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Report: San Diego Mayor Filner has signed letter of resignation

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 12:05 PM PDT

San Diego mayor Bob Filner speaks at a news conference in San DiegoThe mayor of San Diego, facing a sexual harassment lawsuit and a slew of allegations of inappropriate behavior toward women, has signed a letter of resignation, the Los Angeles Times reported on Friday. The resignation of Mayor Bob Filner could not immediately be confirmed by Reuters. City Clerk Elizabeth Maland said her office had not received any such letter, and a spokesman for the city attorney declined to comment. A representative for Filner could not immediately be reached for comment. ...

Fierce clashes in suburbs of Syrian capital

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 11:51 AM PDT

Columns of smoke rising from heavy shelling in the Jobar neighborhood in west Damascus, in Cairo, Syria, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. President Bashar Assad's forces pressed on with a military offensive in eastern Damascus on Thursday, bombing rebel-held suburbs where the opposition said a chemical weapons attack the day before killed over 100 people. The government has denied allegations it used chemical weapons in artillery barrages on the area known as eastern Ghouta on Wednesday as BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops and opposition fighters clashed Friday during fierce battles in suburbs of the Syrian capital where the opposition claims a chemical weapons attack this week killed more than 130 people, activists said.

Low turnout for pro-Morsi rallies in Egypt

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 10:33 AM PDT

Egyptian security forces deploy in Tanta, Egypt, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013, where supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi clashed with residents, killing one. As the military deployed in a show of force, hundreds of Mohammed Morsi supporters took to the streets Friday in scattered rallies across the capital, but the Muslim Brotherhood failed to bring out large numbers in a sign that the movement may be waning after the arrest of the group's senior leadership in an intense security crackdown. There were also scattered protests in other cities in Egypt, some of them descending into clashes between the demonstrators and locals who largely pelted each with rocks. In one incident in the Delta city of Tanta, police fired tear gas to stop the rival camps from clashing using birdshots and knives.(AP Photo)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military turned out in force as thousands calling for the ousted president's reinstatement held scattered protests across Cairo, but the Muslim Brotherhood failed to bring out huge numbers in a sign that an intense crackdown has dealt a serious blow to the 85-year-old group's support base.

Defense asks jurors for leniency in Afghan murders

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 09:49 AM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 23, 2011, file photo, provided by the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System shows Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales during an exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. Bales, a U.S. soldier charged in the killing of 16 Afghan villagers, pleaded guilty in June in a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty. His sentencing is scheduled to begin Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 with the selection of a military jury. (AP Photo/DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock, File)JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — A lawyer for the U.S. soldier who massacred 16 Afghan villagers last year is asking jurors to consider his previous service and life as they weigh whether he should ever have a chance of being released from prison.

Random attack in Spokane leaves WWII veteran dead

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 09:18 AM PDT

WWII vet dies in attackSPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Police in Spokane, Wash., say they have arrested one of two teens suspected of fatally beating an 88-year-old veteran of World War II who had survived the Battle of Okinawa.

Prosecutors: Bales deserves no chance of release

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 09:03 AM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 23, 2011, file photo, provided by the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System shows Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales during an exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. Bales, a U.S. soldier charged in the killing of 16 Afghan villagers, pleaded guilty in June in a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty. His sentencing is scheduled to begin Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 with the selection of a military jury. (AP Photo/DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock, File)JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — An Army prosecutor says Staff Sgt. Robert Bales' own "stomach-churning" words prove he knew what he was doing when he massacred 16 Afghan villagers during pre-dawn raids last year.

Twin explosions kill 29 in north Lebanese city

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 08:17 AM PDT

A Lebanese man takes pictures with his mobile phone at the site of an explosion outside a mosque in the Northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Friday Aug. 23, 2013. Lebanon's official news agency says dozens of people have been killed by twin explosions outside two Sunni mosques in a northern city. The explosions in Tripoli come amid rising tensions in Lebanon resulting from Syria's civil war, which has sharply polarized the country along sectarian lines and between supporters and opponents of the regime of President Bashar Assad. Tripoli has previously seen clashes between Sunnis and Alawites, a Shiite offshoot sect to which Assad belongs.(AP Photo)TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Twin car bombs exploded outside mosques in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli Friday, killing at least 29 people, wounding over 350 and wreaking major destruction in the country's second largest city, Lebanese Health Ministry officials said.

