Monday, July 29, 2013

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Monday, Jul 29, 2013 09:03 PM PDT
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U.S. Army won't bar contractors linked to Afghan insurgents: watchdog 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 09:03 PM PDT
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army has refused to bar 43 individuals or companies from getting U.S. contracts in Afghanistan despite information that they support the Taliban or other enemies of U.S. forces, a government watchdog said on Tuesday. John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR), said he was concerned by the Army's refusal to follow his office's recommendations to prevent alleged supporters of the Taliban, the Haqqani network and al Qaeda from getting or keeping U.S. government contracts. "I am deeply troubled that the U.S. ...
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Murdoch's wife hires new lawyer in divorce case: New York Times 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 08:47 PM PDT
Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corporation, arrives with his wife Wendi Deng at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 24, 2013. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson(Reuters) - The wife of News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch, Wendi Murdoch, has switched lawyers in a move signaling that their divorce proceedings could take an acrimonious turn, the New York Times reported on Monday. Murdoch, 82, filed for divorce in June. He married the former Wendi Deng, 44, in 1999 in his third and her second marriage. They have two young daughters. ...
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Israeli-Palestinian talks begin amid deep divisions 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 08:25 PM PDT
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry greets Martin Indyk at the State Department in WashingtonBy Arshad Mohammed and Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian negotiators held their first peace talks in nearly three years on Monday in a U.S.-brokered effort that Secretary of State John Kerry hopes will end their conflict despite deep divisions. Top aides to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas began the talks over an iftar dinner - the evening meal with which Muslims break their daily fast during Ramadan - hosted by Kerry at the State Department. ...
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China rules out Sino-Japanese summit: state media 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 07:27 PM PDT
Japan's chief envoy to the six-party talks Akitaka Saiki arrives at Beijing airport November 30, 2010. REUTERS/Jason LeeSHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has ruled out the possibility of a proposed summit meeting with Japan, the official China Daily reported on Tuesday, after Tokyo proposed the meeting in a bid to defuse a territorial row. The report, quoting a statement by an unidentified Chinese official made on Monday, comes during a visit by Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki. Saiki's visit is the latest in a series of efforts by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to improve relations soured by the bitter row over uninhabited islands claimed by both countries. ...
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Hackers attack New Zealand government party websites to protest spy law 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 07:04 PM PDT
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Hackers disabled several websites of New Zealand's ruling party on Tuesday, protesting a planned law to widen the surveillance powers of the country's spy agency but the action was criticized by Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom as counter-productive. The government has proposed a controversial bill that would allow the General Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) to engage in domestic operations. Currently, it spies on foreign targets via electronic listening posts but is barred from spying on New Zealand citizens or residents. ...
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China rules out Sino-Japanese summit: China Daily 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 06:03 PM PDT
Chinese marine surveillance ship Haijian No. 51 sails near Uotsuri island, one of the disputed islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China in the East China SeaSHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has ruled out the possibility of a proposed summit meeting with Japan, the official China Daily reported on Tuesday, after Tokyo proposed the meeting in a bid to defuse a territorial row. The report, quoting a statement by an unidentified Chinese official made on Monday, comes during a visit by Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki. Saiki's visit is the latest in a series of efforts by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to improve relations soured by the bitter row over uninhabited islands claimed by both countries. ...
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Abbas wants 'not a single Israeli' in future Palestinian state 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 05:54 PM PDT
Palestinian President Abbas attends a meeting with Egypt's interim President Mansour in CairoBy Noah Browning CAIRO (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas laid out his vision on Monday for the final status of Israeli-Palestinian relations ahead of peace talks due to resume in Washington for the first time in nearly three years. Abbas said that no Israeli settlers or border forces could remain in a future Palestinian state and that Palestinians deem illegal all Jewish settlement building within the land occupied in the 1967 Middle East war. The forceful statements appeared to challenge mediator U.S. ...
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Gunmen kill eight Tunisian troops as political tensions grow 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 05:01 PM PDT
People waving Tunisian flags gather during a protest to demand the ouster of the Islamist-dominated government, outside the Constituent Assembly headquarters in TunisBy Tarek Amara and Erika Solomon TUNIS (Reuters) - Gunmen killed at least eight Tunisian soldiers on Monday, staging the biggest attack on the security forces in decades as political tensions rose between supporters and opponents of the Islamist-led government. President Moncef Marzouki called the ambush on Mount Chaambi, near the Algerian border, a "terrorist attack" and announced three days of mourning. Tunisian troops have been trying to track down Islamist militants in the remote region since December. ...
