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• New York City settles U.S. lawsuit over police pensions
• WikiLeaks trial focuses Army email list
• INTERVENTION IN SYRIA IS NEEDLESS REPEAT OF HISTORY
• Miss Utah latest beauty queen to botch answer
• Did Edward Snowden just disclose more secrets in online chat?
• WikiLeaks breach included secret details on Guantanamo prisoners: official
• Kurds fight for place in Syrian civil war
• Rohani vows to reset Iran's relations with the world
• Syria's Assad: EU will pay price for arming rebels
• Oil posts small loss after hitting high for year
• Military plans would put women in most combat jobs
• Ventura wants 'American Sniper' lawsuit to proceed
• How Britain spies on friends and rivals alike
• Shiite Iraq militia claims it attacked Iran group
• Analysis: Change to come slowly after election of Iranian moderate
• Goodwill® To Announce New Initiative To Serve Women Veterans
• Goodwill® Announces New Initiative To Serve Women Veterans
• Russia Says No to a No-Fly Zone over Syria
• UK's Cameron rallies world leaders to N.Ireland
• Saudi supplying missiles to Syria rebels: Gulf source
• Bomb in Syrian capital kills 10 soldiers
• 4 things you should know about Iran's new president
• Bombs, suicide attack kill at least 15 in Iraq
• Boston hospital to offer hand transplants for kids
• Do You Trust This Man?
• Officials: Bombs, suicide attack kill 12 in Iraq
• Three bombings kill at least 12 in Iraq: police
• Bomb in Syrian capital kills or wounds 20 troops
• Talk of no-fly zone in Syria recalls Iraq effort
• Soccer-No Samba for Socceroos until job is done - Neill
• 10 Things to Know for Monday

New York City settles U.S. lawsuit over police pensions Posted: 17 Jun 2013 03:51 PM PDT By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City has settled a lawsuit in which the federal government accused it of improperly reducing retirement benefits for current and former police officers who served in the military after September 11, 2001. Monday's settlement calls for pension benefits for New York City Police Department ("NYPD") officers to be calculated in accordance with a 1994 federal law that protects the rights of civilian employees who are called to active duty. U.S. ...

WikiLeaks trial focuses Army email list Posted: 17 Jun 2013 03:38 PM PDT FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — A huge database of troop names and email addresses an Army private allegedly downloaded to a personal computer could be used by foreign adversaries to launch cyberattacks on service members, a government witness said Monday as the trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning entered its third week.

INTERVENTION IN SYRIA IS NEEDLESS REPEAT OF HISTORY Posted: 17 Jun 2013 03:03 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Have you by chance noticed the words used about President Obama's decision to send arms, ammunition and perhaps air defenses into the Syrian conflagration?The president "had to be almost dragged into the decision," The New York Times wrote in a front-page article. David Gardner, writing in the Financial Times, saw the decision coming "after two years of dither." And The Wall Street Journal wrote that we have seen the portrait of a president seeking to avoid what current and former officials call "the slippery slope" of another Middle Eastern war. ...

Miss Utah latest beauty queen to botch answer Posted: 17 Jun 2013 02:57 PM PDT LAS VEGAS (AP) — Miss Utah Marissa Powell is the latest beauty queen to trip on national television, not over her gown, but during the interview segment.

Did Edward Snowden just disclose more secrets in online chat? Posted: 17 Jun 2013 02:15 PM PDT National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden answered questions from ordinary folks Monday on a Guardian newspaper online chat. It was a technical first of sorts – a virtual public news conference by someone who's in a lot of trouble and does not wish to make public their precise location.

WikiLeaks breach included secret details on Guantanamo prisoners: official Posted: 17 Jun 2013 01:16 PM PDT By Medina Roshan FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The soldier accused of the largest release of classified data in U.S. history provided WikiLeaks with secret details of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, threatening "serious" damage to national security, the prison's former commander testified on Monday. ...

Kurds fight for place in Syrian civil war Posted: 17 Jun 2013 01:14 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Taking advantage of the chaos of the civil war, Syria's Kurdish minority has carved out a once unthinkable degree of independence in their areas, creating their own police forces, even their own license plates, and exuberantly going public with their language and culture.

