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Protesters swarm Istanbul square after clashes

Protesters swarm Istanbul square after clashes

Protesters swarm Istanbul square after clashes

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 01:03 PM PDT

Turkish youths shout slogan " Tayyip, resign! " as they clash with security forces in Ankara, Turkey, Saturday, June 1, 2013. Turkish police retreated from a main Istanbul square Saturday, removing barricades and allowing in thousands of protesters in a move to calm tensions after furious anti-government protests turned the city center into a battlefield. A second day of national protests over a violent police raid of an anti-development sit-in in Taksim square has revealed the depths of anger against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who many Turks view as increasingly authoritarian and dismissive of opposing views. (AP Photo / Burhan Ozbilici)ISTANBUL (AP) — In a scene reminiscent of the Arab Spring, thousands of people on Saturday flooded Istanbul's main square after a crackdown on an anti-government protest turned city streets into a battlefield clouded by tear gas.

NH memorial held for Newtown gunman's mother

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:55 PM PDT

Family and friends arrive for a memorial service for Nancy Lanza on Saturday June 1, 2013 in Kingston, N.H. Lanza's 20-year-old son, Adam Lanza, killed her at their home in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14 and then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he killed the children and six school employees before committing suicide. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)KINGSTON, N.H. (AP) — More than 100 family and friends gathered at a church in a small New Hampshire town Saturday to remember the woman whose son massacred 20 first-graders and six educators in a Connecticut elementary school last year.

Frightened Okla. residents opt to flee tornadoes

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:47 PM PDT

Josh Hill, a volunteer with Grace Chapel in Englewood, Colo., helps to clear downed branches from Angela and Wade Burleson's yard in El Reno Okla. on Saturday June 1, 2013 after their home was destroyed by one of the tornados that swept through Central Okla. on Friday. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — It's a warning as familiar as a daily prayer for Tornado Alley residents: When a twister approaches, take shelter in a basement or low-level interior room or closet, away from windows and exterior walls.

Audio: Bus driver defied gunman in bunker drama

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:45 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 8, 2013 file photo, authorities continue their investigation at the site in Midland City, Ala., where a 5-year-old boy was held hostage in an underground bunker before being rescued. The six-day bunker hostage standoff in Alabama began with a school bus driver stubbornly refusing to hand over children as hostages despite threats from the gunman who killed him moments later, according to newly released recordings, Friday, May 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — When a gunman barged onto Charles Poland's school bus and demanded that he turn over young passengers, the driver simply said no.

Woods has highest 9-hole score of career

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:44 PM PDT

Tiger Woods reacts after hitting a shot into the bunker on the 12th hole during the third round of the Memorial golf tournament Saturday, June 1, 2013, in Dublin, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Tiger Woods called it "a rough day" in the wind at the Memorial.

China president makes first ever visit to Trinidad

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:40 PM PDT

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping met for the first time with officials in Trinidad and Tobago Saturday on the first stop of a four-country regional tour.

Feds crack down on foreclosure auction scams

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:39 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo from Friday, March 16, 2007, Travis Toth, left, an auctioneer of trustee sales for Fidelity National, reads descriptions of foreclosed properties offered for sale as potential buyers contemplate bids during a home foreclosure auction on the steps of the Los Angeles County courthouse in Norwalk, Calif. In the past three years, federal prosecutors have charged 54 people and two companies in three states with SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — At the height of the financial crisis, bargain hunters would gather each week on county courthouse steps to bid on foreclosed properties throughout Northern and Central California. The inventory lists were long, especially in hard-hit areas such as Sacramento and Stockton. But the auctions were generally short affairs — often because real estate speculators were illegally fixing the bidding process.

Beyonce headlines London charity concert

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:35 PM PDT

Rita Ora performs at The Sound of Change Live at Twickenham Stadium in London on Saturday, June 1st, 2013. (Photo by Jon Furniss/Invision/AP Images)LONDON (AP) — Beyonce and a few famous friends — including John Legend and Madonna — are turning the home of English rugby into a fortress for women's rights.