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Al Qaeda group kidnaps Italian priest in Syria: activists 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 04:41 PM PDT
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) - Al Qaeda-linked fighters in a rebel-held eastern Syrian city on Monday abducted a prominent Italian Jesuit priest who championed the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said. Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant kidnapped father Paolo Dall'Oglio while he was walking in Raqqa, which fell to militant Islamist brigades in March, the sources in Raqqa province told Reuters. ...
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Gunmen kill eight Tunisian troops as political tensions rise 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 04:40 PM PDT
People waving Tunisian flags gather during a protest to demand the ouster of the Islamist-dominated government, outside the Constituent Assembly headquarters in TunisBy Tarek Amara and Erika Solomon TUNIS (Reuters) - Gunmen killed at least eight Tunisian soldiers on Monday, staging the biggest attack on the security forces in decades as political tensions rose between supporters and opponents of the Islamist-led government. President Moncef Marzouki called the ambush on Mount Chaambi, near the Algerian border, a "terrorist attack" and announced three days of mourning. Tunisian troops have been trying to track down Islamist militants in the remote region since December. ...
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Berlusconi faces verdict that could endanger Italian government 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 04:32 PM PDT
People of Freedom (PDL) party member and former Prime Minister Berlusconi attends the Upper house of the parliament in RomeBy Barry Moody ROME (Reuters) - Italy's supreme court convenes on Tuesday to rule whether Silvio Berlusconi should be jailed and banned from public office for tax fraud, a verdict that could endanger Italy's shaky coalition government. A ruling against the former prime minister would be his first definitive conviction and signal the end of an era in which he has dominated Italian politics for two decades through his media power and political skill. ...
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Spain mourns train crash victims in official Mass 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 04:29 PM PDT
People watch the funeral in memory of the victims of the July 24, 2013 train crash, on the screen outside the Cathedral of Santiago de CompostelaBy Silvio Castellanos SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (Reuters) - Mourners packed a memorial service on Monday for the 79 people who died in the country's worst rail disaster in decades, as investigators prepared to analyze information from the train's data recording device, or "black box." The driver of the train, 52-year-old Francisco Garzon, has been charged with 79 counts of negligent homicide and released pending trial after a judge determined he was not a flight risk. ...
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Bombs kill 15 in Nigeria's Kano: police source 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 04:08 PM PDT
KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Multiple bomb blasts in Nigeria's biggest northern city of Kano killed 15 people on Monday, a senior policeman said, in an area previously targeted by militant Islamist group Boko Haram. Several witnesses said they saw dead bodies after hearing multiple blasts at around 9:30 p.m. (1630 EDT) in the Sabon Gari district, a predominantly Christian area dominated by ethnic Igbos from the southeast. "In all bomb attacks 15 were killed," the policeman in Kano told Reuters, asking not to be named. ...
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Timeline: Middle East peace talks resume 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 02:55 PM PDT
(Reuters) - Middle East peace talks, due to resume in Washington this week, have a long and mostly disappointing history. But while more than two decades of summits and negotiations have failed to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, some talks have come close and have left a template for future agreements. Following is a timeline of major summits and conferences aimed at Israeli-Palestinian peace. ...
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Mali election challenges loom as rivals stake claims 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 02:42 PM PDT
Poll workers count ballots after the end of voting in Mali's presidential elections in TimbuktuBy David Lewis and Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO (Reuters) - Former Malian prime minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's campaign team said on Monday its results put Keita in a strong lead and in reach of outright victory in Mali's election, but rivals said they were sure a run-off vote would have to be held. The statements came ahead of official tallies from Sunday's vote and are the first signs of tension after a robust turnout and the lack of violence showed how eager Malians were to turn the page on more than a year of turmoil, war and an army coup. The first official figures were not due until Tuesday. ...
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Gunmen launch major attack on Pakistani prison holding militants 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 02:37 PM PDT
By Saud Mehsud DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Grenade-wielding Taliban fighters battled Pakistani security forces during a sophisticated midnight attack on a major prison holding hundreds of Taliban and other militants, police said on Monday. Fighting continued into the early hours of Tuesday, and security forces said they had imposed a curfew on the city, Dera Ismail Khan, 200 miles west of Lahore. The Pakistani Taliban sent 100 fighters and seven suicide bombers on a mission to free some of their top leaders, said Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid. ...
