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• Negotiators closing in on student loan deal
• Obama wants deals on student loans, transportation
• Euro-Spain ease past toothless French into semis
• New Paraguay leader scrambles to quell criticism
• Turkish, Syrian forces seek downed Turkish jet
• Cries of cover-up in possible vote on attorney general
• Egypt braces for Islamist president, or army rule
• Fourteen mutilated bodies found outside Mexican supermarket
• Sudanese protest over cuts amid security crackdown
• U.S. says attack likely in Kenya port city
• Hollande's popularity falls slightly: poll
• New York Asian-American Congress candidate seeks to make history
• Obama marks 1972 law lifting education barriers to girls
• Undocumented Immigrant Sees Impact of Obama Shift on 2012 Campaign
• Ecuador ambassador leaves UK to discuss Assange case
• Giffords' Successor Holds First 'Congress on Your Corner'
• Poland demands release of reporter held in Belarus
• Fourth Syrian red crescent worker shot dead
• U.N. report on Congo mutiny omits evidence of Rwanda role
• Former FIFA VP Warner is new Trinidad security minister
• Greek outlines issues it wants renegotiated
• Obama, Romney Both Winners at Latino Conference
• German upper house wants billions before backing ESM: Seehofer
• Spain and France chase goals, Germany seek moles
• Israel kills two in strikes on Gaza as truce falters
• Iraq sees escalation, fears spillover of Syria crisis
• Egyptians find out their next president on Sunday
• In Va. Senate race, Obama emerging as key figure
• German daily sent to all 41 million households
• Iranian general: military strike would be the end of Israel
• U.N. hopes for restraint over downed Turkish jet
• Greece outlines plan to ease bailout burden

Negotiators closing in on student loan deal Posted: 23 Jun 2012 06:28 AM PDT Congressional bargainers appeared to be closing in on a compromise that would head off a July 1 doubling of interest rates on federal loans to 7.4 million college students and end an election-year battle between President Barack Obama and Congress.

Obama wants deals on student loans, transportation Posted: 23 Jun 2012 03:02 AM PDT President Barack Obama is pressing Congress to reach agreement on a transportation bill and a plan to prevent students from having their loan rates double.

Euro-Spain ease past toothless French into semis Posted: 23 Jun 2012 02:57 PM PDT DONETSK (Reuters) - Holders Spain strolled into the Euro 2012 semi-finals after two goals from Xabi Alonso on his 100th appearance secured a 2-0 victory over a listless France team on Saturday. Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo and Nani will surely give Spain more to think about than a limp France did in a match which, despite being between two of the powerhouses of European soccer, produced little incident or excitement. ...

New Paraguay leader scrambles to quell criticism Posted: 23 Jun 2012 02:52 PM PDT ASUNCION (Reuters) - Paraguay's new president said he believes South American leaders will come to see the legitimacy of a fast impeachment trial that ousted his predecessor from office in two days and prompted criticism in the region and beyond. Federico Franco, the former vice president, was sworn in on Friday after Congress voted overwhelmingly to remove Fernando Lugo from office, saying he had failed to fulfill his duties to maintain social harmony. Lugo's ouster came in response to clashes over a land eviction that killed 17 police and peasant farmers a week earlier. ...

Turkish, Syrian forces seek downed Turkish jet Posted: 23 Jun 2012 02:43 PM PDT ANKARA/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. ...

Cries of cover-up in possible vote on attorney general Posted: 23 Jun 2012 02:04 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the classic Washington investigation at the highest levels of power, it is never the original offense that leads to trouble. It is who knew what and who said what that powers the probe and brings forth the cry of cover-up. That script is being followed almost to the letter in the drama that continues this week as the Republican-controlled House of Representatives prepares for a possible vote on contempt of Congress charges against the highest law enforcement official in the country, Attorney General Eric Holder. ...

Egypt braces for Islamist president, or army rule Posted: 23 Jun 2012 02:02 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Five hundred days after they overthrew Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians will finally have a new president on Sunday, the first they have chosen freely and who may well be from the Muslim Brotherhood, which Mubarak and fellow generals spent a lifetime fighting. The result of last weekend's run-off, due in an election committee news conference at 3 p.m. (1300 GMT), will be historic for Egypt and the Middle East. ...

Fourteen mutilated bodies found outside Mexican supermarket Posted: 23 Jun 2012 01:47 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Fourteen mutilated corpses and a threatening message aimed at a drug cartel were found inside a truck in the parking lot of a supermarket in a northern Mexico city, local media reported on Saturday. Mexico's attorney general's office could not immediately confirm the reports of the grisly discovery in Mante and police officials in the crime-ridden city were not immediately available for comment. Mexican media said the body parts belonged to 10 men and four women and the message was directed at the Gulf cartel. ...

Sudanese protest over cuts amid security crackdown Posted: 23 Jun 2012 01:44 PM PDT KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Hundreds of Sudanese joined anti-government demonstrations across Khartoum on Saturday, as protests against spending cuts flared for a second week despite a security crackdown. Sudan's police force ordered its officers to put an end to the demonstrations "immediately", state media said, after the protests spread throughout the capital a day earlier expanding beyond the core of student activists initially involved. Angered by a raft of austerity measures meant to tackle a $2. ...

