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• Italian anti-austerity protesters clash with police
• Suicide bomber kills 16 in Somali cafe attack aimed at foreign troops
• Car bomb, clashes kill over 30 near Syrian capital
• Freed Lebanese, Turkish hostages fly home after deal
• Car bomb near Egypt army intelligence building wounds six
• Maldives police halt presidential vote, supporters stage sit-in
• Lebanese ex-hostages in Syria back home, Turkish pilots freed
• Killer 'clowns' murder Mexican ex-drug capo: official
• Rudderless Ibero-American summit opts for less frequent meets
• Australian authorities fear worsening wildfires
• Thousands protest in Romania against shale gas, gold mine
• Progress with FARC slower than hoped for: Colombia's Santos
• Hodgson backs Rooney to make World Cup mark
• Pilots kidnapped in Lebanon arrive back in Turkey
• Freed Lebanese hostages arrive in Beirut
• Turk, Lebanese hostages free after Syrian war deal
• Dutch building where Mati Hari was born burns
• Colombia's army nabs six FARC rebels
• Argentine commuter train slams into station, again
• Gunman in clown suit kills senior Mexican drug cartel member
• Vietnamese man charged with selling stolen bank details online
• Belgian plane crash leaves 11 dead
• Turkish, Lebanese hostages home after release deal
• At least 99 hurt in Buenos Aires train accident
• Angola denies Congo incursion
• 6.4 magnitude quake off western Mexico: US seismologists
• Turkish pilots arrive home after kidnapping
• Turkey rejects EU criticism of crackdown
• Pirates in Champions League final after 18-year wait
• Arab states call for Saudi rethink on UN protest
• Turkish, Lebanese hostages head home after deal
• UN envoy holds W. Sahara talks
• Two released after British terror probe
• 9 Lebanese return home after Syria kidnapping
• Car bomb strikes Damascus as envoy pushes for talks
• Eleven dead in Belgian plane crash
• Titanic violin sold for world record $1.4 million
• Sudan's Bashir to Juba for Tuesday summit: media

Italian anti-austerity protesters clash with police Posted: 19 Oct 2013 11:42 AM PDT By Naomi O'Leary ROME (Reuters) - Demonstrators clashed with Italian police on Saturday as tens of thousands marched through Rome to protest against unemployment, government cuts and big construction projects they say take money away from social services. Hooded protesters turned over garbage bins in front of the Economy Ministry and set several of them on fire. Using sticks and clubs, they attacked police in riot gear. The police charged and chased demonstrators up side streets. ...

Suicide bomber kills 16 in Somali cafe attack aimed at foreign troops Posted: 19 Oct 2013 06:42 AM PDT By Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people on Saturday in an attack on a cafe in a Somali town close to the Ethiopian border frequented by local and foreign soldiers fighting al Qaeda-linked rebels. Al Shabaab said it had carried out the bombing, in the town of Baladweyne, targeting troops participating in an African Union peacekeeping force fighting the Somali Islamist group. "A man with an explosives jacket entered unexpectedly in the tea shop where soldiers and civilians sat ... ...

Car bomb, clashes kill over 30 near Syrian capital Posted: 19 Oct 2013 11:46 AM PDT By Erika Solomon BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels blew up an army checkpoint outside Damascus on Saturday and more than 30 combatants from both sides died in the blast and ensuing clashes, a monitoring group said. The pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 15 rebels and at least 16 soldiers were killed. The British-based Observatory said the checkpoint explosion, near the suburbs of Mleiha and Jaramana, was detonated by a suicide bomber from the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front. ...

Freed Lebanese, Turkish hostages fly home after deal Posted: 19 Oct 2013 03:02 PM PDT By Laila Bassam and Ayla Jean Yackley BEIRUT/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Two kidnapped Turkish pilots arrived in Istanbul after leaving Lebanon on Saturday and nine Lebanese hostages freed from Syria landed in Beirut, completing a hostage exchange after months of uncertainty. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan greeted the Turkish Airlines pilots on the tarmac as they disembarked from a Qatar Airways jet and were met with cheers from family members. ...

Car bomb near Egypt army intelligence building wounds six Posted: 19 Oct 2013 12:39 PM PDT By Youssry Ahmad ISMAILIA (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded on Saturday near an Egyptian army intelligence building in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, wounding at least six soldiers, security sources said. No group has claimed responsibility, but al Qaeda-linked Islamist militants in the largely lawless Sinai region have stepped up attacks on soldiers and police since the army toppled Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in July. The militants have on occasion extended their campaign into major cities. ...

Maldives police halt presidential vote, supporters stage sit-in Posted: 19 Oct 2013 02:28 PM PDT By J.J. Robinson MALE (Reuters) - Maldives police forced a halt to a presidential election on Saturday, in what the leading candidate's supporters said was a new coup as he called on them to block the streets in protest. The Indian Ocean archipelago which has been in turmoil since February 2012, when then-president Mohamed Nasheed was ousted by mutinying police, military forces and armed demonstrators. The election was due to be held on Saturday, after a vote in September was annulled over allegations of fraud. ...

