| APNewsBreak: Diplomats: Iran announcement planned Monday Posted: 12 Jul 2015 09:15 AM PDT  VIENNA (AP) — Negotiators at the Iran nuclear talks plan to announce Monday that they've reached a historic deal capping nearly a decade of diplomacy that would curb the country's atomic program in return for sanctions relief, two diplomats told The Associated Press on Sunday.
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| Eurozone lists tough conditions for Greek debt deal Posted: 12 Jul 2015 09:56 AM PDT  Greece must start to implement tough reforms as early as next week in exchange for a bailout to keep it in the euro, according to proposals drawn up by finance ministers for a eurozone summit on Sunday. The resumed talks early Sunday amid sharp differences over how much to demand of Athens, after nine hours' wrangling on Saturday failed to produce an agreement. Finland's Alexander Stubb, a consistent hardliner demanding Greece honour its reform commitments, said Athens would have to pass into law a first series of promised economic reforms by Wednesday.
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| Mexico kingpin 'Chapo' Guzman stages brazen jailbreak in blow to president Posted: 12 Jul 2015 10:58 AM PDT By Gabriel Stargardter and Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's most notorious drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, broke out of a high security prison on Saturday night for the second time, escaping in a tunnel built right under his cell, and heaping embarrassment on President Enrique Pena Nieto. The kingpin snuck out of the prison through a subterranean tunnel more than 1.5 km (1 mile) long that ended in a building site in the local town, National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido told a news conference on Sunday. Guzman, who had bribed his way out of prison during a previous escape in 2001, was seen on video entering his shower area at 8.52 p.m. on Saturday (9.52 p.m. ET), then disappeared, the National Security Commission (CNS) said. |
| Angry at demands, Greeks rail at German 'humiliation' Posted: 12 Jul 2015 02:55 AM PDT  Greeks accuse Germany of insisting on purely punitive measures as part of a new bailout deal.
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| Pay and pride clash for Latino workers at Trump golf course Posted: 12 Jul 2015 04:59 AM PDT  By Laila Kearney and Sebastien Melo NEW YORK, July 12 (Reuters) - From the nearest bus stop, workers navigate about a mile of overgrown and cracked sidewalk before they reach Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point Park in the Bronx, with its pristine fairways, treacherous bunkers and expansive views of the jagged Manhattan skyline. Like Andris Garcia, a 22-year-old security guard at the course, many are Latinos, immigrants or descendants of immigrants. "Just because they're Mexican, it doesn't mean that they came over here to sell drugs or kill people." Since announcing his bid for the Republican nomination last month, Trump has faced the fury of Latinos and the cancellation of major business deals after he accused Mexico of sending rapists and other criminals to the United States.
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| Massachusetts prosecutor to charge bomber Tsarnaev with murder Posted: 11 Jul 2015 02:30 PM PDT  (Reuters) - A Massachusetts district attorney plans to bring state murder charges against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who has been sentenced to death in a federal trial for a deadly bomb attack on the 2013 Boston Marathon, her office said on Saturday. The Boston Globe reported that Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said she would charge Tsarnaev with murdering MIT police officer Sean Collier and for other crimes in the aftermath of the marathon attacks. Ryan said a guilty verdict in Massachusetts could keep Tsarnaev in prison if he successfully appeals his federal convictions.
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| U.S. military drills stoke politics of suspicion in Texas Posted: 12 Jul 2015 06:58 AM PDT  To hear the conspiracy theorists tell it, a labyrinth of tunnels is being built under Walmart stores for military attacks on civilians, and an orchestrated financial crisis will lead to martial law, U.S. troops patrolling chaotic streets, and a dictatorship under President Barack Obama. While such views represent the fringes of American political opinion, they reflect a broader suspicion of the federal government that has run deep in Texas for years. The U.S. Army Special Operations Command exercise, called Jade Helm 15, has brought these fears to a crescendo, particularly in Bastrop.
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| NAACP votes to end boycott of South Carolina over Confederate flag Posted: 11 Jul 2015 06:33 PM PDT  The resolution was approved during the NAACP's annual convention in Philadelphia. South Carolina removed the flag on Friday to chants of "USA, USA!," after three weeks of emotional debate over the banner, a symbol of slavery and racism to many, but of Southern heritage and pride to others. The Confederate flag was raised atop the South Carolina State House dome in 1961 as part of centennial commemorations of the American Civil War.
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| Obama to free dozens of inmates from federal custody Posted:  The president will use his executive authority to release inmates this week serving decades for nonviolent crimes.
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| Greece closer to desperately needed deal with creditors Posted: 12 Jul 2015 09:29 AM PDT  BRUSSELS (AP) — Greece moved closer on Sunday to a desperately needed deal with European creditors which would stave off immediate financial collapse and the country's potential exit from the euro but impose more hardship on its people.
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| Trump criticizes border policy as well as trade agenda Posted: 11 Jul 2015 07:08 PM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump criticized U.S. immigration and trade policies on Saturday in speeches that veered from accusing Mexico of deliberately sending criminals across the border to professing respect for the Mexican government and love for its people.
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| Official: Full EU summit cancelled as eurozone talks on Greece continue Posted: 12 Jul 2015 08:47 AM PDT  Divided eurozone leaders clashed over the fate of Greece on Sunday with a catastrophic exit from the single currency looming large as they struggled to reach a bailout deal with debt-hit Athens. Germany's fiscal hawks faced off against doves led by France at a summit of the 19 eurozone leaders in Brussels, with Athens facing demands to push through new reform laws next week. Greece's leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras insisted a deal was possible on Sunday night "if all parties want it", adding that he was ready for an "honest compromise".
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| Rubio revisits childhood in Vegas, calls Putin a criminal Posted: 11 Jul 2015 04:06 PM PDT  HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Republican Sen. Marco Rubio called Russian President Vladimir Putin a criminal on Saturday in a presidential campaign speech less focused on foreign and domestic policy than recounting his parents' immigrant experience to voters in his childhood hometown.
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