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Libya, Somalia raids show U.S. reach, problems

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 05:01 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gestures during a news conference at the APEC ministerial meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali islandBy Ghaith Shennib and Abdi Sheikh TRIPOLI/MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Two U.S. raids in Africa show the United States is pressuring al Qaeda, officials said on Sunday, though a failure in Somalia and an angry response in Libya also highlighted Washington's problems. In Tripoli, U.S. forces snatched a Libyan wanted over the bombings of the American embassy in Nairobi 15 years ago and whisked him out of the country, prompting Secretary of State John Kerry to declare that al Qaeda leaders "can run but they can't hide". ...


Destruction of Syrian chemical weapons begins: mission

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 01:49 PM PDT

U.N. vehicles transporting a team of experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) return to their hotel in DamascusBy Mariam Karouny BEIRUT (Reuters) - International experts began overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal on Sunday, said an official from the mission that has averted a U.S. strike but could rob President Bashar al-Assad of his most feared weapon. The process is being conducted amid a civil war in which 120,000 people have been killed, fragmenting Syria along sectarian and ethnic lines and drawing in Iran and Hezbollah on the side of Assad and his Alawite minority and Arab Sunni powers on the side of the mostly Sunni Muslim rebels. ...


Clashes across Egypt kill 51, more protests called

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 03:07 PM PDT

A riot police officer fires tear gas during clashes between anti-Mursi protesters, and members of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi supporters, in CairoBy Yara Bayoumy CAIRO (Reuters) - At least 51 people were killed in clashes in Egyptian cities on Sunday, security sources said, after opponents and supporters of deposed president Mohamad Mursi took to the streets in one of the bloodiest days since the army seized power. In a sign of more possible violence to come, an alliance including Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood urged Egyptians to protest from Tuesday and gather on Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday, declaring: "No one will stop us from (Tahrir) no matter what the sacrifices". ...


German embassy employee shot dead outside store in Yemen

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 10:10 AM PDT

People gather outside a supermarket carpark after a shooting in SanaaBy Mohamed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead a German security guard employed by the German embassy in Yemen's capital on Sunday as he was leaving a supermarket, Yemeni security officials said, in an attack they said bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda. The man was gunned down in Sanaa's Hadda district, where the embassy is located. It was the latest in a series of attacks on foreign and local officials in the U.S.-allied state, which is battling one of the most active branches of al Qaeda. "We believe that al Qaeda was behind the killing," a Yemeni police source said. ...


New York case offers insight into secret war against Somali militants

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 03:03 PM PDT

By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For years before Saturday's unsuccessful raid in Somalia to capture a top al Shabaab militant, Washington had waged a secret law enforcement and spy war against the group, which claimed responsibility for last month's deadly assault on a Kenyan shopping mall but has little record of targeting the United States. A low-profile New York federal court case offers a rare glimpse into that clandestine offensive, which involves not only U.S. ...

Netanyahu faces ridicule from Iranians online over "jeans" comment

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 02:33 PM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu speaks during the weekly cabinet meeting in JerusalemBy Yeganeh Torbati DUBAI (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have sought to win over Iranians in an interview with British Persian-language television, but a casual assertion that they were banned from wearing jeans won only gentle ridicule from some of his audience on Sunday. Netanyahu has watched with some concern a diplomatic drive by new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to build warmer ties with the United States and other Western powers and achieve an easing of sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear program. ...


Wenger hails Wilshere strength of character

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 04:45 PM PDT

Arsenal's English midfielder Jack Wilshere (R) shoots at goal in front of West Bromwich Albion's English defender Billy Jones (L) at The Hawthorns in West Bromwich on October 6, 2013West Bromwich (United Kingdom) (AFP) - Arsene Wenger hailed Jack Wilshere’s character as the midfielder put a testing week behind him by scoring the goal which sent Arsenal back to the top of the table.


Hammers woe a wake-up call, says Villas-Boas

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 04:39 PM PDT

West Ham United's New Zealand defender Winston Reid (L) celebrates scoring the opening goal with English midfielder Kevin Nolan (R) at White Hart Lane in London on October 6, 2013London (AFP) - Andre Villas-Boas admitted Tottenham's shock 3-0 defeat against West Ham will serve as a major wake-up call to his players.


