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News: Chavez: Venezuela is no threat, Obama is a "good guy" Romania government pursues campaign to remove president World outrage at Syria "massacre", but no action Georgia death row inmate seeks reprieve due to mental disability Tunisian revolution hero's mother arrested: brother U.S. indicts Iranian, Chinese for nuclear export plot Despite Turmoil, Murdoch family looks relaxed at Sun Valley Canada's Teachers' to buy majority stake in Helly Hansen Syria massacre part of air force operation: U.N Algerian diplomats freed in north Mali: sources Four missing after slide hits Canadian mountain village Costa Concordia victims remembered, six months on Uzbek man gets nearly 16 years in prison for plot to kill Obama Chavez says Venezuela is no threat to anyone Berlusconi keeps Italy guessing over 2013 plans Calgary Stampede horse deaths anger animal rights activists Russia speeds law on rights groups, snubbing U.S Keep up reforms, Clinton urges Myanmar Syria massacre reports indicate deliberate murder: Clinton Officials say major threat to London Olympics yet to materialize Mali Islamists shoot in the air during latest protest Spanish workers block roads, rail in cuts protest Analysis: Mexican political minnows hold big cards in new Congress Ethiopia jails blogger, reporters, opposition figures Annan says U.N. Security Council must send signal on Syria violence Bomb kills head of women's affairs in Afghan east Turkish military tries to dispel speculation over downed jet Turkish court frees activists accused of Kurdish ties Suicide bomber kills 5 at northeast Nigerian mosque Syria massacre "an extension" of Syria air force operation: UN Jet crashes near French Riviera, three dead UK won't see big windfall from Olympics: Reuters poll Coal train hits truck in South Africa, 24 dead Venezuela's Chavez back on street, claims "miracle" recovery Russia to host Annan, condemns massacre UK could use "lethal force" to protect airspace Mladic declared fit for genocide trial to resume Hamas sees Egypt's Mursi defying Israel, ending blockade Two U.S. tourists held in Sinai by Bedouin tribesmen Canada to open Myanmar embassy, wants more reforms Chavez: Venezuela is no threat, Obama is a "good guy" Fri,13 Jul 2012 06:45 PM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez denied on Friday that Venezuela was a threat to anyone, after U.S. presidential hopeful Mitt Romney criticized Barack Obama for playing down the risk posed by the socialist leader. Obama told a Spanish-language television station in an interview screened this week that Chavez's actions over recent years had not had a serious impact on the national security of the United States. Romney said Obama's comments were "stunning and shocking" and showed a pattern of weakness in the Democratic president's foreign policy. ... Full Story Top Romania government pursues campaign to remove president Fri,13 Jul 2012 03:48 PM PDT Reuters - BUCHAREST/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Romania's ruling party plans to extend voting in a referendum on whether to impeach the president to two days from one, a senior politician said on Friday, seeking to boost voter turnout and minimize the risk of failure in its efforts to drive him out. Leftist Prime Minister Victor Ponta's campaign against conservative President Traian Basescu, his long-time political rival, has drawn criticism from the European Union which sees a threat to democratic rule of law in the Balkan state. ... Full Story Top World outrage at Syria "massacre", but no action Fri,13 Jul 2012 03:46 PM PDT Reuters - AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United States has branded Syria's leaders murderers after an attack on a village by President Bashar al-Assad's troops left dozens dead, but there was no break in the deadlock among world powers over how to bring about an end to the bloodshed. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also condemned what his monitors on the ground had seen as an "indiscriminate" bombardment that included rocket-firing helicopters of the town of Tremseh in rebellious Hama province, and he questioned Assad's commitment to a U.N.