| France says Iran deal 'still not clear' as deadline nears Posted: 21 Jun 2015 11:31 AM PDT  By John Irish JERUSALEM (Reuters) - France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Sunday it was unclear whether an international deal could be reached on Iran's nuclear program by a June 30 deadline. Fabius has said 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, which begin later in the week. "We need to be extremely firm, at the stage where we are now, things are still not clear," Fabius said in talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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| Al Jazeera says its journalist to remain in German custody Posted: 21 Jun 2015 11:51 AM PDT By Ali Abdelaty and Ahmed Aboulenein CAIRO (Reuters) - One of the pan-Arab television network Al Jazeera's best known journalists, Ahmed Mansour, was remanded in custody by a German judge after being detained at Egypt's request, the public prosecutor's office said on Sunday. Mansour was arrested in Berlin at Egypt's request, in a case that puts Germany in an awkward position as it wrestles with balancing business interests and human rights, and also renews questions about Cairo's crackdown on dissent. Egypt accuses Al Jazeera of being a mouthpiece of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Qatar-backed Islamist movement that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi removed from power in 2013 when he was army chief and calls a terrorist group. |
| Several thousand rally in Athens against austerity Posted: 21 Jun 2015 12:46 PM PDT  By Karolina Tagaris ATHENS (Reuters) - Thousands of people rallied in front of parliament in Athens on Sunday, urging Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to resist pressure from international creditors to accept more austerity in exchange for unlocking billions of euros in bailout funds. The demonstration by supporters of Tsipras's ruling Syriza party and others opposed to the euro, was the second anti-euro rally in a week in central Athens and came a day before a vital summit meeting in Brussels to try to break the deadlock that has left Greece on the brink of default.
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| Italy's Renzi says no tension with France over migrant crisis Posted: 21 Jun 2015 12:57 PM PDT  Italy's prime minister and France's president put on a show of unity on Sunday, dismissing suggestions of tensions between their countries over handling the waves of migrants landing on southern Europe's shores. Ministers in Paris and Rome have exchanged barbs after France began turning back migrants at the French-Italian border earlier this month, invoking EU rules requiring refuge seekers to do so in the first European country where they set foot. Italy has long argued that it and Greece cannot cope alone with the influx just because they are the closest landing points for refugees and economic migrants from Africa and the Middle East streaming toward the European Union in rickety boats.
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| Hackers ground 1,400 passengers at Warsaw Airport Posted: 21 Jun 2015 01:35 PM PDT  Around 1,400 passengers of the Polish airline LOT were grounded at Warsaw's Chopin airport on Sunday after hackers attacked the airline ground computer systems used to issue flight plans, the company said. The computer system was hacked in the afternoon and fixed after around five hours, during which 10 of the state-owned carrier's national and international flights were canceled and about a dozen more delayed, spokesman Adrian Kubicki said. LOT was taking care of the passengers on Sunday evening and some were already able to board flights.
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| Palestinian shot after stabbing Israeli policeman in Jerusalem Posted: 21 Jun 2015 01:49 AM PDT  A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli paramilitary policeman at the entrance to the walled old city of Jerusalem on Sunday and was then shot by the policeman, police said. Israel's Magen David Adom ambulance service said both men were seriously wounded. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the border policeman had been stabbed in the neck.
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| Greece scrambles for debt deal with fresh plan before summit Posted: 21 Jun 2015 04:51 PM PDT  Greece's prime minister presented new proposals to European leaders Sunday aimed at ending his country's debt crisis, as Athens announced a frenzied round of meetings ahead of a summit that could determine whether Greece crashes out of the eurozone. In a telephone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Alexis Tsipras detailed a "mutually beneficial deal", the Greek premier's office said in a statement. The flurry of diplomatic contacts came as Athens scrambled to reach a deal with its eurozone lenders after five months of deadlock, with Tsipras also scheduled to meet the leaders of its IMF, EU and ECB creditors on Monday before the summit.