Turkish police detained 939 people in protests: Interior Minister

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:30 PM PDT

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police detained 939 people in 90 different demonstrations across Turkey, interior minister Muammer Guler said on Saturday. "There have been 939 detentions in various cities. Some of them have already been released," Guler told reporters in comments broadcast by Turkish state television. He added that 79 people were wounded during the unrest, which was triggered by government plans for a replica Ottoman-era barracks housing shops or apartments in Istanbul's Taksim Square but widened into a broader show of defiance against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. ...

Nationals place Bryce Harper on DL with sore knee

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:30 PM PDT

ATLANTA (AP) — Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper has been placed on the 15-day disabled list because of bursitis in his left knee.

Whirligig art creator Vollis Simpson dies at 94

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:27 PM PDT

In this Thursday, June 21, 2012 file photo, whirligig artist Vollis Simpson sits outside his shop in Lucama, N.C. Simpson, a self-taught artist famed for his whimsical, wind-powered whirligigs, has died. He was 94. Simpson's wife, Jean, told the Wilson Daily Times that her husband died in his sleep Friday, May 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Vollis Simpson, a self-taught North Carolina artist famed for his whimsical, wind-powered whirligigs, has died. He was 94.

2 Egypt policemen in uprising case free from jail

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:25 PM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011 file photo, policemen Awad Ismail, center, and Amin Mahmoud Salah, right, defendants in the beating death of Khaled Said, stand trial in a courtroom in Alexandria, Egypt. An Egyptian judge on Saturday, June 1, 2013 released from jail two policemen who were convicted of beating a young man to death in a killing that helped inspire the country's 2011 uprising. The move came after an appeals court earlier threw out the policemen's conviction and ordered a retrial. (AP Photo/Tarek Fawzy, File)ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) — An Egyptian judge on Saturday released from jail two policemen who were convicted of beating a young man to death in a killing that helped inspire the country's 2011 uprising.

Are nutritional labels coming on alcoholic drinks

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:25 PM PDT

Pages from a ruling by the Department of the Treasury's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau showing voluntary recommendations for labeling of wines, distilled spirits and malt liquor that were released on May 28, 2013. New labels on alcohol could help drinkers know what they are consuming _ but only if the alcohol companies want them to. The Treasury Department, which regulates alcohol, is moving to allow companies to place labels on packages that include serving size, servings per container, calories, carbohydrates, protein, and fat per serving. The labels would be voluntary. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)WASHINGTON (AP) — Alcoholic beverages soon could have nutritional labels like those on food packaging, but only if the producers want to put them there.

4 firefighters killed in Houston fire mourned

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:24 PM PDT

Shannon Neira places flowers at a makeshift memorial at Houston Fire Station 51, Saturday, June 1, 2013, in Houston. Four firefighters searching for people they thought might be trapped in a blazing Houston motel and restaurant Friday were killed when part of the structure collapsed and ensnared them, authorities said. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)Anne Sullivan was a gifted athlete filled with energy who came out of high school with a focus on being a firefighter. But about a month after graduating from the Houston Fire Department Academy, the 24-year-old was among four firefighters who died while searching for people they thought might be trapped in a blazing Houston motel and restaurant.

Brash Iran campaign stirs echoes of Ahmadinejad

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:23 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, May 24, 2013 file photo, Iranian presidential candidate Saeed Jalili, center, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, waves to his supporters at a campaign rally, in Tehran, Iran. Iranians have seen it before: A youngish presidential candidate firing up crowds with fist-waving rants against the West, then displaying his Islamist bona fides with courtesy calls to hard-line clerics. Jalili, familiar to outsiders because of his prominence as a nuclear negotiator, has tried to distance himself from outgoing president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has fallen out with the clerical leadership that controls Iran. But he is employing the same strategy that worked for Ahmadinejad eight years ago _ and in the murky world of Iranian politics, where there are no credible polls and elections are a highly controlled affair, it has made him, for many, the presumed front-runner.(AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranians have seen it before: A youngish presidential candidate firing up crowds with fist-waving rants against the West, then displaying his Islamist bona fides with courtesy calls to hard-line clerics.