Jury mulling fate of admitted Fort Hood shooter

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 07:47 AM PDT

In this courtroom sketch, U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is shown during closing arguments of his court martial, Thursday Aug. 22, 2013, in Fort Hood, Texas. (AP Photo/Brigitte Woosley)FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Military jurors resumed deliberations Friday in the trial of the Army psychiatrist accused in the deadly 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood. But they have little to consider from the soldier, who has mounted nearly nothing for a defense.

Microsoft CEO Ballmer to retire; share price jumps

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 07:47 AM PDT

FILE - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks at a Microsoft event in San Francisco, Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Ballmer, who helped build Microsoft into a technology empire and then struggled to prevent it from crumbling under his own leadership, will retire within the next 12 months. The world's biggest software company did not name a successor. Microsoft Corp.'s stock shot up 9 percent in premarket trading following the news. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who took over the helm of the world's largest software company from founder Bill Gates, will retire within the next 12 months.

Live coverage: Egyptian Brotherhood declares 'Friday of Martyrs'

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 07:15 AM PDT

Supporters of Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Egyptian President Mursi shout slogans in CairoJoin Egyptian writers and experts as they take questions and report on the latest clashes in Egypt.

Koreas agree to reunions for first time in 3 years

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 06:43 AM PDT

In this photo released by the South Korean Unification Ministry, head of the North Korean working-level delegation Park Yong Il shakes hand his South Korean counterpart Lee Duk-haeng, right, as he crosses border line to hold their meeting at the Peace House of south side of the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. North Korea on Thursday accepted South Korea's request that this week's talks on reuniting families separated by war be held at a border village, Seoul officials said, the latest in a series of conciliatory gestures Pyongyang has recently taken. (AP Photo/South Korea Unification Ministry)SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea agreed Friday to allow reunions next month of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, the first such meetings in three years and the latest conciliatory gesture from the North after a spring that saw it threaten Seoul and Washington with missile strikes and nuclear war.

Twin explosions kill 27 in north Lebanese city

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 06:13 AM PDT

Smoke rises outside al-Taqwa mosque, one of two mosques hit by explosions, in Lebanon's northern city of TripoliBEIRUT (AP) — Twin powerful explosions detonated outside mosques in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli Friday, killing at least 27 people, wounding 350 and wreaking major destruction in the country's second largest city, Lebanese Health Ministry officials said.

Young Indian journalist gang raped in Mumbai

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 05:57 AM PDT

Indian policemen inspect the site where a 22-year-old woman was gang raped in Mahalaxmi area in Mumbai India, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. The young woman photojournalist was gang raped while her male colleague was tied up and beaten in India's business hub of Mumbai, police said Friday. The case was reminiscent of the December gang rape and death of a young university student in the Indian capital that shocked the country. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)NEW DELHI (AP) — A 22-year-old photojournalist was gang raped while her male colleague was tied up and beaten in an isolated, overgrown corner of India's business hub of Mumbai, police said Friday. The case was reminiscent of the December gang rape and death of a young university student in the Indian capital that shocked the country.

2 explosions kill 13 in north Lebanese city

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 05:42 AM PDT

BEIRUT (AP) — Twin explosions rocked the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli Friday, killing at least 13 people, wounding over 80 and wreaking major destruction in the country's second largest city, said Lebanon's state-run news agency.

2 explosions kill 12 in north Lebanese city

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 05:27 AM PDT

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's official news agency says at least 12 people have been killed by twin explosions outside two Sunni mosques in a northern city.

Obama: Syria attack a 'big event of grave concern'

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 04:56 AM PDT

This image provided by by Shaam News Network on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, purports to show several bodies being buried in a suburb of Damascus, Syria during a funeral on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. Syrian government forces pressed their offensive in eastern Damascus on Thursday, bombing rebel-held suburbs where the opposition said the regime had killed more than 100 people the day before in a chemical weapons attack. The government has denied allegations it used chemical weapons in artillery barrages on the area known as eastern Ghouta on Wednesday as AUBURN, N.Y. (AP) — President Barack Obama says a possible chemical weapons attack in Syria this week is a "big event of grave concern" that has hastened the timeframe for determining a U.S. response.

