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• Prosecutors: Manning abused his country's trust
• Syrian rebels ask Kerry to send U.S. arms quickly
• RE-EXAMINING THE 'FORGOTTEN WAR'
• Bombings and shootings kill 28 across Iraq
• Bradley Manning trial closing arguments ask: Why did he do it?
• Afghan insurgents find new opening for IED attacks
• Officials: Cafe bombings, attacks kill 42 in Iraq
• Muted after 9/11, NSA critics find their voice
• Step up solutions for Syrian war's symptoms: refugees
• Iraq: Blast inside crowded cafe kills 16
• Kerry bearing good news for Syrian opposition in bid to affirm US engagement
• Dubai rape dispute points to wider Islamic rules
• Iraq speaker warns of prison raid security fallout
• Car bomb in Damascus suburb kills seven: state media
• Prosecutors say U.S. WikiLeaks soldier was seeking notoriety
• Prosecutors: Manning wanted attention for leaks
• Insight: 'Crude for blood' - return of sectarian war hits Iraq's oil exports
• To end Syria civil war, West must guarantee minorities' safety with peacekeeping force
• Bradley Manning's trial nears closing arguments
• Road ahead darkens in Iraq after highway executions
• Kuwait's ruling emir puts diplomacy first
• Exclusive: Syria's war halves wheat harvest, erodes state share
• Militants in Iraq ambush truck convoy, kill 14
• Police: Militants ambush truck convoy, kill 14
• Analysis: Mexico to rewrite 'sacred' text in long-awaited energy reform
• AP names Edelsten to top China editorial position
• House rejects bid to curb spy agency data collection
• 189 survive boat sinking, Indonesia looks for lost

Prosecutors: Manning abused his country's trust Posted: 25 Jul 2013 04:10 PM PDT FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was a traitor with one mission as an intelligence analyst in Iraq: to find and reveal government secrets to a group of anarchists and bask in the glory as a whistleblower, a prosecutor said Thursday during closing arguments.

Syrian rebels ask Kerry to send U.S. arms quickly Posted: 25 Jul 2013 04:08 PM PDT By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - The head of Syria's opposition told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday the country's situation was "desperate" and called for the United States to arm the rebels quickly and to push harder for a political settlement. The United Nations says more than 100,000 people have been killed since Syria's civil war erupted more than two years ago pitting President Bashar al-Assad's forces against rebels seeking to end his family's four-decade rule. President Barack Obama, having withdrawn U.S. troops from Iraq and seeking to wind up the U.S. ...

RE-EXAMINING THE 'FORGOTTEN WAR' Posted: 25 Jul 2013 03:30 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- The Korean War has never exactly been the war that young men came back from whispering, "It was the greatest moment of my life." It was not the war that journalists wrote books about the second- or third-"greatest generation."It was a war spanning those ambiguous years, 1950 to 1953, sandwiched between the "Big War" of the 1940s and the confusing wars in the years afterward, from Vietnam to Iraq, that no one would accuse of being the "good wars."And yet, this weekend the armistice that ended the war in 1953 is being celebrated here. ...

Bombings and shootings kill 28 across Iraq Posted: 25 Jul 2013 03:07 PM PDT BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - At least 28 people were killed in bombings and shootings across Iraq on Thursday, police said. In the deadliest attack, a bomb in a parked car exploded in a busy market killing 14 people in central Muqdadiya, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of the capital Baghdad, police said. "I was sitting in my neighbor's shop when suddenly we heard a big explosion," said eyewitness Salim Aziz. "I had no time to see anything, and when I opened my eyes, I found myself at the hospital and I was injured in my right hand and left leg, surrounded by dozens of wounded people," he added. ...

Bradley Manning trial closing arguments ask: Why did he do it? Posted: 25 Jul 2013 02:43 PM PDT The trial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning – accused of leaking the largest trove of classified information in US history – is winding down as prosecution and defense present their arguments.

