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• From Nigeria to Athens, Muslim protests rumble on
• Chinese verdict on ex-cop set to tighten noose on Bo
• Exclusive: North Korea plans agriculture reforms
• Belarus says election turnout strong, despite opposition boycott
• Dozens protest against detention of relatives at Saudi prison
• China surveillance ships enter waters near disputed islands
• Ivory Coast to admit Ghana flights, keep land, sea borders shut
• Europeans among nine climbers killed in Nepal avalanche
• Japan, China military conflict seen unlikely despite strain
• Libyan army tackles rogue militias as two disband
• Syrian opposition figures meet in Damascus
• Libya orders 'illegitimate' militias to disband
• Egypt's president wants more independence from US
• Sinai raids may force Israel-Egypt accord changes
• Frustration and turmoil as world leaders meet
• Iran threatens attacks on US bases in event of war
• AP Exclusive: Philadelphia man Nazi probe target
• Iraq shrugs off calls to reconsider death penalty
• Prophet film protesters clash with Greek police
• 9 climbers killed, 6 missing in Nepal avalanche

From Nigeria to Athens, Muslim protests rumble on Posted: 23 Sep 2012 02:13 PM PDT DUBAI (Reuters) - Muslims protested in Nigeria, Iran, Greece and Turkey on Sunday to show anti-Western anger against a film and cartoons insulting Islam had not dissipated. As delegates from around the world gathered in New York for a U.N. General Assembly where the clash between free speech and blasphemy is bound to be raised, U.S. flags were once again burning in parts of the Muslim world. ...

Chinese verdict on ex-cop set to tighten noose on Bo Posted: 23 Sep 2012 12:03 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - The ex-police chief who triggered China's most spectacular political upheaval for decades is virtually sure to be convicted on four charges on Monday, turning attention to the fate of his disgraced former boss, Bo Xilai. A court in southwest China will announce its verdict on the charges against Wang Lijun, the former police chief of Chongqing municipality in southwest China -- chiefly, that he tried to cover up the murder of a British businessman by Gu Kailai, the wife of Bo, one of China's most controversial politicians. ...

Exclusive: North Korea plans agriculture reforms Posted: 23 Sep 2012 03:16 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea plans to allow farmers to keep more of their produce in an attempt to boost agricultural output, a source with close ties to Pyongyang and Beijing said, in a move that could boost supplies, help cap rising food prices and ease malnutrition. The move to liberalize agriculture under new leader Kim Jong-un, who took office in December 2011 after the death of his father, would reverse a crackdown on private production that started in 2005. It comes amid talk that the youngest Kim to rule the impoverished North is considering reforms to boost the economy. ...

Belarus says election turnout strong, despite opposition boycott Posted: 23 Sep 2012 04:55 PM PDT MINSK (Reuters) - Authorities in Belarus said they had a strong turnout in a parliamentary election on Sunday after hardline President Alexander Lukashenko denounced opposition leaders as "cowards" for urging people to boycott it as a sham exercise. The two main opposition parties had called on people to go mushrooming or fishing and abstain from voting in an election which they said would produce a token parliament to rubber-stamp directives by Lukashenko. "Elections took place in the course of which 109 deputies were elected ... ...

Dozens protest against detention of relatives at Saudi prison Posted: 23 Sep 2012 04:07 PM PDT RIYADH (Reuters) - Dozens of Saudis protested at a prison in Qassim near the capital Riyadh on Sunday against the detention of their relatives in the Gulf kingdom where demonstrations are banned, protesters and a rights activist said. Police restricted the protesters to a cordoned off area for six hours, they said. Demonstrations are rare in Saudi Arabia which escaped last year's Arab Spring unrest but has faced criticism for its human rights record. ...

China surveillance ships enter waters near disputed islands Posted: 23 Sep 2012 04:58 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Two Chinese marine surveillance ships entered what Japan considers its territorial waters near disputed islands in the East China Sea on Monday, the Japanese Coast Guard said, a move bound to raise tension between Asia's two largest economies. China's Xinhua news agency confirmed that two civilian surveillance ships were undertaking a "rights defense" patrol in waters near the disputed islands, citing the State Oceanic Administration, which controls the ships. ...

Ivory Coast to admit Ghana flights, keep land, sea borders shut Posted: 23 Sep 2012 03:30 PM PDT ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast will reopen its airspace to flights from Ghana but keep land and sea borders with its neighbor shut, said the Ivorian government on Sunday, after a series of deadly attacks last week in Abidjan and at a border crossing. "After 48 hours of observation of the movements of people and goods between the two countries, it is decided that only the air borders will be opened from Monday," the office of President Alassane Ouattara said in a statement read on state television. Ivorian airspace would reopen to Ghanaian flights from midnight, the statement said. ...

