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News: Thousands of Pakistanis protest opening of NATO supply route Venezuela's Chavez says "totally free" of cancer, again Wartime PM Jibril takes early lead in Libya vote Gunmen ambush police in western Mexico, 11 killed One year on, U.S. sees Sudans in "mutual suicide" struggle U.S. lawmaker asks Tuvalu to stop reflagging Iran oil tankers Twenty six people killed in bus crashes in Morocco Annan and Assad agree political approach for Syria Mexican leftist refuses to accept election result FARC funding squeeze driving attacks on oil and mining: minister Mladic trial witness tearfully recalls loss of father Bahrain court jails protest leader over tweets: lawyer Kenya candidates face ICC trial month after vote Obama challenges Republicans to keep tax cuts for middle class Russia blames local officials over fatal floods Russia's Putin says the West is on the decline Saudi Arabia says two killed after cleric's arrest Hollande to stand by ban on Armenian genocide denial Romania court ruling may decide president's fate Obama has no meeting scheduled at UN with Egypt's Mursi: White House Egypt parliament set to meet, defying army White House notifies Congress on Mexico trade talks Syrians should choose leader in 2014 vote: Iran foreign minister Gunmen kill seven in attack on Pakistan military camp Kenya trials at war crimes court to start in April Rabbis to meet in Berlin to protest circumcision ban China bishop, named by Rome, goes missing: agency Greek deputy minister resigns over bailout stance EU, Iran diplomats to meet for nuclear talks in July Brazilian strategists star in Venezuela election Congo rebels withdraw from eastern town Floods damage Russian grain export routes Oman sentences writer, poet, for defaming sultan Russia to suspend new arms to Syria: agencies Ultra-Orthodox feel they are in "dialogue of deaf" with secular Israel Church of England delays women bishops vote Egypt court says rulings binding after president decree Sword-wielding man shot dead in Malaysia PM's compound One year on, South Sudan's liberation incomplete: Kiir German minister's youth curfew plan sparks criticism Thousands of Pakistanis protest opening of NATO supply route Mon,9 Jul 2012 05:45 PM PDT Reuters - ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters of hardline religious groups gathered in the Pakistani capital on Monday to protest their government's decision to re-open supply lines for U.S.-led NATO troops in Afghanistan. The protest was the largest so far against the reopening of the routes. Shops closed early in Islamabad and police set up barricades and cordoned off roads. Pakistan suspended NATO supply routes to Afghanistan last November after a cross-border NATO air attack killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. They were re-opened last week after U.S. ... Full Story Top Venezuela's Chavez says "totally free" of cancer, again Mon,9 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Monday declared himself fully recovered from cancer and ready to return to the streets for his re-election campaign ahead of an October vote. "Free, free, totally free," an ebullient Chavez told reporters when asked if he was free of the disease that struck a year ago. The 57-year-old socialist leader, who has dominated the South American OPEC member since taking power in 1999, was first diagnosed with cancer in the pelvic region in the middle of last year. ... Full Story Top Wartime PM Jibril takes early lead in Libya vote Mon,9 Jul 2012 04:00 PM PDT Reuters - TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Wartime rebel prime minister Mahmoud Jibril took an early lead in Libya's national assembly election, according to partial tallies released on Monday that pointed to a weaker than expected showing for Islamist parties. If confirmed that trend would set Libya apart from other Arab Spring countries such as Egypt and Tunisia where groups with overtly religious agendas have done well - although Jibril insists his multi-party alliance is neither secular nor liberal and includes sharia Islamic law among its core values. ... Full Story Top Gunmen ambush police in western Mexico, 11 killed Mon,9 Jul 2012 03:56 PM PDT Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Gunmen ambushed a police convoy in Mexico's western state of Sinaloa on Monday, sparking a shoot-out in which seven officers and four assailants were killed, officials said. The convoy of two police vehicles was attacked as it drove from the coastal city of Los Mochis into the town of El Fuerte, said an officer in the El Fuerte police department. Seven officers and four attackers were killed, he said. Officials did not know the motive of the attack, which bore the hallmarks of assaults carried out by drug cartels. ... Full Story Top One year on, U.S. sees Sudans in "mutual suicide" struggle Mon,9 Jul 2012 03:48 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sudan and South Sudan are playing a dangerous economic version of Russian roulette that threatens the success of both countries, the top U.S. official for the region said on the first anniversary of South Sudan's independence. Princeton Lyman, U.S. special envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, said frayed relations between Juba and Khartoum will slow desperately needed growth unless they can negotiate settlements to the border and oil issues that remain unresolved one year after the South seceded. "Each side thinks the