07/05/13 The Raw Worldwide Newsfeed

World News continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.

• Great green blob covers Chinese waters _{2013-07-05, 06:53 am}
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• 2 killed in suicide attack at Afghan border _{2013-07-05, 05:53 am}
  Authorities say a suicide bomber blew himself up at a border checkpoint entering Afghanistan from Pakistan, killing at least two people and wounding eight others.
• Tropical Storm Erick forms in eastern Pacific _{2013-07-05, 01:43 am}
  The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said a tropical storm warning was in effect on the southwestern Mexican coast Thursday night from Lazaro Cardenas to Manzanillo.
• Crews rescue 23,600 from crashes _{2013-07-04, 09:38 pm}
  Firefighters in England rescued six times more people from road crashes than house fires over the last three years, figures have revealed.
• Mexican volcano spews ash, steam _{2013-07-04, 05:39 pm}
  Mexico City: Airport officials say at least six US airlines have canceled more than 40 flights into and out of Mexico City and Toluca airports after the Popocatepetl volcano spewed out ash, steam and glowing rocks.
• Israelis strip-search Arab journalist at US party _{2013-07-04, 04:35 pm}
  The U.S.-funded Alhurra network said Thursday that one of its cameramen was interrogated and strip-searched by Israeli security men while covering a July 4 party at the U.S. ambassador's residence near Tel Aviv.
• Pakistan, International Monetary Fund reach initial agreement on $5.3 billion bailout_{2013-07-04, 12:15 pm}
  Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund have reached an initial agreement on a bailout of at least $5.3 billion to stave off an economic crisis as the country's foreign reserves dip perilously low, officials said Thursday.
• Mandela's Condition Unchanged Government Says _{2013-07-04, 11:16 am}
  A man takes a moment to read some of the get well wishes and messages outside Nelson Mandela's house in Johannesburg, South Africa, July, 4, 2013.
• Lucky British babies to receive royal silver penny _{2013-07-04, 11:16 am}
  The Royal Mint announced Thursday that it has minted 2,013 silver coins bearing a shield of the Royal Arms, to be given to newborns who share their birthday with the third in line to the British throne.
• Arizona Senator McCain visits US troops in Kabul _{2013-07-04, 09:05 am}
  McCain, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and unsuccessful presidential candidate, was accompanied on the visit by Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.
• Syrian president: Opposition failed to oust regime _{2013-07-04, 07:05 am}
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• 'Unexplained' house deaths probed _{2013-07-04, 06:01 am}
  The deaths of two people found in a house in a valley community are being treated as "unexplained", police said.
• Egypt's president Mohammed Morsi is under arrest after being thrown out of office in a coup _{2013-07-04, 06:01 am}
  The UK will work with Egypt's new rulers despite condemning the military intervention that ousted democratically elected president Mohammed Morsi, William Hague said.
• Bolivia's Morales arrives home after plane flap _{2013-07-04, 03:51 am}
  Bolivian President Evo Morales called the rerouting of his plane over suspicions that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden was aboard a provocation to Latin America and urged European countries to "free themselves" from the United States.
• SKorea proposes talks with NKorea on factory park _{2013-07-04, 12:46 am}
  The industrial complex in the North Korean city of Kaesong, just north of the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas, has been shut since a political showdown in April.
• Ecuador says hidden microphone found in its London embassy, where Wikileaks founder staying _{2013-07-03, 11:41 pm}
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• US official: Taliban ignoring talks overtures _{2013-07-03, 07:27 pm}
  The Taliban won't join talks with the United States and Afghanistan because of a dispute over the name of its representative office in Qatar, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday.
• Attacks on candidates seem to be rampant in Mexico local elections _{2013-07-03, 07:27 pm}
  As Sunday's elections grow near in 14 states, at least eight local politicians or their family members have been killed.
• Vast war letter collection shows sacrifice _{2013-07-03, 03:22 pm}
  Historian Andrew Carroll poses for a photograph June 18 in Washington with one of his war letters that has a bullet hole in it.
• NY gay resort community gains historic recognition _{2013-07-03, 03:22 pm}
  In this June 23, 2013 photo, men and women wander through the streets in the Fire Island community of Cherry Grove, N.Y. Virtually obliterated in a 1938 hurricane, the community now has about 250 houses that can sell for $400,000 or more, and two miles of white, sandy beaches facing the Atlantic accessible via a network of narrow boardwalks.