Afghan insurgents find new opening for IED attacks Posted: 25 Jul 2013 02:24 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The shrinking U.S. combat role in Afghanistan has given insurgents an opening to devise and carry out deadlier attacks using bigger improvised bombs against U.S. and coalition military vehicles and bases, American officials say.

Officials: Cafe bombings, attacks kill 42 in Iraq Posted: 25 Jul 2013 01:52 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Emboldened militants in Iraq set up their own checkpoint to kill drivers and bombed crowded cafes Thursday in the deadliest of a series of attacks that killed at least 42 people, authorities said.

Muted after 9/11, NSA critics find their voice Posted: 25 Jul 2013 01:45 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — After 9/11, there were no shades of gray. There are plenty now.

Step up solutions for Syrian war's symptoms: refugees Posted: 25 Jul 2013 01:13 PM PDT Americans and their allies are reluctant to directly confront the root cause of Syria's civil war – the ruthless regime of Bashar al-Assad. But they can do more for the symptoms spilling across the Syrian border.

Iraq: Blast inside crowded cafe kills 16 Posted: 25 Jul 2013 12:24 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities say a bomb targeting diners in a crowded cafe north of Baghdad has killed 16 people and wounded 20.

Kerry bearing good news for Syrian opposition in bid to affirm US engagement Posted: 25 Jul 2013 12:05 PM PDT Secretary of State John Kerry will be able to tell representatives of the Syrian opposition he meets with in New York Thursday that promised American arms should be reaching their fighters soon.

Dubai rape dispute points to wider Islamic rules Posted: 25 Jul 2013 11:58 AM PDT DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The couple stood before a Dubai judge. The charge was sex outside marriage — illegal in the United Arab Emirates and across nearly all the Muslim world — and the magistrate offered an option: Suspended sentences to the Pakistani man and Filipino woman if they agreed to wed. The man consented, but the woman refused. They are awaiting sentencing, which could bring jail terms of several months or longer.

Iraq speaker warns of prison raid security fallout Posted: 25 Jul 2013 11:53 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's parliament speaker warned Thursday that the escape this week of hundreds of inmates during al-Qaida-claimed raids on prisons outside Baghdad will make the country's rapidly deteriorating security even worse.

Car bomb in Damascus suburb kills seven: state media Posted: 25 Jul 2013 11:34 AM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - A car bomb killed at least 10 people and wounded around 62 on Thursday when it exploded on the edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, state media said. State news agency SANA said the bomb hit the al-Siyouf Square in Jaramanah. It blamed the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham, an al Qaeda-linked group fighting alongside rebels in the two-year-old civil war against President Bashar al-Assad. Bombs have previously hit Jaramanah, a religiously mixed area that houses supporters and opponents of Assad but which is under army control. ...

Prosecutors say U.S. WikiLeaks soldier was seeking notoriety Posted: 25 Jul 2013 11:14 AM PDT By Medina Roshan FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - Military prosecutors said the U.S. soldier accused of the largest leak of classified information in the nation's history was hoping to make a name for himself by releasing documents on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. As the court-martial of Private First Class Bradley Manning winds down, prosecutors in closing arguments on Thursday said that the 25-year-old intelligence analyst had betrayed the trust his nation put in him. "The only human PFC Manning ever cared about was himself," said Major Ashden Fein, the lead prosecuting attorney. ...

Prosecutors: Manning wanted attention for leaks Posted: 25 Jul 2013 10:43 AM PDT FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning betrayed his country's trust and spilled government secrets to make a name for himself, and he knew the material would be seen by al-Qaida, including its former leader Osama bin Laden, prosecutors said Thursday in closing arguments.

