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• Big powers, Iran seek progress at 'nitty-gritty' nuclear talks
• Syrian fighters battle on, ignoring Muslim holiday
• Russian police detain killing suspect after race riot
• Germany's Greens rule out further coalition talks with Merkel
• Canada not doing enough to tackle problems of aboriginal people: U.N.
• Putin foe Navalny faces prison if appeal is rejected
• Political chaos pushes US up against debt deadline
• U.S. fiscal talks stumble as lawmakers race against time
• Factbox: German coalition watch: Merkel to focus on Social Democrats after Greens end talks
• German Greens pull out of coalition talks with Merkel
• U.S. justices to hear challenge to Obama on climate change
• Japan's foreign minister may visit Iran next month: Nikkei
• Iran's foreign minister in pain at nuclear talks
• US push for electric power surge in Africa hits climate snag
• Iran presents nuclear proposals at Geneva talks
• Dutch diplomat beaten in Moscow by unknown assailants
• Snorkeler finds rare giant oarfish off California coast
• Late BBC presenter Savile brushed off accusatory women 'like midges'
• Once-in-a-decade typhoon heads for Japan nuclear plant
• Eleanor Catton wins fiction's Booker Prize
• Greenwald, who broke NSA stories, leaving Guardian
• Lawsuit accuses BlackBerry of raising false hopes
• Rooney, Gerrard send England to Brazil
• Priebke lawyer calls off funeral amid protests
• Clashes as Catholic rebels try to hold Nazi funeral in Italy
• Baines key figure as Hodgson casts off shackles
• War-related deaths near 500,000 in Iraq
• Canada natives facing 'crisis': UN envoy
• BMW family donation to Merkel's party stokes lobbying row
• After Convicted Rapist Rapes and Kills Again, Switzerland Rethinks Prison System
• Angola hints at trade cuts with Portugal amid spat
• Iran makes 'breakthrough' nuclear proposal, meets with US
• Apple hires Burberry CEO to boost store sales
• Killing of two South African toddlers sparks outrage

Big powers, Iran seek progress at 'nitty-gritty' nuclear talks Posted: 15 Oct 2013 03:11 PM PDT By Justyna Pawlak and Fredrik Dahl GENEVA (Reuters) - World powers will press Iran on Wednesday for details of its proposal on resolving their decade-old nuclear dispute during a second day of talks in Geneva. Western diplomats stress they want Tehran to back up its newly conciliatory language with concrete actions by scaling back its nuclear program and allaying their suspicions it is seeking the capability to make atomic bombs. ...

Syrian fighters battle on, ignoring Muslim holiday Posted: 15 Oct 2013 01:55 PM PDT By Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian air force jets and helicopters bombed rebel-held districts across the country on Tuesday, the first day of the Muslim festival of Eid al Adha, and rebel fighters fired rockets into the heart of Damascus. President Bashar al-Assad, whose forces are battling a civil war which grew out of protests against his rule two years ago, was shown on state television attending morning prayers with ministers at a Damascus mosque at the start of the Eid holiday. ...

Russian police detain killing suspect after race riot Posted: 15 Oct 2013 01:34 PM PDT By Alissa de Carbonnel and Thomas Grove MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police detained hundreds of nationalist youths on Tuesday who gathered to protest over the killing of an ethnic Russian in southern Moscow, hours after authorities arrested a migrant laborer suspected of the slaying. The killing of Yegor Shcherbakov, 25, unleashed earlier this week the worst race riots Moscow has seen in three years and nationalists threatened further protests in areas populated by migrant workers from ex-Soviet Central Asia and Caucasus states. ...

Germany's Greens rule out further coalition talks with Merkel Posted: 15 Oct 2013 03:54 PM PDT BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Greens decided after almost six hours of talks with Angela Merkel's conservatives that they did not have enough common ground to consider a coalition government, leaving the chancellor to focus on talks with the Social Democrats (SPD). Hermann Groehe, General Secretary of Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) told reporters early on Wednesday, "exploratory talks will not be continued and coalition talks will not be entered into." Merkel's conservatives emerged as the dominant force in last month's election but need a partner. ...

Canada not doing enough to tackle problems of aboriginal people: U.N. Posted: 15 Oct 2013 02:56 PM PDT By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada is not doing enough to tackle the social and economic ills facing its large aboriginal population, which is beset by poverty, poor housing and high unemployment, a United Nations official said on Tuesday. In a rare international rebuke to Canada, James Anaya, the U.N. special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, said Ottawa was taking some measures to address problems that have bedeviled the native population for many decades. ...

Putin foe Navalny faces prison if appeal is rejected Posted: 15 Oct 2013 01:52 PM PDT By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) - Convicted at a trial he describes as Vladimir Putin's revenge for his political challenge, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny faces five years in prison if his appeal against a theft conviction is rejected on Wednesday. The court hearing in the remote city of Kirov also poses a conundrum for President Putin. Jailing Navalny would keep Putin's most prominent critic out of elections for years, curtailing any threat from a young rival with presidential ambitions who scored a strong second-place showing in a Moscow mayoral vote last month. ...

