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• Israel to run for U.N. Security Council seat for 2019-20
• Netanyahu says Iranian missiles could eventually reach U.S.
• Syria rebels try to end infighting near Turkish border
• Hundreds dead, missing as migrant boat sinks off Italy
• Plane crash near Nigeria's Lagos airport kills 16
• Leader of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn held in custody before trial
• U.S. shutdown seen dragging on as debt ceiling fight nears
• Driver shot dead in car chase at U.S. Capitol
• 'Armed bandits' kill Niger soldier in Nigeria
• Suspect shot dead after car chase in Washington
• Migrant workers rounded up in pre-Olympic Sochi: rights group
• Tunisian man extradited to U.S. in NATO base attack case
• Brazil police accused of torturing bricklayer to death
• U.S. sanctions Rwanda, others over child soldiers
• Tunisian man extradited to US in suicide bomb plot
• Thousands who protested peacefully languish in Syrian jails: HRW
• Tunisian government and opponents to start talks Saturday
• Ship capsizes off Italy; 114 African migrants die
• In Malaysia, Mahathir's rising son signals conservative shift
• UN rights monitor condemns deadly Sudan crackdown
• Israel on guard 40 years after Yom Kippur war
• Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood keeps protests alive
• Polish church rejects damages in paedophile case
• Who's who of Greece's indicted Golden Dawn lawmakers
• Tunisia political dialogue to start Saturday
• Syrians, Lebanese job competition adds to tensions
• Groups launch privacy suit against UK spy agency
• Hundreds dead, missing as migrant boat sinks off Italy
• Syria refugees protest in France, seek to go to Britain
• U.K. Tabloid Daily Mail Attacks Opposition Leader’s Father, Riles Up British Public
• Ashton urges 'inclusive' approach on Egypt turmoil
• Guinea opposition boycott count of disputed poll
• 14 dead as charter plane crash-lands in Lagos
• Disarmament experts report early progress in Syria
• Greek neo-Nazi leaders detained on criminal charges
• South Africa's Zuma laments 'unacceptable' inequality
• Chinese group plans to rebuild London's Crystal Palace
• Somali leader vows never again on 'Black Hawk Down'

Israel to run for U.N. Security Council seat for 2019-20 Posted: 03 Oct 2013 02:59 PM PDT By Dan Williams NEW YORK (Reuters) - Israel said on Thursday it plans to run for a rotating seat on the U.N. Security Council for the time ever for 2019-2020, although U.N. diplomats said it will not be easy for the Jewish state to win. "We're going all out to win," Israel's U.N. Ambassador Ron Prosor told Reuters. "It's about time." Winning a Security Council seat requires a two-thirds majority in the 193-nation General Assembly. Candidates are proposed by the five regional groups but election to the council is done by the full assembly. ...

Netanyahu says Iranian missiles could eventually reach U.S. Posted: 03 Oct 2013 09:07 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In his latest warning about Iran's nuclear ambitions, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Iran was working on intercontinental ballistic missiles that could one day hit the United States. "They're not developing those ICBMs for us. They can reach us with what they have. It's for you," he told CBS News. "The American intelligence knows as well as we do that Iran is developing ICBMs not to reach Israel. They want to reach well beyond," he said on the network's "This Morning" program. ...

Syria rebels try to end infighting near Turkish border Posted: 03 Oct 2013 09:02 AM PDT By Alexander Dziadosz BEIRUT (Reuters) - Six powerful Syrian rebel groups on Thursday demanded al Qaeda-linked militants and rival insurgents end clashes that have escalated infighting in a strategic northern border area. The al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) seized Azaz, about 5 km (3 miles) from the frontier with Turkey, last month and has repeatedly clashed with the local Northern Storm brigade since then. A previous attempt by rebel groups to broker a truce between the two sides failed. ...

