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News: CORRECTED-Beyond monitors, world deeply divided on Syria Analysis: China currency move nails hard landing risk coffin Secure despite rocket fiasco, N.Korea's Kim lauds military Militants attack Pakistan jail, nearly 400 escape: police Militant on death row for Musharraf killing bid freed in jail raid: official Scandal mars Obama's wooing of Latin America U.N. to send monitors to Syria as fighting rages U.S. says Syria shelling of Homs violates ceasefire U.N. votes to send Syria monitors, killings continue Egypt disqualifies top Islamists, Mubarak VP from vote Peru says hostages freed, clashes with Shining Path Iran, big powers agree - to keep talking Cuba's allies to boycott future Americas summits Peru says hostages freed, clashes with Shining Path U.N. to send monitors to Syria as fighting rages White House sees "positive first step" in Iran talks China gives currency more freedom with new reform Obama seeks to woo Latin America, scandal mars trip Iran, big powers agree - to keep talking U.S. says Syria shelling of Homs violates ceasefire French hostages in Mali appeal to Sarkozy: video Israel moves to thwart pro-Palestinian fly-in Egypt disqualifies top Islamists, Mubarak VP from vote G. Bissau's main party defies military over coup U.S. official: urgent need for concrete Iran progress Sudan bombs disputed oil town, South Sudan says Protesters rally against Putin in southern Russian city USGS reports 5.9 magnitude quake off western Java In North Korea, third Kim's bloodline all that matters U.S. watches for North Korea's next move after rocket crash Iran's Jalili said uranium enrichment needed for peaceful means Chavez to skip Americas summit on doctors' advice At least 11 militants killed in south Yemen clashes: government Advance team of 6 monitors in Syria in 24 hours: Annan spokesman Belarus frees jailed opposition leader Lawyer for Egyptian Salafi candidate warns of major crisis Libyan Lockerbie bomber has emergency blood transfusion: brother Libyan Lockerbie bomber has emergency blood transfusion: brother Argentina ex-dictator admits dirty war "disappeared" U.N. votes to send Syria monitors, killings continue CORRECTED-Beyond monitors, world deeply divided on Syria Sat,14 Apr 2012 11:19 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With a cease-fire barely holding and the deployment of unarmed foreign observers expected to ease but not end months of violence, world powers are still struggling to find a longer-term strategy for Syria. After heavy diplomatic wrangling, the United Nations Security Council on Saturday finally approved the deployment of what could be several hundred monitors amid reports of sporadic ongoing fighting. ... Full Story Top Analysis: China currency move nails hard landing risk coffin Sat,14 Apr 2012 11:18 PM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - China's weekend reform of its currency regime nails shut the coffin on the last remains of doubt about whether the world's second biggest economy has successfully steered a course past a hard economic landing. Investors were questioning whether the worst sequential slowdown in China's economy since the 2008-09 global financial crisis could enter a sixth quarter after data on Friday revealed the weakest three months of annual growth in three years and a run rate below the official 7.5 percent 2012 target. ... Full Story Top Secure despite rocket fiasco, N.Korea's Kim lauds military Sat,14 Apr 2012 11:16 PM PDT Reuters - PYONGYANG (Reuters) - North Korea's new leader delivered his first major public speech on Sunday as the impoverished state celebrated the centenary of its founder's birth, calling for a push to "final victory" despite a failed rocket launch two days ago. A jowly Kim Jong-un, clad in black and the third of his line to rule North Korea, read monotonously from a script in Pyongyang's central square after goose-stepping soldiers and sailors showcased the North's military power in a parade in spring sunlight. ... Full Story Top Militants attack Pakistan jail, nearly 400 escape: police Sat,14 Apr 2012 10:01 PM PDT Reuters - DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Nearly 400 prisoners escaped from a jail in northwest Pakistan early on Sunday after it was attacked by Islamist militants armed with guns and rocket propelled grenades, a senior police official said. Some who fled the jail in the town of Bannu, near unruly ethnic Pashtun tribal areas close to the Afghan border, were militants, an intelligence official said. One inmate who escaped was on death row for involvement in an