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• Syrian rebels hit back at Assad's air power
• Iran to hold major air defense drill: commander
• Austrian foreign minister takes hard line on Greek aid: paper
• EU worried over Hungary, Romania institutions: paper
• Spain's Rajoy says euro zone yields not sustainable: papers
• Angola's Dos Santos secures big election win
• In final interview, Cardinal says Church "200 years out of date"
• Mexico lowers alert level for simmering volcano
• Iran, North Korea agree to cooperate in science, technology
• Iraq's monthly death toll halves in August
• New UN Syria envoy puts pressure on regime
• Egypt: Top militant arrested in Sinai
• AP analysis: Iran may be pushing to nuke threshold
• Double suicide attack kills 12 in Afghanistan
• Bahrain: Iran translation sidestepped Syria
• Islamist rebels seize control of Douentza
• Iran: Bushehr reactor reaches full capacity
• US drone strike kills 5 militants in Pakistan
• Ugandan army seizes base of Lord's Resistance Army
• Clinton: US committed to security in Asia-Pacific

Syrian rebels hit back at Assad's air power Posted: 01 Sep 2012 01:03 PM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebels seized an air defense facility and attacked a military airport in eastern Syria on Saturday, a monitoring group said, hitting back at an air force which President Bashar al-Assad is increasingly relying on to crush his opponents. The attacks in eastern oil-producing Deir al-Zor province follow rebel strikes against military airports in the Aleppo and Idlib areas, close to the border with Turkey. ...

Iran to hold major air defense drill: commander Posted: 01 Sep 2012 08:05 AM PDT DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran will hold a large-scale military drill involving all its air defense systems next month, an Iranian commander was quoted as saying on Saturday, one of a number of military simulations it has carried out this year. The air defense drill will include fighter jets and simulate emergency situations, said Farzad Esmaili, commander of the Iranian army's air defense force, according to Iran's English-language Press TV. ...

Austrian foreign minister takes hard line on Greek aid: paper Posted: 01 Sep 2012 07:23 AM PDT VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger opposes giving hard-pressed Greece more leeway to meet terms of an international bailout, he told a newspaper. "I favour (the stance) that the Greeks now have to respect adamantly the conditions negotiated with the EU, that the Troika reviews this, and that Greece gets more money only if it really sticks to the agreed path of reform, without extensions," he told the Oesterreich daily. ...

EU worried over Hungary, Romania institutions: paper Posted: 01 Sep 2012 10:07 AM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - A top European Union official praised court rulings in Hungary and Romania which rejected widely criticized attempts to entrench their ruling parties in power, but said she remained worried about both countries' institutions. Viviane Reding, the European Commission's vice president in charge of justice, told Le Monde newspaper that Hungary was one of the most worrying cases and cited the government's bid to lower the retirement age for judges - thrown out in July as unconstitutional. ...

Spain's Rajoy says euro zone yields not sustainable: papers Posted: 01 Sep 2012 02:05 PM PDT PARIS/BERLIN (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy called for decisive action to resolve the financial crisis in the euro zone and dispel any doubts over the future of the euro. Rajoy said in an interview with European newspapers published on Saturday night that the current situation in which some European countries financed themselves at negative rates and others paid "unsustainably high rates" had to end. "The current situation cannot be sustained over a longer period of time," he was quoted as saying in German daily Bild. ...

Angola's Dos Santos secures big election win Posted: 01 Sep 2012 02:31 PM PDT LUANDA (Reuters) - Angola's long-serving President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and his MPLA party scored a landslide win on Saturday in an election criticized as one-sided and not credible by opponents and civil society activists, according to provisional results. The results from Friday's voting announced by the National Elections Commission showed the governing party with 74 percent of the vote - far ahead of its nearest rivals with votes counted from over 70 percent of polling stations. ...

In final interview, Cardinal says Church "200 years out of date" Posted: 01 Sep 2012 12:01 PM PDT ROME (Reuters) - The former archbishop of Milan and papal candidate Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini said the Catholic Church was "200 years out of date" in his final interview before his death, published on Saturday. Martini, once favored by Vatican progressives to succeed Pope John Paul II and a prominent voice in the church until his death at the age of 85 on Friday, gave a scathing portrayal of a pompous and bureaucratic church failing to move with the times. ...

