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Syria says no aid deliveries without its approval

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 04:52 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syria says any attempt to deliver humanitarian aid to rebel-controlled areas without government approval is tantamount to "an attack on the Syrian state" as well as its territorial integrity and political independence.

Obama warns Iraq on unity

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 04:30 PM PDT

A newly-recruited Iraqi volunteer holds a weapon during a training session on June 20, 2014, in the southern city of BasraUS President Barack Obama warned Friday that no amount of US firepower could keep Iraq together if its political leaders did not disdain sectarianism and work to unite the country. Obama told CNN, a day after announcing the dispatch of 300 special forces advisors to Iraq following a lightning advance by extreme Sunni radicals, that American sacrifices had given Iraq a chance at a stable democracy, but it had been squandered. "We gave Iraq the chance to have an inclusive democracy.


Troops Surrounded, Trapped in Iraq's Key Refinery, Sources Tell ABC News

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 03:59 PM PDT

Troops Surrounded, Trapped in Iraq's Key Refinery, Sources Tell ABC NewsLoss of Baiji Refinery Would Be a Serious Blow to Iraqi Government


Wall Street Week Ahead: Hoping for a consumer discretionary turnaround

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 03:54 PM PDT

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock ExchangeBy Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of specialty retailers and apparel makers helped lead the charge off the market's bottom in March 2009 but unraveled this year, leaving consumer discretionary stocks as the sole sector to still be lower through the first half of 2014. The S&P 500 consumer discretionary sector index is down 1.1 percent since the end of 2013, the worst performance of any of the 10 macro sectors so far this year, while the benchmark index is up 6.2 percent. Earnings are now expected to have risen just 8.7 percent for the year, compared with 13.5 percent at the start of the year, Thomson Reuters data showed.


More than 400 US military drones lost in crashes: report

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 03:45 PM PDT

A Predator drone takes off for a surveillance flight near the Mexican border on March 7, 2013The United States has lost more than 400 military drones in major crashes worldwide since 2001, The Washington Post said Friday in a report questioning the safety and reliability of the unmanned aircraft. Citing 50,000 pages of accident investigation reports, the Post said military drones have since the 9/11 attacks "malfunctioned in myriad ways," including mechanical breakdowns, human error and foul weather. "Military drones have slammed into homes, farms, runways, highways, waterways and, in one case, an Air Force C-130 Hercules transport plane in midair," it said. Sixty-seven drone crashes occurred in Afghanistan, and 41 in Iraq, but 47 occurred within the United States during test and training flights, the Post said on its website.


Critics of Obama's troop order to Iraq: 'We told you so'

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 03:34 PM PDT

President Obama's announcement this week that he would be sending 300 US troops back to Iraq to "advise and assist" Iraqi soldiers has become something of an "I told you so" moment for those who had opposed the pullout of US forces in the first place. The surge of US troops in 2007 won the war in Iraq, and Mr. Obama created a "colossal failure" by failing to push hard enough to keep them in the country, goes the standard narrative dusted off by Sen. John McCain (R) of Arizona this week.  "Rarely has a US president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many," former Vice President Dick Cheney wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, joining the blame game.  "Which president was he talking about?" was White House spokesman Jay Carney's riposte – a reference to the Bush administration's push to invade Iraq in 2003 based upon what turned out to be wrong reasoning.

BRAZIL BEAT: Fan mail pours in to Brazil players

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 03:33 PM PDT

Brazil's David Luiz smiles during a news conference in Teresopolis, Brazil, Friday, June 20, 2014. Brazil plays in group A at the soccer World Cup. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)TERESOPOLIS, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian players received nearly 6,000 fan letters before the team's practice Friday.


Sectarian tensions set stage for Iraq conflict, Obama says: NBC

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 03:31 PM PDT

Iraq's conflict is the result of sectarian divisions that have been allowed to fester, President Barack Obama said on Friday. "Some of the forces that have always possibly pulled Iraq apart are stronger now, (and) those forces that could keep the country united are weaker," he told NBC Nightly News. "It is ultimately going to be up to the Iraqi leadership to try to pull the politics of the country back together again." Obama is sending U.S. military advisers to Iraq and has threatened air strikes as Sunni Islamists have seized the north of the country and made a push toward Baghdad.

