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• U.S. court ends Pemex bribery case against Siemens, SK Engineering
• Pentagon warns of tough trade-offs in face of looming cuts
• Nearly one in three recent vets has considered suicide: Survey
• Iraq war logs in Manning case 'hit us in the face': U.S. officer
• NSA Chief: We Don't Abuse Power
• U.S. man convicted of al Qaeda support says his free speech was violated
• APNewsBreak: Ark.'s Cotton to run for US Senate
• Jihadi jailbreaks raise doubts about US security funding
• Why are so many people outraged at Manning's guilty verdict?
• Arkansas Republican congressman running against Senator Pryor
• Why Lebanon's Sunnis will stay calm as Syria's Sunnis wage war
• Drive-by shootings, bombings kill 26 in Iraq
• Israeli-Palestinian talks won't fix the Middle East's problems
• The Internet Made the Military Stop Selling Playboy
• Iran grants Syria $3.6 billion credit to buy oil products
• Pentagon to bear brunt of upcoming budget cuts
• A brief history of cursing in politics
• Defense seeks merger of some Manning verdicts
• Bradley Manning-WikiLeaks case turns to sentencing
• Senior Kurdish rebel warns Turkey to progress reforms by September
• WikiLeaks on Manning verdict: 'Extremism'
• US has 20 witnesses for Manning sentencing phase
• 5 smart reactions to the Bradley Manning verdict
• Drive-by shootings, bombings kill 18 in Iraq
• Swimming-World championship men's 100m freestyle heats overview
• The Real Bradley Manning Problem
• Attacks on Sunni, Shiite mosque in Iraq kill 9
• Brent holds below $107, but heads for best month since August
• Turkish power-ship maker Karadeniz wants to expand to Africa, US, UK

U.S. court ends Pemex bribery case against Siemens, SK Engineering Posted: 31 Jul 2013 04:45 PM PDT By Erin Geiger Smith (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge has dismissed a $500 million lawsuit brought by state-owned Mexican oil company Pemex against Siemens AG and a South Korean company that claimed the defendants bribed Pemex officials to secure oil refinery projects in Mexico. The case raised novel questions about who is a victim in corruption cases, but U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton of Manhattan did not address that issue, instead ruling Tuesday that Pemex could not bring the lawsuit because it had not shown its claims had enough contact with the United States. ...

Pentagon warns of tough trade-offs in face of looming cuts Posted: 31 Jul 2013 03:43 PM PDT By David Alexander and Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Wednesday pledged $40 billion in new Pentagon spending reductions over the next decade, but warned that additional cuts required by law posed stark choices that could bend or break the president's defense strategy. Hagel, unveiling the results of his four-month Strategic Choices and Management Review, said the Pentagon would cut $40 billion in overhead from its agencies and headquarters units over the next decade. He also said it would propose compensation reforms to try to save about $50 billion. ...

Nearly one in three recent vets has considered suicide: Survey Posted: 31 Jul 2013 03:03 PM PDT And 37 percent of post-9/11 veterans know a veteran who took their own life.

Iraq war logs in Manning case 'hit us in the face': U.S. officer Posted: 31 Jul 2013 02:45 PM PDT By Tom Ramstack FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The U.S. Army was overwhelmed when WikiLeaks published more than 700,000 secret diplomatic and war documents handed over by soldier Bradley Manning, a retired officer testified in the sentencing phase of the convicted private's court-martial. "The ones that hit us in the face were the Iraq logs," retired Brigadier General Robert Carr said in a Fort Meade, Maryland court on Wednesday, a day after a military judge found Manning guilty of 19 charges over the leaks in 2010, the biggest breach of classified data in U.S. history. ...

NSA Chief: We Don't Abuse Power Posted: 31 Jul 2013 02:40 PM PDT Gen. Keith Alexander Addresses Hacking Convention Amid NSA Surveillance Controversy

U.S. man convicted of al Qaeda support says his free speech was violated Posted: 31 Jul 2013 02:08 PM PDT By Daniel Lovering BOSTON (Reuters) - Lawyers for a Massachusetts man convicted a year and a half ago of conspiring to support al Qaeda have claimed that prosecutors prejudiced the jury with videos of beheadings and that the judge who sentenced him violated his right to free speech. Tarek Mehanna was found guilty in December 2011 on seven counts that included providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country and lying to law enforcement officers. He was sentenced by U.S. District Judge George O'Toole in April, 2012 to 17-1/2 years in prison. ...

