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• Syrian air force on offensive after failed truce
• U.S. and EU push for progress in troubled Balkans
• EU will lose Turkey if it hasn't joined by 2023: Erdogan
• Iran pulls back from nuclear bomb goal: Israeli defense minister
• Protesters storm Libya congress after prime minister presents government
• Greek government gets key backing to pass reforms
• Pakistan says protects rights, West disagrees
• One dead in Tunisia clashes between police, militants
• EU considers sending 200 troops to train Mali army
• Russia's leaders criticized at Stalin commemorations
• Protesters delay vote on new Libyan Cabinet
• Yacht commissioned by Steve Jobs launched
• French government gets anti-sexism lessons
• In Sudan blast, signs of Iran and Israel's rivalry
• Syria activists report 23 dead in Damascus suburb
• Iran orchestra finale rings of hard-line pressure
• Opposition leader sentenced to 8 years in Rwanda
• Sexual harassment spikes over Egyptian holiday
• US, EU hopeful of new Iran nuke talks
• UBS slashes business in turnaround bid
• Hurricane Sandy puts renewed pressure on food supply in Haiti
• Iranian warships dock in Sudan after alleged Israeli airstrikes
• Prospect of show trial stirs some Russians' memories of Stalinism
• What will the Afghanistan war legacy be?
• Neither heat nor gloom ... Afghan post office delivers
• Yemenis suspect Iran's hand in rise of Shiite rebels
• Myanmar unrest threatens to destabilize democracy and region
• Pirate attacks off Somalia plummet thanks to navies, armed guards
• China's leadership shakeup: Am I an unfortunate casualty?

Syrian air force on offensive after failed truce Posted: 30 Oct 2012 04:51 PM PDT AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian warplanes bombed rebel targets with renewed intensity on Tuesday after the end of a widely ignored four-day truce between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and insurgents. State television said "terrorists" had assassinated an air force general, Abdullah Mahmoud al-Khalidi, in a Damascus suburb, the latest of several rebel attacks on senior officials. In July, a bomb killed four of Assad's aides, including his brother-in-law Assef Shawkat and the defense minister. ...

U.S. and EU push for progress in troubled Balkans Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:47 PM PDT SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Europe and the United States teamed up on Tuesday to press Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo to overcome the legacy of Yugoslavia's bloody collapse as a condition of closer integration with the West. "If you do not make progress you will be left behind," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned at the start of a trip to the region with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. NATO member Croatia will follow Slovenia in joining the 27-nation EU next year, but accession is a very distant prospect for the other five countries carved from federal Yugoslavia in the 1990s. ...

EU will lose Turkey if it hasn't joined by 2023: Erdogan Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:36 PM PDT BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Union will lose Turkey if it doesn't grant it membership by 2023, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. It was the first time Erdogan has given an indication of how long Ankara might continue down the path towards EU entry, and his comments came at a time of growing alienation between Turkey and a political entity it feels has cold-shouldered it. ...

Iran pulls back from nuclear bomb goal: Israeli defense minister Posted: 30 Oct 2012 11:42 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Iran has drawn back from its ambitions to build a nuclear weapon, Israel's defense minister was quoted as saying on Tuesday, while warning that his country may still have to decide next year whether to launch a military strike against it. Tehran denies its nuclear work has any military dimensions but governments in Europe and the United States are increasingly concerned over its intentions. Diplomacy and successive rounds of economic sanctions have so far failed to end the decade-old row, raising fears of Israeli military action against its arch-enemy. ...

Protesters storm Libya congress after prime minister presents government Posted: 30 Oct 2012 12:04 PM PDT TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Protesters stormed Libya's national assembly on Tuesday, forcing the cancellation of a vote on a proposed coalition government named by the country's new prime minister just hours earlier. Fewer than 100 people, made up of civilians and former rebel fighters, charged into the meeting hall of the General National Congress as it voted on Prime Minister Ali Zeidan's cabinet line-up, which was drawn from liberal and Islamist parties. In chaotic televised scenes, congress members negotiated with the protesters, unhappy with some of the nominations, to leave. ...

