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• Kerry sees potential for quick Iran nuclear deal
• Amid rare unity, U.N. Security Council mulls action on Syria aid
• Italian president hopes to solve political crisis without new vote
• Austrian parties set to renew grand coalition after election slap
• Schaeuble and taxes at stake in German coalition talks
• Market bombing kill 33 in Pakistan's Peshawar: police
• UK finance minister to court voters with tough welfare rules
• Rebels clash with Mali troops as violence surges
• Britain demands jobless work for state hand-outs
• Capitol quiet as federal government shutdown nears
• Pakistan bomb kills 39 in Peshawar
• Portuguese PM admit's party's defeat at elections
• Russian court detains eight more Greenpeace crew
• Syrian journalist killed in Deir Ezzor
• UN Council considers call for cross-border Syrian aid
• Sudanese protest again against Bashir in Khartoum
• Portugal gov't set for defeat in local elections
• Boko Haram kills 40 students in Nigeria college dorm
• Wanted Greek lawmaker gives himself up
• Jesse Jackson determined to free U.S. hostage despite Colombian veto
• Tuareg separatists, Malian army clash in northern town
• Italy confidence vote set as left-right coalition teeters
• Resident: Mali army, rebels exchange fire in Kidal
• Thousands protest as Sudan officials promise cash
• Xi Jinping hopes traditional faiths can fill moral void in China: sources
• Thousands of Romanians protest Canadian mine plans
• At Zimbabwe golf club, 'foreign' trees exit stage
• Israel's Netanyahu warns White House about Iran
• Chemical weapons inspectors outline Syria plan
• Austria's governing coalition slips in elections
• Smugglers behind Lebanese asylum-seekers deaths of Java
• Italian PM Letta to seek confidence vote on Wednesday
• Iran ready to discuss 'limits' to uranium enrichment: deputy FM
• Egypt's ex-VP calls campaign against him "fascist"
• Howell ends long wait at Alfred Dunhill Links

Kerry sees potential for quick Iran nuclear deal Posted: 29 Sep 2013 04:02 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry said a deal on Iran's nuclear weapons program could be reached relatively quickly, and it would have the potential to dramatically improve the relationship between the two countries. Kerry said intensifying diplomatic efforts to resolve the dispute over Iran's nuclear program could produce an agreement within the three- to six-month time frame that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called for. ...

Amid rare unity, U.N. Security Council mulls action on Syria aid Posted: 29 Sep 2013 04:49 PM PDT By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - After adopting a hard-fought, Russian-backed resolution to rid Syria of chemical weapons, the U.N. Security Council is now turning its attention to the country's dire humanitarian crisis, putting to the test its fragile consensus on the conflict. The Security Council is considering a statement to try to boost aid access in Syria by urging Syrian authorities to allow cross-border deliveries from neighboring countries and asking parties to the conflict to hold humanitarian pauses in the fighting. ...

Italian president hopes to solve political crisis without new vote Posted: 29 Sep 2013 04:28 PM PDT By Alessandra Galloni and James Mackenzie ROME (Reuters) - Italy's president began talks on Sunday to pull the country out of a new political crisis, attempting to undercut a move by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to bring down the government and force new elections seven months after the last vote. For the third time since 2011, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano is trying to steer the country out of political chaos that has proven a major threat, not only to the euro zone's third-largest economy, but to the region's efforts to halt its four-year debt crisis. ...

Austrian parties set to renew grand coalition after election slap Posted: 29 Sep 2013 03:02 PM PDT By Michael Shields and Georgina Prodhan VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's pro-Europe, centrist coalition partners face weeks of hard bargaining to extend their seven years in power after voters gave them only a tiny combined majority while boosting the far right and a new liberal party. Chancellor Werner Faymann's Social Democrats (SPO) offered talks with their conservative People's Party (OVP) allies to ensure that the two parties that have dominated post-war politics stay in power. ...

Schaeuble and taxes at stake in German coalition talks Posted: 29 Sep 2013 03:44 PM PDT By Alexandra Hudson BERLIN (Reuters) - Angela Merkel will be asked to break an election pledge not to raise taxes in talks this week on a 'grand coalition' with the opposition Social Democrats (SPD) which could also threaten her influential finance minister. The chancellor's conservatives notched up their best result in more than two decades in last Sunday's election but fell just short of a parliamentary majority, leaving Merkel in need of a partner. Her former allies, the Free Democrats (FDP), lacked enough support to return to parliament. ...

Market bombing kill 33 in Pakistan's Peshawar: police Posted: 29 Sep 2013 04:08 PM PDT By Hamid Ullah Khan PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Twin blasts in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar killed 33 people and wounded 70 on Sunday, a week after bombings at a church there killed scores, police and hospital authorities said. Islamist violence has been on the rise in Pakistan in recent months, undermining Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's efforts to tame the insurgency by launching peace talks with the Taliban. The blasts outside a police station hit an area known as Quiswakhani, or the storytellers' bazaar, crowded with shoppers. ...

