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• Iran's sponsorship of terrorism sees "marked resurgence" : U.S.
• CA-NEWS Summary
• UN adds al-Nusra in Syria to sanctions blacklist
• Feds, soldier's supporter in Wikileaks case settle
• Afghan massacre: In US soldier plea deal, signs combat stress was considered
• Business Highlights
• Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Is Walking, Talking, and Claiming He's Innocent
• Obama's likely pick to head FBI widely praised
• RI Gov. Chafee, once independent, joins Democrats
• Turkey arrests 12 in raids on 'terrorist' organization
• Tsarnaev friend unarmed when killed, FBI admits. Were civil rights violated?
• Alarm grows as Iraqi forces fail to stem violence
• Woolwich Murder Suspect Is a “Freedom Fighter,” Says Islamist Leader Banned from U.K.
• US-INDUSTRY Summary
• US-ARTS Summary
• Baghdad bombs kill 25 in Sunni-Shi'te bloodletting
• US should replace drone strikes in Pakistan with outreach to tribal areas
• Wave of bombings kills 30 in fresh Iraq attacks
• Xi, Obama look to strike up relationship at summit
• Wave of bombings kills 26 in fresh Iraq attacks
• Iraqi officials say 20 dead in wave of bomb blasts
• Surging violence, sectarian fears haunt Iraq
• Iraq says it averted al Qaeda tanker truck attack on major oil site
• Syria's president claims Russian arms are already arriving
• Gun Deaths Since Newtown Now Surpass Number of Americans Killed in Iraq
• Petraeus gets job with investment firm KKR
• Why Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee is becoming a Democrat
• Iraqi officials say 16 dead in wave of bomb blasts
• KKR names former CIA head Petraeus as chairman of new institute
• Iraqi officials say 13 dead in wave of bomb blasts
• RI Gov. Chafee poised to join Democrats
• Senator John McCain confident of identifying 'good guys' in Syria
• U.S. soldier accused of killing Afghans in deal to avoid execution -lawyer
• Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee to Become a Democrat

Iran's sponsorship of terrorism sees "marked resurgence" : U.S. Posted: 30 May 2013 04:32 PM PDT By Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran's sponsorship of terrorism overseas underwent "a marked resurgence" in 2012, reaching levels not seen in 20 years, the U.S. State Department charged on Thursday in its annual report on trends in political violence. The report cited a series of actual and planned attacks in Europe and Asia linked to Hezbollah, Iran's Lebanon-based ally, including a July 2012 bombing in Bulgaria that killed five Israeli citizens and a Bulgarian, and wounded 32 others. "The year 2012 was ... ...

CA-NEWS Summary Posted: 30 May 2013 03:57 PM PDT Toronto mayor vows to run again despite crack scandal, staff exodus TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford lost two more staff members on Thursday, two weeks after allegations first surfaced that the leader of Canada's largest city was caught smoking crack cocaine on camera, something he has strongly denied. Security ushered policy advisor Brian Johnston out of city hall around midday on Thursday, and he told reporters he had resigned. Kia Nejatian, the mayor's executive assistant, also left his job, the city confirmed in a statement sent to local media. ...

UN adds al-Nusra in Syria to sanctions blacklist Posted: 30 May 2013 03:46 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has agreed to add Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaida linked opposition force fighting in Syria, to the U.N. sanctions blacklist.

Feds, soldier's supporter in Wikileaks case settle Posted: 30 May 2013 03:45 PM PDT The federal government has agreed to destroy all data obtained from a computer and other electronic devices seized from an outspoken advocate of an Army private accused of sending more than 700,000 classified ...

Afghan massacre: In US soldier plea deal, signs combat stress was considered Posted: 30 May 2013 03:03 PM PDT With news that Staff. Sgt. Robert Bales will plead guilty to the 2012 massacre of 16 Afghan civilians near his base in Kandahar province in order to avoid being executed come questions, too, about the extent to which veterans' pleas of post-traumatic stress might impact the sentences they receive.

Business Highlights Posted: 30 May 2013 02:47 PM PDT ___ Cover songs: Homage or irksome marketing ploy? There are about 600 versions of Adele's Oscar-winning song "Skyfall" on the Spotify subscription music service. Not one of them features Adele. ...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Is Walking, Talking, and Claiming He's Innocent Posted: 30 May 2013 01:42 PM PDT The surviving Boston bombing suspect — the one who was captured near his boat-side confession, who entered the hospital in critical condition only to speak a single word at his bedside hearing, then offered early excuses in the ongoing investigation before being transferred to a prison hospital — has recovered enough to move about and speak freely, enough so that he's calling his mother to proclaim his and his brother's total innocence. ...

