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Egypt's Mohamed Morsy goes from prisoner to president
Full Article The Times of India
24 Jun 2012

Tweet CAIRO: In a reversal of fortunes unthinkable a year and a half ago, an Islamist jailed by Hosni Mubarak has succeeded him as president of the biggest Arab nation in a victory at the ballot box which has historic consequences for Egypt and the Middle East. The Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsy will not enjoy the extent of modern, pharaonic...
In this Friday, June 22, 2012 file photo, the Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate Mohammed Morsi, center, performs Friday prayers in Amr Ibn Al-As mosque in Cairo, Egypt.
photo: AP / Amr Nabil

Syria, Turkey downplay incident
Full Article The News Tribune
24 Jun 2012

BEIRUTA day after Syria shot down a Turkish jet, officials from the neighboring countries moved to tamp down tensions Saturday as they mounted a joint rescue operation for two pilots still missing in the eastern Mediterranean. The incident had the potential to escalate tensions between two countries whose relations are already severely...
This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN, purports to show anti-Syrian regime protesters raise up their hands and shout slogans as they wave the Syrian revolutionary flag, During a demonstration in central Daraa, southern Syria, Friday June 22, 2012.
photo: AP / Shaam News Network, SNN

Paraguayan protesters demand Lugo's return
Full Article Houston Chronicle
24 Jun 2012

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — The ouster of Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo sparked a unique protest as a long line of speakers queued up late into Saturday night for a special televised "open microphone" program to vent their frustration over what they called an institutional coup, calling for strikes and protests to demand his return. Broadcast by...
A supporter of Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo shouts outside Congress where the Senate is holding Lugo's impeachment trial in Asuncion, Paraguay, Friday, June 22, 2012.
photo: AP / Cesar Olmedo

Greek Coalition Outlines Plan to Renegotiate Loan Deal
Full Article The New York Times
23 Jun 2012

ATHENS — Two days before Greece’s international creditors return to Athens to begin talks on keeping the nearly bankrupt country solvent, the new coalition government on Saturday highlighted the main points it plans to renegotiate with lenders, aiming to revoke certain taxes, suspend planned layoffs in the bloated public sector and...
Greece's new Prime Minister Antonis Samaras speaks to reporters before a swearing - in ceremony of his new government outside the Presidential Palace in Athens, Thursday, June 21, 2012.
photo: AP / Kostas Tsironis

Turkey vows action against Syria for downing jet
Full Article Atlanta Journal
23 Jun 2012

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey will take retaliatory steps against Syria for the downing of a Turkish military jet, President Abdullah Gul said Saturday, even as he suggested that the aircraft may have unintentionally violated Syrian airspace. Map locates Latakia, Syria, near where a Turkish plane was shot down by Syria. FILE - In this April 29,...
File - In this April 29, 2010 file photo, a Turkish pilot salutes before take-off at an air base in Konya, Turkey.
photo: AP

Rio+20, the unhappy environmental summit
Full Article Denver Post
23 Jun 2012

Click photo to enlargeEnvironmental activists, one portraying Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff holding a banner symbolizing "dirty money" made from fossil fuel subsidies, protest on the final day of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, June 22, 2012. «1»RIO...
The UN Conference on Sustainable Development, dubbed Rio+20, holds its plenary session in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also attended the event.
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe

Israel continues strikes on Gaza Strip
Full Article Al Jazeera
23 Jun 2012

Israel has launched more air strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight, after killing two people in earlier raids, according to Palestinian health ministry sources. The latest strikes targetted two camps of the armed wing of Hamas, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, in central and northern Gaza; and a former Hamas security post in Gaza City. The...
Palestinian mourners carry the body of militant Basil Ahmad during his funeral in Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Friday, June 22, 2012.
photo: AP / Ashraf Amra

Syria admits shooting down Turkish warplane
Full Article Newstrack India
23 Jun 2012

Tweet Damascus, June 23 (IANS) Syria Saturday confirmed having shot down a Turkish fighter jet which had entered the Syrian airspace earlier Friday. A Turkish fighter jet had penetrated the Syrian airspace and it was shot down by Syrian army with anti-aviation artillery, Xinhua quoted a Syrian military spokesperson as...
 TAI-built F-16 fighter jets belonging to various Turkish Air Force squadrons (ss2)
photo: public domain

Anti-military crowds mass in Cairo's Tahrir
Full Article Al Jazeera
23 Jun 2012

Tens of thousands of Egyptians have returned to Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand the rollback of what they see as politically biased court decisions and military power grabs designed to throttle last year's revolution and steal the presidential election. The mass protest and sit-in, initiated by the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday night,...
Egyptian supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for president, Mohammed Morsi gather in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, June 22, 2012.
photo: AP / Bernat Armangue

