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Putin sees hope in Syria deal; Kerry says it's vital U.N. acts

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 01:53 PM PDT

Female members of the "Mother Aisha" battalion sit together along a street in Aleppo's Salaheddine districtBy Alexei Anishchuk and Arshad Mohammed MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he could not be 100 percent certain a U.S.-Russian plan for the destruction of Syrian chemical arms would be carried out successfully, but he saw reason to hope it would. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said it was essential the deal reached last Saturday be enforced and that the U.N. Security Council be willing to act on it next week, when the U.N. General Assembly holds its annual meeting in New York. ...


Security forces storm pro-Mursi town near Cairo to reassert control

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 10:10 AM PDT

By Asma Alsharif KERDASA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces and militants exchanged fire as police stormed a town near Cairo dominated by Islamist supporters of ousted President Mohamed Mursi on Thursday, arresting dozens in an operation to reimpose state control. A police general was shot dead and at least nine policemen and soldiers were wounded by a hand grenade in the clashes in Kerdasa, on the capital's western outskirts. ...

Russia's Putin says could seek re-election in 2018

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 01:42 PM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with 'Valdai' International Discussion Club members in town of ValdaiBy Alexei Anishchuk VALDAI, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he may seek re-election in 2018 and charted a conservative course drawn from Orthodox Christian values, saying the West was not an example for Russia. The former KGB spy also defended tough laws he has signed since returning to the Kremlin in May 2012 after four years as prime minister, including legislation critics say in effect bans gays from publicly expressing their sexual orientation. ...


Syrian minister sees stalemate between rebel, government forces

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:12 PM PDT

Female members of the "Mother Aisha" battalion sit together along a street in Aleppo's Salaheddine districtLONDON (Reuters) - A Syrian Deputy Prime Minister said neither government forces nor rebels were currently capable of outright military victory in the country's civil war, according to the British Guardian newspaper. Rebels have been fighting government forces in a civil war which has claimed 100,000 lives since 2011. Rebel forces control large areas of the country while better-armed forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad retain Damascus and key army bases. ...


U.S. says Obama open to meeting with Iran's Rouhani

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 12:13 PM PDT

Iranian President-elect Hassan Rohani gestures to the media during a news conference in TehranWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Thursday it was possible that President Barack Obama would meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in New York next week if Tehran signaled it was serious about giving up its nuclear program. Obama and Rouhani will be in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly, and speculation has grown that the two leaders might have an encounter of some type. White House spokesman Jay Carney has deflected questions all week about whether the two leaders would meet during the U.N. gathering. ...


Sudanese police fire teargas to disperse protest in Darfur

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:44 PM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese police used teargas to disperse thousands of protesters who set government buildings on fire in the biggest city in the western region of Darfur on Thursday, witnesses said. More than 2,000 people took to the streets in Nyala to demonstrate against the killing of a prominent businessman on Wednesday and deteriorating security in Sudan's second-largest city, the witnesses said. They set several government buildings and cars on fire and burned tires, blocking roads and prompting police to fire teargas. ...

Rowhani refuses to rule out Obama meeting

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 04:33 PM PDT

Iranian President Hassan Rowhani leaves the podium after adressing MP's on August 15, 2013 in TehranIranian President Hassan Rowhani refused to rule out a meeting with US President Barack Obama, saying in an interview broadcast Thursday "anything is possible."


Mexico victims recount horror; toll rises to 97

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 04:30 PM PDT

A car lays buried in mud after flooding triggered by Tropical Storm Manuel as residents try to clean up their neighborhood in Chilpancingo, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. Manuel, the same storm that devastated Acapulco, gained hurricane force and rolled into the northern state of Sinaloa on Thursday before starting to weaken. (AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez)ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — With a low, rumbling roar, an arc of dirt, rock and mud tumbled down the hillside in the remote mountain village of La Pintada, sweeping houses in its path, burying half the hamlet and leaving 68 people missing in its mad race to the river bed below.


Obama names leading donor as Canada ambassador

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 03:33 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama walks to the Oval Office September 10, 2013 in Washington, DCUS President Barack Obama named a Goldman Sachs executive and large campaign contributor as ambassador to Canada on Thursday amid potential rifts between the allies over the Keystone pipeline.


Marikana probe says S.Africa police lied about shootings

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 03:32 PM PDT

Minners march on South African government buildings in Pretoria on September 12, 2013A South African commission of inquiry accused police of lying about the shooting dead of 34 striking miners in Marikana last year, in a searing criticism of their conduct Thursday.


Pope criticizes church emphasis on abortion, gays

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 03:21 PM PDT

Pope Francis waves to faithful as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Signaling a dramatic shift in Vatican tone, Pope Francis said the Catholic Church had become obsessed by "small-minded rules" about how to be faithful and that pastors should instead emphasize compassion over condemnation when discussing divisive social issues of abortion, gays and contraception.


US urges China to play constructive role on Syria

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 03:11 PM PDT

Secretary of State John Kerry, right, listens as Chinese Foreign Minster Wang Yi, left, speaks before their bilateral meeting at the State Department in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. Syria and North Korea as well as other issues were to be discussed. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged Thursday a sharp disagreement with China over how the international community should respond to the use of chemical weapons in Syria and urged Beijing to play a "positive" role in the U.N. Security Council on the issue.