Hundreds dead, missing as migrant boat sinks off Italy Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:34 PM PDT By Wladimir Pantaleone PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - More than 300 people drowned or were feared dead after a boat packed with African migrants caught fire and sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Thursday, one of the worst disasters of Europe's chronic immigration crisis. The 20-metre (66-foot) boat, believed to be carrying around 500 people, mostly Eritreans and Somalis, sank no more than 1 km (half a mile) from shore after a fire broke out, triggering a general panic that capsized the vessel. ...

Plane crash near Nigeria's Lagos airport kills 16 Posted: 03 Oct 2013 09:23 AM PDT By Chijioke Ohuocha and Tim Cocks LAGOS (Reuters) - Sixteen people were killed when a small passenger plane crashed shortly after takeoff outside Lagos airport's domestic terminal on Thursday, Nigerian authorities said. The aircraft, operated by Nigeria's Associated Airlines, came down in open ground, close to an aviation fuel depot in the commercial capital. Local media reported it was carrying the body of a former regional governor, and members of his family, to his funeral. A Reuters reporter saw emergency workers take a coffin out of the wreckage. ...

Leader of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn held in custody before trial Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:57 PM PDT By Angeliki Koutantou and Karolina Tagaris ATHENS (Reuters) - The leader of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party was remanded in custody on Thursday pending trial on criminal charges, the first time an elected party chief has been put behind bars since a military coup nearly five decades ago. The detention of Nikolaos Mihaloliakos, who has watched support for his party wane after a supporter was accused of murdering a popular rapper, is a reprieve for Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's government that has vowed to wipe out the party, calling it a "gang of neo-Nazis". ...

U.S. shutdown seen dragging on as debt ceiling fight nears Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:15 PM PDT By Mark Felsenthal and Richard Cowan (Reuters) - The shutdown of the U.S. government appeared likely to drag on for another week and possibly longer as lawmakers consumed day three of the shutdown with a stalling game and there was no end in sight until the next crisis hits Washington around October 17. That is the date Congress must raise the nation's borrowing authority or risk default, and members of Congress now expect it to be the flashpoint for a larger clash over the U.S. budget as well as President Barack Obama's healthcare law. ...

Driver shot dead in car chase at U.S. Capitol Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:03 PM PDT By Richard Cowan and Margaret Chadbourn WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A dramatic car chase through the streets of Washington from near the White House to the U.S. Capitol ended in gunfire on Thursday when law enforcement shot and killed the driver as lawmakers and aides huddled in a lockdown. The identity of the driver - a woman - was not released. "The suspect in the vehicle was struck by gunfire and at this point has been pronounced (dead)," Washington's police chief, Cathy Lanier, told reporters. ...

'Armed bandits' kill Niger soldier in Nigeria Posted: 03 Oct 2013 03:52 PM PDT Niamey (AFP) - "Armed bandits" have killed a Niger soldier and seriously wounded three others in Nigeria's volatile north-east, a high-ranking Niger security official told AFP Thursday, in new violence to hit an area considered as the homebase of Islamist sect Boko Haram.

Suspect shot dead after car chase in Washington Posted: 03 Oct 2013 03:51 PM PDT Washington (AFP) - US police shot a female motorist dead on Thursday after she led them on a wild high-speed chase from the White House through downtown Washington to the Capitol building.

Migrant workers rounded up in pre-Olympic Sochi: rights group Posted: 03 Oct 2013 03:31 PM PDT By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities have detained hundreds of migrant workers in Sochi, the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics, and have held many of them in "arbitrary and inhuman conditions", Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. Many of those detained in a wave of raids on work sites, homes and public places since early September helped build venues or infrastructure for the Games being held in the Black Sea resort city in February, the advocacy group said. ...

Tunisian man extradited to U.S. in NATO base attack case Posted: 03 Oct 2013 03:29 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Tunisian man who served 10 years in a Belgian prison for planning to attack a NATO air base on behalf of al Qaeda was extradited to the United States on Thursday to face similar U.S. charges, the Justice Department said. Nizar Trabelsi, 43, was arrested in Belgium two days after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and was convicted by a Belgian court in 2003 of plotting to blow himself up at the Kleine Brogel base, which housed U.S. soldiers. ...

