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• Suicide bomber kills 31 in Syria's Hama: state media
• Baghdad cafe bombing kills at least 38
• Egyptian gunmen kill three outside church in Cairo suburb
• As ties warm, U.S. restarts security assistance to Pakistan
• Libya's premier accuses two rivals in abduction
• Mexico calls alleged U.S. spying on Calderon 'unacceptable'
• Egypt police, protesters clash at Cairo university
• Gunmen kill 3 people outside Cairo church
• Tropical Storm Raymond threatens Mexico's west coast
• Tropical Storm Raymond forms in Pacific off Mexico
• Gaza militants say dug tunnel into Israel
• Veteran Luxembourg PM leads polls but loses ground
• Kuwait gives Egypt 5 years to repay $2 billion deposit: Egyptian PM
• Greek Gypsies worried about child abduction case
• Video suggesting soldiers looted attacked mall angers Kenyans
• Hamas says it's responsible for tunnel under Gaza-Israel border
• Raymond almost a hurricane off Mexico, threatens Acapulco with more rain
• Bolivia ambush kills 2 security forces, 8 taken hostage
• Official: South Sudan rebels kill 41 in gun attack
• Cuba, Venezuela slammed on press freedoms
• Luxembourg prime minister's party wins most votes
• Egyptian gunmen kill two outside church in Cairo suburb
• Gunmen kill 1, wound 10 outside Egyptian church
• Jean-Claude Juncker, Europe's longest-serving leader
• Signs of rift between Israel and US over Iran
• Deported Roma girl, family attacked in Kosovo
• Confusion over long-delayed Syria conference
• Libya security chief boasts he 'arrested' PM
• Two Christian clerics killed on Kenyan coast
• Iraq attacks including nine suicide bombings kill 49
• Challenger wants Maldives' president to resign
• Security video shows Kenyan soldiers looting mall
• Violence hits Montenegro capital's first Gay Pride march
• Syria peace talks in doubt over opposition rifts
• Projection: Luxembourg PM's party wins most votes
• Suicide bombing in Iraq kills 35 in busy cafe
• Juncker's party loses seats in Luxembourg elections: exit poll
• British police charge two men with terror offences

Suicide bomber kills 31 in Syria's Hama: state media Posted: 20 Oct 2013 04:59 AM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - A suicide bomber driving a truck packed with 1.5 metric tons of explosives killed at least 31 people and wounded dozens in the Syrian city of Hama on Sunday, state media and a monitoring group reported. The man blew himself up inside the vehicle on a busy road on the outskirts of the city in central Syria, the SANA news agency said. It blamed "terrorists", the term it uses to describe rebel forces trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad. The pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack targeted an army checkpoint but most of the dead were civilians. ...

Baghdad cafe bombing kills at least 38 Posted: 20 Oct 2013 11:53 AM PDT By Kareem Raheem BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber driving a minibus blew himself up outside a cafe in a mainly Shi'ite Muslim district of the Iraqi capital on Sunday, killing at least 38 people, police and medics said. At least 12 people were killed in a spate of suicide bomb attacks on security personnel and government buildings earlier in the day, police said. Violence in Iraq, which had eased after reaching a climax in 2006-07, is now rising again, with more than 7,000 civilians killed this year, according to monitoring group Iraq Body Count. ...

Egyptian gunmen kill three outside church in Cairo suburb Posted: 20 Oct 2013 02:53 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Gunmen on a motorcycle fired on Egyptian wedding guests outside a Coptic Christian church in a Cairo suburb on Sunday night, killing three people, security sources said. The masked assailants shot randomly at the people as they left the church, the sources said. It was not immediately clear if those killed were Christians, they said. State news agency MENA reported that one of the dead was an eight-year-old child. A Coptic priest at the wedding told Reuters he was inside the church when gunfire broke out. ...