Heat's Andersen accepts ban, won't change style

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:17 PM PDT

Miami Heat forward Chris Andersen (11) is restrained by official Marc Davis as coach Erik Spoelstra yells at him during the first half of Game 5 in the NBA basketball playoffs Eastern Conference finals against the Indiana Pacers, Thursday, May 30, 2013, in Miami. Andersen was charged with a flagrant foul. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Miami forward Chris Andersen grudgingly accepted his punishment from the NBA on Saturday morning.

Rockets from Syria hit Hezbollah stronghold

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:15 PM PDT

This citizen journalism image provided by the Local Council of Barzeh, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows destroyed homes from government airstrikes and shelling, in the Barzeh district of Damascus, Syria, Saturday, June 1, 2013. More than a dozen rockets and mortar rounds fired from Syria struck eastern Lebanon on Saturday, security officials said, as tensions escalated along the Lebanese-Syria border over the increasing role of Hezbollah militants in the civil war next door. (AP Photo/Local Council of Barzeh)BEIRUT (AP) — Eighteen rockets and mortars rounds from Syria slammed into Lebanon on Saturday, the largest cross-border salvo to hit a Hezbollah stronghold since Syrian rebels threatened to retaliate for the Lebanese militant group's armed support of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Police charge 2nd suspect in UK soldier death

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 12:12 PM PDT

British police officers arrest anti-fascist demonstrators protesting against members of the British National Party (BNP), not seen, during a demonstration in central London, Saturday, June.1, 2013. BNP supporters gathered to protest the May 22 killing of British soldier Lee Rigby. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)LONDON (AP) — British police charged a second suspect Saturday with the murder of a soldier who was hacked to death in a London street, as right-wing and antifascist groups both demonstrated in response to a slaying that has heightened religious tensions in Britain.

Second man charged with murder of soldier in London

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 11:50 AM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - British counter-terrorism police charged a second man on Saturday with the May 22 murder of Lee Rigby, a serving soldier, on a London street. Michael Adebolajo, 28, was also charged with the attempted murder of two police officers and with possession of a firearm, a 9.4 mm revolver, with intent to cause others to believe that violence would be used. Adebolajo was remanded in custody to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday, police said in a statement. ...

NM crews fight wildfires, smoke pours into capital

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 11:32 AM PDT

Smoke from the Tres Laguans fire near Pecos, N.M. is seen on May 30, 2013. Officials said the fire in New Mexico's Santa Fe National Forest more than doubled in size by Friday night and was still totally uncontained. That prompted New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez to declare a state of emergency in San Miguel County to free up state funds to fight the fire. (AP Photo/The Santa Fe New Mexican, Luis Sanchez Saturno)JEMEZ SPRINGS, N.M. (AP) — Fire crews in New Mexico on Saturday fought two growing wild blazes that have scorched thousands of acres, spurred evacuation calls for dozens of homes and poured smoke into the touristy state capital.

Iraq says captures al Qaeda chemical gas team

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 11:30 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq has captured a suspected al Qaeda cell that planned to produce chemical poisons such as mustard gas to attack Iraqi forces and to ship overseas for attacks on Europe and the United States, the government said on Saturday. The announcement was made as investigators look into allegations over the use of sarin nerve gas in next-door Syria where rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's forces have blamed each other for using chemical weapons. ...

Cyprus revokes citizenship of Assad's cousin

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 11:23 AM PDT

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus' government spokesman says Cypriot citizenship that was granted to the Syrian president's cousin two years ago has been revoked.

Italy confirms 3 cases of new respiratory virus

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 11:14 AM PDT

ROME (AP) — Three people were being treated Saturday for a new respiratory virus that is alarming global health officials, in the first cases in Italy, the country's health ministry said.

