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South Africa: Mandela family gathers at rural home

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 01:03 PM PDT

A print of Nelson Mandela and get-well messages hanged outside of the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa Monday, June 24, 2013. Mandela's health has deteriorated and he is now in critical condition, the South African government said. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Members of Nelson Mandela's family and tribal elders gathered Tuesday at the former president's rural hometown in eastern South Africa, as concern grew for the 94-year-old leader who spent a third day in critical condition in a hospital, local media reported.

Judge in Trayvon Martin case weighs police calls

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 12:49 PM PDT

George Zimmerman enters the courtroom for his trial in Seminole County circuit court in Sanford, Fla. Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.(AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Gary W. Green, Pool)SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Several times in six months, neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman called police to report suspicious characters in the gated townhouse community where he lived. Each time, he pointed out that the suspects were black males.

A reporter's eyewitness account of Taliban attack

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 12:03 PM PDT

Afghan national security arrive near the entrance gate of the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Suicide attackers blew up a car bomb and battled security forces outside the presidential palace Tuesday after infiltrating one of the most secure areas of the capital. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which came as reporters were gathering for a news event on Afghan youth at which President Hamid Karzai was expected to talk about ongoing efforts to open peace talks with the militant group. (AP photo/Rahmat Gul)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — One moment I was standing in a quiet, secure and heavily guarded area and the next it had turned into a battlefield.

White House: Russia has 'legal basis' to expel Snowden

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 11:36 AM PDT

Aeroflot flight SU150 sits at the tarmac of the Jose Marti international airport after arriving from Moscow to Havana, Cuba, Monday, June 24, 2013. Confusion over the whereabouts of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden grew on Monday after SU150 Aeroflot flight filled with journalists trying to track him down flew from Moscow to Cuba with the empty seat booked in his name.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says Russia has a "clear legal basis" to expel National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and is asking them to do so without delay.

Syrian al-Qaida branch claims suicide attacks

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 11:17 AM PDT

US ambassador to Syria Robert Ford, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, U.N.'s special representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi, US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov, from left to right, pose prior to a second meeting on Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at the United Nations (UN) office in Geneva in a bid to organize the conference on Syria. (AP Photo/Fabrice Coffrini, Pool)BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian branch of al-Qaida on Tuesday claimed responsibility for multiple suicide attacks on security compounds in Damascus that killed at least five people in a weekend assault on the center of the regime's power.

94 in Alaska? Weather extremes tied to jet stream

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 10:03 AM PDT

FILE - People swim and sunbathe at Goose Lake in Anchorage, Alaska on Monday, June 17, 2013. Alaska's largest city and other parts of the state are experiencing a long stretch of higher than normal temperatures. The jet stream, the river of air high above Earth that generally dictates the weather, usually rushes rapidly from west to east in a mostly straight direction. But lately it seems to be wobbling and weaving like a drunk driver, wreaking havoc as it goes. The most recent example is mid-June where some towns in Alaska hit record highs. (AP Photo/Rachel D'Oro)WASHINGTON (AP) — Lately, the jet stream isn't playing by the rules. Scientists say that big river of air high above Earth that dictates much of the weather for the Northern Hemisphere has been unusually erratic the past few years.

McCain says Putin's sheltering of Snowden ‘reminiscent’ of Cold War

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 08:45 AM PDT

President of Russia Vladimir Putin visits FinlandSen. John McCain weighed in on the Edward Snowden saga on Tuesday, telling CNN that Russia's actions in the wake of the National Security Agency leaker's reported arrival in Moscow is reminiscent of the Cold War. "It's reminiscent of the days of the Cold War when you hear a Russian spokesman saying that [Snowden's] not [...]