U.S. says attack likely in Kenya port city Posted: 23 Jun 2012 12:59 PM PDT NAIROBI (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Kenya has warned of an imminent threat of an attack on the Kenyan port city of Mombasa and asked all its government workers to leave the coastal town, which has been hit by a series of attacks. Underscoring the threat, police said they recovered suspected bomb-making material in the capital Nairobi on Saturday, the second such discovery this week in the country. The U.S. ...

Hollande's popularity falls slightly: poll Posted: 23 Jun 2012 12:50 PM PDT PARIS (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. ...

New York Asian-American Congress candidate seeks to make history Posted: 23 Jun 2012 12:39 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - All politics is local, but in Queens, New York City's most ethnically diverse borough, local politics can also be international. In a newly drawn congressional district here that is now 40 percent Asian, state Assemblywoman Grace Meng is running to be the first Asian-American member of New York's congressional delegation. Her main rival in the Democratic primary, Assemblyman Rory Lancman, has made support for Israel a central issue. U.S. ...

Obama marks 1972 law lifting education barriers to girls Posted: 23 Jun 2012 11:46 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, marking the 40th anniversary of landmark legislation that lifted barriers to girls and women in education and school sports, said on Saturday the law had achieved far-reaching gains in improving equality between the sexes. In an op-ed piece published in Newsweek magazine, Obama said the legislation known as Title IX, signed in 1972 by President Richard Nixon, fostered a spirit of competition that has also helped girls and women succeed off the sports fields. ...

Undocumented Immigrant Sees Impact of Obama Shift on 2012 Campaign Posted: 23 Jun 2012 11:42 AM PDT LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Jose Manuel Godinez-Samperi can't vote in the November election. But Godinez-Samperi, along with and tens of thousands of other young undocumented immigrants are indelibly influencing the 2012 presidential race. These so-called "dreamers," who came to the U.S. before age 16,...

Ecuador ambassador leaves UK to discuss Assange case Posted: 23 Jun 2012 11:41 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Ecuador's ambassador to Britain is returning home to discuss whether to offer asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who sought refuge in the South American country's London embassy, the embassy said on Saturday. The Australian former computer hacker, who enraged Washington in 2010 when his WikiLeaks website published secret U.S. diplomatic cables, is wanted for questioning in Sweden over sex crime allegations. ...

Giffords' Successor Holds First 'Congress on Your Corner' Posted: 23 Jun 2012 11:01 AM PDT Just days after being sworn in as Gabrielle Giffords' successor, Rep. Ron Barber, D-Ariz., is carrying on his old boss' tradition by holding his first "Congress on Your Corner" event at a Tucson grocery store. Barber plans to meet with his constituents at a Safeway...

Poland demands release of reporter held in Belarus Posted: 23 Jun 2012 10:41 AM PDT WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland has summoned the Belarusian ambassador to demand the release of a Polish newspaper's reporter arrested this week, warning that Minsk risked further isolation and tougher sanctions. Andrzej Poczobut, the Belarus correspondent of Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza and a prominent Polish-Belarusian minority activist, was arrested for insulting Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday, less than a year after serving jail time for similar offences. ...

Fourth Syrian red crescent worker shot dead Posted: 23 Jun 2012 10:35 AM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Red Crescent volunteer was shot dead on first aid duty in Syria, his organization said on Saturday, the fourth local aid worker to be killed as unrest grows increasingly bloody. Bashar al-Youssef, 23, was shot in the head on Friday while wearing a uniform clearly marked with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent emblem, the SARC said in a statement. "We are shocked by Bashar's death, it is completely unacceptable," said Abdul Rahman al-Attar, the president of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent. ...

U.N. report on Congo mutiny omits evidence of Rwanda role Posted: 23 Jun 2012 10:02 AM PDT KINSHASA (Reuters) - A United Nations report on the Democratic Republic of Congo has omitted reference to findings of the U.N.'s own investigators that high-ranking Rwandan officials are backing an army mutiny in Congo's volatile east. Diplomats have accused the United States of seeking to delay publication of the findings by the U.N. Group of Experts to give neighboring Rwanda time to formulate a response. In a closed door briefing to the U.N. ...

Former FIFA VP Warner is new Trinidad security minister Posted: 23 Jun 2012 09:23 AM PDT PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - Former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner, who resigned from soccer's international governing body following a cash-for-votes scandal last year, has been appointed as Trinidad and Tobago's new national security minister. In a Friday night Cabinet shake-up, the second in two years, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar moved Warner from his post as minister of public works and infrastructure to take over the national security ministry and tackle the country's high crime rate. ...

Greek outlines issues it wants renegotiated Posted: 23 Jun 2012 08:51 AM PDT Greece's new coalition government said Saturday it will seek to repeal some taxes, halt layoffs and extend by two years the deadlines for tough austerity measures imposed under its international bailout agreement.