other is more vulnerable," Lyman said. ... Full Story Top U.S. lawmaker asks Tuvalu to stop reflagging Iran oil tankers Mon,9 Jul 2012 03:23 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A prominent U.S. lawmaker has asked the small South Pacific island nation Tuvalu to stop reflagging Iranian oil tankers and warned its government of the risks of running afoul of U.S. sanctions. The European Union banned Iranian oil imports as well as providing insurance for vessels carrying Iranian oil on July 1, and the United States has new economic sanctions that have curbed Iranian oil imports by most other major nations. ... Full Story Top Twenty six people killed in bus crashes in Morocco Mon,9 Jul 2012 03:00 PM PDT Reuters - RABAT (Reuters) - At least 26 people were killed and 40 others injured in two separate bus accidents in Morocco on Monday, official media reported. Ten people died and 33 others were injured, five of them critically, when a passenger bus crashed near the northern city of Nador, state news agency MAP reported. Later on Monday, 16 people died and a dozen others were injured when their bus fell into a ravine near the town of Tamanar, 530 km (330 miles) south of Rabat. MAP did not give the nationalities of the victims. ... Full Story Top Annan and Assad agree political approach for Syria Mon,9 Jul 2012 02:59 PM PDT Reuters - DAMASCUS (Reuters) - U.N. peace envoy Kofi Annan said he and President Bashar al-Assad agreed on Monday on an approach to Syria's conflict that he would now take to the opposition, and flew on to Iran for talks with the main regional ally of Damascus. The former U.N. secretary general is trying to rescue his six-point peace plan, which was worked out with the Syrian government and rebels in April but faltered because the ceasefire it was supposed to begin with never took hold. ... Full Story Top Mexican leftist refuses to accept election result Mon,9 Jul 2012 02:48 PM PDT Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The runner-up in Mexico's presidential election rejected on Monday the final results of the contest and said he had evidence that about 5 million votes had been bought by the winner's political party. Sunday's official tally said leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who led six weeks of protests when he lost the 2006 presidential election, finished second with 31.59 percent of the vote. That left him about 3.3 million votes behind winner Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) with 38.21 percent. ... Full Story Top FARC funding squeeze driving attacks on oil and mining: minister Mon,9 Jul 2012 02:42 PM PDT Reuters - BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's FARC rebels have stepped up extortion and attacks on the oil and mining industries to finance their war as changes to the way the government distributes industry royalties have cut into the group's revenues, the energy minister said on Monday. More than a decade-long offensive by U.S.-backed troops has squeezed the fund-raising of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, pushing them deeper into inhospitable jungle and making it harder to raise cash from the drug trade. ... Full Story Top Mladic trial witness tearfully recalls loss of father Mon,9 Jul 2012 02:11 PM PDT Reuters - THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The first witness to testify in the genocide trial of Ratko Mladic broke down in tears as he told a war crimes court on Monday about the last time he saw his father, one of 150 Muslim men killed by Bosnian Serb forces in the village of Grabovica. The mass killing in November 1992 was part of an early wave of ethnic cleansing carried out by nationalist Serbs determined to carve out a Serb state in Bosnia by removing all Muslims and Croats. The 1992-95 war claimed 100,000 lives. ... Full Story Top Bahrain court jails protest leader over tweets: lawyer Mon,9 Jul 2012 02:06 PM PDT Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - A prominent Bahraini protest leader, Nabeel Rajab, was sentenced to three months in prison for insulting some Bahrainis in a tweet criticizing the prime minister, Rajab's lawyer and the state news agency said on Monday. Rajab has been a central figure in organizing protests during 16 months of unrest in the Gulf Arab state. Majority Shi'ite Muslims have spearheaded calls for democratic reforms to limit the powers of the ruling Sunni Muslim Al Khalifa family. ... Full Story Top Kenya candidates face ICC trial month after vote Mon,9 Jul 2012 02:04 PM PDT Reuters - THE HAGUE/NAIROBI (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court said on Monday two senior Kenyan politicians would be tried for crimes against humanity in April 2013, just a month after they stand in a presidential election in east Africa's largest economy. The announcement of the court dates raises the prospect of Kenya's next leader making his first foreign trip to appear in the dock of a court set up to try some of the world's worst war crimes and atrocities. ... Full Story Top Obama challenges Republicans to keep tax cuts for middle class Mon,9 Jul 2012 02:02 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called on Monday for a one-year extension of Bush-era tax cuts for families earning less than $250,000 a year, seeking to steer the election-year debate away from high unemployment and portray himself as a champion of ordinary Americans. The tax proposal is unlikely to sway Obama's Republican opponents in Congress, who