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WAS $ 76,300 Mideast talks - again WASHINGTON - With a cast of characters that has presided over numerous failed Middle East peace efforts, the Obama administration launched a fresh bid Monday to pull Israel and the Palestinians into substantive negotiations. Despite words of encouragement, deep skepticism about the prospects for success surrounded the initial discussions, which were opening with a dinner hosted by Secretary of State John Kerry. He named a former U. S. ambassador to Israel to shepherd what all sides believe will be a protracted and difficult process. Former envoy Martin Indyk, who played key roles in the Clinton administration's multiple, unsuccessful pushes to broker peace deals between Israel and Syria and Israel and the Palestinians, will assume the day- to- day responsibility for keeping the talks alive for the next nine months. Soldier faces life in prison FORT MEADE, Md. - U. S. soldier Bradley Manning could learn as early as today whether he will be convicted of aiding the enemy - punishable by life in prison without parole - for sending more than 700,000 classified government documents to the antisecrecy website WikiLeaks, a military judge said Monday. The charge of aiding the enemy is the most serious of 21 counts Manning is contesting. He also is charged with eight federal Espionage Act violations, five federal theft counts and two federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act violations, each punishable by up to 10 years; and five military counts of violating a lawful general regulation, punishable by up to two years each. The judge has tentatively scheduled a sentencing hearing beginning Wednesday. More bloodshed in Iraq BAGHDAD - More than a dozen explosions, mainly from car bombs, ripped through marketplaces, parking lots, a caf� and rush- hour crowds in Iraq on Monday, killing at least 58 people and pushing the country's death toll for the month of July toward the 700 mark, officials said. The bombings - 18 in all - are part of a wave of bloodshed that has swept across the country since April, killing more than 3,000 people and worsening the already strained ties between Iraq's Sunni minority and the Shiiteled government. The scale and pace of the violence, unseen since the darkest days of the country's insurgency, have fanned fears of a return to the widespread sectarian bloodletting that pushed Iraq to the brink of civil war after the 2003 U. S.- led invasion. With two days left in July, the month's death toll now stands at 680, according to an Associated Press count. Blast levels row house PHILADELPHIA - A natural- gas explosion on a densely populated city block on Monday razed a row house and injured eight people, including two babies and a contractor, and sent dozens of neighbours pouring out of their homes. Some neighbours fled for safety while others immediately set to work helping rescuers locate victims in the rubble. The explosion and house collapse, which critically injured the contractor, came less than two months after the city was stunned by a collapse that killed six people at a downtown demolition site when a large wall fell on an adjacent thrift store. Inspectors spent several hours at the scene of Monday's explosion and concluded that a gas leak was to blame for levelling the unoccupied home, which was being remodeled in the middle of the south Philadelphia street of connected two- story brick homes. - The Associated Press In Brief W ASHINGTON - The summer sex scandal engulfing Anthony Weiner keeps getting seamier, with bikini shots of his latest young sexting partner splashed in the pages of a New York City tabloid on Monday along with allegations Bill and Hillary Clinton want him to drop his bid to become mayor of America's biggest metropolis. Former president Bill Clinton officiated at Weiner's 2010 wedding to Huma Abedin, who's a close confidante of his wife, the former secretary of state. The ties - and inevitable comparisons - between the two couples are prompting some to ask if the Weiner scandal could hurt Hillary Clinton as she eyes her own run for president in 2016. As Hillary Clinton did following revelations of her husband's sexual dalliances with young White House intern Monica Lewinsky, Abedin has opted to " stand by her man" despite his X- rated online messages to 23- yearold Sydney Leathers. Seashore photos of the woman, who bears a physical resemblance to Lewinsky, became an Internet sensation on Monday. Leathers, meantime, was headed to New York to sit down with radio shock jock Howard Stern in a scandal that is showing no signs of dissipating for Weiner, who insists he's staying in the race despite this weekend's departure of his campaign manager and pleas from fellow Democrats to drop out. Leathers is now being represented by agent Gina Rodriguez, a former porn star and entertainment manager who's known for taking on dubious sudden celebrities, including " Tan Mom," a 44- year- old tanning salon addict. Leathers will be on Stern's show today and is doing a photo shoot for a New York design house and its line of leather clothing. The New York Post reported Monday the Clintons are trying to distance themselves from Weiner and Abedin. The tabloid says the Clintons believe Abedin alluded to her mentor when she appeared beside her husband last week to insist she was standing by him - and aren't pleased. Meanwhile, Clinton and U. S. President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shared a meal Monday. While only that much is known for sure, the political speculation machine nevertheless went into overdrive, highlighting how closely both are being watched for signs of their intentions in the 2016 presidential race. - The Canadian Press / AP LAURENT GILLIERON / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Swiss trains collide At least 35 people were injured, five of them seriously, in a head- on collision of two trains in western Switzerland late Monday, police said. The crash happened on a regional line about 50 kilometres southwest of the capital, Bern. Weiner sex scandal grows Clintons want him to drop mayoral run, N. Y. paper reports By Lee- Anne Goodman A_ 11_ Jul- 30- 13_ FP_ 01. indd A11 7/ 29/ 13 9: 44: 07 PM ;