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Explosions across Baghdad kill at least 38 people

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 11:14 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombs exploded across the Iraqi capital on Monday, killing at least 38 people, police said, as suspected Sunni Islamist militants pursued a campaign to provoke intercommunal conflict. Eight of the 10 blasts in Baghdad were in mainly Shi'ite districts, but there was also an explosion in a mixed area and another in the predominantly Sunni Muslim neighborhood of Doura. In the deadliest attack, a parked car blew up in a commercial street in Husseiniya, killing five people. ...

North Korea puts army on alert, warns U.S. of 'horrible disaster'

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 04:42 PM PDT

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Tuesday its military would be put on high alert and be ready to launch operations, stepping up tension after weeks of rhetoric directed against the United States and South Korea, who it accuses of instigating hostility. Reclusive North Korea has often issued threats to attack the South and the United States but has rarely turned them into action. Such hostile rhetoric is widely seen as a means to perpetuate its domestic and international political agenda. ...

Cuba once more seeks U.N. condemnation of U.S. embargo

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 02:47 PM PDT

Barcesia rests in the arms of her mother at the William Soler Children's Heart Center as she waits for surgery in HavanaBy Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) - For the 22nd consecutive year, Cuba will ask the United Nations to condemn the United States economic embargo against the island, a top Cuban official announced on Monday, accusing Washington of tightening sanctions in place for more than half a century. U.S. President Barack Obama, who stated before taking office that he wanted to recast long-hostile U.S.-Cuba relations, has been a disappointment to the Cuban government, which expected him to do more to dismantle the embargo. ...


Italian divers pull dozens more bodies from wrecked migrant boat

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 12:38 PM PDT

By Gabriele Pileri LAMPEDUSA, Italy (Reuters) - Italian divers recovered dozens more bodies from a sunken migrant boat on Monday but struggled to free more corpses trapped inside the hulk before night fell. Over 300 people are feared drowned after the packed boat caught fire and capsized just 1 kilometer from their destination, the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, last week. It was one of the worst single incidents involving economic migrants and refugees trying to cross the Mediterranean from Africa in search of a new life in Europe. ...

Britain's Cameron 'playing with fire' over EU: deputy PM

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 04:06 PM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron delivers his keynote address to the Conservative Party annual conference in ManchesterBy Peter Griffiths LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron's promise to reform Britain's relations with the European Union is an ill-fated attempt to unite his party that could lead to the "economic suicide" of withdrawal from the bloc, his deputy will say on Tuesday. Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, the pro-EU party that shares power with Cameron's larger Conservatives, will accuse the prime minister of starting a chain reaction that could lead to Britain tumbling out of the EU. ...


China may smother South China Sea agenda at regional forum

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 03:45 PM PDT

By James Pomfret and Greg Torode NUSA DUA, Indonesia/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China will likely exploit the absence of the U.S. president at a major Asian regional summit this week to brush off attempts to focus on the South China Sea dispute as Beijing continues to bolster its influence over the strategic waterway. Any substantive progress in resolving the dispute is unlikely at the East Asia Summit beginning in Brunei on Wednesday and tensions between China and other claimants to the oil- and gas-rich sea will likely linger, analysts, senior regional officials and diplomats said. ...

Syria arms inspectors face unprecedented danger: Ban

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 04:59 PM PDT

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon speaks during the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly September 24, 2013 at UN headquarters in New YorkUNITED NATIONS (United States) (AFP) - About 100 international experts will have to spend up to a year in Syria destroying its chemical weapons in a mission of unprecedented danger, UN leader Ban Ki-moon said Monday.


Serbia, Kosovo settle row over election campaign

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 04:49 PM PDT

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Serbia and Kosovo have reached a deal to allow politicians from Belgrade to campaign during a Kosovo municipal election on November 3, smoothing over a row that had underscored the fragility of relations between the two. Last week, Serbia's prime minister threatened to pull out of talks with Kosovo - mediated by the European Union and intended to improve relations between Belgrade and Pristina over the long-term - after the former Serbian province denied him permission to visit. After a late-night meeting in Brussels on Monday, Ivica Dacic said the issue was resolved. ...

Targets of US raids planned terrorism in Kenya

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 04:31 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 file photo, al-Shabab fighters march with their weapons during military exercises on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia. Foreign 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. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor, File)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — U.S. interrogators headed to an American warship in the Mediterranean to question a suspected Libyan al-Qaida operative linked to the bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa, as new details emerged Monday about plots planned by a Kenyan militant who escaped a U.S. raid in Somalia.


