Saturday, July 6, 2013

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Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 12:48 PM PDT

FAA: Airliner crashes on landing in San Francisco 
Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 12:48 PM PDT
A Boeing 777 Crash Landed in San FranciscoFederal aviation officials say an Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul, South Korea, has crashed while landing at San Francisco airport. It was not immediately known whether there were any injuries.
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Egypt: opposition leader named interim PM 
Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 12:08 PM PDT
Egyptian military soldiers stand guard atop armored personnel carriers at Maspero, an Egypt's state tv and radio station, not far from Tahrir Square in Cairo Saturday, July 6, 2013. Egyptians were on edge Saturday morning after supporters and opponents of ousted President Mohammed Morsi fought overnight street battles that left at least 30 dead across the increasingly divided country. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)An opposition spokesman says pro-reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei has been named interim prime minister.
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Top fugitive Italian cocaine boss nabbed in Bogota 
Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 12:03 PM PDT
In this photo released by Colombia's National Police, police officers flank alleged Italian drug trafficker Roberto Pannunzi at a police station in Bogota, Colombia, Saturday, July 6, 2013. The fugitive Italian organized crime boss who prosecutors allege arranged monthly shipments of tons of South American cocaine to Europe and was one of the world's most powerful drug brokers, has been captured in Bogota in a shopping mall, Italian and Colombian authorities said Saturday. (AP Photo/Colombia's National Police)ROME (AP) — A fugitive Italian mobster, who allegedly arranged major shipments of South American cocaine to Europe each month and was one of the world's most powerful drug brokers, has been captured in a Colombian shopping mall, authorities said Saturday.
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30 killed in school attack in northeast Nigeria 
Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 12:13 PM PDT
In this photo taken with a mobile phone a doctor attends to a student from Government Secondary School in Mamudo, at the Potiskum General Hospital, Nigeria, following an attack by gunmen on Saturday July 6, 2013. Islamic militants attacked a boarding school before dawn Saturday, dousing a dormitory in fuel and lighting it ablaze as students slept, survivors said. At least 30 people were killed in the deadliest attack yet on schools in Nigeria's embattled northeast. (AP Photo/Adamu Adamu)POTISKUM, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic militants attacked a boarding school before dawn Saturday, dousing a dormitory in fuel and lighting it ablaze as students slept, survivors said. At least 30 people were killed in the deadliest attack yet on schools in Nigeria's embattled northeast.
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Snowden's fate unclear despite asylum offers 
Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 10:32 AM PDT
FILE - This June 23, 2013 file photo shows a TV screen shows a news report of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, at a shopping mall in Hong Kong. The saga of Edward Snowden and the NSA makes one thing clear: The United States' central role in developing the Internet and hosting its most powerful players has made it the global leader in the surveillance game . Other countries, from dictatorships to democracies, are also avid snoopers, tapping into the high-capacity fiber optic cables to intercept Internet traffic, scooping their citizens' data off domestic servers, and even launching cyberattacks to win access to foreign networks. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)MOSCOW (AP) — Edward Snowden has found supporters in Latin America, including three countries who have offered him asylum. But many obstacles stand in the way of the fugitive NSA leaker from leaving a Russian airport — chief among them the power and influence of the United States.
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Ex-prisoner chosen to lead Syria opposition group 
Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 12:31 PM PDT
In this Wednesday, July 3, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Lens Young Homsi, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows buildings damaged by Syrian government airstrikes and shelling, in the Jouret al-Chiyah neighborhood of Homs, Syria. Gunfire echoed and tank shells slammed in Homs Friday in what activists and residents described as one of the worst barrages on the central city in a furious attempt to recapture opposition-held districts in the country's strategic heartland. The U.N. warns of a humanitarian catastrophe involving up to 4,000 civilians trapped in city amid severe shortages of food, water and medicine. (AP Photo/Lens Young Homsi)BEIRUT (AP) — A former Syrian political prisoner with close links to Saudi Arabia was picked Saturday to lead Syria's main Western-backed opposition group, filling a post long vacant due to divisions among President Bashar Assad's opponents.
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On tour, Giffords' actions speak on gun control 
Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 12:47 PM PDT
In this photo taken Friday, July 5, 2013, former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords greets Jackie Barden, right, mother of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim Daniel Barden, as local supporter Mary Ann Sosnoff, center, looks on at the Orchard Street Chop Shop in Dover, N.H. Three years after being shot in the head, Giffords is in New Hampshire to urge support for background checks on gun purchases. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)DOVER, N.H. (AP) — Thirty months after she was shot through the head, former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords sits in a New Hampshire restaurant facing parents of children killed in the nation's latest school shooting.
