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• Car bomb explodes in Yemen capital near mosque used by Houthis, two dead
• Protesters throng London to oppose new UK government's austerity plan
• Inaction on peace risks setting Israeli-Palestinian conflict 'ablaze': France
• German police arrest Al Jazeera journalist in Berlin: lawyer
• U.N. expands refugee camp in Kenya as South Sudan conflict rages
• Malian rebel alliance signs peace deal with government
• Colombia protests Venezuela fixing of maritime border
• Gibb, Patterson win St. Pete Grand Slam title
• Argentina beats Jamaica to finish 1st in Copa America group
• The Latest: Joost is loose! Luiten rolling at US Open
• Germany demolish Sweden to roll into World Cup quarter-finals
• Greece says ready to compromise, calls for Merkel decision
• Top Asian News at 11:30 p.m. GMT
• Dottie Ardina leads Symetra Tour's event
• Venezuela anti-government march demands election date
• Man kills three by ploughing SUV into Austrian shoppers
• Ghana destroys hundreds of homes in capital in bid to prevent floods
• Racist manifesto linked to Charleston shooting suspect
• Al-Jazeera journalist detained in Berlin on Egyptian warrant
• Mass arrests after thousands rally against immigration in Bratislava
• Germany eliminates Sweden with 4-1 win In Women's World Cup
• Speed the 150-year-old tortoise dies at San Diego Zoo
• France won't forget women's World Cup loss to Colombia
• Palestinian wounded near site of fatal West Bank attack
• Cousins killed in Berkeley balcony collapse had a twins bond
• New Zealand win fifth world Under-20 title
• Brazil's Marta rested, looking toward march to the final
• Paraguay, Uruguay draw 1-1 and advance to Copa quarters
• Italian prosecutors seek to indict Bank of China, 297 people
• Mali's Tuareg-led rebels sign landmark peace deal
• WikiLeaks reveals Saudi intrigue and unpaid limo bills
• Sunni tribes, abandoned by Iraq, key to Islamic State fight
• France's Fabius to meet Iran's Zarif on nuclear talks
• Germany detains Al-Jazeera journalist at Egypt request
• Tuareg rebel group signs peace deal with Mali government
• NZ reclaim junior world rugby crown beating England in final
• Dozens killed in attack on IS in Libya: agency
• Brazil will appeal Neymar's Copa America suspension
• Man runs car into crowd in Austria, killing 3, injuring 34

Car bomb explodes in Yemen capital near mosque used by Houthis, two dead Posted: 20 Jun 2015 07:01 AM PDT Islamic State group said it was behind a car bomb that exploded in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Saturday near the Qiba al-Mahdi mosque, killing two people and wounding six others, witnesses and a security source told Reuters. The group said in a statement published on militant Twitter accounts that the attack was targeting the Houthi militia, whose fighters have used the mosque, located in the old city of Sanaa. On Wednesday the Sunni Muslim jihadist group claimed responsibility for four car bombs that detonated near mosques used by the Houthis and the group's headquarters in Sanaa, killing two and injuring around 60 people.

Protesters throng London to oppose new UK government's austerity plan Posted: 20 Jun 2015 09:04 AM PDT By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of anti-austerity protesters massed outside Britain's parliament on Saturday to demonstrate against the newly re-elected Conservative government's plans for further public spending cuts. Holding banners saying "End Austerity Now" and "Defy Tory Rule", protesters had marched from the Bank of England in the heart of London's financial district, in a rally which organizers said drew several hundred thousand people. Police declined to estimate numbers for the event, which featured speeches from celebrities such as singer Charlotte Church and comedian Russell Brand as well as trade unionists and Labour Party leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn.

Inaction on peace risks setting Israeli-Palestinian conflict 'ablaze': France Posted: 20 Jun 2015 01:32 PM PDT By John Irish CAIRO (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius warned Israel and the Palestinians on Saturday that the stalemate in the peace process risked setting the conflict "ablaze" and urged both sides to return to the negotiating table quickly. "We have to do the maximum so that the two sides restart negotiations," Fabius told reporters after meeting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. "We think that by doing nothing there will be the twin risk of stalemate and setting (the conflict) ablaze." Fabius was on a two-day trip to the Middle East to promote a French-led initiative that would see the peace process relaunched through an international support group comprising Arab states, the European Union and U.N. Security Council members.