Obama's likely pick to head FBI widely praised Posted: 30 May 2013 01:41 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans said Thursday they see no major obstacles to Senate confirmation of James Comey, the former deputy attorney general in the Bush administration who is expected to be nominated by President Barack Obama as the next FBI director.

RI Gov. Chafee, once independent, joins Democrats Posted: 30 May 2013 01:18 PM PDT WARWICK, R.I. (AP) — Long before he was a Republican U.S. senator, the nation's only independent governor or a newly minted Democrat eyeing a second term, Lincoln Chafee wrestled for Brown University, a solo pursuit that foreshadowed a career often spent grappling on the political edges.

Turkey arrests 12 in raids on 'terrorist' organization Posted: 30 May 2013 01:09 PM PDT ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish authorities have arrested 12 people on suspicion of being members of a terrorist organization in raids across the country, a provincial governor said on Thursday. The police raids were carried out in Turkey's largest city Istanbul as well as in the southern provinces of Mersin, Adana and Hatay near the Syrian border, said Adana governor Huseyin Avni Cos. Cos said unknown chemical materials were found during the raids and sent away for investigation. He denied media reports that a small amount of the nerve agent sarin had been uncovered. ...

Tsarnaev friend unarmed when killed, FBI admits. Were civil rights violated? Posted: 30 May 2013 12:56 PM PDT The FBI has confirmed that a friend of slain Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was unarmed and not waving a samurai sword when he was shot and killed last week by an FBI agent in Orlando, Fla., as earlier reports had indicated.

Alarm grows as Iraqi forces fail to stem violence Posted: 30 May 2013 12:27 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials in Iraq are growing increasingly concerned over an unabated spike in violence that claimed at least another 33 lives on Thursday and is reviving fears of a return to widespread sectarian fighting.

Woolwich Murder Suspect Is a “Freedom Fighter,” Says Islamist Leader Banned from U.K. Posted: 30 May 2013 12:21 PM PDT To most people who watched the widely distributed video of Michael Adebolajo standing in a London street on May 22 talking into the camera of a passer-by while holding a meat cleaver that he had allegedly just used to help kill a British soldier, the young man is, at best, a suspected murderer. At worst, he's a terrorist. In the eyes of Omar Bakri, Adebolajo is "a freedom fighter."

US-INDUSTRY Summary Posted: 30 May 2013 11:59 AM PDT Murdoch aims to defy naysayers with new News Corp (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch tried to convince Wall Street on Tuesday that there is still money to be made in newspapers, reminding investors that he had defied skeptics over the past 60 years to build one of the world's biggest media empires. As News Corp prepares to separate its publishing business from its entertainment assets, Murdoch said that while some brands face individual challenges, as a whole the publishing portfolio is "undervalued and underdeveloped. ...

US-ARTS Summary Posted: 30 May 2013 10:19 AM PDT Brazil's Portinari tops Christie's Latin American art sale NEW YORK (Reuters) - A dream-like painting of children releasing kites by Brazil's Candido Portinari sold for $1.4 million at Christie's Latin American art sale and set a world auction record for the artist. Portinari's 1941 "Meninos Soltando Pipas" was the top seller at the Wednesday evening sale, which totaled $16 million and set benchmarks for other Latin American artists. ...

Baghdad bombs kill 25 in Sunni-Shi'te bloodletting Posted: 30 May 2013 09:29 AM PDT By Kareem Raheem BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of bombs battered Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim neighborhoods across Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 25 people in the worst wave of sectarian violence since civil war five years ago. The bloodletting reflects increasing conflict between Iraq's majority Shi'ite leadership and the Sunni minority, many of whom feel unfairly marginalized since the 2003 fall of strongman Saddam Hussein, a Sunni. ...

US should replace drone strikes in Pakistan with outreach to tribal areas Posted: 30 May 2013 09:09 AM PDT Praise goes to President Obama for his long-overdue decision to limit drone strikes. But it's clear from this week's strike that killed the Pakistani Taliban's No. 2 leader, Wali-Ur Rehman Mehsud, that the unfortunate program is still operative.

Wave of bombings kills 30 in fresh Iraq attacks Posted: 30 May 2013 08:37 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of bombs in Iraq, including one targeting a provincial governor, killed at least 30 people Thursday and wounded dozens as a tireless wave of violence further rattled the country.

Xi, Obama look to strike up relationship at summit Posted: 30 May 2013 08:24 AM PDT BEIJING (AP) — President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping face weighty issues when they meet at a private estate in California next week, but their most important task may simply be establishing a strong rapport.

