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News: Militant group claims Syrian TV channel attack Costa Rica Congress freezes budget measures over row Scientists to unveil milestone in Higgs boson hunt China frees 21 detained over pollution protests Australia ship arrives at scene of boat in distress Peru clash over Newmont mine kills three U.N. chief pleads for arms pact, Palestinians demand seat Reactor restarts, but Japan's energy policy in flux Mexico's president-elect may double security spending: aide Peru clash over Newmont mine turns deadly Mexican leftist asks for presidential recount Explosion outside shopping mall in Nigerian capital Barclays' Diamond quits over rate rigging Peru may suspend freedom of assembly over Newmont protest Swiss institute finds polonium in Arafat's effects Tribunal finds U.N. chief Ban failed whistleblower Iran says it test-fires missiles in war of nerves Yemen air strikes kill four al Qaeda suspects: witnesses U.S., Pakistan reach deal to reopen Afghan supply routes After year of peace, trickier times ahead for Thai PM Mexico's new president will need outgoing party for reforms Ban Ki-moon pleads for arms pact, Palestinians demand seat IMF urges U.S. to remove "fiscal cliff" uncertainty Witness: Train ride shows Greece's transformation Police raid Sarkozy's home in funding probe Market bombs kill 44 before Iraqi Shi'ite ritual Expelled priest turns diplomat for Syrian opposition Canada dollar seen weaker before firming to U.S. dollar parity in one year Greece eyes revival without jeopardizing bailout targets Bomb in car kills two policemen in northern Mexico Palestinians take anti-Oslo protest to Abbas HQ Pakistan Taliban threaten attacks after NATO supply routes deal Syrian army attacks rebels, Turkey scrambles F16s Euro zone factory prices slip, fuel ECB rate cut calls Mandela daughter named ambassador to Argentina UK could stem EU migration if crisis worsens Church of England vote on women bishops could be derailed Russia to host Assad's opponents amid wrangling over his fate Oxford press pays out in Africa graft cases Analysis: Timbuktu tomb destroyers pulverize Islam's history Militant group claims Syrian TV channel attack Tue,3 Jul 2012 10:43 PM PDT Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - A militant group has claimed responsibility for a raid and bombing of a pro-government Syrian TV channel headquarters last week in which seven people were killed. The U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group, which follows jihadist websites, said late on Tuesday that the Al Nusra Front, a militant group, claimed it carried out the June 27 attack in a message posted on Islamist Internet forums. SITE said that in the statement posted on June 30, Al Nusra said the raid on Ikhbariya was a reaction to the channel acting as a "striking arm" of President Bashar al-Assad's government. ... Full Story Top Costa Rica Congress freezes budget measures over row Tue,3 Jul 2012 10:33 PM PDT Reuters - SAN JOSE (Reuters) - A bitter row has broken out in Costa Rica's Congress after opposition parties said they would not support President Laura Chinchilla's plans to tackle its yawning budget deficit until she dismisses two members of her cabinet. Chinchilla on Tuesday refused to submit to demands from the opposition after the two ministers were found to have violated an ethics code by a congressional watchdog for helping the wife of a former cabinet colleague win a contract. ... Full Story Top Scientists to unveil milestone in Higgs boson hunt Tue,3 Jul 2012 09:45 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists hunting the elusive subatomic "Higgs" particle will unveil findings on Wednesday that take them nearer to understanding how the Big Bang at the dawn of time gave rise to stars, planets and even life. Physicists who have been smashing particles together at near light-speed at the CERN laboratory near Geneva have already seen tantalizing glimpses of the "Higgs boson", the missing piece of the fundamental theory of physics known as the Standard Model. The world of science now awaits a mass of evidence big enough to be deemed a formal discovery. ... Full Story Top China frees 21 detained over pollution protests Tue,3 Jul 2012 09:39 PM PDT Reuters - SHIFANG, China (Reuters) - A Chinese city has released 21 people who were detained after a clash between police and residents protesting against a metals plant they feared would poison them, city officials said on Wednesday, the second unusual official concession in two days. Thousands of people in the southwestern city of Shifang took to the streets over the past three days against the government's plans to allow the building of a copper alloy plant, the latest unrest spurred by environmental concerns in the world's second-largest economy. ... Full Story Top Australia ship arrives at scene of boat in distress Tue,3 Jul 2012 08:40 PM PDT Reuters - JAKARTA/CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian navy ship was standing ready on Wednesday to help a boat carrying up to 180 people, presumed to be asylum seekers, authorities said, the third boat to send distress signals in the past three weeks between Indonesia and Australia. About 90 people died after a boat carrying asylum seekers sank on June 21 and around 120 were rescued after another boat sank in the same area a week later. ... Full Story Top Peru clash over Newmont mine kills three Tue,3 Jul 2012 07:42 PM PDT Reuters - LIMA (Reuters) - Three people