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News: Loughner to plead guilty in Arizona shooting spree: LA Times China calls in U.S. diplomat over South China Sea China to hold Gu Kailai murder trial on Aug 9: sources British diplomats to attend Chinese murder trial University brings capitalism to reclusive North Korea Two New Zealand soldiers killed in Afghanistan, six wounded Suicide bomber kills 25 in southern Yemen village Forty-eight Iranians kidnapped in Damascus: IRNA Syrian leader Assad's planes pound vital prize of Aleppo Israeli troops wound man near Syrian Golan fence Obama spends his 51st birthday on the golf course Greece eyes T-bills to cover funding squeeze: minister Sweden "counter-jihad" rally outnumbered by anti-racists Unhappy London firms need "long-term view" Serb government tightens grip on central bank despite EU, IMF warning Las Vegas Sands target of U.S. money-laundering probe, WSJ says Clinton warns Kenya on cost of election unrest Sudan, South Sudan reach oil deal, will hold border talks Pirates attack ship off Nigeria, kidnap four foreigners Egypt invites IMF officials to resume loan talks Egypt's Christian leader slams "unfair" new cabinet US encouraged by Somalia progress: Clinton U.N. calls for credible probe into Myanmar sectarian unrest Egypt govt invites IMF officials to resume loan talks U.S. encouraged by Somalia progress: Clinton Hong Kong government criticized over plastic spill on beaches Pirates attack ship off Nigeria, kidnap 4 foreigners Rebels fill Aleppo power vacuum, some disapprove Iran tests short-range missile with new guidance system Table tennis: South Korea beat North in tense battle Palestinians to renew U.N. statehood drive next month Afghan lawmakers vote to dismiss security ministers Clinton urges Kenya to hold free, fair elections Sudan confirms oil deal, wants security talks first Turkish army retires generals jailed on coup charges Syrian army makes push into Aleppo battleground district Some Ugandan Ebola patients likely to survive: doctors U.N. to send food aid to flood-hit North Korea Japanese chef meets North Korea's Kim and wife: reports China hits back at West after Syria U.N. vote Loughner to plead guilty in Arizona shooting spree: LA Times Sat,4 Aug 2012 06:50 PM PDT Reuters - PHOENIX (Reuters) - Jared Loughner, the man accused of killing six people and wounding then-U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords in 2011, is set to plead guilty in a Tucson court on Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday. The paper, quoting "knowledgeable sources" that it did not name, said psychiatric experts who have examined Loughner were scheduled to testify in Tuesday's mental competency hearing that he is competent to stand trial and understands the 49 charges against him. ... Full Story Top China calls in U.S. diplomat over South China Sea Sat,4 Aug 2012 06:33 PM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry has called in a senior U.S. diplomat to protest remarks by the U.S. State Department raising concerns over tensions in the disputed South China Sea, in the latest political spat between the two countries. In a statement released late on Saturday, China's Foreign Ministry said Assistant Foreign Minister Zhang Kunsheng summoned the U.S. Embassy's Deputy Chief of Mission Robert Wang to make "serious representations" about the issue. ... Full Story Top China to hold Gu Kailai murder trial on Aug 9: sources Sat,4 Aug 2012 06:19 PM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - China will open the murder trial of Gu Kailai, the wife of ousted Communist Party Politburo member Bo Xilai, on August 9, two sources said on Friday, a case at the center of a scandal that has rocked the government and could bring Gu the death penalty. Both sources requested anonymity, citing the sensitivity of the case, and provided no other details. China only last week formally announced Gu's indictment on charges of murdering a British man in November. ... Full Story Top British diplomats to attend Chinese murder trial Sat,4 Aug 2012 06:18 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - British diplomats will be allowed to attend the trial of the wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood, the Foreign Office said on Saturday. "I can confirm that we will be attending the trial," a spokesman said. Diplomatic sources said it was unusual for China to allow British diplomats to be present at such a sensitive hearing, particularly when no UK citizen was on trial. Heywood was found dead in a hotel room last November in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, where Bo was the former Communist Party leader. ... Full Story Top University brings capitalism to reclusive North Korea Sat,4 Aug 2012 06:17 PM PDT Reuters - SEOUL (Reuters) - Capitalism, in hermit North Korea, is normally associated with moral and economic ruin. The Korea-born American who heads Pyongyang's only private university is trying to change that. He believes he has the support of the man many think is emerging as the real power in the North, whose new leaders are pondering how to save their broken economy from collapse. The Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, co-founded by Chan-mo Park, is teaching dozens of North Koreans the skills of a modern market economy, something the impoverished state has managed for decades to avoid. ... Full Story Top Two New Zealand soldiers killed in Afghanistan, six wounded Sat,4 Aug 2012 05:20 PM PDT Reuters - WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Two