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• OPEC nations see no reason to alter oil output ceiling
• CIA disciplines 15 officers in harassment cases
• Man guilty of trying to buy weapons in terror plot
• Iraq Declares 'State of Emergency' After Second-Largest City Gets Overrun
• FIFA President Says Pointing Out Corruption Is Racist
• Here’s What The Annual Secularists’ Convention Has Planned
• U.S. condemns Mosul attack, calls Iraq situation 'extremely serious'
• Mosul falls to militants, Iraqi forces flee northern city
• UN chief urges Iraq national unity against threats
• Militants overrun most of major Iraqi city
• Iraq on the Brink as Islamists Have Own Surge
• Oil dips ahead of OPEC meeting, US inventories report
• OPEC ministers signal output to remain on hold
• Turkish minister says abducted drivers in Iraq are safe
• Jihadists take areas in Iraq's Salaheddin province
• Why Mosul's fall is a signature moment in Iraq
• US condemns siege in Iraq's 2nd largest city
• Iraqi militants threaten entire region: US
• Jihadists seize Iraq's second city, Nineveh province
• Jihadists seize areas in Iraq's Kirkuk province, say police
• IRAQ ATTACKS
• UN chief 'gravely concerned' by Iraq city takeover
• U.N. chief 'gravely concerned' by situation in Iraq's Mosul
• Hillary Clinton On Post-White House Debt: We Had To 'Keep Working Really Hard'
• Militants overrun parts of key Iraqi city of Mosul
• At least 630 killed in jihadist offensive in Syria
• Turkish truck drivers held in Iraq thought to be unharmed: official
• New jihadi recruitment tool: militants' Instagram accounts
• As Mosul falls to ISIS militants, doubts over US-trained Iraqi security forces
• Syrian rebel infighting kills at least 630 in east
• Militants overrun parts of key Iraqi city
• Iraq prime minister calls for state of emergency
• Iraq's prime minister asks parliament to declare a state of emergency over Mosul attack
• Iraqi PM asks parliament to declare state of emergency after insurgents seize Mosu
• Bombs at Iraq funeral procession kill 20
• Hundreds killed as ISIL insurgents gain ground in east Syria
• Journalists killed in 2013 remembered at Newseum
• Turkey says investigating reports 28 truck drivers kidnapped in Iraq
• 10 Things to Know for Today
• U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Talk Bergdahl

OPEC nations see no reason to alter oil output ceiling Posted: 10 Jun 2014 03:33 PM PDT OPEC, the oil producing cartel, will likely stick by its output ceiling at a meeting here, member nations indicated Tuesday as they expressed satisfaction with current high crude prices. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which pumps out about one third of the world's oil, has stood by a daily production ceiling of 30 million barrels for almost three years. OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia, the cartel's biggest and most influential producer, declared Tuesday that he expected no change to oil output levels. "The price is at a comfortable level for producer and consumer countries as well as for the oil industry," Naimi said.

CIA disciplines 15 officers in harassment cases Posted: 10 Jun 2014 02:46 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — When Ilana Sara Greenstein was a CIA case officer working at headquarters a decade ago, she said, a married senior manager who was responsible for her promotions made sexual advances toward her.

Man guilty of trying to buy weapons in terror plot Posted: 10 Jun 2014 02:38 PM PDT TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man was convicted Tuesday of trying to buy weapons for what authorities say was a planned terror attack on a Tampa casino and bar.

Iraq Declares 'State of Emergency' After Second-Largest City Gets Overrun Posted: 10 Jun 2014 02:36 PM PDT Iraq is on very precarious footing after Islamic militants essentially rolled over the city of Mosul today, driving out security forces and causing 150,000 residents to flee. Incredible traffic jam as 150,000 people flee #Iraq city of Mosul after militants take over. The capper to a 48-hour assault on the city by the group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (known, confusingly, as both ISIS and ISIL) is sending shockwaves through the region. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki declared a national "state of emergency" and the U.S. State Department weighed in, calling the situation "extremely serious."