attempt to assassinate former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, a second police official said. ... Full Story Top Militant on death row for Musharraf killing bid freed in jail raid: official Sat,14 Apr 2012 09:27 PM PDT Reuters - ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - One of the nearly 400 prisoners who escaped from a jail in Pakistan on Sunday after it was attacked by militants was on death row for involvement in an assassination attempt on former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, a police official said. "There was an inmate named Adnan Rasheed, who was a dangerous prisoner. He was a mastermind in (one of the attacks) on Musharraf. These people came for him and took another 383 people too," said the official. (Writing by Michael Georgy) Full Story Top Scandal mars Obama's wooing of Latin America Sat,14 Apr 2012 08:27 PM PDT Reuters - CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) - A prostitution scandal involving U.S. security personnel in Colombia and an unprecedented regional push to end the isolation of Cuba threatened on Saturday to eclipse President Barack Obama's charm offensive to Latin America. In a major embarrassment for Washington at the Summit of the Americas attended by more than 30 heads of state, 11 U.S. Secret Service agents were sent home and five military servicemen grounded over "misconduct" allegations in a hotel. Prostitutes were taken to the hotel, according to a Colombian police source. ... Full Story Top U.N. to send monitors to Syria as fighting rages Sat,14 Apr 2012 08:12 PM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United Nations will send an advance team of observers to Syria on Sunday to start monitoring a shaky ceasefire, even as a surge in violence on the ground threatened to derail international efforts to end more than a year of bloodshed. Russia and China joined the rest of the Security Council to authorize the deployment of up to 30 unarmed observers in the first resolution on Syria the 15-nation council managed to approve unanimously since the uprising erupted in March 2011. ... Full Story Top U.S. says Syria shelling of Homs violates ceasefire Sat,14 Apr 2012 08:12 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. envoy to the United Nations Susan Rice said on Saturday that Syria's shelling of the city of Homs had violated a fragile ceasefire in the 13-month-long conflict that has brought the country to the brink of civil war. Activists reported the first shelling on Saturday in Homs by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad since the U.N.-Arab League-brokered ceasefire took effect on Thursday. (Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Eric Walsh) Full Story Top U.N. votes to send Syria monitors, killings continue Sat,14 Apr 2012 07:27 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Russia and China joined the rest of the U.N. Security Council on Saturday to authorize deployment of up to 30 unarmed observers to monitor Syria's fragile ceasefire as activists reported more deaths in the country and renewed shelling of Homs. The resolution by the 15-nation Security Council is the first it has approved since the anti-government uprising in Syria began 13 months ago. Moscow and Beijing twice vetoed council resolutions condemning Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's assault on protesters opposed to his rule that has killed thousands of civilians. ... Full Story Top Egypt disqualifies top Islamists, Mubarak VP from vote Sat,14 Apr 2012 06:21 PM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - The race for the Egyptian presidency took a dramatic turn on Saturday when the authorities disqualified front-runners including Hosni Mubarak's spy chief, a Muslim Brotherhood candidate and a Salafi preacher whose lawyer warned that "a major crisis" was looming. The presidential election is the climax of a transition to civilian rule being led by the military council that assumed power from Mubarak on February 11, 2011 at the height of the uprising against his three decades in power. The generals are due to hand power to the elected president on July 1. ... Full Story Top Peru says hostages freed, clashes with Shining Path Sat,14 Apr 2012 05:43 PM PDT Reuters - LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's Shining Path early on Saturday released 36 gas pipeline workers it took hostage six days ago in a remote jungle region in southern Peru, the government said, saying security forces had clashed with the rebels. The Defense Ministry said the rebels let the workers go before dawn after they were