Europeans among nine climbers killed in Nepal avalanche Posted: 23 Sep 2012 12:49 PM PDT KATHMANDU (Reuters) - An avalanche swept away climbers and their camps on the world's eighth highest mountain in northwestern Nepal on Sunday, killing at least 10 people, officials said. Mountaineering officials in Nepal and France said they had been told most of the dead climbers were French. "There were seven French victims ... We got the information directly from base camp," said Denis Crabieres, head of the French Mountain Guides Association. He said rescue operations on Mount Manaslu had been stopped until morning. ...

Japan, China military conflict seen unlikely despite strain Posted: 23 Sep 2012 03:33 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Hawkish Chinese commentators have urged Beijing to prepare for military conflict with Japan as tensions mount over disputed islands in the East China Sea, but most experts say chances the Asian rivals will decide to go to war are slim. A bigger risk is the possibility that an unintended maritime clash results in deaths and boosts pressure for retaliation, but even then Tokyo and Beijing are expected to seek to manage the row before it becomes a full-blown military confrontation. "That's the real risk - a maritime incident leading to a loss of life. ...

Libyan army tackles rogue militias as two disband Posted: 23 Sep 2012 10:41 AM PDT TRIPOLI/DERNA, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's army on Sunday ordered rogue armed groups in and around Tripoli to leave state and military premises or be ejected by force, apparently seeking to capitalize on the withdrawal of militias from Benghazi and Derna. The two main Islamist militias in Derna, a town in eastern Libya known as an Islamist stronghold, said on Saturday they were disbanding after one of them, Ansar al-Sharia, was driven out of Libya's second city, Benghazi. ...

Syrian opposition figures meet in Damascus Posted: 23 Sep 2012 11:30 AM PDT Syrian opposition figures who reject foreign intervention in Syria's 18-month conflict called for the ouster of President Bashar Assad at a rare meeting Sunday in the nation's capital. The gathering was tolerated by the regime in an apparent attempt to lend credibility to its claims that it remains open to political reform despite its bloody crackdown on dissent.

Libya orders 'illegitimate' militias to disband Posted: 23 Sep 2012 02:23 PM PDT The Libyan army on Sunday said it raided several militia outposts operating outside government control in the capital, Tripoli, while in the east, the militia suspected in the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate said it had disbanded on orders of the country's president.

Egypt's president wants more independence from US Posted: 23 Sep 2012 07:28 AM PDT On the eve of his first visit to the United States as Egypt's president, Islamist Mohammed Morsi said he will demonstrate more independence from the U.S. in decision-making than his predecessor Hosni Mubarak and told Washington not to expect Egypt to live by its rules.

Sinai raids may force Israel-Egypt accord changes Posted: 23 Sep 2012 12:51 PM PDT Israeli officials said Sunday they would resist any Egyptian attempts to reopen the military arrangements under the countries' historic peace deal, despite the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.

Frustration and turmoil as world leaders meet Posted: 23 Sep 2012 04:52 PM PDT Democratic uprisings across the Arab world and the Palestinians' bid for U.N. membership sparked excitement and hope at last year's meeting of world leaders. But with war raging in Syria, the Palestinian application sidelined, and deadly protests generated by an anti-Islamic video, the mood as this year's U.N. gathering begins is one of disappointment and frustration.

Iran threatens attacks on US bases in event of war Posted: 23 Sep 2012 10:34 AM PDT A senior commander in Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard warned that Iran will target U.S. bases in the region in the event of war with Israel, raising the prospect of a broader conflict that would force other countries to get involved, Iranian state television reported Sunday.

AP Exclusive: Philadelphia man Nazi probe target Posted: 23 Sep 2012 01:48 PM PDT Germany has launched a war crimes investigation against an 87-year-old Philadelphia man it accuses of serving as an SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp, The Associated Press has learned, following years of failed U.S. Justice Department efforts to have the man stripped of his American citizenship and deported.

Iraq shrugs off calls to reconsider death penalty Posted: 23 Sep 2012 09:35 AM PDT Iraq has executed nearly 100 people so far this year, a big increase over previous years that has intensified concern about whether defendants are receiving fair trials in a country where the United States has spent billions of dollars trying to reform the judicial system after decades of dictatorship.

Prophet film protesters clash with Greek police Posted: 23 Sep 2012 02:02 PM PDT Greek riot police used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse Muslim protesters who clashed with officers Sunday during a rally against a film produced in the U.S. that denigrates Islam's Prophet Muhammad. No injuries were reported.

9 climbers killed, 6 missing in Nepal avalanche Posted: 23 Sep 2012 03:57 PM PDT An avalanche hit climbers on a high Himalayan peak in Nepal on Sunday, leaving at least nine dead and six others missing, officials said. Many of the climbers were French or German.

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