Greek government gets key backing to pass reforms Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:42 PM PDT ATHENS (Reuters) - An overwhelming majority of Greek Socialist lawmakers have agreed to vote in favor of contested austerity reforms, party officials told Reuters on Tuesday, sharply increasing the odds of securing parliamentary approval for the measures. Near-bankrupt Greece needs to push through spending cuts and tax measures worth 13.5 billion euros as well as a raft of reforms to appease EU and IMF lenders and secure bailout money needed to avoid running out of cash next month. ...

Pakistan says protects rights, West disagrees Posted: 30 Oct 2012 12:12 PM PDT GENEVA (Reuters) - Pakistan, plagued by Islamists militancy, sectarian violence and frequent disasters that push its people deeper into poverty, told the United Nations on Tuesday it is a democratic and progressive state working to protect human rights. But Western countries and the normally anti-Western Belarus countered that in Pakistan religious minorities were persecuted, that dissent was often brutally suppressed by the army, and that little was done to tackle human trafficking. Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar told the U.N. ...

One dead in Tunisia clashes between police, militants Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:02 PM PDT TUNIS (Reuters) - One person was killed when police opened fire during clashes with hardline Salafi Muslims in the Tunisian capital Tunis on Tuesday,‮‮ ‬‬a security source said‮‮‮‬, in the latest sign of religious tensions in the home of the "Arab Spring". "One Salafi was killed after security forces fired when Salafists attacked a police station," a security source said. Tunisia, whose authoritarian president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, was overthrown in a popular uprising last year, now has an elected Islamist-led government. ...

EU considers sending 200 troops to train Mali army Posted: 30 Oct 2012 10:40 AM PDT BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is considering sending about 200 troops to train Mali's army to retake the Islamist-held north, but is not willing to deploy them in battle, EU officials said on Tuesday. Fears are growing in Europe that the African country could turn into a platform for terrorist attacks, after Islamist fighters seized two-thirds of its territory earlier this year. "There is a willingness among member states to put boots on the ground - but only on the parade ground," one of the EU officials said. ...

Russia's leaders criticized at Stalin commemorations Posted: 30 Oct 2012 12:50 PM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Relatives of Josef Stalin's victims commemorated the Soviet dictator's repression on Tuesday and many condemned Russia's leaders for not taking part. Millions of people were executed or sent to prison camps under Stalin's rule but while thousands paid tribute to the dead at annual ceremonies on Monday and Tuesday, President Vladimir Putin stayed away. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev condemned Stalin in a blog, saying: "Josef Stalin and other leaders of the Soviet state at the time deserve the harshest assessment. ...

Protesters delay vote on new Libyan Cabinet Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:20 PM PDT Libya's new prime minister on Tuesday put forward a Cabinet for parliamentary approval, but protesters stormed the building during the session, forcing a postponement of the vote on the new government.

Yacht commissioned by Steve Jobs launched Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:54 PM PDT The sleek, white superyacht glistens under a gray autumnal sky, a posthumous testament to the design aesthetic of Steve Jobs.

French government gets anti-sexism lessons Posted: 30 Oct 2012 10:30 AM PDT First there was Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who allegedly referred to women as "material," then catcalls in the French Parliament just because a female government minister wore a floral dress.

In Sudan blast, signs of Iran and Israel's rivalry Posted: 30 Oct 2012 11:36 AM PDT A suspected Israeli airstrike against a weapons factory in Khartoum last week points to a possible escalation in a hidden front of the rivalry between Israel and Iran: The arms pipeline through Sudan to Islamic militants on Israel's borders.

Syria activists report 23 dead in Damascus suburb Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:13 PM PDT Airstrikes by Syrian jets and shells from tanks leveled a neighborhood in a restive city near the capital of Damascus on Tuesday, killing 18 people, and at least five rebel fighters died nearby in clashes with regime troops, activists said.