Brazil police accused of torturing bricklayer to death Posted: 03 Oct 2013 03:17 PM PDT Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Ten Brazilian policemen may face trial after being accused of torturing a bricklayer to death and then hiding the body, a police official said Thursday.

U.S. sanctions Rwanda, others over child soldiers Posted: 03 Oct 2013 03:11 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States moved to block U.S. military aid to Rwanda because of its support for the M23 Congolese rebel group believed to use child soldiers, the State Department said on Thursday. The sanctions also apply to the Central African Republic, Myanmar, Sudan and Syria, according to the U.S. State Department. It was unclear whether those nations receive U.S. military assistance. "Our goal is to work with countries who have been listed to ensure that any involvement in child soldiers - any involvement in the recruitment of child soldiers - stop," U.S. ...

Tunisian man extradited to US in suicide bomb plot Posted: 03 Oct 2013 02:40 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A member of al-Qaida who allegedly met with Osama bin Laden in 2001 has been extradited to the United States to face charges that he conspired to carry out a suicide bomb attack against Americans in Europe.

Thousands who protested peacefully languish in Syrian jails: HRW Posted: 03 Oct 2013 02:13 PM PDT AMMAN (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people who peacefully demonstrated against President Bashar al-Assad are languishing in Syrian jails and are subjected to an apparent policy of torture, according to New York-based Human Rights Watch. Citing testimony from former prisoners, HRW said in a report that detainees have been raped and abused, including with electric shocks to the genitals, and beaten with batons, cables, metal rods, and wires. ...

Tunisian government and opponents to start talks Saturday Posted: 03 Oct 2013 02:03 PM PDT By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's ruling Islamists and their secular opponents will start three weeks of negotiations on Saturday to allow the government to step down and make way for a caretaker cabinet until elections, a labor union mediating the talks said. The moderate Islamist Ennahda party agreed at the weekend to a deal under which the government would resign after the talks as a way to end months of political deadlock in the country where the Arab Spring uprisings began. ...

Ship capsizes off Italy; 114 African migrants die Posted: 03 Oct 2013 02:03 PM PDT ROME (AP) — The rickety fishing boat was the third of the night to head toward the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, overloaded with African migrants seeking a better life in Europe. Most never reached shore.

In Malaysia, Mahathir's rising son signals conservative shift Posted: 03 Oct 2013 02:02 PM PDT By Siva Sithraputhran KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The chief minister of the rural Malaysian state of Kedah has a familiar face, even if he lacks the charisma, provocative rhetoric and razor-sharp political skills of his famous father. Mukhriz Mahathir is the youngest son of Malaysia's longest-serving leader, Mahathir Mohamad, whose often authoritarian rule transformed the economy into a developing powerhouse while winning a reputation for cronyism and dubious "mega-projects". ...

UN rights monitor condemns deadly Sudan crackdown Posted: 03 Oct 2013 01:53 PM PDT Geneva (AFP) - A UN human rights monitor on Thursday strongly condemned Sudan's deadly crackdown on a wave of protests sparked by fuel price hikes, urging all sides to refrain from violence.

Israel on guard 40 years after Yom Kippur war Posted: 03 Oct 2013 01:48 PM PDT Jerusalem (AFP) - Forty years after the Yom Kippur war, when Arab states caught it off guard, Israel once again feels vulnerable to a surprise attack in a hostile region.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood keeps protests alive Posted: 03 Oct 2013 01:41 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Graffiti around the Egyptian capital proclaim the Muslim Brotherhood's call for new anti-military protests Sunday — dotting walls, light poles and signposts for miles down main avenues and near the presidential palace from which the group was ousted three months ago. It's an impressive show of survival, giving the image that the Brotherhood is everywhere, just under the surface.

Polish church rejects damages in paedophile case Posted: 03 Oct 2013 01:15 PM PDT Warsaw (AFP) - Poland's powerful Roman Catholic Church on Thursday rejected a first-ever request for damages by a victim of a convicted paedophile priest, opening the door to legal action, judicial officials said.

