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EU nations battle over air traffic control plans

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 12:52 PM PDT

Passengers wait for a flight at Marseille-Provence Airport, in Marignane, southern France, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. France's main airports have cut their flight timetables in half to cope with a three-day strike by air traffic controllers. The Civil Aviation Authority said that some 1,800 flights were cut Tuesday in France to protest against a plan to centralize control of Europe's air space. (AP Photo/ClaudeParis)PARIS (AP) — A massive battle is taking place in the skies over Europe — and airplane passengers across the continent are feeling its effects.

Iraq increasingly drawn into Syrian battlefield

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 12:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 16, 2013, a suspected al-Qaida member is detained in an Iraqi SWAT raid in Latifiyah, Iraq. Signs are growing that stretches of Iraq and Syria are morphing into a single battlefield for militants, exacerbating Iraq's slide into renewed deadly chaos a decade after Saddam Hussein's fall. Iraqi border posts are coming under attack, fighters are criss-crossing the frontier, and Syrian truck drivers and soldiers have been slain by militants inside Iraq. It's happening as the drumbeat of violence inside Iraq surges to levels not seen in half a decade, back when U.S. troops were still here to help keep the peace. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani, File)BAGHDAD (AP) — Signs are growing that stretches of Iraq and Syria are morphing into a single battlefield for militants, exacerbating Iraq's slide into renewed deadly chaos a year and a half after U.S. troops pulled out.

Immigration bill advances in Senate

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 12:06 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 12, 2013 file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Two votes scheduled for Tuesday afternoon June 11, 2012 were on procedural measures to officially allow debate to move forward on the far-reaching landmark immigration bill. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Tuesday to advance a landmark immigration bill, clearing away the first procedural hurdle in front of legislation opening the door to citizenship for millions.

In South Africa, talk of Mandela's mortality

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 11:36 AM PDT

Tourists visit a temporary exhibit on Nelson Mandela at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg Tuesday June 11, 2013. Former South African President Nelson Mandela is spending a fourth day in a hospital, where he is being treated for a recurring lung infection. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The desk is spotless and books neatly line the shelves in Nelson Mandela's office at a Johannesburg-based foundation that carries his name, but the former South African president and anti-apartheid leader hasn't worked there for years.

Police renew sweep through Istanbul square

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 11:36 AM PDT

A petrol bomb explodes in front of riot policemen during clashes in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades in Istanbul's central Taksim Square early Tuesday, pushing many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)ISTANBUL (AP) — Riot police are re-entering Istanbul's Taksim Square after defiant protesters swarmed back in by the thousands.

Rubio amendment toughens English requirement for immigrants

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 10:35 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2011 file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. speaks in Washington. Rubio is address House conservatives Wednesday afternoon June 5, 2013 on a far-reaching immigration bill. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida announced Tuesday he will introduce an amendment to the immigration reform bill that would require all immigrants to prove they were proficient in English before they could receive permanent legal immigration status. Rubio's amendment would significantly change the sweeping bill and would make it harder for millions of immigrants [...]

Sen. Wyden not buying intelligence director's answers

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 09:36 AM PDT

National Intelligence Director James Clapper arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 18, 2013, to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the current and future threats to national security. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)This may be as close as a sitting U.S. senator comes to publicly calling the director of national intelligence a liar. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a Senate Intelligence Committee member and sharp critic of government domestic surveillance programs, warned DNI James Clapper on Tuesday that he must give "straight answers" to lawmakers about the extent [...]

Mandela daughters visit ill father in hospital

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 09:36 AM PDT

Tourists visit a temporary exhibit on Nelson Mandela at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg Tuesday June 11, 2013. Former South African President Nelson Mandela is spending a fourth day in a hospital, where he is being treated for a recurring lung infection. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Doctors are doing all they can to improve Nelson Mandela's health as the 94-year-old icon spent a fourth day in the hospital for a recurring lung infection, South Africa's president said Tuesday, as two of Mandela's daughters visited their father.

Obama exhorts Congress to act on immigration

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 08:34 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 12, 2013 file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Two votes scheduled for Tuesday afternoon June 11, 2012 were on procedural measures to officially allow debate to move forward on the far-reaching landmark immigration bill. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama prodded Congress Tuesday to send him a bill by fall remaking the nation's immigration laws, even as the Senate prepared to cast its first floor votes on the landmark measure opening a door to citizenship for millions.

Mali manual suggests al-Qaida has feared weapon

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 08:18 AM PDT

In this March 29, 2013 photo provided by the French Army's images division, ECPAD, a French soldier holds the launch tube of an SA-7 surface-to-air missile before its destruction in Timbuktu, northern Mali. The knowledge that the terrorists have the weapon has already changed the way the French are carrying out their five-month-old offensive in Mali. They are using more fighter jets rather than helicopters to fly above its range of 1.4 miles (2.3 kilometers) from the ground, even though that makes it harder to attack the jihadists. They are also making cargo planes land and take off more steeply to limit how long they are exposed, in line with similar practices in Iraq after an SA-14 hit the wing of a DHL cargo plane in 2003. (AP Photo/ECPAD, Olivier Debes)TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) — The photocopies of the manual lay in heaps on the floor, in stacks that scaled one wall, like Xeroxed, stapled handouts for a class.

NSA leaker’s girlfriend feels ‘adrift’

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 07:33 AM PDT

BalletThe acrobatic performer is the girlfriend of Edward Snowden, neighbors say.