Wave of bombings kills 26 in fresh Iraq attacks Posted: 30 May 2013 08:09 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of bombs in Iraq, including one targeting a provincial governor, killed at least 26 people Thursday and wounded dozens as a tireless wave of violence further rattled the country.

Iraqi officials say 20 dead in wave of bomb blasts Posted: 30 May 2013 07:00 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of bomb explosions in Iraq, including one targeting a provincial governor, killed at least 20 people Thursday and wounded dozens in the latest eruption of violence to rattle the country.

Surging violence, sectarian fears haunt Iraq Posted: 30 May 2013 06:45 AM PDT By Patrick Markey and Suadad al-Salhy BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two months of bombings that have killed more than a thousand Iraqis has not, officials insist, been enough to tip the country back into the all-out communal blood-letting of a few years ago. But such assurances do not impress anxious Baghdadis like Atheer, a delivery driver, who has started restricting his movements again for fear of sectarian death squads. Fanned by the war in Syria, the surge in attacks has been blamed by government officials on Iraqi Sunni Muslim militants, some allied to Syria's Islamist rebels. ...

Iraq says it averted al Qaeda tanker truck attack on major oil site Posted: 30 May 2013 06:31 AM PDT By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq foiled an al Qaeda plot to use tanker trucks packed with explosives to attack a key Baghdad oil facility, a senior security official and oil sources said. The security official declined to name the facility because the investigation was underway but oil ministry officials said the security forces were on high alert following a spate of attacks on a northern pipeline. Protecting infrastructure for the world's fourth largest oil reserves is crucial for Iraq as it rebuilds an industry battered by years of war following the 2003 U.S. ...

Syria's president claims Russian arms are already arriving Posted: 30 May 2013 06:08 AM PDT • A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

Gun Deaths Since Newtown Now Surpass Number of Americans Killed in Iraq Posted: 30 May 2013 05:56 AM PDT The number of gun deaths in the U.S. since the Newtown elementary school massacre has exceeded the total number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war.

Petraeus gets job with investment firm KKR Posted: 30 May 2013 05:40 AM PDT Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus will take a new job with investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. as he attempts to rebuild his reputation after an extramarital affair with a biographer triggered his resignation as CIA director last fall.

Why Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee is becoming a Democrat Posted: 30 May 2013 04:54 AM PDT The Republican-turned-independent has had another political change of heart

Iraqi officials say 16 dead in wave of bomb blasts Posted: 30 May 2013 04:13 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of bomb explosions in Baghdad and the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday killed at least 16 people and wounded dozens in the latest eruption of violence rattling the country, officials said.

KKR names former CIA head Petraeus as chairman of new institute Posted: 30 May 2013 03:38 AM PDT (Reuters) - Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co said it appointed former CIA Director David Petraeus as chairman of the newly created KKR Global Institute, which will study the investment implications of global macroeconomic, social and geopolitical issues. Petraeus will also support KKR's investment teams in the diligence process, particularly in considering investments in new geographies, KKR said on Thursday. Petraeus was credited with helping pull Iraq from the brink of an all-out civil war as commander there and President Barack Obama turned to him to lead U.S. ...

Iraqi officials say 13 dead in wave of bomb blasts Posted: 30 May 2013 02:43 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of morning bomb explosions in Baghdad and the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens in the latest eruption of violence rattling the country, officials said.

RI Gov. Chafee poised to join Democrats Posted: 29 May 2013 11:38 PM PDT PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee was set to join the Democratic Party — a switch the former Republican-turned-independent has said could boost his chances of winning a second term and one that could set up a primary confrontation with two of the state's most popular leaders.

Senator John McCain confident of identifying 'good guys' in Syria Posted: 29 May 2013 07:06 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator John McCain said on Wednesday, two days after meeting with rebels in Syria, that he is confident the United States can send weapons to fighters in Syria without the risk they will fall into the wrong hands. "We can identify who these people are. We can help the right people," McCain said on CNN's program "Anderson Cooper 360." McCain, a Republican, is an outspoken advocate for U.S. ...

U.S. soldier accused of killing Afghans in deal to avoid execution -lawyer Posted: 29 May 2013 06:48 PM PDT By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians in two rampages from his Army post last year has reached a plea deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty, one of his lawyers said on Wednesday. Robert Bales, a decorated veteran of four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, is accused of gunning down villagers, mostly women and children, in attacks on their family compounds in Kandahar province in March 2012. ...

Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee to Become a Democrat Posted: 29 May 2013 01:11 PM PDT Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee will become a Democrat. The former Republican senator turned independent plans to affiliate with the Democrats before his 2014 re-election run, three Democratic sources told ABC News today. Chafee has notified Democratic Party officials of his decision. Chafee's gubernatorial office...

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