APNewsBreak: Ark.'s Cotton to run for US Senate Posted: 31 Jul 2013 01:36 PM PDT LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Republican Rep. Tom Cotton plans to announce his bid next week to challenge two-term incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor in next year's elections, according to a person familiar with the congressman's plans.

Jihadi jailbreaks raise doubts about US security funding Posted: 31 Jul 2013 01:11 PM PDT In the past few days Iraq, Libya, and Pakistan have experienced massive jailbreaks involving Islamist insurgents. What all three countries have in common is weak national institutions and massive US efforts to prop them up.

Why are so many people outraged at Manning's guilty verdict? Posted: 31 Jul 2013 11:58 AM PDT Pfc. Bradley Manning's conviction yesterday for violations of the Espionage Act and theft of government property was inevitable the moment his defense settled on a position of moral righteousness, rather than a denial of the specific actions, as the best way to achieve an acquittal.

Arkansas Republican congressman running against Senator Pryor Posted: 31 Jul 2013 11:06 AM PDT By Suzi Parker Little Rock, Arkansas (Reuters) - Arkansas Representative Tom Cotton, a rising star in the Republican party serving his first term in Congress, will run against Democratic U.S. Senator Mark Pryor in what is likely to be one of the most hotly contested 2014 election races, a Republican source said on Wednesday. Cotton, 36, scheduled an event in his hometown of Dardanelle for August 6 to announce his challenge to the moderate Pryor, one of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbents in the Senate. ...

Why Lebanon's Sunnis will stay calm as Syria's Sunnis wage war Posted: 31 Jul 2013 10:55 AM PDT A blackened patch of fire-scorched earth along a Bekaa Valley highway marks the scene of a recent roadside bomb, Lebanese Sunnis' latest violent outburst toward the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah.The ambush near Majdal Anjar, which reportedly killed one suspected Hezbollah member and wounded three others, was the fourth since early June to target vehicles believed to contain Hezbollah militants in the Bekaa. ...

Drive-by shootings, bombings kill 26 in Iraq Posted: 31 Jul 2013 10:43 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Attacks including bombings of Shiite and Sunni mosques left 26 dead in Iraq, the latest in a surge of bloodshed that is raising fears of a return to widespread sectarian killings, officials said Wednesday.

Israeli-Palestinian talks won't fix the Middle East's problems Posted: 31 Jul 2013 10:23 AM PDT By Ian Bremmer (Reuters) - On Monday, the Obama administration announced that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had convinced Israel and the Palestinian Authority to sit down for negotiations for the first time in three years. Coming out of Monday and Tuesday's meetings, Kerry announced a goal of working out a comprehensive peace agreement within nine months. Simply reviving talks at all is a highly impressive achievement. ...

The Internet Made the Military Stop Selling Playboy Posted: 31 Jul 2013 10:07 AM PDT The military will finally stop selling nudie magazines at on-post shops run by the Army and Air Force Exchange Service after years and years of protest, but only because soldiers are moving to the millions of free porn site on the Internet, or to soliciting real, live sex on Craigslist, which is a rising problem. Playboy, Penthouse and the other 889 "adult sophisticate titles" will be pulled from shelves today because no one is buying them anymore, Army Times reports. Sales have plummeted 86 percent since 1998, so stocking the magazines doesn't make any sense.

Iran grants Syria $3.6 billion credit to buy oil products Posted: 31 Jul 2013 09:47 AM PDT By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Syria and Iran signed a deal this week to activate a $3.6 billion credit facility to buy oil products to shore up President Bashar al-Assad's war battered economy, officials and bankers said on Wednesday. The deal, which was agreed in May and will allow Iran to acquire equity stakes in investments in Syria, is part of Shi'ite Iran's broader support for Assad in his battle against a two-year insurgency by mainly Sunni rebels. Tehran has already provided military assistance to Assad, training his forces and advising on military strategy. ...

Pentagon to bear brunt of upcoming budget cuts Posted: 31 Jul 2013 08:38 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A second, deeper round of automatic federal budget cuts is on its way, and it's going to hit the Pentagon hard.

A brief history of cursing in politics Posted: 31 Jul 2013 08:19 AM PDT "Slutbag" is just the tip of the iceberg

Defense seeks merger of some Manning verdicts Posted: 31 Jul 2013 08:05 AM PDT FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — It is now up to a military judge to determine if Army Pfc. Bradley Manning will spend the rest of his life in prison even after being acquitted of the most serious charge against him for his release of thousands of documents to the website WikiLeaks.