Fleeing Iraqis join large tide of displaced people

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 03:08 PM PDT

Eritrean female asylum seekers sit along with their children on the sidewalk in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, June 20, 2014. Since April 29, over 200 Eritrean asylum seekers including women and children living on the streets of Sanaa wait to be resettled to a third country. For the first time since the World War II era, the number of people forced from their homes worldwide has surged past 50 million, the United Nations refugee agency said Friday. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)TAZA KHORMATO, Iraq (AP) — In a battered car loaded with blankets and clothes, Hassan Abbas and his mother left a dusty town in northern Iraq, fleeing this week's violence and joining what the United Nations says is the largest worldwide population of displaced people since World War II.


Dow, S&P 500 end at record highs

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 03:04 PM PDT

Traders John Bowers and John Elliott work on the floor of the New York Stock ExchangeBy Angela Moon NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose on Friday, driving the Dow and the S&P 500 to close at record highs as the shares of 330 companies hit 52-week highs on the New York Stock Exchange. The S&P 500 scored its third record closing high in a row while the Dow surpassed its previous record close on June 10.


BRAZIL BEAT: Sinkhole swallows up cars in Natal

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 03:04 PM PDT

Joggers run in the rain at Ponta Negra beach in Natal, Brazil, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Japan play in group C of the 2014 soccer World Cup. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)NATAL, Brazil (AP) — A giant sinkhole has swallowed cars and damaged the homes of some 150 families living in a poor neighborhood in a northern Brazilian city that's one of 12 hosting the World Cup matches.


Iraq's top cleric increases pressure on al-Maliki

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:54 PM PDT

An Iraqi woman living in Iran holds a poster of the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's top Shiite cleric, in a demonstration against Sunni militants of the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, and to support Ayatollah al-Sistani, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)BAGHDAD (AP) — The most respected voice for Iraq's Shiite majority on Friday joined calls for the country's prime minister to form an inclusive government or step aside, a day after President Barack Obama challenged Nouri al-Maliki to create a leadership representative of all Iraqis.


Rand Paul Says 'I Don't Blame' Obama for Iraq Crisis

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:54 PM PDT

ABC's Shushannah Walshe and Benjamin Siegel report: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky took opposite views of the crisis in Iraq today, with Christie blaming it on President Obama's foreign policy while Paul said he doesn't put the "blame on...

U.S. spy agencies warned Maliki was 'alienating' Iraq's Sunnis

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:46 PM PDT

By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies have repeatedly warned top government officials that Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki and his policies were gravely antagonizing his country's Sunni population, two U.S. security officials said on Friday. The officials said the warnings were contained in secret intelligence reports and analyses presented in the last two years to policymaking officials, including President Barack Obama. The reports concluded that Maliki and his government were creating so much animosity among Iraq's Sunnis that this would empower and embolden violent militant groups, such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Obama is sending 300 military advisers to Iraq to help stop the offensive by the Sunni militant ISIL and is demanding a more inclusive government be formed in Baghdad.

Iraq needs more inclusive governance to end turmoil: U.N. development chief

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:46 PM PDT

By Dasha Afanasieva ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Iraq needs more inclusive governance across sectarian and religious divides if it is to end its turmoil, something only its own politicians can deliver, one of the United Nations' top officials said on Friday. Helen Clark, head of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the world body's third most senior figure, said only a political solution in Iraq, and in neighboring Syria, could end the crises. "The political leaders need to come together to plan how you can run Iraq within its current borders," the former New Zealand prime minister told Reuters in an interview in Istanbul. "Iraq must solve its own problems ... People have to want one country," she said, when asked if that was possible without foreign military intervention.

Indonesia fears terror return as fighters head to Syria, Iraq

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:43 PM PDT

Indonesians are joining the procession of jihadists to Syria and Iraq, sparking fears they will revive sophisticated militant networks when they return and undermine a decade-long crackdown that has crippled the most dangerous cells. Support for groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Sunni radicals currently rampaging through northern Iraq, is growing among Indonesian extremists with dozens believed to have joined the insurgency. Analysts say the fighters will pose a new and serious threat to Indonesia when they return home with honed insurgency tactics and international militant connections, echoing the concerns of Western governments. Britain and Australia have expressed fears that Syria and Iraq are breeding grounds for violent fanatics who travel there from the West to fight and pose a threat to national security on their return.