argue that the cuts should be maintained for everyone, including higher earners. Obama said both sides agree on the need to keep tax rates down for middle income groups at least. ... Full Story Top Russia blames local officials over fatal floods Mon,9 Jul 2012 01:59 PM PDT Reuters - KRYMSK, Russia (Reuters) - The Russian government accused local authorities on Monday of mishandling floods that killed 171 people near the Black Sea, hoping to deflect public anger over the high death toll and devastation from President Vladimir Putin. The head of the Krymsk district, which bore the brunt of the damage at the weekend when a wall of water flooded homes and streets, lost his job hours after Russia's emergencies minister blamed officials on the ground for being slow to issue warnings. ... Full Story Top Russia's Putin says the West is on the decline Mon,9 Jul 2012 01:32 PM PDT Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Monday the West's influence was waning as its economy declines but warned Russian diplomats to be on their guard against a backlash from Moscow's former Cold War enemies. In a biennial speech to Russian ambassadors, Putin also took a shot at the West by condemning any unilateral actions to solve international disputes and underlined the importance of resolving such conflicts through the United Nations. ... Full Story Top Saudi Arabia says two killed after cleric's arrest Mon,9 Jul 2012 01:29 PM PDT Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Monday two men had been killed following Sunday's arrest of a prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric that stirred some protests in the oil-producing east of the country. An Interior Ministry spokesman said the deaths followed a protest in the village of Awamiya over the arrest on sedition accusations of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. According to Saudi authorities Nimr was shot in the leg after police came under fire on trying to stop his car. Nimr, seen as a leading radical cleric promoting Shi'ite interests, was taken to hospital. ... Full Story Top Hollande to stand by ban on Armenian genocide denial Mon,9 Jul 2012 01:17 PM PDT Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande will stand by a campaign pledge to make it illegal to deny that the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 was genocide, his office said, days after his foreign minister said the law had been abandoned. Relations between Paris and Ankara had begun to thaw after a decision in February by France's constitutional court to strike down the genocide denial law as contrary to free speech. Turkey had canceled all economic, political and military meetings with France in December after the French parliament voted in favour of the draft law. ... Full Story Top Romania court ruling may decide president's fate Mon,9 Jul 2012 01:11 PM PDT Reuters - BUCHAREST (Reuters) - The fate of Romania's president hangs in the balance as the Constitutional Court considers whether his rivals who run the government can change the rules of a referendum which will decide whether he will be impeached. The ruling Social Liberal Union (USL) of Prime Minister Victor Ponta suspended President Traian Basescu on Friday saying he had overstepped his powers, a move the court confirmed on Monday was in line with the constitution. ... Full Story Top Obama has no meeting scheduled at UN with Egypt's Mursi: White House Mon,9 Jul 2012 12:47 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will encounter Egypt's newly elected Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, at the United Nations in September, the White House said on Monday, but there are no plans at this stage for a specific meeting between the two men. "The president looks forward to seeing President Mursi in New York at the United Nations General Assembly," said White House press secretary Jay Carney. "There is no bilateral session planned here with any leader." The UN General Assembly meets in New York in September. ... Full Story Top Egypt parliament set to meet, defying army Mon,9 Jul 2012 12:09 PM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's parliamentary speaker said the chamber would reconvene on Tuesday after the new, Islamist president defied the generals by quashing their decision to dissolve the assembly last month. Responding a day after Mohamed Mursi's decree, the army on Monday defended its action to dissolve parliament and, in an apparent swipe at the president, said it was confident "all state institutions" would respect the constitution and the law. ... Full Story Top White House notifies Congress on Mexico trade talks Mon,9 Jul 2012 11:34 AM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House formally notified Congress on Monday of its intention to bring Mexico into negotiations on a free trade agreement with eight other countries in the Asia-Pacific region. "Mexico's participation ... further increases the economic significance of a TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) agreement," U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said in a letter to congressional leaders. A second letter informing Congress of plans to bring Canada into the talks is expected in coming days. ... Full Story Top Syrians should choose leader in 2014 vote: Iran foreign minister Mon,9 Jul 2012 11:25 AM PDT Reuters - ABU DHABI (Reuters) - The Syrian people should be left to choose their leader in elections due in 2014 and until then countries should avoid