circled by 1,500 security agents and tried to flee, in a victory for President Ollanta Humala, who fought the group while in the army in the 1990s. Officials said the hostages were safe and in good health. ... Full Story Top Iran, big powers agree - to keep talking Sat,14 Apr 2012 05:05 PM PDT Reuters - ISTANBUL (Reuters) - After a year of sanctions and saber-rattling over Iran's nuclear program, negotiators from Tehran and six world powers finally resumed talks and found at least enough common ground to agree to meet again next month. With threats of war hanging over an already unsettled Middle East, U.S. and other Western diplomats welcomed their Iranian counterparts willingness in Istanbul on Saturday to discuss their nuclear activities - something they had refused since early last year. But though they will meet again, in Baghdad on May 23, they remained poles apart. ... Full Story Top Cuba's allies to boycott future Americas summits Sat,14 Apr 2012 04:52 PM PDT Reuters - CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) - Cuba's allies in Latin America declared on Saturday that they would stay away from future hemispheric summits if the communist island nation was not invited to attend. Increasing calls to end the ostracism of Cuba was a source of division at this weekend's sixth Summit of the Americas organized by the 34-nation Organization of American Sates (OAS) attended by President Barack Obama. The United States and Canada oppose inviting Cuba to the summits which have a democratic clause excluding governments that are not democratically elected. ... Full Story Top Peru says hostages freed, clashes with Shining Path Sat,14 Apr 2012 04:49 PM PDT Reuters - LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's Shining Path early on Saturday released 36 gas pipeline workers it took hostage six days ago in a remote jungle region in southern Peru, the government said, saying security forces had clashed with the rebels. The Defense Ministry said the rebels let the workers go before dawn after they were circled by 1,500 security agents and tried to flee, in a victory for President Ollanta Humala, who fought the group while in the army in the 1990s. Some of the captives said they walked through the jungle for hours after they were released. ... Full Story Top U.N. to send monitors to Syria as fighting rages Sat,14 Apr 2012 04:42 PM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United Nations will send an advance team of observers to Syria on Sunday to start monitoring a shaky ceasefire, even as a surge in violence on the ground threatened to derail international efforts to end more than a year of bloodshed. Russia and China joined the rest of the Security Council to authorize the deployment of up to 30 unarmed observers in the first resolution on Syria the 15-nation council managed to approve unanimously since the uprising erupted in March 2011. ... Full Story Top White House sees "positive first step" in Iran talks Sat,14 Apr 2012 04:24 PM PDT Reuters - CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) - Talks in Istanbul on Saturday among negotiators from Iran and six world powers including the United States represented "a positive first step" in addressing international concern over the Iranian nuclear program, the White House said. The parties in Turkey discussed Iran's nuclear program for the first time in more than a year and agreed to reconvene in Baghdad on May 23. ... Full Story Top China gives currency more freedom with new reform Sat,14 Apr 2012 04:01 PM PDT Reuters - China took a milestone step in turning the yuan into a global currency on Saturday by doubling the size of its trading band against the dollar, pushing through a crucial reform that further liberalizes its nascent financial markets. The People's Bank of China said it would allow the yuan to rise or fall 1 percent from a mid-point every day, effective Monday, compared with its previous 0.5 percent limit. ... Full Story Top Obama seeks to woo Latin America, scandal mars trip Sat,14 Apr 2012 03:54 PM PDT Reuters - CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) - President Barack Obama tried on Saturday to convince skeptical Latin Americans that Washington had not turned its back on them - but a prostitution scandal involving U.S. security personnel marred the charm offensive. Despite the host of weighty topics at the two-day Summit of the Americas in Colombia, corridor chatter revolved around a murky incident in a Cartagena hotel that led to U.S. Secret Service agents being sent home and five U.S. military members grounded. U.S. authorities said they