Energetic stock market pushes toward milestones

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:42 PM PDT

In this Thursday, June 19, 2014 photo, a board above the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange shows that day's closing number for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, 16921.46, in New York. After treading water for most of March and April, stocks are nudging deeper into record territory and are closing in on milestones with big zeros attached to them. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market is back to setting records.


Amid local outcry, US pulls plan for Va. shelter

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:33 PM PDT

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The government is shopping for a new location to temporarily shelter hundreds of Central American children after residents and officials of a tiny Virginia farm town angrily protested the secretive selection of their community.

BRAZIL BEAT: Benzema's 2nd goal can't beat clock

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:26 PM PDT

France's Karim Benzema celebrates before his goal was disallowed after Netherlands referee Bjorn Kulpers had blown his whistle for full time before the ball entered the gaol during the group E World Cup soccer match between Switzerland and France at the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador, Brazil, Friday, June 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — Karim Benzema had just scored his second goal of the game and fourth of the tournament, and the sixth of the day for France.


Wall Street sets records on rates view; dollar rises

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:11 PM PDT

The curve of the German share price index DAX board at the Frankfurt stock exchangeBy Michael Connor NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street equities rose on Friday for a sixth straight session and hit new highs, boosted by money managers convinced that U.S. policymakers will keep a lid on interest rates through 2016. U.S. equities rallied for a sixth straight session and took the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 and Dow Jones industrial indices to record highs. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Wednesday effectively cleared the way for more Wall Street gains by suggesting that interest rates will remain low through 2016, several top U.S. money managers told Reuters.


Stocks manage small gains; Dow, S&P 500 at records

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:06 PM PDT

Trader Robert McQuade works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, June 20, 2014. Stocks are slightly higher in early trading as the market heads for a week of solid gains. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)Stocks inched past more milestones Friday, delivering the third consecutive record-high close for the Standard & Poor's 500 index and a new high for the Dow Jones industrial average.


Saudi king stops in Cairo to visit Egypt's Sisi

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:02 PM PDT

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah meets Egypt's new president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi during his visit to CairoSaudi Arabia's King Abdullah stopped in Cairo late on Friday to meet with Egypt's new president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to show his strong support through a symbolic but brief visit. Sisi and his delegation were on board for just over 30 minutes. Egypt's official news agency reported that the talks covered the importance of the two nations working together to address regional challenges, a sign of how the Gulf monarchy sees Cairo as a crucial partner against the rapid rise of Islamism. Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, and its wealthy Gulf Arab partners Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, have given more than $20 billion to help Egypt since Sisi ousted Islamist President Moahmed Mursi last July, and are likely to pledge more.


Iraq’s Internet Blockade Lets ISIS Slide

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT

Iraq's Internet Blockade Lets ISIS SlideBaghdad is restricting access to all kinds of websites—except ones affiliated with the Islamic extremists taking over the country. Why?


Bombing, arrests spark fear in Lebanon

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 01:56 PM PDT

Lebanese police intelligence gather outside a hotel after security forces raided there in Beirut's Hamra district, Lebanon, Friday, June 20, 2014. Security forces raided the hotel over suspected "terrorist cells" inside it, a police official said. In eastern Lebanon, a suicide bomber detonated his vehicle Friday near a police checkpoint, killing a few people amid heightened concerns of renewed violence, the country's state-run news agency and security officials said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)BEIRUT (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle Friday near a police checkpoint in eastern Lebanon, while troops raided two hotels in the capital, arresting 17 suspected members of an al-Qaida breakaway group allegedly plotting terrorist attacks in the country.


Dow, S&P 500 at records as investors eye Iraq, GE deal

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 01:55 PM PDT

Detail of the New York Stock Exchange building May 13, 2014 in New YorkNew York (AFP) - The Dow and S&P 500 edged to fresh records Friday as the chances rose for GE's acquisition of parts of France's Alstom and fighting in Iraq lifted oil prices.