Rohani vows to reset Iran's relations with the world Posted: 17 Jun 2013 12:53 PM PDT Iran's President-elect Hassan Rohani has promised to use his victory to transform the Islamic Republic's relations with the outside world and with its own citizens.

Syria's Assad: EU will pay price for arming rebels Posted: 17 Jun 2013 12:37 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's president warned that Europe "will pay a price" if it delivers weapons to rebels fighting to topple him, saying in an interview published Monday that arming them would backfire as the "terrorists" return to their countries with extremist ideologies.

Oil posts small loss after hitting high for year Posted: 17 Jun 2013 12:31 PM PDT The price of oil fell slightly after it climbed to a high for the year Monday, as the market waits to see the results of this week's Federal Reserve policy meeting. Benchmark oil for July delivery fell ...

Military plans would put women in most combat jobs Posted: 17 Jun 2013 12:05 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Women may be able to start training as Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as Navy SEALs a year later under plans set to be announced by the Pentagon that would slowly bring women into thousands of combat jobs, including those in elite special operations forces.

Ventura wants 'American Sniper' lawsuit to proceed Posted: 17 Jun 2013 11:29 AM PDT Attorneys for former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura asked a federal judge Monday to allow his defamation lawsuit against slain "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle to go forward with Kyle's widow ...

How Britain spies on friends and rivals alike Posted: 17 Jun 2013 11:23 AM PDT LONDON (AP) — Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's leaks to the Guardian newspaper have thrown back the curtain on the world of diplomatic espionage, revealing — in explicit detail — how British spies monitor enemies and allies alike. So what does GCHQ, Britain's eavesdropping agency, actually do? And how does it do it? And is any of this really all that surprising?

Shiite Iraq militia claims it attacked Iran group Posted: 17 Jun 2013 11:04 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A Shiite militia leader on Monday claimed responsibility for a rocket attack over the weekend that killed two members of an Iranian exile group near Baghdad. Saturday's attack on the sprawling Camp Liberty also killed an Iraqi and wounded nine Iranians and seven Iraqis.

Analysis: Change to come slowly after election of Iranian moderate Posted: 17 Jun 2013 10:14 AM PDT By Marcus George DUBAI (Reuters) - The victory of a moderate in Iran's presidential election has kindled the hopes of liberals for a return to the "golden years" of reformist president Mohammad Khatami, when Iranians enjoyed more freedoms and Tehran had better relations with the West. But like Khatami, former nuclear negotiator Hassan Rohani will face obstacles from the conservative establishement. He will be unable to move fast and may not want to move far since, unlike Khatami, he has close ties with the religious leadership. "Dr. ...

Goodwill® To Announce New Initiative To Serve Women Veterans Posted: 17 Jun 2013 09:56 AM PDT WASHINGTON, June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Goodwill will announce a new initiative to significantly augment its support of military veterans at a National Press Club Newsmaker news conference on Thursday, June 20. To address the challenges women veterans experience as they return home, Goodwill will help 3,000 women veterans find jobs in the next two years.(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire. ...

Goodwill® Announces New Initiative To Serve Women Veterans Posted: 17 Jun 2013 08:15 AM PDT ROCKVILLE, Md., June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Women make up an increasingly large part of our armed forces. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs reports one in ten veterans is a woman. Many women veterans returning from operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are struggling to transition to civilian life, with factors such as homelessness, childcare, disability, lack of licensing or credentialing, and other challenges impeding their and their family's path to economic self-sufficiency. In January, the unemployment rate was 17. ...

Russia Says No to a No-Fly Zone over Syria Posted: 17 Jun 2013 07:45 AM PDT Even before Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin could meet to discuss what to do about Syria, the Russian foreign ministry has made it clear that a no-fly zone is off the table. Speaking from Moscow, before the G-* summit could get underway, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said, "I think we fundamentally will not allow this scenario," echoing earlier comments from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that such a move would violate international law.