were killed and 21 injured on Tuesday when Peruvian police clashed with protesters opposed to a $5 billion gold mine planned by Newmont Mining, officials in the northern region of Cajamarca said. The fatalities were the first in Cajamarca since protests against the mine started there late last year and the government has responded by suspending freedom of assembly to quell clashes between police, soldiers and protesters. "I don't think we Peruvians should tolerate bad apples who incite violence that ends up causing deaths," Prime Minister Oscar Valdes said. ... Full Story Top U.N. chief pleads for arms pact, Palestinians demand seat Tue,3 Jul 2012 07:03 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pleaded on Tuesday for a binding pact to regulate the more than $60 billion global weapons market, while delegates at a treaty drafting conference worked to defuse a dispute over Palestinian participation. "We do not have a multilateral treaty of global scope dealing with conventional arms," Ban told delegates to the conference, which runs through July 27. "This is a disgrace." "Poorly regulated international arms transfers are fueling civil conflicts, destabilizing regions, and empowering terrorists and criminal networks," he said. ... Full Story Top Reactor restarts, but Japan's energy policy in flux Tue,3 Jul 2012 06:43 PM PDT Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Buffeted by industry worries about high electricity costs on one side and public safety fears about nuclear power on the other, Japan's leaders are still struggling to craft a coherent energy policy more than a year after the Fukushima disaster. Critics say Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, whose top priority is raising the sales tax to curb bulging public debt, is caving in to Japan's "nuclear village" - a powerful nexus of utilities, bureaucrats and businesses - by restarting the first of Japan's 50 reactors to come back on line since the crisis. Kansai Electric Power Co's No. ... Full Story Top Mexico's president-elect may double security spending: aide Tue,3 Jul 2012 06:37 PM PDT Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto will seek to double security spending to around 2 percent of GDP to fight drug violence and organized crime while proposing new tactics to the United States, a top aide said on Tuesday. Emilio Lozoya, touted as a possible pick for foreign minister, said Pena Nieto's administration would try to boost efforts to tackle money laundering and propose trans-border infrastructure projects to help create jobs, cut business costs and increase security. ... Full Story Top Peru clash over Newmont mine turns deadly Tue,3 Jul 2012 04:59 PM PDT Reuters - LIMA (Reuters) - Two people were killed and 21 were injured on Tuesday when Peruvian police clashed with protesters opposed to a $5 billion gold mine planned by Newmont Mining, a health official in the northern region of Cajamarca said. Most of the victims were being treated in the city of Cajamarca and the town of Celendin where the clashes occurred - near where the U.S. company plans to build the biggest mine in Peruvian history, the official, Reynaldo Nunez Campos, said. "There are two dead in Celendin," he said on RPP radio. ... Full Story Top Mexican leftist asks for presidential recount Tue,3 Jul 2012 04:44 PM PDT Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The runner-up in Mexico's presidential election said on Tuesday he would ask election authorities to recount the votes from Sunday's contest, alleging it was riddled with fraud. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who finished about 6.5 percentage points behind President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), said the election had been corrupted by PRI vote-buying and other abuses. ... Full Story Top Explosion outside shopping mall in Nigerian capital Tue,3 Jul 2012 03:59 PM PDT Reuters - ABUJA (Reuters) - An explosion rocked a shopping mall in an upmarket district of the Nigerian capital Abuja on Tuesday, the emergency services said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties. "The officers of Search and Rescue and other response agencies are now at the scene and have cordoned off the area along Park and Shop and Banex Plaza," National Emergency Management Agency spokesman Yushua Shuaib said in a statement. ... Full Story Top Barclays' Diamond quits over rate rigging Tue,3 Jul 2012 03:59 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond suddenly quit on Tuesday over an interest rate-rigging scandal that threatens to drag in a dozen more major lenders but suggested the Bank of England had encouraged his bank to manipulate the figures. "The external pressure placed on Barclays has reached a level that risks damaging the franchise - I cannot let that happen," said Diamond, 60. The terms of his severance were not announced, though Sky News said the bank would ask Diamond to forfeit almost 20 million pounds ($30 million) in bonuses. ... Full Story Top Peru may suspend freedom of assembly over Newmont protest Tue,3 Jul 2012 03:42 PM PDT Reuters - LIMA (Reuters) - Peru may suspend freedom of assembly in the northern region of Cajamarca, Prime Minister Oscar Valdes said on Tuesday, after a rally against Newmont Mining's $5 billion Conga mine turned violent, killing two and injuring 21. President Ollanta Humala's government has implemented emergency measures to curb anti-mining protests on at least two previous occasions in the world's No. 2 copper