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Iran nominee seen as olive branch to United States 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 02:30 PM PDT
IRANIAN AMBASSADOR IN UN SECURITY COUNCIL.By Marcus George and Paul Taylor DUBAI/PARIS (Reuters) - If Iranian President-elect Hassan Rouhani wanted to signal his determination to rebuild relations with the United States and strike a "grand bargain," he could hardly do better than pick Mohammad Javad Zarif as his foreign minister. Iranian news agencies reported on Monday that Zarif, a former ambassador to the United Nations and Tehran's leading connoisseur of the U.S. political elite, is set to be in the cabinet Rouhani will announce after taking office on Sunday. ...
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Two Swiss trains collide, 35 injured, driver feared dead 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 02:27 PM PDT
GRANGES-PRES-MARNAND, Switzerland (Reuters) - Two trains collided head-on in Switzerland on Monday evening, injuring about 35 people, five seriously, police said. The driver of one of the trains was still unaccounted for and thought to be inside the wreckage, at Granges-près-Marnand in the canton of Vaud, police spokesman Jean-Christophe Sauterel said. "These are regional trains. The speeds are a little lower and even if one deeply regrets the likely loss of life of one person as well as five serious injuries, the situation could have been much more catastrophic," Sauterel said. ...
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Quebec orders MMA Railway, World Fuel to pay for crash cleanup 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 02:27 PM PDT
The Montreal Maine and Atlantic Railways building is seen in the town of Farnham, QuebecBy Louise Egan OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Quebec government has ordered the rail and fuel companies involved in a devastating train crash that killed 47 people in the town of Lac Megantic to pay for cleaning up the crude oil that spilled in the town and surrounding lakes and rivers. Quebec Environment Minister Yves-Francois Blanchet invoked powers under a provincial law on Monday to force the companies to take financial responsibility for fixing environmental damage. "The citizens of Quebec are not the ones that will have to pay for this," Blanchet said in a televised news conference. ...
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Tunisia says eight soldiers killed near Algeria border 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 02:24 PM PDT
Tunisia's President Marzouki arrives at the airport in Algiers, during his first official visit to the countryTUNIS (Reuters) - Eight Tunisian soldiers were killed by militants near the Algerian border on Monday, the president's office said, in what appeared to be one of the biggest attacks on the country's security forces in decades. The incident occurred in the remote area of Mount Chaambi, where Tunisian troops have been trying to track down Islamist militants since December last year. (Reporting by Erika Solomon; editing by Mike Collett-White)
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Kerry seeks 'reasonable compromises' in Israeli-Palestinian talks 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 02:15 PM PDT
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry greets Martin Indyk at the State Department in WashingtonBy Arshad Mohammed and Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on Monday for Israel and the Palestinians to make "reasonable compromises" for peace as he prepared to preside over their first direct negotiations in nearly three years. "It is no secret this is a difficult process. If it were easy, it would have happened a long time ago," Kerry said with his newly named envoy for Israeli-Palestinian peace, former U.S. ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk, at his side. ...
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White House condemns Egyptian violence, killing of protesters 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 02:06 PM PDT
A member of Muslim Brotherhood and supporter of deposed President Mursi stands near burnt motorcycle after late night clashes, at entrance to their campsite near Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Nasr cityWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Monday condemned violence in Egypt that led to the killing of scores of demonstrators at the weekend but said it had taken no steps to suspend U.S. military assistance to the Arab world's most populous nation. "The United States strongly condemns the violence and bloodshed in Cairo and Alexandria over the weekend that claimed the lives of scores of Egyptian demonstrators," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters at a briefing. ...
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Egypt sides defiant as EU envoy seeks compromise 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 02:03 PM PDT
By Maggie Fick and Matt Robinson CAIRO (Reuters) - Europe's top diplomat pressed Egypt's rulers on Monday to step back from a growing confrontation with the Muslim Brotherhood of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Mursi, two days after 80 of his supporters were gunned down in Cairo. Raising the prospect of more bloodshed, the Brotherhood said it would march again on Monday evening towards a military intelligence headquarters. ...