Putin says no to US request to extradite Snowden

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 08:30 AM PDT

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks at a news conference in Moscow on Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Lavrov on Tuesday bluntly rejected U.S. demands to extradite National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, saying that Snowden hasn't crossed the Russian border as he seeks to evade prosecution. Sergey Lavrov insisted that Russia has nothing to do with Snowden or his travel plans. Lavrov wouldn't say where Snowden is, but he angrily lashed out at the U.S. for demanding his extradition and warnings of negative consequences if Moscow fails to comply. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)NAANTALI, Finland (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden is in the transit zone of a Moscow airport and will not be extradited to the United States.

High court voids key part of Voting Rights Act

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 07:30 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act cannot be enforced until Congress comes up with a new way of determining which states and localities require close federal monitoring of elections.

Germany probes model plane attack suspects

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 06:44 AM PDT

Members of a special response unit of the German state police leave the site of a search operation in Fellbach, Germany, Tuesday, June 25, 2013, as German prosecutors said they are investigating two men suspected of planning terrorist attacks using model airplanes. Authorities in Germany and neighboring Belgium conducted a series of searches of nine properties in Germany and Belgium. (AP Photo/dpa, Franziska Kraufmann)BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors said Tuesday they are investigating two men suspected of planning terrorist attacks using model airplanes, and authorities in Germany and neighboring Belgium conducted a series of searches.

Lebanese troops secure hardline cleric's complex

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 05:12 AM PDT

Lebanese army soldiers raid homes to search for gunmen after clashes that erupted between followers of a radical Sunni cleric Sheik Ahmad al-Assir and Shiite gunmen, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, June 24, 2013. Lebanese troops battled heavily armed followers of a hard-line Sunni cleric holed up in a mosque complex in a southern port city on Monday, the second day of fighting that has left more than a dozen of soldiers dead, the military said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese troops detonated booby traps at a complex captured from followers of a hardline Sunni cleric on Tuesday, securing the area after two days of fighting that left dozens dead in the port city of Sidon.

Officials: 3 dead in Afghanistan palace assault

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 04:42 AM PDT

Afghan soldiers stand guard as smoke rises from the gate of the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday June 25, 2013. The Taliban said they have hit one of the most secure areas of the Afghan capital with a suicide attack, as a series of explosions rocked the gate leading into the presidential palace. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials say a brazen Taliban assault on the presidential palace in Kabul has left three guards dead.

Attack on Afghan palace could sink peace talks

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 04:12 AM PDT

Afghan National Army soldiers keep watch near the entrance gate of the presidential palace in KabulTaliban militants attacked key buildings in Kabul.

Power plant limits at center of Obama climate plan

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 03:26 AM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks during his meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, June 24, 2013, with CEOs, business owners and entrepreneurs to discuss immigration reform. From left are, Cecilia Muñoz, direcor of the White House Domestic Policy Council, the president, senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling, and Dilawar Syed, CEO Yonja Media Group. Obama hosted the meeting to discuss the importance of commonsense immigration reform including the Congressional Budget Office analysis that concludes immigration reform would promote economic growth and reduce the deficit. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — Taking climate change efforts into his own hands, President Barack Obama is proposing sweeping steps to limit heat-trapping pollution from coal-fired power plants and to boost renewable energy production on federal property.

Russia rejects US demand for Snowden's extradition

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 02:42 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 21, 2013 file photo, a banner supporting Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, is displayed at Central, Hong Kong's business district. The Hong Kong government says Snowden wanted by the U.S. for revealing two highly classified surveillance programs has left for a MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's foreign minister has rejected U.S. demands to extradite National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, who has apparently stopped in Moscow while trying to evade U.S. justice.

Chinese workers holding US boss say wages unpaid

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 01:54 AM PDT

Chu Lixiang, director of workers union of Huairou District, center, and workers ask the journalists to leave from the Specialty Medical Supplies plant, where American Chip Starnes, a co-owner of the Florida-based plant, is being held hostage at the Jinyurui Science and Technology Park in Qiao Zi township of Huairou District, on the outskirts of Beijing, China Tuesday, June 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)BEIJING (AP) — Chinese workers keeping an American executive confined in his Beijing medical supply plant said Tuesday that they had not been paid in two months in a compensation dispute that highlights tensions in China's labor market.