US sees 'chance for diplomacy' with Iran

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 03:11 PM PDT

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to media as he arrives September 17, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DCThe United States said Thursday that comments by Iranian President Hassan Rowhani had opened up a possible new path for diplomacy, and urged Tehran to engage "substantively" with the West.


US reviewing visa for Sudan's Bashir

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 03:02 PM PDT

Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir during an African Union meeting on January 27, 2013 in Addis AbabaThe United States was stuck on the horns of a dilemma Thursday, mulling whether to grant a visa to indicted war crimes suspect Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir amid growing pressure to bar him from a UN summit.


Greek PM warns neo-Nazi party after singer murder

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:55 PM PDT

A woman stands on September 19, 2013 in front of the spot where Pavlos Fyssas was murdered, in Piraeus, GreeceGreece's prime minister on Thursday vowed to rein in the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party after the murder of an anti-fascist singer by one of its supporters sparked nationwide outrage.


Iranian exile leader appeals for UN help

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:55 PM PDT

Opposition leader Maryam Radjavi shows a picture of a recent killing at Camp Ashraf on September 19, 2013 in GenevaAn Iranian opposition leader urged the United Nations Thursday to help free seven Iranians she said were being held in Iraq after a massacre at a camp for exiles killed 52.


Nigeria oil theft a global criminal enterprise

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:54 PM PDT

A file picture taken on October 21, 2011 shows Barges laden with stolen oil stationed along the Imo Rivers in Abia stateOil theft in Nigeria is a huge criminal operation affecting companies and states around the world, but interest in tackling the problem is low, Chatham House said in a report Thursday.


Pope says Church must end obsession with gays, contraception, abortion

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:52 PM PDT

Pope Francis exchanges gifts with Prime Minister of Lithuania Butkevicius during private audience at the VaticanBy Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said the Catholic Church must shake off an obsession with teachings on abortion, contraception and homosexuality and become more merciful or risk the collapse of its entire moral edifice "like a house of cards". In a dramatically blunt interview with an Italian Jesuit journal, Francis said the Church had "locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules" and should not be so prone to condemn. Its priests should be more welcoming and not cold, dogmatic bureaucrats. ...


Armed Russian guards lock up activists on ship: Greenpeace

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:45 PM PDT

An officer of Russian Coast Guard points a knife at a Greenpeace activist in the Pechora Sea on September 18, 2013Environmental group Greenpeace said Thursday that armed Russian officers had stormed its ship protesting oil exploration in the Arctic and detained all its crew in a locked room.


Q+A: Big powers devise plan to rid Syria of chemical weapons

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:32 PM PDT

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaks during an interview with Fox News channel in DamascusBy Louis Charbonneau and Anthony Deutsch UNITED NATIONS/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Last week Russia and the United States put aside bitter differences over Syria to strike a deal to remove President Bashar al-Assad's chemical arsenal and avert U.S. military action against him. The deal came after an August 21 sarin gas attack near Damascus that Washington says killed over 1,400 people, many of them children. Following are questions and answers about the plan to dismantle Syria's poison gas program. ...


Canada establishes markets regulator

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:30 PM PDT

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty (R) and Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada, in Moscow, on February 16, 2013Canada unveiled Thursday what it touted as the nation's first national securities regulator to replace a patchwork of regional watchdogs and rules, but only two of 10 provinces are onboard.


Boko Haram attack on Nigeria town kills at least 87

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:28 PM PDT

Nigerian police in Borno state pose prior to a patrol in former Boko Haram headquarters in Maiduguri on June 5, 2013A gruesome attack by Boko Haram Islamists disguised in military uniforms and armed with heavy weapons in Nigeria's northeast has killed at least 87 people, a state government official said Thursday.


Migrants storm Spanish border fence in Melilla again

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:19 PM PDT

African migrants sit near a fire as they hide in a forest in the eastern coastal city of Nador on September 18, 2013About 200 African migrants charged a barbed-wire border fence that separates the Spanish exclave of Melilla from Morocco on Thursday but fewer than 10 got over, local officials said, the latest in a string of coordinated assaults on the frontier.


Mali president inaugurated in front of thousands

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:18 PM PDT

French President Francois Hollande listens to Mali's Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on September 19, 2013 in BamakoLeaders from across Africa and France watched the inauguration of Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in front of thousands of his supporters on Thursday as the nation entered a new era of democracy after months of political chaos.


Judicial tug of war in Libya over Kadhafi son

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:17 PM PDT

Seif al-Islam at his father's residential complex in the Libyan capital Tripoli on August 23, 2011Slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi's son made a rare court appearance Thursday in a case highlighting the post-rebellion wrangle between Libya's regional authorities and the Tripoli government.


