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Investor Kevin Bermeister has big plans for Jerusalem, West Bank

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 07:31 PM PDT

Investor Kevin Bermeister's Jerusalem 5800 is a blueprint for turning the ancient holy city into a sprawling tourist hub with a new airport in the West Bank.

JERUSALEM — Australian technology investor Kevin Bermeister has had some hits and misses in his career.

Outcry in South Africa as striking miners charged with murder

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 04:54 PM PDT

Prosecutors are under pressure to drop cases against workers charged under an apartheid-era law with their comrades' murders after police kill and wound dozens.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Prosecutors came under intense pressure Friday to withdraw murder charges against striking platinum miners accused of collusion in police shootings that killed 34 miners and wounded more than 70.

Mexico's Enrique Peña Nieto officially declared election winner

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 04:43 PM PDT

Mexico leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rejects the ruling that Enrique Peña Nieto won the election and calls for protests, saying the PRI cheated.

MEXICO CITY — Dismissing arguments that recent elections were rife with fraud, Mexico's electoral tribunal on Friday officially declared Institutional Revolutionary Party candidate Enrique Peña Nieto the president-elect, a ruling that was defiantly rejected by leftist leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the second-place finisher who, for the second presidential contest in a row, called his followers into the streets of the capital to protest.

Ex-Navy SEAL who wrote Bin Laden book gets warning from Pentagon

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT

Ex-Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette, who wrote 'No Easy Day' about the Bin Laden raid, violated an agreement not to reveal classified information, the Pentagon says.

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon formally warned a former Navy SEAL who has written a first-person account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden last year, saying he has violated his signed agreement not to divulge classified information, and it threatened him with stiff legal action.