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• In unusual snub, Obama to avoid meeting with Netanyahu
• U.S. staffer dies in Libya mission clash: source
• Assad's forces shell Damascus rebel stronghold, 4 killed
• Egyptians angry at film scale U.S. embassy walls
• Gunmen attack U.S. consulate in Libya's Benghazi over film
• OECD pushes Mexico's Pena Nieto to back labor bill
• Vast crowds demand Catalan autonomy from crisis-hit Spain
• Dutch voters seen shunning euro radicals at polls
• Putin says Romney stance shows Russia right about missile shield
• ANC rebel calls for national mine strike in South Africa
• Suspected al-Qaida bombing misses Yemen minister
• US-Israel divisions over Iran boil over
• Egyptian protesters scale US Embassy wall in Cairo
• Wounded flood hospitals in Syria's largest city
• Egypt trying to persuade Iran to drop Assad
• Pakistan Shiites face rising militant attacks
• Base attack kills 3 Afghans, destroys NATO chopper
• Putin: Romney helped Russia by calling it top foe
• Jolie hears 'horrific' accounts of Syrian refugees
• Mammoth fragments from Siberia raise cloning hopes

In unusual snub, Obama to avoid meeting with Netanyahu Posted: 11 Sep 2012 04:11 PM PDT WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - In a highly unusual rebuff to a close ally, the White House said on Tuesday that President Barack Obama would not meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a U.S. visit later this month, as tensions escalated over how to deal with Iran's nuclear program. The apparent snub, coupled with Netanyahu's sharpened demands for a tougher U.S. line against Iran, threatened to plunge U.S.-Israeli relations into crisis and add pressure on Obama in the final stretch of a tight presidential election campaign. ...

U.S. staffer dies in Libya mission clash: source Posted: 11 Sep 2012 04:50 PM PDT BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - An American staff member of the U.S. consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi has died following fierce clashes at the compound, Libyan security sources said on Wednesday. "One American staff member has died and a number have been injured in the clashes," Abdel-Monem Al-Hurr, spokesman for Libya's Supreme Security Committee, said, adding that he did not know the exact number of injured and could not say what the cause of death was. ...

Assad's forces shell Damascus rebel stronghold, 4 killed Posted: 11 Sep 2012 09:17 AM PDT AMMAN (Reuters) - At least four people were killed and dozens wounded on Tuesday in ground and aerial bombardments of one of the last rebel strongholds in the Syrian capital Damascus, opposition activists said. Numerous buildings were hit by artillery and helicopter gunfire in Hajar al-Aswad neighborhood, they said. Footage posted on the Internet by activists showed holes in buildings and rubble strewn in alleyways. ...

Egyptians angry at film scale U.S. embassy walls Posted: 11 Sep 2012 03:12 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy on Tuesday, tore down the American flag and burned it during a protest over what they said was a film being produced in the United States that insulted Prophet Mohammad. In place of the U.S. flag, the protesters tried to raise a black flag with the words "There is no God but God, and Mohammad is his messenger", a Reuters witness said. Once the U.S. flag was hauled down, some protesters tore it up and showed off pieces to television cameras. ...

Gunmen attack U.S. consulate in Libya's Benghazi over film Posted: 11 Sep 2012 03:29 PM PDT BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked U.S. consulate offices in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi on Tuesday, and fought with security forces in protest against a U.S. film they say is blasphemous, a security official said. He said a fire was burning inside the consulate and that staff had been evacuated. A Reuters reporter saw three injured members of the Libyan security forces taken away in an ambulance. A Libyan security official who declined to be named said one U.S. security guard was injured in the clashes. ...

OECD pushes Mexico's Pena Nieto to back labor bill Posted: 11 Sep 2012 03:50 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The head of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development on Tuesday urged Mexico's President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto to support a proposed labor reform put before Congress by outgoing President Felipe Calderon. Calderon's draft bill to soften antiquated labor regulations and make trade unions more transparent faces opposition from Pena Nieto's centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled Mexico continuously between 1929 and 2000. ...

Vast crowds demand Catalan autonomy from crisis-hit Spain Posted: 11 Sep 2012 02:50 PM PDT BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Catalans took to the streets of Barcelona on Tuesday in an unprecedented show of mass support for autonomy from Madrid, blaming Spain's economic crisis for dragging their wealthy region down. Surging unemployment and financial disarray have stoked a fever of separatism in Catalonia, a comparatively prosperous part of Spain whose leaders say their wealth is being sucked dry by the central government. ...