World Cup worry for injured Cole after Chelsea win

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 04:38 PM PDT

Chelsea's English defender Ashley Cole is substituted at Carrow Road in Norwich on October 6, 2013Norwich (United Kingdom) (AFP) - Ashley Cole is an England injury concern ahead of Friday's World Cup qualifier with Montenegro after Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho revealed the left-back required a scan on a rib injury.


20 killed as Boko Haram, Nigerian troops clash

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 04:34 PM PDT

This file picture taken on April 30, 2013 shows Nigerian troops patrolling in the streets of the remote northeast town of BagaMaiduguri (Nigeria) (AFP) - Boko Haram Islamists claimed five lives in an attack on a mosque in northeast Nigeria over the weekend, before being repulsed by soldiers who killed 15 of the insurgents, the military said in a statement Sunday.


Malala invited to Buckingham Palace to meet queen

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 04:11 PM PDT

Malala Yousafzai speaks at an awards ceremony in Dublin on September 17, 2013London (AFP) - Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, shot last year by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' schooling, has been invited to a Buckingham Palace reception to meet Queen Elizabeth II, officials said Sunday.


U.S. raid in Somalia targeted al Shabaab commander Ikrima: officials

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 04:01 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. raid in Somalia targeted a Kenyan of Somali origin known by the name Ikrima, described as a foreign fighter commander for al Shabaab in Somalia, U.S. officials told Reuters on Sunday, speaking on condition of anonymity. The United States has not formally named the target of the weekend raid in Somalia, in which Navy SEALS stormed ashore into the al Shabaab stronghold of Barawe. One U.S. official has previously said the target was neither killed or captured. (Reporting by Phil Stewart and Tabassum Zakaria; editing by Christopher Wilson)

U.S., Britain push Congo to prosecute soldiers over Minova rapes

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 03:52 PM PDT

By Michelle Nichols GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - The United States and Britain pushed Democratic Republic of Congo officials to prosecute soldiers accused of raping some 130 women and girls in Congo's volatile east, U.N. Security Council envoys said during a visit to the country on Sunday. U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, and British U.N. Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant raised the issue during a meeting between the 15 Security Council envoys and Congo's defense, interior and justice ministers in Kinshasa on Saturday. ...

50 dead as Egypt Islamists try to galvanise protests

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 03:39 PM PDT

Tires burn as Egyptian Muslim brotherhood and supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi take part in clashes with riot police along Ramsis street in downtown Cairo, on October 6, 2013Cairo (AFP) - At least 50 people were killed in clashes between Islamists and police in Egypt on Sunday, as thousands of the military's supporters marked the anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.


Egypt: 51 killed in new bout of street violence

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 03:31 PM PDT

Supporters and opponents of Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi clash in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013. Rival crowds of supporters of Egypt's military and backers of the Islamist president deposed by the army poured into streets around the country Sunday, as a holiday marking the anniversary of the last war with Israel turned into a showdown between the country's two camps. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)CAIRO (AP) — Security forces and Islamist protesters clashed around the country Sunday, leaving 51 killed, as a national holiday celebrating the military turned to mayhem. Crowds from Egypt's two rival camps — supporters of the ousted Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, and backers of the military that deposed him — poured into the streets and turned on each other.


Crocodiles disappearing as dinner in Jamaica

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 03:27 PM PDT

In this Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013 photo, crocodile enthusiast Lawrence Henriques pats the tail of a seven-foot female crocodile at a sanctuary and captive rearing program he founded in the mountain town of Cascade in northern Jamaica. He set up the facility as a domestic market for crocodile meat and even eggs as conservationists worried that the big reptiles, protected by law since 1971 and already endangered by the steady loss of their wetland habitat, might be wiped from the wild altogether. (AP Photo/David McFadden)CASCADE, Jamaica (AP) — Crocodiles were once so abundant along the salty rim of southern Jamaica that images of their toothy jaws and spiny armor crown the tropical island's coat of arms and are stenciled on the bumpers of military vehicles.