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| Abbas sees no place for Hamas in new govt, says French FM Posted: 21 Jun 2015 04:48 PM PDT  Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Sunday told visiting French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius that any new Palestinian unity government should not include Hamas, France's top diplomat said. The remarks came on the eve of a key meeting of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) to discuss forming a new cabinet after the government collapsed this week amid a deepening rift with Hamas, the de facto rulers of the Gaza Strip. Abbas is thought to be seeking to replace the government of technocrats -- formed last year to overcome rivalry between Palestinian factions -- with a government of politicians.
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| Norway seeks to restore World Cup order vs upstart England Posted: 21 Jun 2015 04:44 PM PDT  OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — There's no need to bring up memories of Norway's collapse at the 2011 Women's World Cup.
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| Without Neymar, Brazil beats Venezuela 2-1 to reach last 8 Posted: 21 Jun 2015 04:35 PM PDT SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Playing without suspended star Neymar, Brazil defeated Venezuela 2-1 Sunday in its final group game to reach the Copa America quarterfinals. |
| French women beat South Korea 3-0 in World Cup round of 16 Posted: 21 Jun 2015 04:33 PM PDT  MONTREAL (AP) — The French-speaking and France-favoring crowd sang "La Marseillaise" three times during Sunday's game against South Korea.
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| Top Asian News at 11:30 p.m. GMT Posted: 21 Jun 2015 04:33 PM PDT NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of yoga enthusiasts across the world bent and twisted their bodies in complex postures Sunday to mark the first International Yoga Day. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spread his mat among rows of people, including his Cabinet members and foreign diplomats, at New Delhi's main thoroughfare, which was transformed into a sprawling exercise ground. |
| Barthelemy stays unbeaten with victory over DeMarco Posted: 21 Jun 2015 04:27 PM PDT LAS VEGAS (AP) — Rances Barthelemy beat Antonio DeMarco by unanimous decision on Sunday. |
| Question mark over Erdogan as Turk parties jockey for power Posted: 21 Jun 2015 04:08 PM PDT  ISTANBUL (AP) — Two weeks after Turkey's parliamentary elections, experts agree on one thing: No one really knows what's going to happen next.
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| Argentine president stepping away from gov't role after term Posted: 21 Jun 2015 03:50 PM PDT  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — President Cristina Fernandez of Argentina won't seek another office when her second term ends Dec. 10, defying recent speculation she might run for congress.
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| Brazil takes top 3 spots at women's St. Pete Grand Slam Posted: 21 Jun 2015 03:39 PM PDT ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Agatha Bednarczuk and Barbara Seixas beat Juliana Felisberta and Maria Antonelli in an all-Brazil final of the $800,000 St. Pete Grand Slam on Sunday, taking the gold medal in the first Olympic qualifier in the U.S. for the Rio Games. |
| Australia scores late to knock out Brazil 1-0 at World Cup Posted: 21 Jun 2015 03:18 PM PDT  MONCTON, New Brunswick (AP) — Substitute Kyah Simon scored in the 80th minute to lift Australia to its first Women's World Cup knockout win, a 1-0 upset of Brazil and star Marta on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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| France whip South Korea 3-0 to reach World Cup quarter-finals Posted: 21 Jun 2015 03:03 PM PDT  France brushed aside South Korea 3-0 to advance to the quarter-finals of the Women's World Cup on Sunday. Marie Laure Delie scored a brace and Elodie Thomis was also on target to put the third-ranked French through to a last-eight meeting with world number one side Germany. Paris Saint-Germain forward Delie scored just four minutes into the game at Montreal's Olympic Stadium with Thomis adding the second four minutes later.
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| Peru draws with Colombia to reach Copa America quarterfinals Posted: 21 Jun 2015 02:56 PM PDT  TEMUCO, Chile (AP) — Peru held Colombia to a 0-0 draw Sunday to secure a spot in the Copa America quarterfinals.