aggravating the bloodshed by interfering on the ground, Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Monday. Iran has supported President Bashar al-Assad throughout the 16-month uprising in Syria, a rare ally amidst widespread condemnation of a crackdown on dissent that has left thousands dead. ... Full Story Top Gunmen kill seven in attack on Pakistan military camp Mon,9 Jul 2012 10:38 AM PDT Reuters - ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Gunmen killed six soldiers and a policeman on Monday at a riverside military encampment in eastern Pakistan, an area where violence is rare, and the Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. "A small rescue party had camped on the bank of (a) river to search for the body of a drowned/missing pilot," the military said in a statement. "Early this morning, several unknown assailants opened fire on the rescue party, which resulted in the shahadat (martyrdom) of six security forces personnel. ... Full Story Top Kenya trials at war crimes court to start in April Mon,9 Jul 2012 10:22 AM PDT Reuters - THE HAGUE/NAIROBI (Reuters) - Two Kenyan presidential hopefuls accused of fuelling post-election violence will face trial at the International Criminal Court in April 2013, the court said on Monday, allowing them to run their campaigns ahead of an election in March. Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, a former finance minister, and William Ruto, former higher education minister, are among four Kenyans facing charges over bloodshed that followed a disputed 2007 presidential elections. They deny wrongdoing. ... Full Story Top Rabbis to meet in Berlin to protest circumcision ban Mon,9 Jul 2012 10:10 AM PDT Reuters - BERLIN (Reuters) - Jewish religious leaders will hold an international meeting in Berlin on Tuesday to discuss how to respond to a German court ruling against performing circumcision on baby boys, which also sparked protests from Muslims and Christians in Germany. A court in the western city of Cologne caused an uproar in June by ruling in the case of a Muslim boy who suffered bleeding after such an operation that circumcision causes bodily harm and should only be performed on males old enough to give consent. ... Full Story Top China bishop, named by Rome, goes missing: agency Mon,9 Jul 2012 09:58 AM PDT Reuters - ROME (Reuters) - A priest who quit China's state-sanctioned Catholic Church and was ordained auxiliary bishop of Shanghai with the approval of the pope at the weekend was taken away by officials after the ceremony and has not been heard from since, a Catholic online news service reported on Monday. AsiaNews said Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daquin announced he was leaving the Communist Party-run Patriotic Catholic Association in Shanghai on Saturday in an address after being made auxiliary bishop of China's most populous city. ... Full Story Top Greek deputy minister resigns over bailout stance Mon,9 Jul 2012 09:54 AM PDT Reuters - ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's deputy labor minister resigned on Monday saying the government was not being aggressive enough in pushing for changes to an unpopular bailout, becoming the third cabinet member to quit the fledgling coalition in as many weeks. The resignation is a new setback for Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, whose government had already stumbled to a rocky start when his initial pick for finance minister stepped down over health problems. ... Full Story Top EU, Iran diplomats to meet for nuclear talks in July Mon,9 Jul 2012 09:23 AM PDT Reuters - BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Senior diplomats from the European Union and Iran will meet on July 24 for technical talks on Tehran's disputed nuclear program to try to salvage diplomatic efforts to resolve the decade-long standoff, EU officials said on Monday. The meeting in Istanbul will be the second in a series of discussions to clarify technical aspects of Tehran's activity. ... Full Story Top Brazilian strategists star in Venezuela election Mon,9 Jul 2012 09:02 AM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - In Venezuela's presidential election, everyone wants to look like Lula. Both candidates are turning to Brazilian consultants in an attempt to borrow from Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's popular leftist model and political style as they gush admiration for the former metalworker who led Brazil from 2003-2010. Like him, they want to court centrist voters, do business with the United States and with China, oversee economic growth, cut poverty and fund robust welfare programs. ... Full Story Top Congo rebels withdraw from eastern town Mon,9 Jul 2012 09:01 AM PDT Reuters - GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo withdrew from a strategic town in the mineral-rich province of North Kivu on Monday, a day after taking it from government forces without a fight, a rebel spokesman and the United Nations said. The so-called M23 rebel force entered the town of Rutshuru unopposed on Sunday after witnesses said government soldiers abandoned their positions. The rebels later moved into the adjoining town of Kiwanja. "We are now back in our old bases. We have left the police and (the U.N. ... Full Story Top Floods damage Russian grain export routes Mon,9 Jul 2012 08:53 AM PDT Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Floods that hit Russia's Black Sea coast have wrought chaos on major road and