Reality catches up with sci-fi in storm drones

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 11:10 AM PDT

In this April 2013 photo provided by Oklahoma State University, Team Black's airplane takes off during SpeedFest III, in Stillwater, Okla. Researchers at Oklahoma State University are designing and building sleek, Kevlar-reinforced unmanned aircraft _commonly known as drones_ to fly into the nation's worst storms and send back real-time data to first responders and forecasters about how fierce they might become. (AP Photo/ Oklahoma State University, Gary Lawson)TULSA, Okla. (AP) — At the time it premiered, "Twister" put forth a fantastical science fiction idea: Release probes into a storm in order to figure out which tornadoes could develop into killers.

Egyptian Christian lawyer convicted of blasphemy

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 11:04 AM PDT

ASSIUT, Egypt (AP) — An Egyptian court has convicted a Coptic Christian lawyer in the southern province of Assiut on charges of blasphemy and sentenced him to one year in prison with hard labor.

US denies Mauritania got 2 Guantanamo prisoners

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 11:03 AM PDT

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — The United States Department of Defense denied claims by a prisoner's rights group in Mauritania, which announced on Saturday that the U.S. had returned three prisoners to the African country, including two men who had been held at the Guantanamo Bay prison.

Egypt's long-scorned legislature deepens rift

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 10:50 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken on Tuesday, April 23, 2013, Egyptian Shura Council members meet to discuss the government's 2013-2014 budget at the Shura Council, Parliament's upper house. When voters went to the polls more than a year ago to vote for Egypt's upper house of parliament, most presumed the legislature would be the powerless talk shop that it had been for 30 years. Few candidates were known outside their families, parties or neighborhoods. Only seven percent of the electorate bothered to cast a ballot. Thanks to the twists and turns of the rocky transition that followed Egypt's 2011 uprising, the Shura Council finds itself the sole law-making body in the land. This accidental legislature is now back in the spotlight ahead of an expected court ruling on its disputed legal status _ a move that could see it dissolved. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)CAIRO (AP) — When voters went to the polls more than a year ago to vote for Egypt's upper house of parliament, most presumed the legislature would be the powerless talk shop that it had always been for 30 years. Few candidates were known outside their families, parties or neighborhoods. Only seven percent of the electorate bothered to cast a ballot.

Home of famous Va. hams ponders foreign buyout

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 10:48 AM PDT

In this May 29, 2013 photo, hams and other memorabilia is displayed at a restaurant in Smithfield, Va. Smithfield Foods has agreed to be bought by Shuanghui International Holdings for about $4.72 billion. Residents in this southeastern Virginia town have mixed reactions to the idea that the maker of their famous cured hams may soon be owned by a Chinese company. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Amanda Lucier)SMITHFIELD, Va. (AP) — You can't go far in this historic southeastern Virginia town without seeing a pig.

Report: 6 Iranians die from drinking bad alcohol

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 10:42 AM PDT

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Six Iranians have died and 348 have been sickened after drinking poisonous alcohol in the southeastern Kerman province.

Twisters, floods sweep across Midwest, Plains

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 10:37 AM PDT

Rilma Hulett carries a dish set from her friend Bobbie Steenbergen's home that was destroyed by the tornado that swept through Central Oklahoma Friday afternoon on Saturday June 1, 2013 in El Reno Okla. Emergency officials set out Saturday morning to see how much damage a violent burst of thunderstorms and tornadoes caused as it swept across the Midwest overnight. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Emergency officials set out Saturday to assess damage from a series of violent storms and tornadoes that killed nine people as it swept through Oklahoma City and its suburbs with tornadoes, large hail and heavy rain. More than 100 people were injured.

