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• Insight: Algerians suspect inside help in hostage raid
• Analysis: After Algerian incident, West Africa fears Mali spillover
• U.S., China in deal on U.N. North Korea rebuke; Russia to back it
• Clinton assures Japan on islands, invites Abe to U.S. in February
• U.S. won't drop conspiracy charge against 9/11 plot suspects
• Panetta calls for more agile NATO with wider strategic focus
• Wanted Pro-Gbagbo youth leader sent home to Ivory Coast
• Top U.S. commander denied visa in rights row: Russia
• Givenchy makes menswear combatorial
• Algerian army takes hard line in militant battle
• Bolshoi ballet chief has surgery after acid attack
• Aleppo blast, car bombs cap bloody Syria week
• With Olympics in mind, Rio's love hotels clean up
• Africa forces' role in Mali faces diverse snags
• Palestinians: Apartheid state if Netanyahu wins
• Charges stay for now in Sept. 11 at Guantanamo
• French encircle key Malian town of Diabaly
• Algeria army takes hard line in militant battle
• Video appears to show Hezbollah and Iraqi Shiites fighting in Syria
• National Day of Service calls on Americans to help others
• Pakistan protest march ends: Who won?
• US recognizes Somalia government after two decades of anarchy
• Hostage crisis: Energy needs ensnare Europe in the Sahara
• Jakarta, Indonesia's megacity of 10 million, is under water
• After deaths and escapes, Algeria hostage crisis still not over
• Iran nuclear inspections remain stalled as latest talks with IAEA end
• French flags selling out in Mali's capital
• Randy Grim and Stray Rescue reshape a city's approach to animal control

Insight: Algerians suspect inside help in hostage raid Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:15 PM PST LONDON/ALGIERS (Reuters) - The In Amenas gas plant felt impregnable to many who worked there - walled in, hundreds of miles from anywhere and with the Algerian army constantly patrolling its desert approaches. That was a mirage. Libya, an ex-police state turned arms bazaar and now open for jihad, lies just 50 empty miles away. And in any case, the enemy was probably already inside the gates. ...

Analysis: After Algerian incident, West Africa fears Mali spillover Posted: 18 Jan 2013 01:47 PM PST DAKAR (Reuters) - By seizing hundreds of hostages at a gas plant in the Algerian desert, al Qaeda-linked militants angry at French intervention in Mali sent a clear message: they could strike anywhere in the Sahara. Many experts now believe the sight of a former colonial power leading unprepared West African armies into war against Islamists in Mali could spark similar attacks across a swathe of smaller, more vulnerable nations to the south. ...

U.S., China in deal on U.N. North Korea rebuke; Russia to back it Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:26 PM PST UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States and China have struck a tentative deal on a draft U.N. Security Council resolution condemning North Korea for its December rocket launch, U.N. diplomats said on Friday, and Russia predicted it would be approved by the council. The resolution would not impose new sanctions, but would call for expanding existing U.N. sanctions measures against Pyongyang, the envoys said on condition of anonymity. They added that China's support for the move would be a significant diplomatic blow to Pyongyang. ...

Clinton assures Japan on islands, invites Abe to U.S. in February Posted: 18 Jan 2013 02:47 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton assured Japan on Friday of U.S. support in Tokyo's dispute with Beijing over a string of islands and invited new Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Washington in late February for a meeting with President Barack Obama. Clinton held a working lunch with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, and both emerged pledging that U.S.-Japan security and economic ties would remain strong following Abe's landslide election victory last month. ...

U.S. won't drop conspiracy charge against 9/11 plot suspects Posted: 18 Jan 2013 01:07 PM PST MIAMI (Reuters) - The Pentagon appointee overseeing the Guantanamo war crimes court refused on Friday to drop conspiracy charges against five accused plotters of the September 11 attacks despite the chief prosecutor's concerns that the charge might not withstand appeals. The decision announced by the Pentagon means the alleged mastermind of the hijacked plane attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four other captives could be tried on a charge that the prosecutor acknowledged might not have been recognized as a war crime when the attacks occurred in 2001. ...

Panetta calls for more agile NATO with wider strategic focus Posted: 18 Jan 2013 10:54 AM PST LONDON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called on Friday for NATO to reinvent itself as a more agile alliance with a broader outlook embracing the Asia-Pacific and able to respond to new threats from Islamic militancy. Panetta said as the alliance winds down the Afghanistan war and cuts defense spending to fit shrinking budgets, it would still face challenges from Islamist militants as well as countries like Iran and North Korea. ...

Wanted Pro-Gbagbo youth leader sent home to Ivory Coast Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:43 PM PST ABIDJAN (Reuters) - A fugitive youth leader and close ally of Ivory Coast's ex-president Laurent Gbagbo was sent home from Ghana on Friday and taken into police custody, the Ivorian government said in a statement. Charles Ble Goude had been sought on one of more than two dozen international warrants issued by the Ivorian government following a brief post-election civil war in 2011. Arrested in the Ghanaian capital Accra on Thursday, he is the first Gbagbo ally to be handed over by Ghana, and his transfer could have ramifications for other former top officials living in exile there. ...

Top U.S. commander denied visa in rights row: Russia Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:27 PM PST MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia denied entry to a former commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in retaliation against U.S. moves to punish Russian human rights violators, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Denisov said on Friday. The United States finalized the Magnitsky Act, named after an anti-corruption lawyer who died in a Moscow prison in 2009, in December to bar entry for alleged Russian rights violators and freeze any assets they hold in the United States. Russia denied a visa to Rear Admiral Jeffrey Harbeson, former commander at the Guantanamo U.S. ...