FIFA President Says Pointing Out Corruption Is Racist Posted: 10 Jun 2014 02:18 PM PDT Sepp Blatter, the president of the notoriously corrupt governing body for international soccer, FIFA, said Monday that accusing FIFA officials of taking bribes is racism. He made this declaration while addressing the African and Asian confederations of FIFA, who were holding their own conferences before FIFA's annual conference.

Here’s What The Annual Secularists’ Convention Has Planned Posted: 10 Jun 2014 02:06 PM PDT Five Democratic lawmakers are set to speak at a large annual conference for secularists and nontheists which begins Wednesday in Washington D.C. The keynote speaker for the Secular Coalition for America's annual Lobby Day and Secular Summit will be Rhode Island U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat;

U.S. condemns Mosul attack, calls Iraq situation 'extremely serious' Posted: 10 Jun 2014 01:51 PM PDT By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday condemned the seizure of the Iraqi city of Mosul by Sunni Islamist insurgents, calling the situation "extremely serious" and urging fractious political groups to fight Iraq's enemies together. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the takeover of Iraq's second biggest city in the last 48 hours by forces from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant showed the serious deterioration of security in the country. The United States has supplied large amounts of weaponry to the Iraqi government since pulling its forces out in 2011, but Baghdad has failed to heal festering sectarian and political divisions sometimes fomented by outside forces. "There's no question that unity - and all sides and officials in Iraq working together - is the only way that they can be successful here," Psaki told a regular briefing.

Mosul falls to militants, Iraqi forces flee northern city Posted: 10 Jun 2014 01:51 PM PDT By Ziad al-Sinjary MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - An al Qaeda splinter group seized control of the Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, putting security forces to flight in a spectacular show of strength against the Shi'ite-led Baghdad government. The capture of the northern city of 2 million by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - Sunni Muslims waging sectarian war on both sides of the Iraqi-Syrian frontier - complements ISIL's grip on key western towns and followed four days of heavy fighting in Mosul and the border province of Nineveh around it. The United States, which pulled out its troops two and a half years ago, pledged to help Iraqi leaders "push back against this aggression" as the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki asked parliament to declare a state of emergency that would give him extraordinary powers to tackle the crisis. "We have lost Mosul this morning," said a colonel at a local military command center.

UN chief urges Iraq national unity against threats Posted: 10 Jun 2014 01:19 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is "gravely concerned" at the situation in Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, which has been largely overrun by al-Qaida-inspired militants and is urging all political leaders to unite against the threats facing the country.

Militants overrun most of major Iraqi city Posted: 10 Jun 2014 01:18 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — In a stunning assault that exposed Iraq's eroding central authority, al-Qaida-inspired militants overran much of Mosul on Tuesday, seizing government buildings, pushing out security forces and capturing military vehicles as thousands of residents fled the second-largest city.

Iraq on the Brink as Islamists Have Own Surge Posted: 10 Jun 2014 12:59 PM PDT Heavily Armed, Al-Qaeda-Affiliated Militants Have Seized the Iraqi City of Mosul

Oil dips ahead of OPEC meeting, US inventories report Posted: 10 Jun 2014 12:44 PM PDT Oil prices dipped Tuesday on the eve of OPEC's meeting to decide crude output levels and ahead of the weekly report on US crude inventories. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for July delivery dropped six cents to $104.35 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. European benchmark Brent oil for July delivery fell 47 cents to $109.52 a barrel in London on the IntercontinentalExchange. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which pumps out about one third of the world's oil, is expected to maintain its production output at a Vienna meeting Wednesday.

OPEC ministers signal output to remain on hold Posted: 10 Jun 2014 12:13 PM PDT VIENNA (AP) — All is not well within OPEC as the oil cartel focuses on how much crude to pump for the rest of the year.