Bradley Manning-WikiLeaks case turns to sentencing Posted: 31 Jul 2013 07:22 AM PDT Acquitted of the most serious charge against him, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning still faces up to 136 years in prison for leaking government secrets to the website WikiLeaks, and his fate rests with a judge ...

Senior Kurdish rebel warns Turkey to progress reforms by September Posted: 31 Jul 2013 07:17 AM PDT ANKARA (Reuters) - The Turkish government must take concrete steps by September to advance a peace process with Kurdish militants or risk a return to hostilities, the co-head of the rebels' political wing was quoted as saying on Wednesday. The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the government opened peace talks last October with the goal of ending a conflict which has killed 40,000 people in three decades and stunted the development of Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast. ...

WikiLeaks on Manning verdict: 'Extremism' Posted: 31 Jul 2013 06:50 AM PDT WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange branded Pfc. Bradley Manning's espionage conviction an episode of "national security extremism" while other supporters expressed relief that he was acquitted ...

US has 20 witnesses for Manning sentencing phase Posted: 31 Jul 2013 06:22 AM PDT FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Military prosecutors say they'll call as many as 20 witnesses for the sentencing of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the soldier convicted of espionage crimes for giving classified information to WikiLeaks.

5 smart reactions to the Bradley Manning verdict Posted: 31 Jul 2013 04:15 AM PDT The polarizing secret-spiller faces up to 136 years in prison after being found guilty of 20 crimes. What does it mean for transparency, Obama, and journalism?

Drive-by shootings, bombings kill 18 in Iraq Posted: 31 Jul 2013 04:01 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of attacks including bombings of both Shiite and Sunni mosques left 18 dead in Iraq, the latest in a surge of bloodshed that is raising fears of a return to widespread sectarian killings, officials said Wednesday.

Swimming-World championship men's 100m freestyle heats overview Posted: 31 Jul 2013 01:47 AM PDT July 31 (Infostrada Sports) - Overview from the World championship Men's 100m Freestyle Heats on Wednesday 1. James Magnussen (Australia) 47.71 Q 2. Konrad Czerniak (Poland) 48.50 Q 3. Nikita Lobintsev (Russia) 48.51 Q 4. Shinri Shioura (Japan) 48.52 Q 5. Hanser Garcia (Cuba) 48.54 Q 6. Cameron McEvoy (Australia) 48.59 Q 7. Vladimir Morozov (Russia) 48.67 Q 8. Pieter Timmers (Belgium) 48.76 Q 9. Jimmy Feigen (U.S.) 48.86 Q 10. Sebastiaan Verschuren (Netherlands) 48.88 Q 10=. Luca Dotto (Italy) 48.88 Q 12. Nathan Adrian (U.S.) 48.93 Q 13. Filippo Magnini (Italy) 49.02 Q 14. ...

The Real Bradley Manning Problem Posted: 31 Jul 2013 01:35 AM PDT Now that a military judge has acquitted Pfc. Bradley Manning of aiding the enemy and convicted him of violating the Espionage Act, civil libertarians are breathing a small sigh of relief. But the Obama administration still has a big problem: how to control the flow of information between government agencies so you don't have a system that allows a private stationed in Iraq--or a contractor dating an acrobat in Hawaii--from downloading and distributing secret documents.Top officials know they've got a problem. ...

Attacks on Sunni, Shiite mosque in Iraq kill 9 Posted: 31 Jul 2013 12:34 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say a Shiite and a Sunni mosque in Baghdad have been targeted in bombings that killed at least nine people.

Brent holds below $107, but heads for best month since August Posted: 31 Jul 2013 12:04 AM PDT By Jessica Jaganathan SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Brent crude hovered below $107 per barrel on Wednesday ahead of the outcome of a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting and economic data that will be scoured for hints on the outlook for demand from the world's top oil consumer. But prices were set to post their biggest monthly rise in eleven months, helped by gains earlier in July amid geopolitical tensions that kept alive concerns about global oil supplies. ...

Turkish power-ship maker Karadeniz wants to expand to Africa, US, UK Posted: 30 Jul 2013 11:55 PM PDT TUZLA, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish power-ship builder Karadeniz Holding expects to supply its next electricity-generating vessel to a Middle Eastern or African nation and is also looking at U.S. and British markets, Chief Executive Orhan Karadeniz said on Tuesday. Closely held Karadeniz, the world's only maker of self-propelled floating power stations, already produces electricity for Iraq and Lebanon, part of its fleet of seven power ships with a combined capacity of 1,200 megawatts. ...

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