were suspected of "misconduct" and an investigation was under way. ... Full Story Top Iran, big powers agree - to keep talking Sat,14 Apr 2012 03:40 PM PDT Reuters - Iran and six world powers began rare talks on Saturday to try to halt a downward diplomatic spiral over Tehran's nuclear program and ease fears of a new Middle East war. The talks, in Istanbul, the first between Iran and the six powers in 15 months, are unlikely to yield any major breakthrough but Western diplomats hope to see readiness from Tehran to start to discuss issues of substance. ... Full Story Top U.S. says Syria shelling of Homs violates ceasefire Sat,14 Apr 2012 03:35 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. envoy to the United Nations Susan Rice said on Saturday that Syria's shelling of the city of Homs had violated a fragile ceasefire in the 13-month-long conflict that has brought the country to the brink of civil war. Activists reported the first shelling on Saturday in Homs by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad since the U.N.-Arab League-brokered ceasefire took effect on Thursday. (Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Eric Walsh) Full Story Top French hostages in Mali appeal to Sarkozy: video Sat,14 Apr 2012 03:00 PM PDT Reuters - OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Two Frenchmen held hostage by al Qaeda in northern Mali since November appeared in a video on Saturday appealing to French President Nicolas Sarkozy to secure their release. The video, received by authorities in Burkina Faso and seen by a Reuters reporter, shows Philippe Verdon and Serge Lazarevic. Both were seized in northern Mali on November 24 in a kidnapping claimed by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Looking thin, Verdon, who will be 54 this month, appears with Lazarevic, 48, in a tent and says they are "in the desert in extremely difficult conditions". ... Full Story Top Israel moves to thwart pro-Palestinian fly-in Sat,14 Apr 2012 02:41 PM PDT Reuters - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel moved to block an influx of pro-Palestinian activists planning to visit the occupied West Bank, drafting a letter from the Prime Minister's Office suggesting they focus instead on "real problems" in the Middle East, officials said on Saturday. Some 1,200 Palestinian supporters throughout Europe have bought plane tickets for an April 15 visit to the West Bank as part of a campaign called "Welcome to Palestine". ... Full Story Top Egypt disqualifies top Islamists, Mubarak VP from vote Sat,14 Apr 2012 02:27 PM PDT Reuters - The body overseeing Egypt's presidential election disqualified 10 candidates from the race on Saturday, including the Muslim Brotherhood's Khairat al-Shater, former spy chief Omar Suleiman and ultra orthodox Salafi sheikh Hazem Salah Abu Ismail. Farouk Sultan, head of the presidential election commission, told Reuters the disqualified candidates had 48 hours to appeal against its decision. He declined to give details on the reasons for their disqualification. ... Full Story Top G. Bissau's main party defies military over coup Sat,14 Apr 2012 01:45 PM PDT Reuters - BISSAU (Reuters) - Guinea-Bissau's main political party on Saturday defied the military chiefs who overthrew civilian leaders in a coup this week, rejecting the army's proposal to form a transitional government leading to elections. The position taken by the PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde), which holds two-thirds of the seats in the West African nation's parliament, makes it virtually impossible for the military to form any kind of really representative administration following Thursday's coup. ... Full Story Top U.S. official: urgent need for concrete Iran progress Sat,14 Apr 2012 01:36 PM PDT Reuters - ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A senior U.S. administration official said the atmosphere in major power talks with Iran over its nuclear programme on Saturday had been positive but there was an urgent need for concrete progress. The official said dialogue in itself would not be sufficient for any sanctions relief for Iran. "Now we have to get down to the hard work ... the international community expects them to take action," said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. (Reporting by Fredrik Dahl; Editing by Ralph Gowling) Full Story Top Sudan bombs disputed oil town, South Sudan says Sat,14 Apr 2012 01:27 PM PDT Reuters - KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - Sudanese warplanes bombed a disputed oil-producing border town seized by South Sudan this week, the southern