UK finance minister to court voters with tough welfare rules Posted: 29 Sep 2013 05:04 PM PDT By Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - British finance minister George Osborne will propose tougher new welfare rules and a reduction in taxes on Monday in a bid to win over voters grappling with declining spending power ahead of the 2015 election, while promising to sustain an economic recovery. Speaking to Conservative Party activists at the penultimate conference before the election, Osborne will argue that though Britain's $2.5 trillion economy is recovering and he is optimistic about the global economy there can be no complacency. ...

Rebels clash with Mali troops as violence surges Posted: 29 Sep 2013 04:55 PM PDT Bamako (AFP) - The Malian army came under attack Sunday from gunmen in the northern rebel stronghold of Kidal, the regional governor told AFP, in a sign of intensifying violence against the military after peace talks with rebels broke down.

Britain demands jobless work for state hand-outs Posted: 29 Sep 2013 04:39 PM PDT Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) - Britons who are out of work for several years will be required to work full-time on community projects to receive state unemployment payments, finance minister George Osborne will announce on Monday.

Capitol quiet as federal government shutdown nears Posted: 29 Sep 2013 04:28 PM PDT By David Lawder and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With a deadline to avert a federal government shutdown fast approaching, the U.S. Capitol was eerily quiet on Sunday as Republicans and Democrats waited for the other side to blink first and break the impasse over funding. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives early on Sunday passed a measure that ties government funding to a one-year delay of President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare restructuring law. Senate Democrats have vowed to quash it. ...

Pakistan bomb kills 39 in Peshawar Posted: 29 Sep 2013 04:13 PM PDT Peshawar (Pakistan) (AFP) - A car bomb killed at least 39 people on Sunday in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, officials said, the third deadly strike to hit the city in a week.

Portuguese PM admit's party's defeat at elections Posted: 29 Sep 2013 04:06 PM PDT Lisbon (AFP) - Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho admitted his conservative Social Democrat party's "national defeat" in municipal polls Sunday, as voters vented their frustrations at the government's austerity programme.

Russian court detains eight more Greenpeace crew Posted: 29 Sep 2013 04:05 PM PDT Moscow (AFP) - A Russian court on Sunday ordered the detention for two months of eight more crew members of a Greenpeace ship who protested against Arctic oil drilling as part of a probe into alleged piracy.

Syrian journalist killed in Deir Ezzor Posted: 29 Sep 2013 03:57 PM PDT Beirut (AFP) - A Syrian photographer who had contributed work to AFP has been killed by shelling in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, a colleague said on Sunday.

UN Council considers call for cross-border Syrian aid Posted: 29 Sep 2013 03:56 PM PDT New York (AFP) - The UN Security Council will start talks Monday on a statement on the humanitarian crisis in Syria which could include a controversial call to allow cross-border aid missions, diplomats said.

Sudanese protest again against Bashir in Khartoum Posted: 29 Sep 2013 03:33 PM PDT KHARTOUM (Reuters) - About 1,000 Sudanese staged another protest in Khartoum on Sunday to demand President Omar Hassan al-Bashir resign, a witness said, as the government moved to raise salaries to soften the impact of unpopular austerity measures. Last week, the government cut back fuel subsidies, which touched off the worst unrest in central Sudan in years. The official death toll stands at 33, but Sudanese rights activists and some diplomats said more than 100 people were killed during clashes with security forces. ...

Portugal gov't set for defeat in local elections Posted: 29 Sep 2013 03:04 PM PDT LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portuguese voters looked set to hand the coalition government a heavy defeat in municipal elections Sunday, apparently reflecting widespread public opposition to austerity measures and labor reforms being enacted as part of the country's 78 billion euros ($105 billion) bailout.

Boko Haram kills 40 students in Nigeria college dorm Posted: 29 Sep 2013 02:49 PM PDT Damaturu (Nigeria) (AFP) - Boko Haram gunmen on Sunday opened fire in a college dormitory in northeast Nigeria as the students slept, killing 40, in the latest massacre blamed on the Islamist insurgents.

Wanted Greek lawmaker gives himself up Posted: 29 Sep 2013 02:46 PM PDT ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek lawmaker sought by police surrendered on Sunday, bringing to six the number of legislators from the extreme-right Golden Dawn party now in custody and facing criminal charges.

Jesse Jackson determined to free U.S. hostage despite Colombian veto Posted: 29 Sep 2013 02:38 PM PDT By Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) - U.S. civil rights activist Jesse Jackson said on Sunday he will continue to work for the release of a U.S. army veteran kidnapped by Colombian FARC rebels in June, despite the Colombian government's rejection of his mediation. Jackson, who arrived in Cuba on Friday to talk with Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) commanders who are here for peace talks with the Colombian government, said he was told Afghanistan war veteran Kevin Scott Sutay was free to leave if the logistics were in place to get him out of the jungle. ...