As ties warm, U.S. restarts security assistance to Pakistan Posted: 20 Oct 2013 03:41 PM PDT By Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has quietly restarted security assistance to Pakistan, U.S. officials said on Sunday, after freezing much of that aid during a period of strained relations beginning with the 2011 Navy SEAL raid that killed al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. While the move to free up the aid has been underway for some months, it became public as President Barack Obama prepares for a White House meeting on Wednesday with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. ...

Libya's premier accuses two rivals in abduction Posted: 20 Oct 2013 02:52 PM PDT TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan's government on Sunday accused two lawmakers from an Islamist party of involvement in orchestrating his brief kidnapping by one of the militias whose rivalries threaten to spiral into war. Two years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's fragile government is crippled by infighting, unable to disarm former militia fighters in a country still awash with weapons from the Gaddafi era. ...

Mexico calls alleged U.S. spying on Calderon 'unacceptable' Posted: 20 Oct 2013 04:47 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico scolded the United States on Sunday over new allegations of spying after a German magazine reported that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) had hacked Felipe Calderon's public email account while he was president. Weekly Der Spiegel said in May 2010, an NSA division known as "Tailored Access Operations" reported it had gained access to then-president Calderon's email account, and turned his office into a "lucrative" source of information. ...

Egypt police, protesters clash at Cairo university Posted: 20 Oct 2013 04:05 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian anti-riot police fired tear gas Sunday at hundreds of supporters of the country's ousted Islamist president, besieging them inside a prestigious Muslim institution after stone-hurling protesters cut off a main road.

Gunmen kill 3 people outside Cairo church Posted: 20 Oct 2013 03:53 PM PDT Cairo (AFP) - Gunmen on a motorbike shot dead three people late Sunday, including an eight-year-old girl, as they fired on a group outside a Coptic Christian church in Cairo, Egypt's interior ministry said.

Tropical Storm Raymond threatens Mexico's west coast Posted: 20 Oct 2013 03:53 PM PDT Mexico City (AFP) - A stronger Tropical Storm Raymond churned Saturday toward the southwestern coast of Mexico, still recovering from a devastating tropical storm hit just last month.

Tropical Storm Raymond forms in Pacific off Mexico Posted: 20 Oct 2013 03:47 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Raymond steamed Sunday toward Mexico's southern Pacific coast, an area already devastated by rains and mudslides from Tropical Storm Manuel last month.

Gaza militants say dug tunnel into Israel Posted: 20 Oct 2013 03:35 PM PDT Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - The military wing of Gaza's ruling Hamas said on Monday that it masterminded what Israel called a "terror tunnel" from Gaza into the Jewish state, meant to kidnap Israeli soldiers.

Veteran Luxembourg PM leads polls but loses ground Posted: 20 Oct 2013 03:04 PM PDT Luxembourg (AFP) - Luxembourg's veteran Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker took a clear lead at snap elections Sunday, but after 18 years in office Europe's longest-serving leader lost ground, official figures showed.

Kuwait gives Egypt 5 years to repay $2 billion deposit: Egyptian PM Posted: 20 Oct 2013 02:51 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - The Gulf Arab state of Kuwait will allow Egypt to repay a $2 billion central bank deposit over five years instead of the current one-year timeframe, Egypt's interim prime minister said on Sunday. Kuwait agreed to give Egypt the extended repayment period for the deposit, Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi said in an interview aired late Sunday night on a private television channel. Egypt's central bank received the $2 billion deposit from Kuwait on September 26. ...

Greek Gypsies worried about child abduction case Posted: 20 Oct 2013 02:45 PM PDT FARSALA, Greece (AP) — Gypsies stroll about prefabricated homes in their camp, many of them smiling and seemingly carefree. But there is worry and resentment here.

