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• Venezuela's Chavez revels in convincing election win
• Turkish president says "worst case" unfolding in Syria
• Liberian Nobel laureate quits over government corruption
• UK, Japan scientists win Nobel for adult stem cell discovery
• Egypt's Mursi pardons political prisoners
• UK's Osborne to slash welfare but quiet on growth
• Africa can easily grow wheat to ease hunger, price shocks: study
• Libya's Bani Walid is shelled in standoff over rebel's death
• Mexico arrests suspected cartel leader in U.S. jet skier case
• Braving protests, Merkel to offer encouragement in Athens
• Nobel awarded for stem cell, early cloning work
• Syrian cross-border salvos send message to Turkey
• Re-elected Chavez faces likely economic reckoning
• Report: Imprisoned Dutch killer to be father
• Egypt mulls arming Sinai Bedouin security force
• Egypt president decrees pardon for protesters
• Think tank: path to Iran nuke warhead 2-4 months
• Israeli forces and Gaza militants exchange fire
• More than 30 civilians killed by Nigeria military
• UN report: Gbagbo allies reached out to Islamists
• Hugo Chávez to 'deepen' revolution as opponents miss mark
• Code Pink joins Pakistani political party in anti-drone protest
• Barcelona vs Madrid: Battling on the soccer field and off
• Morocco admits to police abuse, tarnishing model response to Arab Spring
• High hopes for Philippines peace deal with Muslim rebels
• In landmark election, Venezuelan voters see two futures

Venezuela's Chavez revels in convincing election win Posted: 08 Oct 2012 01:57 PM PDT CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pledged to deepen his socialist revolution after a comfortable election victory that could extend his divisive leadership of the OPEC nation to two decades. The new six-year term clears the way for Chavez, who is recovering from cancer, to consolidate state control over Venezuela's economy, possibly with more nationalizations, and continue his support for left-wing allies in Latin America and around the world. The victory also cements his status as a towering figure in modern Latin American history and an icon of the political left. ...

Turkish president says "worst case" unfolding in Syria Posted: 08 Oct 2012 12:20 PM PDT GUVECCI, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Monday the "worst-case scenarios" were now playing out in Syria and Turkey would do everything necessary to protect itself, as its army fired back for a sixth day after a shell from Syria flew over the border. Gul said the violence in Turkey's southern neighbor, where a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad has evolved into a civil war that threatens to draw in regional powers, could not go on indefinitely and Assad's fall was inevitable. "The worst-case scenarios are taking place right now in Syria ... ...

Liberian Nobel laureate quits over government corruption Posted: 08 Oct 2012 01:51 PM PDT MONROVIA (Reuters) - Nobel prize-winning rights advocate Leymah Gbowee has quit her post in Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's government, criticizing her fellow laureate for corruption and nepotism, her spokesman said on Monday. Gbowee and Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa's first freely elected female head of state when she came to power in 2005, were named joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for their work promoting peace in Liberia. ...

UK, Japan scientists win Nobel for adult stem cell discovery Posted: 08 Oct 2012 12:43 PM PDT STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scientists from Britain and Japan shared a Nobel Prize on Monday for the discovery that adult cells can be transformed back into embryo-like stem cells that may one day regrow tissue in damaged brains, hearts or other organs. John Gurdon, 79, of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, Britain and Shinya Yamanaka, 50, of Kyoto University in Japan, discovered ways to create tissue that would act like embryonic cells, without the need to collect the cells from embryos. They share the $1. ...

Egypt's Mursi pardons political prisoners Posted: 08 Oct 2012 01:15 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi pardoned on Monday all political prisoners detained since the start of protests that toppled Hosni Mubarak last year. The pardon covers citizens facing trial and those serving jail sentences except for those convicted of murder, the presidential spokesman said, but did not give a specific number for the pardoned prisoners. Activists have said that thousands of civilians ended up in army courts in the security vacuum that followed the fall of Mubarak in 2011. ...

UK's Osborne to slash welfare but quiet on growth Posted: 08 Oct 2012 03:30 PM PDT BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - Britain's Conservatives would slash government spending on welfare by 10 billion pounds ($16 billion) a year if re-elected, finance minister George Osborne said on Monday, though he offered few ideas on how to bring the economy out of recession. The 2015 election is likely to be decided on the health of the economy, the pace of deficit reduction and the areas of spending and taxation on which each party would focus to balance stretched public finances. ...

Africa can easily grow wheat to ease hunger, price shocks: study Posted: 08 Oct 2012 05:11 PM PDT OSLO (Reuters) - Wheat production in sub-Saharan Africa is at only 10 to 25 percent of its potential and nations can easily grow more to limit hunger, price shocks and political instability, a study showed on Tuesday. The report, examining environmental conditions of 12 nations from Ethiopia to Zimbabwe, said that farmers south of the Sahara grew only 44 percent of the wheat consumed locally, meaning dependence on international markets prone to price spikes. ...

Libya's Bani Walid is shelled in standoff over rebel's death Posted: 08 Oct 2012 02:13 PM PDT TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Shelling by Libyan pro-government forces has killed three people including a child in the former Gaddafi stronghold of Bani Walid, a local militia leader said on Tuesday. The hilltop town was one of the last to surrender last year to the rebels who overthrew Muammar Gaddafi. It has come back into focus with the death two weeks ago of rebel fighter Omran Shaban after two months of detention in Bani Walid. Shaban, from nearby Misrata, was the man who found Gaddafi hiding in a drain. ...

