and Crystal Palace at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, England, Saturday, May 16, 2015. Gerard played his final home match for Liverpool on Saturday at Anfield after over 700 appearances for the club, before he moves to MLS team LA Galaxy. (AP Photo/Jon Super)LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Manchester United's return to the Champions League was sealed by a defeat for Liverpool in Steven Gerrard's final game at Anfield, while the fight to avoid relegation from the English Premier League was reduced to three teams with one round remaining.


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