Dutch voters seen shunning euro radicals at polls Posted: 11 Sep 2012 03:06 PM PDT AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Mainstream pro-European parties look set to dominate a Dutch general election on Wednesday, dispelling concerns that radical eurosceptics might gain sway in a core euro zone state and push to quit the European Union or flout its budget rules. But the Netherlands is likely to remain an awkward, tough-talking member of the single currency area, strongly resisting transfers to euro zone debtors, regardless of whether caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte's Liberals or the centre-left Labour Party of Diederik Samsom win the most seats. ...

Putin says Romney stance shows Russia right about missile shield Posted: 11 Sep 2012 03:01 PM PDT SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney's critical stance on Russia proves that Moscow's opposition to an American anti-missile shield in Europe is sound policy, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. In his second public remarks about the Republican nominee in a week, Putin said there were "pluses and minuses" to Romney's attitude toward Washington's former Cold War enemy. "The fact that Mr. Romney considers us enemy No. 1 and clearly has a poor opinion of us is a minus. ...

ANC rebel calls for national mine strike in South Africa Posted: 11 Sep 2012 10:26 AM PDT CARLETONVILLE, South Africa (Reuters) - ANC renegade Julius Malema called on Tuesday for a national strike in South Africa's mining sector, stirring fear of an escalation in the labor unrest already buffeting the platinum and gold industries in the continent's largest economy. The flagship sector has been hit by a walkout that culminated in mid-August in violence between striking miners and police that killed 44 people. Of these, 34 were miners shot in a single day by police at the Marikana mine of Lonmin, the world's No. 3 platinum producer. ...

Suspected al-Qaida bombing misses Yemen minister Posted: 11 Sep 2012 03:55 PM PDT Yemen's defense minister narrowly escaped assassination Tuesday when a powerful car bomb ripped through his motorcade as it traveled in the nation's capital, killing at least 13 people in an attack that bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida.

US-Israel divisions over Iran boil over Posted: 11 Sep 2012 01:10 PM PDT Israel is sounding increasingly agitated over what it views as American dithering with economic sanctions too weak to force Iran to end its suspected drive toward nuclear weapons.

Egyptian protesters scale US Embassy wall in Cairo Posted: 11 Sep 2012 04:05 PM PDT Mainly ultraconservative protesters climbed the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Egypt's capital Tuesday and brought down the American flag, replacing it with a black Islamist flag to protest a U.S.-produced film attacking the Prophet Muhammad. Hours later, armed men in eastern Libya also stormed the US consulate there and set it on fire as anger spread.

Wounded flood hospitals in Syria's largest city Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:39 PM PDT It had been a calm day in Aleppo's Shifa Hospital, said Dr. Osman al-Haj Osman, his face etched with exhaustion from just three hours of sleep. Then, a man burst in bearing the shrieking bundle of a 6-year-old girl who'd had a machine-gun bullet rip through both her knees.

Egypt trying to persuade Iran to drop Assad Posted: 11 Sep 2012 02:59 PM PDT Newly activist Egypt is trying to convince Iran to drop its unquestioned support of Syria's embattled President Bashar Assad in order to end that country's bloody civil war in exchange for help in easing Tehran's regional isolation at a time of mounting pressure on it over its disputed nuclear program.

Pakistan Shiites face rising militant attacks Posted: 11 Sep 2012 11:59 AM PDT In the Shiite Muslim graveyard of this provincial Pakistani capital, entire sections are dedicated to the hundreds killed by Sunni militants over the past two years, their portraits line the cobblestone entrance, some garlanded with wilted flowers.

Base attack kills 3 Afghans, destroys NATO chopper Posted: 11 Sep 2012 08:33 AM PDT Afghan insurgents bombarded a U.S. base and destroyed a NATO helicopter, killing three Afghan intelligence employees, officials said Tuesday. There were also NATO personnel aboard and wounded, the coalition said without providing further details.

Putin: Romney helped Russia by calling it top foe Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:23 PM PDT President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that a comment made by U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney has made Russia feel justified in opposing America's missile defense plans in Europe.

Jolie hears 'horrific' accounts of Syrian refugees Posted: 11 Sep 2012 11:07 AM PDT Her eyes welling up with tears, actress Angelina Jolie said she heard "horrific" and "heartbreaking" accounts from Syrian refugees she met Tuesday during a visit to a camp in Jordan that has provided shelter for those fleeing the civil war in the neighboring country.

Mammoth fragments from Siberia raise cloning hopes Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:22 PM PDT Scientists have discovered well-preserved frozen woolly mammoth fragments deep in Siberia that may contain living cells, edging a tad closer to the "Jurassic Park" possibility of cloning a prehistoric animal, the mission's organizer said Tuesday.

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