Julian Assange is expected to make a public statement later on the diplomatic row that has engulfed him since being granted asylum by Ecuador. Wikileaks says its founder is to speak outside the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he has been since June … Syria's Assad makes rare public appearance - The Associated Press
By ZEINA KARAM, AP - 1 minute ago BEIRUT (AP) -- Syria's President Bashar Assad attended Eid prayers in a mosque in Damascus on Sunday, his first appearance in public after a bombing in the Syrian capital last month that killed the country's defense … Medicare Barbs Dominate White House Race - NPR
by AP TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. (AP) -- Showing no signs of letting up, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are doubling down on claims the other would threaten seniors' golden years. Both campaigns sharpened their critique of the other's Medicare policies in … The Sudanese government's religion minister has been killed in a plane crash ... - BBC News
The civilian aircraft, carrying some 30 people including a delegation of military and political representatives, came down in the Nuba Mountains. All are believed to have perished in the crash. The plane was on its way to South Kordofan for an Eid … Fund homecoming for Mitt Romney - Boston Herald
By John Zaremba and Richard Weir Mitt Romney raised big bucks in a hobnobbing, island-hopping campaign cash grab on the Cape and Islands yesterday, capping what his staff called a blockbuster $7 million fundraising stretch in the Bay State and New York … For Romney: no coffee, but coffee ice cream OK - Boston.com
NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) -- Mitt Romney joins other observant Mormons in shunning alcohol and coffee. He apparently draws the line at ice cream. The Republican presidential candidate ordered coffee ice cream at Millie's restaurant in Nantucket Saturday … KPK celebrates Eid today - The News International
PESHAWAR: Eid-ul-Fitr was officially celebrated in major parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa including provincial capital Peshawar, all the seven tribal agencies and six frontier regions on Sunday. The decision to celebrate Eid came as the unofficial Zonal … Japan nationalists raise flags on island in China row - AFP
Seven policemen killed in Russian Caucasus bomb attack - Reuters
Romney, Obama dig in on criticism of each other's Medicare record, warn seniors - Washington Post
TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. -- Showing no signs of letting up, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are doubling down on claims the other would threaten seniors' golden years. Both campaigns sharpened their critique of the other's Medicare policies in recent days and … Julian Assange facing arrest as he makes statement two months after entering ... - Telegraph.co.uk
The controversial figure – wanted in Sweden on sex allegations – has been holed up in the embassy since he entered the building seeking asylum on June 19. Last week it was announced he had been granted political asylum, sparking a major diplomatic row … Assad makes rare appearance in Damascus mosque - Reuters
By Dominic Evans | BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad performed Eid prayers in a Damascus mosque on Sunday, state television showed, in his first appearance in public since a July bombing in the Syrian capital that killed four top … Indonesia earthquake leaves 4 dead, officials say - CNN
Panetta and Karzai discuss surge in number of Afghan insider killings of ... - Washington Post
Assange saga clouds freedom of speech agenda - Hindustan Times
Missing diver's body found off Palos Verdes Peninsula - Los Angeles Times
The body of an experienced 50-year-old free diver clad in a wet suit was pulled Saturday from waters off Palos Verdes Peninsula, near where she went missing a week earlier. Authorities said Rebecca Weiss, of Marina del Rey, was found in a cove below … Republican Medicare plan would be a gamble - Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON -- While Mitt Romney and Paul D. Ryan are campaigning on a promise to "preserve and protect" Medicare, their proposal to revamp the popular government health insurance program would be the plan's biggest gamble since it was created nearly … New owl species discovered in Philippines
Scientists and birdwatchers have discovered 10 new owl species in the Philippines, using advanced recording equipment that can distinguish between their hoots, a conservation official said Sunday. S.Korea ruling party votes for presidential nominee
South Korea's ruling conservative party voted on Sunday to decide its nominee for the presidential election in December, with the daughter of late dictator Park Chung-Hee widely expected to win. Sudan state news agency: Officials' plane crashes in south, killing endowment minister, others
KHARTOUM, Sudan – Sudan’s state news agency says a plane carrying government officials has crashed in the country’s south, killing the minister of endowment and several other people on board.
