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By Tom Perry and Matt Robinson
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's army-backed rulers and allies of its deposed Islamist president gave the first signs of a readiness to compromise on Saturday, pressed by Western envoys trying to head off more bloodshed.
Faced with the threat of a crackdown on supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, diplomacy appeared to pick up pace, a month to the day since Egypt's army deposed President Mohamed Mursi and plunged the country into turmoil.
Recognizing for the first time the strength of popular protest against his one-year rule, Mursi's allies said on Saturday they respected the demands of millions who took to the streets before his overthrow.
A spokesman said the Mursi camp, which has refused to abandon weeks of sit-in protests until he is reinstated, wanted a solution that would "respect all popular desires".
They told envoys from the United States and the European Union that they reject any role in a political settlement for army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who led Mursi's ouster, and want the constitution he suspended to be restored.
"I respect and hold in regard the demands of the masses that went out on June 30, but I will not build on the military coup," spokesman Tarek El-Malt told Reuters, relaying what the pro-Mursi delegation had told the envoys.
Asked whether the delegation had insisted on Mursi's reinstatement as part of any political deal, Malt, a member of the Brotherhood-affiliated Wasat party, said it was a detail for future discussion.
But given that Mursi's opponents insist he should not be part of the political solution, Malt said, then "Sisi must also not be in the political equation".
In an interview with the Washington Post, Sisi appeared to rule out running for president himself, despite his growing popularity among some of the 84 million-strong population.
"You just can't believe that there are people who don't aspire for authority," Sisi told the interviewer when asked if he would stand for president. Asked "Is that you?", he replied: "Yes." The Post said the interview was conducted on Thursday.
The Pentagon said Sisi had assured U.S. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel, in a telephone call, that the Egyptian authorities "were working towards a process of political reconciliation."
"SAFE EXIT"
Egypt's military has installed a transitional government and laid out a "road map" to elections in about six months. It promises a return to civilian rule, having brought down the first freely elected president after 60 years of rule by military men.
The Brotherhood, an Islamist movement that spent decades in the shadows before winning power in elections after the 2011 fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, had spurned the road map.
But its supporters, camped out at two sites in Cairo, face the threat of being violently dispersed by security forces who shot dead 80 of them a week ago. Almost 300 people have been killed in political violence since Mursi's overthrow, and much of the movement's leadership is in custody.
The deposed president is being held in a secret location, under investigation on a raft of charges including murder.
Diplomats say the West is pressing the Brotherhood to give up on Mursi's return, and for the military to pull back from a bid to drive the Islamists back underground.
Stepping back from an imminent threat to disperse the protesters, the Interior Ministry promised them "safe exit" and urged them to rejoin the political process. The government said on Friday it would blockade the camps, but not storm them.
"Your continued sit-ins have no legal or political use," Interior Ministry spokesman General Hany Abdel Latif said on Egyptian television. "You have a safe exit, you will be politically integrated," he said, wearing a white dress uniform.
"If you think you're upholding the Muslim Brotherhood, your safe exit from the squares will allow the group to return to its role within the democratic political process," Latif said, addressing Mursi's supporters.
"You are brainwashed, subject to psychological manipulation. You are being used as a political bargaining chip."
"CONTACTS" WITH BROTHERHOOD
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns and European Union envoy Bernadino Leon were leading the diplomatic push, meeting Mursi's allies and Egypt's interim foreign minister, Nabil Fahmy.
A Foreign Ministry statement said the government was committed to national reconciliation, including all political forces "as long as they refrain from all forms of violence and incitement to it".
Fahmy told reporters after the meeting that there had been some contact with the Brotherhood.
"I wouldn't use the word negotiation. There have been contacts between different figures. There is no desire to use force if there is any other avenue that has any potential for success," he said.
Those avenues had not yet been exhausted, he said, "but I have not seen any real return or any concrete progress, frankly".
The crisis in the Arab world's most populous country has posed a dilemma for the United States and other Western governments, which had advocated democracy following the overthrow of Mubarak in 2011 but grew increasingly uncomfortable with Mursi's Islamist leanings.
Many Egyptians shared that concern and frustration grew over Mursi's failure to solve social and economic problems.
The new interim government gained the United States' approval on Thursday when Secretary of State John Kerry said the army had been "restoring democracy" when it toppled Mursi.
Under Mubarak, Egypt was a bulwark of U.S. policy in the Middle East, not least because of its peace agreement with Israel. Mursi's overthrow had jeopardized the $1.3 billion annual military aid Egypt receives from Washington.
Analysts say civilians in the new government are trying to promote a political solution despite resistance from security services that want to crack down on the Brotherhood.
(Additional reporting by Michael Georgy and Tom Finn in Cairo, Phil Stewart in Washington; Writing by Angus MacSwan and Matt Robinson; Editing by Michael Georgy and Robin Pomeroy)
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The city of Rome from Saturday barred private vehicles from using the main road to the Colosseum in order to protect the iconic monument that has been blackened by pollution and is in a poor state. From 0300 GMT Saturday, cars, lorries and other private vehicles were barred from using the last trunk of the avenue Via dei Fori Imperiali, which links Piazza Venezia to the Roman amphitheatre. Traffic has been diverted to an adjacent route and only public transport will be allowed on the old route. The decision was taken by the new mayor of Rome, Ignazio Marino of the leftist Democratic Party, who would like eventually to make the Via dei Fori Imperiali a pedestrian area. The number of visitors to the Colosseum, the biggest ancient Roman amphitheatre ever built, has increased from a million to around six million a year over the past decade, thanks mainly to the 2000 blockbuster film "Gladiator". But it has also fallen into disrepair in recent years: bits of stone, blackened by ...