producer. (Reporting By Lima Newsroom) Full Story Top Swiss institute finds polonium in Arafat's effects Tue,3 Jul 2012 03:38 PM PDT Reuters - ZURICH (Reuters) - Traces of the poisonous element polonium have been found in the belongings of late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, a Swiss institute said on Wednesday, and a television report said his widow had demanded his body be exhumed for further tests. Arafat died at a hospital in France in 2004, after a sudden illness which baffled doctors. Many Palestinians have long suspected he was poisoned. ... Full Story Top Tribunal finds U.N. chief Ban failed whistleblower Tue,3 Jul 2012 03:19 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and the world body's Ethics Office failed to properly review an internal inquiry into a whistleblower's claims that he suffered retaliation for alleging corruption in the U.N. mission in Kosovo, a U.N. Dispute Tribunal has ruled. The ruling "sends a message to the Ethics Office that the judges in the new U.N. internal justice system are monitoring it and that they will not tolerate failures to properly apply the U.N. whistleblower-protection policy," said the Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit whistleblower watchdog. ... Full Story Top Iran says it test-fires missiles in war of nerves Tue,3 Jul 2012 03:10 PM PDT Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Tuesday it had successfully tested medium-range missiles capable of hitting Israel as a response to threats of attack, the latest move in a war of nerves with the West. Israel says it could attack Iran if diplomacy fails to secure a halt to its disputed nuclear energy program. The United States also has military force as a possible option but has repeatedly encouraged the Israelis to be patient while new economic sanctions are implemented against Iran. ... Full Story Top Yemen air strikes kill four al Qaeda suspects: witnesses Tue,3 Jul 2012 03:01 PM PDT Reuters - ADEN (Reuters) - At least four suspected al Qaeda militants were killed in two air strikes, thought to have been carried out by U.S. drones on vehicles travelling in central Yemen on Tuesday, a Yemeni security source and witnesses said. The attacks came as Yemeni authorities said they had also arrested 14 al Qaeda militants, including nine foreigners - in the latest sign of a U.S.-backed push to defeat Islamist fighters in Yemen. ... Full Story Top U.S., Pakistan reach deal to reopen Afghan supply routes Tue,3 Jul 2012 02:41 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan and the United States reached a deal on Tuesday to reopen land routes that NATO uses to supply troops in Afghanistan, ending a seven-month crisis that damaged ties between the two countries and complicated the U.S.-led Afghan war effort. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a telephone call with Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, apologized for a November NATO air strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last November and prompted an infuriated Islamabad to slam the supply routes closed. ... Full Story Top After year of peace, trickier times ahead for Thai PM Tue,3 Jul 2012 02:03 PM PDT Reuters - BANGKOK (Reuters) - With the help of her photogenic looks, disarming personality and popular appeal, Thailand's first female prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, has helped maintain a fragile peace since being swept to power in a divided country one year ago. The political neophyte, who leapt from running a boardroom to governing the country in less than three months, has surprised critics and reassured investors by rebounding from devastating floods and building ties with the top brass of a military entrenched in Thailand's rough-and-tumble politics. ... Full Story Top Mexico's new president will need outgoing party for reforms Tue,3 Jul 2012 02:03 PM PDT Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, won a return to power at the weekend but will have to make deals with its defeated adversaries to push major economic reforms through Congress. President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto plans to fire up Mexico's lumbering economy by loosening labor laws, overhauling the weak tax system and opening up state oil monopoly Pemex to more private investment. ... Full Story Top Ban Ki-moon pleads for arms pact, Palestinians demand seat Tue,3 Jul 2012 01:15 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pleaded on Tuesday for a binding pact to regulate the more than $60 billion global weapons market, while delegates at a treaty drafting conference worked to defuse a dispute over Palestinian participation. "We do not have a multilateral treaty of global scope dealing with conventional arms," Ban told delegates to the conference, which runs through July 27. "This is a disgrace." "Poorly regulated international arms transfers are fueling civil conflicts, destabilizing regions, and empowering terrorists and criminal networks," he said. ... Full Story Top IMF urges U.S. to remove "fiscal cliff" uncertainty Tue,3 Jul 2012 12:59 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday urged the United States to quickly remove the uncertainty over the path of fiscal policy, which is set to tighten abruptly at the start of next year without congressional action. IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde warned that just the threat of the "fiscal cliff" could weaken U.S. economic growth later this year and she called