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• Bombs target soccer players, spectators in Iraq
• Bombings, shooting kill 11 in Iraq
• Thousands march in Istanbul in solidarity with Kurds
• Syrian troops launch wide offensive on Homs
• 3 German aid workers missing in Syria for 45 days
• Syrian army, backed by jets, launches assault on Homs
• Ga. soldier gets hearing in death of pregnant wife
• Kurdish mourners blast Turkish government after shootings
• Samantha Power: A crusader for human rights
• Market bomb, shooting kill 7 in Iraq
• OBAMA-AFRICA-SALL-20130629

Bombs target soccer players, spectators in Iraq Posted: 29 Jun 2013 02:04 PM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombs targeting soccer players and young men who had gathered to watch a match in Iraq killed seven people on Saturday. A roadside bomb in a busy market killed another three people, bringing the death toll to 10, police and medics said. The violence is part of a trend of increasing militant attacks since the start of the year, which claimed more than 1,000 lives in May alone, making it the deadliest month since the sectarian bloodletting of 2006-7. ...

Bombings, shooting kill 11 in Iraq Posted: 29 Jun 2013 01:19 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Bombs and a shooting targeted a marketplace and off-duty policemen in Iraq on Saturday, killing at last eleven people in the latest attacks by militants seeking to destabilize the country.

Thousands march in Istanbul in solidarity with Kurds Posted: 29 Jun 2013 11:55 AM PDT By Ece Toksabay ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters marched to Istanbul's Taksim Square on Saturday chanting slogans against the government and police after security forces killed a Kurdish demonstrator in southeastern Turkey. The protest had been planned as part of larger unrelated anti-government demonstrations that have swept through the country since the end of May, but became a voice of solidarity with the Kurds after Friday's killing. "Murderer police, get out of Kurdistan!" some protesters chanted. "This is only the beginning, the struggle continues. ...

Syrian troops launch wide offensive on Homs Posted: 29 Jun 2013 11:11 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Government troops launched a series of attacks in central Syria Saturday, striking with artillery, tanks and warplanes in a drive to capture rebel-held neighborhoods in the country's third largest city of Homs, with activists said.

3 German aid workers missing in Syria for 45 days Posted: 29 Jun 2013 09:31 AM PDT BERLIN (AP) — Three German aid workers have been missing in Syria for 45 days were likely kidnapped, their employer said Saturday.

Syrian army, backed by jets, launches assault on Homs Posted: 29 Jun 2013 09:14 AM PDT By Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces launched a major offensive on Saturday against rebels in Homs, a centre of the two-year-old uprising, in their latest drive to secure an axis connecting Damascus to the Mediterranean. Activists said jets and mortars had pounded rebel-held areas of the city that have been under siege by Assad's troops for a year, and soldiers fought battles with rebel fighters in several districts. "Government forces are trying to storm (Homs) from all fronts," said an activist using the name Abu Mohammad. ...

Ga. soldier gets hearing in death of pregnant wife Posted: 29 Jun 2013 07:57 AM PDT SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Two years after Army Sgt. Deirdre Aguigui died suddenly in the middle of her pregnancy, military prosecutors in southeast Georgia plan to reveal at last why they believe she was killed by her husband, a young soldier accused by civilian authorities of using insurance money from her death to buy weapons for an anti-government militia group.

Kurdish mourners blast Turkish government after shootings Posted: 29 Jun 2013 05:52 AM PDT ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Hundreds of Kurds chanted anti-government slogans at the funeral on Saturday of a demonstrator killed by security forces in southeast Turkey, raising fears of violence at weekend protest marches planned around the country. Turkish security forces killed one person and wounded ten on Friday when they fired on a group protesting against the construction of a new gendarmerie outpost in Kurdish-dominated southeastern Turkey. ...

Samantha Power: A crusader for human rights Posted: 29 Jun 2013 04:00 AM PDT Obama's nominee for U.N. ambassador is a passionate advocate for U.S. intervention abroadWhat is Power's background?An intellectual and a crusader, Samantha Power comes to international diplomacy from the worlds of journalism and academia. She was born in Ireland in 1970, and immigrated to the U.S. with her parents when she was 9. After graduating from Yale in 1992, she got newspaper assignments to cover the wars sparked by the breakup of Yugoslavia. There she quickly earned respect for being what a fellow journalist described as a "flame-haired, freckled girl with guts. ...

Market bomb, shooting kill 7 in Iraq Posted: 29 Jun 2013 03:07 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say a bomb has gone off in an outdoor market in west Baghdad, one of two attacks in Sunni-majority parts of the country that have left seven dead.

OBAMA-AFRICA-SALL-20130629 Posted: 29 Jun 2013 01:13 AM PDT By Daniel Flynn DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegalese President Macky Sall said on Friday he had asked U.S. President Barack Obama to provide more help to African nations fighting an Islamist threat in the Sahara, particularly in the sphere of military training, hardware and intelligence. Sall, who held talks with Obama in Dakar on Thursday on the first leg of a three-nation African tour, said they had discussed the menace from al Qaeda-linked groups in the vast and lawless desert region, which runs east to west across Africa. ...

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