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Tunisia announces three days of mourning for slain soldiers: TV 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 01:39 PM PDT
Tunisia's President Marzouki arrives at the airport in Algiers, during his first official visit to the countryTUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's president announced three days of mourning for 8 soldiers killed in an ambush attack by militants, state television said. Tunisian television cut regular programming and broadcast Quranic verses and patriotic songs, and announced that President Moncef Marzouki would address the nation shortly. (Reporting by Erika Solomon; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)
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Former U.S. President Carter has no plans to visit North Korea: aide 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 01:29 PM PDT
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter gestures before delivering a speech at a hotel in YangonWASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) - A representative for former U.S. President Jimmy Carter denied reports on Monday that he was planning to visit North Korea soon to try to win the release of an American citizen being held in the reclusive nation. South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported that Carter, 88, would be visiting soon to urge the release of Kenneth Bae, who was sentenced in May for committing crimes against North Korea. Deanna Congileo, a spokeswoman at the Carter Center in Atlanta, said that is not the case. ...
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Assad's forces kill 12 rebels taking flour from mill: activist 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 01:19 PM PDT
AMMAN (Reuters) - At least 12 rebel fighters were killed on Monday as they were taking flour from a mill on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus, opposition activists said, in their latest setback at the hands of forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. The rebels had only just captured the mill on the Damascus Airport road following a battle that lasted several hours, in the hope that they could relieve a food shortage caused by a siege of the area by loyalist forces for the last two months. ...
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Islamist party office attacked as Libya violence persists 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 01:08 PM PDT
People look at a vehicle belonging to the Libyan army after it exploded in BenghaziBy Ghaith Shennib and Feras Bosalum TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Assailants attacked an Islamist party office in Tripoli on Monday and a soldier was killed in fighting in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, officials said, in an escalation of violence following the assassination of a political activist last week. A government source confirmed Social Affairs Minister Kamila Khamis al-Mazini had publicly announced her resignation, several days after Prime Minister Ali Zeidan promised to reshuffle his cabinet to help cope with the "urgent" situation in Libya. ...
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Servant was well-treated, say lawyers for Saudi princess in U.S. trafficking case 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 12:55 PM PDT
Saudi Arabian princess Alayban, behind bars, listens to advice from defense attorneys while in court for an arraignment hearing in Santa AnaBy Dana Feldman SANTA ANA (Reuters) - Lawyers for a Saudi princess accused of holding a Kenyan servant a virtual prisoner in her California home portrayed the servant on Monday as so well-treated that she had access to amenities like a spa and pool and went shopping at local malls. The 42-year-old princess is charged with bringing the woman to the United States in May, confiscating her passport and paying her $220 a month to work 16 hours a day, seven days a week, while essentially holding her captive in a situation Orange County's top prosecutor likened to slavery. ...
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Newborn, pregnant women among 31 migrants drowned off Libya: UNHCR 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 12:47 PM PDT
ROME (Reuters) - A newborn baby and four pregnant women are among 31 migrants feared drowned off the coast of Libya after their boat suffered a puncture and sank while trying to reach southern Europe's shores, the U.N. refugee agency said on Monday. Twenty-two migrants rescued from the sea and taken to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa told the UNHCR agency that 53 people were travelling on their inflatable boat when it ran into difficulties on Friday, the third day of their journey. ...
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Gunmen kill seven Tunisian soldiers near Algeria border: radio station 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 12:29 PM PDT
TUNIS (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead seven Tunisian soldiers near the Algerian border on Monday, according to Tunisia's Mosaique radio station. There was no word on the attack from the army, and the identity of the assailants was unclear. A similar ambush near the border on police in April was blamed on hardline Islamist militants. (Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)
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Aggressive Chinese territorial claims bring risks: U.S. general 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 12:13 PM PDT
An aerial photo shows a Chinese marine surveillance ship Haijian No. 66 cruising next to Japan Coast Guard patrol ships in the East China SeaBy Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Aggressive moves by China to assert territorial claims run the risk of "miscalculations" but are also helping Washington strengthen ties with other countries in the region, the general who oversees U.S. air forces in the Pacific said Monday. "Being fairly aggressive runs the risk of creating the potential for miscalculation," Air Force General Herbert Carlisle told defense reporters in Washington. "That's something we think about every day. ...
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Syria says army retakes Homs district from rebels 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 12:04 PM PDT
A man inspects damage at a hospital in Deir al-ZorBy Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian troops drove insurgents from a central district of Homs on Monday, tightening their siege on remaining rebel bastions in the city, which links Damascus to the Mediterranean heartland of President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect. The military's gains in Khalidiya district follow a counter-offensive by Assad's forces, which have pushed back rebels around the Syrian capital and retaken several towns and villages near the border with Lebanon in the last few weeks. ...