Iran orchestra finale rings of hard-line pressure Posted: 30 Oct 2012 08:47 AM PDT It was a VIP audience for what was likely the last performance of the venerable Tehran Symphony Orchestra. Watching from the front row in late August was Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in what was seen as an endorsement from the ruling theocracy, which once tried to stamp out all music as a violation of Islamic values.

Opposition leader sentenced to 8 years in Rwanda Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:42 PM PDT A Rwandan court sentenced the country's top opposition political leader to eight years in prison on Tuesday for treason and on a charge stemming from this central African nation's murderous ethnic attacks 18 years ago — genocide denial.

Sexual harassment spikes over Egyptian holiday Posted: 30 Oct 2012 11:35 AM PDT Egypt's president acknowledged the widespread problem of sexual harassment his country Tuesday, ordering his interior minister to investigate a rash of assaults during a just-completed Muslim holiday.

US, EU hopeful of new Iran nuke talks Posted: 30 Oct 2012 12:50 PM PDT The U.S. and the European Union said Tuesday they'll press on with sanctions against Iran, even as they hope the promise of new negotiations could lead to a diplomatic solution ending the nuclear standoff.

UBS slashes business in turnaround bid Posted: 30 Oct 2012 11:43 AM PDT Scarred by scandals and losses, Swiss bank UBS unveiled Tuesday a plan to overhaul its global operations that will see it cut thousands of jobs as it drops risky trading activities and restructures its investment banking unit.

Hurricane Sandy puts renewed pressure on food supply in Haiti Posted: 30 Oct 2012 12:45 PM PDT Before turning its sights on the United States, Hurricane Sandy left a fresh disaster in Haiti, killing dozens and flooding cities and farmland. The storm set off fears of renewed challenges, including spiking food prices and a new cholera outbreak.

Iranian warships dock in Sudan after alleged Israeli airstrikes Posted: 30 Oct 2012 10:45 AM PDT Sudan's links to Iran came under scrutiny Tuesday as it welcomed two Iranian warships less than a week after an explosion at a Khartoum weapons warehouse that Sudanese officials blamed on an Israeli airstrike.

Prospect of show trial stirs some Russians' memories of Stalinism Posted: 30 Oct 2012 09:31 AM PDT Many Russian activists say they fear a big political show trial is being prepared by the Kremlin's powerful Investigative Committee, and some are calling it a creeping revival of Stalin-era methods of repression. The aim, they say, will be to intimidate all Russians who think about taking to the streets to protest against President Vladimir Putin.

What will the Afghanistan war legacy be? Posted: 30 Oct 2012 07:54 AM PDT There may be two years left on the clock for the war in Afghanistan, but NATO's ability to shape events has largely come to an end, with the fighting at a stalemate, stalled peace negotiations, and incidents of Afghan security forces turning against their international counterparts.

Neither heat nor gloom ... Afghan post office delivers Posted: 30 Oct 2012 07:19 AM PDT Ten years ago, the Afghan postal service lay in near total ruin, undone by the nation's civil war. Sending a letter usually meant having to find someone traveling in the direction of the recipient willing to carry a note and hoping for the best.

Yemenis suspect Iran's hand in rise of Shiite rebels Posted: 30 Oct 2012 06:25 AM PDT While the graffiti on the walls of Rayda's bullet-scarred Awadin Mosque condemns the United States and Israel, the clashes that briefly transformed this agrarian town into a war zone were fought between local foes.

Myanmar unrest threatens to destabilize democracy and region Posted: 30 Oct 2012 06:03 AM PDT • A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

Pirate attacks off Somalia plummet thanks to navies, armed guards Posted: 30 Oct 2012 05:56 AM PDT Pirate attacks off Somalia have plummeted 65 percent, to their lowest level since 2009, but analysts warn that these gains could be reversed without sustained efforts to cement security onshore.

China's leadership shakeup: Am I an unfortunate casualty? Posted: 30 Oct 2012 05:39 AM PDT Take me back to the days of carrier pigeons and cleft sticks.

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