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• China's Gu Kailai gets suspended death sentence
• Analysis: Afghanistan's peace hopes may rest on Taliban captive
• Obama deeply concerned over Afghan "insider attacks"
• Car bomb kills eight near Turkey's border with Syria
• Obama warns Assad U.S. could act
• Mali forms new caretaker government
• Malta's former prime minister Dom Mintoff dies at 96
• Seven arrested over attack on East Jerusalem Arab
• U.S. seizes $150 million from Lebanese bank in laundering scheme
• Britain's best bet to handle Assange: sit and wait
• Syria war empowers long-oppressed Kurdish minority
• Syria airstrikes, shelling kill 100 during holiday
• Cholera emergency declared in Sierra Leone
• Reports: 8 killed in bomb in Turkey
• Mali announces new govt 5 months after coup
• Somalia: A new parliament but no presidential vote
• Tapes found in AP reporter's Cold War show trial
• Libya: Gadhafi's son's trial in September in Libya
• Wife of disgraced Chinese politician sentenced
• Moscow police search for other Pussy Riot members

China's Gu Kailai gets suspended death sentence Posted: 20 Aug 2012 05:42 AM PDT HEFEI, China (Reuters) - China sentenced the wife of fallen Politburo member Bo Xilai to death on Monday but suspended her execution, setting the stage for a possible final purge of Bo himself in a scandal that has shaken Beijing ahead of a leadership transition. The sentence means Gu Kailai is likely to face life in jail for murdering British businessman Neil Heywood last year. ...

Analysis: Afghanistan's peace hopes may rest on Taliban captive Posted: 20 Aug 2012 02:30 PM PDT KABUL (Reuters) - In the cloistered circles of the Taliban high command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar had no equal. As military chief of the hardline Islamic movement that once ruled Afghanistan and was ousted by a U.S.-led alliance, he oversaw the campaign of ambushes and roadside bombings that proved his fighters could threaten the most advanced armies. When the talismanic leader was caught in the Pakistani city of Karachi in 2010, some Afghan officials hoped the magnetism he forged in war would persuade his former comrades to start talking peace. ...

Obama deeply concerned over Afghan "insider attacks" Posted: 20 Aug 2012 02:22 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday said the United States needed to do more to safeguard U.S. troops after a spate of Afghan "insider" attacks that have left 10 American troops killed in the past two weeks. His comments came during a visit by the top U.S. military officer, General Martin Dempsey, to Afghanistan, where the killings of American forces by Afghans have topped the agenda. Obama, who spoke to Dempsey earlier in the day, said he would reach out to Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the killings. ...

Car bomb kills eight near Turkey's border with Syria Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:35 PM PDT HAKKARI, Turkey (Reuters) - A car bomb a senior Turkish politician blamed on Kurdish separatists exploded near a police station in a city near Turkey's southeastern border with Syria on Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens more. TV footage from Gaziantep showed a bus and the surrounding area ablaze and smoke billowing into the sky as firemen tried to fight the fire. Ambulances ferried casualties to hospital while anxious residents looked on. ...

Obama warns Assad U.S. could act Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:39 PM PDT WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S. forces could move against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, President Barack Obama warned, notably if he deploys his chemical weapons against rebels trying to overthrow him. In some of his strongest language yet on Syria, on a day when U.N. observers pulled out after a fruitless bid for peace and Assad's forces mounted new attacks, the U.S. leader said Assad faced "enormous consequences" if he crossed a "red line" of even moving unconventional weapons in a threatening manner. ...

Mali forms new caretaker government Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:12 PM PDT BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's interim president Dioncounda Traore approved a new transitional government on Monday, to move the West African country closer to constitutional order after a military coup in March. The 31-member government will replace a transitional authority that was crippled by political infighting, and failed make progress in setting elections. "The president of the republic, after receiving proposals from the prime minister, decrees the list of members of government," said a presidential statement read over state radio. ...

Malta's former prime minister Dom Mintoff dies at 96 Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:26 PM PDT VALLETTA (Reuters) - Dom Mintoff, Malta's former socialist prime minister and dominant political force for more than half a century, died at his residence near Valletta on Monday, the government said. He was 96. Mintoff, known for his confrontational style and fiery speeches, oversaw the closure of Britain's military base on the island in 1979 - ending the 200-year-old military link. The current leader of the labor party Joseph Muscat said on Monday all Maltese had been orphaned by Mintoff's death. ...