UK's Cameron rallies world leaders to N.Ireland Posted: 17 Jun 2013 07:18 AM PDT ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) — Leaders of eight of the world's wealthiest nations sought elusive progress on lowering trans-Atlantic trade barriers and pushing the warring factions in Syria toward the negotiating table as the G-8 summit opened Monday amid high security in peaceful Northern Ireland.

Saudi supplying missiles to Syria rebels: Gulf source Posted: 17 Jun 2013 06:01 AM PDT By Amena Bakr DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia, a staunch opponent of President Bashar al-Assad since early in Syria's conflict, began supplying anti-aircraft missiles to rebels "on a small scale" about two months ago, a Gulf source said on Monday. The shoulder-fired weapons were obtained mostly from suppliers in France and Belgium, the source told Reuters. France had paid for the transport of the weapons to the region. ...

Bomb in Syrian capital kills 10 soldiers Posted: 17 Jun 2013 05:57 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — A car bomb targeting a checkpoint near a military airport in an upscale neighborhood of the Syrian capital killed 10 soldiers, activists said Monday as President Bashar Assad's troops pressed ahead with an offensive to regain territory they lost to rebels trying to topple his regime.

4 things you should know about Iran's new president Posted: 17 Jun 2013 05:23 AM PDT Hassan Rowhani won by a landslide. Now the question is whether he can make substantive changes in Iran

Bombs, suicide attack kill at least 15 in Iraq Posted: 17 Jun 2013 04:22 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Three bomb attacks in Iraq including a blast in a roadside restaurant killed 15 people on Monday, officials said, the latest in a surge of violence that has left nearly 2,000 dead since the beginning of April.

Boston hospital to offer hand transplants for kids Posted: 17 Jun 2013 04:17 AM PDT A Boston hospital is starting the world's first hand transplant program for children, and doctors say it won't be long until face transplants and other radical operations to improve appearance and quality ...

Do You Trust This Man? Posted: 17 Jun 2013 04:13 AM PDT There is a common element to the so-called Obama scandals—the IRS targeting of conservatives, the fatal attack in Benghazi, and widespread spying on U.S. journalists and ordinary Americans. It is a lack of credibility.

Officials: Bombs, suicide attack kill 12 in Iraq Posted: 17 Jun 2013 03:20 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Three bomb attacks in Iraq including a blast inside a roadside restaurant killed 12 people on Monday, officials said, the latest in a surge of violence that has left nearly 2,000 dead since the beginning of April.

Three bombings kill at least 12 in Iraq: police Posted: 17 Jun 2013 02:42 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 12 people were killed in three bomb attacks in Iraq on Monday, police and medics said. Concerns of a descent into full-blown conflict have been mounting in recent months as Iraq's delicate intercommunal balance comes under growing strain from the civil war in neighboring Syria, where mainly Sunni rebels are fighting to overthrow a leader backed by Shi'ite Iran. More than 1,000 people were killed in militant attacks in Iraq in May, according to the United Nations, the highest monthly toll since the sectarian bloodletting of 2006-2007. ...

Bomb in Syrian capital kills or wounds 20 troops Posted: 17 Jun 2013 01:29 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — A car bomb targeting a checkpoint near a military airport in an upscale neighborhood of the Syrian capital has killed or wounded more than 20 soldiers, activists said Monday.

Talk of no-fly zone in Syria recalls Iraq effort Posted: 16 Jun 2013 11:40 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration, trying to avoid getting drawn deeper into Syria's civil war, has pointed to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a symbol of what can go wrong when America's military wades into Middle East conflicts.

Soccer-No Samba for Socceroos until job is done - Neill Posted: 16 Jun 2013 10:11 PM PDT By Nick Mulvenney SYDNEY, June 17 (Reuters) - Captain Lucas Neill has warned Australia that football can shatter dreams as well as make them come true, meaning Tuesday's seemingly straightforward World Cup qualifier against Iraq at Sydney's Olympic Stadium is no formality. With Iraq already out of the World Cup running and having lost two of their most experienced players to retirement, Australia are expected to win comfortably and claim their ticket to Brazil for next year's finals. ...

10 Things to Know for Monday Posted: 16 Jun 2013 08:00 PM PDT Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday:

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