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Assad's forces accused of massacre near Syrian capital

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 04:39 PM PDT

A Syrian rebel fires towards a pro-government sniper in the Seif El Dawla district in the center of Aleppo cityAMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian opposition activists accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces on Sunday of committing a massacre of scores of people in a town close to the capital that the army had just retaken from rebels. More than 200 bodies were found in houses and basements around Daraya, a working-class Sunni Muslim town to the southwest of Damascus, according to activists who said most had been killed "execution-style" by troops on house-to-house raids. Due to restrictions on non-state media in Syria, it was impossible to independently verify the accounts. ...

Ecuador says Britain withdraws threat to raid embassy in Assange standoff

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 04:49 PM PDT

A police officer reacts to the heat of the day before a speech by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuador's embassy in LondonQUITO (Reuters) - Britain has withdrawn a threat to enter Ecuador's embassy in London to arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has taken refuge there, President Rafael Correa said on Saturday, taking the heat out of the diplomatic standoff. "We consider this unfortunate incident over, after a grave diplomatic error by the British in which they said they would enter our embassy," Correa said in a weekly media address. In a statement, Ecuador's government said it had received "a communication from the British Foreign Office which said that there was no threat to enter the embassy. ...

Explosion kills 26 at Venezuela's biggest refinery

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 12:58 PM PDT

Fire is seen after an explosion at Amuay oil refinery in Punto Fijo, in the Peninsula of ParaguanaPARAGUANA/CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - An explosion tore through Venezuela's biggest oil refinery on Saturday, killing at least 26 people, wounding more than 50 and halting the facility's operations in the OPEC nation's worst industrial accident in recent memory. Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez told Reuters that none of the production units at the Amuay refinery were affected and that there were no plans to halt exports, a sign that the incident will likely have little impact on fuel prices. ...

Fighters bulldoze Sufi mosque in central Tripoli

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 01:41 PM PDT

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Attackers bulldozed a mosque containing Sufi Muslim graves in the center of Tripoli in broad daylight on Saturday, in what appeared to be Libya's most blatant sectarian attack since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. Government officials condemned the demolition of the large Sha'ab mosque and blamed an armed group who, they said, considered its graves and shrines to Sufi figures un-Islamic. It was the second razing of a Sufi site in two days. ...

Nicaragua jails Mexican policeman, 17 others transporting cash

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 02:38 PM PDT

MANAGUA (Reuters) - A Nicaraguan judge on Saturday ordered the incarceration of 18 people, including a Mexican policeman, who had posed as journalists while attempting to pass through the Central American country last week with at least $7 million in cash. The suspects will remain behind bars in "protective custody" until a September 5 court date, when they will face money laundering and other criminal charges lodged by the federal prosecutors. ...

Hungary's far-right calls for zero tolerance against Roma

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 03:47 PM PDT

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's opposition far-right Jobbik party called on Saturday for zero tolerance against what it called Roma crime and parasitism, and said any member of the large minority who did not conform should leave the country. Tensions between the 500,000 to 700,000 impoverished Roma and other Hungarians in the country of 10 million have risen at a time when Hungary is mired in its second recession in four years and unemployment is stuck in double figures. "We need to roll back these hundreds of thousands of Roma outlaws. ...

Last rebel group signs deal with Central African Republic

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 02:28 PM PDT

BANGUI (Reuters) - Central African Republic's last armed rebel group signed a peace deal with the government on Saturday that was designed to end years of violence in the country. "We picked up guns to fight the bad governance, corruption, nepotism and exclusion that characterized this regime, and we think that our message has been heard," Abdoulaye Issene Ramadan, leader of the CPJP rebel group, said in the capital Bangui. "Today we bury the hatchet. ...