Obama, Romney Both Winners at Latino Conference Posted: 23 Jun 2012 08:35 AM PDT LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- A high-profile gathering of Latino public officials turned out to be a win-win for President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, according to interviews with those who attended. Democrats did not take Obama to task for waiting so long to stop deportations of young illegal immigrants, and Republicans expressed relief at Romney's presence and softer tone.

German upper house wants billions before backing ESM: Seehofer Posted: 23 Jun 2012 08:31 AM PDT BERLIN (Reuters) - German parliament's upper house wants financial concessions worth billions of euros to the country's 16 federal states before backing the permanent bailout scheme for the euro zone and the fiscal pact next week, its president said. Bavaria state premier Horst Seehofer, who holds the rotating presidency of the upper house, also told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper: "I am very much in favour of the fiscal pact but we are going to have a difficult situation if they stay stubborn in Berlin", according to an advance released on Saturday. ...

Spain and France chase goals, Germany seek moles Posted: 23 Jun 2012 08:25 AM PDT DONETSK (Reuters) - Holders Spain face France in the third quarter-final and first heavyweight knockout clash of the European Championship later on Saturday when Vicente del Bosque's men will be looking to avoid any nasty surprises. The high quality tournament has generally run to form so far but Germany coach Joachim Loew, whose side beat Greece 4-2 in Friday's last-eight tie, did receive one unwanted shock when his lineup was leaked to the media hours before kick off. ...

Israel kills two in strikes on Gaza as truce falters Posted: 23 Jun 2012 08:13 AM PDT GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli air strikes on Hamas security targets in Gaza killed two Palestinians and wounded 30 people on Saturday, medical officials in the Islamist-ruled territory said, while heavier rocket fire by militants wounded an Israeli man. The escalating violence undermined a shaky truce brokered by Egypt on Wednesday, which sought to calm the latest flare-up in fighting that began on Monday when an Israeli man and two gunmen were killed in a raid launched from Egypt's Sinai desert. ...

Iraq sees escalation, fears spillover of Syria crisis Posted: 23 Jun 2012 08:12 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Syria's downing of a Turkish plane marks a serious escalation of the Syrian crisis, which risks spilling over into neighboring countries, Iraq's foreign minister said on Saturday. Syria shot down a Turkish jet over the Mediterranean on Friday and Ankara has said it will do whatever is necessary after the incident, which threatened to open a new international dimension in the 16-month revolt against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. ...

Egyptians find out their next president on Sunday Posted: 23 Jun 2012 08:03 AM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptians find out on Sunday whether their next president will be a former military officer or an Islamist from the army's old adversary, the Muslim Brotherhood, after a long week's wait since a vote to pick a successor to the deposed Hosni Mubarak. Impatient Brotherhood supporters have been out on Cairo's Tahrir Square day and night since a call in midweek from their leaders to demand the current ruling generals cancel measures they say are designed to hem in the powers of the man they believe was elected last weekend, Islamist Mohamed Morsy. ...

In Va. Senate race, Obama emerging as key figure Posted: 23 Jun 2012 07:56 AM PDT The dominant figure in a Virginia Senate race that could determine the direction of Congress next year is President Barack Obama even though both candidates are former governors well-known to voters.

German daily sent to all 41 million households Posted: 23 Jun 2012 07:53 AM PDT BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's best-selling newspaper was given away free to almost all of the country's 41 million households on Saturday in a controversial celebration of the daily's 60th anniversary that set a world record for largest circulation. Bild newspaper - a tabloid-style daily both feared and respected for its massive influence in Germany but also known for its hard-hitting campaigns and photos of nude women - sent 41 million copies to all but 200,000 postal addresses of people who expressly requested not to receive Saturday's newspaper. ...

Iranian general: military strike would be the end of Israel Posted: 23 Jun 2012 07:51 AM PDT DUBAI (Reuters) - A high-ranking Iranian general said on Saturday Israeli military action against Iran's nuclear program would lead to the collapse of the Jewish state, Fars news agency reported. Last week's round of nuclear talks between Iran and world powers in Moscow failed to secure a breakthrough, heightening fears Israel might take unilateral military action to curb Iran's nuclear activities. The two sides agreed to a follow-up meeting of technical experts on July 3, saving the process from outright failure. ...

U.N. hopes for restraint over downed Turkish jet Posted: 23 Jun 2012 07:40 AM PDT ANKARA (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hopes Turkey and Syria will exercise restraint over Syria's downing of a Turkish jet fighter over the Mediterranean, his spokesman said on Saturday. "The secretary-general is following the situation closely. He hopes this serious incident can be handled with restraint by both sides through diplomatic channels," Ban's spokesman Martin Nesirky said in an emailed statement. ...

Greece outlines plan to ease bailout burden Posted: 23 Jun 2012 07:29 AM PDT ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece wants tax cuts, extra help for the poor and unemployed, a freeze on public sector lay-offs and more time to cut its deficit under a plan likely to run into strong opposition at a European Union summit next week. The new coalition government's program, seen by Reuters on Saturday, reflected public pressure to ease the terms of a 130 billion euro ($163 billion) bailout saving Greece from bankruptcy but only at the cost of harsh economic suffering. ...

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