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• Syria refugee exodus raises pressure for buffer zone
• Analysis: China's aircraft carrier: in name only
• Calderon promises answers on U.S. staff shot in Mexico
• Montreal police arrest 11 after university clash
• Red Cross halts most Pakistan aid after beheading
• Ex-Somali PM must pay $21 million for alleged torture: U.S. court
• U.S. to fight document request by Strauss-Kahn accuser
• Mexico's electoral court set to confirm Pena Nieto victory
• Venezuela stamps out refinery blaze, eyes a restart
• Slain dictator's daughter turns to mother's legacy in bid to lead South Korea
• Argentine leader could face criminal fraud probe
• Belgian pedophile accomplice gets early release
• Fire doused at Venezuela refinery hit by explosion
• France opens murder inquiry into Arafat's death
• Mexico sect vows fight over public schools
• Analysis: No easy path to peace in Colombia
• AP Exclusive: Syria defectors live in secret camp
• Egypt leader said to reach out to Sinai radicals
• Goal of united Syrian opposition still elusive
• Israeli court rejects US activist's family lawsuit

Syria refugee exodus raises pressure for buffer zone Posted: 28 Aug 2012 08:14 AM PDT ANKARA/BAB AL-SALAMEH, Syria - (Reuters) - Syria's refugee exodus is accelerating and up to 200,000 people could settle in Turkey alone if the conflict worsens, the United Nations warned on Tuesday, increasing pressure for creation of a buffer zone inside Syria. Turkey has floated the idea of a "safe zone" to be set up for civilians under foreign protection as fighting has intensified in a 17-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. ...

Analysis: China's aircraft carrier: in name only Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:01 PM PDT (Reuters) - When Japanese activists scrambled ashore on a disputed island chain in the East China Sea this month, one of China's most hawkish military commentators proposed an uncharacteristically mild response. Retired Major General Luo Yuan suggested naming China's new aircraft carrier Diaoyu, after the Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea. It would demonstrate China's sovereignty over the islands known as the Senkakus in Japanese, he said. ...

Calderon promises answers on U.S. staff shot in Mexico Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:58 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - President Felipe Calderon promised on Tuesday to get to the bottom of how two U.S. officials were shot at by federal police officers, allegedly in plain clothes, while heading to a Mexican marine base. Speaking alongside the U.S. ambassador in Mexico, Calderon said the shooting incident should not hinder bilateral efforts to fight Mexico's violent drug cartels. "We can't allow these things to happen, whether it is because of negligence, lack of training, lack of trust or complicity," Calderon said. ...

Montreal police arrest 11 after university clash Posted: 28 Aug 2012 04:36 PM PDT MONTREAL (Reuters) - Police arrested 11 people on the Montreal campus of Canada's largest French-language university on Tuesday as protesters opposed to the resumption of classes after last spring's province-wide student boycott clashed with guards inside a classroom building. Ten people were charged with assault and assault on a police officer after fighting broke out at the University of Montreal campus on Tuesday morning, Agent Danny Richer of the Montreal Police Service said. One protester was released without charge. ...

Red Cross halts most Pakistan aid after beheading Posted: 28 Aug 2012 04:08 PM PDT GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Tuesday it was halting most of its aid programs in Pakistan due to deteriorating security and the beheading of a British staff doctor in April blamed on Taliban insurgents. The independent agency, which had already suspended operations in three of Pakistan's four provinces in May pending a security assessment, said it would carry on working in the country "but on a reduced scale". "All relief and protection activities are being stopped. ...

Ex-Somali PM must pay $21 million for alleged torture: U.S. court Posted: 28 Aug 2012 04:13 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former Somali prime minister denied diplomatic immunity must pay $21 million in damages to the victims of his alleged torture and human rights abuse, a U.S. federal court ruled on Tuesday. Mohamed Ali Samantar, who served as Somalia's defense minister in the 1980s and prime minister from 1987 to 1990, agreed in February to not contest the charges and accept liability for any damages against the seven plaintiffs - four individuals and three estates. ...

U.S. to fight document request by Strauss-Kahn accuser Posted: 28 Aug 2012 03:12 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. immigration authorities will fight a request for documents by a hotel maid pursuing a civil case against former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was cleared of criminal charges that he attempted to rape her. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a filing on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court that it had been subpoenaed by the maid, Guinean immigrant Nafissatou Diallo, seeking recordings of phone conversations between her and a detainee in Arizona. ...