Insight: 'Crude for blood' - return of sectarian war hits Iraq's oil exports Posted: 25 Jul 2013 08:04 AM PDT By Ahmed Rasheed and Ziad al-Sanjary BAGHDAD/MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's Sunni insurgents are targeting its main northern oil pipeline, undoing plans for a massive increase in exports as violence reaches levels unseen since the darkest days of civil war. Iraq's ambitious plans to ramp up its oil output have been held back by poor maintenance and technical problems. Violence is making the situation worse, and, if it continues to escalate, could have a measurable impact on global supply. ...

To end Syria civil war, West must guarantee minorities' safety with peacekeeping force Posted: 25 Jul 2013 07:39 AM PDT Though Syria's civil war rages on, Western leaders may have the power to help end the bloody conflict. And it's not by arming the rebels.

Bradley Manning's trial nears closing arguments Posted: 25 Jul 2013 06:59 AM PDT FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — The court-martial of a U.S. Army private who leaked reams of classified information is heading toward closing arguments.

Road ahead darkens in Iraq after highway executions Posted: 25 Jul 2013 06:04 AM PDT • A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

Kuwait's ruling emir puts diplomacy first Posted: 25 Jul 2013 05:05 AM PDT By Sylvia Westall KUWAIT (Reuters) - Hours after Qatar's emir abdicated in favor of his son, Kuwait's ruler jumped on a plane to Doha to embrace the new young emir in person rather than sending a congratulatory cable as other Gulf Arab leaders did. The direct diplomatic gesture was a classic move for Kuwait's 84-year-old hereditary emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah. Sheikh Sabah has been dubbed the "dean of Arab diplomacy" for his efforts to strengthen Kuwait's relations in the Middle East after Iraq's 1990 invasion of his country. ...

Exclusive: Syria's war halves wheat harvest, erodes state share Posted: 25 Jul 2013 04:06 AM PDT By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Civil war in Syria has cut the wheat harvest to its worst level in nearly three decades and the government's share of the crop is being further eroded as it struggles to procure grain from rebel-held farming areas. Estimates collated by Reuters from more than a dozen grain officials and local traders suggest the harvest could be as low as 1.5 million tons, less than half the pre-conflict average and well below forecasts from a United Nations food agency. ...

Militants in Iraq ambush truck convoy, kill 14 Posted: 25 Jul 2013 02:45 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Militants ambushed a truck convoy with Iraqi Shiites in a remote area in the country's north and killed 14 drivers, police said Thursday, the latest in a series of brazen attacks aiming to further destabilize the nation.

Police: Militants ambush truck convoy, kill 14 Posted: 25 Jul 2013 01:56 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi police official says militants have ambushed a truck convoy with Shiites in a remote area in the north and killed 14 people.

Analysis: Mexico to rewrite 'sacred' text in long-awaited energy reform Posted: 24 Jul 2013 10:02 PM PDT By Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - How far Mexico goes to overhaul its oil industry this year hinges largely on a single sentence in the constitution that has stood as a bulwark against private capital for more than 50 years. Article 27 of the constitution bans the government from granting private sector concessions for oil or gas, making their exploitation the sole preserve of the Mexican state. ...

AP names Edelsten to top China editorial position Posted: 24 Jul 2013 06:39 PM PDT The Associated Press has named veteran Asia-based journalist and video producer Miles Edelsten to the new position of news director for Greater China. The appointment was announced Wednesday by John Daniszewski, ...

House rejects bid to curb spy agency data collection Posted: 24 Jul 2013 06:05 PM PDT By David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. spy program that sweeps up vast amounts of electronic communications survived a legislative challenge in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, the first attempt to curb the data gathering since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed details of its scope. The House of Representatives voted 217-205 to defeat an amendment to the defense appropriations bill that would have limited the National Security Agency's ability to collect electronic information, including phone call records. ...

189 survive boat sinking, Indonesia looks for lost Posted: 24 Jul 2013 05:51 PM PDT BANDUNG, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers were searching for several asylum seekers believed to be missing from a boat that sank off Indonesia while heading to Australia. Nearly 190 survivors were brought to safety and nine bodies were recovered.

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