TSX ends flat as miners slip, energy shares gain

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 01:53 PM PDT

Toronto Stock Exchange logo is seen in TorontoBy John Tilak TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index was little changed on Friday as a decline in shares of gold miners was offset by strength in the energy sector, which extended a solid run since the start of the year. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index .GSPTSE is up about 11 percent so far in 2014. "When an index reaches new highs, you definitely take a step back," said Patrick Blais, a portfolio manager and managing director at Manulife Asset Management. "With stock valuations now close to historical norms, the case for similar equity price gains going forward (has) diminished," Capital Economics said in a research note.


BRAZIL BEAT: Argentina coach sees 'strong' Iran

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 01:46 PM PDT

Argentina's head coach Alejandro Sabella listens to a question during a news conference at Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Friday, June 20, 2014. Argentina plays in group F of the 2014 soccer World Cup. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) — Argentina is not just facing Iran's national football team, but its culture and war-torn history, too, when the two teams go head to head at the Mineirao Stadium on Saturday.


Bin Laden 'demon toy' and three other wacky CIA plots

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 01:11 PM PDT

The Central Intelligence Agency secretly developed an Osama bin Laden action figure whose face peeled off to reveal a scary devil beneath, according to an account first published this week in The Washington Post. The point was to frighten children and their parents and lower their esteem for the then-hidden Al Qaeda leader, said the Post.

Saudi king meets Egypt's Sisi in Cairo

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 01:05 PM PDT

A picture released by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) shows Saudi's King Abdullah on September 29, 2013Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah visited Cairo Friday, on his first trip to Egypt since the 2011 ouster of dictator Hosni Mubarak, for talks with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Riyadh hailed last July's ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi by ex-army chief Sisi and has pledged billions of dollars in aid to Egypt's military-installed authorities.


UN chief opposes airstrikes on extremists in Iraq

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 01:01 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Friday that any possible airstrikes against Sunni extremists in Iraq could be ineffective and backfire. He urged Iraq's feuding communities to unite against the terrorists who have captured a vast swath of territory.

Obama eyes New Zealand trip

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 12:54 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama (R) holds a bilateral meeting with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key (L) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on June 20, 2014US President Barack Obama said Friday that he is badgering his staff to line up a trip to New Zealand, after holding talks with his golfing buddy, Prime Minister John Key. Obama and Key met for talks in the Oval Office on trade, security and economic issues, but the conversation also turned to their shared passion for the links and Obama's travel plans. "I indicated to him that I would love to come to New Zealand because I hear it's really nice," Obama told reporters. "We're going to be working with my scheduler to see what I can come up with, if not this year, certainly before the end of my presidency," Obama said.


Oil tops $107 as Iraq refinery battle goes on

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 12:54 PM PDT

The price of oil rose Friday and ended the week with a slight gain, as a battle for control of Iraq's biggest refinery remained undecided. The Beiji oil refinery has a capacity of 320,000 barrels a day, ...

A guide to fast-moving events in Iraq

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 12:48 PM PDT

An Iraqi Shiite Turkmen gunman holds his RPG as he stands in front of a portrait of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, at the front line village of Taza Khormato, in the northern oil rich province of Kirkuk, Iraq, Friday June 20, 2014. Thousands of people fled the town of Taza Khormato fearing the advance of Sunni insurgents who overran the neighboring village of Kirkuk. Taza Khormato residents said insurgents led by the al-Qaida inspired Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant seized the nearby village of Basheer, shelling and burning down the houses. Both communities are dominated by ethnic Turkmen Shiites who are seen as heretics worthy of death by Sunni extremists. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)BAGHDAD (AP) — The crisis in Iraq is increasingly taking on a political tone as calls are growing for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to step down. The Shiite leader, who faces criticism that his failure to promote reconciliation among the country's myriad religious sects sparked the widespread Sunni anger that has emboldened the al-Qaida breakaway group that has overtaken large sections of northern territories. Iraq's Shiite spiritual leader Ali al-Sistani, an Iranian-born cleric who has been unusually active with recent pronouncements made via intermediaries, called for "an effective government that enjoys broad national support." The U.S. also has found itself drawn back into the country, with President Barack Obama announcing plans to dispatch up to 300 military advisers to help quell the insurgency.