Violence follows removal of Paraguay's president
Full Article Sacramento Bee
23 Jun 2012

ASUNCION, Paraguay -- Paraguay was plunged into a deepening political crisis late Friday after the Senate voted 39-4 to remove President Fernando Lugo from office in a rapid-fire impeachment procedure. The Senate ruled that Lugo had failed to carry out his duties. Vice President Federico Franco was to succeed Lugo. Lugo, 61, a left-wing populist,...
Paraguay's former President Fernando Lugo addresses the nation after the Senate voted to remove him from office in an impeachment trial at the presidential palace in Asuncion, Paraguay, Friday, June 22, 2012.
photo: AP / Jorge Saenz


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Colorado wildfire: High Park fire competes with blazes across the state
A handful of residents who faced back-to-back evacuations as the High Park fire moved through the lower Poudre Canyon will get a chance to return home at noon today. Meanwhile, residents of Glacier View, which was evacuated Saturday, will meet with...
photo: US Army / Ryan Kohlman
Camp Lejeune Marine killed in Helmand Province
Last night, the Department of Defense announced the death of a Camp Lejeune Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Lance Cpl. Eugene C. Mills III, 21, of Laurel, Md., died June 22, 2012, while conducting combat...
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod
It's Happening, but Not in Rio
RIO DE JANEIRO — For the past two weeks, representatives from around the world met here for Rio+20, the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, to define a global plan of action that would take humanity toward a cleaner, greener future....
photo: UN / Guilherme Costa
FILE - In this Monday, March 14, 2011 file photo, a construction site is seen in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Modiin Illit.
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government has asked the Supreme Court to delay the dismantling of an illegal Jewish settlement enclave in the West Bank for seven months. The government had pledged to evict the two dozen families living in the Givat...
photo: AP / Oded Balilty, File
President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Monday, March, 5, 2012, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.
Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said troops had responded “forcefully” to rocket fire from the Gaza Strip and could boost their response if a fragile truce announced on Saturday failed to hold....
photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
Egyptian protesters chant anti-military rule slogans while carrying a big Egyptian flag during a march from Tahrir square to the People's Assembly building in Cairo July 12, 2011.
The June 16-17 run off vote between the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate Mohammed Morsi and ousted leader Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq, left Egyptians with nerve-wrecking uncertainty as both candidates claimed victory and the...
photo: WN
In this photo taken on a government-organized tour for the media, destroyed Syrian armored vehicles and police riots gear is seen inside a damaged Syrian police headquarters compound which was attacked by an explosion, in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, on Friday Feb. 10, 2012.
At least 16 Syrian soldiers have been killed in clashes with rebels in the province of Aleppo, activists say. The fighting took place in the town of Darat Izza, and at checkpoints outside al-Atarib and Kafr Halab, the Syrian Observatory for Human...
photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi
Amazing Reaction to Egypt Election Result (Morsi Win); updated 24 Jun 2012; published 24 Jun 2012
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Amazing Reaction to Egypt Election Result (Morsi Win)
The Times of India 24 Jun 2012, Tweet CAIRO: In a reversal of fortunes unthinkable a year and a half ago, an Islamist jailed by Hosni Mubarak has succeeded him as president of the biggest Arab nation in a victory at the ballot box which has historic consequences for Egypt and the Middle East. The Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsy will not enjoy the extent of modern, pharaonic...

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Jet Escalation: 'Turkey probing Syrian anti-air defense'; updated 24 Jun 2012; published 23 Jun 2012
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Jet Escalation: 'Turkey probing Syrian anti-air defense'
The News Tribune 24 Jun 2012, BEIRUTA day after Syria shot down a Turkish jet, officials from the neighboring countries moved to tamp down tensions Saturday as they mounted a joint rescue operation for two pilots still missing in the eastern Mediterranean. The incident had the potential to escalate tensions between two countries whose relations are already severely...

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Fernando Lugo: Paraguay's democracy has been wounded; updated 23 Jun 2012; published 23 Jun 2012
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Fernando Lugo: Paraguay's democracy has been wounded
Houston Chronicle 24 Jun 2012, ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — The ouster of Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo sparked a unique protest as a long line of speakers queued up late into Saturday night for a special televised "open microphone" program to vent their frustration over what they called an institutional coup, calling for strikes and protests to demand his return. Broadcast by...

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Greek pro-bailout parties win knife-edge elections; updated 18 Jun 2012; published 18 Jun 2012
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Greek pro-bailout parties win knife-edge elections
The New York Times 23 Jun 2012, ATHENS — Two days before Greece’s international creditors return to Athens to begin talks on keeping the nearly bankrupt country solvent, the new coalition government on Saturday highlighted the main points it plans to renegotiate with lenders, aiming to revoke certain taxes, suspend planned layoffs in the bloated public sector and...