Suicide blast in Kabul kills 14 at Supreme Court

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 07:02 AM PDT

Afghans rush a wounded man to receive treatment, after a suicide car bomber struck outside the Afghan Supreme Court in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. The suicide car bomber killed more than a dozen and wounded tens, police and health officials said. The car bomb exploded outside the court's back entrance as employees were leaving for the day and as cars belonging to staff were driving out of the back gate, said police officer Jahn Agha. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Kabul police say a suicide car bomber that struck outside the Supreme Court in the Afghan capital has killed at least 14 people and wounded 30.

Ellsberg: No leaks more significant than Snowden's

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 06:47 AM PDT

This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, on Sunday, June 9, 2013, in Hong Kong. The Guardian identified Snowden as a source for its reports on intelligence programs after he asked the newspaper to do so on Sunday. (AP Photo/The Guardian)KENSINGTON, Calif. (AP) — Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg calls the revelations by a government contractor on U.S. secret surveillance programs the most "significant disclosure" in the nation's history.

Suicide blast in Kabul kills 3 near US Embassy

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 06:15 AM PDT

Men carry another man who was wounded during a suicide car bomb attack in KabulKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber struck outside the Afghan Supreme Court near the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on Tuesday, killing at least three people and wounding seven, police said.

Mandela remains in serious condition, gov't says

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 06:00 AM PDT

En esta foto del 18 de julio del 2012 se ve al expresidente sudafricano Nelson Mandela al celebrar sus 94 años en Qunu, Sudáfrica. El 10 de junio del 2013 se informó que su estado de salud era serio pero estable en un hospital de Pretoria (AP Foto/Schalk van Zuydam, Archivo)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's president says that Nelson Mandela remains in serious but stable condition during his fourth day in the hospital.

SKorea: Talks with North scrapped over negotiators

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 05:44 AM PDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Koreas' first high-level talks in six years have been scrapped because of a stalemate over who will lead each delegation, South Korea said Tuesday, a day before they were to begin. The cancellation is a blow to tentative hopes that the rivals were about to improve ties following years of rising hostility.

Boehner: Congress can do immigration this year

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 05:13 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 12, 2013 file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Two votes scheduled for Tuesday afternoon June 11, 2012 were on procedural measures to officially allow debate to move forward on the far-reaching landmark immigration bill. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner says he thinks there's a good chance that legislation overhauling America's immigration system can be signed into law "by the end of the year."

Police crush barricades in Istanbul square

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 04:57 AM PDT

Riot policemen take cover behind their shields amid tear gas smoke during clashes in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades in Istanbul's central Taksim Square early Tuesday, pushing many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)ISTANBUL (AP) — Hundreds of riot police overran improvised protest barricades at Istanbul's Taksim Square on Tuesday, firing tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon in running battles with those who have been occupying the area for more than a week.

Koreas putting off planned talks, South says

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 04:11 AM PDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says planned talks with North Korea won't happen on Wednesday but there's no immediate word on whether they're being canceled entirely.

US leaker faces hard choices while in hiding

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 03:55 AM PDT

Employees stand at the entrance of the Mira Hotel in Hong Kong Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Edward Snowden, an American defense contractor who said he leaked information on classified U.S. surveillance programs, checked out of the hotel on Monday and has not been seen in public in the territory. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)HONG KONG (AP) — Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about U.S. surveillance programs, has few options to stay one step ahead of the authorities while in apparent hiding.

Police move past barricades into Istanbul square

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 03:23 AM PDT

Riot policemen take cover behind their shields amid tear gas smoke during clashes in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades in Istanbul's central Taksim Square early Tuesday, pushing many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)ISTANBUL (AP) — Hundreds of police in riot gear pushed past improvised barricades early Tuesday to reach Istanbul's central Taksim Square, firing tear gas and rubber bullets to scatter protesters who have occupied the area for more than a week.

New York’s bike share program off to a fast start

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 03:09 AM PDT

Tourists sit on bikes that are available as part of a bike share program Monday, May 27, 2013, in New York. The privately funded Citi Bike bike-share program will launch with 6,000 bikes at 330 docking stations in Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. Officials hope to expand to 10,000 bikes and 600 docking stations in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)After more than 160,000 rides, a few software glitches, and one particularly irate Wall Street Journal editorial, New York City's bike share program, Citi Bike, is up and pedaling. Modeled after similar bike share systems from Minneapolis to Montreal, and privately funded by Citigroup Inc. among other sponsors, New York's Citi Bike is already the [...]

Bombs hit Syrian capital, at least 14 killed

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 02:53 AM PDT

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian army soldiers stand guard at a scene of two explosions in the central district of Marjeh, Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Two explosions hit a central Damascus square Tuesday, killing and wounding dozens of people, activists and the state media reported. State TV said the blasts were caused by suicide bombers, while activists said they were bombs planted there in advance. (AP Photo/SANA)DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Two suicide bombers hit a central Damascus square Tuesday, killing at least 14 people, activists and the state media reported. Activists said one of the explosions took place inside the police station there and that many among the dead were policemen.

Mandela spends fourth day in hospital

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 01:36 AM PDT

En esta foto del 18 de julio del 2012 se ve al expresidente sudafricano Nelson Mandela al celebrar sus 94 años en Qunu, Sudáfrica. El 10 de junio del 2013 se informó que su estado de salud era serio pero estable en un hospital de Pretoria (AP Foto/Schalk van Zuydam, Archivo)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African President Nelson Mandela is spending a fourth day in a hospital, where he is being treated for a recurring lung infection.

Search for 1st Web page takes detour into NC

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 01:20 AM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, March 31, 2011 file photo, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee addresses the media during the International World Wide Web conference in Hyderabad, India. The scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known by its French acronym CERN, are searching for the first Web page. It was there that Berners-Lee invented the Web in 1990 as an unsanctioned project. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A., File)For the European physicists who created the World Wide Web, preserving its history is as elusive as unlocking the mysteries of how the universe began.
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