Turkish minister says abducted drivers in Iraq are safe Posted: 10 Jun 2014 11:44 AM PDT Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Tuesday a group of Turkish truck drivers being held by suspected militants from an al Qaeda splinter group in Iraq were "safe and sound." A Turkish official said the 28 drivers were taken hostage by militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) while carrying diesel from the Turkish port of Iskenderun to a power plant in the Iraqi city of Mosul. "As for 28 Turkish citizens in Mosul, we are following the developments from various sources.

Jihadists take areas in Iraq's Salaheddin province Posted: 10 Jun 2014 11:44 AM PDT Tikrit (Iraq) (AFP) - Jihadists seized two areas of Iraq's Salaheddin province on Tuesday, officials said, after taking control of all of one province and parts of another earlier in the day.

Why Mosul's fall is a signature moment in Iraq Posted: 10 Jun 2014 11:23 AM PDT The Iraqi government has lost control of its third-largest city to Al Qaeda-inspired insurgents, a crushing defeat for not only Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's security policies but for Iraqi politics as a whole. The scale of the catastrophe, as troops loyal to Mr. Maliki flood north and troops controlled by the Kurdish Regional Government rush west and south, can't be overstated. And unlike the Anbar towns of Fallujah and Ramadi, almost exclusively Sunni Arab and in the heart of what has long been one of Iraq's most restive provinces, Mosul is an ethnically and religiously mixed town of Sunni and Shiite Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen, Christians and Muslims. US forces won, lost, and won control again of Fallujah in fierce battles during the early years of the America-led war in Iraq.

US condemns siege in Iraq's 2nd largest city Posted: 10 Jun 2014 11:02 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is condemning a siege of Iraq's second-largest city by Islamic militants "in the strongest possible terms."

Iraqi militants threaten entire region: US Posted: 10 Jun 2014 10:51 AM PDT Jihadists who have seized Iraq's second city of Mosul pose a threat to the entire region, the United States warned Tuesday, voicing deep concern about the "extremely serious" situation. Condemning militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) "in the strongest possible terms," White House spokesman Josh Earnest called on Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and other leaders to do more to address "unresolved issues" to ensure they are governing "with the interests of all Iraqis in mind." "It should be clear that ISIL is not only a threat to the stability of Iraq, but a threat to the entire region," said State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki, in a statement. She stressed that Washington backed "a strong coordinated response to push back against this aggression."

Jihadists seize Iraq's second city, Nineveh province Posted: 10 Jun 2014 10:25 AM PDT Mosul (Iraq) (AFP) - Jihadists overran Iraq's second city of Mosul, the surrounding Nineveh province and parts of Kirkuk on Tuesday, in a major blow to a government apparently incapable of stopping militant advances. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki responded by asking parliament to declare a state of emergency and announcing the government would arm citizens to fight the militants. "All of Nineveh province fell into the hands of militants," parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi told journalists in Baghdad, adding the gunmen were heading south towards neighbouring Salaheddin province. An army brigadier general told AFP hundreds of militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) launched a major assault on the security forces late on Monday.

Jihadists seize areas in Iraq's Kirkuk province, say police Posted: 10 Jun 2014 10:03 AM PDT Kirkuk (Iraq) (AFP) - Jihadists seized several areas in Iraq's Kirkuk province on Tuesday, a police officer said, after the militants took control of a whole province to its west. The militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) overran the Hawijah, Zab, Riyadh and Abbasi areas west of the city of Kirkuk, and Rashad and Yankaja to its south, Colonel Ahmed Taha said.

IRAQ ATTACKS Posted: 10 Jun 2014 09:54 AM PDT Map locates cities in Iraq that were sites of attacks.; 1c x 3 inches; 46.5 mm x 76 mm;

UN chief 'gravely concerned' by Iraq city takeover Posted: 10 Jun 2014 09:52 AM PDT United Nations (United States) (AFP) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed grave concern Tuesday about the jihadist takeover of Iraq's second city of Mosul, calling on political leaders to unite in the face of threats. His spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Ban was "gravely concerned by the serious deteriorating of the security situation in Mosul, where thousands of civilians have been displaced." The UN chief "strongly condemns the terrorist attacks" across Iraq that have killed and wounded scores of civilians over the past several days and extends his condolences, he added. "The secretary general urges all political leaders to show national unity against the threats facing Iraq, which can only be addressed on the basis of the constitution and within the democratic political process," he said.

