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Rebels hit army headquarters in Damascus
Iran could strike US bases if Israel attacks: Hezbollah
Analysis: Does history suggest China growth is about to rebound?
Syrians fleeing war start to trickle into Europe
South Africa police fire teargas as mine unrest spreads
NATO chief: rogue Afghan attacks will not hasten pullout
UK's Prince Harry happy to joke about naked Vegas pics
Sudan, South Sudan resume border talks with eye to oil
Algeria appoints new PM after months of delay
Dutch Liberals widen lead over Socialists: polls
Red Bull heir arrested in deadly Thai hit-and-run
AP PHOTOS: More scenes from the Paralympics
Syria says no dialogue before it crushes rebels
4 shot at South African gold mine in latest unrest
Plan for Catholic church makes waves in Bahrain
Photo Essay: The rubble of a Syrian airstrike
Report: Journalist confronts Tanzania police, dies
Madagascar: 67 alleged cattle rustlers killed
Feuds a concern as children inherit Moon's empire
Bride stealing custom all the rage in Bucharest

Rebels hit army headquarters in Damascus

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 05:57 AM PDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said they planted bombs inside the Syrian army's General Staff headquarters in central Damascus on Sunday as President Bashar al-Assad's forces bulldozed buildings to the ground in parts of the capital that have backed the uprising. Syrian state television said four people were wounded in what it called a terrorist attack on the General Staff compound in the highly guarded Abu Rummaneh district, where another bomb attack killed four of Assad's top lieutenants two months ago. ...

Iran could strike US bases if Israel attacks: Hezbollah

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 03:35 PM PDT

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iran could hit U.S. bases in the Middle East in response to any Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities even if American forces played no role in the attack, the leader of Lebanon's Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah said on Monday. "A decision has been taken to respond and the response will be very great," Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in an interview with the Beirut-based Al Mayadeen television. ...

Analysis: Does history suggest China growth is about to rebound?

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 03:24 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - The last time China's vast manufacturing sector had conditions like those in August it was March 2009 and the economy was about to rebound from the global financial crisis. This time around analysts are not so certain a clear recovery for the major global growth engine will come anytime soon. In fact, two purchasing managers' indexes showed new orders are falling, adding to other evidence that suggests a slide in economic growth for the world's second-biggest economy is deepening, pushing back expectations for when a rebound may occur. ...

Syrians fleeing war start to trickle into Europe

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 03:03 PM PDT

KOPINGEBRO, Sweden (Reuters) - Ali Jamal travelled thousands of miles on foot, by train and road to flee violence in Syria while Jomaah piled his family into a camper van to smuggle them north to Europe. They have now reached safety in Sweden, some of the growing thousands of Syrians who are evading the European Union's frontier controls to escape the turmoil of the past 18 months. That is raising calls for a more focused European response to a refugee crisis that has seen over 200,000 Syrians flee to Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and, especially, Turkey. ...

South Africa police fire teargas as mine unrest spreads

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 01:58 PM PDT

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police fired teargas and rubber bullets to disperse striking miners at a gold mine near Johannesburg on Monday, the latest outbreak in a wave of labor militancy spreading from platinum mining into other parts of the sector. The unrest occurred less than three weeks after police shot dead 34 striking miners at Lonmin's Marikana mine, the bloodiest security incident since the end of white-minority rule in 1994. ...

NATO chief: rogue Afghan attacks will not hasten pullout

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 11:40 AM PDT

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A surge in attacks against NATO-led foreign troops by rogue members of the Afghan security forces threatens to erode trust between the international force and Afghans, but will not cause NATO allies to pull out early, the alliance's chief said. Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the alliance's plans to gradually hand over security to Afghan forces and pull out most troops by end-2014 would not be disrupted by the attacks. "These insider attacks are a matter of strong concern. ...

UK's Prince Harry happy to joke about naked Vegas pics

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 01:41 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Harry was happy to poke fun at himself on Monday when he made his first official public appearance since pictures of him cavorting naked while on holiday in Las Vegas were published. The 27-year-old prince, third-in-line to the British throne, made news around the world two weeks ago when the pictures of him naked with a young woman in his hotel suite were printed in newspapers and on websites. ...

