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• Exclusive: Syria has shipped out less than 5 pct of chemical weapons
• Russia to await new Ukraine government before fully implementing rescue: Putin
• South Korea urges North to hasten reunions but vows to continue drills
• Baghdad bombs and shooting kill at least 19
• Amanda Knox faces verdict in Italy in retrial on Kercher murder
• Hoping to deter Hezbollah, Israel threatens Lebanese civilians
• Over 500 killed in Venezuela jails in 2013
• Top Asian News at 1:00 a.m. GMT
• Marine wants new lawyers in Iraq slaying retrial
• Hodge called into Australian T20 side vs England
• Lawyers seek no Sept. 11 mention at terror trial
• Woman charged with attempted murder following London terror raids
• Super Bowl Canadian, Alaskan don't fret cold game
• Nicaragua's Sandinistas consolidate power further
• Monarch butterflies drop, migration may disappear
• LatAm leaders declare region a 'zone of peace'
• East Asia tensions on display at Security Council
• Deadly ice storm turns Atlanta into parking lot, strands thousands
• New treatment could reduce kids' peanut allergies
• Marseille beats Valenciennes 2-1 to go up to 5th
• Terror suspect challenges NSA surveillance
• Thiago seals Bayern's 2-1 win at Stuttgart
• Google selling Motorola phone business to Lenovo
• Sick cruise ship passengers recall days of misery
• Chelsea held to 0-0 draw by West Ham
• Santos denies knowledge of Neymar deal in 2011
• Ford brother-in-law accuses mayor of arranging jailhouse beating
• San Francisco: Rescuers didn't kill Asiana victim
• Argentina seeks to control prices amid devaluation
• Atletico ousts Bilbao to reach Copa del Rey semis
• Cruise ship passengers recall days of misery
• Aston Villa beats West Brom 4-3 in Premier League
• European bat population bounces back from the brink: study

Exclusive: Syria has shipped out less than 5 pct of chemical weapons Posted: 29 Jan 2014 04:13 PM PST By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Syria has given up less than 5 percent of its chemical weapons arsenal and will miss next week's deadline to send all toxic agents abroad for destruction, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The deliveries, in two shipments this month to the northern Syrian port of Latakia, totalled 4.1 percent of the roughly 1,300 tonnes of toxic agents reported by Damascus to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Damascus needs to show it is still serious about relinquishing its chemical weapons, the sources told Reuters. The issue is to be discussed at a meeting of the OPCW's executive council on Thursday in The Hague, a senior U.S. State Department official told Reuters.

Russia to await new Ukraine government before fully implementing rescue: Putin Posted: 29 Jan 2014 04:43 PM PST By Steve Gutterman and Richard Balmforth MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin raised the pressure on Ukraine on Wednesday, saying Russia would wait until it forms a new government before fully implementing a $15 billion bailout deal that Kiev urgently needs. Putin repeated a promise to honor the lifeline agreement with Ukraine in full, but left open the timing of the next aid installment as Kiev struggles to calm more than two months of turmoil since President Viktor Yanukovich walked away from a treaty with the European Union. A day after Prime Minister Mykola Azarov resigned on Tuesday, hoping to appease the opposition and street protesters, Russia tightened border checks on imports from Ukraine in what looked like a reminder to Yanukovich not to install a government that tilts policy back towards the West.

South Korea urges North to hasten reunions but vows to continue drills Posted: 29 Jan 2014 02:09 PM PST South Korea urged the North on Wednesday to speed efforts for reunions of families separated since the war that divided the neighbors, but vowed to continue joint military drills with the United States, despite protests from Pyongyang. Uncertainty remained whether the North would keep its pledge to hold the reunions ahead of the start of the drills, but the South said it would not use the military exercises as a means to secure the family event. The North proposed the family reunions last week in a move welcomed by both China, its sole major ally, and the United States. But the North has yet to respond to a call by the South for the event to be held over six days in February and for a meeting to hammer out location and logistics.

Baghdad bombs and shooting kill at least 19 Posted: 29 Jan 2014 01:22 PM PST Car bombs in mainly Shi'ite districts of the Iraqi capital and a shooting killed at least 19 people on Wednesday, police said, driving the death toll so far this month to nearly 1,000, according to Iraq Body Count. No group claimed responsibility for the blasts, but members of the country's Shi'ite majority are often targeted by Sunni Islamist insurgents, some linked with al Qaeda, who have regained ground in Iraq over the past year. The al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has exploited resentment among minority Sunnis against the Shi'ite-led government for policies perceived as unfairly penalizing their once-dominant community. On January 1, militants overran two cities in the Sunni heartland province of Anbar, which shares a border with Syria, where ISIL is also active.

