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• Anti-Japan protests reignite across China on occupation anniversary
• World powers to discuss Iran nuclear program at U.N. next week
• Analysis: NATO pullback heightens doubts about Afghan strategy
• Syrian rebels battle Assad forces near Turkish border
• French leaders sound alarm over planned Mohammad cartoons
• Cuban dissidents end hunger strike, saying state to free opponent
• Afghan militants say deadly blast was revenge for film
• South Africa's Lonmin miners accept pay rise to end strike
• British fugitive shoots dead two unarmed policewomen
• USAID mission in Russia to close following Moscow decision
• Militants claim Afghan attack is revenge for film
• NATO order changes way it will fight Afghan war
• Syrian war looms over UN meeting of world leaders
• Striking SA miners sign deal to end 5-week strike
• Analysis: Prophet film diverts gaze from Syria
• Topless photos ruling: 1st battle in privacy war
• A Benghazi power, Libya militia eyed in attack
• Swedish doctors claim pioneering uterus transplant
• French small business faces job-creation hurdles
• Amnesty: Indiscriminate attacks maiming Syrians

Anti-Japan protests reignite across China on occupation anniversary Posted: 18 Sep 2012 08:07 AM PDT BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) - Anti-Japan protests reignited across China on Tuesday, the sensitive anniversary marking Tokyo's occupation of its giant neighbor, escalating a maritime dispute which has forced major Japanese firms to suspend business there. Relations between Asia's two biggest economies have faltered badly, with emotions running high on the streets and also out at sea where two Japanese activists landed on an island at the center of the dispute. ...

World powers to discuss Iran nuclear program at U.N. next week Posted: 18 Sep 2012 04:48 PM PDT BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Foreign ministers and the chief negotiator for world powers will meet next week to try to figure out how to break an impasse in negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, after talks on Tuesday yielded no sign of progress. Six world powers, represented by European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, have sought to persuade Iran to scale back its nuclear program through intensifying economic sanctions and diplomacy. The powers fear Iran is developing a bomb, but Tehran says its program serves peaceful purposes only. ...

Analysis: NATO pullback heightens doubts about Afghan strategy Posted: 18 Sep 2012 04:12 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NATO's decision to scale back joint operations with Afghan forces may protect the lives of Western troops increasingly targeted by "insider attacks," but it raises troubling new questions about President Barack Obama's strategy to stabilize Afghanistan. After ramping up Afghan security forces at a breakneck rate to allow for a drawdown of Western troops, NATO is coming to grips with a rash of deadly assaults by Afghan recruits who turn their guns on Western allies. Muslim rage over a film insulting the Prophet Mohammad has further stoked the risk. ...

Syrian rebels battle Assad forces near Turkish border Posted: 18 Sep 2012 04:25 PM PDT AKCAKALE, Turkey (Reuters) - Syrian rebels battled government forces near a Turkish border crossing on Tuesday and bullets flew into the northern neighbor that has backed the 18-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. The revolt, which began as peaceful street protests cracked down on by Assad's military, has escalated into a civil war in which over 27,000 people have died. Daily death tolls now approach 200 and the last month was the bloodiest yet. ...

French leaders sound alarm over planned Mohammad cartoons Posted: 18 Sep 2012 02:54 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - The French government has called for restraint after learning that a satirical weekly plans to publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad on Wednesday just as an anti-Islam video has ignited Muslim protests around the globe. The Paris offices of the paper, Charlie Hebdo, were firebombed last November after it published a mocking caricature of Mohammad, and in 2005 Danish cartoons of the Prophet sparked a wave of protests across the Muslim world in which at least 50 people were killed. ...

Cuban dissidents end hunger strike, saying state to free opponent Posted: 18 Sep 2012 04:51 PM PDT HAVANA (Reuters) - Prominent Cuban dissident Marta Beatriz Roque and 29 others ended an eight-day hunger strike and declared victory on Tuesday when they said Cuban authorities would free a jailed opposition member whose release they had demanded. The dissidents said state security agents informed the wife of Jorge Vazquez Chaviano he would be released shortly from a prison in Santa Clara, 160 miles east of Havana. The Cuban government did not immediately confirm or comment on his release. ...