Italian migrant death toll reaches at least 194

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 03:22 PM PDT

Italian soldiers carry body bags at the Lampedusa island, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013. Authorities say divers have recovered new bodies from a fiery shipwreck of a fishing boat packed with 500 migrants from Eritrea. Financial police Maj. Leonardo Ricci said divers have recovered about 10 bodies since resuming the search Sunday morning. He said the search and recovery would continue "as long as the sea is calm and there is light." The search had been suspended for the last two days due to rough seas. As many as 250 people remain missing from Thursday's shipwreck. There are 155 survivors and 111 bodies recovered. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)LAMPEDUSA, Italy (AP) — Pairs of divers plumbed calmer seas off the Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday to recover the corpses of would-be asylum seekers who died when a fishing boat packed with 500 African migrants capsized within sight of land. By nightfall, 83 bodies had been retrieved, including one child, raising the official death toll to 194.


US vows 'relentless' terror fight after Somalia, Libya raids

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 03:21 PM PDT

This image provided by the FBI shows Abu Anas al-Libi on their wanted list October 5, 2013Washington (AFP) - The United States pledged Sunday to keep "relentless pressure" on terror groups following the daring capture of an Al-Qaeda operative in Libya and the storming of a Shebab stronghold in Somalia.


Experts begin dismantling Syrian chemical program

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 03:02 PM PDT

BEIRUT (AP) — International disarmament experts on Sunday began dismantling and destroying Syria's chemical weapons arsenal and the equipment used to produce it, taking the first concrete step in their colossal task of eliminating the country's chemical stockpile by mid-2014, an official said.

Raid shows chaotic Libya a key militant haven

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 02:55 PM PDT

By Patrick Markey TUNIS (Reuters) - The U.S. raid to snatch a top al Qaeda suspect off a Tripoli street confirmed what many Libyans already feared: Post-revolution chaos has made their vast North African country a haven for Islamist militants with transnational ambitions. Two years after a war backed by the West ousted Muammar Gaddafi, Libya is still fragile, its government weak and its army unable to control vast tracts of territory, where rival militias battle over a share of the country's spoils. ...

Libya, Somalia raids show U.S. commitment against militants: Hagel

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 02:55 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Sunday praised U.S. raids in Libya and Somalia over the weekend, saying they showed America would "spare no effort to hold terrorists accountable." "I want to commend all of the service members who were involved in the planning and execution of these two operations, which demonstrate the unparalleled precision, global reach, and capabilities of the United States military," Hagel said in a statement. (Reporting by Phil Stewart; Editing by Sandra Maler)

Shabaab say no senior official was in house raided by U.S. forces

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 02:55 PM PDT

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalian Islamist militants al Shabaab said on Sunday there was "no senior official" present at a house raided by U.S. forces south of the capital on Sunday. U.S. forces conducted raids in Libya and Somalia on Saturday, two weeks after the attack on a Nairobi shopping mall which was claimed by al Shabaab, capturing an al Qaeda figure in Tripoli wanted for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. The raid on Barawe failed to take its target. "The U.S. claim that a senior Al Shabaab official was in the house is false. ...

Destruction of Syria's chemical weapons begins

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 02:54 PM PDT

A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on October 6, 2013 shows President Bashar al-Assad answering questions for a journalistDamascus (AFP) - Experts destroyed missile warheads, aerial bombs and chemical mixing equipment Sunday on the first day of a campaign to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons, the UN said.


Mexican monster truck wreck kills 8, hurts dozens

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 02:41 PM PDT

People run as an out of control monster truck plows through a crowd of spectators at a Mexican air show in the city of Chihuahua, Mexico, Saturday Oct. 5, 2013. According to authorities, at least 8 people were killed and 80 were injured. (AP Photo/El Diario de Chihuahua)CHIHUAHUA, Mexico (AP) — An out-of-control monster truck shot into a crowd of spectators at a Mexican air show, killing eight people and hurting 79, officials said. The driver was detained Sunday on suspicion of manslaughter and officials said they were investigating possible safety violations in the setup of the show.