British deputy leader to make case for EU

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 04:28 PM PDT

Britain's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg arrives at 10 Downing Street in central London on August 29, 2013London (AFP) - British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will on Tuesday warn that leaving the European Union would be "economic suicide" for Britain, in a rallying cry against eurosceptics ahead of the country's possible referendum on the issue.


Conditions at G4S-run UK prison 'very concerning': report

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 04:06 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - A British prison run by security company G4S is failing to provide prisoners basic healthcare and sanitation, and scored below sufficient in all four areas assessed by the independent prisons watchdog. Britain in July placed under review all of G4S's government contracts and it faces a possible Serious Fraud Office investigation after an audit showed that it charged for tagging criminals who were either dead, in prison, or had never been tagged in the first place. ...

Karachi Heat: Pakistan’s Megacity Is a Sweltering Gangland

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 04:02 PM PDT

Like many parts of Pakistan, swaths of the sweltering Pakistani city of Karachi experience regular power outages for up to 8 and 9 hours a day. The Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, despite its priority  status for receiving power, keeps several large generators to provide, among other things, reliable air-conditioning. The air in its emergency ward is so blessedly cool compared to the simmering streets outside that you momentarily forget you are in a place of fear and suffering. ...

After Botched U.S. Raid, Somalis Fear Looming War With Al-Shabab

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 03:47 PM PDT

On Oct. 5, the same day the U.S. whisked leading al-Qaeda operative, Anas al-Liby, from his home in the Libyan capital to a suspected holding cell aboard a ship in the Mediterranean, it tried a similarly audacious operation in Somalia. Unfortunately for the Pentagon, the second raid, aimed at a suspected leader of al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-linked militant group based in southern Somalia, did not succeed. ...

Diplomats try to rally Rwanda support for DR Congo peace

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 03:35 PM PDT

US Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power on September 6, 2013 in Washington, DCKigali (AFP) - A UN Security Council delegation urged Rwanda Monday to help put an end to the myriad of armed rebel groups operating in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.


Four million more set to flee Syrian conflict: UN

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 03:26 PM PDT

Syrian-Kurdish refugees sit outside at the Quru Gusik refugee camp, 20 kilometres east of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on August 27, 2013Geneva (AFP) - Four million more Syrians will be forced to flee their homes in 2014 as the conflict there escalates, the United Nations has predicted.


Maldives top court annuls September 7 presidential vote, sets new election

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 03:21 PM PDT

By J.J. Robinson MALE (Reuters) - The Maldives Supreme Court on Monday annulled the results of the September 7 presidential election and scheduled a fresh vote for October 20 after a candidate challenged the outcome, citing irregularities. The Maldives, a tropical Indian Ocean resort archipelago, suspended a presidential run-off election that was due to take place on September 28 after the Supreme Court ordered officials to postpone it. ...

Attacks surge in Egypt, a day after deadly clashes

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 03:20 PM PDT

Smoke rises from a security headquarters building in the southern Sinai town of el-Tor, Egypt, after a car bombing there on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Monday's attack, which killed several people and wounded dozens, came a day after at least 51 people died in clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi across much of Egypt. The region of southern Sinai, which includes the popular resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, has been mostly quiet since a series of deadly attacks in 2005 and 2006. (AP Photo)CAIRO (AP) — A string of attacks killed nine members of Egypt's security and military forces and hit the country's main satellite communications station Monday, in an apparent retaliation by Islamic militants a day after more than 50 supporters of the ousted president were killed in clashes with police.


Boateng out of play-off clash with Egypt

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 03:19 PM PDT

Schalke's Ghanese midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng reacts after missing a shoot during a UEFA Champions League match on October 1, 2013 in BaselAccra (AFP) - Ghana suffered a huge blow ahead of their 2014 World Cup play-off match with Egypt on Monday as Kevin-Prince Boateng was ruled out of the first leg on October 15 because of a left knee injury.


Scotland minister sacked a year before independence vote

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 03:15 PM PDT

British Prime Minister David Cameron (R) and Scottish Secretary Michael Moore (L) in Edinburgh on October 15, 2012London (AFP) - Britain's minister for Scotland was among the casualties of Prime Minister David Cameron's government reshuffle Monday, with less than a year to go before Scotland's independence referendum.