Contaminated pickles kill seven in Japan
Seven people, most of them elderly women, died after eating pickles contaminated with E. coli in northern Japan, officials said Sunday, in the country's deadliest mass food poisoning in 10 years. AFC extends bin Hammam suspension
The Asian Football Confederation said Sunday it had extended the provisional suspension of scandal-tainted former FIFA presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam by 20 days. Sudan plane crash kills a minister, others
Sudan’s state news agency says a plane carrying government officials has crashed in the country’s south, killing the minister of endowment and several other people on board.
David claims second Australian Open squash crown
Malaysia's Nicol David won her second Australian Open crown when she beat England's Laura Massaro in straight games Sunday, saying it was "heartbreaking" that squash was not in the Olympics. Iraq: Convoy carrying senior Sunni cleric hit by bomb in Baghdad at start of holiday; 1 killed
BAGHDAD – Iraqi officials say a bomb has struck the convoy of a senior Sunni cleric in western Baghdad, killing at least one person and critically injuring the religious leader.
Iraqi Sunni cleric's convoy struck by bomb
Iraqi officials say a bomb has struck the convoy of a senior Sunni cleric in western Baghdad, killing at least one person and critically injuring the religious leader.
WikiLeaks urges Sweden to rule out Assange US extradition
WikiLeaks on Sunday urged Sweden, which wants to question its website's founder Julian Assange over alleged sexual misconduct, to guarantee it would not extradite him to the United States. Diana Nyad chases longtime Cuba-Florida dream swim
Team members for Diana Nyad report the 62-year-old endurance athlete has been stung four times by jellyfish while continuing her quest to swim from Cuba to Florida in shark-infested waters. Sudan plane blast 'kills 31 including officials'
A blast aboard a plane carrying an "official delegation" to Sudan's war-torn South Kordofan state for the Muslim Eid holiday on Sunday killed all 31 on board, an aviation official said. Seven policemen killed in Russian Caucasus bomb attack
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A suicide bomb attack killed seven police officers attending the funeral of a colleague in Ingushetia in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region, hours after masked gunmen opened fire in a mosque in Dagestan, wounding eight people. More than a decade after federal forces toppled a separatist government in a war in Chechnya, Russia is still struggling to contain an Islamic insurgency that has spread to other southern provinces across its mainly Muslim Caucasus mountains region. …
Suicide bomber kills 7 Russian policemen
Investigators say a suicide bomber blew himself up at the funeral for a policeman in southern Russia, killing at least seven other policemen and badly wounding 12 others.
Sudan plane crash kills up to 31, including minister
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Up to 31 people including at least one Sudanese minister were killed when a plane taking them to an Islamic festival crashed in the south of the country, an official and state media said on Sunday. The plane went down into mountains around Talodi, a town in the border state of South Kordofan, while bringing a government delegation there to celebrate the festival marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, state news agency SUNA said. SUNA said 26 passengers were killed and that the dead included ministers but did not name them. …
Assad makes rare appearance in Damascus mosque
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad performed Eid prayers in a Damascus mosque on Sunday, state television showed, in his first appearance in public since a July bombing in the Syrian capital that killed four top security officials. Assad, who is battling a 17-month-old uprising, was accompanied by his prime minister but not his vice president, Farouk al-Shara, whose reported defection was denied by the government the previous day. … Deadly blasts shake Libya capital on Muslim Eid
Twin car bomb blasts killed two people in the Libyan capital at dawn on Sunday on the first day of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday and officials blamed loyalists of now slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi. Bomb hidden in cemetery kills 2 in Afghanistan
A bomb hidden in a cemetery in a southern Afghan city exploded Sunday, killing a police official and his brother as they were visiting the grave of a relative, police said. Car bombs rock Libya's capital, killing 2 people; authorities defuse third car bomb
TRIPOLI, Libya – A Libyan security official says two car bombs have exploded in Libya’s capital, killing two people.
Car bombs rock Libya's capital, killing 2 people
A Libyan security official says two car bombs have exploded in Libya’s capital, killing two people.
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