-sponsored peace plan for Syria. But at U.N. ... Full Story Top Georgia death row inmate seeks reprieve due to mental disability Fri,13 Jul 2012 03:23 PM PDT Reuters - ATLANTA (Reuters) - Attorneys for a Georgia man facing execution next week argued to the state's pardons board on Friday that executing the two-time murderer would be unjust because of his limited mental capacity. Warren Lee Hill, 52, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on July 18. In a series of unsuccessful appeals, his lawyers have said his execution should be halted because he suffered from what they termed mental retardation. The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles held a closed hearing in the case on Friday but did not issue a ruling. ... Full Story Top Tunisian revolution hero's mother arrested: brother Fri,13 Jul 2012 03:10 PM PDT Reuters - TUNIS (Reuters) - The mother of the Tunisian peddler whose suicide sparked the Arab Spring has been arrested after getting into a scuffle with a court official, a family member said on Friday. Salem Bouazizi, brother of Mohammed Bouazizi whose death made him a symbol for the frustrations of many, said their mother had been held for allegedly attacking the official in Sidi Bouzid, the central town where Tunisia's revolution began. ... Full Story Top U.S. indicts Iranian, Chinese for nuclear export plot Fri,13 Jul 2012 02:57 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. investigators believe two men indicted on charges of conspiring to send materials to Iran via Hong Kong and China were trying to acquire sensitive equipment and materials used to construct uranium enrichment centrifuges, a law enforcement official said on Friday. The materials and components the suspects were trying to obtain comprised almost "everything you need to build gas centrifuges for uranium enrichment," the official told Reuters. ... Full Story Top Despite Turmoil, Murdoch family looks relaxed at Sun Valley Fri,13 Jul 2012 02:49 PM PDT Reuters - Sun Valley, Idaho (Reuters) - "Good morning, good morning," was all Rupert Murdoch had to say to reporters on his way into the Friday morning sessions at Allen & Co's annual media and technology conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. The News Corp Chairman can be forgiven for his press shyness. After all, this is the second straight year he has attended the event while his $53 billion company is in turmoil. Only two weeks ago Murdoch announced he planned to divide News Corp in two, separating its fast-growing entertainment assets from its slower-growing and scandal-scarred publishing operation. ... Full Story Top Canada's Teachers' to buy majority stake in Helly Hansen Fri,13 Jul 2012 02:30 PM PDT Reuters - TORONTO (Reuters) - One of Canada's largest pension funds has agreed to buy a majority stake in Norwegian outdoor clothing brand Helly Hansen from Nordic private equity firm Altor. The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan -- better known simply as Teachers' -- said on Friday it was buying roughly 75 percent of the Nordic company, which designs and markets high-performance outdoor apparel. ... Full Story Top Syria massacre part of air force operation: U.N Fri,13 Jul 2012 02:27 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. observers in Syria described an attack on a village in the Hama region in which about 220 people were reported killed as part of a continuing Syrian air force operation, the U.N. mission said in an assessment obtained by Reuters on Friday. "The situation in Hama province continues to be highly volatile and unpredictable," said the "flash report" from the U.N. observer mission on Thursday's incident. "SAAF forces continue to target populated urban areas north of Hama City in a large scale," the report said, referring to the Syrian Arab Air Force. ... Full Story Top Algerian diplomats freed in north Mali: sources Fri,13 Jul 2012 01:52 PM PDT Reuters - ALGIERS (Reuters) - Seven Algerian diplomats abducted by Islamist rebels in northern Mali in April have been freed, an Algerian security source and a Malian Islamist source said on Friday, a move that could ease tension along the volatile border. "They are all safe and should be back home very soon," the security source said, adding that the seven consisted of a consul and six consular staff who were based in Mali. Security officials in Algeria do not normally speak on the record and there was no confirmation from the government. ... Full Story Top Four missing after slide hits Canadian mountain village Fri,13 Jul 2012 01:50 PM PDT Reuters - CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Four people remained missing on Friday after a landslide swept through the remote village of Johnsons Landing deep in the mountainous interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The Thursday morning slide wiped out three homes in the village, 455 kilometers (282 miles) east of Vancouver in the Selkirk Mountains. Police and search and rescue officials are at the scene but rescue efforts have been stayed because of the threat of new slides from the rain-soaked slopes. ... Full