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The U.S. military says unidentified gunmen have opened fire on U.S. aircraft flying in to a rebel-held area of South Sudan to evacuate American citizens. Four U.S. service personnel were reported wounded.
The incident took place Saturday as U.S. forces were trying to rescue Americans from the heavily-contested town of Bor, north of the capital, Juba. The mission was aborted and all three planes were diverted to neighboring Uganda.
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Egyptian prosecutors have issued a third set of charges against ousted President Mohamed Morsi, accusing him and others of breaking out of prison and organizing jail breaks during the chaos surrounding the 2011 popular uprising against President Hosni Mubarak.
Edward Yeranian reports.
The new set of charges filed against Mr Morsi on Saturday come as little surprise to most observers in the Egyptian capital..
It had long been rumored the ousted president would eventually be charged with breaking out of the Wadi el-Natroun prison nearly three years ago.
Mr Morsi was charged along with about 130 co-defendants.
The charges also accuse several foreign parties, including Lebanon's Hezbollah militia, Gaza's Hamas group and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard of instigating the upheaval that led to the prison break in January 2011.
In a written statement, Judge Hassan Samir described claims of involvement by foreign groups as “the most dangerous crime of terrorism the country has witnessed.”
Edward Yeranian VOA News CAIRO.
Two astronauts from the U.S. space agency, NASA, have completed the first stage of an effort to repair a faulty pump that shut down part of the International Space Station's critical cooling system several days ago.
NASA says the two astronauts disconnected the faulty ammonia pump while working outside the space station for more than five hours on Saturday.
The agency says the two men will try to install a spare pump module during their next spacewalk Tuesday.
The station has since been using a backup system for cooling internal and external equipment. The problem has forced the astronauts to turn off all non-essential equipment, including some science experiments.
Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was reunited with his family in Berlin on Saturday, a day after being released from a decade-long imprisonment in Russia.
Khodorkovsky's spokesman says he met with his oldest son, Pavel, and his parents, Marina and Boris, who flew to Berlin to see him.
Marieluise Beck, a member of Germany's parliament and a supporter of Khodorkovsky, also met with him.
Khodorkovsky, a long-time critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, spent more than 10 years of detention in a Russian prison for tax evasion and embezzlement. He left Russia for Berlin on Friday, soon after Mr. Putin signed a pardon for him.
Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid says current tensions over the arrest of an Indian diplomat in the United States will not harm the relationship between the two countries.
Khurshid told reporters in New Delhi Saturday that India has a valuable relationship with the United States that should not be affected by one incident. He called for further talks to resolve the case of Devyani Khobragade, who was arrested in New York on charges of visa fraud and exploitation of a maid, whom she brought from India.
Tokyo's governor, who helped bring the 2020 Olympics to his city, has resigned after acknowledging he received money from a scandal-plagued hospital company.
Naoki Inose said the nearly $500,000 payment was a personal, interest-free loan and has already been returned. Critics say the payment amounted to bribery and have pressured him for weeks to resign.
Inose said in a live televised address Thursday he did not want the scandal to affect Tokyo's preparations to host the Olympic Games.
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