Seven arrested over attack on East Jerusalem Arab Posted: 20 Aug 2012 02:08 PM PDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Seven people, mostly Jewish youths, have been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a Palestinian resident of Arab East Jerusalem, police said on Monday, in a case that has laid bare racial tensions in the divided city. Jamal Joulani was beaten unconscious by a gang as he walked through a square in West Jerusalem with relatives on Thursday night. The case provoked outrage in the city riven by decades of community and ethnic tensions where Jewish and Arab communities live alongside each other in adjacent neighborhoods but rarely mix. ...

U.S. seizes $150 million from Lebanese bank in laundering scheme Posted: 20 Aug 2012 02:40 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. authorities said on Monday that they had seized $150 million from a Lebanese bank suspected of being at the heart of international money-laundering schemes linked to the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah. In February 2011, the U.S. Treasury department designated the Lebanese Canadian Bank as a "primary money-laundering concern." The privately owned bank was subsequently merged with the Lebanese subsidiary of Societe Generale. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan and the U.S. ...

Britain's best bet to handle Assange: sit and wait Posted: 20 Aug 2012 11:42 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's options in dealing with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are limited and British lawyers and diplomats reckon its best course of action is simply to sit tight and wait. Assange took refuge at Ecuador's London embassy in June to avoid being extradited to Sweden where he faces questioning over rape allegations. It triggered a diplomatic standoff that turned heated last week when Britain threatened to raid the diplomatic mission and Ecuador granted Assange political asylum. ...

Syria war empowers long-oppressed Kurdish minority Posted: 20 Aug 2012 12:32 PM PDT Last month, while the world's attention was focused on battles raging in Syria's two largest cities, a quiet transformation was taking place in the country's oil-rich northeast where about 2 million minority Kurds live.

Syria airstrikes, shelling kill 100 during holiday Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:05 PM PDT Government forces pummeled the battered city of Aleppo with airstrikes and tanks and shelled parts of Damascus and southern Syria Monday, killing at least 100 people during a major Muslim holiday, rights groups and activists said.

Cholera emergency declared in Sierra Leone Posted: 20 Aug 2012 02:17 PM PDT An outbreak of cholera in West Africa has infected more than 13,000 people and killed at least 258 people in Sierra Leone and Guinea, authorities said as they appealed for international assistance.

Reports: 8 killed in bomb in Turkey Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:23 PM PDT A bomb concealed in a vehicle exploded near a police station in southeast Turkey on Monday night, Turkish media reported, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens amid an escalation in fighting between Kurdish rebels and Turkish security forces.

Mali announces new govt 5 months after coup Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:41 PM PDT Mali's interim leaders announced a new government late Monday, months after a military coup unleashed political chaos that allowed an Islamist takeover of the north and forced nearly half a million people to flee their homes.

Somalia: A new parliament but no presidential vote Posted: 20 Aug 2012 02:46 PM PDT Somalia's chief justice on Monday swore in 215 new members of parliament, an accomplishment but one that fell far short of U.N. hopes that the Horn of Africa nation would seat a full 275-member parliament that would vote in a new president.

Tapes found in AP reporter's Cold War show trial Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:31 AM PDT The characters had been carefully chosen, the testimony rehearsed in advance, the verdict a foregone conclusion.

Libya: Gadhafi's son's trial in September in Libya Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:11 PM PDT Libya will put deposed dictator Moammar Gadhafi's son on trial, defying a demand by the International Criminal Court, the Libyan representative to the Hague court said Monday.

Wife of disgraced Chinese politician sentenced Posted: 20 Aug 2012 09:09 AM PDT The wife of a disgraced Chinese politician received a suspended death sentence Monday for the murder of a British businessman, as authorities move to tidy up a huge political scandal ahead of a once-in-a-decade leadership transition this fall.

Moscow police search for other Pussy Riot members Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:15 PM PDT Russian police say they are searching for other members of Pussy Riot, the punk band whose anti-Putin protest inside a Moscow cathedral led to prison sentences for three of the activists.

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