http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/ World - News: Find breaking news, world news and pictures on World en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.29/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/ http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161116-scattered-street-protests-pop-brazil.html SAO PAULO (AP) — Scattered street demonstrations popped up around Brazil on Wednesday as protesters continued their collective cry against the low-quality public services they receive in exchange for high taxes and rising prices. In one of several protests, about 200 people blocked the Anchieta Highway that links Sao Paulo, the country's biggest city, and... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:58:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161116-scattered-street-protests-pop-brazil.html 2013-06-19T20:58:51Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161396-syria-troops-fight-rebels-major-shiite-shrine.html BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah fighters joined Syrian forces in battling rebels in a Damascus suburb that is home to a revered Shiite Muslim shrine, in a push to secure the area around the ornate, golden domed mosque. Protection of the Sayida Zeinab shrine has become a rallying cry for Shiite fighters backing President Bashar Assad, raising the stakes in a confl... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:44:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161396-syria-troops-fight-rebels-major-shiite-shrine.html 2013-06-19T20:44:09Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161074-us-tries-saving-taliban-talks-karzai-objects.html KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hopes dimmed for talks aimed at ending the Afghan war when an angry President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday suspended security negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban, sending American officials scrambling to preserve the possibility of dialogue with the militants. What provoked the mercurial Karzai ... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:17:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161074-us-tries-saving-taliban-talks-karzai-objects.html 2013-06-19T20:17:17Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2162148-wooden-beam-detached-shipwreck.html FAIRPORT, Michigan (AP) — A wooden beam that has long been the focus of the search for a 17th century shipwreck in northern Lake Michigan was not attached to a buried vessel as searchers had suspected, but still may have come from the elusive Griffin or some other ship, archaeologists said Wednesday. Shipwreck hunter Steve Libert discovered a 10.5-foot (3... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:15:23 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2162148-wooden-beam-detached-shipwreck.html 2013-06-19T20:15:23Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2162508-hungarian-prime-minister-gyula-horn-dies.html BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Gyula Horn, a former Hungarian prime minister who played a key role in opening the Iron Curtain, has died at the age of 80. He was best known internationally for his announcement as foreign minister in 1989 that Hungary would allow East German refugees to leave the country for West Germany, one of the key events that helped bring ... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:09:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2162508-hungarian-prime-minister-gyula-horn-dies.html 2013-06-19T20:09:16Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2162866-syria-infiltrators-jordan-military-clash-1-dead.html ZAIN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan's military says infiltrators from Syria have clashed with Jordanian soldiers near the border. One infiltrator was killed and two wounded. The attackers opened fire on a border post on Wednesday, according to a Jordanian military spokesman. Soldiers returned the fire. The spokesman would not say how many infiltrators were involve... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:07:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2162866-syria-infiltrators-jordan-military-clash-1-dead.html 2013-06-19T20:07:50Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161426-militants-storm-un-compound-somalia-20-killed.html MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Seven al-Qaida-linked militants on a suicide mission attacked the U.N. compound Wednesday with a truck bomb and then poured inside, killing at least 13 people before dying in the assault. At least three foreigners were slain during the raid in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, where the United Nations expanded its presence this ye... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:06:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161426-militants-storm-un-compound-somalia-20-killed.html 2013-06-19T20:06:25Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2162818-militants-kill-6-soldiers-northwest-pakistan.html PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A senior police official says militants attacked a military convoy with rocket-propelled grenades and other heavy weapons in northwest Pakistan, killing six soldiers. Shafiullah Khan says two soldiers were wounded in the attack Wednesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of the main northwest city of Peshawar. Two vehicles were des... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:49:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2162818-militants-kill-6-soldiers-northwest-pakistan.html 2013-06-19T19:49:10Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161098-un-452-refugees-displaced-people.html GENEVA (AP) — The Syrian civil war contributed to pushing the numbers of refugees and those displaced by conflict within their own nation to an 18-year high of 45.2 million worldwide by the end of 2012, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday. Those are the highest numbers since 1994, when people fled genocide in Rwanda and bloodshed in former Yugoslavia. ... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:46:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161098-un-452-refugees-displaced-people.html 2013-06-19T19:46:48Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2162814-group-exclude-chad-troops-un-force-mali.html UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A network of human rights groups on Wednesday criticized plans to include Chadian troops in a new U.N. peacekeeping force for Mali while Chad's military remains on a U.N. 'list of shame' for child recruitment. But U.N. officials made clear they had no intention of excluding a country whose soldiers are considered among the best African desert fighters. ... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:46:41 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2162814-group-exclude-chad-troops-un-force-mali.html 2013-06-19T19:46:41Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2162766-secret-hearings-debated-guantanamo-911-case.html GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — Prosecutors in the Sept. 11 war crimes case at Guantanamo are asking a judge to allow secret pretrial hearings that would exclude even the defendants. Justice Department attorney Joanna Baltes says U.S. law would allow hearings without the defendants to protect national security. But lawyers for the five defendants s... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:31:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2162766-secret-hearings-debated-guantanamo-911-case.html 2013-06-19T19:31:10Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161570-egypt-top-cleric-protests-morsi-permitted.html CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's top Muslim cleric declared Wednesday that peaceful protests against the president are permitted, in a snub to hard-line Islamist backers of Mohammed Morsi who declared that those behind opposition protests planned for June 30 are heretics. In a statement, Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand imam of the Al-Azhar mosque, stuck strictly to t... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:11:14 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161570-egypt-top-cleric-protests-morsi-permitted.html 2013-06-19T19:11:14Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161852-house-panel-starts-rewrite-child-left.html WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Wednesday finished their rewrite of GOP President George W. Bush's prized No Child Left Behind Act, sending to their colleagues a bill that would strip Education Secretary Arne Duncan and his successors of power and give more authority to the states. Members of the Republican-led House Education and the Workforce Com... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:48:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161852-house-panel-starts-rewrite-child-left.html 2013-06-19T18:48:04Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2162574-us-cuba-to-resume-migration-talks.html HAVANA (AP) — The United States and Cuba have agreed to resume bilateral talks on migration issues next month, a State Department official said Wednesday, the latest evidence of a thaw in chilly relations between the Cold War enemies. Havana and Washington just wrapped up a round of separate negotiations aimed at restarting direct mail service, which has ... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:36:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2162574-us-cuba-to-resume-migration-talks.html 2013-06-19T18:36:55Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161806-bombings-kill-7-people-iraq.html BAGHDAD (AP) — Bomb attacks in Iraq have killed seven people, including a local political leader and four of his relatives, authorities said Wednesday. Violence has risen sharply in Iraq in recent months as sectarian tensions increase, reviving fears the country is headed back toward the widespread sectarian bloodshed that pushed it to the brink of civil ... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:31:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161806-bombings-kill-7-people-iraq.html 2013-06-19T18:31:40Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2162282-italys-black-minister-receives-death-threats.html ROME (AP) — Italy's first black Cabinet minister is facing Internet death threats before a visit to a region known for its anti-immigrant political base. But Cecile Kyenge says she's not afraid and challenged Italians to respond to such intimidation themselves to prove that Italy isn't racist. Kyenge, a Congolese-born doctor who has lived in Italy since 1... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:02:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2162282-italys-black-minister-receives-death-threats.html 2013-06-19T18:02:44Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2162454-irans-electoral-watchdog-approves-election-result.html TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's state TV is reporting the country's election overseer, the Guardian Council, has approved Friday's presidential election result, affirming a first-round victory by a relative moderate. The report Wednesday said Hasan Rowhani won the election by taking nearly 51 percent of votes. Since he won more than half, that eliminated the n... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:07:39 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2162454-irans-electoral-watchdog-approves-election-result.html 2013-06-19T17:07:39Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161740-palestinians-toughen-israel-talks.html RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian president and his Fatah movement on Wednesday signaled a tough line on talks with Israel, casting new doubt on U.S. efforts to revive long-stalled negotiations. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is returning to the region next week, his fifth attempt this year to bridge wide gaps between the Palestinian leader, ... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:48:41 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161740-palestinians-toughen-israel-talks.html 2013-06-19T16:48:41Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2162414-mueller-fbi-uses-drones-very-seldom.html WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Robert Mueller (MULL-er) says the law enforcement agency uses drones for surveillance but does so rarely. In an appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mueller says the bureau is developing guidelines for drones and that the privacy implications of using drones are, in Mueller's words, worthy of debate and legislat... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:44:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2162414-mueller-fbi-uses-drones-very-seldom.html 2013-06-19T16:44:44Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161582-twa-flight-800-investigators-want-probe.html MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of New York, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet. The New York-to-Paris flight crashed July 17, 1996, just minutes after the jetliner took off from John F. K... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:38:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161582-twa-flight-800-investigators-want-probe.html 2013-06-19T16:38:37Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2162396-turkish-official-approves-standing-man-protest.html ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's deputy prime minister gave a nod of approval on Wednesday to a new form of peaceful resistance that is spreading through Turkey. Although police dispersed pockets of protesters who set up barricades in two Turkish cities overnight, the sometimes violent anti-government demonstrations have largely given way to a passive form ... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:34:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2162396-turkish-official-approves-standing-man-protest.html 2013-06-19T16:34:29Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161374-floods-close-lourdes-pilgrimage-site-pyrenees.html LOURDES, France (AP) — Heavy floods in southwest France have left two dead and forced the closure of the Catholic pilgrimage site in Lourdes and the evacuation of pilgrims from nearby hotels. Muddy floodwaters swirled Wednesday in the grotto where nearly 6 million believers from around the world, many gravely ill, come every year seeking miracles and heal... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:11:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161374-floods-close-lourdes-pilgrimage-site-pyrenees.html 2013-06-19T16:11:06Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161920-iceland-informal-talks-snowden-asylum.html STOCKHOLM (AP) — A WikiLeaks spokesman who claims to represent Edward Snowden has reached out to government officials in Iceland about the potential of the NSA leaker applying for asylum in the Nordic country, officials there said Wednesday. Johannes Skulason, an Icelandic government official, told The Associated Press that WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hr... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:23:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161920-iceland-informal-talks-snowden-asylum.html 2013-06-19T15:23:29Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161656-uae-charges-30-suspects-with-plotting-coup.html ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates broadened its crackdown on perceived threats and risked deepening its rift with Egypt on Wednesday with plans to bring 30 Egyptian and UAE suspects to trial for alleged coup plotting linked to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. The UAE has faced complaints from rights groups and others for its arres... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:49:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161656-uae-charges-30-suspects-with-plotting-coup.html 2013-06-19T14:49:52Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161086-turkeys-standing-man-to-join-ranks-icons.html The image was stark: a silent, solitary figure standing in passive defiance to the Turkish prime minister's demand for protesters to clear Taksim Square in central Istanbul. The challenge by performance artist Erdem Gunduz is catching on with other protesters in Turkey, encouraged by social media into imitating his gesture across the country. It's too ear... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:37:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161086-turkeys-standing-man-to-join-ranks-icons.html 2013-06-19T14:37:00Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161854-obama-berlin-our-work-yet-done.html BERLIN (AP) — President Barack Obama is challenging Americans and Europeans not to become complacent even though the Cold War is over. Obama is speaking at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate nearly 50 years after John F. Kennedy's famous speech in the once-divided city. Obama says there's a temptation to turn inward now that barbed wire and concrete walls n... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:50:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161854-obama-berlin-our-work-yet-done.html 2013-06-19T13:50:31Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161514-uk-girl-guides-drop-reference-to-god-pledge.html LONDON (AP) — Britain's Girl Guides have dropped a reference to God in their pledge. Gone is the reference to loving God, replaced by a call to "be true to myself and develop my beliefs." The new pledge unveiled Wednesday does retain a reference to serving the queen. The long established British scouting organization — officially named Girlguiding — says ... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:41:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2161514-uk-girl-guides-drop-reference-to-god-pledge.html 2013-06-19T13:41:19Z