German police arrest Al Jazeera journalist in Berlin: lawyer Posted: 20 Jun 2015 10:07 AM PDT A leading Al Jazeera journalist was arrested at a Berlin airport on Saturday at the request of Egypt, a lawyer for the Qatar-based satellite network said, a move he described as part of a crackdown by Cairo on the channel. International lawyer Saad Djebbar told Reuters Ahmed Mansour, one of the most senior journalists on the channel's Arabic service, had been abruptly and unexpectedly arrested in Germany. A spokesman for the German Federal Police confirmed that a 52-year-old man was arrested at Berlin's Tegel airport at 1320 GMT (9.20 a.m. EDT) following an international arrest warrant from the Egyptian authorities.

U.N. expands refugee camp in Kenya as South Sudan conflict rages Posted: 20 Jun 2015 02:24 PM PDT By Edith Honan KAKUMA, Kenya (Reuters) - Kakuma camp in northern Kenya is expanding by nearly a half, the U.N. refugee agency said on Saturday, to house refugees fleeing nearby South Sudan as hopes fade for peace in the world's newest nation. The arrival of some 44,000 South Sudanese refugees since late 2013, when fighting broke out between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and rebels allied with former Vice President Riek Machar, has stretched the camp to its limits. Kakuma is home to some 185,000 people, mostly from South Sudan, and with the planned expansion it will soon accommodate up to 80,000 more.

Malian rebel alliance signs peace deal with government Posted: 20 Jun 2015 01:36 PM PDT By Adama Diarra and Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO (Reuters) - (This version of the story was refiled to fix dropped letter in byline) An alliance of Tuareg-led rebels and the Malian government signed a peace deal on Saturday meant to draw a line under a 2012 uprising and allow the authorities to focus on tackling Islamist militants in the desert north. The Algerian-brokered deal, signed by a representative of the rebel Coordination of Movements of Azawad (CMA), grants greater autonomy to sparsely populated northern Mali in a bid to end a cycle of four uprisings since independence from France in 1960. A French-led military campaign in early 2013 liberated northern Mali from al Qaeda-linked Islamist rebels, who seized control of it after the Tuareg uprising sparked a military coup that plunged Mali into chaos.

Colombia protests Venezuela fixing of maritime border Posted: 20 Jun 2015 04:57 PM PDT Colombia's foreign ministry has sent a letter of protest to neighboring Venezuela after the government of President Nicolas Maduro decreed maritime borders in a disputed area of the Atlantic Ocean, a ministry source said on Saturday. Venezuela's Decree 1787, approved May 26 creates Operating Zones of Integral Maritime and Insular Defense, or Zodimain, and is meant to bolster Venezuela's national defense system. "In the past few hours Colombia presented a letter of protest to the Venezuelan government because of the fixing of maritime borders to strengthen their offensive system," a spokesman from the foreign ministry told Reuters.

Gibb, Patterson win St. Pete Grand Slam title Posted: 20 Jun 2015 04:54 PM PDT ST. PETERBSURG, Fla. (AP) — Americans Jake Gibb and Casey Patterson won the $800,000 St. Pete Grand Slam on Saturday, rallying for a 16-21, 23-21, 15-13 victory over Reinder Nummerdor and Christiaan Varenhorst of the Netherlands in the final of the international qualifying tournament for the 2016 Rio Games.

Argentina beats Jamaica to finish 1st in Copa America group Posted: 20 Jun 2015 04:51 PM PDT VINA DEL MAR, Chile (AP) — Argentina defeated Jamaica 1-0 in Lionel Messi's 100th game with the national team on Saturday, securing first place in its Copa America group.