for action to address it sooner rather than later. She said the potential for a deterioration in the euro zone debt crisis was the other main risk facing the United States. The U.S. ... Full Story Top Witness: Train ride shows Greece's transformation Tue,3 Jul 2012 12:39 PM PDT Reuters - ATHENS (Reuters) - On a hot summer morning I make the same train journey into central Athens that I used to make when I left the country 15 years ago. Much has changed in my homeland since I was a teenager, but many of the gains now seem fragile and reversible. I catch the train from Kifissia, a leafy northern suburb of Athens where I spent much of my childhood. The train is in a much better condition than I remembered it -- the paint is bright-red, seats are cleaner and there is air-conditioning to alleviate the scorching heat. ... Full Story Top Police raid Sarkozy's home in funding probe Tue,3 Jul 2012 12:26 PM PDT Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - Police raided the home and offices of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday as part of a judicial inquiry into financial relations between his political camp and the richest woman in France, L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt. It was Sarkozy's first legal tangle since he was unseated in a May 6 election after five years in office, during which he enjoyed presidential immunity from legal pursuit. That cover expired in mid-June. ... Full Story Top Market bombs kill 44 before Iraqi Shi'ite ritual Tue,3 Jul 2012 12:07 PM PDT Reuters - DIWANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Bombs killed at least 44 people at markets in Iraq on Tuesday, and authorities said they bore the hallmarks of sectarian attacks on Shi'ite Muslims by al Qaeda Sunni militants. A bomb in a small truck exploded in a market in the city of Diwaniya, killing 40 people, and other blasts killed four more near the city of Kerbala, police and officials said. The Diwaniya bombing was near a Shi'ite mosque where pilgrims gather on their way to Kerbala to celebrate the birthday of one of their most important imams, al-Mahdi, this week. ... Full Story Top Expelled priest turns diplomat for Syrian opposition Tue,3 Jul 2012 12:00 PM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - An Italian priest may seem an unlikely champion of Syrian national unity, yet Paolo Dall'Oglio's efforts to bridge deep sectarian divisions have gained him a following among a people shattered by conflict. Bashar al-Assad's government expelled Dall'Oglio last month, three decades after he revived a monastery on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Syrian desert that became a centre for dialogue between the country's myriad ethnic and religious communities. Nouri al-Jarrah, a London-based Syrian poet, called the expulsion a "shameful act". ... Full Story Top Canada dollar seen weaker before firming to U.S. dollar parity in one year Tue,3 Jul 2012 11:58 AM PDT Reuters - TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's currency is seen weakening over the next six months before firming to the one-for-one mark with the U.S. dollar, a Reuters poll showed, helped by the prospect of central bank easing abroad even as the Bank of Canada looks to tighten. The currency, which touched a six-week high of C$1.0121 against its U.S. counterpart on Tuesday, has swung in a 3-cent range over the past month, sinking to a low of C$1.0446 in early June on fears about Europe's debt crisis. ... Full Story Top Greece eyes revival without jeopardizing bailout targets Tue,3 Jul 2012 11:40 AM PDT Reuters - ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's new government will focus on reviving its recession-hit economy without missing targets under a foreign bailout, a deputy finance minister said on Tuesday, in a bid to assuage concerns it would renege on commitments to its lenders. Athens wants to take advantage of a shift in Europe towards more growth-oriented measures by tweaking the mix of measures in the 130-billion-euro rescue, but would not try to change overall fiscal targets in the plan, Christos Staikouras said. ... Full Story Top Bomb in car kills two policemen in northern Mexico Tue,3 Jul 2012 11:16 AM PDT Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - An explosive device blew up a car in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Victoria on Tuesday, killing two policemen and injuring another four in an attack that bore the hallmarks of drug cartels, police said. The improvised bomb, two days after a presidential election, was revenge for recent arrests of gang members, the attorney general's office for Tamaulipas state said in a news release. It went off shortly after midnight outside the home of the Tamaulipas security secretary, where the policemen stood guard, the release said. ... Full Story Top Palestinians take anti-Oslo protest to Abbas HQ Tue,3 Jul 2012 10:40 AM PDT Reuters - RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Hundreds of demonstrators marched on the offices of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday to protest against diplomatic contacts with Israel and to denounce police violence at a previous rally. Chanting for an end to the Oslo accords, which were meant to pave the way to permanent peace with Israel, the flag-waving crowd cut through Ramallah's crammed city center under the watchful eye of scores of plainclothes security officers. ... Full Story Top Pakistan Taliban threaten attacks after NATO supply routes deal Tue,3 Jul 2012 10:32 AM PDT Reuters - PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban militant group threatened to attack trucks carrying supplies to U.S.