US capture of Qaeda man a blow to fledgling Libya govt

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 02:34 PM PDT

This image provided by the FBI shows Abu Anas al-Libi on their wanted list October 5, 2013Tripoli (AFP) - The US capture of a senior Al-Qaeda militant in Libya is an embarrassment for the fledgling government and could spark the wrath of the volatile country's Islamist extremists.


Kenyan police detail car used in mall attack

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 02:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013 file photo, a member of a team of international and Kenyan forensic investigators takes photographs inside the trunk of a Mitsubishi Lancer saloon car, partially obscured behind foliage in foreground, parked a short distance from the entrance to the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya's counter-terrorism police released closed circuit television footage Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013, showing two men entering a local bank to withdraw enough money to pay for this Mitsubishi Lancer car that they allege was used to bring the terrorists to the Westgate Mall. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's counterterrorism police unit released closed-circuit television footage Sunday that showed two men entering a local bank where they collected money and paid for a car used to bring terrorists to Nairobi's Westgate Mall, indicating the deadly attack was planned weeks in advance, officials said.


Al-Qaeda claims attack in Iraqi Kurdish capital

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 02:24 PM PDT

Iraqi Kurdish security forces inspect the site of a car bomb explosion in Arbil on September 29, 2013Baghdad (AFP) - An Al-Qaeda front group said it carried out an attack on security forces in Iraq's usually-quiet autonomous Kurdish region, in a statement posted on the Honein jihadist forum on Sunday.


New Sudan protests as Bashir orders women freed

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 02:16 PM PDT

People outside the courthouse in the Haj Yousef district of Khartoum on October 6, 2013Khartoum (AFP) - Tyres burned and shouts for "freedom" filled the air in a Sudanese town Sunday night during renewed anti-government demonstrations, witnesses said, while authorities freed some people arrested after earlier protests.


Despite risks African migrants still try to reach Spain

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 02:03 PM PDT

A military ship on the site of a shipwreck of migrants on October 6, 2013 near the Lampedusa islandMadrid (AFP) - Packed in wooden boats or rubber dinghies, migrants from Africa are still making the journey across the sea to try to enter Spain illegally despite the perils highlighted by the tragic shipwreck off Italy.


Argentine leader ordered to rest after head injury

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 01:58 PM PDT

File - In a Monday, Sept. 30, 2013 file photo, Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez speaks during a ceremony in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fernandez's government was moving into uncharted political territory on Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013 after doctors ordered the Argentine president to take a month's rest upon finding blood on her brain from a head injury. With her doctors' latest orders, she cannot campaign for her allies ahead of the Oct. 27 congressional midterm elections that will determine whether her ruling party can retain the seats necessary to allow her to keep governing with virtually unchecked power. The president's spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro said the president had suffered a previously undisclosed "skull trauma" on Aug. 12, one day after the primaries. He did not release any details. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko,, File)BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — President Cristina Fernandez's government was in uncharted territory Sunday after doctors ordered the Argentine leader to take a month's rest because they found blood on her brain from a head injury.


Snatched Qaeda suspect a near unknown in Libya

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 01:48 PM PDT

Abdul Moheman al-Raghie (L) and Nabih al-Raghie, the son and brother of al-Qaeda suspect Abu Anas al-Libi, speak to the press in Nofleine on October 6, 2013Tripoli (AFP) - Abu Anas al-Libi, the Al-Qaeda suspect seized in Libya over the 1998 bombings of American embassies in east Africa, is almost unknown in his homeland where he kept a low profile.


Spanish shepherds guide 2,000 sheep through Madrid

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 01:45 PM PDT

A waitress looks on from a shop as shepherds, unseen, lead their sheep through the centre of Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2012. Spanish shepherds led flocks of sheep through the streets of downtown Madrid in defense of ancient grazing, migration and droving rights threatened by urban sprawl and man-made frontiers. The rights to droving routes have existed since before Madrid grew from a rural hamlet to the great capital it is today. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)MADRID (AP) — Shepherds led a flock of 2,000 sheep through Madrid on Sunday in defense of ancient grazing, droving and migration rights increasingly threatened by urban sprawl and modern agricultural practices.