Afghan militants say deadly blast was revenge for film Posted: 18 Sep 2012 02:58 PM PDT KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan militants claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a suicide bomb attack on a minivan carrying foreign workers that killed 12 people saying it was retaliation for a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad. A short film made with private funds in the United States and posted on the Internet has ignited days of demonstrations in the Arab world, Africa, Asia and in some Western countries. In a torrent of violence blamed on the film last week, the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed in an attack in Benghazi and U.S. ...

South Africa's Lonmin miners accept pay rise to end strike Posted: 18 Sep 2012 03:16 PM PDT MARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) - Striking platinum miners at Lonmin's Marikana mine in South Africa accepted a hefty pay rise offer on Tuesday, ending six weeks of violent labor unrest that killed 45 people and rattled Africa's largest economy. The strikers, grouped on a bare soccer pitch near the mine, 100 km (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, cheered when they were told that management were offering a 22 percent pay increase, and said they would return to work on Thursday. "I am happy - and forward with the struggle," said one of the striking miners, Sithembile Sohati. ...

British fugitive shoots dead two unarmed policewomen Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:09 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - One of Britain's most wanted fugitives killed two unarmed policewomen on Tuesday in a gun and grenade ambush, police said, killings which are likely to reignite a long-running debate over whether British officers should carry guns. Police constables Fiona Bone, 32, and Nicola Hughes, 23, were gunned down in a hail of bullets after responding to a hoax call about a burglary in the northern English city of Manchester. ...

USAID mission in Russia to close following Moscow decision Posted: 18 Sep 2012 11:59 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Tuesday that it would shut its aid mission in Russia at Moscow's insistence, a step analysts attributed to Russian misgivings about foreign-funded pro-democracy groups. The U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, has spent more than $2.6 billion in Russia over the past two decades to help combat infectious diseases, protect the environment, develop a stronger civil society, and modernize the economy. ...

Militants claim Afghan attack is revenge for film Posted: 18 Sep 2012 01:59 PM PDT Islamic militants sought Tuesday to capitalize on anger over an anti-Islam video that was produced in the United States, saying a suicide bombing that killed 12 people in Afghanistan was revenge for the film and calling for attacks on U.S. diplomats and facilities in North Africa.

NATO order changes way it will fight Afghan war Posted: 18 Sep 2012 02:40 PM PDT NATO's decision to restrict operations with small Afghan forces to mitigate the threat of insider attacks means fewer boots on patrols and a shift in how the U.S.-led coalition will fight the war in Afghanistan.

Syrian war looms over UN meeting of world leaders Posted: 18 Sep 2012 02:48 PM PDT Hovering over this month's annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations is the international community's failure to end the escalating war in Syria that is starting to spill over into a fragile and divided region.

Striking SA miners sign deal to end 5-week strike Posted: 18 Sep 2012 04:53 PM PDT Striking platinum miners in South Africa have signed a wage deal ending a bloody 5-week strike at the Lonmin PLC mine that had spread to the gold and chrome sectors of the industry which anchors the economy of Africa's richest economy.

Analysis: Prophet film diverts gaze from Syria Posted: 18 Sep 2012 01:02 PM PDT For the embattled Syrian regime, the crudely produced film mocking Islam that has unleashed fury across the Muslim world could not have come at a better time.

Topless photos ruling: 1st battle in privacy war Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:28 PM PDT Prince William and Kate Middleton's aggressive legal strategy over topless photos of Britain's likely future queen is the first salvo in what could be a decades-long tug-of-war over their family's privacy.

A Benghazi power, Libya militia eyed in attack Posted: 18 Sep 2012 01:22 PM PDT Suspicion in last week's attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans has focused on members of a hardcore Islamist militia known for its sympathies to al-Qaida, its fierce animosity to the U.S. and its intimidation of other Muslims who don't conform to its harsh ideology.

Swedish doctors claim pioneering uterus transplant Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:17 PM PDT Two Swedish women are hoping to get pregnant after undergoing what doctors are calling the world's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplants.

French small business faces job-creation hurdles Posted: 18 Sep 2012 10:47 AM PDT Europe needs jobs, and French entrepreneur Daniel Joutard wants to create them, hiring more employees for his skin-care products company. Yet he can't take the risk — in large part because of France's inflexible workplace protections.

Amnesty: Indiscriminate attacks maiming Syrians Posted: 18 Sep 2012 04:03 PM PDT The Syrian government has carried out indiscriminate air bombardments and artillery strikes on residential areas that do not target opposition fighters or military objectives, and instead appear aimed solely at punishing civilians seen as sympathetic to rebel forces, Amnesty International said Wednesday.

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