Tuareg separatists, Malian army clash in northern town Posted: 29 Sep 2013 02:31 PM PDT By Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO (Reuters) - Tuareg separatists and Malian soldiers exchanged fire in the northern town of Kidal on Sunday, residents said, in a sign of escalating tensions three days after MNLA rebels ended a ceasefire with the newly elected government. Local officials said Tuareg separatists attacked an army unit stationed outside a bank in the center of the desert town. However, a spokesman for the rebel group said it was the soldiers who opened fire on an MNLA vehicle, injuring three men inside. ...

Italy confidence vote set as left-right coalition teeters Posted: 29 Sep 2013 02:31 PM PDT Rome (AFP) - Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta called a parliamentary vote of confidence in his teetering left-right government on Wednesday amid a tug-of-war over Silvio Berlusconi's legal woes.

Resident: Mali army, rebels exchange fire in Kidal Posted: 29 Sep 2013 02:20 PM PDT BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Malian soldiers and separatist rebels exchanged gunfire in the heart of the northern town of Kidal on Sunday, a dangerous escalation in violence only days after the rebels said they were suspending their participation in a peace accord signed with the government. Both sides claimed that the other attacked first.

Thousands protest as Sudan officials promise cash Posted: 29 Sep 2013 02:08 PM PDT KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Thousands of Sudanese protesters took to the streets of the capital Khartoum late Sunday, chanting "freedom" and renewing calls for their longtime autocratic president to resign after dozens of protesters were killed in a week of demonstrations sparked by austerity measures.

Xi Jinping hopes traditional faiths can fill moral void in China: sources Posted: 29 Sep 2013 02:05 PM PDT By Benjamin Kang Lim and Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - President Xi Jinping believes China is losing its moral compass and he wants the ruling Communist Party to be more tolerant of traditional faiths in the hope these will help fill a vacuum created by the country's breakneck growth and rush to get rich, sources said. Xi, who grew up in Mao's puritan China, is troubled by what he sees as the country's moral decline and obsession with money, said three independent sources with ties to the leadership. ...

Thousands of Romanians protest Canadian mine plans Posted: 29 Sep 2013 01:40 PM PDT Bucharest (AFP) - Thousands of people marched Sunday against a Canadian company's plans to open Europe's largest gold mine at Rosia Montana, in what has become one of the longest-running protests in post-communist Romania.

At Zimbabwe golf club, 'foreign' trees exit stage Posted: 29 Sep 2013 01:39 PM PDT HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A century-old thorn tree with an umbrella-shaped canopy offers shade to players on the 13th hole of Zimbabwe's oldest surviving golf course. The indigenous tree is going to stay, but "foreign" trees — firs, pines and eucalyptus — that were planted by early white settlers to remind them of their distant origins are now being rooted out.

Israel's Netanyahu warns White House about Iran Posted: 29 Sep 2013 01:35 PM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — Mortified that the world may be warming up to Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is taking an unpopular message to the White House and the United Nations this week: Don't be fooled by Tehran's new leadership.

Chemical weapons inspectors outline Syria plan Posted: 29 Sep 2013 01:35 PM PDT THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Inspectors who will oversee Syria's destruction of its chemical weapons said Sunday their first priority is to help the country scrap its ability to manufacture such arms by a Nov. 1 deadline — using every means possible.

Austria's governing coalition slips in elections Posted: 29 Sep 2013 01:24 PM PDT VIENNA (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of voters disenchanted with Austria's cozy ruling coalition voted Sunday for a right-wing opposition party championing anti-immigrant and EU-skeptic views, leaving the government barely holding on to the absolute majority its needs to stay in power for the next five years.

Smugglers behind Lebanese asylum-seekers deaths of Java Posted: 29 Sep 2013 01:22 PM PDT Tripoli (AFP) - Lebanese asylum-seekers who died when a boat sank off Indonesia were the victims of people smugglers who prey on them and Syrian refugees seeking to better their lives.

Italian PM Letta to seek confidence vote on Wednesday Posted: 29 Sep 2013 01:12 PM PDT ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta said he would go before parliament on Wednesday for a confidence vote after ministers in Silvio Berlusconi's center-right party pulled out of his government at the weekend. Letta said he wanted to avoid elections under the current widely criticised voting system which he said would produce more stalemate but said there were signs that dissenters in Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PDL) party could support him in a confidence vote. "I hope that there is a part of the PDL which is not in accord with Berlusconi," he told RAI state television. ...

Iran ready to discuss 'limits' to uranium enrichment: deputy FM Posted: 29 Sep 2013 12:54 PM PDT Tehran (AFP) - Iran is willing to discuss limits in the level to which it enriches uranium but will never suspend the process altogether, the deputy foreign minister said in comments reported Sunday.

Egypt's ex-VP calls campaign against him "fascist" Posted: 29 Sep 2013 12:41 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's former vice president and democracy advocate Mohammed ElBaradei lashed out Sunday against what he called a "fascist" security-organized media campaign against him because of his calls for an inclusive political process.

Howell ends long wait at Alfred Dunhill Links Posted: 29 Sep 2013 12:39 PM PDT Glasgow (AFP) - England's David Howell claimed his first European Tour title in seven years after beating American Peter Uihlein in a play-off to win the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship on Sunday.

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