Wednesday, June 20, 2012

World News Briefs -- June 20, 2012



Hosni Mubarak 'Close To Death' After Suffering Stroke In Prison -- The Telegraph

Hosni Mubarak, the overthrown and jailed former president of Egypt, is close to death after suffering a stroke in prison, according to hospital officials.

The country’s state news agency declared him “clinically dead” after attempts to revive him failed and though this was later denied by his lawyer and a close adviser he was being kept alive only on life support in a Cairo military hospital.


MIDDLE EAST

Syria crisis: Rebels 'kill 20 soldiers' in Latakia.

UN observers 'committed to completing Syria mission despite coming under fire'.

Obama: China, Russia not on board for Assad ouster.

Yemen: 9 killed in fighting in south.

Rockets fired from Gaza as tensions escalate with Israel.

Militants bomb power transmission towers in Iraq.

ASIA

Pakistan government to hold crisis talks over Yousuf Raza Gilani. Pakistan People's Party meets to appoint a new PM. Pakistan to elect new PM on Friday.

Burma unrest: UN body says 90,000 displaced by violence.

North Korea: 'drought threatens harvest'.

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei 'barred' from tax hearing.

AFRICA

1.5 million children in imminent danger of starvation in West Africa.

UN airlifts emergency aid to South Sudan.

Somalia: EU wants to pressure pirates’ ‘business model’.

Mali Islamists want sharia not independence.

EUROPE

Greece 'has a coalition government' - Pasok party leader.

Debt crisis: Spain and Italy to be bailed out in £600bn deal.

Greece’s ailing economy grinds to a halt.

French business frustration boils over.

Julian Assange faces re-arrest over breaching his bail condition by seeking asylum in Ecuador.

AMERICAS

Mexico front-runner cements lead as vote nears.

Chavez predicts big win in Venezuela election.

Haitians abroad get more rights with new constitution.

Canada home price boom to grind to a halt.

TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR

British Terror watchdog warns of wave of compensation claims over drone strikes.

Pentagon aims to be proactive in countering terror threat in Africa.

Libyan weapons falling into Somali al Qaeda's hands, U.S. official warns.

"Important" al Qaeda leader captured in Pakistan: officials.

'Al-Qaida' gunman takes hostages in Toulouse bank.

ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS

World leaders make little headway in solving debt crisis.

Slowing economy could force U.S. Fed to take action.

Google and Apple draw scrutiny for flying 'military-grade spy planes' in mapping efforts.

China warns its rare earth reserves are declining.

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