Story Top Costa Concordia victims remembered, six months on Fri,13 Jul 2012 01:43 PM PDT Reuters - GIGLIO, Italy (Reuters) - Residents of this Tuscan island and relatives of victims of the Costa Concordia disaster prayed and ships' horns sounded on Friday to mark the six months since the cruise liner ran aground, killing 32 people. Church bells pealed in the port section of the island at 9:42 p.m. (1942 GMT), the time the 114,500-tonne vessel hit rocks on January 13 after its captain Francesco Schettino brought it too close to shore. One of those who came to the island for the remembrance service was Elio Vincenzi, who lost his wife Maria Grazia. ... Full Story Top Uzbek man gets nearly 16 years in prison for plot to kill Obama Fri,13 Jul 2012 01:29 PM PDT Reuters - BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - A federal judge sentenced an Uzbek man living illegally in the United States to nearly 16 years in prison on Friday on terrorism and weapons charges stemming from his plot to kill President Barack Obama. Ulugbek Kodirov, who arrived in the United States in 2009 to attend medical school but never enrolled, had plotted to shoot Obama while the president campaigned for re-election this year, according to federal authorities in Alabama. ... Full Story Top Chavez says Venezuela is no threat to anyone Fri,13 Jul 2012 12:54 PM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez denied on Friday that Venezuela was a threat to anyone, after U.S. presidential hopeful Mitt Romney criticized Barack Obama for playing down the risk posed by the socialist leader. Obama told a Spanish-language television station in an interview screened this week that Chavez's actions over recent years had not had a serious national security impact on the United States. Romney said Obama's comments were "stunning and shocking" and showed a pattern of weakness in the Democratic president's foreign policy. ... Full Story Top Berlusconi keeps Italy guessing over 2013 plans Fri,13 Jul 2012 12:53 PM PDT Reuters - ROME (Reuters) - Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi failed to appear at a political rally on Friday, dashing expectations that he would use the occasion to announce he would run for his former post in next year's election. On Thursday, Fabrizio Cicchitto, parliamentary leader of Berlusconi's PDL party, had said that the 75-year-old media billionaire would be the centre-right candidate for premier in the general election due in early 2013. But reporters and television camera teams gathered at a Rome hotel in the hope of a clear statement from the man himself were disappointed. ... Full Story Top Calgary Stampede horse deaths anger animal rights activists Fri,13 Jul 2012 12:32 PM PDT Reuters - CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - The debate between cowboy tradition and animal rights at the Calgary Stampede was reignited late Thursday when three horses were killed and a fourth seriously injured during a chuckwagon race at the huge annual rodeo and exhibition of Western Canadian culture Chuckwagon racing, the marquee event of Calgary's famous 10-day festival, is inspired by pioneering cowboys' practice of breaking camp and racing away. The thrilling sport is a Stampede symbol but it has claimed dozens of animals over the years. ... Full Story Top Russia speeds law on rights groups, snubbing U.S Fri,13 Jul 2012 12:31 PM PDT Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian government rushed a law through parliament on Friday which will tighten controls on civil rights groups and has strained relations with the United States, which fears a crackdown on opponents of President Vladimir Putin. In defiance of criticism this week from the U.S. State Department, curtly dismissed by Russia's Foreign Ministry as "gross interference", the lower house overwhelmingly backed the bill in second and third readings under accelerated procedures. ... Full Story Top Keep up reforms, Clinton urges Myanmar Fri,13 Jul 2012 12:27 PM PDT Reuters - SIEM REAP, Cambodia - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Myanmar's president on Friday to stick with economic and political reforms as his resource-rich country emerges from nearly half a century of reclusive military rule. "We want you to keep going. We're very committed," Clinton said as she met Thein Sein, a former junta general chosen by parliament last year to lead a quasi-civilian government in a country with extensive timber, gems and natural gas resources. ... Full Story Top Syria massacre reports indicate deliberate murder: Clinton Fri,13 Jul 2012 12:12 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed outrage