-led NATO troops in Afghanistan after Islamabad and Washington reached a deal to re-open the lines. "We will attack NATO supplies all over Pakistan. We will not allow anyone to use Pakistani soil to transport supplies that will be used against the Afghan people," the group's spokesman told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location. (Reporting by Jibran Ahmad; Writing by Michael Georgy) Full Story Top Syrian army attacks rebels, Turkey scrambles F16s Tue,3 Jul 2012 10:08 AM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian army pressed its offensive against rebels, bombarding the city of Douma near Damascus, and Turkey said it had scrambled warplanes after Syrian helicopters flew near its border. Turkey's armed forces command said the fighters took off on Monday when Syrian transport helicopters were spotted flying near the frontier, without entering Turkish air space. It was the third day in a row that Turkey had scrambled its F-16s. ... Full Story Top Euro zone factory prices slip, fuel ECB rate cut calls Tue,3 Jul 2012 10:05 AM PDT Reuters - BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone factory prices fell more than expected in May as the cost of energy dropped sharply, reinforcing the case for an ECB interest rate cut as early as this week to aid the region's stagnant economy. Prices at factory gates in the 17 countries using the euro slid 0.5 percent from April, the European Union's statistics office Eurostat said on Tuesday, as Brent crude continued to fall and change the inflation outlook. ... Full Story Top Mandela daughter named ambassador to Argentina Tue,3 Jul 2012 10:00 AM PDT Reuters - JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has appointed Zenani Mandela-Dlamini, a daughter of former President Nelson Mandela, as its ambassador to Argentina. The businesswoman is the first daughter of Mandela's marriage to his former wife Winnie. "Her appointment represents a clear recognition of the importance the South African government attaches to the relationship with Argentina," the Foreign Ministry of Argentina said in a statement. ... Full Story Top UK could stem EU migration if crisis worsens Tue,3 Jul 2012 09:56 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Britain could restrict the immigration of Greeks and other citizens of euro zone countries affected by Europe's sovereign debt crisis in the event of "extraordinary stresses and strains", Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday. "The legal position is that if there are extraordinary stresses and strains it is possible to take action to restrict migratory flows, but obviously we hope that doesn't happen," he told a parliamentary committee. ... Full Story Top Church of England vote on women bishops could be derailed Tue,3 Jul 2012 09:38 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - A vote to allow women bishops in the Church of England looks set to be derailed by its own supporters, who say a last-minute concession to conservative opponents is a step too far. Pro-women bishop campaigners want a final vote at the church's General Synod, or parliament, on Monday to be delayed so the amendment can be sent back to the House of Bishops for reconsideration. Before the amendment, future women bishops would have been obliged under a code of practice yet to be written to find a "suitable" alternative male bishop for dissenting parishes. ... Full Story Top Russia to host Assad's opponents amid wrangling over his fate Tue,3 Jul 2012 09:03 AM PDT Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Syrian opposition leaders will visit Moscow next week in what could be a litmus test for an agreement struck by the United States, Russia and other major powers on a plan for political transition in Syria. "We will use this coming meeting with yet another Syrian opposition group to continue work to end violence and start Syrian dialogue between the government and all groups of the Syrian opposition as soon as possible," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday. ... Full Story Top Oxford press pays out in Africa graft cases Tue,3 Jul 2012 08:39 AM PDT Reuters - NAIROBI (Reuters) - Oxford University's publishing arm has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle two cases of improper payments to government officials in east Africa, Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the World Bank said on Tuesday. Oxford Publishing Limited, agreed to pay 1.9 million pounds ($2.98 million) after the SFO initiated court action. Its parent company Oxford University Press (OUP) admitted "improper behavior". ... Full Story Top Analysis: Timbuktu tomb destroyers pulverize Islam's history Tue,3 Jul 2012 08:14 AM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - The al Qaeda-linked Islamist fighters who have used pick-axes, shovels and hammers to shatter earthen tombs and shrines of local saints in Mali's fabled desert city of Timbuktu say they are defending the purity of their faith against idol worship. But historians say their campaign of destruction in the UNESCO-listed city is pulverizing part of the history of Islam in Africa, which includes a centuries-old message of tolerance. "They are striking at the heart of what Timbuktu stands for ... ... Full Story Top

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