Two goals in 17 seconds give Blackhawks the Cup

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 01:24 AM PDT

Chicago Blackhawks' Jonathan Toews hoists the Stanley Cup after defeating the Boston Bruins 3-2 in Game 6 to win the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals, Monday, June 24, 2013, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)BOSTON (AP) — Two hours after clinching the Stanley Cup title, a handful of Chicago Blackhawks wandered back out onto the TD Garden ice in their street clothes.

Obama hit by Snowden setbacks with China, Russia

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 12:41 AM PDT

White House press secretary Jay Carney gestures during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, June 24, 2013. Carney said the U.S. assumes that Edward Snowden is now in Russia and that the White House now expects Russian authorities to look at all the options available to them to expel Snowden to face charges in the U.S. for releasing secret surveillance information . (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)WASHINGTON (AP) — For President Barack Obama, National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden's globe-trotting evasion of U.S. authorities has dealt a startling setback to efforts to strengthen ties with China and raised the prospect of worsening tensions with Russia.

Websites in 2 Koreas shut down on war anniversary

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 11:53 PM PDT

A man walks by a gate at Cyber Terror Response Center of National Police Agency in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, June 25, 2013. South Korea said multiple government and private sector websites were hacked on Tuesday's anniversary of the start of the Korean War, and Seoul issued a cyberattack alert warning officials and citizens to take security measures. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Major government and media websites in South and North Korea were shut down for hours Tuesday on the 63rd anniversary of the start of the Korean War, and Seoul said its sites were hacked and alerted people to take security measures against cyberattacks.

US boss held by Chinese workers awaits outcome

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 11:22 PM PDT

Chu Lixiang, director of workers union of Huairou District, center, and workers ask the journalists to leave from the Specialty Medical Supplies plant, where American Chip Starnes, a co-owner of the Florida-based plant, is being held hostage at the Jinyurui Science and Technology Park in Qiao Zi township of Huairou District, on the outskirts of Beijing, China Tuesday, June 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)BEIJING (AP) — An American executive held in his Beijing medical supply plant by angry workers says he's waiting for his lawyers to arrive to resolve a compensation dispute that highlights tensions in China's labor market.

Veterans' uphill road back, struggle with suicide

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 10:52 PM PDT

Pedestrians walk in front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington, Friday, June 21, 2013. The number of military suicides is nearly double that of a decade ago when the U.S. was just a year into the Afghan war and hadn't yet invaded Iraq. While the pace is down slightly this year, it remains worryingly high. The U.S. military and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) acknowledge the grave difficulties facing active-duty and former members of the armed services who have been caught up in the more-than decade-long American involvement in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — Five years ago, Joe Miller, then an Army Ranger captain with three Iraq tours under his belt, sat inside his home near Fort Bragg holding a cocked Beretta 40mm, and prepared to kill himself.

Qatar ruler hands over power to son

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 10:52 PM PDT

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Qatar's ruler says he has transferred power to the 33-year-old crown prince in a long-anticipated move that puts a new generation in charge of the Gulf nation's vast energy wealth and its rising political influence.

SKorea says several gov't, private websites hacked

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 09:21 PM PDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea said multiple government and private sector websites were hacked on Tuesday's anniversary of the start of the Korean War, and Seoul issued a cyberattack alert warning officials and citizens to take security measures.

South Korea issues cyberattack alert as sites shut

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 08:34 PM PDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has issued a cyberattack alert after government websites shut down on the anniversary of the start of the Korean War.

Blackhawks stage late rally to win Stanley Cup

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 08:18 PM PDT

Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Johnny Oduya (27), of Sweden, hugs Chicago Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford (50) after winning Game 6 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals 3-2 against the Boston Bruins, Monday, June 24, 2013, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)BOSTON (AP) — An NHL-record unbeaten streak to start the lockout-shortened season.
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