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• U.S. conducts raid in Syria, says it kills senior Islamic State leader
• U.S. hits Islamic State in Syria as jihadists press attacks
• U.S., China clash over disputed South China Sea
• Drone strike in northwest Pakistan kills several militants
• Egyptian court seeks death penalty for ex-president Mursi
• Strong aftershock hits Nepal, near Kathmandu: USGS
• Australia captain Clarke feels for mate Kevin Pietersen
• Suicide bomber in northern Nigeria kills at least 7: witnesses
• Army officer faces discharge over Afghanistan accusations
• Guyana swears in new president after multiracial bloc wins vote
• Pampling shoots 69 to keep lead in BMW Charity Pro-Am
• McIlroy shoots stunning 61 for Quail Hollow lead
• Condemned Boston Marathon bomber may spend years in prison during appeal
• France's Perrine Delacour leads Kingsmill Championship
• Top Asian News at 12:00 a.m. GMT
• Nepal army: All 8 bodies found in crashed US Marine chopper
• Sailboat race is latest sign of better US-Cuba relations
• France's Alaphilippe wins to take Tour of California lead
• McIlroy sets course record with 61, leads at Wells Fargo
• Hull manager in shock at player's failed drugs test
• PSG clinches 3rd successive Ligue 1 title
• Vienna hosts Europe's biggest AIDS research charity event
• US slams Gambia's president for 'unconscionable' gay comments
• Jeff Maggert leads Champions Tour's Regions Tradition
• Cuba says migrants aboard US ship to be let back in country
• Melbourne continues unbeaten home run over Souths in NRL
• Mom, daughter land in US after Mexico judge returns custody
• 2 men aboard boat adrift for a week rescued near Puerto Rico
• Top SAmerican official: Expect 'severe' penalty against Boca
• Cabrera hits 400th homer, had to wait out rain to count
• Mexico disarms cops in 2 towns near site of copter attack
• Seattle flotilla protests Shell's Arctic drilling plans
• CANNES WATCH: Winehouse documentary shows fame's dark side
• With swoop on Islamic State compound, U.S. commandos seek to disrupt financing
• CANNES WATCH: Natalie Portman dazzles in Dior
• Taiwanese student injured by bison in Yellowstone Park
• Teen who died after failed euthanasia plea buried in Chile
• Juventus wins 2-1 at Inter in the Derby d'Italia
• Gerrard loses last home game for Liverpool

U.S. conducts raid in Syria, says it kills senior Islamic State leader Posted: 16 May 2015 04:30 PM PDT By 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 By 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 By 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 By 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 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 By 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 World 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 By 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 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 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 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 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 (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 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 The 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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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