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• Jets bomb Syrian city after intelligence general killed
• Pakistan tells U.N. at least 400 civilians killed by drone strikes
• Thousands march for Mursi across Egypt; policeman killed in Sinai
• Taliban attack breaks months of quiet in Kabul
• Tunisian police kill six Islamist militants in gunfights
• Pentagon shifting Afghan logistics hub to Romania from Kyrgyzstan
• Lebanon says nine citizens kidnapped in Syria have been released
• Destruction toll rises from Australian wildfires
• Colombia's ELN rebels release oil workers after brief capture -police
• Guinea's ruling party wins elections: official results
• Fire destroys 180,000 tons of sugar at Brazil port
• Many LatAm leaders absent as foundering summit opens in Panama
• Prominent British Muslims warned over 'Shebab' video
• Saudi Arabia rejects seat on UN Security Council
• Oily gunk found on Louisiana shore surges three years after BP spill
• Lebanese Shiite pilgrims kidnapped in Syria freed
• Turkish pilots held in Lebanon close to being freed: Ankara
• Saudi withdrawal stuns UN Security Council
• Brazil fire destroys one of world's biggest sugar terminals
• Red Cross releases video plea to free 3 staff abducted in Syria
• US Scout leaders topple ancient rock formation, trigger outrage
• Mali river disaster toll soars to 72
• Norwegian-Somali 'radicalized' before mall attack
• Angola frees 55 Congolese troops captured during incursion
• French 'doctor to the stars' gets 10 years for sex crimes
• Nine Lebanese freed after being held in Syria since May 2012
• Nairobi mall suspect exposes 'Scandinavia connection'
• Gunmen kill Libya's military police force commander
• Georgia shows off skull thought to rewrite human evolution
• Suicide bomb in Kabul kills two outside foreign compound
• Tunisia's ruling Islamists see elections in six months
• Rival Chilean presidential candidates share common past
• Obama, Congress at odds over Iran sanctions relief
• Court denies former Guantanamo detainee's transfer
• Syrian opposition undecided on attending talks -group's U.S. representative
• Nigeria's military killing thousands of detainees
• Greek police investigate identity of suspected Roma kidnap victim
• Greece trying to identify girl found in Gypsy camp

Jets bomb Syrian city after intelligence general killed Posted: 18 Oct 2013 12:47 PM PDT By Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian air force jets bombarded the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Friday after heavy overnight clashes and the killing of one of President Bashar al-Assad's top military intelligence officers, activists said. General Jama'a Jama'a was shot dead on Thursday by snipers in the midst of a battle with rebels including forces linked to al Qaeda, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. ...

Pakistan tells U.N. at least 400 civilians killed by drone strikes Posted: 18 Oct 2013 04:32 PM PDT By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Pakistan has confirmed that of some 2,200 people killed by drone strikes in the past decade, at least 400 were civilians and an additional 200 victims were deemed "probable non-combatants," a U.N. human rights investigator said on Friday. Ben Emmerson, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism, also urged the United States to release its own data on the number of civilian casualties caused by its drone strikes. ...

Thousands march for Mursi across Egypt; policeman killed in Sinai Posted: 18 Oct 2013 03:34 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi protested across Egypt on Friday, shouting slogans against army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who ousted him on July 3. One person was wounded by gunfire when taking part in a pro-Mursi march of a few thousand in Fayoum, south of Cairo, state news agency MENA reported. Four were injured in clashes between Mursi supporters and residents in the Nile Delta city of Zagazig, state TV reported. ...

Taliban attack breaks months of quiet in Kabul Posted: 18 Oct 2013 02:05 PM PDT By Mirwais Harooni and Jessica Donati KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban attacked a convoy of foreign vehicles in Kabul on Friday with gunfire and a suicide car bomb that was heard across the Afghan capital, the first major incident there since July. Two Afghan civilians were killed and four others wounded, including children, police sources said. There were no reports that the Taliban - which claimed responsibility - sustained casualties. The attack started around 5 p.m. ...