France's Hollande says to meet Iranian president next week

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:13 PM PDT

French President Hollande speaks at inauguration ceremony of Mali's new President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita at Stade du 26 Mars stadium in BamakoBAMAKO (Reuters) - France's president, Francois Hollande, said on Thursday he would meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly next week, the first meeting between presidents of the two countries since 2005. France has been a strong advocate of sanctions to pressure Iran over its nuclear program but has been cautious since Rouhani, a relative moderate, was elected earlier this year. Hollande said he had accepted an invitation to meet with the new Iranian leader. ...


Palestinian government takes oath for a second time

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:11 PM PDT

Newly appointed Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah visits the West Bank city of Nablus on June 4, 2013The Palestinian government was sworn in on Thursday in the West Bank city of Ramallah, weeks after caretaker prime minister Rami Hamdallah agreed to take up the post permanently.


Nigeria's stolen oil is sold and laundered abroad: report

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:08 PM PDT

A view is seen of an illegal oil refinery near a flowstation at the Nembe trunk carriage line, during an aerial tour by the Royal Dutch Shell company, near Nigeria's oil hub city of Port HarcourtBy Joe Brock ABUJA (Reuters) - Stolen Nigerian oil worth billions of dollars is sold every year on international markets and much of the proceeds are laundered in world financial centers like Britain and the United States, a report said on Thursday. An estimated 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil was stolen from pipelines in the Niger Delta in the first quarter of this year, the report by London-based Chatham House said, not including the unknown quantities stolen from export terminals. ...


Zimbabwe opposition says sanctions lift will expose Mugabe

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:06 PM PDT

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe during his inauguration ceremony in Harare on August 22, 2013Zimbabwe's main opposition on Thursday hailed moves by the European Union to lift sanctions against government and its allies, saying this would expose President Robert Mugabe's failures.


Climate report struggles with temperature quirks

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:00 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday Aug, 16, 2005 file photo an iceberg melts in Kulusuk, Greenland near the arctic circle. Scientists who are fine-tuning a landmark U.N. report on climate change are struggling to explain why global warming appears to have slowed down in the past 15 years even as greenhouse gas emissions keep rising. Leaked documents show there is widespread disagreement among governments over how to address the contentious issue in Sept. 23-26 stock-taking report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (AP Photo/John McConnico, File)STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scientists working on a landmark U.N. report on climate change are struggling over how to address a wrinkle in the meteorological data that has given ammunition to global-warming skeptics: The heating of Earth's surface appears to have slowed in the past 15 years even though greenhouse gas emissions keep rising.


Challenger mocks 'roundabout' Merkel in last push for votes

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 01:59 PM PDT

SPD top-candidate Steinbrueck gestures during town-hall style election rally event at Alexanderplatz in BerlinBy Annika Breidthardt BERLIN (Reuters) - Angela Merkel's center-left challenger in Sunday's election mocked the chancellor on Thursday as a timid driver steering Germany round in circles and urged his supporters to disregard polls predicting her victory. Peer Steinbrueck's Social Democrats (SPD) are trailing Merkel's conservatives by at least 10 percentage points and he has sharpened his attacks on the woman Germans nickname 'Mutti' (Mummy) as election day looms. ...


Egypt returns $2 billion aid to Qatar

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 01:54 PM PDT

An Egyptian armed policeman holds in front of a burnt police station in Kerdassah outside of Cairo on September 19, 2013Qatar announced Thursday that Cairo has returned a $2-billion bank deposit which Doha wanted to transform into bonds, in a sign of strained ties since the ouster of Egypt's Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.


Tunisia's ruling Islamists agree to transition negotiations

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 01:50 PM PDT

By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's governing Islamists on Thursday agreed in principle to a trade union proposal that it step down to make way for a transitional government and new elections. The coalition's approval of the plan may open up an immediate dialogue with the its secular opponents and end the unrest that erupted after the assassination of an opposition figure in July. "Our response to the initiative of the union was positive as a platform for dialogue with the political parties," said Ameur Larayedh, a senior official in the moderate Islamist ruling party Ennahda. ...

Hollande in favour of 'controlled' arms shipments to Free Syrian Army

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 01:44 PM PDT

Francois Hollande is seen at the Elysee presidential Palace on September 17, 2013 in ParisFrench President Francois Hollande said on Thursday that France was in favour of sending weapons to the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) but only "in a controlled environment" and "with a number of countries".


Stephen Hawking reveals trials, triumphs in new film of his life

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 01:42 PM PDT

Scientist Stephen Hawking appears during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games on August 29, 2012Cosmologist Stephen Hawking tells the extraordinary tale of how he overcame severe disability to become the most famous living scientist in a new documentary film premiered in Britain on Thursday.


Hollande asks African leaders for help in freeing Qaeda hostages

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 01:41 PM PDT

President Francois Hollande greets his Chadian counterpart Idriss Deby Itno on September 19, 2013 in BamakoFrench President Francois Hollande said on Thursday he had reached out to leaders of countries across Africa's Sahel region to work towards freeing French hostages kidnapped by Al-Qaeda's north African branch.


Tunisia says CIA warned of politician murder

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 01:38 PM PDT

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia says it was warned by the CIA of a planned attack against a lawmaker whose assassination in July plunged the country into a political crisis, but said there were failures in the Tunisian security services' response.

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