Radioactive groundwater under Fukushima nears sea

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 04:25 AM PDT

In this Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 aerial photo, workers stand on storage tanks at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant at Okuma in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan. Deep beneath Fukushima's crippled nuclear power station a vast underground reservoir of highly contaminated water that began spilling from the plant's reactors during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami has been creeping slowly toward the sea. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDITTOKYO (AP) — Deep beneath Fukushima's crippled nuclear power station a massive underground reservoir of contaminated water that began spilling from the plant's reactors after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami has been creeping slowly toward the sea.

Radioactive ground water under Fukushima nears sea

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 03:39 AM PDT

In this Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 aerial photo, workers stand on storage tanks at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant at Okuma in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan. Deep beneath Fukushima's crippled nuclear power station a vast underground reservoir of highly contaminated water that began spilling from the plant's reactors during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami has been creeping slowly toward the sea. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDITTOKYO (AP) — Experts fear that a massive underground reservoir of contaminated water that has slowly spread beneath the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant is close to reaching the Pacific Ocean.

San Diego officials to weigh mayoral agreement

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 03:23 AM PDT

Greg Timms, left, signs a petition to recall San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, alongside Tana Piontek, right, at a stand set up in the parking lot of a shopping center Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, in San Diego. Pressure is mounting against San Diego's mayor to resign after a sexual harassment lawsuit was filed against him, and the Democratic National Committee plans to vote on a resolution Friday urging him to step down immediately. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)SAN DIEGO (AP) — Mayor Bob Filner, besieged by sexual harassment allegations, has sat down to the negotiating table with a key bargaining chip: His refusal to resign.

Philadelphia tries less salt in Chinese takeout

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 03:09 AM PDT

A monday Aug. 19, 2013, photo shows the Szechuan Hunan restaurant which is participating in new low sodium initiative in Philadelphia. A new health initiative spearheaded by Temple University aims to help Chinese takeout restaurants in Philadelphia to cut the sodium in their food by 10 to 15 percent. About 220 of more than 400 takeout places have agreed to participate, with the ultimate goal of decreasing hypertension-related mortality rates in the city. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Amar Jones knows that high-salt Chinese takeout isn't good for his high blood pressure. But the lure of shrimp with broccoli is hard to resist.

UN says Syrian child refugees tops 1 million mark

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 02:55 AM PDT

AP10ThingsToSee - FILE - Syrian refugees cross into Iraq at the Peshkhabour border point in Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013. Around 30,000 Syrians, the vast majority of them Kurds, have fled the region over a five-day stretch and crossed the border to the self-ruled Kurdish region of northern Iraq. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)GENEVA (AP) — The number of registered child refugees fleeing Syria's violence has topped the 1 million mark in another grim milestone of the deepening conflict, two U.N. agencies said Friday.

Beastly fire disrupts Idaho vacation heaven

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 01:36 AM PDT

SUN VALLEY, Idaho (AP) — For rockers Huey Lewis and the News, smoke from the massive Sun Valley, Idaho, wildfire known as "the Beast" had band members who famously worried about the heart of rock and roll worrying about their lungs.

Beastly wildfire disrupts Idaho vacation heaven

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 01:21 AM PDT

SUN VALLEY, Idaho (AP) — For rockers Huey Lewis and the News, smoke from the massive Sun Valley, Idaho, wildfire known as "the Beast" had band members who famously worried about the heart of rock and roll worrying about their lungs.

NY sanctuaries take in animals escaping slaughter

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 12:37 AM PDT

Imran Uddin, owner of Madani Halal live market, tours a section of his market housing goats and sheep, on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013 in the Queens Borough of New York. Uddin, who supplies some of the city's top chefs, said there has been no escapes from his facility into the public. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)NEW YORK (AP) — Winston escaped death to find a piglet's paradise.

Lawmakers OK NYPD watchdog, overriding vetoes

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 12:03 AM PDT

New York City council speaker Christine Quinn is joined by councilman Donovan Richards as she speaks to reporters, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013 in New York. New York City council members say they will make history with a vote to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg's vetoes on police oversight bills. At a rally on Thursday before the vote, activists cheered and held signs that read NEW YORK (AP) — Levele Pointer has gone to rallies and City Hall to push for changes to police stop and frisks, but he readily explains that the stops he's experienced personally didn't always make him angry.
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