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BBC:Egypt President-elect Mohamed Mursi hails Tahrir crowds
Egypt President-elect Mohamed Mursi hails Tahrir crowds
Egyptian President-elect Mohamed Mursi has praised crowds in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the focal point of protests that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak.
Thousands had gathered to protest against decrees issued by Egypt's military rulers.
Mr Mursi swore a symbolic oath before the crowd, telling them they were "the source of all authority".
Mr Mursi, Egypt's first freely-elected civilian president, will officially be sworn in on Saturday.
BBC:Colorado wildfires: President Obama begins visit
Colorado wildfires: President Obama begins visit
US President Barack Obama has toured neighbourhoods ravaged by a wildfire which drove tens of thousands of people from their homes in a Colorado city.
The visit comes after Mr Obama issued a disaster declaration, allowing federal funds to be used to combat the blaze.
Searchers have found a second body at a burned-out Colorado Springs home, where two people had been reported missing.
The Waldo Canyon fire has destroyed 346 houses, making it the most destructive in the state's history.
BBC:Merkel defends compromise deal on eurozone banks
Merkel defends compromise deal on eurozone banks
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel says she is satisfied with a deal to help finance debt-laden eurozone countries.
"I think we found a good compromise," she said after all-night talks which saw her come under heavy pressure from Italy and Spain.
A new supervisory body will enable the European Central Bank (ECB) to "keep a very close eye on the banks", she said.
Spain is awaiting a 100bn-euro (£80bn; $125bn) recapitalisation of its troubled banks by the eurozone.
BBC:Mercosur suspends Paraguay over Lugo impeachment
Mercosur suspends Paraguay over Lugo impeachment
The Mercosur trade bloc has suspended Paraguay over the impeachment of President Fernando Lugo on 22 June.
The presidents of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay said Paraguay would remain outside the bloc until the next presidential election in April.
But at the end of a two-day summit in Argentina they decided not to impose sanctions on Paraguay.
They also announced that Venezuela would now become a full member of Mercosur.
BBC:Two Eta suspects remanded by UK court
Two Eta suspects remanded by UK court
Two alleged members of the Basque separatist group Eta have been remanded in custody by a London court over alleged terrorist offences in Spain.
Antonio Troitino Arranz, 55, and Ignacio Lerin Sanchez, 39, were arrested during an armed dawn raid in Hounslow, west London.
The court heard Mr Arranz was part of a terrorist cell which planned a car bomb attack on a civil guard patrol in 1986.
The men were remanded pending a full extradition hearing on 20 July.
BBC:Syria conflict: Russia-US still split ahead of talks
Syria conflict: Russia-US still split ahead of talks
Areas of "difficulty and difference" remain between Russia and the US ahead of key talks on the crisis in Syria, a US official says.
The state department spokesman played down chances of a deal at the talks, to take place on Saturday in Geneva.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov earlier met US counterpart Hillary Clinton, and said there was a "very good chance" of finding common ground.
More than 100 people have been killed in Syria since Thursday, reports say.
Reuters:Justice Department will not prosecute Holder over gun scandal
Justice Department will not prosecute Holder over gun scandal
(Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday it would not prosecute Attorney General Eric Holder for refusing to turn over to Congress documents about a gun-running scandal to Mexico.
Holder, who heads the Justice Department, was cited on Thursday for contempt of Congress by the Republican-led House of Representatives. The mostly partisan vote of 255-67 marked the first time a sitting attorney general and presidential cabinet member was cited for contempt by the full House. More than 100 Democrats walked out in protest and refused to vote.
In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, Holder's deputy said that the attorney general properly withheld the documents under "executive privilege," which allows President Barack Obama to keep private documents on internal government discussions.
"The department will not bring the Congressional contempt citation before a grand jury or take any other action to prosecute the attorney general," said Deputy Attorney General James Cole.
Reuters:EU deal for Spain, Italy buoys markets but details sketchy
EU deal for Spain, Italy buoys markets but details sketchy
(Reuters) - Under pressure to prevent a catastrophic breakup of their single currency, euro zone leaders agreed on Friday to let their rescue fund inject aid directly into stricken banks from next year and intervene on bond markets to support troubled member states.
They also pledged to create a single banking supervisor for euro zone banks based around the European Central Bank in a landmark first step towards a European banking union that could help shore up struggling member Spain.
