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• China suspects Tiananmen crash a suicide attack, sources say
• Italian Senate committee delays decision on Berlusconi vote
• Egypt and Brotherhood should pursue reconciliation: minister
• Damascus, rebels coordinate to let 1,800 civilians flee siege
• About 10 migrants die, 50 missing in failed Sahara crossing
• Afghans tried to court Pakistani militant seized by U.S.
• Israel releases 26 Palestinian prisoners
• Israel frees 26 Palestinian prisoners
• 4 French taken captive in Niger free after 3 years
• Russia breaks 'Zero Waste' Olympic pledge
• China's anti-pollution drive risks running out of gas
• Intel chief: US spies on allies, they do it, too
• India's 'Common Man' aims to sweep out the grand old parties
• Four Frenchmen kidnapped in Niger free after three years
• Mozambique forces overrun second ex-rebel base
• Six dead in DR Congo munitions depot attack
• Argentina's Supreme Court upholds controversial media law
• Cavendish given chance to show Rio worth
• UN confirms polio outbreak in Syria
• Central African Republic chaotic, half population need help, U.N. says
• UN officials confirm polio outbreak in north Syria
• Pistorius to face additional gun charges at murder trial
• England suffer Parling blow
• Egypt: Judges in Brotherhood trial step down
• Israeli court clears way for prisoner release
• US spy chiefs hit back in Europe row
• Five held over Kenya massacre, two soldiers sacked
• London aims to become Islamic finance hub: Cameron
• UK PM unveils plans for Islamic Market Index
• Iran gives activist actress 18-month sentence
• Ecclestone accused of 'corrupt bargain' in F1 sale
• Woman on Concordia bridge: I was captain's lover
• Bachelet may win Chile election in first round, poll shows
• U.S. lawmakers criticize Egypt aid cuts, consider changing law
• Damascus regime adamant Syrians alone will decide future

China suspects Tiananmen crash a suicide attack, sources say Posted: 29 Oct 2013 03:44 PM PDT By Benjamin Kang Lim and Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities investigating what could be Beijing's first major suicide attack searched on Tuesday for two men from Muslim-dominated Xinjiang after three people suspected to be from the restive region drove an SUV into a crowd at Tiananmen Square and set it on fire. They killed themselves and two tourists on Monday in the square, the heart of China's power structure and the focal point of the mass 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations brutally crushed the military. ...

Italian Senate committee delays decision on Berlusconi vote Posted: 29 Oct 2013 02:18 PM PDT ROME (Reuters) - An Italian Senate Committee on Tuesday postponed a decision on whether a vote to expel former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from the upper house should be secret, further delaying the moment when his political fate will be sealed. The vote in the full Senate will decide the future of the billionaire media magnate, who has dominated Italian politics for the past two decades. Another Senate committee recommended earlier this month that Berlusconi, 77, should lose his seat following a conviction for tax fraud. ...

Egypt and Brotherhood should pursue reconciliation: minister Posted: 29 Oct 2013 01:00 PM PDT By Michael Georgy CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's army-backed government and the Muslim Brotherhood should seek reconciliation, a senior minister said on Tuesday, voicing a rare plea to seek compromise with a group branded "terrorists" by many of his cabinet colleagues. The army toppled President Mohamed Mursi of the Brotherhood in July when security forces killed hundreds of its members and jailed thousands, including Mursi, who is due to appear in court on Monday on charges of inciting violence. Yet street protests regularly erupt and Islamist militants have intensified their attacks. ...

Damascus, rebels coordinate to let 1,800 civilians flee siege Posted: 29 Oct 2013 02:19 PM PDT DAMASCUS (Reuters) - A rare moment of coordination between the Syrian government and rebels enabled 1,800 civilians to flee a besieged town on the edge of Damascus on Tuesday, but thousands remain trapped with little food, water or medicine. A source in the Ministry for Social Affairs said the evacuation from Mouadamiya had gone ahead with the help of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and some civil groups. "I was living in terror and now I am free and safe with the army, thank God," a resident of Mouadamiya told a Reuters reporter on condition of anonymity. "There is no food or water. ...

About 10 migrants die, 50 missing in failed Sahara crossing Posted: 29 Oct 2013 04:13 PM PDT NIAMEY (Reuters) - Around 10 migrants from Niger have died of thirst and 50 are missing after one of the vehicles they were travelling in broke down in the Sahara, the governor of the Niger's northern region of Agadez said on Tuesday. Although the number of West Africans seeking to reach Europe has dropped in recent years, the route across the Sahara is still used by some migrants from the region and those from farther afield. Hundreds of those who make it to the Mediterranean have drowned trying to cross in recent months. ...