rail links to its main grain export outlet, but stocks at the port of Novorossiisk are high and may delay any impact on exports, traders and analysts said on Monday. The effects were likely to be short-lived but laid bare the infrastructure risks faced by Russia as it attempts to secure and strengthen its status as a dominant global wheat exporter by exploiting its vast reserves of farmland. ... Full Story Top Oman sentences writer, poet, for defaming sultan Mon,9 Jul 2012 08:06 AM PDT Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - An Omani writer and a poet were among four people convicted of defamation over comments against the country's sultan and sentenced to jail sentences of up to one year, although they were freed pending bail and an appeal, their lawyer said. Oman, a Western-allied, small oil exporter that flanks a major crude shipping route out of the Gulf, has detained more than 30 people in the past few weeks over protests that erupted after strikes at petroleum plants over pay and pension issues. ... Full Story Top Russia to suspend new arms to Syria: agencies Mon,9 Jul 2012 08:02 AM PDT Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will not deliver fighter planes or other new weapons to Syria while the situation there remains unresolved, the deputy director of a body that supervises the country's arms trade was quoted as saying on Monday. "While the situation in Syria is unstable, there will be no new deliveries of arms there," Vyacheslav Dzirkaln told journalists at the Farnborough Airshow in Britain, Russia's Interfax news agency reported. ... Full Story Top Ultra-Orthodox feel they are in "dialogue of deaf" with secular Israel Mon,9 Jul 2012 08:00 AM PDT Reuters - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Zalman Deren spends his days studying the Torah in a small synagogue near the Western Wall in Jerusalem. He's young and able-bodied, with a wife and three children to feed, but has no job because that would distract him from his vocation. A short walk away, at Israel's largest Torah school, Mir Yeshiva, noise levels in the spacious study halls reach a low roar as hundreds of men of all ages decipher and debate the holy texts for hours. Most of them are also married with children and do not earn a living. ... Full Story Top Church of England delays women bishops vote Mon,9 Jul 2012 07:54 AM PDT Reuters - YORK, England (Reuters) - The Church of England delayed a vote on allowing women bishops on Monday after reformers rejected a last-minute concession to conservatives keen to keep the posts reserved for men only. The Church's General Synod voted to send back to their current bishops for further consideration an amendment allowing dissenting parishes to choose their male bishop as their leader if a woman is named to head their diocese. ... Full Story Top Egypt court says rulings binding after president decree Mon,9 Jul 2012 07:35 AM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court said on Monday its decisions were final and binding on all state authorities, after meeting for an emergency session in response to the president's decree to recall a parliament that the court declared void. The court, which ruled on June 14 that the Islamist-led parliament had been elected based on unconstitutional rules, also said it would review appeals challenging the constitutionality of President Mohamed Mursi's decree. "We will hear these cases tomorrow (Tuesday)," the court's head, Maher el-Beheiry, told Reuters. ... Full Story Top Sword-wielding man shot dead in Malaysia PM's compound Mon,9 Jul 2012 07:23 AM PDT Reuters - KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian police shot dead a sword-wielding man who entered Prime Minister Najib Razak's compound on Monday, police officials said. The man and a female companion, both carrying swords, tried to pass through a security post in the compound in the administrative capital Putrajaya in mid-afternoon, police said. Police opened fire at the couple as they brandished their swords and acted aggressively, one police official said. The woman was also shot and was being treated in hospital for her wounds. ... Full Story Top One year on, South Sudan's liberation incomplete: Kiir Mon,9 Jul 2012 07:07 AM PDT Reuters - JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir vowed on Monday to confront the corruption plaguing his country a year after it declared independence and said the new nation's economy still had to be "liberated" from its dependence on foreign powers. Wearing his signature black fedora, Kiir addressed an assembly of dignitaries and a cheering crowd to mark the nation's first independence day after splitting from Sudan under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war. ... Full Story Top German minister's youth curfew plan sparks criticism Mon,9 Jul 2012 06:30 AM PDT Reuters - BERLIN (Reuters) - German children could be barred from going to evening pop concerts and Christmas markets without an adult chaperone if the family minister's proposal for a curfew to try to curb binge drinking gets the green light. But her suggestion has already drawn strong criticism from inside Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling centre-right coalition. German government statistics show the number of young people in the 15-20 age bracket ending up in hospital with alcohol poisoning rose by nearly 3 percent in 2010 from the year before. ... Full Story Top

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