Mexico lowers alert level for simmering volcano Posted: 01 Sep 2012 10:49 AM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico has lowered the alert level for the Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City four months after the simmering giant raised the alarm when it began spewing red-hot fragments of rock. The National Center for Disaster Prevention said on Saturday it had cut the warning level to yellow phase two from yellow phase three after emergency services concluded there was now no imminent danger for people outside the 7.5-mile (12-km) radius of an exclusion zone around Popocatepetl's crater. The center last raised the alert level on April 16. ...

Iran, North Korea agree to cooperate in science, technology Posted: 01 Sep 2012 08:31 AM PDT DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran and North Korea have signed an agreement to cooperate in science and technology, Iranian media reported on Saturday, and Iran's supreme leader declared that the two countries had "common enemies." The two countries will cooperate in research, student exchanges and joint laboratories, and in the fields of information technology, engineering, biotechnology, renewable energy, the environment, sustainable development of agriculture and food technology, the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA) reported. ...

Iraq's monthly death toll halves in August Posted: 01 Sep 2012 06:18 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Militants killed 164 Iraqis in August, half the number killed in July, as security forces wrestled with a stubborn insurgency, figures from government ministries showed. According to the data, 90 civilians, 39 soldiers and 35 policemen were killed last month and 260 Iraqis were injured. In July, 325 Iraqis were killed in waves of attacks across the country, making it the bloodiest month in two years. The deadliest day last month was August 16 when a series of bombs, blasts and shootings aimed at security forces and civilians killed more than 70 people. ...

New UN Syria envoy puts pressure on regime Posted: 01 Sep 2012 02:42 PM PDT The U.N.'s new envoy to Syria told President Bashar Assad's regime on Saturday that change is both "urgent" and "necessary" and that it must meet the "legitimate" demands of the Syrian people, words that will not win the seasoned Algerian diplomat and international trouble shooter any friends in Damascus.

Egypt: Top militant arrested in Sinai Posted: 01 Sep 2012 01:23 PM PDT Egypt said Saturday that it had arrested a high-level Islamist militant convicted of killing troops in the Sinai Peninsula, vowing to keep up military operations to "cleanse" the volatile desert region.

AP analysis: Iran may be pushing to nuke threshold Posted: 01 Sep 2012 12:41 PM PDT A "big and unforgivable" sin. A Western falsehood. An attempt to deprive developing nations of peaceful nuclear technology.

Double suicide attack kills 12 in Afghanistan Posted: 01 Sep 2012 02:16 AM PDT Two suicide attackers, one driving a fuel tanker, blew themselves up near a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least 12 people, officials said.

Bahrain: Iran translation sidestepped Syria Posted: 01 Sep 2012 11:36 AM PDT Bahrain says it has filed a formal protest with Iran over a broadcast translation that wrongly substituted Bahrain for Syria in a speech by Egypt's president.

Islamist rebels seize control of Douentza Posted: 01 Sep 2012 02:46 PM PDT Islamic extremists seized control of the strategic town of Douentza on Saturday, moving much closer to government-held territory in central Mali, according to witnesses in the town and a rebel spokesman.

Iran: Bushehr reactor reaches full capacity Posted: 01 Sep 2012 10:21 AM PDT Iran's sole operational nuclear power reactor has reached full capacity, a senior official said Saturday.

US drone strike kills 5 militants in Pakistan Posted: 01 Sep 2012 06:17 AM PDT U.S. drones fired a barrage of missiles at a vehicle and a house in a Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least five suspected militants, Pakistani officials said.

Ugandan army seizes base of Lord's Resistance Army Posted: 01 Sep 2012 02:38 PM PDT The Ugandan army destroyed a base of a key general of the Lord's Resistance Army in the Central African Republic.

Clinton: US committed to security in Asia-Pacific Posted: 01 Sep 2012 06:51 AM PDT U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday pledged renewed American commitment to security in the Asia-Pacific, where tensions are rising between China and its smaller neighbors over territorial disputes and many nations face threats from climate change.

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