Somali pirate suspects deny 'attack' on Spanish ship

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 03:14 PM PDT

This handout picture released by the EU Navfor on January 13, 2012 shows six Somali men surrendering to members of the EU NAVFOR flagship, the ESPS Patino, off the coast of MogadishuMadrid (AFP) - Six Somali men went on trial Monday in Madrid accused of trying to attack a Spanish warship in 2012 during an anti-piracy operation in the Indian Ocean.


'Badge of shame' if Africa exits world court: Annan

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 03:11 PM PDT

Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations delivers the third annual Desmond Tutu International Peace Lecture, on October 7, 2013, at the University of the Western Cape, in Cape TownCape Town (AFP) - Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan said Monday it would be a "badge of shame" for Africa if its leaders voted to leave the International Criminal Court.


Palestinian leader condemns attack on Israeli girl

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 03:10 PM PDT

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) attends a meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 7, 2013Ramallah (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Monday condemned an attack on a nine-year-old Israeli girl the day before in the West Bank.


Elite U.S. team questions seized al Qaeda leader on Navy ship

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 03:05 PM PDT

Protesters burn a replica of the U.S. flag during a protest against the capture of Liby in BenghaziBy Mark Hosenball and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An elite American interrogation team is questioning the senior al Qaeda figure who was seized by special operations forces in Libya and then whisked onto a Navy ship in the Mediterranean Sea, U.S. officials said on Monday. Nazih al-Ragye, better known by the cover name Abu Anas al-Liby, is being held aboard the USS San Antonio, an amphibious transport dock ship, the officials said. He is being questioned by the U.S. ...


Greece expects economy to grow, finally

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 02:47 PM PDT

Deputy Finance Minister Christos Staikouras speaks during press conference in Athens, on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Staikouras said that the economy is projected to expand 0.6 percent, compared with a 4 percent contraction this year. Greece expects its economy to grow next year, the first annual improvement after six years of brutal contraction. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece expects its economy to grow next year — at last.


US military interrogating wanted Al-Qaeda suspect

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 02:20 PM PDT

Islamist fighters loyal to Somalia''s Al-Qaida inspired al-Shebab group perform military drills at a village in Lower Shabelle region, some 25 kilometres outside Mogadishu, on February 17, 2011Washington (AFP) - The US military was holding and secretly interrogating an alleged Al-Qaeda operative Monday, after weekend raids on Libya and Somalia which also targeted an elusive Islamist Shebab commander.


US still expects to sign pact with Afghanistan

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 02:20 PM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Karzai says disagreements over security and sovereignty are impeding a security deal with the United States and says he will convene a council of elders in one month to discuss the agreement. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is optimistic that a U.S.-Afghan agreement over the future role of American troops in the country can be finalized in the next few weeks despite two main sticking points and President Hamid Karzai's emotional outburst Monday alleging that the U.S. and NATO repeatedly violate Afghan sovereignty.


Nabbing of Libyan militant sparks fear of backlash

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 02:10 PM PDT

Dozens of supporters of the militant group, Ansar al-Shariah, burn an American flag and shout anti-American slogans denouncing the U.S. violation of Libya's sovereignty in the abduction of Abu Anas al-Libi, in the center of Benghazi, Libya, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. On Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, the U.S. Army's Delta Force captured Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his alias Anas al-Libi, an al-Qaida leader linked to the 1998 American Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. (AP Photo/Mohammed el-Shaiky)CAIRO (AP) — The Libyan militant accused by Washington in the killing of the U.S. ambassador told The Associated Press on Monday he's not worried about being next on the list for capture by the Americans after the U.S. commando raid that spirited a senior al-Qaida suspect out of Tripoli.


Officials blamed in Mexico monster truck crash

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 02:09 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)CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Mexican government officials and event organizers on Monday blamed the driver of a monster truck for losing control and plowing into a crowd of spectators, killing eight and injuring 79. Motor-sports experts, however, pointed at the organizers, saying the setup of the state-sponsored show was blatantly deficient and life-threatening.


French research ship rescues Syrian refugees

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 02:06 PM PDT

CEO of the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea Jean-Yves Perrot poses near the research vessel 'Le Suroit' in La Seyne-sur-Mer, south eastern France on September 20, 2012Rome (AFP) - A French oceanographic vessel that helped find the wreck of the Titanic rescued 29 Syrian refugees on Sunday, part of a group of 363 asylum-seekers that have landed in Italy in the past 24 hours.