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Fearful Lebanese Sunnis drawn to hard-line leaders 
Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 08:28 AM PDT
In this Friday, Feb. 8, 2013 photo, a Lebanese pop idol Fadel Shaker, delivers a sermon in support of Syrian rebel fighters and Syrian refugees, after the Friday prayer, in Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanese pop idol Fadel Shaker shot to stardom crooning ballads that earned him the nickname "The King of Romance." He disappeared as a bearded, gun-toting Sunni hard-liner in a shootout with the army in the coastal city of Sidon. Shaker's transformation from entertainer to militant extremist spotlights a broader phenomenon in Lebanon: the drift of its Sunni Muslim community away from its traditional moderate leadership to _ in some cases _ hard-line, sectarian preachers.(AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese pop idol Fadel Shaker shot to stardom crooning ballads that earned him the nickname "The King of Romance." He disappeared as a bearded, gun-toting Sunni hard-liner in a shootout with the army in the coastal city of Sidon.
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Doing it her way, France's Bartoli wins Wimbledon 
Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 12:15 PM PDT
Marion Bartoli of France, left, and Sabine Lisicki of Germany pose during the trophy ceremony after Bartoli won the Women's singles final match against at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Saturday, July 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)LONDON (AP) — Ever since she was a kid, practicing until midnight with her father, Marion Bartoli went about playing tennis her own way.
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Solar powered plane on final leg of flight to NYC 
Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 02:56 AM PDT
FILE - This May 22, 2013 file photo shows the Solar Impulse, piloted by AndrĂ© Borschberg, taking flight, at dawn, from Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. The spindly no-fuel plane called Solar Impulse is scheduled to leave Washington Saturday early in the morning and arrive after midnight at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. It may silently buzz the Statue of Liberty on the way. The plane started its cross-country journey May 3 from San Francisco. (AP Photo/Matt York)WASHINGTON (AP) — A solar-powered aircraft lifted off from a suburban Washington airport before dawn Saturday, embarking on the final leg of a history-making cross-country flight.
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5 key moments from 2nd week of Zimmerman trial 
Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 10:35 AM PDT
FILE - In a Tuesday, July 2, 2013 file pool photo, Judge Debra Nelson instructs the jury at the George Zimmerman trial in Seminole circuit court, in Sanford, Fla. After presenting more than three dozen witnesses over two weeks, prosecutors rested their case on Friday.As is typical after the prosecution rests, the defense asked Judge Nelson to acquit Zimmerman, claiming prosecutors' didn't prove their case. The judge denied the request. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool, File)SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors rested their case Friday at the end of the second week of testimony in George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial. Defense attorneys now have their chance next week to call witnesses and introduce testimony. They called their first two witnesses late Friday.
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2 Koreas talk at border on stalled industrial park 
Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 05:58 AM PDT
Suh Ho, the head of South Korea's working-level delegation, left, shakes hands with his North Korean counterpart Park Chol Su during their meeting at Tongilgak in North Korean side of Panmunjom which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, Saturday, July 6, 2013. Delegates from North and South Korea began talks Saturday on restarting a stalled joint factory park that had been a symbol of cooperation between the bitter rivals. (AP Photo/Korea Pool via Yonhap) KOREA OUTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Delegates from North and South Korea held talks Saturday on restarting a stalled joint factory park that had been a symbol of cooperation between the bitter rivals, but there was no word on whether any significant progress had been made as discussions went into the night.
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Bartoli beats Lisicki to don Wimbledon crown 
Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 08:52 AM PDT
Marion Bartoli of France plays a return to Sabine Lisicki of Germany during their Women's singles final match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Saturday, July 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)LONDON (AP) — One of the strangest Wimbledons produced one of its quirkiest champions in Marion Bartoli, the winner of a mistake-filled final that left the overwhelmed runner-up in near tears during the match.
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South Africa: Mandela nears a month in hospital 
Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 01:11 AM PDT
Gift Mapuka, who describes himself as a "Global Mission Pioneer" from the Seventh-day Adventist Church, preaches about Jesus and Nelson Mandela, in front of a wall of get-well messages and flowers left by well-wishers, outside the entrance to the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, July 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African leader Nelson Mandela has been in a hospital for nearly a month.
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