Tunisian police kill six Islamist militants in gunfights Posted: 18 Oct 2013 01:59 PM PDT TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian police have killed six members of Ansar al-Sharia in two days battling the militant Islamist group after two policemen were killed in fighting near the Algerian border, security officials said on Friday. Ansar al-Sharia is the most radical Islamist group to emerge in Tunisia since the 2011 uprising that ousted autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and inspired Arab revolts elsewhere. "Members of this group had been wanted for planning other attacks," Interior Ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui said of the gunmen killed in clashes near the northeastern city of Goubellat. ...

Pentagon shifting Afghan logistics hub to Romania from Kyrgyzstan Posted: 18 Oct 2013 03:05 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Friday it has begun shifting its Afghanistan air logistics hub to a base in Romania and will complete the transition from Manas Transit Center in Kyrgyzstan by the time its contract for that facility expires in July 2014. The announcement of the decision to shift the operations to Forward Operating Site Mihail Kogalniceanu in eastern Romania followed a visit to the Pentagon on Friday by Romanian Defense Minister Mircea Dusa. U.S. forces have used the site, located on the Black Sea, since 1999. ...

Lebanon says nine citizens kidnapped in Syria have been released Posted: 18 Oct 2013 04:58 PM PDT Beirut (AFP) - Nine Lebanese citizens kidnapped by rebels in Syria last year have been freed, Lebanon's Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said Friday.

Destruction toll rises from Australian wildfires Posted: 18 Oct 2013 04:51 PM PDT SYDNEY (AP) — The destruction toll continued to rise on Saturday from some of the most costly wildfires to ever strike Australia's most populous state as fire fighters prepared for worsening conditions.

Colombia's ELN rebels release oil workers after brief capture -police Posted: 18 Oct 2013 04:23 PM PDT BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's ELN rebels released three oil contractors hours after kidnapping them in the eastern province of Arauca on Friday, a police commander said, following an intensive air and ground search launched by security forces. The contractors, all from Colombia, had been hauled from their car by men in military fatigues commonly used by the country's guerrillas, near the town of Arauquita close to the eastern border with Venezuela. The kidnapping followed a spate of bomb attacks in the past 10 days that shut some of the Colombian oil industry's biggest oil and gas pipelines. ...

Guinea's ruling party wins elections: official results Posted: 18 Oct 2013 04:21 PM PDT Conakry (AFP) - Guinea's ruling party and its allies have won the west African nation's legislative elections, the electoral commission announced Friday, as the opposition said it would not recognise the official results.

Fire destroys 180,000 tons of sugar at Brazil port Posted: 18 Oct 2013 03:57 PM PDT Sao Paulo (AFP) - A fire Friday destroyed some 180,000 tons of sugar at several warehouses in the southern Brazilian port of Santos before it was contained, authorities said.

Many LatAm leaders absent as foundering summit opens in Panama Posted: 18 Oct 2013 03:56 PM PDT Panama City (AFP) - Many Latin American leaders were conspicuously absent Friday as the 23rd Ibero-American summit opened in Panama, revealing the foundering direction of the annual forum.

Prominent British Muslims warned over 'Shebab' video Posted: 18 Oct 2013 03:37 PM PDT London (AFP) - Several prominent British Muslims said Friday that police have warned they may be in danger, after they were named as enemies of Islam in a video purportedly made by extremists linked to Somalia's Shebab militants.

Saudi Arabia rejects seat on UN Security Council Posted: 18 Oct 2013 03:33 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Just hours after winning a coveted place on the U.N. Security Council for the first time, Saudi Arabia did a stunning about-face Friday and rejected the seat, denouncing the body for failing to resolve world conflicts such as the Syrian civil war.

Oily gunk found on Louisiana shore surges three years after BP spill Posted: 18 Oct 2013 03:32 PM PDT By Jemima Kelly NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The amount of oil found on Louisiana's coast has surged this year, three years after BP's Macondo spill in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, the state's Coastal Protection & Restoration Authority said. Some 3.01 million pounds of "oily material" were cleaned up on Louisiana's coast from March to August this year, up from 119,894 pounds in the same period last year, according to a report on the state Department of Natural Resources website. BP said its own tally showed 3. ...