The Latest: Joost is loose! Luiten rolling at US Open Posted: 20 Jun 2015 04:47 PM PDT UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. (AP) — The latest from the U.S. Open (all times local):

Germany demolish Sweden to roll into World Cup quarter-finals Posted: 20 Jun 2015 04:43 PM PDT Germany served notice of their intentions of claiming a third title as they advanced to the quarter-finals of the Women's World Cup on Saturday with a confident 4-1 victory over Sweden. Forwards Celia Sasic and Anja Mittag both scored their fifth goals of the tournament as the top-ranked Germans closed down their fifth-ranked European rivals in scorching conditions at Ottawa's Lansdowne Stadium. Sasic scored twice with Mittag and Dzsenifer Marozsan also on target to put the 2003 and 2007 champions through to the last eight for the seventh time in as many editions of the tournament.

Greece says ready to compromise, calls for Merkel decision Posted: 20 Jun 2015 04:36 PM PDT Greece on Saturday said it would present new proposals to its EU-IMF creditors to reach a debt deal as the country's outspoken finance minister called on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to make a "clear decision" at an upcoming emergency summit. European Union heads are waiting for Greece's anti-austerity government to present new economic reform and budget proposals, and Greek Minister of State Alekos Flambouraris said Saturday Athens would propose re-worked measures. The pressure has mounted on Greece ahead of an emergency summit of the leaders of the 19 countries in the euro area on Monday in Brussels.

Top Asian News at 11:30 p.m. GMT Posted: 20 Jun 2015 04:32 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Tensions between the U.S. and China are growing over its island-building in the South China Sea and over suspicions that Beijing was behind a massive hack into a federal government server that resulted in the theft of personnel and security clearance records of 14 million employees and contractors. But both powers have incentives to calm the waters ahead of the Chinese leader's visit to Washington in the fall.

Dottie Ardina leads Symetra Tour's event Posted: 20 Jun 2015 04:22 PM PDT SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Dottie Ardina birdied the final three holes Saturday in the Symetra Tour's Four Winds Invitational, leaving Canadian teen Brooke Henderson three strokes back.

Venezuela anti-government march demands election date Posted: 20 Jun 2015 04:22 PM PDT Marchers hit the Caracas streets Saturday to demand elections and the release of jailed Venezuelan opposition activists including figurehead Leopoldo Lopez, who has been on hunger strike since May 24. The crowd of about 500 was called out by Lopez's wife, Lilian Tintori, for a march that ended in Jose Marti square in the capital. "If you want Leopoldo to stop his hunger strike, set a date for the elections," Tintori told the crowd, in remarks aimed at socialist President Nicolas Maduro.

Man kills three by ploughing SUV into Austrian shoppers Posted: 20 Jun 2015 04:17 PM PDT A driver killed three people and injured 34 on Saturday in the Austrian city of Graz when he ploughed a vehicle at high speed into a crowded shopping street, police said. The driver of the sport-utility vehicle (SUV), a 26-year-old Austrian of Bosnian origin known to police for domestic violence, was detained. Eyewitnesses cited by the public broadcaster ORF said the vehicle had been traveling at about 100 kph (62 mph).

Ghana destroys hundreds of homes in capital in bid to prevent floods Posted: 20 Jun 2015 04:08 PM PDT By Matthew Mpoke Bigg ACCRA (Reuters) - Bulldozers razed hundreds of homes and businesses in the poor Sodom and Gomorrah neighborhood of Ghana's capital on Saturday so the authorities can start widening a lagoon to prevent a repeat of this month's deadly floods. "What they have done is not good for us because this is where some of us work and take care of our families," said scrap metal merchant Muhammed Abdul Karim as he surveyed the wreckage of his shack and the motorized tricycle he uses to haul iron. Flood control has become an urgent problem for President John Mahama's government since more than 50 people drowned in torrents caused by blocked drains on June 3-4, a tragedy that exposed the country's creaking infrastructure.