Lebanese ex-hostages in Syria back home, Turkish pilots freed Posted: 19 Oct 2013 04:47 PM PDT Beirut (AFP) - Nine Lebanese pilgrims held hostage in Syria for 17 months arrived in Beirut late Saturday after being freed in an exchange that also released two Turkish Airlines pilots seized in Lebanon.

Killer 'clowns' murder Mexican ex-drug capo: official Posted: 19 Oct 2013 04:00 PM PDT Mexico City (AFP) - The eldest brother of Mexico's once powerful Arellano Felix drug cartel family was killed by gunmen dressed as clowns at a children's party, authorities said Saturday.

Rudderless Ibero-American summit opts for less frequent meets Posted: 19 Oct 2013 03:45 PM PDT Panama City (AFP) - A poorly attended summit of Spain, Portugal and their former colonies across the Americas wrapped up Saturday with a decision to meet less often.

Australian authorities fear worsening wildfires Posted: 19 Oct 2013 03:32 PM PDT SYDNEY (AP) — Firefighters battling some of the most destructive wildfires to ever strike Australia's most populous state were bracing Sunday for worsening conditions, with higher temperatures and winds expected to intensify the danger in the coming days.

Thousands protest in Romania against shale gas, gold mine Posted: 19 Oct 2013 03:18 PM PDT By Luiza Ilie PUNGESTI, Romania (Reuters) - Thousands of Romanians protested on Saturday against plans by U.S. energy group Chevron to explore for shale gas in a poor eastern region and a Canadian company's project to set up Europe's biggest open cast gold mine in a Carpathian town. Plans by the leftist government of Prime Minister Victor Ponta to approve the tapping of natural resources in the European Union's second-poorest state have triggered nationwide protests since the start of September, throwing together local communities, environmentalists, civic rights groups and the clergy. ...

Progress with FARC slower than hoped for: Colombia's Santos Posted: 19 Oct 2013 03:17 PM PDT By Anahi Rama PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Nearly a year after starting peace talks with left-wing FARC guerrillas, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Saturday that negotiations have not progressed as quickly as he had hoped. The government is in discussions with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, to end a 50-year struggle that has killed more than 200,000 people and displaced millions. Last week the two sides ended the 15th round of negotiations in Havana, with each blaming the other for the slow pace. ...

Hodgson backs Rooney to make World Cup mark Posted: 19 Oct 2013 03:09 PM PDT London (AFP) - England manager Roy Hodgson has backed Wayne Rooney to put his major tournament disappointments behind him by becoming one of the stars of the 2014 World Cup.

Pilots kidnapped in Lebanon arrive back in Turkey Posted: 19 Oct 2013 03:02 PM PDT ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan personally greeted two kidnapped Turkish pilots when they arrived back in Istanbul on Saturday after two months in captivity in Lebanon, live television footage showed. The pair were released earlier under a deal whereby nine Lebanese hostages were freed in Syria and allowed to return home via Turkey. The Turkish pilots had been abducted in retaliation for the snatching of the Lebanese. (Reporting by Ayla Jean Yackley; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)

Freed Lebanese hostages arrive in Beirut Posted: 19 Oct 2013 03:02 PM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - A plane with nine Lebanese hostages freed from northern Syria landed safely in Beirut on Saturday night, witnesses said, nearly a year and a half after the men were captured by Syrian rebels near the Turkish border. Live video from Lebanese television showed a Qatari jet landing at Beirut International Airport and Lebanese officials lining up to greet the men. Qatari officials negotiated the release of the men in a deal that simultaneously secured the freedom of two Turkish pilots taken in a retaliatory kidnapping in August 2013. ...

Turk, Lebanese hostages free after Syrian war deal Posted: 19 Oct 2013 02:42 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Nine Lebanese pilgrims abducted in Syria and two Turkish pilots held hostage in Lebanon returned home Saturday night, part of an ambitious three-way deal cutting across the Syrian civil war.

Dutch building where Mati Hari was born burns Posted: 19 Oct 2013 02:08 PM PDT AMSTERDAM (AP) — A fire has gutted a building in the Netherlands where Mata Hari, the exotic dancer and World War I spy, was born.

Colombia's army nabs six FARC rebels Posted: 19 Oct 2013 02:03 PM PDT Bogota (AFP) - Government troops captured six rebels including a member of the security team of the leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, the army announced.

Argentine commuter train slams into station, again Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:59 PM PDT BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A commuter train slammed into the bumper at the end of the line Saturday at the same station in Argentina's capital where 52 people were killed in a similar crash last year. This time there was no immediate report of deaths, but at least 80 people were injured.

