Six In The Morning

Military guards Egypt power as Islamists claim victory

　

By msnbc.com news services and staff
As Egyptians waited for the results of the presidential election, the ruling military council issued new rules that made clear the real power remains with the army. The Muslim Brotherhood's party on Monday declared its candidate, Mohammed Morsi, had won the country's first free presidential election, defeating Ahmed Shafik, ousted president Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister. But at Shafik's campaign headquarters, Ahmed Sarhan said: "I do not accept this, I will not file wrong numbers." However, another campaigner said: "I don't think we will make it." One woman campaigner at Shafik's headquarters was in tears.

Google reports 'alarming' rise in censorship by governments
Search engine company has said there has been a troubling increase in requests to remove political content from the internet

Dominic Rushe in New York The Guardian, Monday 18 June 2012
There has been an alarming rise in the number of times governments attempted to censor the internet in last six months, according to a report from Google. Since the search engine last published its bi-annual transparency report, it said it had seen a troubling increase in requests to remove political content. Many of these requests came from western democracies not typically associated with censorship. It said Spanish regulators asked Google to remove 270 links to blogs and newspaper articles critical of public figures.

Neo-Nazis 'helped to carry out Munich Olympics massacre'
Intelligence files claim Palestinian terrorists were aided by rightwing extremists in Germany

Berlin Monday 18 June 2012
German neo-Nazis helped the Palestinian terrorist organisation Black September to carry out the infamous massacre of 11 Israeli athletes during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, intelligence files released nearly four decades after the killings revealed yesterday. Details from a hitherto secret, 2,000-page document on the massacre, held by Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, were published by Der Spiegel magazine ahead of the 40th anniversary of the Israeli athletes' deaths this September.

Carbon shown to rise as trees replace tundra


June 18, 2012 - 3:33PM
In a surprise finding, researchers have shown that as trees start to grow closer to the North Pole, replacing once-barren tundra, they release more greenhouse gases than they absorb. The study has global implications for measuring the speed of global warming because it had previously been thought that when forests colonise the frozen Arctic, they might act to slow climate change by soaking up extra carbon dioxide from the air. Instead, as temperatures rise and plants take root further north, the barren soils are "primed" by new growth and start to release long-held stocks of carbon.

Muslim Brotherhood claims victory in Egypt polls
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has claimed a historic victory for Mohammed Mursi in the country's first presidential election since a 2011 uprising.

18 Jun 2012 05:41 - AFP
“Doctor Mohammed Mursi is the first Egyptian president of the republic elected by the people,” the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party said in the tweet that first announced their projected win. Mursi’s campaign director Ahmed Abdelati confirmed the projected victory. At a press conference he said Mursi had garnered 52.5% of the vote to 47.5% for his rival, ex-prime minister Ahmed Shafiq, with the ballots from nearly all of the country’s 13 000 polling stations counted. “Its a moment that all the Egyptian people have waited for,” he said.

Nuclear talks resume: Iran looking for respect and reciprocity
The third round of nuclear talks begins tomorrow in Moscow between Iran and the P5+1 group of the US, Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany.

By Scott Peterson, Staff writer
Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili arrived in Moscow today for critical talks with world powers, flying economy class with his team on Russia's state airline, Aeroflot. Mr. Jalili projects a “common man” image, but upon his shoulders may rest the high-stakes result of the third round of nuclear talks which begins tomorrow in Moscow. Expectations are low that Iran and the P5+1 group (the US, Russia, China, Britain, France, and Ger.many) can strike a deal that will at once permanently prevent any Iranian push for an atomic bomb and preserve for Iran most of its advanced nuclear program