News Headlines - 18 June 2013
▽Protesters flood Brazilian cities over World Cup spending - Telegraph
In protests of a scale rarely seen in Brazil, demonstrators expressed growing public frustration at poor government services amid heavy spending on preparations for the World Cup.
▽Turkey Arrests Dozens in Crackdown on Protests - NYTimes.com
Turkish antiterror units arrested dozens of people in several cities early Tuesday as part of an intensifying crackdown against anti-government protests that have persisted for weeks.
▽Afghanistan to begin peace talks with Taliban in Qatar - Telegraph
Afghanistan will send a team to Qatar for peace talks with the Taliban, President Hamid Karzai has said, as the US-led Nato coalition launched the final phase of the 12-year war with the last round of security transfers to Afghan forces.
More than 4,000 soldiers will be handed their notice as the Government tries to reduce the number of full-time regulars from 102,000 to 82,000 by 2018. To compensate, the MoD plans to inflate the number of Territorial Army reservist troops from 19,000 to 30,000 over the same period.
▽Met Office summit over unusual weather patterns | Metro News
The country’s leading scientists and meteorologists are gathering to determine the source of the UK’s unusual weather pattern. Experts will meet at the Met Office’s Exeter headquarters to discuss 2010′s icy winter, last year’s washout summer, the recent cold spring – the coldest in 50 years – and the impending mini heatwave.