U.N. chief 'gravely concerned' by situation in Iraq's Mosul Posted: 10 Jun 2014 09:23 AM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is "gravely concerned" by the serious deterioration of the security situation in Iraq's second largest city Mosul, his spokesman said, where Sunni Islamist insurgents seized control early on Tuesday. "The Secretary-General urges all political leaders to show national unity against the threats facing Iraq, which can only be addressed on the basis of the Constitution and within the democratic political process," spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. He said United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq stands ready to support these efforts. ...

Hillary Clinton On Post-White House Debt: We Had To 'Keep Working Really Hard' Posted: 10 Jun 2014 08:52 AM PDT "I Fully Appreciate How Hard Life Is For So Many Americans Today," She Says

Militants overrun parts of key Iraqi city of Mosul Posted: 10 Jun 2014 08:44 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic militants overran much of Iraq's second-largest city of Mosul on Tuesday, seizing the governor's headquarters and rampaging through police stations, military bases and the airport as security forces collapsed and abandoned their posts. Gunmen cruised through neighborhoods, waving black banners while residents fled.

At least 630 killed in jihadist offensive in Syria Posted: 10 Jun 2014 07:32 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — An offensive by a breakaway al-Qaida group in eastern Syria against Islamic rebel factions has killed more than 630 people and uprooted at least 130,000 since the end of April, an activist group said Tuesday.

Turkish truck drivers held in Iraq thought to be unharmed: official Posted: 10 Jun 2014 06:32 AM PDT A group of Turkish truck drivers being held by suspected militants from an al Qaeda splinter group in northern Iraq are thought to be unharmed and could be released soon, a Turkish official said on Tuesday. "These truck drivers were taking fuel to an energy storage and distribution hub. When they arrived, ISIL (militants) were already there," the official told Reuters, adding that Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was in contact with Iraqi, Kurdish and U.S. officials to try to ensure their safe release.

New jihadi recruitment tool: militants' Instagram accounts Posted: 10 Jun 2014 06:13 AM PDT The Dutch national of Turkish descent, who has been fighting with extremists in Syria since last year, posted one photo of himself tenderly holding a pink-clad Syrian toddler. After the photo-sharing site Instagram closed his account, he moved to Tumblr, a blogging platform popular with fighters eager to show off their exploits on the battlefield. Today he uses the question-and-answer platform Ask.fm to field questions about his journey. Yilmaz quickly achieved fame among a niche audience of Syria watchers. Other jihadis emulated him, posting photos of themselves on Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms looking happy and relaxed, pointing fingers in the air and casually slinging guns or other weapons. Only a decade ago, recruitment of jihadis happened via a fairly predictable, person-to-person pipeline.

As Mosul falls to ISIS militants, doubts over US-trained Iraqi security forces Posted: 10 Jun 2014 05:34 AM PDT Insurgents overran much of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Tuesday, seizing the provincial government headquarters, the airport, police stations, and prisons as members of the Iraqi army shed their uniforms and fled.  The capture of Mosul, described by news outlets as either Iraq's second- or third-largest city, underlines the growing strength of sectarian and extremist insurgencies in Iraq, and casts doubt on the capabilities of the US-trained Iraqi security forces.  Charles Lister, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institute in Doha who studies extremist groups, told the Washington Post that this will prompt questions about whether the US should continue sending military equipment to the Iraqi government. "Washington will be questioning how to move forward in terms of supporting the Iraqi army in its fight against terrorism," he said.

Syrian rebel infighting kills at least 630 in east Posted: 10 Jun 2014 05:09 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Fighting in eastern Syria between Islamic rebel brigades and an al-Qaida splinter group has killed more than 630 people and uprooted at least 130,000 since the end of April, an activist group said Tuesday.

