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• Insight: In Aleppo, jets vs. rifles, as civilians despair
• Afghans use culture guides to cut "insider" attacks
• Insight: Taking on the "toga-wearing bandits" in Brazil's courts
• Congressman confirms high-level U.S.-Israel spat over Iran
• Palestinian PM says willing to resign over economic protests
• Migrant boat sinks off Turkey, children among 61 dead
• Colombia's FARC rebels to ask government for ceasefire
• Hong Kong goes to polls with many fuming over China influence
• Unrest threatens Bangladesh's key garment export
• Ex-U.S. soldier pleads guilty to smuggling guns to China
• Syria's rebels struggle to tame Assad's air power
• Syrian troops take town on refugee flight route
• Rights Watch: Evidence of wider US waterboarding
• Islamic radicalism hits ancient city of Mombasa
• ECB unveils aggressive bond plan to save euro
• Bermuda braces for approaching Hurricane Leslie
• Birds, bears, bikers all play into Putin's stunts
• Quebec election shooting suspect faces 16 charges
• Israeli model rallies support for Gadhafi son
• French Alps slayings: Child found 8 hours later

Insight: In Aleppo, jets vs. rifles, as civilians despair Posted: 06 Sep 2012 05:10 AM PDT ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - The fighter jet banked sharply over the city and made a run at around 300 feet over the two-storey houses of Aleppo, a deep grinding sounding from its cannon as it unloaded onto home turf. A fuel tanker exploded and pumped fire and smoke upwards. Local people - for despite the conflict, Syria's biggest city is still full of life - flurried to the side of the dirty roads. Visible above the breeze-block homes, a helicopter gunship hovered. A lone teenager ran out and, in a bizarre display of audacity, fired at it with a Kalashnikov assault rifle. ...

Afghans use culture guides to cut "insider" attacks Posted: 06 Sep 2012 09:50 AM PDT KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan Defense Ministry officials, trying to stop the alarming increase in 'insider' attacks, have given their troops tips on foreign culture, telling them not to be offended by a hearty pat on the back or an American soldier asking after your wife's health. A pamphlet with guidance on handling cultural differences between Afghans and their foreign partners has been produced amid great concern among Afghan and NATO leaders about attacks by Afghan soldiers and policemen on the foreign troops training them. The attacks have killed 45 NATO-led troops this year. ...

Insight: Taking on the "toga-wearing bandits" in Brazil's courts Posted: 06 Sep 2012 11:51 AM PDT BRASILIA (Reuters) - Eliana Calmon takes great delight in provoking people. But even she didn't realize at first what a bomb she had dropped. "Look, I use a lot of colorful language, so when I said it, it didn't seem that bad. But then the interview ended," she recalled, starting to chuckle, "and I peered over at my aide, and he looked like he had seen a ghost! ... And that was when the whole storm started. ...

Congressman confirms high-level U.S.-Israel spat over Iran Posted: 06 Sep 2012 04:43 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blew up at the U.S. ambassador last month because he was "at wit's end" over what he sees as the Obama administration's lack of clarity on Iran's nuclear program, a congressman who was at the meeting said. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, a Republican, made his first public comments about the late August meeting in Israel in an interview with Michigan's WJR radio on Tuesday. ...

Palestinian PM says willing to resign over economic protests Posted: 06 Sep 2012 02:31 PM PDT RAMALLAH (Reuters) - Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Thursday he was willing to resign if the public demanded, after three days of street protests against high living costs across the occupied West Bank, but did not say that he was going to do so. A fuel price increase of about 5 percent sparked the demonstrations in the Palestinian cities of Ramallah, Jenin and Hebron, where protesters burned an effigy of Fayyad, who presided over economic policy as finance minister until he was replaced in that role in May. ...

Migrant boat sinks off Turkey, children among 61 dead Posted: 06 Sep 2012 10:36 AM PDT AHMETBEYLI, Turkey (Reuters) - At least 61 migrants including Palestinians and Syrians, more than half of them children, died after their overcrowded boat sank just tens of meters off Turkey's western Aegean coast on Thursday, officials said. Tahsin Kurtbeyoglu, governor of the coastal district of Menderes in Izmir province, told Reuters an initial investigation showed the small vessel sank around dawn due to overcrowding. Its destination was unclear but the small Turkish town of Ahmetbeyli from where it set out is only a few kilometers from the Greek island of Samos. ...