Lebanese Shiite pilgrims kidnapped in Syria freed Posted: 18 Oct 2013 03:18 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Nine Shiite pilgrims from Lebanon kidnapped in Syria were freed late Friday night as part of a negotiated hostage deal that could see two Turkish pilots held by Lebanese militants released, officials said.

Turkish pilots held in Lebanon close to being freed: Ankara Posted: 18 Oct 2013 03:05 PM PDT Ankara (AFP) - Two Turkish Airlines pilots who were kidnapped in Lebanon in August are close to being released, Turkey's foreign minister said Friday.

Saudi withdrawal stuns UN Security Council Posted: 18 Oct 2013 03:04 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (United States) (AFP) - Saudi Arabia angrily rejected a UN Security Council seat Friday, accusing the UN body of "double standards" over the Syria war and other trouble spots in an unprecedented diplomatic broadside.

Brazil fire destroys one of world's biggest sugar terminals Posted: 18 Oct 2013 02:50 PM PDT By Reese Ewing and Fabiola Gomes SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A fire ravaged Copersucar's sugar terminal in Brazil on Friday, paralyzing operations of the world's biggest sugar trader and putting 10 million tonnes of export capacity offline for six months or more. The fire hit all of Copersucar's warehouses at the Santos port, igniting 180,000 tonnes of sugar - roughly 10 percent of Brazil's monthly sugar exports - and driving prices of the sweetener to a one-year high on global markets. ...

Red Cross releases video plea to free 3 staff abducted in Syria Posted: 18 Oct 2013 02:34 PM PDT Geneva (AFP) - The Red Cross in Syria on Friday launched a video appeal for the immediate release of three kidnapped staff, warning the aid organisation's ability to help locals would be compromised.

US Scout leaders topple ancient rock formation, trigger outrage Posted: 18 Oct 2013 02:30 PM PDT By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) - An online video of two Boy Scouts of America leaders knocking over a 170-million-year-old rock formation in a Utah State Park has touched off worldwide outrage, state officials said on Friday, and the two men may face charges. The video was posted on YouTube showing scout leader Glenn Taylor dislodging the massive rock free from its tiny perch in Goblin Valley State Park as Dave Hall films him while singing and laughing. "We, we have now modified Goblin Valley!" Hall shouts into the camera. ...

Mali river disaster toll soars to 72 Posted: 18 Oct 2013 02:23 PM PDT Bamako (AFP) - The death toll from last week's river boat sinking in Mali, one of the worst ever in the country, has jumped from 39 to 72, an official said Friday, after more bodies were discovered inside the wreck.

Norwegian-Somali 'radicalized' before mall attack Posted: 18 Oct 2013 02:21 PM PDT NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Quiet and respectful at the mosque as a boy, Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow later became angry and radicalized, people in the coastal town in Norway where he grew up said Friday of the Somali native — the first Westgate Mall attacker to be identified.

Angola frees 55 Congolese troops captured during incursion Posted: 18 Oct 2013 02:12 PM PDT Brazzaville (AFP) - Angola on Friday released 55 soldiers from the neighbouring Republic of Congo who were captured earlier this week during an incursion, a Congolese official said.

French 'doctor to the stars' gets 10 years for sex crimes Posted: 18 Oct 2013 01:52 PM PDT Paris (AFP) - A French osteopath whose list of famous clients included Pablo Picasso and Rudolf Nureyev was on Friday sentenced to 10 years in jail for raping and sexually assaulting female patients.

Nine Lebanese freed after being held in Syria since May 2012 Posted: 18 Oct 2013 01:44 PM PDT By Oliver Holmes and Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) - Nine Lebanese citizens held by rebels in northern Syria since May 2012 have been released, caretaker Lebanese Interior Minister Marwan Charbel told Reuters on Friday. Eleven Lebanese Shi'ites were seized last year by the Northern Storm brigade while on their way home from a pilgrimage to Shi'ite religious sites in Iran, their families said. Two were later released. "The story is over," Charbel said. "In the next 24 hours, they will be with us (in Lebanon)." He later told Lebanese radio that the men had crossed into southern Turkey. ...

Nairobi mall suspect exposes 'Scandinavia connection' Posted: 18 Oct 2013 01:43 PM PDT Oslo (AFP) - The suspected involvement of a Norwegian in last month's Nairobi mall bloodbath is bringing into focus Scandinavia's large Somali diaspora, which is believed to have supplied dozens of fighters in recent years.