state said on Saturday, in an escalation of border fighting that has edged the two countries closer to a full-blown war. South Sudanese troops wrested control of the disputed Heglig oilfield from Sudan on Tuesday, prompting widespread condemnation from global powers and vows of retaliation from Khartoum. ... Full Story Top Protesters rally against Putin in southern Russian city Sat,14 Apr 2012 01:19 PM PDT Reuters - ASTRAKHAN (Reuters) - More than 2,000 Russians took to the streets of the southern city of Astrakhan on Saturday to protest against President-elect Vladimir Putin's political system, complaining of electoral fraud in a recent mayoral vote there. Oleg Shein, Astrakhan's defeated mayoral candidate, began a hunger strike last month along with some of his supporters, saying the election had been rigged in favor of his rival from the ruling United Russia party. ... Full Story Top USGS reports 5.9 magnitude quake off western Java Sat,14 Apr 2012 01:05 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 struck offshore western Java in Indonesia's Sunda Strait at a depth of 30.5 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Saturday. The USGS initially reported the quake as measuring 5.8 and a depth of 27.3 miles. It revised the location to 97 miles south of T.Telukbetung in Sumatra, after first reporting it at 111 miles west of Sukabumi in Java. There were no immediate reports or damage or a tsunami warning from the quake, which was 109 miles west-southwest of the capital Jakarta on Java. (Writing by Eric Walsh) Full Story Top In North Korea, third Kim's bloodline all that matters Sat,14 Apr 2012 12:58 PM PDT Reuters - SEOUL (Reuters) - Smarting from a failed rocket launch, North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has little choice but to stick to his father's playbook of milking an impoverished country to develop weapons and blackmail the international community for aid and recognition. Far from fearing a coup or instability after Friday's public fiasco, the third of his line to rule North Korea will lead celebrations on Sunday to mark the centenary of the birth of his grandfather, the founder of the world's only Stalinist monarchy, "Eternal President" Kim Il-sung. ... Full Story Top U.S. watches for North Korea's next move after rocket crash Sat,14 Apr 2012 12:55 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States kept a wary eye on North Korea after the reclusive state's unsuccessful launch of a long-range rocket and President Barack Obama said on Friday Pyongyang faced further isolation if it continued to defy the international community. The White House suspended a deal to provide significant food aid to North Korea following the rocket launch, which it had warned Pyongyang against. U.S. officials also consulted other powers, including North Korean ally China, on how to respond. ... Full Story Top Iran's Jalili said uranium enrichment needed for peaceful means Sat,14 Apr 2012 12:48 PM PDT Reuters - ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said on Saturday Tehran needed to enrich uranium to 20 percent purity for peaceful purposes. "Any right which is indicated in the Non-Proliferation Treaty should be respected," Jalili told a news conference after his country's first talks with six world powers in more than a year. "Enrichment of uranium is one of these rights that every individual member state should benefit from and enjoy for peaceful purposes," he said. (Reporting by Justyna Pawlak, Jonathon Burch and Alexandra Hudson; Editing by Ralph Gowling) Full Story Top Chavez to skip Americas summit on doctors' advice Sat,14 Apr 2012 12:33 PM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez will not attend this weekend's hemispheric summit in Colombia and will instead fly straight to Cuba to continue radiation treatment for cancer, his foreign minister said on Saturday. The 57-year-old socialist leader said on Friday the radiation therapy was physically tiring and that his doctors were evaluating whether he should go to the "Summit of the Americas" en route to Havana for a fourth session. ... Full Story Top At least 11 militants killed in south Yemen clashes: government Sat,14 Apr 2012 12:27 PM PDT Reuters - ADEN (Reuters) - At least 11 al Qaeda-linked militants were killed in clashes and an air strike in southern Yemen on Saturday, the Defence Ministry said on the sixth day of a government offensive which has killed about 200 people. Yemeni air force planes destroyed a vehicle in the southern province of Bayda, killing three "leading al Qaeda terrorists", the ministry said on its website. Ansar al-Sharia (Partisans of Islamic Law), a group affiliated with al Qaeda, said in a statement that three of its militants had been "martyred" in the attack which it said was carried out by a U.S. drone. ... Full Story Top Advance team of 6 monitors in Syria in 24 hours: Annan spokesman Sat,14 Apr 2012 12:24 PM PDT Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - An initial team of six ceasefire monitors is due to arrive in Syria within 24 hours and deploy within 36 hours, with more to follow within days, the spokesman for international mediator Kofi Annan said on Saturday. Annan spokesman Ahmad Fawzi told Reuters in Geneva that a six-person advance team, led by a Moroccan colonel, would be "quickly supplemented by more from UNTSO (United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation) in a matter of days". Russia and China joined the rest of the U.N. ... Full Story Top Belarus frees jailed opposition leader Sat,14 Apr 2012 12:20 PM PDT Reuters - MINSK (Reuters) - Belarussian opposition politician Andrei Sannikov was released from prison on Saturday after the European Union imposed new sanctions on the former Soviet republic. Sannikov, a former deputy foreign minister and presidential candidate, was sentenced to five years in prison last year for taking part in a mass protest that followed President Alexander Lukashenko's re-election for a fourth term in December 2010. ... Full Story Top Lawyer for Egyptian Salafi candidate warns of major crisis Sat,14 Apr 2012 12:14 PM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - A lawyer for Egyptian presidential candidate Hazem Salah Abu Ismail attacked a decision by the body overseeing the election to disqualify the ultra-conservative Salafi and others from the race on Saturday, saying he expected a "major crisis". "The man heading this committee has never been independent. This elimination was dictated to him and he is working under the guidance of the military council," Nizar Ghorab told Reuters, referring to the head of Egypt's election commission. "I expect a major crisis to happen in the next few hours," he said. ... Full Story Top Libyan Lockerbie bomber has emergency blood transfusion: brother Sat,14 Apr 2012 11:59 AM PDT Reuters - TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people needed eleven liters of blood in an emergency transfusion overnight, his brother said on Saturday. Abdulbasit al-Megrahi, who is suffering from advanced prostate cancer, was rushed to a hospital just outside Tripoli on Friday night after his health deteriorated rapidly. On Saturday, his brother Abdulhakim told Reuters that his family had been forced to ask volunteers to donate blood to Megrahi because the hospital didn't have enough itself. ... Full Story Top Libyan Lockerbie bomber has emergency blood transfusion: brother Sat,14 Apr 2012 11:58 AM PDT Reuters - TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people needed eleven liters of blood in an emergency transfusion overnight, his brother said on Saturday. Abdulbasit al-Megrahi, who is suffering from advanced prostate cancer, was rushed to a hospital just outside Tripoli on Friday night after his health deteriorated rapidly. On Saturday, his brother Abdulhakim told Reuters that his family had been forced to ask volunteers to donate blood to Megrahi because the hospital didn't have enough itself. ... Full Story Top Argentina ex-dictator admits dirty war "disappeared" Sat,14 Apr 2012 11:50 AM PDT Reuters - BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla has admitted for the first time that the country's brutal 1976-1983 dictatorship "disappeared" leftist opponents, a euphemism for kidnapped and murdered, and said babies were taken from their parents. Videla, 86, who was jailed for life in 2010 for murder, torture and kidnapping, has repeatedly justified the brutality of the military junta in the so-called Dirty War crackdown on left-wing opponents. Until now, he has also denied the forced disappearances. ... Full Story Top U.N. votes to send Syria monitors, killings continue Sat,14 Apr 2012 11:34 AM PDT Reuters - Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad shelled the battered Syrian city of Homs on Saturday, killing one person, opposition activists said, in the first such shelling since a ceasefire began two days ago. The United Nations Security Council is tentatively scheduled to vote on a Western-Arab draft resolution authorizing an advance U.N. team to monitor the fragile ceasefire which aims to end 13 months of bloodshed during the uprising against Assad. ... Full Story Top

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