Official: Plan to house immigrants in Va. scrapped

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 12:45 PM PDT

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The government has abandoned a botched plan to temporarily shelter hundreds of Central American children in a rural Virginia town, an elected official informed of the decision told The Associated Press on Friday.

Iran sent 'small numbers' of operatives into Iraq: US

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 12:21 PM PDT

Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby speaks to reporters on April 29, 2014Iran has sent "small numbers" of operatives into Iraq to bolster the Shiite-led government in Baghdad, but there is no sign of a large deployment of army units, the Pentagon said Friday. The comments by spokesman Admiral John Kirby marked the US government's first public confirmation that Iranian operatives had crossed into Iraq, where the Baghdad government is struggling to counter the swift advance of Sunni extremists. "There are some Iranian revolutionary operatives in Iraq but I've seen no indication of ground forces or major units," Kirby told a news conference, apparently referring to Tehran's Quds force, the covert arm of the Revolutionary Guard Corps.


US stock drifting higher in afternoon trading

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 12:00 PM PDT

Trader Robert McQuade works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, June 20, 2014. Stocks are slightly higher in early trading as the market heads for a week of solid gains. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)Stocks held on to slight gains in afternoon trading Friday, moving closer to finishing in positive territory for the week. On a light day for economic data, investors focused on individual stocks in the news. CarMax shares vaulted after the auto dealership operator reported strong quarterly earnings growth, while Darden and Oracle slumped.


Top Shiite cleric calls for new government in Iraq

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 11:51 AM PDT

Iraqi men check in at main army recruiting center to volunteer for military service in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, June 20, 2014, after authorities urged Iraqis to help battle insurgents. The campaign by the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State militants has raised the specter of the sectarian warfare that nearly tore the country apart in 2006 and 2007, with the popular mobilization to fight the insurgents taking an increasingly sectarian slant, particularly after Iraq's top Shiite cleric made a call to arms last week. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — The spiritual leader of Iraq's Shiite majority called for a new, "effective" government Friday, increasing pressure on the country's prime minister a day after U.S. President Barack Obama challenged him to create a more inclusive leadership or risk a sectarian civil war.


Iraqi forces ready push after Obama offers advisers

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 11:48 AM PDT

Members of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces take their positions during clashes with the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the city of RamadiBy Isra' al-Rubei'i BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi forces were massing north of Baghdad on Friday, aiming to strike back at Sunni Islamists whose drive toward the capital prompted the United States to send military advisers to stiffen government resistance. Iraq's senior Shi'ite religious cleric issued a call for unity, saying Shi'ites and Sunnis should rally behind the authorities to prevent the Sunni militant Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant from destroying the country. Already, ISIL has started to enact its puritanical vision of Islam in Mosul, which it captured 10 days ago as it swept across northern Iraq. Mosul residents said ISIL members had destroyed symbols of Iraq's rich heritage, razing statues of cultural icons and the tomb of a Mediaeval philosopher.


Iran says Obama remarks show U.S. not serious in fighting terrorism

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 11:48 AM PDT

President Barack Obama's plan to send advisers to Iraq to help Baghdad counter Sunni Islamist militants shows the United States is not serious about fighting terrorism, an Iranian official was quoted by official media as saying on Friday. Obama on Thursday offered up to 300 Americans to help coordinate the fight against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). But he held off granting a request for air strikes from the Shi'ite-led government and renewed a call for Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to do more to overcome sectarian divisions that have fueled resentment among the Sunni minority. "Obama's recent remarks showed that the White House lacks serious will for confronting terrorism in Iraq and the region," the official IRNA news agency reported Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian as saying.

US seeks legal protection for troops going to Iraq

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 11:31 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon expects Iraq to agree in writing to legal protections for the military advisory teams that President Barack Obama is sending as part of an effort to stiffen Iraqi defenses against insurgents, a spokesman said Friday.

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