Political chaos pushes US up against debt deadline Posted: 15 Oct 2013 04:47 PM PDT Washington (AFP) - A day of political disarray Tuesday thrust the United States to within hours of a debt default deadline, sparking fears of deep damage to a fragile US recovery and the global economy.

U.S. fiscal talks stumble as lawmakers race against time Posted: 15 Oct 2013 04:44 PM PDT By Richard Cowan and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Efforts by lawmakers to stop a U.S. debt default were in disarray on Tuesday with just over a day before the government's authority to borrow money lapses, risking the Treasury's ability to pay bills and creditors. Chaotic negotiations to end the U.S. fiscal impasse failed to produce a deal, and left Congress and President Barack Obama desperately searching for a way to reopen the government and raise the country's debt limit ahead of a Thursday deadline. Both measures require approval by the U.S. ...

Factbox: German coalition watch: Merkel to focus on Social Democrats after Greens end talks Posted: 15 Oct 2013 04:43 PM PDT Chancellor Angela Merkel led her conservatives to their best result in over two decades in a German election on September 22 but must still find a coalition partner to secure a third term. A second round of exploratory talks with the Greens saw the environmentalist party conclude that further talks with the conservatives would be fruitless, leaving Merkel to focus on negotiations with the Social Democrats (SPD). Below are key coalition-related quotes from senior officials, as well as areas of potential compromise on policy and personnel. ...

German Greens pull out of coalition talks with Merkel Posted: 15 Oct 2013 04:23 PM PDT Berlin (AFP) - The German Green party announced early Wednesday that it has pulled out of talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives on forming the next coalition government.

U.S. justices to hear challenge to Obama on climate change Posted: 15 Oct 2013 04:01 PM PDT By Valerie Volcovici and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear a challenge to part of the Obama administration's first wave of regulations aimed at tackling climate change, accepting its biggest environmental case in six years. The court said it would not review the underlying determination that greenhouse gases are a public health concern or a separate regulation that limits greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles. The single question the court will consider is whether the U.S. ...

Japan's foreign minister may visit Iran next month: Nikkei Posted: 15 Oct 2013 03:46 PM PDT (Reuters) - Japan's foreign minister, Fumio Kishida, may visit Iran as early as November, the first such visit in more than four years, in an attempt to resolve the dispute over Iran's nuclear program, the Nikkei reported on Wednesday. Japan, which has maintained friendly relations with Iran, is hoping to act as a mediator between Tehran and the West as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has shown willingness to negotiate the dispute, according to the newspaper. ...

Iran's foreign minister in pain at nuclear talks Posted: 15 Oct 2013 03:35 PM PDT VIENNA (AP) — Beyond having to deal with six world powers making demands on his country's nuclear program, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has another pressing problem: back pains so intense he's had to use a wheelchair.

US push for electric power surge in Africa hits climate snag Posted: 15 Oct 2013 03:26 PM PDT Washington (AFP) - Within days of each other in June, President Barack Obama and US lawmakers across the spectrum announced a push to boost Africa's development by providing electricity to millions without it.

Iran presents nuclear proposals at Geneva talks Posted: 15 Oct 2013 03:26 PM PDT GENEVA (AP) — With PowerPoint slides and feel-good phrases, Iranian negotiators presented world powers on Tuesday with what they said was a plan to break a decade of deadlock over Tehran's nuclear program, declaring the time had come to end the country's "walk in the dark" of international isolation and crippling sanctions.

Dutch diplomat beaten in Moscow by unknown assailants Posted: 15 Oct 2013 03:23 PM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Dutch diplomat was beaten by unknown assailants in Moscow on Tuesday, a week after President Vladimir Putin demanded an apology for a Russian diplomat's alleged beating in the Netherlands, Russian news agencies reported. Dutch media said the Dutch government had summoned the Russian ambassador to the Netherlands in response to the incident. The Moscow attack resembled Russia's version of the incident in which it said a minister-counselor at its embassy in The Hague was badly beaten in his home in front of his children by armed assailants. ...

Snorkeler finds rare giant oarfish off California coast Posted: 15 Oct 2013 03:18 PM PDT By Tim Gaynor (Reuters) - A California marine instructor's leisurely weekend snorkel turned into the discovery of a lifetime when she found the carcass of a massive, eel-like creature of a species thought to have inspired legends of giant sea serpents. Catalina Island Marine Institute instructor Jasmine Santana spotted the 18-foot (5.5-meter) oarfish, which is as thick as a man's torso, while snorkeling in clear waters off the island's coast on Sunday afternoon, the institute said. ...