Afghans tried to court Pakistani militant seized by U.S. Posted: 29 Oct 2013 03:55 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. apprehension of a Pakistani Taliban commander last month came during a failed attempt by Afghan officials to form an alliance with his militant group, a Western official said on Tuesday, confirming some details in a New York Times report. The United States this month confirmed the arrest of Latif Mehsud, a trusted deputy to Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, during a military operation that heightened tensions with the Western-backed government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. ...

Israel releases 26 Palestinian prisoners Posted: 29 Oct 2013 04:17 PM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — A spokeswoman for Israel's prison service says Israel has freed 26 Palestinian prisoners.

Israel frees 26 Palestinian prisoners Posted: 29 Oct 2013 04:34 PM PDT Ofer prison (Israel) (AFP) - Israel freed 26 veteran Palestinian prisoners on Wednesday, alongside US-brokered peace talks, AFP correspondents said.

4 French taken captive in Niger free after 3 years Posted: 29 Oct 2013 04:00 PM PDT PARIS (AP) — Four Frenchmen taken hostage by al-Qaida extremists in Niger have been released after three years of captivity and a French-led military intervention in the region that weakened the Islamic radicals.

Russia breaks 'Zero Waste' Olympic pledge Posted: 29 Oct 2013 03:50 PM PDT AKHSHTYR, Russia (AP) — Trucks rumble to the edge of a gigantic pit filled with spray cans, tires and foam sheets and dump a stream of concrete slabs that send up a cloud of limestone dust. Other trucks pile clay on top and a bulldozer mixes everything together in a rudimentary effort to hide the mess. This landfill outside Sochi, which will host the Winter Olympics in 100 days, is smack in the middle of a water protection zone where dumping industrial waste is banned.

China's anti-pollution drive risks running out of gas Posted: 29 Oct 2013 03:48 PM PDT By Adam Rose and David Stanway BEIJING (Reuters) - A chronic shortage of natural gas is hurting China's plan to move away from burning coal to heat homes and offices, raising the prospect of more choking air pollution this winter and beyond. The problem is worst in northern China, where air pollution mainly caused by decades of reliance on coal has lowered life expectancy by an estimated 5.5 years compared to the south, Chinese and international researchers said in July. ...

Intel chief: US spies on allies, they do it, too Posted: 29 Oct 2013 03:36 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing lawmakers who suggested U.S. surveillance has gone too far, the national intelligence director on Tuesday defended spying on foreign allies as necessary and said such scrutiny of America's friends — and vice versa — is commonplace.

India's 'Common Man' aims to sweep out the grand old parties Posted: 29 Oct 2013 03:26 PM PDT By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An upstart political party forged in the crucible of an anti-corruption movement that swept India two years ago was long dismissed as irrelevant and slightly eccentric. But the Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party has suddenly up-ended the calculations of mainstream parties in the race for control of the capital, Delhi, which goes to the polls in December and will set the stage for a national election due by May. ...

Four Frenchmen kidnapped in Niger free after three years Posted: 29 Oct 2013 03:19 PM PDT Niamey (AFP) - Four Frenchmen kidnapped by Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Niger have been released after more than three years in captivity.

Mozambique forces overrun second ex-rebel base Posted: 29 Oct 2013 02:50 PM PDT Catandica (Mozambique) (AFP) - Mozambique troops have seized a second military base of the former Renamo rebels, the presidency said Tuesday, as tit-for-tat attacks raise concerns of renewed conflict after two decades of peace in the country.

Six dead in DR Congo munitions depot attack Posted: 29 Oct 2013 02:45 PM PDT Lubumbashi (DR Congo) (AFP) - Six people were killed Tuesday in clashes between military police and a group of separatist attackers at a munitions depot in the southwestern DR Congo city of Lubumbashi, officials said.

Argentina's Supreme Court upholds controversial media law Posted: 29 Oct 2013 02:42 PM PDT By Guido Nejamkis and Anthony Esposito BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a controversial media law that government proponents applauded as an effort to reduce market concentration but opponents viewed as state meddling aimed at quieting dissent. The ruling, which will require media conglomerate Grupo Clarin to divest some of its units, comes as a relief for President Cristina Fernandez's government only a few days after a setback in midterm elections. The government has championed the reform as the start of a new era of media diversity. ...

Cavendish given chance to show Rio worth Posted: 29 Oct 2013 02:36 PM PDT London (AFP) - Mark Cavendish has been invited to train with the Great Britain track team before the end of this year as officials assess whether he's a genuine contender for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

UN confirms polio outbreak in Syria Posted: 29 Oct 2013 02:29 PM PDT Geneva (AFP) - The UN health agency on Tuesday confirmed an outbreak of polio in war-torn Syria, which had been free of the crippling disease since 1999, and said it feared it would spread.

Central African Republic chaotic, half population need help, U.N. says Posted: 29 Oct 2013 02:13 PM PDT By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council gave the go-ahead on Tuesday for troops to be sent to Central African Republic to protect a U.N. political mission in the virtually lawless country where a senior aid official said half the population needs help. The landlocked, mineral-rich nation of 4.6 million people has slipped into chaos since northern Seleka rebels seized the capital, Bangui, and ousted President Francois Bozize in March. U.N. officials and rights groups say both sides may have committed war crimes. ...