Gunman in clown suit kills senior Mexican drug cartel member Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:51 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A gunman in a clown costume shot and killed the oldest brother of one of Mexico's most notorious drug trafficking families in the resort of Los Cabos, authorities said on Saturday. Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix, 63, a former leader of the Tijuana Cartel, was shot in the head late on Friday at a family gathering in the southern tip of the state of Baja California Sur, a spokesman for state prosecutors said. "A person dressed as a clown took his life," he said. Local media reported that the killer had two accomplices, but this was not yet clear, the spokesman said. ...

Vietnamese man charged with selling stolen bank details online Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:42 PM PDT (Reuters) - A Vietnamese man was charged in a scheme to sell the banking details of hundreds of thousands of U.S. residents over the Internet, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Prosecutors say Hieu Minh Ngo, 24, was part of a group of conspirators involved in trading the personal information, including bank account and credit card details, of more than 500,000 people, according to a statement from the department Friday. ...

Belgian plane crash leaves 11 dead Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:36 PM PDT BRUSSELS (AP) — A plane carrying parachutists planning to celebrate a birthday with a skydive crashed in Belgium on Saturday, killing all 11 people aboard.

Turkish, Lebanese hostages home after release deal Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:35 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Two Turkish pilots held hostage in Lebanon and nine Lebanese pilgrims abducted in Syria returned home Saturday night, part of an ambitious three-way deal cutting across the Syrian civil war.

At least 99 hurt in Buenos Aires train accident Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:33 PM PDT Buenos Aires (AFP) - At least 99 people were hurt Saturday, some seriously, in a train crash at the same Buenos Aires commuter rail stop where a deadly accident killed dozens just last year, officials said.

Angola denies Congo incursion Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:33 PM PDT Luanda (AFP) - Angola on Saturday denied that its soldiers had crossed into the neighbouring Republic of Congo, as reported by Congolese officials earlier.

6.4 magnitude quake off western Mexico: US seismologists Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:26 PM PDT Cabo San lucas (Mexico) (AFP) - A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Saturday off the coast of Mexico in the Gulf of California, posing a risk of local tsunamis, US seismologists said.

Turkish pilots arrive home after kidnapping Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:22 PM PDT ISTANBUL (AP) — Two Turkish Airlines pilots held hostage in Lebanon by militants since August have returned home.

Turkey rejects EU criticism of crackdown Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:17 PM PDT Ankara (AFP) - Turkey on Saturday rejected an EU rebuke for Ankara's violent crackdown on dissent and criticised "some member states" for blocking membership talks.

Pirates in Champions League final after 18-year wait Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:15 PM PDT Johannesburg (AFP) - South African club Orlando Pirates reached the CAF Champions League final after an 18-year absence by holding Esperance 1-1 in Tunisia Saturday.

Arab states call for Saudi rethink on UN protest Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:01 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (United States) (AFP) - Arab nations on Saturday called on Saudi Arabia to reverse a decision to reject a seat on the UN Security Council in protest at its handling of the Syria war.

Turkish, Lebanese hostages head home after deal Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:00 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Two Turkish pilots held hostage in Lebanon and nine Lebanese pilgrims abducted in Syria returned home Saturday night, part of an ambitious three-way deal cutting across the Syrian civil war.

UN envoy holds W. Sahara talks Posted: 19 Oct 2013 12:51 PM PDT Rabat (AFP) - UN envoy Christopher Ross, trying to break a decades-old deadlock over the status of Western Sahara, held talks on Saturday in the territory's main city Laayoune, an AFP correspondent said.

Two released after British terror probe Posted: 19 Oct 2013 12:46 PM PDT London (AFP) - British police on Saturday released two men arrested during a dramatic counter-terrorism operation in London last weekend.

9 Lebanese return home after Syria kidnapping Posted: 19 Oct 2013 12:46 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Nine Lebanese Shiite pilgrims held hostage in Syria for the past year and a half have arrived at Beirut's international airport.

Car bomb strikes Damascus as envoy pushes for talks Posted: 19 Oct 2013 12:39 PM PDT Damascus (AFP) - A suicide car bombing and assault on a checkpoint in a key Damascus neighbourhood killed 16 Syrian soldiers Saturday, as the UN-Arab League envoy began a regional push for peace talks.

Eleven dead in Belgian plane crash Posted: 19 Oct 2013 12:35 PM PDT Brussels (AFP) - A plane carrying 10 skydivers, including one making her maiden jump for her birthday, crashed shortly after takeoff in Belgium Saturday, killing everyone on board and the pilot, authorities said.

Titanic violin sold for world record $1.4 million Posted: 19 Oct 2013 12:26 PM PDT London (AFP) - The violin played by the Titanic's bandmaster as the ship sank beneath the waves sold at auction for £900,000 ($1.45 million, 1.06 million euros) on Saturday, a world record for memorabilia from the doomed liner.

Sudan's Bashir to Juba for Tuesday summit: media Posted: 19 Oct 2013 12:24 PM PDT Khartoum (AFP) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is to visit South Sudan on Tuesday, official media said, as tensions mount over the disputed Abyei region.

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