Givenchy makes menswear combatorial Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:37 PM PST PARIS (AP) — Gladiatorial combat is in the air for Givenchy's ever-creative Riccardo Tisci.

Algerian army takes hard line in militant battle Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:56 PM PST ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The militants had filled five jeeps with hostages and begun to move when Algerian government attack helicopters opened up on them, leaving four in smoking ruins. The fifth vehicle crashed, allowing an Irish hostage inside to clamber out to safety with an explosive belt still strapped around his neck.

Bolshoi ballet chief has surgery after acid attack Posted: 18 Jan 2013 11:36 AM PST MOSCOW (AP) — An acid attack on the artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet has shone the spotlight on the fierce "Black Swan" -like competition for starring roles at the famed Russian dance company.

Aleppo blast, car bombs cap bloody Syria week Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:53 PM PST BEIRUT (AP) — A rocket slammed into a building in Syria's northern city of Aleppo and two suicide bombers struck near a mosque in the south Friday, capping a particularly bloody week in the country's civil war with more than 800 civilians killed, including an unusually large proportion in government-held areas.

With Olympics in mind, Rio's love hotels clean up Posted: 18 Jan 2013 10:17 AM PST RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — One worker strips mirrored paneling off the ceiling, as another pries up the fiberglass shell of a whirlpool bath. A third man takes a sledgehammer to a life-size statue of Venus de Milo posing topless with a swirl of plaster robes hanging from her waist.

Africa forces' role in Mali faces diverse snags Posted: 18 Jan 2013 01:12 PM PST DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — West African nations that promised to send troops to fight al-Qaida in Mali are finding it's a lot trickier than they'd hoped to actually get boots on the ground.

Palestinians: Apartheid state if Netanyahu wins Posted: 18 Jan 2013 02:05 PM PST RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinians have long complained that Israel's right-wing government is killing peace prospects by settling the West Bank with Jews, but now there is something new. The Palestinian president is warning that Benjamin Netanyahu's expected victory in next week's election could lead to an Arab-majority country in the Holy Land that will eventually replace what is now Israel — unless he pursues a more moderate path of a two state solution to the conflict.

Charges stay for now in Sept. 11 at Guantanamo Posted: 18 Jan 2013 01:18 PM PST SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The prosecution of five Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11 attacks will go on — for now — with eight charges against each of the men, the Pentagon said Friday.

French encircle key Malian town of Diabaly Posted: 18 Jan 2013 10:25 AM PST BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — French troops encircled a key Malian town on Friday to stop radical Islamists from striking closer to the capital, a French official said.

Algeria army takes hard line in militant battle Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:37 PM PST AIN AMENAS, Algeria (AP) — The militants had filled five jeeps with hostages and begun to move when Algerian government attack helicopters opened up on them, leaving four in smoking ruins. The fifth vehicle crashed, allowing an Irish hostage inside to clamber out to safety with an explosive belt still strapped around his neck.

Video appears to show Hezbollah and Iraqi Shiites fighting in Syria Posted: 18 Jan 2013 11:25 AM PST An unprecedented and slickly-produced video is being circulated around Shiite areas of Lebanon showing alleged Shiite combatants fighting in Syria. The video's production and open dissemination highlights how fighters outside Syria are jumping into the country's ongoing civil war – and growing less shy about hiding it.

National Day of Service calls on Americans to help others Posted: 18 Jan 2013 11:12 AM PST This weekend Washington D.C. will mark the inauguration of President Obama into a second term of office. It also will honor civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. with a national holiday.

Pakistan protest march ends: Who won? Posted: 18 Jan 2013 10:15 AM PST The political drama in Pakistan that started with a protest march to Islamabad last weekend and a sit-in outside Parliament ended Thursday as the government and the protest leader signed an agreement.

US recognizes Somalia government after two decades of anarchy Posted: 18 Jan 2013 09:28 AM PST After more than 20 years without formal relations, the United States officially recognized the government of Somalia Thursday, paving the way for what Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called "a new chapter" between the two nations.

Hostage crisis: Energy needs ensnare Europe in the Sahara Posted: 18 Jan 2013 08:32 AM PST Still reeling from a deadly Algerian military attempt to free hostages held by Islamist militants at a natural gas installation, European governments, resource companies, and other investors are considering how large amounts of personnel on the ground in the region can be protected from future attacks.

Jakarta, Indonesia's megacity of 10 million, is under water Posted: 18 Jan 2013 06:45 AM PST Flooding brought one of Asia's megacities to a halt on Thursday, as monsoon rainwater in the central business district reached a foot and a half, and almost 10-feet in other parts of the city.

After deaths and escapes, Algeria hostage crisis still not over Posted: 18 Jan 2013 06:16 AM PST • A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

Iran nuclear inspections remain stalled as latest talks with IAEA end Posted: 18 Jan 2013 06:25 AM PST Two days of talks between Iran and UN nuclear inspectors have failed to find a way to let investigations of alleged nuclear weapon research move forward.

French flags selling out in Mali's capital Posted: 18 Jan 2013 05:47 AM PST War and nationalist sentiment usually go hand in hand. The week-old war in Mali is no exception. As the war drums beat hotter in this landlocked former French colony in West Africa, nationalism is also on the rise.

Randy Grim and Stray Rescue reshape a city's approach to animal control Posted: 18 Jan 2013 05:00 AM PST Randy Grim thinks of himself as the shyest man in St. Louis. Unfortunately for him, he's also one of the better known.

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