Video suggesting soldiers looted attacked mall angers Kenyans Posted: 20 Oct 2013 02:33 PM PDT By Drazen Jorgic NAIROBI (Reuters) - Security camera footage of soldiers appearing to loot goods during last month's Nairobi shopping mall siege has infuriated Kenyans who had initially praised troops for their courage in battling the Somali attackers. A front page headline over the weekend in Kenya's biggest selling newspaper The Nation read "Shame of soldiers looting Westgate" under the caption "caught on camera". ...

Hamas says it's responsible for tunnel under Gaza-Israel border Posted: 20 Oct 2013 02:32 PM PDT By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip claimed responsibility on Sunday for a tunnel that Israel said was found beneath the heavily fortified Israel-Gaza frontier. A website for a Hamas radio station called al Aqsa said the group's armed wing was responsible for what it called the "Khan Younis Tunnel," named for a part of the coastal territory where the subterranean passage was found. ...

Raymond almost a hurricane off Mexico, threatens Acapulco with more rain Posted: 20 Oct 2013 02:31 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Tropical storm Raymond neared hurricane strength as it swirled towards Mexico's Pacific coast on Sunday, threatening to dump heavy rain on the beach resort of Acapulco, which is still recovering from destructive floods last month. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said Raymond was expected to become a hurricane later on Sunday, and Mexico has issued a tropical storm watch from Acapulco in Guerrero state to the port of Lazaro Cardenas further northwest. Raymond is likely to get close to the coast late on Monday or on Tuesday, then begin to meander, the NHC said. ...

Bolivia ambush kills 2 security forces, 8 taken hostage Posted: 20 Oct 2013 02:28 PM PDT La Paz (AFP) - Eight Bolivian soldiers were being held hostage Sunday by suspected coca growers after a firefight that left two security officers dead and 17 wounded.

Official: South Sudan rebels kill 41 in gun attack Posted: 20 Oct 2013 02:21 PM PDT JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Rebels in South Sudan killed at least 41 people and wounded scores in a gun attack in a remote part of the country's restive Jonglei state, a regional official said Sunday.

Cuba, Venezuela slammed on press freedoms Posted: 20 Oct 2013 02:10 PM PDT Denver (AFP) - Venezuelan journalists and a dissident Cuban blogger denounced press censorship and other forms of media control by their countries' leftist governments, at a conference here Sunday.

Luxembourg prime minister's party wins most votes Posted: 20 Oct 2013 01:59 PM PDT LUXEMBOURG (AP) — The Christian Democrat party of long-serving Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker easily remained the biggest party and the first choice to form a new coalition government following Sunday's elections.

Egyptian gunmen kill two outside church in Cairo suburb Posted: 20 Oct 2013 01:29 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Gunmen on a motorcycle fired on Egyptian wedding guests outside a Coptic Christian church in a Cairo suburb on Sunday night, killing two people and wounding seven, security sources said. The assailants shot randomly at the people as they left the church, the sources said. It was not immediately clear if the two people killed were Christians, they said. A Coptic priest at the wedding told Reuters he was inside the church when gunfire broke out. Thomas Daoud Ibrahim said he rushed outside to find a dead man, a dead woman, and "many injured". ...

Gunmen kill 1, wound 10 outside Egyptian church Posted: 20 Oct 2013 01:26 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Security officials in Egypt say gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on a group of people at a Christian church in Cairo, killing one woman and wounding 10.

Jean-Claude Juncker, Europe's longest-serving leader Posted: 20 Oct 2013 01:24 PM PDT Luxembourg (AFP) - Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, Europe's longest-serving leader, looks set to extend his 18 years running the EU's wealthiest nation, though his popularity is sliding, according to estimates from elections Sunday.

Signs of rift between Israel and US over Iran Posted: 20 Oct 2013 01:08 PM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — Just days after the first round of global nuclear talks with Iran, a rift appears to be emerging between Israel and its closest ally, the United States.

Deported Roma girl, family attacked in Kosovo Posted: 20 Oct 2013 01:01 PM PDT Kosovska Mitrovica (Kosovo) (AFP) - Unidentified assailants on Sunday attacked a Roma schoolgirl, whose deportation from France sparked controversy, along with her family in Kosovo where they have been living since their eviction, police said.

