Protestors scored a small victory on Friday after the Turkish government agreed to put plans to redevelop Gezi Park on hold pending a court ruling on its legality.
Rhodes said on Thursday, "The president has made a decision about providing more support to the opposition. That will involve providing direct support to the SMC. That includes military support."
Iranians choose their next president, the US agrees to send military support to Syria's rebels, Turkey's Gezi Park is saved – for now, and the world gets a new superhero.
Iranians voted in the first presidential election since the hotly disputed poll of 2009, which saw current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad controversially returned to power.
Dozens were injured after the deck of a Miami sports bar collapsed during the popular NBA Finals, with some of those present critically injured by the accident.
Two people are dead and at least 400 homes have been burned in the Black Forest fire raging near Colorado Springs, which has caused the evacuation of at least 39,000 people.
Tibetan Buddhism's supreme leader, the Dalai Lama, reiterated Thusday in Australia that he believed a female Dalai Lama was entirely possible, although all previous holders of the title have been male.
US and European intelligence analysts believe Bashar al-Assad's regime has used chemical weapons against its own people. The White House said Thursday it will send military aid to the rebels in response.
Even if it does take place, a referendum on the park would not address what has become, for many protesters, the larger issue: the police's response to demonstrations, which they say was unnecessarily violent and should earn its organizers punishment.
North Korea blamed the South for the breakdown of high-level talks originally planned for this Wednesday, claiming that Southern leaders created "arrogant obstructions" to their success.
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