Colombia's FARC rebels to ask government for ceasefire Posted: 06 Sep 2012 03:01 PM PDT HAVANA/BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's leftist FARC rebels said on Thursday they would seek a bilateral ceasefire next month at the start of peace talks with the government aimed at ending half a century of war, and expressed hope the latest bid to end the conflict would succeed. The proposal could complicate the process from the start because Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said this week there would be no ceasefire during the negotiations and military operations would continue in "every centimeter" of Colombia. ...

Hong Kong goes to polls with many fuming over China influence Posted: 06 Sep 2012 02:01 PM PDT HONG KONG (Reuters) - A wave of protests in Hong Kong ahead of citywide elections is posing a major test for the new leader as the prospect of voter discontent threatens to shake up the political landscape in retaliation against perceived meddling by Beijing. This time round, the legislature will have a more democratic flavor - it has been expanded from 60 to 70 seats, with just over half of those to be directly elected in Sunday's polls. ...

Unrest threatens Bangladesh's key garment export Posted: 06 Sep 2012 02:03 PM PDT DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's $19 billion garments industry attracts some of the world's biggest clothing brands because of low costs, but many retailers say unrest over pay and delayed shipping schedules are eroding that advantage. The killing of a labor activist and increasing publicity of unsanitary and unsafe working conditions at the country's 4,500 garment factories is also making some retailers worried about their reputation. Bangladeshi factories make clothes for brands including Tesco, Wal-Mart, JC Penney, H&M, Marks & Spencer, Kohl's and Carrefour. ...

Ex-U.S. soldier pleads guilty to smuggling guns to China Posted: 06 Sep 2012 02:46 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former member of the U.S. National Guard on Thursday pleaded guilty to smuggling shipments of firearms from New York City to China, federal prosecutors said. Joseph Debose, 30, formerly a staff sergeant with a unit of the U.S. Special Forces National Guard, was arrested in May in a sting operation by federal agents in North Carolina, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn. At the time of his arrest, he was carrying a .45 caliber pistol and 12 other firearms he intended to send illegally overseas, prosecutors said. ...

Syria's rebels struggle to tame Assad's air power Posted: 06 Sep 2012 12:05 PM PDT Lt. Col. Maan al-Mansour's mission is to capture the Syrian air base where he once served.

Syrian troops take town on refugee flight route Posted: 06 Sep 2012 11:16 AM PDT After hours of heavy shelling, Syrian troops recaptured a border town Thursday in what activists said was a government attempt to stem the flood of people fleeing their country's civil war.

Rights Watch: Evidence of wider US waterboarding Posted: 06 Sep 2012 09:26 AM PDT Human Rights Watch said it has uncovered evidence of a wider use of waterboarding than previously acknowledged by the CIA, in a report Thursday detailing brutal treatment of detainees at U.S.-run lockups abroad after the 9/11 attacks.

Islamic radicalism hits ancient city of Mombasa Posted: 06 Sep 2012 09:49 AM PDT Hardline Muslim clerics. Young people who feel marginalized. Suspicions that police are responsible for the killings and forced disappearances of extremists.

ECB unveils aggressive bond plan to save euro Posted: 06 Sep 2012 01:50 PM PDT The European Central Bank unveiled its most ambitious plan yet to ease Europe's financial crisis with a plan to buy unlimited amounts of government bonds to help lower borrowing costs for countries struggling to manage their debts.

Bermuda braces for approaching Hurricane Leslie Posted: 06 Sep 2012 02:35 PM PDT Tourists postponed holidays in Bermuda and locals stocked up on emergency supplies as a stalled Hurricane Leslie spun over open ocean south of the wealthy British Atlantic territory Thursday.

Birds, bears, bikers all play into Putin's stunts Posted: 06 Sep 2012 09:32 AM PDT Start with manly ventures — flying, hunting, scuba-diving. Add an element of danger — polar bears, tigers, fighter jets. Throw in a bare chest here and there.

Quebec election shooting suspect faces 16 charges Posted: 06 Sep 2012 03:04 PM PDT The suspect in a deadly shooting at a rally following the election of Quebec's new separatist premier was arraigned Thursday on 16 charges, including murder, attempted murder and possession of explosives.

Israeli model rallies support for Gadhafi son Posted: 06 Sep 2012 02:44 PM PDT An imprisoned son of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi is getting help from an unlikely source: an Israeli actress and model who says she had a romantic relationship with him.

French Alps slayings: Child found 8 hours later Posted: 06 Sep 2012 11:48 AM PDT French authorities struggled Thursday to explain why no one found a 4-year-old girl for eight hours at a blood-strewn crime scene as she huddled in a car under the skirt of a corpse — apparently her dead mother or grandmother.

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