Confusion over long-delayed Syria conference Posted: 20 Oct 2013 01:01 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Reflecting confusion in efforts to convene an international conference to end Syria's civil war, the Arab League chief announced on Sunday that talks will take place next month in Geneva, only to have the U.N. envoy flatly deny a date has been set.

Libya security chief boasts he 'arrested' PM Posted: 20 Oct 2013 12:51 PM PDT Benghazi (Libya) (AFP) - A Libyan security chief accused of involvement in Prime Minister Ali Zeidan's abduction 10 days ago said Sunday he was behind the "arrest" and that he was "proud" of it.

Two Christian clerics killed on Kenyan coast Posted: 20 Oct 2013 12:46 PM PDT Mombasa (Kenya) (AFP) - Two Christian clerics on Kenya's coast were killed in separate attacks over the weekend, witnesses said Sunday, two weeks after the killing of a Muslim preacher sparked deadly riots in port city Mombasa.

Iraq attacks including nine suicide bombings kill 49 Posted: 20 Oct 2013 12:41 PM PDT Baghdad (AFP) - Twin bomb attacks Sunday on a Baghdad cafe killed dozens of people in one of nine suicide attacks across Iraq, which is suffering its worst violence in five years.

Challenger wants Maldives' president to resign Posted: 20 Oct 2013 12:34 PM PDT MALE, Maldives (AP) — The leading candidate in the Maldives' troubled presidential election demanded Sunday that the president resign and allow the parliamentary speaker to take over the government and oversee a fresh poll.

Security video shows Kenyan soldiers looting mall Posted: 20 Oct 2013 12:33 PM PDT KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Men in fatigues walked out of a store in Nairobi's Westgate Mall like ordinary shoppers, holding plastic bags heavy with unknown items after Islamic extremists staged an attack. Others looked behind counters as they descended into the shopping center to fight the militants, and lifted items.

Violence hits Montenegro capital's first Gay Pride march Posted: 20 Oct 2013 12:33 PM PDT Podgorica (Montenegro) (AFP) - Twenty police officers were injured on Sunday in clashes with hundreds of stone-throwing protesters opposed to the first Gay Pride march held in Montenegro's capital, a hospital said.

Syria peace talks in doubt over opposition rifts Posted: 20 Oct 2013 12:32 PM PDT Damascus (AFP) - Syrian peace talks can only be held if a "credible opposition" takes part, an international envoy said Sunday, as a truck bombing in the war-ravaged country killed more than 40 people.

Projection: Luxembourg PM's party wins most votes Posted: 20 Oct 2013 12:03 PM PDT LUXEMBOURG (AP) — The Christian Democrat party of long-serving Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker easily remained the biggest party and the first choice to form a new coalition government following the first provisional results of Sunday's elections.

Suicide bombing in Iraq kills 35 in busy cafe Posted: 20 Oct 2013 11:49 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber slammed his explosive-laden car Sunday night into a busy cafe in Iraq's capital, part of a day of violence across the country that killed 45 people, authorities said.

Juncker's party loses seats in Luxembourg elections: exit poll Posted: 20 Oct 2013 11:46 AM PDT LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - The party of Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker suffered losses in the country's elections on Sunday, with its worst showing since 1999, but it will remain the largest in parliament, exit polls showed. The Christian Social People's Party (CSV) will have 23 seats in the 60-seat parliament, down three from the last elections in 2009. The Socialist Workers Party (LSAP), Juncker's coalition partner since 2004, was tying with the Democratic Party (DP) for second place, both winning 13 seats, according to the exit poll. ...

British police charge two men with terror offences Posted: 20 Oct 2013 11:40 AM PDT London (AFP) - British police on Sunday charged two men with terror offences after they were arrested during a dramatic counter-terrorism operation in London last week.

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