UN officials confirm polio outbreak in north Syria Posted: 29 Oct 2013 02:11 PM PDT DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The U.N. confirmed an outbreak of polio in Syria for the first time in over a decade on Tuesday, warning the disease threatens to spread among an estimated half-million children who have never been immunized because of the civil war.

Pistorius to face additional gun charges at murder trial Posted: 29 Oct 2013 02:09 PM PDT Johannesburg (AFP) - South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius faces two additional gun-related charges at his trial for the murder of his girlfriend, the prosecution said Tuesday.

England suffer Parling blow Posted: 29 Oct 2013 02:08 PM PDT London (AFP) - England lock Geoff Parling has been ruled out of Saturday's opening November international against Australia at Twickenham with concussion, team management announced Tuesday.

Egypt: Judges in Brotherhood trial step down Posted: 29 Oct 2013 02:03 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — The judges presiding over the trial of nearly three dozen members of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, including its top leader, stepped down Tuesday after security agencies refused to let the defendants attend the courtroom sessions, judicial officials said.

Israeli court clears way for prisoner release Posted: 29 Oct 2013 01:57 PM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Supreme Court cleared the way for the release of 26 Palestinian prisoners on Tuesday, the second of four batches set to be freed as part of a deal that put in motion the current Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

US spy chiefs hit back in Europe row Posted: 29 Oct 2013 01:54 PM PDT Washington (AFP) - US espionage chiefs hit back Tuesday in a row over mass spying, saying reports American eavesdroppers scooped up millions of phone records in Europe, were "completely false."

Five held over Kenya massacre, two soldiers sacked Posted: 29 Oct 2013 01:46 PM PDT Nairobi (AFP) - Kenyan police said Tuesday they are holding five people over last month's attack on Nairobi's Westgate mall, while two soldiers were court martialed for looting during the attack.

London aims to become Islamic finance hub: Cameron Posted: 29 Oct 2013 01:44 PM PDT London (AFP) - British Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday he wanted London to become one of the world's major capitals of Islamic finance as the city played host to the first World Islamic Forum outside the Muslim world.

UK PM unveils plans for Islamic Market Index Posted: 29 Oct 2013 01:43 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister David Cameron is taking strides to tap the burgeoning interest in Islamic finance, announcing the launch of a new Islamic Market Index in London and plans for Britain to be the first non-Muslim country to issue an Islamic bond.

Iran gives activist actress 18-month sentence Posted: 29 Oct 2013 01:36 PM PDT TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian court has sentenced an actress known for her reformist political activism to 18 months in prison on security charges, newspapers reported Tuesday, in another sign of the underlying tensions between Iran's hard-liners and calls for greater openness by new President Hassan Rouhani.

Ecclestone accused of 'corrupt bargain' in F1 sale Posted: 29 Oct 2013 01:36 PM PDT London (AFP) - Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone was accused of striking a "corrupt bargain" in a bid to maintain his grip on the sport, at the start of a hearing in London's High Court on Tuesday.

Woman on Concordia bridge: I was captain's lover Posted: 29 Oct 2013 01:34 PM PDT GROSSETO, Italy (AP) — A Moldovan dancer who had been on the bridge of the Costa Concordia cruise ship when it crashed into a reef off Italy electrified the captain's manslaughter trial Tuesday by testifying reluctantly that the two were lovers.

Bachelet may win Chile election in first round, poll shows Posted: 29 Oct 2013 01:32 PM PDT By Rosalba O'Brien SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Center-left former President Michelle Bachelet holds a huge lead in Chile's presidential election this year and may attract enough support to win outright in the first round, a key poll showed on Tuesday. Around 47 percent of Chileans questioned by pollster CEP said they would vote for Bachelet if the election were held this Sunday, while 14 percent backed right-wing candidate Evelyn Matthei and 10 percent supported independent economist Franco Parisi. Twenty-five percent in the poll said they would definitely not or probably not vote. ...

U.S. lawmakers criticize Egypt aid cuts, consider changing law Posted: 29 Oct 2013 01:31 PM PDT By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some U.S. lawmakers said on Tuesday they were unhappy about cuts in Washington's aid to Egypt announced earlier this month after authorities in Cairo used violence to put down protests. They also said they were considering changes to a U.S. law that bars sending assistance to governments that have been deemed to have seized power through a coup. ...

Damascus regime adamant Syrians alone will decide future Posted: 29 Oct 2013 01:00 PM PDT Damascus (AFP) - Foreign Minister Walid Muallem insisted Tuesday that only the Syrian people can choose their future, rejecting Western and Arab demands that President Bashar al-Assad step down.

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