Militants overrun parts of key Iraqi city Posted: 10 Jun 2014 04:58 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic militants overran parts of Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, on Tuesday, driving security forces from their posts and seizing the provincial government headquarters, security bases and other key buildings. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asked parliament to declare a state of emergency.

Iraq prime minister calls for state of emergency Posted: 10 Jun 2014 04:39 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's prime minister has asked parliament to declare a state of emergency over a militant attack in Mosul.

Iraq's prime minister asks parliament to declare a state of emergency over Mosul attack Posted: 10 Jun 2014 04:34 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's prime minister asks parliament to declare a state of emergency over Mosul attack.

Iraqi PM asks parliament to declare state of emergency after insurgents seize Mosu Posted: 10 Jun 2014 04:32 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has asked parliament to declare a state of emergency after Sunni Islamist insurgents seized control of most of the country's second largest city, Mosul. Militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and their allies overran a military base and freed hundreds of prisoners early on Tuesday in a spectacular strike against the Shi'ite-led Iraqi government. (Reporting by Raheem Salman and Ahmed Rasheed; Writing by Isabel Coles: Editing by John Stonestreet)

Bombs at Iraq funeral procession kill 20 Posted: 10 Jun 2014 04:24 AM PDT Baquba (Iraq) (AFP) - Two bombs exploded near a funeral procession in the Iraqi city of Baquba on Tuesday, killing 20 people, police and a doctor said. The blasts in the capital of Diyala province, 60 kilometres (37 miles) north of Baghdad, also wounded 28 people, the sources said. Mourners were carrying the body of a teacher who was shot dead the previous night to a cemetery when the blasts occurred. The Baquba blasts came as militants seized control the entire northern province of Nineveh, including its capital Mosul.

Hundreds killed as ISIL insurgents gain ground in east Syria Posted: 10 Jun 2014 04:15 AM PDT A six-week offensive by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against rival Islamists in eastern Syria has killed 600 fighters and driven 130,000 people from their homes, a monitoring group said on Tuesday. ISIL, which is battling to control a huge area of east Syria and western Iraq, has advanced along the Euphrates River in the oil producing Deir al-Zor province, driving back militants from al Qaeda's Nusra Front and other Islamic brigades. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said ISIL now controls most of the northeast bank of the Euphrates from close to the border with Turkey down to the town of Busayra nearly 200 miles (320 km) to the southeast. It aims to extend that control all the way to the town of Albukamal on the Iraqi border, strengthening links between its Syrian and Iraqi wings, the Observatory's Rami Abdelrahman said.

Journalists killed in 2013 remembered at Newseum Posted: 10 Jun 2014 03:52 AM PDT The Newseum on Monday honored the 77 journalists who were killed around the world in 2013 by adding 10 names to its towering memorial. At a rededication ceremony for the memorial, Associated Press Executive ...

Turkey says investigating reports 28 truck drivers kidnapped in Iraq Posted: 10 Jun 2014 03:45 AM PDT Turkey is investigating reports that 28 Turkish truck drivers ferrying diesel to the northern Iraqi city of Mosul have been abducted by militants from an al Qaeda splinter group, senior Turkish officials said on Tuesday. Insurgents overran the headquarters of the provincial government in Mosul late on Monday, making further gains in a fourth day of fighting in the country's second-largest city. Turkish media reports said the drivers were taken hostage by militants from the Sunni Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) while carrying diesel from Turkey's southern port of Iskenderun to a power plant in Mosul. "The situation in Mosul looks a bit grim ... Concerning the 28 truck drivers, we are trying to confirm through our consular department but we have nothing as yet," one Turkish official told Reuters.

10 Things to Know for Today Posted: 10 Jun 2014 03:10 AM PDT Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Talk Bergdahl Posted: 10 Jun 2014 02:45 AM PDT A military officer in Afghanistan reports on how troops there have reacted to the news of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's release.

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