Racist manifesto linked to Charleston shooting suspect Posted: 20 Jun 2015 04:05 PM PDT Dylann Roof, the suspect in Wednesday's church massacre in Charleston, appears to have written a racist manifesto, posing in photographs with a handgun and standing in front of a Confederate military museum and plantation slave houses. An FBI spokesman in Columbia, South Carolina, declined to comment on the website or its contents. Many of the local landmarks shown in the photos appeared chosen to highlight Charleston's segregated past and to touch a nerve with the city's black community by singling out sites with a special importance and sensitivity in African-American history.

Al-Jazeera journalist detained in Berlin on Egyptian warrant Posted: 20 Jun 2015 03:48 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — A prominent Al-Jazeera Arabic journalist was detained Saturday in Germany over an Egyptian arrest warrant, the Qatar-based broadcaster reported, the latest in a long series of legal entanglements between Egypt and its satellite news channels.

Mass arrests after thousands rally against immigration in Bratislava Posted: 20 Jun 2015 03:46 PM PDT At least 140 people were arrested Saturday after violence broke out at an anti-immigration rally in Bratislava attended by thousands of people in protest at EU quotas on migrant numbers, local media said. The rally, organised by an anti-Islam group called Stop the Islamisation of Europe, drew up to 8,000 people, according to Slovakian media. Protesters included Marian Kotleba, the governor of a central Slovakian region and founder of the far-right People's Party Our Slovakia.

Germany eliminates Sweden with 4-1 win In Women's World Cup Posted: 20 Jun 2015 03:43 PM PDT OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Celia Sasic scored twice in helping top-ranked Germany advance to the Women's World Cup quarterfinals with 4-1 win over Sweden on Saturday.

Speed the 150-year-old tortoise dies at San Diego Zoo Posted: 20 Jun 2015 03:34 PM PDT SAN DIEGO (AP) — One of San Diego's oldest residents has died.

France won't forget women's World Cup loss to Colombia Posted: 20 Jun 2015 03:21 PM PDT MONTREAL (AP) — There is no danger that France is looking past South Korea in the women's World Cup to a potential quarterfinal matchup against Germany.

Palestinian wounded near site of fatal West Bank attack Posted: 20 Jun 2015 03:13 PM PDT A Palestinian woman was lightly injured after stones were thrown at her car late Saturday near the site of a recent fatal West Bank shooting, medical and security sources said. A spokesman for the Israeli army confirmed they had received a report about the incident and dispatched a medical team, but the woman was evacuated before it arrived. The stone-throwing took place near Ras Karkar, a village northwest of the Dolev settlement, near which on Friday 25-year-old Israeli Danny Gonen was shot dead in his car by a Palestinian gunman, after hiking with a friend in the area.

Cousins killed in Berkeley balcony collapse had a twins bond Posted: 20 Jun 2015 02:50 PM PDT COTATI, Calif. (AP) — Two cousins who were among the victims killed when a balcony collapsed in Berkeley were remembered Saturday as kind, fun-loving young women who shared a bond of twins even though they grew up an ocean apart — one in California and the other in Ireland.

New Zealand win fifth world Under-20 title Posted: 20 Jun 2015 02:49 PM PDT New Zealand's "Baby Blacks" won the world Under-20 title for the fifth time on Saturday with a 21-16 victory over defending champions England. It was New Zealand's first triumph since 2011 after they had captured the first four editions from 2008 onwards. England, the double defending champions, had led 7-0 at one stage after centre Max Clark scored what turned out to be his side's only try of the game.

Brazil's Marta rested, looking toward march to the final Posted: 20 Jun 2015 02:49 PM PDT Brazilian star Marta is rested and ready for the knockout stage at the Women's World Cup.

Paraguay, Uruguay draw 1-1 and advance to Copa quarters Posted: 20 Jun 2015 02:31 PM PDT LA SERENA, Chile (AP) — Defending champion Uruguay and Paraguay drew 1-1 in their last group game and both advanced to the Copa America quarterfinals on Saturday.

Italian prosecutors seek to indict Bank of China, 297 people Posted: 20 Jun 2015 02:28 PM PDT ROME (AP) — Italian prosecutors are seeking to indict 297 people and the Bank of China in connection with a massive money-laundering investigation.