Mexico's electoral court set to confirm Pena Nieto victory Posted: 28 Aug 2012 03:46 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's electoral court is poised to confirm President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto's victory in the July 1 ballot, despite allegations of vote buying and money laundering during the campaign, electoral officials and legal experts said. Leftist runner-up Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who lost the presidential election by 3.3 million votes, challenged the result, alleging that Pena Nieto's party used slush funds to buy votes and breached spending limits. ...

Venezuela stamps out refinery blaze, eyes a restart Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:11 PM PDT PARAGUANA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan firefighters put out a blaze at the country's biggest oil refinery on Tuesday, paving the way for a restart of the facility and an investigation into the world's deadliest refinery accident in fifteen years. Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez has said the 645,000-barrel-per-day Amuay facility should restart within two days of the fire being extinguished. A pre-dawn blast on Saturday killed 48 people, wounded dozens and flattened hundreds of homes. U.S. ...

Slain dictator's daughter turns to mother's legacy in bid to lead South Korea Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:38 PM PDT OKCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) - Park Geun-hye was 22 years old when she washed the blood from her assassinated mother's dress. Five years later, she recalls in her autobiography, she held her father's blood-soaked shirt after the South Korean strongman was shot dead. Now, both hampered and helped by the contrasting legacies of her murdered parents, the 60-year-old Park appears on the cusp of becoming South Korea's first women president. Park was chosen as presidential candidate for the ruling conservatives last week and polls show she is the front-runner for a December election. ...

Argentine leader could face criminal fraud probe Posted: 28 Aug 2012 03:59 PM PDT Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez could be in legal trouble. A federal prosecutor has found grounds for a criminal fraud investigation of the president along with her central bank chief, top tax collector and commerce secretary.

Belgian pedophile accomplice gets early release Posted: 28 Aug 2012 03:04 PM PDT A woman who let two 8-year-old girls starve in a cellar and helped her pedophile husband carry out horrific abuse of other girls went from prison to a convent Tuesday, outraging Belgians who opposed the early release of one of the country's most despised criminals.

Fire doused at Venezuela refinery hit by explosion Posted: 28 Aug 2012 04:14 PM PDT Venezuela's biggest oil refinery remained shut down Tuesday after firefighters extinguished a blaze that raged for more than three days following an explosion that killed at least 41 people.

France opens murder inquiry into Arafat's death Posted: 28 Aug 2012 12:27 PM PDT French prosecutors opened a murder inquiry into the death of Yasser Arafat on Tuesday, his widow's lawyer said, after she and a TV investigation raised new questions about whether the Palestinian leader was poisoned.

Mexico sect vows fight over public schools Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:39 PM PDT Sprouting out of the corn fields of western Mexico rises a hill crowned with two arches and four towers, marking the gates of an improvised "holy land" that farmers built brick by brick over nearly four decades. The sprawling complex, they believed, would be the only place saved in the coming apocalypse: Nueva Jerusalen, or "New Jerusalem."

Analysis: No easy path to peace in Colombia Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:14 PM PDT Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has claimed to have "the key to peace" in his pocket since assuming the presidency two years ago in a nation afflicted by an internal conflict for nearly a half century.

AP Exclusive: Syria defectors live in secret camp Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:48 PM PDT In an isolated stretch of Jordanian desert, a heavily guarded, secret compound houses 1,200 senior police and army officers who defected from nearby Syria.

Egypt leader said to reach out to Sinai radicals Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:16 PM PDT Egypt's Islamist president is using former jihadists to mediate with radical Islamists in Sinai, trying to ensure a halt in militant attacks in return for a stop in a military offensive in the lawless peninsula, participants in the talks say.

Goal of united Syrian opposition still elusive Posted: 28 Aug 2012 12:17 PM PDT In the foreign halls of power, the strategy is clear: Syria's opposition should unite to present an alternative to Bashar Assad's rule — a step France's president says would lead to diplomatic recognition.

Israeli court rejects US activist's family lawsuit Posted: 28 Aug 2012 12:00 PM PDT An Israeli court on Tuesday cleared the military of wrongdoing in the death of a young American activist who was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer during a protest in the Gaza Strip nearly a decade ago, rejecting claims by her parents that the driver acted recklessly.

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