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| College to return barrack to site of WWII internment camp Posted: 21 Jun 2015 02:48 PM PDT POWELL, Wyoming (AP) — One of the original barracks at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in northern Wyoming will be returned to the former World War II internment camp for Japanese Americans this summer. |
| Sao Paulo misses chance to regain Brazilian league lead Posted: 21 Jun 2015 02:41 PM PDT SAO PAULO (AP) — Sao Paulo conceded a late equalizer in a 1-1 home draw against Avai on Sunday, missing a chance to regain the Brazilian league lead. |
| Serbia seeks extradition of former Bosnian Muslim commander Posted: 21 Jun 2015 02:36 PM PDT  Belgrade has asked Switzerland to extradite former Bosnian Muslim commander Naser Oric, who was arrested in Geneva on a war crimes warrant from Serbia, Serbia's official news agency reported Sunday. Belgrade's decision to seek Oric's extradition comes just three weeks before 20th anniversary commemorations of the Srebrenica massacre when Bosnian Serb forces slaughtered more than 8,000 Muslims in July 1995, and risks worsening relations with Bosnia.
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| US developing 'Plan B' for deporting convicted plane bomber Posted: 21 Jun 2015 02:32 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government has been exploring a "Plan B" to deport a man who placed a bomb on a Hawaii-bound airplane in 1982 and who has remained in immigration custody since being released from prison two years ago.
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| Princess Anne marks moment Britain heard of Waterloo victory Posted: 21 Jun 2015 02:32 PM PDT  Princess Anne on Sunday helped to recreate the moment, 200 years ago, that official news of Britain's victory against Napoleon at Waterloo reached the royal family. Replicas of the dispatch and golden imperial eagles wrested from the defeated French army have made the three-day journey from the battlefield in modern-day Belgium, arriving in London on Sunday. Actors playing Major Henry Percy and Commander James White, who presented the original victory message to the Prince Regent on June 21, 1815, carried the replicas on their final leg across London on a horse-drawn carriage.
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| Argentina's Fernandez may wield big influence after presidency Posted: 21 Jun 2015 02:27 PM PDT  By Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's Cristina Fernandez will step down as president in December, but her influence may remain strong enough to impede investment-friendly reforms in Congress if her ruling party wins legislative elections in October. Ending speculation she might run for Congress herself, the outgoing two-term president is letting her economy minister, the architect of her interventionist policies, lead the Front for Victory party's fight to retain control of the House and Senate. "The candidate is the project," Economy Minister Axel Kicillof told local radio on Sunday, following the deadline for candidates to register ahead of the August party primaries.
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| Charleston church reopens in triumph over 'Devil' massacre Posted: 21 Jun 2015 02:25 PM PDT  The historic black South Carolina church where a white gunman murdered nine African Americans held its first service since the massacre on Sunday, an emotional gathering celebrating the lives of those slain. Several hundred congregants, some tearful, packed the Emanuel African American Episcopal Church for a service led by visiting clergy because the congregation's pastor was among those killed by a young white supremacist. The service offered still-grieving Charleston -- in another era, the American capital of the transatlantic slave trade -- a chance to mark what many argued was its triumph in thwarting the shooter's reported aim to foment racial hatred.
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| Pentagon chief urges balanced approach to Russian aggression Posted: 21 Jun 2015 02:22 PM PDT  BERLIN (AP) — Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the U.S. and NATO need to have a "strong but balanced" approach to Russia, and he questioned whether Moscow's "backward-looking" aggressive behavior will change while President Vladimir Putin remains at the helm.
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| Prada analyses modesty in an era of self-promotion Posted: 21 Jun 2015 02:13 PM PDT  MILAN (AP) — Silky comfort is emerging as a trend on the second day of menswear previews for next spring and summer during Milan Fashion Week.
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| Brooke Henderson wins first Symetra Tour title Posted: 21 Jun 2015 04:50 PM PDT SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Canadian teen Brooke Henderson won the Four Winds Invitational on Sunday to become the third-youngest winner in Symetra Tour history. |
| Albanian opposition cries foul in local elections Posted: 21 Jun 2015 02:04 PM PDT  The Albanian opposition condemned what it called voting "irregularities" in local elections Sunday seen as a test of the Balkan country's fragile democracy as it pushes to join the European Union. The first official results from the vote to elect mayors and councillors in 61 municipalities were not expected until Monday, but the main opposition Democratic Party (PD) was quick to cry foul after polling stations closed at 1700 GMT. "There have been irregularities, manipulations as well as pressure and threats against voters from the right," senior PD lawmaker Edi Paloka said in a statement, while also claiming a clear win for his party.
