Sunday, June 24, 2012

Turkish, Syrian forces seek downed Turkish jet

Turkish, Syrian forces seek downed Turkish jet

Turkish, Syrian forces seek downed Turkish jet

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 02:43 PM PDT

File photo of Turkish Air Force F-4 war plane during a military exercise in IzmirANKARA/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu phoned world powers on Saturday to brief them about the downing of one of Ankara's planes by Syria as a joint search for the airmen, who were shot down over the Mediterranean, tried to locate them. Signals from both sides suggested neither wanted a military confrontation over Friday's incident as the search focused its efforts near a Turkish province that hosts thousands of rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad. ...

Israeli protesters smash bank windows, block roads

Posted: 24 Jun 2012 12:09 AM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Scores of demonstrators clashed with police, smashed bank windows and blocked roads in Israel's commercial capital Tel Aviv overnight during a protest against the arrest of an activist. Police said they detained 85 people at the rally, the latest sign of a nationwide protest movement demanding social reforms and affordable housing. People at the rally said they were angered after a protest leader said she had been injured while being taken into custody at a demonstration in Tel Aviv on Friday. ...

Magnitude 6.1 quake strikes far eastern Russia

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 08:41 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off the coast of far eastern Russia on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was centered 166 miles south-southwest of Il'pyrskiy, Russia, in the northern Pacific Ocean, the USGS said. There was no immediate tsunami alert issued, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. (Writing by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Paul Simao)

Vatican hires U.S. journalist to help media relations

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 01:42 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI greets the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Basilica for the canonization ceremony at the VaticanVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican, stung by communications blunders and mired in a leaks scandal, has hired an American journalist from Fox News and member of the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei to help improve its relations with the media. The TV journalist, Greg Burke, and the Vatican on Saturday confirmed what a senior Church source had earlier told Reuters. Burke, Fox's Rome-based roving correspondent for Europe and the Middle East, will assume the new post of "senior communications adviser" to the Secretariat of State, the key department in the Vatican's central bureaucracy. ...

Paraguay under pressure after Lugo ousted

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 09:55 PM PDT

Newly appointed Paraguayan President Federico Franco speaks as he is flanked by Senator Miguel Saguier and Congressman Salustiano Salinas during a news conference at the Presidential PalaceASUNCION (Reuters) - Paraguay's new president said on Saturday he would ask his impeached predecessor to help quell regional tensions after Argentina withdrew its ambassador in protest at what it said was a coup and Brazil recalled its top diplomat for consultations. South American neighbors and key trading partners are taking Paraguay to task for the unprecedented speed with which the opposition-dominated Congress removed President Fernando Lugo on Friday, saying he had failed to fulfill his duties to maintain social harmony. ...

Hollande's popularity falls slightly: poll

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 12:50 PM PDT

French President Francois Hollande attends a news conference at Villa Madama in RomePARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande's popularity has fallen by two percentage points to 59 percent, a poll published on the Journal du Dimanche's website showed on Saturday. The survey by pollster Ipsos was conducted between June 14 and June 22, a few days before and after the second round on June 17 of France's parliamentary election, which gave a large victory to Hollande's Socialist Party. Hollande's prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault had an approval rating of 65 percent, unchanged on the previous. ...

Massacre tests judicial reform in the Philippines

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 07:27 PM PDT

MANILA (Reuters) - Esmael Enog heard crackling gunfire and saw men armed with high-powered rifles carry out one of the most heinous crimes in Philippine history: the massacre of 57 people, including 31 journalists, on a November morning three years ago. But nine months after testifying in court last July and pointing a finger at a politically powerful family, Enog vanished. His body was found in a sack near marshland last month, chain-sawed into pieces, according to his lawyer. ...

Peru's Humala says water guaranteed near Newmont mine

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 03:04 PM PDT

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian president Ollanta Humala said on Saturday Newmont Mining would ensure ample water for towns near its proposed Conga gold mine, and that his government would not allow new mines to open if they hurt water supplies. U.S.-based Newmont on Friday accepted a stricter environmental mitigation plan for its mine, which will now require total investments of $5 billion, making it the most expensive mine in Peruvian history. ...

Chinese spacecraft docks with orbiting module

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 11:49 PM PDT

In this image made off the screen at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center in Beijing and released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Shenzhou-9 spacecraft and Tiangong-1 lab module, partly seen on left, are conjoined again Sunday, June 24, 2012. Three Chinese astronauts Sunday successfully completed a manual docking between of the spacecraft and the orbiting module, the first such attempt in China's history of space exploration. (AP Photo/Beijing Aerospace Control Center via Xinhua) NO SALESA Chinese spacecraft carrying three astronauts docked with an orbiting module Monday, another first for the country as it strives to match American and Russian exploits in space.