New Zealand soldiers were killed and six others were injured in Afghanistan's Bamyan province on Saturday when they came under fire assisting local security forces that were fighting suspected insurgents, the New Zealand Defence Force said. "The NZDF was responding to local security forces coming under attack and it developed into a serious incident," Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman said in a statement on Sunday. ... Full Story Top Suicide bomber kills 25 in southern Yemen village Sat,4 Aug 2012 04:48 PM PDT Reuters - ADEN (Reuters) - A suicide bomber struck at a funeral in a village in Yemen's southern province of Abyan overnight, killing at least 25 tribal fighters and wounding dozens more, officials and medics said on Sunday. The bomber targeted tribesmen who fought alongside the Yemeni army during an offensive against al Qaeda-linked militants in Abyan that the government hailed as a major victory in June. "We have many people with critical injuries and we don't have the means to treat them," said a doctor at al-Razi hospital, which was filling up with the wounded. ... Full Story Top Forty-eight Iranians kidnapped in Damascus: IRNA Sat,4 Aug 2012 03:27 PM PDT Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - A bus load of Iranians were abducted by gunmen while on a pilgrimage in Syria on Saturday, Iranian media reported, the latest in a string of kidnappings of visitors from the Islamic Republic, a country allied to President Bashar al-Assad. The 48 Iranians, planning to visit a shrine on the outskirts of Damascus of particular significance to Shi-ite Muslims, were kidnapped on the road from the airport, Iran's consul general in Syria was reported as saying by state broadcaster IRIB. ... Full Story Top Syrian leader Assad's planes pound vital prize of Aleppo Sat,4 Aug 2012 03:27 PM PDT Reuters - ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad's forces used artillery, planes and a helicopter gunship to pound rebel positions in Syria's biggest city, witnesses said, in a battle that could determine the outcome of the 17-month uprising. After U.N. Security Council paralysis on Syria forced peace envoy Kofi Annan to resign last week, and with his ceasefire plan a distant memory, rebels were battered on Saturday by the onslaught they had expected in Aleppo and the capital Damascus. ... Full Story Top Israeli troops wound man near Syrian Golan fence Sat,4 Aug 2012 03:27 PM PDT Reuters - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot across the ceasefire line with Syria on the occupied Golan Heights to wound a man suspected of planning to tamper with the boundary fence on Saturday, the military said. The Golan, which Israel captured from Syria in a 1967 war and later annexed, has been largely untouched by the 17-month-old uprising rocking Damascus. But Israel has been on guard for hostilities or refugee influxes on the strategic plateau. ... Full Story Top Obama spends his 51st birthday on the golf course Sat,4 Aug 2012 01:52 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama celebrated his 51st birthday on Saturday with a round of golf, then helicoptered to the Camp David presidential retreat for a quiet evening off the campaign trail. Obama, an avid golfer, played with colleagues and friends at the Andrews Air Force Base in hot, muggy weather conditions before taking Marine One to Maryland's Catoctin Mountains in the afternoon. The White House did not release details of the president's evening plans or share the menu for the birthday meal he was expected to share with wife, Michelle. ... Full Story Top Greece eyes T-bills to cover funding squeeze: minister Sat,4 Aug 2012 12:54 PM PDT Reuters - ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece is leaning towards issuing T-bills to plug a cash squeeze this month as resumption of its bailout funding hinges on a positive assessment by European Union and IMF inspectors, its deputy finance minister told Sunday's Kathimerini newspaper. Cash-strapped and behind targets agreed under a 130 billion euro ($160.4 billion) financial rescue package, Athens faces a 3.2 billion euro bond maturity on August 20. ... Full Story Top Sweden "counter-jihad" rally outnumbered by anti-racists Sat,4 Aug 2012 11:13 AM PDT Reuters - STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Stockholm rally by European and U.S. far-right groups seeking to create a global "counter-jihad" movement attracted fewer than 200 people on Saturday who were outnumbered by anti-racist protesters. Police said the rival demonstration was kept apart from the far-right rally and drew a few hundred people, a small number of whom were detained. The far-right rally was organized by groups including the English Defence League (EDL) which has been a driving force behind a handful of similar events, most recently a Danish rally in March. ... Full Story Top Unhappy London firms need "long-term view" Sat,4 Aug 2012 10:43 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - London businesses who have complained that trade is down because people are staying away from traditional tourist venues because of the Olympics have been told to look to the long-term benefits. An official campaign encouraging people to avoid London during the Games to enable traffic to run smoothly appears to have succeeded beyond expectations. Shops in central London and the West End area around Oxford Street are now reporting empty aisles, restaurants are complaining about vacant tables and theatres are saying tourists are absent from