Gunmen kill Libya's military police force commander Posted: 18 Oct 2013 01:39 PM PDT BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen fatally wounded Libya's military police force commander as he left his house in the eastern city of Benghazi to attend Friday prayers, a security source said. "Several shots hit Ahmed al-Barghathi. He was brought to hospital but later died there," the source said. The attack is the latest blow to a weak Libyan government that is struggling to assert control over militias and radical Islamists two years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi. Several army officers have been assassinated in Benghazi, where the U.S. ...

Georgia shows off skull thought to rewrite human evolution Posted: 18 Oct 2013 01:34 PM PDT Tbilisi (AFP) - Georgian scientists on Friday presented a 1.8 million-year-old skull discovered in the Caucasus nation that researchers say could force a re-evaluation of current theories of human evolution.

Suicide bomb in Kabul kills two outside foreign compound Posted: 18 Oct 2013 01:33 PM PDT Kabul (AFP) - A Taliban suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car in Kabul on Friday outside a compound where many foreign workers are based, killing at least two local civilians, Afghan officials said.

Tunisia's ruling Islamists see elections in six months Posted: 18 Oct 2013 01:26 PM PDT By Patrick Markey and Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's ruling Islamists, who have agreed to make way for a caretaker government, see elections within six months to put the country's political transition back on track after months of unrest, a senior party official said on Friday. Nearly three years after an uprising toppled President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, divisions between Islamists and the opposition over the political role of Islam have delayed a democratic process once seen as a model for the region. ...

Rival Chilean presidential candidates share common past Posted: 18 Oct 2013 01:24 PM PDT Santiago (AFP) - Rival Chilean presidential candidates Michelle Bachelet and Evelyn Matthei share more than politics: they played together as children and saw their lives turned upside down by a coup.

Obama, Congress at odds over Iran sanctions relief Posted: 18 Oct 2013 01:22 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is weighing whether to offer Iran the chance to recoup billions of dollars in frozen overseas assets if it takes steps to scale back its nuclear program, U.S. officials and congressional aides said Friday. The proposal would face a skeptical Congress determined to make the end of Tehran's uranium enrichment activity the condition for any sanctions relief.

Court denies former Guantanamo detainee's transfer Posted: 18 Oct 2013 01:21 PM PDT Ottawa (AFP) - A Canadian court on Friday denied former Guantanamo inmate Omar Khadr's transfer from a maximum to a minimum security prison where he might be eligible for parole.

Syrian opposition undecided on attending talks -group's U.S. representative Posted: 18 Oct 2013 01:20 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Syrian opposition coalition has not yet decided whether to attend a long-delayed international conference on ending Syria's civil war, the coalition's U.S. representative said on Friday. Najib Ghadbian acknowledged that an important component of the coalition had decided against taking part, but said other members of the umbrella organization could still decide to go, assuming that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is not there. ...

Nigeria's military killing thousands of detainees Posted: 18 Oct 2013 01:16 PM PDT LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Shedding stark light on Nigeria's escalating war with Islamic militants, mortuary records from a single Nigerian hospital show the number of detainees who died in military custody more than tripled in June, the first month of a state of emergency in the troubled northeast region.

Greek police investigate identity of suspected Roma kidnap victim Posted: 18 Oct 2013 01:12 PM PDT ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police are investigating the identity of a four-year-old girl found living with a Roma couple in central Greece, on suspicion that the child may have been abducted from her parents. The girl was found on Wednesday at a Roma settlement near Farsala in central Greece during a police sweep of the settlement for suspected drug trafficking. Police became suspicious because the blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl bore no resemblance to the couple claiming to be her parents, and the couple changed their story about how they got the child several times under questioning. ...

Greece trying to identify girl found in Gypsy camp Posted: 18 Oct 2013 01:12 PM PDT ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Greek police raided the camp in search of drugs and weapons, part of a crackdown on illegal activity in the Gypsy community. But during the operation, an accompanying prosecutor noticed something else that stood out: a blond, blue-eyed little girl.

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