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| At least 22 killed in gunfight southwest of Mexico City | | | By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At least 22 suspected gang members were killed southwest of Mexico City early on Monday, the government said, in one of the bloodiest shootouts with security forces since President Enrique Pena Nieto took power. An Interior Ministry spokesman said the gunfight took place in Tlatlaya on the southern fringes of the State of Mexico, an area that has been plagued by gang violence in the two neighboring states of Guerrero and Michoacan. A spokesman for federal prosecutors said all the dead were believed to be gang members. According to Mexican media reports, the shooting started after soldiers came under fire from the suspected gang members, resulting in a gunfight lasting several minutes. |
| Israel finds bodies of three missing teenagers in West Bank | |  By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The bodies of three missing Israeli teenagers were found in the occupied West Bank on Monday and Israel vowed to punish Hamas, the Palestinian group it accuses of abducting and killing them. "They were kidnapped and murdered in cold blood by beasts," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement after the military discovered the remains of the Jewish seminary students who disappeared on June 12. "Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay," he said. U.S. President Barack Obama condemned the killings but called on all parties to exercise restrain.
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| Two police officers killed in bomb blasts near Cairo palace | | | By Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) - Two Egyptian policemen were killed on Monday trying to defuse bombs planted near Cairo's presidential palace by militants days before the anniversary of the army overthrow of an elected Islamist president. Radical Islamists have repeatedly attacked police and soldiers with bombings and shootings since the ousting of President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood denies any link to the violence. The militant group Ajnad Misr, or Soldiers of Egypt, claimed responsibility for the blasts in a statement dated Monday. |
| U.S. asks North Korea to release two detained Americans | | | The U.S. State Department, citing "humanitarian concerns," asked North Korea on Monday to release two Americans who North Korean official media said would be put on trial for committing crimes against the state. North Korea's official KCNA news agency, referring to the imprisoned men, Jeffrey Fowle and Matthew Miller, said "their hostile acts were confirmed by evidence and their own testimonies." Asked about the report, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters, "Out of humanitarian concern for Mr. Fowle and Mr. Miller and their families, we request North Korea release them so they may return home." She also called on North Korea to pardon and release Kenneth Bae, a Christian missionary who was arrested in November 2012, convicted and sentenced by North Korea's supreme court to 15 years hard labor last year. |
| Microsoft says disrupts cybercrime rings with roots in Kuwait, Algeria | |  By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp launched what it hopes will be the most successful private effort to date to crack down on cyber crime by moving to disrupt communications channels between hackers and infected PCs. The operation, which began on Monday under an order issued by a federal court in Nevada, targeted traffic involving malicious software known as Bladabindi and Jenxcus, which Microsoft said work in similar ways and were written and distributed by developers in Kuwait and Algeria. It is the first high-profile case involving malware written by developers outside of Eastern Europe, according to Richard Domingues Boscovich, assistant general counsel of Microsoft's cybercrime-fighting Digital Crimes Unit. "We never seen malware coded outside Eastern Europe that is as big as this.
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| Al Jazeera says bodies of three missing settlers found | | | DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Jazeera television said on Monday, quoting Israeli sources, that the bodies of three Jewish settlers who went missing near Hebron two weeks ago have been found near the city in the occupied West Bank. The Qatar-based TV channel also reported that the inner Israeli cabinet was to hold an emergency meeting later in the evening to discuss the matter. (Reporting by Sami Aboudi; Editing by Janet Lawrence) |
| UK PM Cameron's former aide Coulson to be re-tried over royal payments | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron's ex-media chief Andy Coulson, found guilty last week over phone-hacking while editing a Rupert Murdoch tabloid, will stand trial for a second time over alleged illegal payments, prosecutors said on Monday. Coulson was convicted by a jury of being complicit in widespread tapping of voicemails by journalists at Murdoch's now defunct News of the World Sunday tabloid following an eight-month trial at London's Old Bailey. Rebekah Brooks, the ex-chief executive of News Corp.'s British newspaper arm News International who was also tried over phone-hacking allegations and other crimes, was cleared on all charges.
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