Amanda Knox faces verdict in Italy in retrial on Kercher murder Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:28 PM PST By Naomi O'Leary FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - Amanda Knox, the American student who became tabloid fodder, will not be in court on Thursday to hear Italian judges give their verdict in her retrial for the murder of Briton Meredith Kercher when the two were roommates studying abroad in 2007. Knox, who is living in Seattle, is standing trial alongside her Italian former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. Six years of trials and investigations have so far failed to clear up mysteries surrounding the murder of Kercher, 21, who was found stabbed to death in her bedroom in the picturesque town of Perugia, where she shared a student flat with Knox. Knox, 26, and Sollecito, 29, were convicted of the murder in 2009 and spent almost four years in jail, but the verdicts were overturned on appeal and Knox immediately returned home to the United States upon her release in 2011, where she has remained.

Hoping to deter Hezbollah, Israel threatens Lebanese civilians Posted: 29 Jan 2014 10:48 AM PST By Dan Williams HERZLIYA, Israel (Reuters) - Israel accused Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas on Wednesday of putting "thousands" of bases in residential buildings and said it would destroy these in a future conflict, even at the cost of civilian lives. The unusually explicit threat by air force chief Major-General Amir Eshel appeared to be part of an effort by Israeli officials to prepare world opinion for high civilian casualties in any new confrontation with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israel says Iran and Syria have supplied improved missiles to Hezbollah, which fought the technologically superior Israeli military to a standstill in a 2006 war in Lebanon.

Over 500 killed in Venezuela jails in 2013 Posted: 29 Jan 2014 05:10 PM PST A total of 506 inmates were killed and more than 600 wounded in staggering levels of violence in Venezuelan jails in 2013, a report released Wednesday said. Still, the violence behind bars marked a decrease from 2012 -- 14 percent fewer killings and 46 percent fewer injuries, the NGO Venezuelan Prisons Monitor said. Venezuela's 51 prisons are extremely overcrowded as the South American nation struggles with surging violent crime. Venezuela has one of the world's highest murder rates, with 79 murders per 100,000 inhabitants last year, according to the non-profit Venezuelan Violence Monitor.

Top Asian News at 1:00 a.m. GMT Posted: 29 Jan 2014 05:02 PM PST BANGKOK (AP) — Hotel occupancy rates in central Bangkok have plunged. Conventions have been canceled. Business deals have been postponed. Tourist bookings for coming months are way down. The latest spasm in Thailand's near decade of political upheaval is taking an economic toll as anti-government protesters barricade Bangkok's major intersections and confrontations between protesters and supporters of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra periodically flare into deadly clashes.

Marine wants new lawyers in Iraq slaying retrial Posted: 29 Jan 2014 04:47 PM PST SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Camp Pendleton Marine whose Iraq war crime case is being retried after his conviction was overturned says he wants a new military defense lawyer.

Hodge called into Australian T20 side vs England Posted: 29 Jan 2014 04:43 PM PST MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Veteran batsman Brad Hodge has been called into the Australian squad for two remaining Twenty20 matches against England.

Lawyers seek no Sept. 11 mention at terror trial Posted: 29 Jan 2014 04:42 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Osama bin Laden and the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks should not be mentioned at the upcoming terrorism trial of an Egyptian Islamic preacher extradited from England, his defense lawyers said in court papers filed Wednesday.

Woman charged with attempted murder following London terror raids Posted: 29 Jan 2014 04:40 PM PST London police on Wednesday charged a woman with attempted murder following terror raids on three properties that also led to the arrest of the teenage son of a senior British diplomat. Police said they would take no further action against the 19-year-old, but that 36-year-old Kuntal Patel, also arrested in the Counter-Terrorism Command raids, had been charged. She will appear at London's Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday, police said in a statement. The Daily Telegraph reported that the released teenager was the son of Nicholas Sutcliffe, a first secretary -- typically the third rung below an ambassador and the deputy head of mission in an embassy.

Super Bowl Canadian, Alaskan don't fret cold game Posted: 29 Jan 2014 04:09 PM PST Seattle punter Jon Ryan and Denver offensive guard Chris Kuper, the Super Bowl 48 players from the coldest climes, laugh at the idea it will be oppressively chilly on game day. The first outdoor Super Bowl in a cold-weather city will be staged on Sunday in suburban New York, when the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks meet for the National Football League crown. Forecasters predict conditions just above freezing with almost no chance of rain or snow, although it still figures to be the coldest Super Bowl ever. The previous cold mark for the Super Bowl was 39 degrees (3.8 Celsius) at the 1972 title game in New Orleans.

Nicaragua's Sandinistas consolidate power further Posted: 29 Jan 2014 04:01 PM PST MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua's congress on Wednesday approved allowing the military chief of staff to hold his post indefinitely and letting the army take a bigger role in the economy, further concentrating power in the hands of longtime President Daniel Ortega and his allies.

Monarch butterflies drop, migration may disappear Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:56 PM PST MEXICO CITY (AP) — The stunning and little-understood annual migration of millions of Monarch butterflies to spend the winter in Mexico is in danger of disappearing, experts said Wednesday, after numbers dropped to their lowest level since record-keeping began in 1993.