Mexico arrests suspected cartel leader in U.S. jet skier case Posted: 08 Oct 2012 04:45 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican officials said on Monday they had arrested a suspected drug cartel leader believed responsible for the murders in 2010 of dozens of migrants and an American who was killed as he jet skied on a lake on the Texas-Mexico border. Mexican marines arrested Salvador Alfonso Martinez Escobedo, known as "Squirrel," on Saturday evening in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, across the border from Laredo, Texas, after a car chase and a shootout earlier in the day, Mexico's presidency said in a news release. ...

Braving protests, Merkel to offer encouragement in Athens Posted: 08 Oct 2012 03:03 PM PDT ATHENS (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel flies into the heart of Europe's debt crisis on Tuesday, facing protests by angry Greeks to bring a message of support to a near-bankrupt nation fighting to stay in the euro. Europe's most powerful leader can expect a hostile reception by a people worn down by years of recession and austerity which many see as forced upon them by an overweening Germany as its price for emergency loans. ...

Nobel awarded for stem cell, early cloning work Posted: 08 Oct 2012 04:18 PM PDT Two scientists from different generations won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for the groundbreaking discovery that cells in the body can be reprogrammed into completely different kinds, work that reflects the mechanism behind cloning and offers an alternative to using embryonic stem cells.

Syrian cross-border salvos send message to Turkey Posted: 08 Oct 2012 12:55 PM PDT Syria's cross-border attacks on Turkey in the past week look increasingly like they could be an intentional escalation meant to send a clear message to Ankara and beyond, that the crisis is simply too explosive to risk foreign military intervention.

Re-elected Chavez faces likely economic reckoning Posted: 08 Oct 2012 05:03 PM PDT During his re-election campaign, President Hugo Chavez promised to deepen the "21st century socialism" that has meant an ever-greater state role in the economy. That message won him a surprising 11-percentage point win in what many had thought would be a tight race.

Report: Imprisoned Dutch killer to be father Posted: 08 Oct 2012 10:11 AM PDT A newspaper reported Monday that Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch man who is serving a 28-year-sentence for murdering a young Peruvian woman, says he is going to be a father. His attorney said the inmate does have a conjugal visitor, though he could not confirm she was pregnant.

Egypt mulls arming Sinai Bedouin security force Posted: 08 Oct 2012 11:53 AM PDT In Egypt's restive Sinai, Bedouin leaders are pushing to take matters in their own hands and urging the government to arm their tribesmen by creating a local security force in the peninsula, where the state is struggling to impose its authority and uproot Islamic militants who have attacked Egyptian troops and neighboring Israel.

Egypt president decrees pardon for protesters Posted: 08 Oct 2012 03:43 PM PDT Egypt's new president on Monday issued a decree pardoning all those charged with or convicted of acts "in support of the revolution" since the beginning of the popular uprising that forced his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak, from power.

Think tank: path to Iran nuke warhead 2-4 months Posted: 08 Oct 2012 09:24 AM PDT Iran could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to arm a nuclear bomb within two to four months but would still face serious "engineering challenges" — and much longer delays — before it succeeds in making the other components needed for a functioning warhead, a respected U.S. think tank said Monday.

Israeli forces and Gaza militants exchange fire Posted: 08 Oct 2012 07:14 AM PDT Israeli forces and Palestinian militants exchanged fire on Monday in the most serious flare-up in months along the border with the Gaza Strip, officials said.

More than 30 civilians killed by Nigeria military Posted: 08 Oct 2012 11:10 AM PDT Nigerian soldiers angry about the killing of an officer shot dead more than 30 civilians Monday in a northeastern city long under siege by a radical Islamist sect.

UN report: Gbagbo allies reached out to Islamists Posted: 08 Oct 2012 04:09 PM PDT A new report from U.N. experts accuses exiled allies of Ivory Coast's former president of trying to recruit Islamist rebels who took control of the northern half of neighboring Mali in a campaign to destabilize the volatile West African region, a U.N. diplomat and a Western official familiar with the document said Monday.

Hugo Chávez to 'deepen' revolution as opponents miss mark Posted: 08 Oct 2012 10:52 AM PDT Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez won a mandate to stay in office for another six years, giving him and his allies a chance to consolidate the "Bolivarian 21st-century Socialism" that they have promoted for the past 14 years.

Code Pink joins Pakistani political party in anti-drone protest Posted: 08 Oct 2012 10:35 AM PDT A group of Americans joined thousands of Pakistanis to complete a two-day and 230-mile peace march across the country yesterday to protest America's use of drones in Pakistan's tribal areas.

Barcelona vs Madrid: Battling on the soccer field and off Posted: 08 Oct 2012 08:25 AM PDT Legendary football rivals Barcelona and Real Madrid tied yesterday 2-2 in brilliant clasico, a match of Spain's top league that attracted some 400 million viewers worldwide.

Morocco admits to police abuse, tarnishing model response to Arab Spring Posted: 08 Oct 2012 07:00 AM PDT Morocco, which was lauded for responding to last year's democracy protests with constitutional reforms and free elections, may be less of a model for the region than previously believed.

High hopes for Philippines peace deal with Muslim rebels Posted: 08 Oct 2012 06:32 AM PDT A deal to create a new Muslim autonomous region on the large southern Philippine island of Mindanao has raised high hopes of ending decades of fighting that cost more than 150,000 lives, even as pervasive doubts persist as to how or if the arrangement will work.

In landmark election, Venezuelan voters see two futures Posted: 07 Oct 2012 02:14 PM PDT Venezuelans are casting ballots today in one of the most important elections of their lifetimes.

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