Late BBC presenter Savile brushed off accusatory women 'like midges' Posted: 15 Oct 2013 03:15 PM PDT London (AFP) - Late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, branded one of Britain's worst sex offenders, said he brushed off women who accused him of assault "like midges" and claimed they were trying to make money by selling stories about him, it emerged Tuesday.

Once-in-a-decade typhoon heads for Japan nuclear plant Posted: 15 Oct 2013 03:11 PM PDT Tokyo (AFP) - A typhoon described as the "strongest in 10 years" closed in on Japan on Wednesday, on a path that will take it towards the precarious Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Eleanor Catton wins fiction's Booker Prize Posted: 15 Oct 2013 03:09 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — Youth and heft triumphed at Britain's Booker Prize on Tuesday, as 28-year-old New Zealander Eleanor Catton won the fiction award for "The Luminaries," an ambitious 832-page murder mystery set during a 19th-century gold rush.

Greenwald, who broke NSA stories, leaving Guardian Posted: 15 Oct 2013 03:03 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who broke the first stories about the U.S. National Security Agency's global spying program, says he is leaving the Guardian newspaper.

Lawsuit accuses BlackBerry of raising false hopes Posted: 15 Oct 2013 02:38 PM PDT Ottawa (AFP) - BlackBerry shareholders on Tuesday launched a class-action lawsuit against the company, alleging its optimistic sales forecasts for its new smartphones cost them hundreds of millions of dollars, lawyers announced.

Rooney, Gerrard send England to Brazil Posted: 15 Oct 2013 02:36 PM PDT London (AFP) - England survived a night of tension to qualify for the World Cup after Wayne Rooney and Steven Gerrard secured a 2-0 win over Poland at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday.

Priebke lawyer calls off funeral amid protests Posted: 15 Oct 2013 02:35 PM PDT ALBANO LAZIALE, Italy (AP) — The bitterly protested funeral of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke was called off hours after it was to have taken place Tuesday by his lawyer, who said police prevented friends and family members from attending amid a noisy protest against the planned religious ceremony.

Clashes as Catholic rebels try to hold Nazi funeral in Italy Posted: 15 Oct 2013 02:31 PM PDT ALBANO (Italy) (AFP) - Clashes broke out in Italy on Tuesday between protesters and far-right activists outside the funeral of a Nazi war criminal which had to be suspended on the eve of a major Holocaust ceremony.

Baines key figure as Hodgson casts off shackles Posted: 15 Oct 2013 02:28 PM PDT London (AFP) - Leighton Baines repaid Roy Hodgson's decision to throw caution to the wind with a pivotal performance as England swept to the World Cup on an unexpected wave of optimism on Tuesday.

War-related deaths near 500,000 in Iraq Posted: 15 Oct 2013 02:26 PM PDT Washington (AFP) - Nearly half a million people have died from war-related causes in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003, according to an academic study published in the United States on Tuesday.

Canada natives facing 'crisis': UN envoy Posted: 15 Oct 2013 02:05 PM PDT Ottawa (AFP) - Canada faces "a crisis" when it comes to the plight of aboriginals, despite strides made recently in trying to improve their lot, a UN envoy said Tuesday.

BMW family donation to Merkel's party stokes lobbying row Posted: 15 Oct 2013 01:53 PM PDT BERLIN (Reuters) - German opposition parties on Tuesday accused Angela Merkel of pandering to the car lobby, after her conservatives received major donations from the family that controls BMW, just as Berlin was lobbying against tougher EU caps on carbon emissions. Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) said the three donations made on October 9 and totaling 690,000 euros "have no connection to any political decisions". ...

After Convicted Rapist Rapes and Kills Again, Switzerland Rethinks Prison System Posted: 15 Oct 2013 01:52 PM PDT Adeline Morel, a 34-year-old Geneva sociotherapist who helped prisoners reintegrate into society, was, according to her friends and coworkers, a "kind, gentle, and deeply humane" person who loved her job.

Angola hints at trade cuts with Portugal amid spat Posted: 15 Oct 2013 01:27 PM PDT Luanda (AFP) - Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos on Tuesday hinted that tensions with Portugal have endangered preferential trade ties between the two countries.

Iran makes 'breakthrough' nuclear proposal, meets with US Posted: 15 Oct 2013 01:26 PM PDT Geneva (AFP) - Iran on Tuesday presented world powers with what it dubbed a potential breakthrough to end a decade-long standoff over its nuclear drive, and held landmark talks with US officials.

Apple hires Burberry CEO to boost store sales Posted: 15 Oct 2013 01:25 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple is entrusting the elegant stores that help define its brand to Angela Ahrendts, a respected executive who blended fashion sense with technological savvy to establish Burberry as a mark of luxury and success.

Killing of two South African toddlers sparks outrage Posted: 15 Oct 2013 01:07 PM PDT Johannesburg (AFP) - Two toddlers were found dead inside a communal toilet in a South African slum north of Johannesburg on Tuesday, in another case of increasing brutal violence against children, police said.

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