on Friday over reports of a Syrian government assault in the rebellious Hama region and urged the U.N. Security Council to make clear to Damascus that there would be consequences. Accounts of the attack on the village of Tremseh, including the use of artillery, tanks and helicopters, provide "indisputable evidence that the regime deliberately murdered innocent civilians," she said. ... Full Story Top Officials say major threat to London Olympics yet to materialize Fri,13 Jul 2012 10:40 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Last December, a purported Islamic fighter called Amir Ghrozni posted a cryptic message on a password-protected website connected to al Qaeda. "London, perhaps the punishment is near," the message said. "Await the glad tidings, as we will never calm down." Similar threats to the 2012 Olympic Games, which begin in London on July 27, have surfaced since. A February message on a different website urged readers to "be the initiator O Soldiers of Usama, as London has been beautified with its nicest decorations and the best of dresses. ... Full Story Top Mali Islamists shoot in the air during latest protest Fri,13 Jul 2012 10:37 AM PDT Reuters - BAMAKO (Reuters) - Islamist gunmen in Mali shot in the air to disperse protesters trying to block them from attending Friday prayers, witnesses said, the latest clash between locals and rebel groups controlling the country's north. The protest in the town of Goundam, 90 km (56 miles) southwest of Timbuktu, erupted after self-appointed morality police beat a woman for not wearing a headscarf, injuring her baby, the witnesses said. ... Full Story Top Spanish workers block roads, rail in cuts protest Fri,13 Jul 2012 10:26 AM PDT Reuters - MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish workers blocked streets and railways in Madrid on Friday in protests against new austerity measures they said hurt ordinary people more than the bankers and politicians they blame for the economic crisis. As the Spanish government approved the deepest cuts in 30 years, including a second round of wage cuts and reduced benefits for civil servants, Spain's main unions called on public workers to strike in September. The date of the strike will be announced at a later stage, the unions said in a statement. ... Full Story Top Analysis: Mexican political minnows hold big cards in new Congress Fri,13 Jul 2012 10:22 AM PDT Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Throughout Mexico's election campaign, the party that held the country in an iron grip for most of the 20th century was tipped to recapture the presidency by storm and take control of Congress. In the end, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, fell short of a legislative majority and it may now have to lean heavily on two fringe parties to pass reforms. ... Full Story Top Ethiopia jails blogger, reporters, opposition figures Fri,13 Jul 2012 09:59 AM PDT Reuters - ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Twenty Ethiopians, including a prominent blogger, journalists and opposition figures were jailed for between eight years to life on Friday on charges of conspiring with rebels to topple the government. The European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said she was "seriously concerned" by the severity of the sentences, which were also condemned by Amnesty International and other rights groups. The Horn of Africa nation, a major recipient of Western aid, is fighting separatist rebel movements and armed groups it says are backed by arch-foe Eritrea. ... Full Story Top Annan says U.N. Security Council must send signal on Syria violence Fri,13 Jul 2012 09:58 AM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - International mediator Kofi Annan told the U.N. Security Council on Friday that new reports of a massacre by Syrian government forces showed U.N. resolutions were being ignored, making it imperative to signal that there will be consequences. Annan, in a letter to the Security Council obtained by Reuters, repeated that the Syrian government's use of artillery, tanks and helicopters against the village of Tremseh violated its commitments under a U.N.