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| Approval rating for Brazil's president falls to 10 percent Posted: 21 Jun 2015 02:04 PM PDT  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The approval rating of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has fallen to a level not seen in the more than two decades since a president was impeached for corruption, her hit coming amid an economic crunch and a huge corruption scandal at the state energy company.
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| European leaders working hard to keep Greece in eurozone Posted: 21 Jun 2015 02:03 PM PDT  BRUSSELS (AP) — Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras headed to Brussels late Sunday for a crucial emergency eurozone summit aimed at reaching a deal between Athens and its international creditors that would allow the debt-ravaged country to avoid a default and a potentially disastrous exit from the euro.
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| Mourning shooting victims, Charleston anguishes over 'freshness of death' Posted: 21 Jun 2015 01:55 PM PDT  By Edward McAllister, Luciana Lopez and Alana Wise CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Hundreds of people packed a sweltering Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston for an emotional memorial service on Sunday just days after a gunman, identified by authorities as a 21-year-old white man, shot dead nine black church members. "We are reminded this morning about the freshness of death that comes like a thief in the night," the Reverend Norvel Goff told a mostly black congregation that swelled to about 400 people for a service remembering those killed on Wednesday in the latest U.S. mass shooting. Armed police searched bags at the door of the church, home to the oldest African-American congregation in the southern United States, and officers stood at intervals inside the church along the side of the nave and in the gallery.
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| Late Lingard goal leads England U21s past Sweden Posted: 21 Jun 2015 01:53 PM PDT  Manchester United's Jesse Lingard spared England's blushes on Sunday, his late goal securing a 1-0 win over Sweden in their second game of the European Under-21 Championship in the Czech Republic on Sunday. The win handed England a provisional third spot in Group B with three points, the same as second-placed Sweden and one point behind group leaders Portugal who were held to a goalless draw by Italy in Sunday's other game.
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| Simon on target as Aussies dump Brazil out of World Cup Posted: 21 Jun 2015 01:40 PM PDT  A second-half goal from substitute Kyah Simon put Australia through to the quarter-finals of the Women's World Cup on Sunday at the expense of star-studded Brazil. Simon, 23, got the breakthrough after 80 minutes in wet and windy conditions in Moncton against the 2007 runners-up captained by former five-time world player of the year Marta. "I think exhilarating is the word for such a victory against a big, powerful football nation," said coach Alen Stajcic of Australia's first win in a knockout round at the World Cup.
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| Stephens, Vandeweghe rally to advance at Eastbourne Posted: 21 Jun 2015 01:31 PM PDT EASTBOURNE, England (AP) — Americans Sloane Stephens and CoCo Vandeweghe both rallied from a set down Sunday to reach the second round of the Eastbourne grass-court tournament |
| Iran lawmakers curtailed on power to veto nuclear deal Posted: 21 Jun 2015 01:23 PM PDT  Iran's parliament curtailed its own power to block a nuclear deal with world powers Sunday, effectively removing a longstanding threat that a final accord could be torn up by lawmakers. A draft bill presented on Wednesday, which laid down strict criteria for Iran to accept any agreement, had threatened to complicate upcoming talks on the long-pursued deal, which are due to conclude on June 30. The original text said parliament would have to ratify key criteria for an agreement to be binding but the amended bill instead gives the right of supervision to the country's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC).
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| Detained Al-Jazeera journalist to remain in German custody Posted: 21 Jun 2015 01:18 PM PDT  BERLIN (AP) — A prominent Al-Jazeera journalist will remain in German custody for a second night, prosecutors said Sunday, adding they have not yet decided whether to extradite him to Egypt or set him free.
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| Unpaid millions could delay extradition of Jamaica fraudster Posted: 21 Jun 2015 01:03 PM PDT KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — U.S. officials may have to wait a little longer for the extradition of a Jamaican financier convicted of running a Ponzi scheme that bilked $220 million from investors across central Florida and the Caribbean. |