auditoriums. ... Full Story Top Serb government tightens grip on central bank despite EU, IMF warning Sat,4 Aug 2012 10:36 AM PDT Reuters - BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's Socialist-led government stepped up control over the central bank in the struggling ex-Yugoslav republic on Saturday, ignoring IMF criticism and a warning that the move would hurt its bid to join the European Union. Parliament adopted amendments to the law on the National Bank of Serbia, as the government seeks to harness the bank to a promise of more expansive fiscal policies to halt a slide into recession and rein in unemployment of 25 percent. ... Full Story Top Las Vegas Sands target of U.S. money-laundering probe, WSJ says Sat,4 Aug 2012 10:27 AM PDT Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - Las Vegas Sands Corp, controlled by billionaire Republican donor Sheldon Adelson, is the target of a federal investigation into possible violations of U.S. money-laundering laws, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. The Los Angeles U.S. ... Full Story Top Clinton warns Kenya on cost of election unrest Sat,4 Aug 2012 09:47 AM PDT Reuters - NAIROBI (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Kenya on Saturday to hold free and fair elections and be a role model for Africa, underlining the need to avoid the bloodshed and economic loss suffered during the last vote five years ago. The general election next March will be the first since a disputed poll in 2007 that set off a politically based ethnic slaughter in which more than 1,200 people were killed. "We urge that the nation come together and prepare for elections which will be a real model for the entire world," Clinton told reporters in Nairobi. ... Full Story Top Sudan, South Sudan reach oil deal, will hold border talks Sat,4 Aug 2012 09:34 AM PDT Reuters - ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Sudan said on Saturday it had reached a deal with South Sudan on oil transit fees, a first step towards ending a dispute which had brought the hostile neighbours close to war, but also said it wanted a border security agreement before oil flows resumed. The shareout of oil revenues was one of the biggest issues left unresolved when South Sudan became independent in July last year, under a 2005 agreement that ended decades of civil war, and fighting along the ill-defined border pushed them close to war in April. U.S. ... Full Story Top Pirates attack ship off Nigeria, kidnap four foreigners Sat,4 Aug 2012 08:50 AM PDT Reuters - PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Pirates attacked a ship being used by an oil servicing company in the waters off southeastern Nigeria on Saturday, killing two Nigerian naval guards and kidnapping four foreigners, the Navy and the boat's shipping firm said. "An oil servicing company was attacked by gunmen. We lost two of our men and four expatriates were abducted, one Malaysian, one Iranian," Navy spokesman Commodore Kabir Aliyu said, adding that a Thai and an Indonesian were also taken. ... Full Story Top Egypt invites IMF officials to resume loan talks Sat,4 Aug 2012 08:46 AM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt invited officials from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to visit to resume talks on a $3.2 billion loan, the state's finance minister Mumtaz al-Saeed told reporters on Saturday. An IMF deal would help Egypt stave off a budget and balance of payments crisis and add credibility to economic reforms needed to restore the confidence of investors who fled the country after the state's popular uprising of last year. ... Full Story Top Egypt's Christian leader slams "unfair" new cabinet Sat,4 Aug 2012 08:45 AM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's new government fails to fairly represent Christians, the acting head of the Coptic church said on Saturday, saying one cabinet seat was not enough to reflect a community that accounts for a tenth of the Muslim country's population. Islamist President Mohamed Mursi appointed his first cabinet on Thursday that drew heavily on career bureaucrats and included three Islamist politicians, one of whom was given the politically sensitive post of education minister. ... Full Story Top US encouraged by Somalia progress: Clinton Sat,4 Aug 2012 08:27 AM PDT Reuters - NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somalia's political leaders are making encouraging progress toward meeting an August 20 deadline to lay the groundwork for a new constitutional government, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Saturday. Clinton met Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, president of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government, and other Somali leaders in Nairobi, during a seven-nation African tour. ... Full Story Top U.N. calls for credible probe into Myanmar sectarian unrest Sat,4 Aug 2012 08:27 AM PDT Reuters - YANGON (Reuters) - A top United Nations envoy on Saturday voiced grave concern over alleged abuses by Myanmar security forces after sectarian violence in Rakhine State and urged a full and credible state investigation. Tomas Ojea Quintana, the U.N. special human rights rapporteur, called on the government to find out the truth about violence in June between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and stateless Muslim Rohingyas and address reports of extrajudicial killings and torture by its police and soldiers. "I am concerned ... ... Full Story Top Egypt govt invites IMF officials to resume loan talks Sat,4 Aug 