-approved peace plan. ... Full Story Top Bomb kills head of women's affairs in Afghan east Fri,13 Jul 2012 09:56 AM PDT Reuters - NANGARHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A regional head of women's affairs was targeted and killed by a car bomb in Afghanistan's east on Friday, officials said, the latest act of brazen violence against women in the country. Hanifa Safi was killed while driving through the capital of Laghman province, Mehtar Lam, when a bomb attached to her car exploded, provincial governor spokesman Sarhadi Zwak said. "It killed her and left her husband, who was with her in the car, in a coma," Zwak said, adding that the attack about 150 km (93 miles) east of Kabul also wounded 10 civilians. ... Full Story Top Turkish military tries to dispel speculation over downed jet Fri,13 Jul 2012 09:55 AM PDT Reuters - ANKARA (Reuters) - The Turkish military on Friday tried to damp down speculation about the loss of one of its warplanes last month, repeating its assertion the jet was shot down by Syria and by something other than anti-aircraft fire. Speculation in Turkey has been mounting since the armed forces released a written statement on Wednesday that appeared to contradict previous official accounts of the June 22 incident and suggested the military may be revising its initial stance. ... Full Story Top Turkish court frees activists accused of Kurdish ties Fri,13 Jul 2012 09:52 AM PDT Reuters - ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish court ordered the release on Friday of a well-known academic and 15 other people who had been detained while on trial over accusations of links to Kurdish militants, state media reported. The order appeared to be one of the first outcomes of legal reforms tightening up conditions for courts to hold people in jail before verdicts. The changes were pushed through this month amid complaints by campaigners, and the country's own prime minister, over the power of the country's prosecutors. ... Full Story Top Suicide bomber kills 5 at northeast Nigerian mosque Fri,13 Jul 2012 09:41 AM PDT Reuters - MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed five people at the central mosque in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Friday, the military said, the latest attack in a region plagued by Islamist Boko Haram insurgents. The blast narrowly missed the deputy governor of Borno state, Zanna Umar Mustapha, and Borno's Shehu (regional religious leader), Abubakar Umar Garbai El-Kanemi, who were attending Friday prayers. "The suicide bomber was about 15 years old ... Fortunately we both escaped unhurt," Mustapha told reporters. ... Full Story Top Syria massacre "an extension" of Syria air force operation: UN Fri,13 Jul 2012 09:23 AM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. observers in Syria described an attack on a village in the Hama region - where about 220 people were reported killed - as "an extension" of a Syrian Arab Air Force (SAAF) operation, the U.N. mission said in an assessment obtained by Reuters on Friday. "The situation in Hama province continues to be highly volatile and unpredictable," the so-called "flash report" from the U.N. observer mission said. "SAAF forces continue to target populated urban areas north of Hama City in a large scale. ... Full Story Top Jet crashes near French Riviera, three dead Fri,13 Jul 2012 09:22 AM PDT Reuters - NICE, France (Reuters) - A private jet crashed and burst into flames as it landed near France's southern Riviera coast on Friday, killing its three American crew members, a local government prefect said. The Gulfstream jet that had left the city of Nice went down at Le Castellet airfield near the seaside resort of Saint Tropez, hurtling into a wooded area where it caught fire, Paul Mourier, the prefect, said. The crash killed the three crew members, who were the only people aboard, two American men aged 60 and 24 and an American woman aged 30, said Mourier. ... Full Story Top UK won't see big windfall from Olympics: Reuters poll Fri,13 Jul 2012 09:20 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - London's 2012 Olympic Games will bring no meaningful long-term benefit to Britain's beleaguered economy, but they might give it a brief shot in the arm, according to a firm majority of economists polled by Reuters. With two weeks to go until the opening ceremony, 23 out of 27 economists polled this week thought the UK's first Olympics in 64 years would not provide a lasting economic windfall. Britain's government has touted the Olympics as a historic opportunity to showcase UK business and tourism. ... Full Story Top Coal train hits truck in South Africa, 24 dead Fri,13 Jul 2012 08:57 AM PDT Reuters - MALELANE, South Africa (Reuters) - A coal train ploughed into a farm truck at a level crossing in South Africa on Friday, cutting it in half and killing 24 workers on their way to pick fruit - the latest tragedy to hit the country's ageing rail network. Regional police spokesman Joseph Mabusa said it appeared the truck driver had miscalculated when crossing the track, leaving his vehicle directly in the path of a freight train