Who's who of Greece's indicted Golden Dawn lawmakers Posted: 03 Oct 2013 01:06 PM PDT Athens (AFP) - Six lawmakers from Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party have been indicted this week for taking part in a criminal organisation, in a crackdown prompted by last month's murder of an anti-fascist musician by a supporter of the party.

Tunisia political dialogue to start Saturday Posted: 03 Oct 2013 01:01 PM PDT Tunis (AFP) - Direct negotiations between Tunisia's ruling Islamist party Ennahda and the opposition to resolve a months-old political crisis sparked by the assassination of an opposition MP will begin on Saturday, mediators announced Thursday.

Syrians, Lebanese job competition adds to tensions Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:59 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Along busy Hamra street in west Beirut, Syrians fleeing their country's civil war have opened up scores of shops that compete with older ones run by Lebanese already hurting because of a sharp drop in tourism.

Groups launch privacy suit against UK spy agency Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:52 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — Three organizations in Britain have filed a lawsuit at the European Court of Human Rights, accusing their country's eavesdropping agency of using its online surveillance programs to violate the privacy of millions of citizens.

Hundreds dead, missing as migrant boat sinks off Italy Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:50 PM PDT By Wladimir Pantaleone PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - More than 300 people drowned or were feared dead after a boat packed with African migrants caught fire and sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Thursday, one of the worst disasters of Europe's chronic immigration crisis. The 20-metre (66-foot) boat, believed to be carrying around 500 people, mostly Eritreans and Somalis, sank no more than 1 km (half a mile) from shore after a fire broke out, triggering a general panic that capsized the vessel. ...

Syria refugees protest in France, seek to go to Britain Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:48 PM PDT Calais (France) (AFP) - About 60 Syrian refugees, of whom 40 are on a hunger strike, have occupied a key point in the northern French port of Calais and vowed to stay put until they are sent to Britain.

U.K. Tabloid Daily Mail Attacks Opposition Leader’s Father, Riles Up British Public Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:48 PM PDT British tabloid newspaper the Daily Mail—which runs the most read online newspaper in the world, Mail Online—is facing criticism from parts of the British press and politicians following its story criticizing the late father of the leader of the opposition Labour party, Ed Miliband.

Ashton urges 'inclusive' approach on Egypt turmoil Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:36 PM PDT Cairo (AFP) - EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton on Thursday called for an "inclusive" approach to solve political turmoil in Egypt triggered by the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.

Guinea opposition boycott count of disputed poll Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:35 PM PDT Conakry (AFP) - Guinea's main opposition parties on Thursday withdrew representatives overseeing the counting of votes in a legislative election they have said was riddled with fraud, calling the process a "joke."

14 dead as charter plane crash-lands in Lagos Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:30 PM PDT Lagos (AFP) - A Nigerian charter plane with 20 people on board suffered engine failure shortly after takeoff from Lagos on Thursday, crash-landing near an airport fuel depot and killing at least 14 people, officials said.

Disarmament experts report early progress in Syria Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:29 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — International inspectors racing to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons stockpile said Thursday they have made "encouraging initial progress" in their mission, and they hope to start onsite inspections and to begin disabling equipment within a week.

Greek neo-Nazi leaders detained on criminal charges Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:27 PM PDT Athens (AFP) - The leader of Greece's Golden Dawn party was taken to a high-security prison Thursday pending his trial on criminal charges, as part of a major government crackdown on the neo-Nazi group.

South Africa's Zuma laments 'unacceptable' inequality Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:23 PM PDT Johannesburg (AFP) - President Jacob Zuma on Thursday lamented "unacceptable" levels of inequality still blighting South Africa, despite a decade of post-apartheid reforms.

Chinese group plans to rebuild London's Crystal Palace Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:13 PM PDT London (AFP) - A Chinese investment firm on Thursday announced plans to resurrect London's Crystal Palace, once the largest glass structure in the world.

Somali leader vows never again on 'Black Hawk Down' Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:10 PM PDT Mogadishu (AFP) - Twenty years since Somali fighters shot down two American Black Hawk helicopters, Somalia's leader said Thursday that his battle weary nation had emerged from the "ashes of war."

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