2012 08:27 AM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt invited officials from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to visit to resume talks on a $3.2 billion loan, the state's finance minister Mumtaz al-Saeed told reporters on Saturday. "We have offered an invitation to the IMF delegation to visit Egypt in the coming period," Saeed said without specifying when exactly the visit will take place. An IMF deal would help Egypt stave off a budget and balance of payments crisis and add credibility to economic reforms needed to restore the confidence of investors who fled the country after a popular uprising last year. ... Full Story Top U.S. encouraged by Somalia progress: Clinton Sat,4 Aug 2012 08:22 AM PDT Reuters - NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somalia's political leaders are making encouraging progress toward meeting an August 20 deadline to lay the groundwork for a new constitutional government, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Saturday. Clinton met Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, president of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government, and other Somali leaders in Nairobi, during a seven-nation African tour. ... Full Story Top Hong Kong government criticized over plastic spill on beaches Sat,4 Aug 2012 08:02 AM PDT Reuters - HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hundreds of millions of potentially toxic plastic pellets from containers knocked off a vessel during Hong Kong's worst typhoon in 13 years have washed up on its beaches where they lay for more than a week, activists said on Saturday. The Hong Kong government estimated that 150 metric tons (165 tons) of the pellets may have been spilled on its beaches, of which a third have been cleaned up so far. Local media questioned the government's lack of public notice about the spill, almost two weeks after Typhoon Vincente which was upgraded to Signal 10. ... Full Story Top Pirates attack ship off Nigeria, kidnap 4 foreigners Sat,4 Aug 2012 07:51 AM PDT Reuters - PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Pirates attacked a ship being used by an oil servicing company in waters off southeastern Nigeria on Saturday, killing two Nigerian Naval guards and kidnapping four foreigners, the Navy said. "The incident was somewhere around the Niger Delta, where an oil servicing company was attacked by gunmen. We lost two of our men and four expatriates were abducted, one Malaysian, one Iranian," Navy spokesman Commodore Kabir Aliyu said. He said a Thai and an Indonesian were also taken, but had no immediate further details. ... Full Story Top Rebels fill Aleppo power vacuum, some disapprove Sat,4 Aug 2012 07:35 AM PDT Reuters - ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - Blindfolded, shuffling along in his slippers, the skinny young man is dragged across a rebel base in Aleppo by armed fighters who slap his back, head and face. One of a handful of men held captive in the former school by rebels who control much of Syria's biggest city, he disappears down a flight of stairs to the basement, from where sounds of beating and screams emerge. ... Full Story Top Iran tests short-range missile with new guidance system Sat,4 Aug 2012 07:08 AM PDT Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has test-fired a new, more accurate short-range missile capable of striking land and sea targets, it said on Saturday, a show of strength that underscored its ability to hit shipping in the Strait of Hormuz if attacked. Israel has said it is considering military strikes on Iran's nuclear sites if the Islamic Republic does not resolve Western fears it is developing atomic weapons technology, something Tehran denies. Iran says it could hit Israel and U.S. bases in the region if it comes under attack. ... Full Story Top Table tennis: South Korea beat North in tense battle Sat,4 Aug 2012 06:49 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - South Korea's table tennis men fought back to beat their North Korean rivals in an edgy Olympic match on Saturday that they admitted had a politically charged backdrop for two countries still technically at war. "I feel pressure playing against North Korea. We are the same people and we speak the same language, but politically we are not very friendly at the moment," said Yoo Nam Kyu, coach of South Korea's men's team, through a translator. ... Full Story Top Palestinians to renew U.N. statehood drive next month Sat,4 Aug 2012 06:35 AM PDT Reuters - RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The Palestinians will next month renew a bid to upgrade their status at the United Nations, their foreign minister said on Saturday, a move which could strengthen their statehood claims after talks with Israel stalled. Palestinians are listed as a U.N. observer "entity" with no voting rights. They will ask to be made a non-member observer state at the U.N. General Assembly on September 27, Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki told reporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. ... Full Story Top Afghan lawmakers vote to dismiss security ministers Sat,4 Aug 2012 06:11 AM PDT Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's parliament voted on Saturday to dismiss the country's two top security ministers for failing to stop cross-border shelling blamed on Pakistan, in what could be a blow to NATO plans to reinforce stability and handover to Afghan forces. The fractious parliament voted to remove Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak and Interior Minister Bismillah Mohammadi over a series of recent insurgent assassinations of top officials, as well as the cross border fire incidents infuriating many ordinary Afghans as well as politicians. ... Full Story Top Clinton urges Kenya to hold free, fair elections Sat,4 Aug 2012 05:40 AM PDT Reuters - NAIROBI (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Kenya on Saturday to hold free and fair elections and be a role model for Africa, underlining the need to avoid the bloodshed suffered during the last vote five years ago. The general election next March will be the first since a disputed poll in 2007 that set off a politically based ethnic slaughter in which more than 1,200 people were killed. Clinton met President Mwai Kibaki, who is barred by law from seeking a third term, and Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who leads in opinion polls in the race to replace him. ... Full Story Top Sudan confirms oil deal, wants security talks first Sat,4 Aug 2012 04:57 AM PDT Reuters - KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan confirmed it had reached an oil agreement with South Sudan but said it would be implemented only after a new round of talks on security issues, state news agency SUNA said on Saturday. The neighbors had agreed on how much landlocked South Sudan should pay to export its oil through Sudan, African Union mediator Thabo Mbeki said earlier on Saturday. "The agreement does not fulfill the ambitions of both sides," spokesman for the Sudanese delegation Mutrif Siddig told SUNA. "Its implementation will start after understandings on security issues. ... Full Story Top Turkish army retires generals jailed on coup charges Sat,4 Aug 2012 04:20 AM PDT Reuters - ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Turkish military retired all 40 generals and admirals currently jailed facing charges of conspiring against the government in a further sign of greater civilian control of the once all-powerful army. President Abdullah Gul approved a decision at the end of a four-day meeting of the Supreme Military Council (YAS) to retire 55 generals and admirals, the General Staff said on its website on Saturday. ... Full Story Top Syrian army makes push into Aleppo battleground district Sat,4 Aug 2012 04:05 AM PDT Reuters - ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - A Syrian army helicopter fired machinegun rounds on the city of Aleppo on Saturday, a Reuters witness said, as Syrian troops fired artillery shells to break through the rebels' frontline in the battleground district of Salaheddine. "There is one helicopter and we're hearing two explosions every minute," a Reuters reporter said. In Salaheddine, rebels from the Free Syria Army hid in alleyways, dodging the Syrian army's bullets and tank rounds that struck a building in the district. (Reporting by Hadeel Al Shalchi; Writing by Yara Bayoumy; Editing by Janet Lawrence) Full Story Top Some Ugandan Ebola patients likely to survive: doctors Sat,4 Aug 2012 03:51 AM PDT Reuters - KAMPALA (Reuters) - Some of the 32 Ebola patients in isolation at a government hospital in western Uganda's Kibaale district are responding to treatment and may be discharged soon, a health official said on Friday. The east African country has been battling an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus which has so far killed 16 people. Health officer Dan Kyamanywa said on Friday there had been no new deaths in two days. "There are signs of optimism because a big number of the 32 patients we have in isolation are recovering. ... Full Story Top U.N. to send food aid to flood-hit North Korea Sat,4 Aug 2012 03:01 AM PDT Reuters - SEOUL (Reuters) - The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) has said it will send a first batch of emergency food aid to impoverished North Korea, where a series of deluges and a typhoon have left hundreds of people dead or missing. The North's state media reported on Saturday that the death toll from flooding between late June and the end of last month had increased to 169. KCNA news agency said the number of missing had risen to some 400, while 212,200 had been left homeless. ... Full Story Top Japanese chef meets North Korea's Kim and wife: reports Sat,4 Aug 2012 02:28 AM PDT Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese chef for the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il visited Pyongyang for the first time in 11 years and met the new young leader and his wife Ri Sol-ju, whom he described as "pretty and charming", Japanese media said on Saturday. Kenji Fujimoto, a pseudonym, who worked as the late leader's personal chef in the late 1980s and 1990s, told reporters in Beijing on his way back from the secretive North that the leader Kim Jong-un was happy to meet him during his two-week visit, Kyodo and Jiji news agencies said. ... Full Story Top China hits back at West after Syria U.N. vote Sat,4 Aug 2012 02:27 AM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - China hit back on Saturday at criticism of its stance over the crisis in Syria following a vote at the United Nations which overwhelmingly condemned the Syrian government, repeating Beijing's position that outside interference will not help. The special session of the 193-nation U.N. General Assembly approved on Friday the Saudi-drafted resolution, which expressed "grave concern" at the escalation of violence in Syria and condemned the Security Council for its inaction. ... Full Story Top

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