Jet Escalation: 'Turkey probing Syrian anti-air defense'; updated 24 Jun 2012; published 23 Jun 2012
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Jet Escalation: 'Turkey probing Syrian anti-air defense'
Atlanta Journal 23 Jun 2012, ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey will take retaliatory steps against Syria for the downing of a Turkish military jet, President Abdullah Gul said Saturday, even as he suggested that the aircraft may have unintentionally violated Syrian airspace. Map locates Latakia, Syria, near where a Turkish plane was shot down by Syria. FILE - In this April 29,...

Key leaders skip Rio environment summit; updated 21 Jun 2012; published 20 Jun 2012
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Key leaders skip Rio environment summit
Denver Post 23 Jun 2012, Click photo to enlargeEnvironmental activists, one portraying Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff holding a banner symbolizing "dirty money" made from fossil fuel subsidies, protest on the final day of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, June 22, 2012. «1»RIO...

Jane Ferguson reports from Gaza; updated 20 Jun 2012; published 20 Jun 2012
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Jane Ferguson reports from Gaza
Al Jazeera 23 Jun 2012, Israel has launched more air strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight, after killing two people in earlier raids, according to Palestinian health ministry sources. The latest strikes targetted two camps of the armed wing of Hamas, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, in central and northern Gaza; and a former Hamas security post in Gaza City. The...

Turkish fighter jet shot down over Syria, 2 pilots' status unknown; updated 23 Jun 2012; published 22 Jun 2012
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Turkish fighter jet shot down over Syria, 2 pilots' status unknown
Newstrack India 23 Jun 2012, Tweet Damascus, June 23 (IANS) Syria Saturday confirmed having shot down a Turkish fighter jet which had entered the Syrian airspace earlier Friday. A Turkish fighter jet had penetrated the Syrian airspace and it was shot down by Syrian army with anti-aviation artillery, Xinhua quoted a Syrian military spokesperson as...

Egyptians await election results; updated 24 Jun 2012; published 24 Jun 2012
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Egyptians await election results
Al Jazeera 23 Jun 2012, Tens of thousands of Egyptians have returned to Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand the rollback of what they see as politically biased court decisions and military power grabs designed to throttle last year's revolution and steal the presidential election. The mass protest and sit-in, initiated by the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday night,...

Fernando Lugo: Paraguay's democracy has been wounded; updated 23 Jun 2012; published 23 Jun 2012
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Fernando Lugo: Paraguay's democracy has been wounded
Sacramento Bee 23 Jun 2012, ASUNCION, Paraguay -- Paraguay was plunged into a deepening political crisis late Friday after the Senate voted 39-4 to remove President Fernando Lugo from office in a rapid-fire impeachment procedure. The Senate ruled that Lugo had failed to carry out his duties. Vice President Federico Franco was to succeed Lugo. Lugo, 61, a left-wing populist,...

Aftermath of Israeli air strikes on Gaza; updated 11 Apr 2012; published 12 Mar 2012
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Aftermath of Israeli air strikes on Gaza
Reuters 23 Jun 2012, GAZA (Reuters) - Israel launched air raids early on Saturday against three Hamas security targets in the Gaza Strip, wounding at least 17 people, Hamas medical officials said. Israel had no immediate comment on the strikes, which occurred as Gaza militants fired...

Aung San Suu Kyi's speech in Norway on June 16, 2012; updated 24 Jun 2012; published 16 Jun 2012
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Aung San Suu Kyi's speech in Norway on June 16, 2012
Al Jazeera 22 Jun 2012, It is not often that you get the chance to be part of a moment that is genuinely historic. But, after more than 20 years of working on human rights in Myanmar, I truly never believed I would get to sit in Oslo and personally witness Aung San Suu Kyi receiving her Nobel Peace Prize. The moment was a true embodiment of the changes happening in...

Taliban attack Lake Qargha hotel near Kabul; updated 22 Jun 2012; published 22 Jun 2012
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Taliban attack Lake Qargha hotel near Kabul
Newsvine 22 Jun 2012, NEW FACE OF INSURGENCY? Soldiers and police fanned out around the hotel at dawn, arriving in cars and armored Humvee vehicles and taking cover behind trees flanking the lake and a nearby golf course. Police said they wanted to stage a rescue without resorting to a frontal attack...

Afghan Taliban attack Lake Qargha hotel near Kabul; updated 23 Jun 2012; published 22 Jun 2012
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Afghan Taliban attack Lake Qargha hotel near Kabul
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