"It is a first step to break the vicious circle between banks and sovereigns," European Council President Herman Van Rompuy told a final news conference after talks which stretched right through the night.
The deal was widely seen as a political victory for embattled Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and his Spanish counterpart, Mariano Rajoy, over German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had brushed aside any need for such emergency measures earlier this week.
Reuters:Greek militant group claims Microsoft attack
Greek militant group claims Microsoft attack
(Reuters) - A little-known leftist militant group claimed responsibility on Friday for an attack on Microsoft's Greek headquarters earlier this week.
Hooded attackers rammed a van packed with gas canisters into the Microsoft building in Athens on Wednesday and then set the vehicle on fire, causing damage but no injuries.
At least two people wielding pistols and a machinegun kept security guards away as they carried out the attack, police said.
In a statement published on the Internet, the International Revolutionary Front said it singled out Microsoft to strike a blow at capitalism.
Reuters:Mexican election watchdog under pressure in Sunday's vote
Mexican election watchdog under pressure in Sunday's vote
(Reuters) - Mexico, a country long synonymous with vote-rigging, is better equipped than ever to prevent fraud in Sunday's national elections, according to experts, but voters still have grave doubts.
The Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) will oversee the presidential vote that polls suggest will be won by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), whose frequently tainted elections helped it maintain power from 1929 to 2000.
Born out of scandal after a 1988 election widely believed to have been fixed, the IFE is independent of the government, with its board members nominated by all the political parties.
The body will have 696 observers from 69 countries helping it police Sunday's election, which will be the most closely monitored in the country's history, the IFE says.
Reuters:Pentagon chief urges Congress to block new defense cuts
Pentagon chief urges Congress to block new defense cuts
(Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta urged Congress on Friday to act soon to stop a new round of defense budget reductions next year, saying the threat of $500 billion more in cuts leaves military families and defense workers under a cloud of uncertainty.
"Congress can't keep kicking the can down the road or avoiding dealing with the debt and deficit problems that we face," Panetta told a news conference. "The men and women of this department and their families need to know with certainty that we will meet our commitments to them and to their families."
Panetta's remarks come at a time of renewed focus on the looming across-the-board defense cuts, which would be carried out under a process known as "sequestration." Industry officials met with House Democrats to discuss the cuts on Thursday and held talks with Panetta at the Pentagon on Tuesday.
Senator Carl Levin, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said this month that several different groups of lawmakers were holding talks on how to deal with the threat of sequestration. Some lawmakers are pushing to delay the cuts by up to a year, well beyond the November election.
Reuters:Iran's U.N. envoy criticizes U.S., EU over nuclear talks
Iran's U.N. envoy criticizes U.S., EU over nuclear talks
(Reuters) - Western powers negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program have not been "serious enough" in their attempts to resolve an escalating stand-off with the Islamic Republic, Tehran's U.N. envoy said on Friday.
Iran held what officials said were intense talks in Moscow earlier this month with the five permanent U.N. Security Council members and Germany - the so-called P5+1 - about its nuclear program, but a breakthrough once again failed to materialize.
"It is clear for us that some members of the P5+1 for whatever reasons ... are not forthcoming and serious enough for finding a solution," Iranian Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee said in a statement to reporters at the Iranian mission.
"If the talks do not proceed as it should be, we are going to have another stand-off," he said. "The USA and some Europeans have said they are going to increase their pressure and sanctions against us, and this ... indicates that they are not willing to engage with us in a meaningful dialogue."
cnet:Drones can be hijacked via GPS spoofing attack
Drones can be hijacked via GPS spoofing attack
Last year a U.S. military drone doing reconnaissance in Iran disappeared. Iranian government officials there said they had steered the device off course by interfering with its GPS signals.
Such an attack, called GPS spoofing, had previously been considered theoretical. A research team at the University of Texas at Austin has demonstrated that the GPS signals of an unmanned aerial vehicle can be commandeered remotely. This demonstration highlights security concerns with plans to allow thousands of military and civilian drones in U.S. airspace by 2015.
"I think this demonstration should certainly raise some eyebrows and serve as a wake-up call of sorts as to how safe our critical infrastructure is from spoofing attacks," Milton R. Clary, a senior Department of Defense (DoD) Aviation Policy Analyst at Overlook Systems Technologies, said in the university's news release on the research released today.
The scenarios are worrisome. Drones could be re-routed to crash into people or buildings. Drones used in air strikes could be directed at other targets.