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• Turkey cites Srebrenica in appeal for action on Syria
• Israel kills Qaeda-tied leader of Gaza militant group
• Mauritania says president wounded in accidental shooting
• Venezuela's Chavez shuffles cabinet, then tweets about it
• Former top British officers spoke of lobbying for money: paper
• Two anti-drugs police killed in Peru jungle ambush
• Montenegro rulers set to keep power in election
• Mali Islamists tell France they will open doors of hell
• Freed Russian punk rock band member says church prank not in vain
• Lithuanian voters to give harsh verdict on austerity
• Turkish premier slams Security Council over Syria
• Few good options to secure Syria chemical arsenal
• Egypt's Islamists play to anti-Israel sentiment
• Palestinians seek work in Israel as crisis deepens
• Iran says ready for nuclear flexibility
• US knew dead Zeta leader's ID before body stolen
• Tropical Storm Rafael dumps rain in east Caribbean
• As EU basks in peace prize, separatists on rise
• Car bomb kills 17 people in northwestern Pakistan
• Cuban missile crisis beliefs endure after 50 years
• Europe's independence seekers: Scotland, Catalonia, and now ... Venice
• Two years after Mubarak, his prison torture apparatus still wounds Egypt

Turkey cites Srebrenica in appeal for action on Syria Posted: 13 Oct 2012 02:17 PM PDT ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan rebuked the U.N. Security Council for inaction over Syria on Saturday, saying the world body was repeating mistakes that led to massacres in Bosnia in the 1990s. President Bashar al-Assad's forces used air strikes and artillery to bombard insurgents on several fronts in Syria, as the 19-month-old conflict risks dragging in regional powers. Turkey is increasingly entangled after intercepting a Syrian airliner carrying what it said were Russian-made munitions for the Syrian army, infuriating Moscow and Damascus. ...

Israel kills Qaeda-tied leader of Gaza militant group Posted: 13 Oct 2012 03:10 PM PDT GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike killed the Palestinian leader of an al Qaeda-affiliated group in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Hamas and medical sources said. Gaza Medics said a second militant was also killed in the strike. The after-dark attack targeted the two men who were riding a motorcycle in the northern town of Jabaliya. The interior ministry of Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza, said one of the men killed was Hisham Al-Saedni, also known as Abu Al-Waleed Al-Maqdissi, believed to head the Jihadist Salafi group Tawhid and Jihad (One God and Holy War). ...

Mauritania says president wounded in accidental shooting Posted: 13 Oct 2012 04:01 PM PDT NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Mauritania President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was "lightly wounded" after a military patrol accidentally fired on his convoy, the government said on Saturday. Abdel Aziz is undergoing treatment at a military hospital in the capital Nouakchott, a source at the presidency and two military sources told Reuters. They did not give further details and it was not immediately clear why the military convoy opened fire on the convoy. "On his way back to Nouakchott, the presidential convoy was shot by a Mauritanian patrol... ...

Venezuela's Chavez shuffles cabinet, then tweets about it Posted: 13 Oct 2012 03:52 PM PDT CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez shuffled his cabinet on Saturday then announced the changes from his Twitter account, days after winning a re-election bid that could extend his rule to nearly two decades. Chavez on Sunday beat opposition challenger Henrique Capriles by a resounding 11 percentage points, giving him a third six-year term to continue his self-styled socialist revolution in the South American OPEC nation. He named General Nestor Reverol, who has led Venezuela's anti-drugs agency, as the new interior minister. ...

Former top British officers spoke of lobbying for money: paper Posted: 13 Oct 2012 04:14 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Top-ranking retired British military officers have been secretly filmed talking about helping defense firms contact ministers and former colleagues in return for payment, the Sunday Times newspaper reported. The newspaper said it had recorded the former officers offering their services despite rules restricting lobbying by retired personnel. The men denied doing anything wrong, the Sunday Times said. A defense ministry spokesman said it would investigate whether the men had broken any rules. ...

Two anti-drugs police killed in Peru jungle ambush Posted: 13 Oct 2012 03:53 PM PDT LIMA (Reuters) - Two police officers were killed and another two injured in an ambush in Peru's southeastern jungle region late on Friday, the latest strike again President Ollanta Humala's drive to regain control of cocaine-trafficking strongholds. The head of Peru's police force said on Saturday that an anti-drug squad was attacked on its way to the district of Kepashiato in the dense group of jungle valleys known as the VRAEM, the most productive growing area in the world's top coca producer. "Yesterday, a group of five intelligence unit officers boarded a truck to go to Kepashiato. ...

Montenegro rulers set to keep power in election Posted: 13 Oct 2012 03:16 PM PDT PODGORICA (Reuters) - Montenegro's ruling party is set to extend its 23-year hold on the ex-Yugoslav republic in a parliamentary election on Sunday, allowing it to lead talks on joining the European Union. Despite economic stagnation and accusations of high-level corruption, the Democratic Party of Socialists remains popular for having championed the independence of the country of 680,000 people six years ago. Victory for the ruling party could also mean the return to power of its leader, 50-year old Milo Djukanovic, prime minister or president for all but two years in the last two decades. ...

