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120 shot dead by Egyptian security forces
Cairo, July 27
Egyptian security Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Mursi clash with Mursi’s opponents in Cairo on Saturday. AFP forces shot dead scores of supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi on Saturday, witnesses said, days after the army chief called for a popular mandate to wipe out "violence and terrorism".

Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Mursi clash with Mursi’s opponents in Cairo on Saturday.
AFP

7 Indian-Americans involved in medical kickback racket
New York, July 27
Seven Indian-Americans are among eight individuals charged here with paying over USD 2.3 million in bribes and kickback to executives of a medical cost management company to secure business from it.

Six killed in Philippines blast
Manila, July 27
Six people were killed and more than 40 wounded in the Philippines when a bomb struck a restaurant filled with doctors after a national convention, police said today. Police said the improvised explosive device went off around midnight yesterday at a popular restaurant in the southern port city of Cagayan de Oro.




EARLIER STORIES


N Korea heralds 60th war “victory” anniversary
Pyongyang, July 27
Journalists and government delegations from the UN allied nations visit the demilitarised zone dividing the two Koreas, on Saturday. AFP North Korea celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Korean War truce on Saturday with a massive military parade trumpeting the revolutionary genius of three generations of leaders that gave it "Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War".



Journalists and government delegations from the UN allied nations visit the demilitarised zone dividing the two Koreas, on Saturday.
AFP

Emotions high as slain Tunisian leader buried
Tunis, Jul 27
Thousands took to the streets for funeral of an opposition leader assassinated with the same weapon that killed a colleague, as tensions soared after anti-govt protests. 

The Simpsons’ co-creator donates fortune to charity
Melbourne, July 27
Simpsons characters welcome guests at the Fox Studios in Los Angeles. — AFP The co-creator of The Simpsons Sam Simon has decided to give away his entire fortune, earned through the ongoing success of the TV show, to charity.





Simpsons characters welcome guests at the Fox Studios in Los Angeles. — AFP








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120 shot dead by Egyptian security forces
Protesters killed in wee hours near pro-Mursi vigil
Violence after rival rallies across the country

Cairo, July 27
Egyptian security forces shot dead scores of supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi on Saturday, witnesses said, days after the army chief called for a popular mandate to wipe out "violence and terrorism".

Men in helmets and black police fatigues fired on crowds gathered before dawn on the fringes of a round-the-clock sit-in near a mosque in northeast Cairo, Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood said.

"They are not shooting to wound, they are shooting to kill," said Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad. "The bullet wounds are in the head and chest."

A Muslim Brotherhood website said 120 people had been killed and some 4,500 injured. A Reuters reporter counted 36 bodies at one morgue, while health officials said there were a further 21 corspes in two nearby hospitals.

Activists rushed blood-spattered casualties into a makeshift hospital, some were carried in on planks or blankets.

One ashen teenager was laid out on the floor, a bullet hole in his head. Egypt's Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim told reporters only 21 had died and denied police had opened fire, accusing the Brotherhood of exaggerating for political ends.

Ibrahim said local residents living close to the Rabaa al-Adawia mosque vigil had clashed with protesters in the early hours after they had blocked off a major road bridge. He said that police had used teargas to try to break up the fighting.

Well over 200 people have been killed in violence since the army toppled Mursi on July 3, following huge protests against his year in power. The army denies accusations it staged a coup, saying it intervened to prevent national chaos.

The Arab world's most populous state is battling economic woes and struggling with the transition to democracy two years after Hosni Mubarak was swept from power in the Arab Spring. — Reuters

Tension mounts

Men in helmets and black police fatigues fired on crowds gathered before dawn on the fringes of a round-the-clock sit-in near a mosque in northeast Cairo, Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood said.

A Muslim Brotherhood website said 120 people had been killed and some 4,500 injured.

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7 Indian-Americans involved in medical kickback racket

New York, July 27
Seven Indian-Americans are among eight individuals charged here with paying over USD 2.3 million in bribes and kickback to executives of a medical cost management company to secure business from it.

Those who were charged with paying the bribes are Sarvesh Dharayan, Sanjay Gupta, Venkata Atluri, Rangarajan Kumar, Vadan Kumar Kopalle and Dareen Siriani. The defendants charged with receiving the bribes and kickbacks are Anil Singh and Keith Bush.