Sudan, South Sudan resume border talks with eye to oil

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 03:23 PM PDT

KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - Former civil war foes Sudan and South Sudan are to resume talks on Tuesday in Ethiopia that mediators hope will produce a deal to secure the volatile joint border and clear the way for the two countries to resume oil exports. The countries have been locked in a series of disputes since South Sudan split from its northern neighbor over a year ago under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of war. Fighting along the 1,800-km (1,200-mile) border threatened to boil over into a full-scale war in April when South Sudan seized an oil-producing region long held by Sudan. ...

Algeria appoints new PM after months of delay

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 02:16 PM PDT

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's president named Abdelmalek Sellal as the country's new prime minister on Monday, ending some political uncertainty almost four months after parliamentary elections. A new government was expected to be appointed immediately after the May 10 poll but a clash among decision makers delayed the decision. According to convention, Ahmed Ouyahia should have stepped down as prime minister following the poll, after which President Abdelaziz Bouteflika should have either invited Ouyahia back or named a new person for the job. ...

Dutch Liberals widen lead over Socialists: polls

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 02:37 PM PDT

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Liberal Party has widened his lead over Socialist Party leader Emile Roemer in the run up to an election on September 12 that has been dominated by the euro zone crisis, two surveys showed on Monday. However, with no single party set to win more than about a quarter of the seats in parliament, the Netherlands still faces the prospect of months of coalition talks and political uncertainty. The fiscally conservative country is considered a core euro zone member and is one of the few that still has a triple-A credit rating. ...

Red Bull heir arrested in deadly Thai hit-and-run

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 03:38 PM PDT

A grandson of the creator of the Red Bull energy drink has been arrested for driving a Ferrari that struck a police officer and dragged his dead body down a Bangkok street in an early-morning hit-and-run, police said Monday.

AP PHOTOS: More scenes from the Paralympics

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 11:32 AM PDT

Britain's Susannah Rodgers, her prosthetic leg resting on the starting block, adjusts her cap before the final of a women's 100m freestyle competition. Eric Bennett of the U.S., who is missing an arm, fires arrows in the archery competition using his mouth. Brazil's Terezinha Guilhermina, who is blind, runs the women's 400 meters with a guide to keep her on course.

Syria says no dialogue before it crushes rebels

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:51 PM PDT

The Syrian regime said Monday there will be no dialogue with the opposition before the army crushes the rebels, the latest sign that President Bashar Assad is determined to solve the crisis on the battlefield even if many more of his people have to pay with their lives.

4 shot at South African gold mine in latest unrest

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 03:11 PM PDT

South African police and security guards fired rubber bullets and tear gas Monday at sacked gold miners who were attacking colleagues to block them from working, the mine owner said. Police said four people were wounded at the mine that used to be partially owned by the president's nephew.

Plan for Catholic church makes waves in Bahrain

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:33 PM PDT

The building of the largest Roman Catholic church in the Gulf was supposed to be a chance for the tiny island kingdom of Bahrain to showcase its traditions of religious tolerance in a conservative Muslim region where churches largely operate under heavy limitations.

Photo Essay: The rubble of a Syrian airstrike

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 08:45 AM PDT

There were a few scattered reminders of whose room it had been before the bombs hit — a framed picture of Barbie and another of a kitten with a pink bow still hanging on the cracked plaster wall, a doll and two teddy bears resting on a pile of rubble.

Report: Journalist confronts Tanzania police, dies

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 01:23 PM PDT

The Media Institute of Southern Africa says a prominent journalist has been killed in a confrontation with Tanzanian police who were clashing with rallying supporters of the country's biggest opposition party.

Madagascar: 67 alleged cattle rustlers killed

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 02:02 PM PDT

Madagascar's police chief says villagers attacked by cattle rustlers turned on the alleged thieves and killed 67 of them.

Feuds a concern as children inherit Moon's empire

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 08:08 AM PDT

Unification Church patriarch Sun Myung Moon leaves behind children who have been groomed to lead a religious movement famous for its mass weddings and business interests — if family feuds don't bring down the empire.