Post-coup Egypt gripped by nationalist fervor

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 02:00 PM PDT

Egyptian security forces and civilians detain a supporter of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi near Ramsis Square, Cairo, Egypt. Deadly clashes left tens dead and scores injured as rival crowds of supporters of the military and backers of Morsi 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 rival camps. (AP Photo/Sabry Khaled, El-Shorouk Newspaper) EGYPT OUTCAIRO (AP) — While riots turned the neighborhoods of Cairo into deadly battlegrounds this weekend, Egypt's most powerful man — the head of the armed forces — enjoyed a star-studded show.


Obama climate adviser Zichal to step down: officials

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 01:58 PM PDT

By Patrick Rucker and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's top adviser on energy and climate change, Heather Zichal, plans to step down in the next few weeks after five years at the White House, senior administration officials said on Monday. Zichal, 37, has advised Obama since his 2008 presidential campaign and helped shape the administration's policies to curb greenhouse gas emissions blamed for contributing to global warming. Zichal was the architect of the president's plan, announced in June, to cut carbon emissions from U.S. ...

In blow to Boeing, JAL makes 1st buy from Airbus

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 01:56 PM PDT

Airbus Japan Chief Executive Fabrice Bregier, left, and Japan Airlines President Yoshiharu Ueki shake hands following their press conference in Tokyo, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Japan Airlines is buying its first ever jets from Airbus in a deal with a catalog value of 950 billion yen ($9.5 billion) with a purchase of 31 A350 planes. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)TOKYO (AP) — Usually when Japanese airlines need to buy a big plane, they go to Boeing. Not this time.


Italy divers find 'wall' of bodies in migrant ship

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 01:54 PM PDT

Amsa, 16 years-old, last name not available, a migrant from Somalia, right, watches the sunset as he leaves aboard a ferry the Sicilian Island of Lampedusa, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Italian divers recovered 17 more bodies Monday from a smugglers' boat that capsized and sank to bottom of the Mediterranean Sea with hundreds of migrants on board. That brought the confirmed death toll from Thursday's tragedy to 211 before poor weather off the southern island of Lampedusa again halted the recovery operation. Only 155 people of the estimated 500 on board survived the sinking. Scores of bodies are believed to be still trapped in the hull of the 18-meter (59-foot) boat, which is resting 47 meters (154 feet) below the surface. Monday was the first day that divers entered the hull. Coast Guard Capt. Filippo Marini estimated it would take two more days to complete the search and recovery mission. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)LAMPEDUSA, Italy (AP) — Deep sea divers "unpacked a wall of people" from the hull of a smuggler's trawler on the sea floor near this Italian island on Monday, gingerly untangling the dead would-be migrants in the latest and most painstaking phase of a recovery operation following the ship's fiery capsizing.


Number of African billionaires much higher than past estimates: report

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 01:47 PM PDT

Nigerian businessman Aliko Dangote (L) is pictured in Lagos on April 7, 2007, with Femi OtedolaLagos (AFP) - There are far more African billionaires than previously thought, Ventures magazine said Monday in a report on the continent's mega-rich, but the number of Africans living in extreme poverty has also shot up.


Over 700,000 mourn influential Israeli rabbi

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 01:47 PM PDT

Hundreds of thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish mourners attend the funeralof of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in Jerusalem on October 7, 2013Jerusalem (AFP) - More than 700,000 people took to Jerusalem's streets Monday to mourn the spiritual leader of Israel's Sephardic Jews, in an unprecedented procession for an influential figure who died after surgery.


Greek ex-minister jailed for 20 years for graft

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 01:39 PM PDT

In this April 22, 2013 file photo, former Greek Defense Minister Akis Tsochadzopoulos, centre, arrives at court for the start of long anticipated corruption trial into allegations of kickbacks in defense contracts. An Athens court handed down a guilty verdict on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013 against the former defense minister on money laundering charges stemming from military purchases, in the most prominent corruption case to date in the financially-stricken country. (AP Photo/FOSPHOTOS/Panagiotis Tzamaros)ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A former Greek defense minister was jailed for 20 years after being found guilty Monday of money laundering in the most prominent corruption case to date in the financially stricken country.


Poyet set to be named Sunderland boss

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 01:23 PM PDT

Uruguayan manager Gus Poyet is pictured in Brighton, England, on January 26, 2013London (AFP) - Controversial Uruguayan Gus Poyet looks set to be appointed manager of English Premier League strugglers Sunderland, according to the BBC on Monday.


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