carrying coal to neighboring Mozambique. "It is a very gruesome scene. Some bodies are without heads and some without limbs. ... Full Story Top Venezuela's Chavez back on street, claims "miracle" recovery Fri,13 Jul 2012 08:13 AM PDT Reuters - BARCELONA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Hailing his rebound from cancer as a "miracle" and firing up his supporters with spiritual rhetoric, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has hit the road to campaign for re-election in October. The socialist leader began a series of campaign rallies under a rainstorm in the eastern city of Barcelona, seeking to show his health is fine and to capitalize on the emotional connection with Venezuela's poor that has underpinned his rule. "I'm in the street again, thank God, after everything that's happened in the last year. ... Full Story Top Russia to host Annan, condemns massacre Fri,13 Jul 2012 07:48 AM PDT Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it would urge U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan to work more closely with the Syrian opposition at talks in Moscow next week, and called for an inquiry into a massacre in Syria. The Foreign Ministry said the massacre, in which opposition sources said about 220 people had been killed, served the interests of people who wanted a sectarian conflict in Syria, but did not directly apportion blame. Russia has repeatedly defended President Bashar al-Assad at the U.N. ... Full Story Top UK could use "lethal force" to protect airspace Fri,13 Jul 2012 07:46 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's air force will be on standby to shoot down any rogue aircraft over London from Saturday under tight new restrictions being enforced two weeks ahead of the Olympic Games. Security surrounding the Olympics has made the headlines this week after Britain was forced to deploy 3,500 extra troops to fill an embarrassing last-minute shortfall in private security staff. On Friday, Britain's Royal Air Force warned planes that stray into the protected zone could ultimately be shot down. ... Full Story Top Mladic declared fit for genocide trial to resume Fri,13 Jul 2012 07:45 AM PDT Reuters - AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic will resume on Monday after doctors determined that he is well enough to appear in court, a spokeswoman for the tribunal said on Friday. Mladic, who is accused of genocide over the siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo and the 1995 killing of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, was rushed to a Dutch hospital on Thursday, the fourth day of his war crimes trial, after asking for a break and slumping with his head in his hands. ... Full Story Top Hamas sees Egypt's Mursi defying Israel, ending blockade Fri,13 Jul 2012 07:40 AM PDT Reuters - GAZA (Reuters) - The head of the Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip said on Friday he was confident Egypt's new president would shield the Palestinian enclave from Israeli attack and fully open its borders to end a trade blockade. Mohamed Mursi, who won power in last month's presidential election in Egypt, is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and ideologically close to Hamas. ... Full Story Top Two U.S. tourists held in Sinai by Bedouin tribesmen Fri,13 Jul 2012 07:27 AM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Two U.S. tourists were held hostage in the Sinai Peninsula on Friday by Bedouin tribesmen seeking the release of an imprisoned kinsman, security sources said. The Americans, one man and one woman, were stopped by the Bedouins in an armed ambush in central Sinai and taken along with their Egyptian tour guide to a remote mountainous location, the sources said. Several other tourists have been held briefly by tribesmen in recent months and have been released unharmed, often after less than a few hours of negotiations with authorities. ... Full Story Top Canada to open Myanmar embassy, wants more reforms Fri,13 Jul 2012 07:17 AM PDT Reuters - OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will open an embassy in Myanmar, following in the footsteps of the United States, while pressing for more reforms in the isolated Southeast Asian nation, Foreign Minister John Baird said on Friday. Canada announced in April that in recognition of recent democratic reforms in Myanmar it would suspend most of the trade and diplomatic sanctions it had imposed on the country, which is also known as Burma. Ottawa hopes Canadian companies can do business in Myanmar, which has rich natural resources. ... Full Story Top

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