Mali Islamists tell France they will open doors of hell Posted: 13 Oct 2012 12:12 PM PDT BAMAKO (Reuters) - Al Qaeda-linked Islamists in Mali threatened on Saturday to "open the doors of hell" for French citizens if France kept pushing for armed intervention to retake the rebel-held north. The renewed threats against French hostages and expatriates came as French-speaking nations met in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where French President Francois Hollande was expected to urge the rapid deployment of an African-led force to rout the Islamists. Hollande said the threat would not deter France's determination to quash the Islamists in Mali. ...

Freed Russian punk rock band member says church prank not in vain Posted: 13 Oct 2012 12:35 PM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Pussy Riot angered President Vladimir Putin and the dominant Russian Orthodox Church but succeeded in highlighting the close ties that bind church, state and the courts together in Putin's Russia, a freed member of the punk band said on Saturday. "We achieved more than our goal," Yekaterina Samutsevich told Reuters in an interview. Samutsevich, 30, walked free after more than six months in jail when an appeals court suspended her two-year sentence on Wednesday. Two band mates were sent back behind bars to serve out their terms and could be sent to prison in Siberia. ...

Lithuanian voters to give harsh verdict on austerity Posted: 13 Oct 2012 02:14 PM PDT VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuanians are likely to eject their center-right government in an election on Sunday that could be a taste of what awaits other European leaders forced by the financial crisis to implement unpopular austerity measures. An ex-Soviet state of 3.5 million people, Lithuania crashed hard when the crisis hit four years ago. It made tough budget cuts in response and is now returning to economic health - but too late for voters fed up with belt-tightening. ...

Turkish premier slams Security Council over Syria Posted: 13 Oct 2012 02:30 PM PDT Turkey's prime minister sharply criticized the U.N. Security Council on Saturday for its failure to agree on decisive steps to end Syria's civil war, as NATO ally Germany backed the Turkish interception of a Damascus-bound passenger jet earlier in the week.

Few good options to secure Syria chemical arsenal Posted: 13 Oct 2012 01:33 PM PDT The U.S. and regional allies are closely monitoring Syria's chemical weapons — caught in the midst of a raging civil war — but options for securing the toxic agents stuffed into shells, bombs and missiles are fraught with risk.

Egypt's Islamists play to anti-Israel sentiment Posted: 13 Oct 2012 03:19 PM PDT A fiery tirade against Jews by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's leader highlights one of the foremost diplomatic challenges facing the country's new Islamist President Mohammed Morsi as he balances popular sentiment with the need for security relations with Israel.

Palestinians seek work in Israel as crisis deepens Posted: 13 Oct 2012 12:03 AM PDT For Palestinians, the Israeli military coordination office on the outskirts of Jerusalem is a symbol of Israel's decades-long control over their lives. Now it has also become an unlikely source of hope for employment.

Iran says ready for nuclear flexibility Posted: 13 Oct 2012 09:43 AM PDT Iran is ready to show flexibility at nuclear talks to ease Western concerns over its contentious nuclear program, its foreign ministry spokesman said on Saturday, as tensions rise in the standoff between the Islamic Republic, Israel and the West.

US knew dead Zeta leader's ID before body stolen Posted: 13 Oct 2012 02:25 PM PDT The U.S. government knew that a suspect fatally shot by Mexican marines was the head of the widely feared Zetas drug cartel well before the marines left the body unguarded in a small-town funeral home, where it was stolen in a pre-dawn raid by armed men, U.S. officials told The Associated Press.

Tropical Storm Rafael dumps rain in east Caribbean Posted: 13 Oct 2012 02:59 PM PDT Tropical Storm Rafael lashed the eastern Caribbean Saturday with heavy rains that are expected to unleash floods on islands around the region.

As EU basks in peace prize, separatists on rise Posted: 13 Oct 2012 05:49 AM PDT Historic world port and fashionista capital, Antwerp has always lived on the crest of the wave. Now, a separatist party heading into municipal elections Sunday wants to use the city as a base for breaking away from Belgium — putting it at the forefront of a European breakaway trend just as the EU celebrates winning the Nobel Peace Prize for fostering continental unity.

Car bomb kills 17 people in northwestern Pakistan Posted: 13 Oct 2012 08:58 AM PDT A car bomb tore through a crowded bazaar outside an office for anti-Taliban tribal elders Saturday in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 17 people, officials said.

Cuban missile crisis beliefs endure after 50 years Posted: 13 Oct 2012 03:19 PM PDT The world stood at the brink of Armageddon for 13 days in October 1962 when President John F. Kennedy drew a symbolic line in the Atlantic and warned of dire consequences if Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev dared to cross it.

Europe's independence seekers: Scotland, Catalonia, and now ... Venice Posted: 13 Oct 2012 06:00 AM PDT It was once one of Europe's richest trading powers, with its ships and merchants found across the Mediterranean. Venice's glory days have long since passed, but it is now rekindling its heritage and weighing a return to independence from Italy.

Two years after Mubarak, his prison torture apparatus still wounds Egypt Posted: 13 Oct 2012 06:00 AM PDT Sitting cross-legged on a makeshift bed in his parent's apartment, Tarek Mohamed Abdel Hafez lifts his jacket to reveals his battle scars – marks from the first few weeks of his nearly 1,000-day sentence in prison.

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