Top ally of former Ivorian president arrested in Ghana

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 04:11 PM PDT

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ghana has arrested a top ally of Ivory Coast's former President Laurent Gbagbo after weeks of deadly attacks on Ivorian police and military installations, officials from the two neighboring West African countries said on Saturday. Gbagbo is awaiting trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity committed during a brief 2011 civil war. ...

French police union demands tougher legal action after shootings

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 01:59 PM PDT

LA ROCHELLE, France (Reuters) - A leading French police union called on Saturday for tougher legal measures after three officers were shot and injured in clashes in the Paris suburb of Grigny overnight. "Criminal determination and the extreme violence of organized gangs in the face of the national police can no longer be trivialized," Nicolas Comte, secretary general of the Unite SGP Police-Force Ouvriere union, said in a statement. Anyone firing on police should be automatically charged with attempted murder, Comte said. ...

Drone strike may have killed Haqqani network leader

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 02:18 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A U.S. drone in Pakistan may have killed a top commander of Haqqani insurgents behind some of the biggest attacks on Western and Afghan government targets in Afghanistan, sources said on Saturday, but this was denied by a senior Haqqani leader. Pakistani intelligence officials and militant sources said Badruddin Haqqani, the network's head of operations who is also believed to handle its vital business interests and smuggling operations, may have been killed during the strike this week in Pakistan's tribal North Waziristan. ...

Refinery blast kills 26 in Venezuela, dozens hurt

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 01:43 PM PDT

Firefighters and rescue teams work at the Amuay oil refinery after an explosion in Punto Fijo, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. A huge explosion rocked Venezuela's biggest oil refinery and unleashed a ferocious fire Saturday, killing over 20 people and injuring dozens in the deadliest disaster in memory for the country's key oil industry. (AP Photo/Diario EL Amanecer)A huge explosion rocked Venezuela's biggest oil refinery and unleashed a ferocious fire on Saturday, killing at least 26 people and injuring more than 80 others in one of the deadliest disasters ever to hit the country's key oil industry.

Expanding control, Syrian rebels run prisons

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 02:38 PM PDT

In this Friday, Aug. 24, 2012 photo, Syrian prisoner, Mohammed Abeid, 42, gestures while talking at a makeshift prison run by rebels in a former elementary school in Al-Bab on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. Many improvised detention centers have sprung up as rebels wrest cities from army control, but these facilities fall under no national or regional authority, causing concern among rights groups. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)An elementary school hallway in this north Syrian city is now a prison.

Syrian rebels release Lebanese hostage

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 12:29 PM PDT

RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATIVE CROP -- Hussein Ali Omar, 60, one of 11 Lebanese Shiite pilgrims that Syrian rebels have been holding for three months in Syria, hugs his mother, right, upon arrival at his house in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, 2012. Syrian rebels freed Omar on Saturday in a move aimed at easing cross-border tensions after a wave of abductions of Syrian citizens in Lebanon. The Shiite pilgrims were abducted May 22 after crossing into Syria from Turkey on their way to Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)Turkey on Saturday secured the release of one of 11 Shiite Lebanese hostages held for three months by Syrian rebels, a move that underlined Ankara's growing influence in the Arab world. In Syria itself, activists reported the discovery of up to 50 bodies in a Damascus suburb stormed by government forces after heavy clashes this week.

Isaac drenches Haiti, Cuba, heads toward Florida

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 03:53 PM PDT

A home that was built twice within the last two years is left in ruins during the passage of Tropical Storm Isaac near the seawall in Baracoa, Cuba, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. Tropical Storm Isaac pushed into Cuba on Saturday after sweeping across Haiti's southern peninsula. Isaac's center made landfall just before midday near the far-eastern tip of Cuba. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)Tropical Storm Isaac pushed over Cuba on Saturday after sweeping across Haiti's southern peninsula, where it caused flooding and at least four deaths, adding to the misery of a poor nation still trying to recover from the terrible 2010 earthquake.