Libya bristles at US raid that captured militant

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 01:41 PM PDT

This image from the FBI website shows Anas al-Libi. Gunmen in a three-car convoy seized Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his alias Anas al-Libi, an al-Qaeda leader connected to the 1998 embassy bombings in eastern Africa and wanted by the U.S. for more than a decade outside his house Saturday in the Libyan capital, his relatives said. (AP Photo/FBI)A suspected Libyan al-Qaida figure nabbed by U.S. special forces in a dramatic operation in Tripoli was living freely in his homeland for the past two years, after a trajectory that took him to Sudan, Afghanistan and Iran, where he had been detained for years, his family said Sunday. The Libyan government bristled at the raid, asking Washington to explain the "kidnapping."


Iran's top diplomat hints at broader ties with US

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 01:37 PM PDT

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's Foreign Minister is saying Iranian legislators and scholars may have ties with their American counterparts.

Raids suggest future shape of counterterror bids

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 01:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2008 file photo, armed al-Shabab fighters just outside Mogadishu prepare to travel into the city in pickup trucks after vowing there would be new waves of attacks against Ethiopian troops. International military forces carried out a pre-dawn strike Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, against foreign fighters in the same southern Somalia village where U.S. Navy SEALS four years ago killed a most-wanted al-Qaida operative, officials said. The strike comes exactly two weeks after al-Shabab militants attacked Nairobi's Westgate Mall, a four-day terrorist assault that killed at least 67 people in neighboring Kenya. Al-Shabab has a formal alliance with al-Qaida, and hundreds of foreign fighters from the U.S., Britain and Middle Eastern countries fight alongside Somali members of al-Shabab. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. commando raids in Libya and Somalia suggest the future shape of U.S. counterterrorism efforts — brief, targeted raids against highly sought extremist figures — and highlight the rise of Africa as a terrorist haven.


Mexico monster truck accident kills 8, including kids, injures 79

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 01:31 PM PDT

Spectators react after a monster truck rammed the stand where they were watching a monster truck rally show at El Rejon park, ChihuahuaMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Eight people, including four children, were killed and 79 injured when a monster truck careened into a crowd at a show in northern Mexico, an official at the public prosecutor's office in the city of Chihuahua said on Sunday. The incident late on Saturday afternoon took place at the El Rejon dam on the outskirts of the city, about 230 miles south of Mexico's border with the United States. The dead included four children, the spokesman said. Of the 79 injured, 28 are still hospitalized, with 12 in a "delicate but stable condition," the spokesman said. ...


Afghan presidential candidates finish registration

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 01:30 PM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother Abdul Qayyom Karzai registers his candidacy in next year's presidential election at the independent election commission office in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013. A slew of political heavyweights, along with the Afghan president's brother and a number of former warlords, will take part in next year's elections for the country's top office in a critical vote that that could determine the future course of the country and the level of foreign involvement in Afghanistan after 12 years of war. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A slew of political heavyweights, along with the Afghan president's brother and a number of former warlords, will take part in next year's election for top office in a critical vote that that could determine the future course of Afghanistan and the level of foreign involvement here after 12 years of war.


Typhoon Fitow slams into China

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 01:30 PM PDT

A huge wave hits the shore as Typhoon Fitow makes its landfall in Wenling, east China's Zhejiang province on October 6, 2013Beijing (AFP) - Typhoon Fitow slammed into the east coast of China Monday after thousands of people were evacuated to safety and weather authorities issued their highest alert level.


Kenya police offer reward for information on mall attack

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 01:24 PM PDT

A screengrab released on October 5, 2013 and taken from closed circuit television shows the gunmen who massacred at least 67 people wandering through Kenya's Westgate mall on September 21, 2013Nairobi (AFP) - Kenyan police said Sunday they were offering a reward for information about a car reportedly used in the attack on a Nairobi mall last month.


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