Mali's Tuareg-led rebels sign landmark peace deal Posted: 20 Jun 2015 02:24 PM PDT Mali's Tuareg-led rebel alliance signed a landmark deal on Saturday to end years of unrest in a nation riven by ethnic divisions and in the grip of a jihadist insurgency. The agreement had already been signed in May by the government and loyalist militias but the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), a coalition of rebel groups, had been holding out until amendments were agreed. Cheers broke out as Sidi Brahim Ould Sidati, a member of the Arab Movement of Azawad, put his name to the document on behalf of the CMA in a televised ceremony at a packed conference hall in the capital Bamako.

WikiLeaks reveals Saudi intrigue and unpaid limo bills Posted: 20 Jun 2015 02:23 PM PDT ISTANBUL (AP) — At the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, diplomats talked about airing the grievances of disenchanted local youth using Facebook and Twitter. At the embassy in Khartoum, they reported anxiously on Iran's military aid to Sudan.

Sunni tribes, abandoned by Iraq, key to Islamic State fight Posted: 20 Jun 2015 02:22 PM PDT HABANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Parading across a desert base, hundreds of Sunni tribesmen who graduated a crash training course stood ready to take on the Islamic State group on behalf of a government that many believed left them to die at the hands of the extremists.

France's Fabius to meet Iran's Zarif on nuclear talks Posted: 20 Jun 2015 01:59 PM PDT France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Saturday he would meet his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday to assess where Iran stands ahead of the final round of talks on its nuclear program, beginning later that week. The bilateral meeting, on the sidelines of an EU foreign ministers' summit in Luxembourg, will be followed by a meeting between Zarif and all the European parties negotiating with Iran. "Toward the end of next week the ministers will go (to the talks), so I'd like to have an explanation and conversation to see where the Iranians are," Fabius told reporters in Cairo.

Germany detains Al-Jazeera journalist at Egypt request Posted: 20 Jun 2015 01:56 PM PDT Al-Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansour said he was arrested Saturday at a Berlin airport, after Germany acted on an international arrest warrant issued by his native country Egypt. German federal police confirmed a 52-year-old journalist travelling to Doha had been arrested at Berlin Tegel airport. "I am still under arrest at Berlin airport, waiting to be taken before an investigating judge," Mansour wrote on his Twitter account.

Tuareg rebel group signs peace deal with Mali government Posted: 20 Jun 2015 01:56 PM PDT BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali's main coalition of Tuareg separatist rebels signed a peace agreement with the government Saturday more than a month after other armed groups did so, though critics said the deal still fails to address the impunity now rampant in the north.

NZ reclaim junior world rugby crown beating England in final Posted: 20 Jun 2015 01:40 PM PDT CREMONA, Italy (AP) — New Zealand reclaimed the junior world rugby championship crown by beating England 21-16 in the final on Saturday.

Dozens killed in attack on IS in Libya: agency Posted: 20 Jun 2015 01:36 PM PDT Dozens of fighters from the Islamic State group were killed in Libya Saturday as militiamen sought to dislodge them from a neighbourhood in the eastern city of Derna, Libyan news agency Lana reported. For more than a week now, fighters belonging to a group known as the Mujahedeen Council of Derna have been attacking elements of the radical Sunni Muslim group in the city. Lana, with links to the militia-backed government in Tripoli that is not recognised by the international community, said Fataeh was "IS's last bastion in Derna," suggesting that the group's fighters had been driven out of the rest of the city.

Brazil will appeal Neymar's Copa America suspension Posted: 20 Jun 2015 01:31 PM PDT SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Brazil said on Saturday it will appeal Neymar's four-game suspension that rules him out of the rest of the Copa America.

Man runs car into crowd in Austria, killing 3, injuring 34 Posted: 20 Jun 2015 01:25 PM PDT VIENNA (AP) — A man apparently distraught over personal issues drove his SUV into a crowd in Austria's second largest city Saturday, killing a 4-year old and two adults, officials said.

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