Turkish military convoys head for Syrian border: media

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• Turkish military convoys head for Syrian border: media
• In divided Egypt, U.S. plays all sides
• Venezuela poll shows tight race for Chavez
• Car bombs kill 8 in Iraq, many wounded
• Palestinian president to meet Israeli vice PM: official
• Pena Nieto wraps up campaign with victory near
• Microsoft attack puts spotlight on Greek tensions
• Magnitude 5.2 quake in northern, eastern Japan
• Guatemala sends dozens of drug traffickers to prison
• Chinese paper slams U.S. candidates for playing "China card"
• Hamas says militant assassinated in Damascus
• Troubled Europe summit: Merkel vs. everyone else
• Pope sets stage for historic blending of choirs
• Turkey deploys anti-aircraft guns at Syria border
• Syria violence escalates as US seeks turning point
• Palestinian leader, Israeli vice PM to meet
• Landslides, floods kill 106 in southern Bangladesh
• Serb nationalist sentenced to 2 years for contempt
• Mongolia votes; spending mining windfall at issue
• History unfolds: Queen, ex-IRA chief shake hands

Turkish military convoys head for Syrian border: media Posted: 28 Jun 2012 12:43 AM PDT ANKARA (Reuters) - A convoy of about 30 military vehicles, including trucks loaded with missile batteries, set off from Turkey's coastal town of Iskenderun in Hatay province, headed for the Syrian border 50 km (30 miles) away, Turkish media reported on Thursday. State-run Anatolia news agency said armored military vehicles were also being transported to military installations in Sanliurfa, in the middle of Turkey's border with Syria and Hatay, a panhandle province that juts down into Syria. Anatolia said there were reports the vehicles were to be deployed along the border. ...

In divided Egypt, U.S. plays all sides Posted: 27 Jun 2012 11:28 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ambiguous outcome of Egypt's revolution leaves Washington no choice but to deal with the country's two major players, the military and the Muslim Brotherhood, despite its disagreements with each. Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist movement long held at arm's length by the United States, was declared on Sunday to have won Egypt's presidency. He assumes an office whose powers have been whittled away by the military, whose recent actions are seen as anti-democratic but which remains the country's most powerful institution. ...

Venezuela poll shows tight race for Chavez Posted: 27 Jun 2012 03:31 PM PDT CARACAS (Reuters) - A new poll shows Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez only slightly ahead of challenger Henrique Capriles in the October 7 presidential election, welcome news for the opposition following numerous surveys showing Chavez with a wide lead. The leftist former soldier is seeking re-election for a third term to extend his self-styled socialist revolution, and he has boosted his public appearances as his health seems to be recovering from a cancer diagnosed last year. ...

Car bombs kill 8 in Iraq, many wounded Posted: 28 Jun 2012 12:43 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least four people were killed and 28 wounded when a car bomb exploded at the entrance to a Baghdad market in a mainly Shi'ite Muslim district on Thursday, two hospital sources said. A separate car bomb attack on the northern outskirts of the Iraqi capital targeting a government building killed four and wounded 20, police said. The attacks were the latest in a wave of bombings this month that have targeted mainly Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims and religious sites and have revived fears of widespread sectarian violence. ...

Palestinian president to meet Israeli vice PM: official Posted: 27 Jun 2012 11:55 PM PDT RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet with Israeli Vice Premier Shaul Mofaz on Sunday, a Palestinian official said, in the highest-level meeting between the sides since peace talks broke down in 2010. "There will be a meeting on Sunday between President Abbas and Mr. Mofaz. This comes after a request for a meeting from Mofaz," Chief Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat told Voice of Palestine Radio on Thursday. ...

Pena Nieto wraps up campaign with victory near Posted: 27 Jun 2012 08:01 PM PDT MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico's presidential front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto scented victory as he wrapped up his campaign on Wednesday with polls showing he should easily win Sunday's election and put the country's old rulers back in power. Voters elect a new president on Sunday and many are eager for the next government to end rampant violence by drug gangs and fire up an underperforming economy, sore points that have eroded confidence in the ruling National Action Party, or PAN. ...