Egypt blasts US warning over incidents at pyramids

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 10:31 AM PDT

In this photo taken Friday, May 31, 2013, a tourist takes a camel ride at the Giza Pyramids in Giza, Egypt. A statement by Egypt's Antiquities' Ministry Saturday, June 1, 2013 says a U.S. Embassy security warning sent to citizens to be extra cautious for their safety in the area of the Pyramids is baseless. Earlier in the week, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo sent a message to its citizens warning them to CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Antiquities' Ministry has criticized a U.S. Embassy message to American citizens in the country, urging them to be extra cautious because of recent incidents near the pyramids in Giza.

Judge: Google must give user info to FBI

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 10:28 AM PDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google must comply with the FBI's demand for data on certain customers as part of a national security investigation, according to a ruling by a federal judge who earlier this year determined such government requests are unconstitutional.

Drone crashes in Somalia's Puntland region

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 10:26 AM PDT

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — An official in the semiautonomous Puntland region of Somalia says a surveillance drone has crashed.

Death toll rises to nine from Oklahoma tornadoes

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 10:21 AM PDT

Tornado debris hangs from a billboard sign, which was destroyed along Interstate-40 Westbound, just east of El Reno, OklahomaBy Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Nine people were killed in tornadoes that swept through central Oklahoma on Friday, part of a storm system that caused widespread flooding in Oklahoma City and its suburbs, the state's chief medical examiner said on Saturday. The dead included two children and seven adults, said Amy Elliott, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office. The death toll earlier had been reported as five. The tornadoes struck just 11 days after a twister ranked as EF5, the most powerful ranking, tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore and killed 24 people. ...

Gunmen attack central prison in Niger's capital

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 10:20 AM PDT

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Unidentified gunmen on Saturday attacked the central prison in Niger's capital, opening fire on the guards and killing at least two people, according to a government spokesman and a witness who was 200 meters (yards) from the prison when the incident occurred. It was not immediately clear if the assailants had come from inside or outside the jail.

Italy confirms 1st case of new respiratory virus

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 10:18 AM PDT

ROME (AP) — Italy's health ministry has confirmed the country's first case of a new respiratory virus that is alarming global health officials.

NH memorial set for Newtown gunman's mother

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 10:17 AM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 file photo, the names of Nancy Lanza and Adam Lanza are attached to candy at a memorial to the Newtown shooting victims in Newtown, Conn. A memorial service is planned in New Hampshire on Saturday, June 1, 2013, for Nancy Lanza, whose son Adam shot her to death in their Connecticut home in December before driving to Sandy Hook Elementary School and gunning down 20 students and six educators. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)KINGSTON, N.H. (AP) — A memorial service is planned in New Hampshire on Saturday for Nancy Lanza, whose son shot her to death in their Connecticut home in December before driving to Sandy Hook Elementary School and gunning down 20 students and six educators.

'Warhorse' director brings puppets to Spoleto

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 10:16 AM PDT

The cast of a new production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Spoleto Festival USA rehearses at the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, S.C. on May 23, 2013. The internationally known arts festival, founded in Charleston in 1977 by the late composer Gian Carlo Menotti, continues through June 9 and features 160 performances. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith).CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Director Tom Morris uses the phrase "happy accident" to describe the success of his Tony-award-winning play "War Horse," whose central character was a puppet.

China accuses U.S. of 'prejudice' over 1989 protest comments

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 10:13 AM PDT

China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong asks journalists for questions during a news conference in BeijingBEIJING (Reuters) - China accused the United States of "prejudice" on Saturday after the U.S. State Department renewed a call for Beijing to fully account for its bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in June 1989. The United States should "immediately rectify its wrongdoings and stop interfering in China's internal affairs so as not to sabotage China-U.S. relations", Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in an English-language statement released via the official Xinhua news agency. China has already reached a "clear conclusion" about the events of 1989, Hong said. The U.S. ...

Sharapova reaches 4th round at French Open

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 10:12 AM PDT

Spain's Rafael Nadal checks the mark of a ball on the court in his third round match against Italy's Fabio Fognini at the French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Saturday, June 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)PARIS (AP) — A frowning Maria Sharapova walked toward the net, peering at a mark on the other side and trying to argue her way out of yet another double-fault.
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