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A digital book is displayed on an Apple Inc. iPad for a photograph in New York. (Scott Eells/Bloomberg)
Apple Inc., the world's biggest technology company, should be ordered to cancel existing agreements with five publishers after a judge's ruling that it conspired to fix prices of electronic books, the Justice Department said Friday.
The federal government and 33 states submitted the proposal in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. They called for a court-appointed antitrust compliance monitor and a requirement that Apple allow competitors to provide links from their e-book applications to their electronic bookstores.
Friday's proposal would require Apple to find a new way to do business with publishers.
"From a financial standpoint, this means nothing for Apple," John Bright, an analyst with Avondale Partners, said in an interview. "But strategically speaking it is a setback. I think Apple would now have to find different work- around solutions for pricing. They would use the same publishers but they would have to negotiate different solutions."
U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, after a nonjury trial in Manhattan, ruled July 10 against Apple. The company now faces another trial on damages. The proposal submitted today needs court approval to become effective.
"Under the department's proposed order, Apple's illegal conduct will cease and Apple and its senior executives will be prevented from conspiring to thwart competition in the future," Bill Baer, the assistant attorney general in charge of the antitrust division, said in a statement.
"The idea behind this proposal would certainly make the e- book industry more competitive," Bright said. "By definition, increased competitiveness in an industry leads to lower prices."
The U.S. sued Apple and five of the biggest publishers in April 2012, claiming that the technology company pushed publishers to allow it to sell digital copies of their books under a model that raised prices and harmed consumers.
Under that so-called agency model, publishers, not retailers, set book prices, with Apple getting 30 percent.
The publishers ? Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck's Macmillan unit, CBS's Simon & Schuster, Lagardere's Hachette Book Group, Pearson's Penguin unit and News Corp.'s HarperCollins ? settled with the government. Continued...
Under the Justice Department plan, the salary and expenses of the proposed external monitor would be paid by Apple. The person would work with an internal antitrust compliance officer who would be hired by and report to the outside directors on Apple's audit committee.
The government's proposal extends to media other than electronic books. It would prohibit Apple from entering agreements with suppliers of music, movies, TV shows and other content if those deals are likely to increase the prices at which their competitors sell them.
Tom Neumayr, a spokesman for Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple, declined to comment on the proposal.
A hearing on the proposal will be held Aug. 9.
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By Tim Molloy
NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - "Sons of Anarchy" returns with a Season 6 premiere next month that is going to shock people. We won't say what it is, but will say this: We're very surprised the show goes where it goes.
Speaking at a Television Critics Association panel Friday, creator Kurt Sutter said he talked with FX CEO John Landgraf about the storyline, which draws from hotly debated recent events. (And that's all the description we'll give.) Landgraf is know for giving his showrunners more creative freedom than they would likely get elsewhere.
"This is a story that I've wanted to do for a while and although it's controversial I wasn't not going to tell it because of that," he told TheWrap.
Sutter is known for pushing boundaries - have you read his @sutterink tweets? - and the storyline in the September 10 episode promises to go further than ever.
"This is a story that is not being done to be sensational. I'm hoping that it's not spoiled and it's not leaked out in any capacity before the premiere, and that it is truly the catalyst for the final act of our morality play," Sutter said.
So don't Google SOA spoilers, okay? Sutter will tell the story better than that grumpy blogger can, and September 10 is just over a month away.
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The long-running trial of Wikileaks whistle-blower Pfc. Bradley Manning came to a key (if preliminary) conclusion this week, with Judge Denise Lind announcing a verdict that contained both good and bad news for Manning: He has been found innocent of the very serious charge of "aiding the enemy," but guilty of 19 other lesser counts. His sentencing for these crimes has yet to be determined. It's a situation that has captured the interest of many people but has especially meaningful implications for the tech industry (and the people who use its products), so it was a big pleasure to have Rainey Reitman stop by the TechCrunch TV studio this week to help elucidate what it all means. As the co-founder and COO of the Freedom of the Press Foundation and a full-time staffer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Reitman has been keeping close tabs on the Manning case since Manning's leaks of classified U.S. military documents first came to light back in 2010 -- in fact, in her spare time she founded the Bradley Manning Support Network to help support Manning in his trial. There are few people more well-versed in all aspects of this subject than she.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/cDQ6twnww9Q/
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) ? Kathy Bates says she's thrilled to be a regular on FX's "American Horror Story."
It's almost good enough to rid her of the bad taste from her previous stint on series TV.
Even so, she told reporters at a Television Critics Association session on Friday that she's got a bone to pick with NBC, which cancelled "Harry's Law" last season after a two-year run.
Bates said NBC "kicked us to the curb."
Things are happier on her current project, which just began shooting in New Orleans.
The Oscar-winning Bates plays Madame LaLaurie, a real-life 19th-Century Louisiana socialite and serial killer. She co-stars with Sarah Paulson, Angela Bassett and Jessica Lange, who plays a witch.
"American Horror Story: Coven" premieres in October.
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