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SNOWDEN IS A SIGN OF OUR TIMES
U.S. officials don't know how much secret material Snowden took
Ten car bombs kill 39 in Iraqi capital
Sunni cleric incites gun battle with Lebanese Army and Hezbollah
Series of bomb attacks in Iraq kill at least 42
News Summary: Citi plans office in Baghdad
Officials: Attacks in Iraq kill at least 33
Car bombs kill 39 in Iraqi capital Baghdad
Officials: Attacks in Iraq kill at least 19
Officials: Attacks in Iraq kill at least 10
Egypt mob yelled 'infidels' at Shi'ites beaten to death
Site of Earliest Known Urban Warfare Threatened by Syrian War
Analysis - Al Qaeda's Syria rift may lead to open conflict among jihadis
Why Edward Snowden's Motives Matter
Syria says rebels will take years to match army's strength
Report: Economic well-being of US children slips
It's Not Just the Talking Heads Calling Edward Snowden a Traitor Anymore
Suicide bomber kills Iraqi counter-terrorism official
Officials: Suicide attacks in Iraq kill at least 3
As banks eye Iraq, Citi plans office in Baghdad
Soccer-China sack coach Camacho after costly spell
Today in History
Hatred between Sunnis, Shiites abounds in Mideast
Milan fashion designers have travel on their mind

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 04:02 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Ever since he ran off with bags full of secrets from the National Security Agency's towers of tricks, American dissident Edward Snowden has been wandering the world at top speed like a Tour de France driver who lost the roadway somewhere north of Nice.There he was in Hong Kong! Snowden's people said the Chinese autonomous city-state had no extradition treaty with the U.S., but in fact it did. Then, there he was off to Iceland, or was it Venezuela, or was it simply Canada? No, in fact, it was Russia. ...

U.S. officials don't know how much secret material Snowden took

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 03:46 PM PDT

By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies are worried they do not yet know how much highly sensitive material is in the possession of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, whose whereabouts are unclear, several U.S. officials said. The agencies fear that Snowden may have taken many more documents than officials initially estimated and that his alliance with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange increases the likelihood that they will be made public without considering the security implications, they said. ...

Ten car bombs kill 39 in Iraqi capital

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 12:59 PM PDT

By Kareem Raheem BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Ten car bombs exploded across the Iraqi capital on Monday, killing nearly 40 people in markets and garages on the evening of a Shi'ite Muslim celebration, police and medical sources said. Some of the attacks targeted districts where Shi'ites were commemorating the anniversary of the birth of a revered Imam, but there also were explosions in mixed neighborhoods and districts with a high population of Sunnis. ...

Sunni cleric incites gun battle with Lebanese Army and Hezbollah

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 12:41 PM PDT

A two-day battle between Lebanese troops and followers of a radical Sunni cleric, one of the most severe in Lebanon since Syria's uprising began, has starkly illustrated its perilous instability. It also brought powerful Hezbollah fighters into the fray, pitting the militant group founded to fight Israel against fellow Lebanese.

Series of bomb attacks in Iraq kill at least 42

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 12:40 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of evening bombings near markets in and around Baghdad and other blasts north of the capital killed at least 42 people and wounded dozens of others Monday in the latest eruption of bloodshed to rock Iraq.

News Summary: Citi plans office in Baghdad

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 12:01 PM PDT

BANKING ON IRAQ: Citigroup Inc. is set to become the first American bank to open an office of its own in Baghdad, highlighting financial firms' growing interest in Iraq. CONCERNS REMAIN: Iraq has struggled ...

Officials: Attacks in Iraq kill at least 33

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 10:53 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Attacks on Monday across Iraq, including night car bomb blasts near markets in and around Baghdad, killed at least 33 people and wounded dozens of others, officials said.

Car bombs kill 39 in Iraqi capital Baghdad

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 10:46 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Ten car-bomb explosions killed at least 39 people across the Iraqi capital on Monday, police and medical sources said. In the central district of Karada, two parked car bombs went off killing at least eight people, and another two car bombs exploded simultaneously near a market in the western district of Jihad, killing eight. Violence has been increasing in Iraq in recent months, with more than 1,000 people killed in May alone, making it the deadliest month since the sectarian bloodletting of 2006-07. ...

Officials: Attacks in Iraq kill at least 19

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 10:30 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Attacks on Monday across Iraq, including night car bomb blasts near markets in and around Baghdad, killed at least 19 people and wounded dozens of others, officials said.

Officials: Attacks in Iraq kill at least 10

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 10:11 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Attacks on Monday across Iraq, including car bomb blasts near markets around Baghdad, killed at least 10 people and wounded dozens of others, officials said.