Microsoft attack puts spotlight on Greek tensions Posted: 27 Jun 2012 11:15 AM PDT ATHENS (Reuters) - Gunmen driving a van packed with gas canisters firebombed the Athens headquarters of Microsoft on Wednesday, underscoring the threat of instability as Greece asks for more time and less hardship in cutting its crippling debt. Fire gutted the ground floor of the blue four-storey HQ of the U.S. software giant, blackening its walls with flames, on the eve of yet another European summit seeking a solution to a regional debt crisis first unleashed by Greece. At least two attackers were involved in the sophisticated assault at 4.45 a.m. ...

Magnitude 5.2 quake in northern, eastern Japan Posted: 27 Jun 2012 11:12 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 jolted northern and eastern Japan on Thursday, a government agency said. The quake, which occurred at 2:52 p.m. (0552 GMT), was also felt in Tokyo. No tsunami warning was issued. (Reporting by Chang-Ran Kim; Editing by Michael Watson)

Guatemala sends dozens of drug traffickers to prison Posted: 27 Jun 2012 10:29 PM PDT GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A Guatemalan court sentenced 36 alleged members of a powerful Mexican drug cartel to prison on Wednesday for various crimes, including dismembering a state prosecutor who was investigating the gang. Judges determined that the three dozen gang members, including one woman, were responsible for at least three murders in the northern region of Peten last year. The court also handed out prison sentences from two to 158 years for crimes ranging from drug possession, conspiracy, trafficking arms and murder. ...

Chinese paper slams U.S. candidates for playing "China card" Posted: 27 Jun 2012 09:09 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top newspaper slammed both U.S. presidential candidates on Thursday for playing the "China card" in their election campaigns, saying the real economic problems confronting the United States were being ignored in the process. In a strongly worded commentary, Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily said it was a "tragedy" for U.S. politics that the country's foreign relations were being sucked in to the domestic presidential election. ...

Hamas says militant assassinated in Damascus Posted: 27 Jun 2012 10:41 PM PDT A senior Hamas leader says one of the Palestinian militant group's members has been assassinated in Damascus.

Troubled Europe summit: Merkel vs. everyone else Posted: 27 Jun 2012 11:59 PM PDT Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel is the woman to watch — or fear, or confront — in Europe this week.

Pope sets stage for historic blending of choirs Posted: 28 Jun 2012 12:55 AM PDT The Sistine Chapel Choir, whose boys and men sing for the pope at all his Masses, is about to get some illustrious company.

Turkey deploys anti-aircraft guns at Syria border Posted: 28 Jun 2012 01:05 AM PDT Turkey deployed anti-aircraft guns and other weapons alongside its border with Syria, state television reported on Thursday, days after the downing of a Turkish military jet by Syrian forces heightened the tensions between the two countries.

Syria violence escalates as US seeks turning point Posted: 27 Jun 2012 03:20 PM PDT Gunmen attacked a pro-government TV station Wednesday near the Syrian capital, killing seven employees in the latest barrage of violence as world powers prepared for a high-level meeting that the U.S. hopes will be a turning point in the crisis.

Palestinian leader, Israeli vice PM to meet Posted: 27 Jun 2012 11:03 PM PDT A senior Palestinian official says Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet next week with Israel's new vice prime minister in an effort to restart long-stalled peace talks.

Landslides, floods kill 106 in southern Bangladesh Posted: 28 Jun 2012 01:27 AM PDT Searchers pulled out 15 bodies buried under mud, rocks and debris on Thursday, raising this week's death toll to 106 from landslides and floods caused by heavy monsoon rains in southern Bangladesh.

Serb nationalist sentenced to 2 years for contempt Posted: 28 Jun 2012 01:09 AM PDT The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has sentenced Serb ultranationalist Vojislav Seselj to two years imprisonment for refusing to remove information from his website that revealed the identities of witnesses who had been granted anonymity by the court.

Mongolia votes; spending mining windfall at issue Posted: 28 Jun 2012 12:33 AM PDT Mongolians are voting for a new legislature, going to the polls by foot, car and even horse for an election centered on how best to distribute the benefits of Mongolia's mining boom.

History unfolds: Queen, ex-IRA chief shake hands Posted: 27 Jun 2012 12:09 PM PDT Queen Elizabeth II and a former Irish Republican Army commander offered each other the hand of peace Wednesday in a long-awaited encounter symbolizing Northern Ireland's progress in achieving reconciliation after decades of violence.

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