Paraguay's Lugo denounces ouster as president

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 11:32 PM PDT

Paraguay's new President Federico Franco gives a thumbs up as he arrive to give a news conference at the presidential palace in Asuncion, Paraguay, Saturday, June 23, 2012. Paraguay's newly sworn in president is promising to honor foreign commitments and reach out to Latin American leaders after the Senate removed President Fernando Lugo from office in a rapid impeachment trial on Friday. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)Fernando Lugo emerged early Sunday to denounce his ouster as Paraguay's president as a "parliamentary coup" and a "foreordained sentence" that was not based on proper evidence.

Egypt to announce election results Sunday

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 09:11 PM PDT

Egyptian protesters shout slogans in Tahrir Square as the country awaits the outcome of a presidential runoff vote in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, June 23, 2012. Tens of thousands of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood have rallied in the capital's Tahrir Square in a show of force backing candidate Mohammed Morsi, who has warned against manipulating results in a vote that he says he has won. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)Egypt will release results from disputed presidential elections Sunday, the country's top elections commission official said — an announcement that will put an end to nerve-wracking uncertainty about who is the official winner, but promises no resolution to the power struggles between Islamists, the military and other factions.

Turkey threatens action after Syria downs jet

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 06:57 PM PDT

Map locates Latakia, Syria, near where a Turkish plane was shot down by Syria.Syria said Saturday it shot down a Turkish reconnaissance plane because the plane entered its airspace, insisting it was "not an attack" as both sides desperately tried to de-escalate the episode before it exploded into a regional conflagration.

Partial roof collapse at Canada mall, evacuation

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 09:08 PM PDT

A woman checks out the damage after a roof collapsed at the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Saturday, June 23, 2012. The partial collapse prompted a local state of emergency and a search for anyone who might have been injured in the cave-in. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Cora Richer)A roof partially collapsed at a busy shopping mall in Canada on Saturday, prompting an evacuation and a search for anyone who might have been injured.

AP IMPACT: Syria rebels divided, at times violent

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 08:24 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 12, 2012 file photo, a Syrian revolutionary flag waves on top of a building on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. During two weeks with rebels in northern Syria, three Associated Press journalists found more than 20 rebel groups who often destroy government army posts and convoys but lack the weapons and unity to do more than gradually chip away at the regime of President Bashar Assad _ a recipe for a long, bloody insurgency.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)Rebel commander Ahmed Eissa al-Sheikh keeps a paper on his desk bearing the names of the dead from his brigade. The first 16 are neatly typed below a Quranic verse extolling martyrdom. The next 14 are handwritten and crammed into the margin, because the paper is full.

Hamas threatens to escalate attacks on Israel

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 11:36 AM PDT

A member of the Hamas security forces inspects the damage to a Hamas security building following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, early Saturday, June 23, 2012. A Gaza health official reported that at least one militant was killed and more than a dozen wounded during Israeli air strikes Saturday on the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military says the airstrikes target Palestinian militants who have fired over 150 rockets at residential areas in southern Israel this week(AP Photo/Adel Hana)Gaza's militant Hamas rulers threatened to escalate fighting with Israel on Saturday after airstrikes killed several gunmen in the coastal territory, and Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel wounded one person and damaged an elementary school in the country's south.

Syrian civilians hit hard by spreading violence

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 10:04 AM PDT

In this Saturday, June 16, 2012 photo, Umm Moussa holds a photo of her husband Mohammed Tilawi, who showed up dead in a morgue in October, in Khan Sheikhoun, Syria. As Syria's 15-month uprising has morphed from a popular call for reform into an armed insurgency, the country's civilians have paid a heavy price, watching their neighborhoods turn into battlegrounds and their friends and relatives die or disappear. (AP Photo/Ben Hubbard)Her daughter, 8, often hides in a closet, terrified of flying bullets. Her son, 6, still asks for his father months after he turned up in a morgue. And the family has little income because her brother-in-law was killed too.

APNewsBreak: Vatican gets Fox media adviser

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 02:08 PM PDT

This picture taken on Sept. 20, 2007, and released on Saturday, June 22, 2012 by Gregory Joseph Burke shows Gregory Joseph Burke as a Fox News journalist in the U.S. base of Camp Spann in Afghanistan. Greg Burke, 52, will leave Fox to become a senior communications adviser in the Vatican's secretariat of state, the Vatican and Burke told the AP. The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi said Burke will help integrate communications issues within the Vatican's top administrative office, the secretariat of state, and will help handle its relations with the Holy See press office and other Vatican communications offices. (AP Photo)The Vatican has brought in the Fox News correspondent in Rome to help improve its communications strategy as it tries to cope with years of communications blunders and one of its most serious scandals in decades, officials said Saturday.
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