Egypt mob yelled 'infidels' at Shi'ites beaten to death

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 09:38 AM PDT

By Alexander Dziadosz ZAWIYAT ABU MUSALLEM, Egypt (Reuters) - Kasbana Abdelaziz's house guests had barely arrived when the mob was upon them, hurling petrol bombs and smashing holes through the roof of her home. The attackers then dragged four men - Shi'ite Muslims who had come to this Cairo suburb for a religious festival - out into the street and beat them to death. ...

Site of Earliest Known Urban Warfare Threatened by Syrian War

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 09:17 AM PDT

An ancient city in Syria, which was the site of the earliest known case of urban warfare, now finds itself threatened by the effects of a modern-day war.

Analysis - Al Qaeda's Syria rift may lead to open conflict among jihadis

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 08:00 AM PDT

By Mariam Karouny BEIRUT (Reuters) - A rift between Syrian jihadis and their fellow fighters from al Qaeda's Iraqi wing may lead to internecine war among some of the most effective rebel groups in combating President Bashar al-Assad. Trouble has been brewing since April over what Syria's Nusra Front regards as a power grab by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq. Now, Baghdadi's insistence that he will keep fighting as head of a united jihadi brigade in Syria, defying orders from al Qaeda chief Ayman Zawahri, has brought the two groups close to turning on each other. ...

Why Edward Snowden's Motives Matter

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 07:32 AM PDT

Buzzfeed's Ben Smith wrote a provocative piece arguing that, as journalists, we shouldn't care about the motives of Edward Snowden – only the information that he's been leaking out. "Reporters don't, and shouldn't, spend too much time thinking about the moral status of their sources," Smith writes. He's wrong.Smith's argument is that reporters have long known that sources can be unlikable figures with foul motives who nevertheless come forward with valuable information. That is surely true. ...

Syria says rebels will take years to match army's strength

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 07:25 AM PDT

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A decision by Western and Arab countries to arm rebels fighting to topple Syria's President Bashar al-Assad poses a danger to peace talks, the Syrian foreign minister said on Monday. Walid al-Moualem told a news conference in Damascus that the opposition had little hope of matching the Syrian army's strength despite a pledge by the states that make up the "Friends of Syria" to increase military support to the rebels. ...

Report: Economic well-being of US children slips

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 07:23 AM PDT

It wasn't so long ago that David Hutchinson spent a month sleeping under a bridge while his wife and young daughter spent their nights at a domestic violence shelter. But this wasn't a case of domestic ...

It's Not Just the Talking Heads Calling Edward Snowden a Traitor Anymore

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 07:11 AM PDT

It was surprising when David Gregory asked Glenn Greenwald this week on Meet the Press, "To the extent that you have aided and abetted [Edward] Snowden, even in his current movements, why shouldn't you, Mr. Greenwald, be charged with a crime?" But it's appalling when you read Gregory's stirring defense of free speech only two weeks earlier on Meet the Press. Gregory opened his show with a stirring defense of freedom of the press. The top story was the Justice Department's investigation of national security leaks to the Associated Press and Fox News reporter James Rosen. ...

Suicide bomber kills Iraqi counter-terrorism official

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 05:07 AM PDT

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives killed an Iraqi counter-terrorism official on Monday as he left university in the city of Tikrit after sitting an exam, police said. The attack killed Colonel Ghazi Ali al-Jubouri, head of counter-terrorism for Salahuddin province, and also wounded two of his bodyguards outside the law faculty at the university of Tikrit, the hometown of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. "Colonel Ghazi went to his car in the park. ...

Officials: Suicide attacks in Iraq kill at least 3

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 04:06 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say two separate suicide attacks north of Baghdad have killed at least three people.

As banks eye Iraq, Citi plans office in Baghdad

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 02:38 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Citigroup Inc. is set to become the first American bank to open an office of its own in Baghdad, highlighting financial firms' growing interest in Iraq a decade after the U.S.-led 2003 invasion.

Soccer-China sack coach Camacho after costly spell

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 12:56 AM PDT

June 24 (Reuters) - Spanish coach Jose Antonio Camacho has been sacked by China after a dismal and expensive two-year spell in charge, the CFA said on Monday. The former Real Madrid and Spain coach oversaw three home friendly defeats in June, including an embarrassing 5-1 thrashing by Thailand, and suffered an early exit in World Cup qualifying last year. ...

Today in History

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 09:01 PM PDT

Today is Monday, June 24, the 175th day of 2013. There are 190 days left in the year.

Hatred between Sunnis, Shiites abounds in Mideast

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 04:49 PM PDT

CAIRO (AP) — It's not hard to find stereotypes, caricatures and outright bigotry when talk in the Middle East turns to the tensions between Islam's two main sects.