If convicted, the accused may face a jail term up to 20 years. "Today's actions underscore our commitment to work with our law enforcement partners to bring to justice individuals who break the law out of greed," Preet Bharara, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York said after filing the charges. Singh was the Senior Vice President and the Chief Information Officer at the New York Company, which provided nation-wide medical cost management solutions, including medical reimbursement services and Bush was employed as the company's Director of Database Administration. Singh and Bush had considerable influence over the selection of vendors, specifically vendors of database administrators hired by the New York Company.

It has been alleged that from 2008 to September 2012, various individuals collectively paid over USD 2.3 million in money and other benefits to Singh and Bush to steer millions of dollars of the New York Company's DBA business to them.

According to the complaint, Dharayan, Gupta, Atluri, Kumar and Kopalle paid the kickbacks and bribes through conduit companies established by Bush and Singh for the very purpose of disguising true nature and origin of the illegal payments. Dharayan, Gupta, Koppalle and Siriani were arrested at their homes in New Jersey and were presented in Manhattan federal court yesterday before US Magistrate Judge James L Cott. — PTI

Murky affair

If convicted, the accused may face a jail term up to 20 years. 

"Today's actions underscore our commitment to work with our law enforcement partners to bring to justice individuals who break the law out of greed," Preet Bharara, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York said after filing the charges.

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Six killed in Philippines blast

Manila, July 27
Six people were killed and more than 40 wounded in the Philippines when a bomb struck a restaurant filled with doctors after a national convention, police said today.

Police said the improvised explosive device went off around midnight yesterday at a popular restaurant in the southern port city of Cagayan de Oro.

Most of the victims were doctors and pharmaceutical salesmen who had just attended a national convention of lung-disease specialists at a nearby hotel, said the city police chief, Senior Superintendent Graciano Mijares. "This is one of the busiest areas of Cagayan de Oro.... somebody left a bomb on a chair at the bistro," he told reporters. — AFP

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N Korea heralds 60th war “victory” anniversary

Pyongyang, July 27
North Korea celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Korean War truce on Saturday with a massive military parade trumpeting the revolutionary genius of three generations of leaders that gave it "Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War". Leader Kim Jong-un was joined by Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao on the podium overlooking Pyongyang's main Kim Il Sung square to inspect a massive throng of soldiers in goosestep and a display of weapons including its mid-range missiles.

Kim exchanged words with Li through an interpreter but did not make public remarks at the parade, which appeared to be one of the largest ever put on by North. Choe Ryong-hae, Kim's main military aide and chief political operative of the North's 1.2-million-strong army, said the reclusive state sees peace as a top national priority and its military was aimed at safeguarding North Korea from invasion. — Reuters

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Emotions high as slain Tunisian leader buried

Tunis, Jul 27
Thousands took to the streets for funeral of an opposition leader assassinated with the same weapon that killed a colleague, as tensions soared after anti-govt protests. 

Draped in the Tunisian flag, Mohamed Brahmi's coffin was saluted by soldiers as the cortege left his home in Tunis neighbourhood of Ariana for El-Jellaz cemetery. — AFP

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The Simpsons’ co-creator donates fortune to charity

Melbourne, July 27
The co-creator of The Simpsons Sam Simon has decided to give away his entire fortune, earned through the ongoing success of the TV show, to charity.

The 58-year-old, who is battling colon cancer, is known for his philanthropy and charitable donations to nonprofits, including the pet charity PETA, Save the Children as well as Australian anti-whaling body the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which named one of its ships after him in 2012. — ANI

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BRIEFLY

miami, florida 
7 killed in hostage crisis: Six people were shot dead in a shootout in an apartment building near the US city of Miami that ended early Saturday when police killed the suspect, police said. — AFP
Pope Francis leaves the Cathedral of St Sebastian in Rio de Janeiro where he celebrated mass with bishops, priests and seminarians on Saturday. AFP
Pope Francis leaves the Cathedral of St Sebastian in Rio de Janeiro where he celebrated mass with bishops, priests and seminarians on Saturday. AFP

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
Driver held for homicide:
The driver of a speeding train that hurtled off the rails killing 78 people in Spain was detained for "reckless homicide", interior minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said on Saturday. — AFP

beirut
Talks fruitful: UN, Syria:
The United Nations and Syria said on Saturday that negotiations between Damascus and the UN chemical weapons investigator were "productive", but did not say if his team would be allowed to probe allegations that such weapons had been used in the country's civil war. — Reuters

riyadh
Saudi man dies of MERS virus:
A Saudi man has died of the coronavirus MERS and another has contracted the virus, the health ministry said on Saturday, bringing the kingdom's deaths from the virus to 39. The man, who had previously been diagnosed with the SARS-like virus, died in the southwestern province of Asir, the ministry said on its website. — AFP

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