Official: Egypt tells Israel tanks needed in Sinai

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 02:50 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2012 file photo, army trucks carry Egyptian military tanks in El Arish, Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula. An Egyptian intelligence official and a military official say Egypt's defense minister, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi told his Israeli counterpart in a telephone call Thursday that Egypt's increased military presence in the Sinai Peninsula is needed to fight terrorism and is temporary. Israel says Egypt has since moved tanks into Sinai without its consent -- which is required under the 1979 peace treaty between the countries. (AP Photo, File)In the first direct contact with his Israeli counterpart since taking office, Egypt's new defense minister defended his country's increased military presence in the Sinai Peninsula, saying it is needed to fight terrorism and assuring him it is only temporary, Egyptian officials said Saturday.

Key Pakistani Taliban figure killed in Afghanistan

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 10:41 AM PDT

A NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan killed a senior commander of the Pakistani Taliban who had close ties with al-Qaida, dealing a blow to the militants who operate on both sides of the countries' porous border.

Pakistan probes report US strike kills Haqqani son

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 12:52 PM PDT

FILE -- In this Sunday Aug. 5, 2012 file photo, a Pakistani Taliban militant holds a rocket-propelled grenade at the Taliban stronghold of Shawal, in Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan, Pakistan. Pakistani officials said Saturday that it is investigating whether the son of the founder of the powerful Haqqani militant network, Badruddin Haqqani, was killed in a U.S. drone strike this week. The U.S. has long viewed the Haqqani network as one of the biggest threats to U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan as well as the country's long term stability. (AP Photo/ Ishtiaq Mahsud, File)Pakistan is investigating whether the son of the founder of the powerful Haqqani militant network, which has been blamed for high-profile attacks and kidnappings in Afghanistan, was killed in a U.S. drone strike this week, officials said Saturday.

Mexico probes why federal cops fired at US gov car

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 02:55 PM PDT

An armored U.S. Embassy vehicle is checked by military personal after it was attacked by unknown assailants on the highway leading to the city of Cuernavaca, near Tres Marias, Mexico, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. Two U.S. government employees were shot and wounded in an attack on their vehicle south of Mexico City on Friday, a law enforcement official said. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)Mexican authorities are trying to sort out why a U.S. Embassy vehicle was ambushed by federal police on a rural back road in mountains south of the capital, leaving two U.S. government workers wounded.

Tiger escapes, kills keeper in German zoo

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 07:54 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 8, 2012 file picture Siberian tigers (Panthera tigris altaica) "Altai" left, and "Hanya" in their enclosure in the Cologne Zoo. 'Altai' escaped the enclosure at Cologne Zoo in western Germany on Saturday Aug. 25, 2012 and killed a female keeper before being shot dead by the zoo's director, police said. The tiger managed to get from the enclosure to an adjacent storage building, where it attacked the 43-year-old keeper, said police spokesman Stefan Kirchner. "It appears the gate wasn't properly shut," Kirchner told The Associated Press. The zoo's director used a rifle to shoot the animal dead through the storage building's skylight before it could make its way to the visitor areas, he added. (AP Photo/dapd/Roberto Pfeil,File)A tiger escaped its enclosure at Cologne Zoo in western Germany on Saturday and killed a female keeper before being shot dead by the zoo's director, police said.

Cuba campaign takes on 'free' health care

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 07:30 AM PDT

In this Aug 10, 2012 photo, a nurse gives Karolin Deniss Verdecia a shot for allergies at a government run neighborhood clinic in Havana, Cuba. Cuba's system of free medical care, long considered a birthright by its citizens and trumpeted as one of the communist government's great successes, is not immune to cutbacks under Raul Castro's drive for efficiency. The health sector has already endured millions of dollars in budget cuts and tens of thousands of layoffs, and Castro is looking for more ways to save. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)Cuba's system of free medical care, long considered a birthright by its citizens and trumpeted as one of the communist government's great successes, is not immune to cutbacks under Raul Castro's drive for efficiency.

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