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Israel convicts seven Arab citizens in Jewish gunman's killing 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 12:03 PM PDT
By Rami Amichai HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) - An Israeli court convicted seven Arab citizens on Monday in connection with the mob killing in 2005 of a Jewish gunman after he went on a lethal shooting rampage on a bus in their town. While none of the men was found guilty of directly causing the death of Eden Nathan-Zaada, a 19-year-old army deserter and far-right West Bank settler, some members of Israel's Arab minority deplored the verdict as a sign of discrimination. ...
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Pope says gays should not be marginalized 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 11:41 AM PDT
Pope Francis listens to journalists'By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis has said gay people should not be marginalized but integrated into society, in some of the most conciliatory remarks by a pontiff on the issue of homosexuality. In a broad-ranging 80-minute conversation with journalists on the plane bringing him back from a week-long visit to Brazil on Sunday night, he also said he could not judge gay priests, an emotive topic that divides Catholic opinion. But the 76-year-old Argentine did reaffirm Church teaching that homosexual acts are a sin. ...
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Tunisian prime minister aims for December election 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 11:30 AM PDT
Tunisia's PM Larayedh speaks during a news conference in TunisTUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's Prime Minister on Monday proposed holding fresh elections in December, and said that the Islamist-led transitional government would go on with its work despite mounting efforts to dissolve it. Ali Larayedh accused the secular opposition, which has launched widespread protests against the ruling Islamist Ennahda party, of being "coupists". "The government will continue performing its duties and it will not abandon them, not because it is keen to hold power, and we will maintain our responsibilities until the final moment," he said in televised speech. ...
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FBI arrests 150 in three days in sex-trafficking sweep 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 11:08 AM PDT
Frame grab of law enforcement officers making an arrest in New JerseyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI arrested 150 people across the United States on charges of holding children against their will for prostitution, a three-day weekend sweep that officials on Monday called the largest-ever operation against child sex-trafficking. The suspects, whom the FBI referred to as "pimps," were arrested in 76 U.S. cities and are expected to face state and federal charges related to sex crimes and human trafficking, FBI and U.S. Justice Department officials said at a news conference. ...
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Italian bus plunges off viaduct, 38 people killed 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 10:58 AM PDT
A relative of a victim of a coach crash reacts on the coffin in Monteforte IrpinoBy Roberto Mignucci MONTEFORTE IRPINO, Italy (Reuters) - Thirty-eight people were killed and at least 18 injured when a bus plunged 25 meters (80 ft) off a viaduct in Italy, in the second major transport disaster in southern Europe in less than a week. Initial reports suggested that the coach was travelling at high speeds and hit four or five cars before crashing over the roadside barriers on a stretch of road near Monteforte Irpino, east of Naples, on Sunday night. There were around 50 people on board, many of them children. ...
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Islamist party office attacked as Libya violence surges 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 10:53 AM PDT
People look at a vehicle belonging to the Libyan army after it exploded in BenghaziBy Ghaith Shennib TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Assailants attacked an Islamist party office in Tripoli and a soldier was killed in fighting in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, officials said, in a wave of unrest since the killing of a political activist last week. A car later exploded in central Benghazi but the blast was minor and no-one was hurt, a security official said. The death of prominent Muslim Brotherhood critic Abdelsalam al-Mosmary, shot after leaving a Benghazi mosque on Friday, has triggered violent demonstrations and attacks on the movement's offices in Benghazi and Tripoli. ...
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Israel convicts six Arab citizens in Jewish gunman's killing 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 10:47 AM PDT
By Rami Amichai HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) - An Israeli court convicted six Arab citizens on Monday in connection with the mob killing in 2005 of a Jewish gunman after he went on a lethal shooting rampage on a bus in their town. While none of the men was found guilty of directly causing the death of Eden Nathan-Zaada, a 19-year-old army deserter and far-right West Bank settler, some members of Israel's Arab minority deplored the verdict as a sign of discrimination. ...
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White House condemns Egyptian military crackdown 
Monday, Jul 29, 2013 10:22 AM PDT
A member of Muslim Brotherhood and supporter of deposed President Mursi walks near huge poster of Mursi after clashes, in Nasr cityWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House condemned the Egyptian military's bloody weekend crackdown on demonstrators on Monday but took no immediate steps to suspend U.S. military assistance to Egypt. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the crackdown, in which 80 people were gunned down in Cairo, sets back the process of democratization in Egypt and does not square with the interim government's pledge to swiftly return to civilian rule. ...
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