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• Two men charged in Miami with financing foreign terrorist groups
• Boss: Manning wasn't too mentally unstable to work
• Defense in U.S. WikiLeaks trial says Army ignored Manning's bizarre acts
• Lawyers for U.S. soldier in Afghan rampage seek prosecutors' ouster
• Obama’s vacations and golfing by the numbers
• AACSB's BizEd Magazine Recognized With 12 Top Publishing Awards
• U.S. should hold confidential direct talks with Iran: think tank
• England must develop an identity, says Ferdinand
• 5 revelations on the 'Keyser Soze' of the Edward Snowden saga
• Car bombings in Iraq kill 7 people
• Soccer-England must develop an identity, says Ferdinand
• Iraq Kirkuk oil flow to Turkey halted: Iraqi officials
• Brent steady under $109, eyes on Libya and US data
• Analysis: Saudi feud too bitter for new Iran president to fix
• Deadly Iraq bombings target cafe, school and playground
• Today in History

Two men charged in Miami with financing foreign terrorist groups Posted: 13 Aug 2013 03:55 PM PDT By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen and a foreign national were charged in federal court in Miami on Tuesday with providing financing and recruits to al Qaeda and other foreign terrorist organizations fighting in Syria and other places. Gufran Ahmed Kauser Mohammed, a 30-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen born in India, and Mohamed Hussein Said, a 25-year-old Kenyan, were arraigned on a 15-count indictment charging them with links to three U.S.-designated terrorist organizations that have operated in Iraq, Syria and Somalia. ...

Boss: Manning wasn't too mentally unstable to work Posted: 13 Aug 2013 02:40 PM PDT FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Army Pfc. Bradley Manning's violent outbursts and a photo of him dressed as a woman ideally should have blocked him from working with classified information in Iraq, but the Army needed his skills, the soldier's former boss testified Tuesday.

Defense in U.S. WikiLeaks trial says Army ignored Manning's bizarre acts Posted: 13 Aug 2013 01:16 PM PDT By Tom Ramstack FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - Lawyers for Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier convicted of giving classified documents to WikiLeaks, sought to show during a sentencing hearing on Tuesday that the Army ignored his mental health problems and bizarre behavior. Manning's violent outbursts and his emailing a supervisor a photo of himself in a dress and blond wig with the caption "This is my problem" were signs the gay soldier should not have a job as an intelligence analyst, defense attorney David Coombs told the court-martial. ...

Lawyers for U.S. soldier in Afghan rampage seek prosecutors' ouster Posted: 13 Aug 2013 10:22 AM PDT By Jonathan Kaminsky TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - Lawyers for a U.S. soldier who pleaded guilty in June to the slaughter of 16 Afghan civilians are expected to seek the dismissal of the prosecution team at a hearing on Tuesday, claiming that the fairness of the soldier's upcoming sentencing proceeding is at risk. Military prosecutors were mistakenly provided an unredacted copy of a court-ordered mental health evaluation of Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, which civilian defense lawyer John Henry Browne has said would give them an undue advantage in the sentencing phase of the case. ...

Obama’s vacations and golfing by the numbers Posted: 13 Aug 2013 09:52 AM PDT Obama has fled D.C.'s dog days for Martha's Vineyard. But the numbers show a former president took a lot more time off.

AACSB's BizEd Magazine Recognized With 12 Top Publishing Awards Posted: 13 Aug 2013 06:00 AM PDT TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- BizEd, the world's leading magazine covering management education, recently won 12 awards for excellence in editorial quality and design from three of the top associations in the publishing industry. BizEd is published bi-monthly by AACSB International, which advances quality management education worldwide through accreditation, thought leadership, and value-added services. ...

U.S. should hold confidential direct talks with Iran: think tank Posted: 13 Aug 2013 05:48 AM PDT By Yeganeh Torbati DUBAI (Reuters) - The United States should hold confidential direct talks with Iran over its nuclear program but the West should not expect Iran's moderate new president to offer major concessions, a prominent think-tank said on Tuesday. To try to give the talks a chance, however, Washington and other world powers should hold off imposing new sanctions on Iran, the International Crisis Group (ICG) said in a report. The United States and other powers suspect the Islamic Republic is covertly seeking a nuclear arms capability. ...

England must develop an identity, says Ferdinand Posted: 13 Aug 2013 04:52 AM PDT (Reuters) - England must develop their own identity if they are to flourish at international level and should be prepared to miss out on major tournaments to make it happen, Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand said. "What is our identity?", Ferdinand, who retired from international football in May, said in Tuesday's edition of The Guardian newspaper. "We started to see something when (former manager) Glenn Hoddle was in charge, a bit of an identity then, free-flowing football, and you would say we were starting to get an idea of the pattern of what he wanted to implement in the team. ...

5 revelations on the 'Keyser Soze' of the Edward Snowden saga Posted: 13 Aug 2013 04:42 AM PDT Meet Laura Poitras, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker who helped Snowden go public

Car bombings in Iraq kill 7 people Posted: 13 Aug 2013 04:23 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say two car bombs, one of which exploded near a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad, have killed 7 people.

Soccer-England must develop an identity, says Ferdinand Posted: 13 Aug 2013 02:53 AM PDT Aug 13 (Reuters) - England must develop their own identity if they are to flourish at international level and should be prepared to miss out on major tournaments to make it happen, Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand said. "What is our identity?", Ferdinand, who retired from international football in May, said in Tuesday's edition of The Guardian newspaper. ...

Iraq Kirkuk oil flow to Turkey halted: Iraqi officials Posted: 13 Aug 2013 02:01 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb attack stopped oil flows through the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline linking Iraq to Turkey early on Tuesday, Iraqi oil officials said. The stoppage started at around 0230 GMT (10:30 p.m. Tuesday EDT). The pipeline has been repeatedly attacked by militants and has also suffered technical problems. (Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed, Writing by Sylvia Westall; editing by Jason Neely)

Brent steady under $109, eyes on Libya and US data Posted: 13 Aug 2013 12:57 AM PDT By Luke Pachymuthu SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Brent crude steadied under $109 per barrel on Tuesday after rising on supply concerns in OPEC nation Libya, as investors look to U.S. economic data due this week for cues on the timing of Federal Reserve stimulus cuts. Striking security guards reimposed a two-week-old shutdown at Libya's two biggest crude export terminals on Monday, hours after they had reopened, and more oilfields closed in a wave of protest that is propping up world oil prices. ...

Analysis: Saudi feud too bitter for new Iran president to fix Posted: 12 Aug 2013 11:02 PM PDT By Angus McDowall and Yeganeh Torbati RIYADH/DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah's disdain for Iran leaps from U.S. embassy cables. "May God prevent us from falling victim to their evil," he told U.S. officials, according to a cable released by WikiLeaks. According to another, he told his own diplomats he wanted Washington to "cut off the head of the snake". On the other side of the Gulf, Iran's contempt for Saudi Arabia crackles through a report on its hardline Mashregh website. The kingdom's ruling family, it said, was "drowning in corruption and prostitutes". ...

Deadly Iraq bombings target cafe, school and playground Posted: 12 Aug 2013 09:39 PM PDT By Sylvia Westall BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 16 people were killed and 41 wounded on Monday in a suicide bomb attack on a crowded cafe in Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, part of the worst wave of violence in Iraq in around five years. Two roadside bombs - one planted near a playground and another near a school - also killed six people and wounded dozens, some of them children, in the town of Muqdadiya, 80 km northeast of the capital. ...

Today in History Posted: 12 Aug 2013 09:01 PM PDT Today is Tuesday, Aug. 13, the 225th day of 2013. There are 140 days left in the year.

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