LatAm leaders declare region a 'zone of peace' Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:53 PM PST HAVANA (AP) — Leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean signed a resolution declaring the region a "zone of peace" Wednesday, pledging to resolve their disputes as respectful neighbors without the use of arms.

East Asia tensions on display at Security Council Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:49 PM PST UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The tensions gripping East Asia flared Wednesday at a U.N. Security Council debate on war and peace.

Deadly ice storm turns Atlanta into parking lot, strands thousands Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:45 PM PST By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - A rare ice storm turned Atlanta into a slippery mess on Wednesday, stranding thousands for hours on frozen roadways and raising questions about how city leaders prepared for and handled the cold snap that slammed the U.S. South. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed came under fire for his response to a storm that trapped hundreds of children in schools overnight, some without provisions, and created traffic jams stretching for miles on roads coated with two inches of snow. "Folks are angry with the mayor of Atlanta, with the governor," said Flavia DiCesare, 54, who spent the night in her office at Cox Enterprises in Atlanta, about 30 miles from home. Georgia Governor Nathan Deal said all of Atlanta's school children had been safely returned to their families by Wednesday evening, with help from the National Guard and State Patrol.

New treatment could reduce kids' peanut allergies Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:38 PM PST LONDON (AP) — An experimental therapy that fed children with peanut allergies small amounts of peanut flour has helped more than 80 percent of them safely eat a handful of the previously worrisome nuts.

Marseille beats Valenciennes 2-1 to go up to 5th Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:35 PM PST PARIS (AP) — Striker Andre-Pierre Gignac scored his 10th goal in the past nine games as Marseille beat struggling Valenciennes 2-1 on Wednesday to move up to fifth place in the French league.

Terror suspect challenges NSA surveillance Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:32 PM PST DENVER (AP) — Using evidence obtained under the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program violates a terror suspect's constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure, the suspect argued Wednesday in a court document filed with help from the American Civil Liberties Union.

Thiago seals Bayern's 2-1 win at Stuttgart Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:32 PM PST BERLIN (AP) — Thiago Alcantara scored with an acrobatic scissor kick in injury time for Bayern Munich to beat Stuttgart 2-1 and extend its Bundesliga lead to 13 points on Wednesday.

Google selling Motorola phone business to Lenovo Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:27 PM PST SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is selling Motorola's smartphone business to Lenovo for $2.9 billion, a price that makes Google's biggest acquisition look like its most expensive mistake.

Sick cruise ship passengers recall days of misery Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:27 PM PST BAYONNE, New Jersey (AP) — Passengers aboard a Caribbean cruise ship where almost 700 people fell ill recalled days of misery as it returned to its U.S. home port Wednesday, its trip cut short by what is suspected to be one of the largest norovirus outbreaks in the last 20 years.

Chelsea held to 0-0 draw by West Ham Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:25 PM PST LONDON (AP) — A resilient West Ham side held Chelsea to a 0-0 draw at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday as Jose Mourinho's team lost ground to new leader Manchester City in the Premier League title race.

Santos denies knowledge of Neymar deal in 2011 Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:22 PM PST SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian club Santos was never told about a 2011 payment from Barcelona to Neymar's father to guarantee the rights to sign the talented youngster, its president said Wednesday.

Ford brother-in-law accuses mayor of arranging jailhouse beating Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:21 PM PST Rob Ford is being sued by his sister's former common-law husband who is alleging the Toronto mayor arranged to have him beaten to keep him quiet about Ford's drug use, it was reported Wednesday. Scott MacIntyre made the allegations in a statement of claim, cited by the daily Toronto Star, in which he says Ford was "indirectly" involved in the March 2012 jailhouse assault. He alleges Ford mistook comments in a letter he'd written to his sister Kathy as a threat "to disclose Ford's drug and alcohol abuse and association with criminals." The suit alleges he responded by sending MacIntyre "a firm message to prevent him from doing so."

San Francisco: Rescuers didn't kill Asiana victim Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:18 PM PST A girl thrown from a plane that crashed at San Francisco International Airport died before she was twice run over by fire trucks, according to a city-issued report that contradicted a coroner's finding that the teen survived the crash and was killed by the vehicles.

Argentina seeks to control prices amid devaluation Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:18 PM PST BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's government has announced agreements with business leaders to keep the recent sharp depreciation in the peso from pushing up prices for consumer goods.

Atletico ousts Bilbao to reach Copa del Rey semis Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:17 PM PST MADRID (AP) — Atletico Madrid will play crosstown rival Real Madrid in the Copa del Rey semifinals after coming from behind for a 2-1 win at Athletic Bilbao on Wednesday, sending the visitors through 3-1 on aggregate.

Cruise ship passengers recall days of misery Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:11 PM PST BAYONNE, N.J. (AP) — Passengers aboard a cruise ship on which hundreds fell ill recalled days of misery holed up in their rooms as it returned to its home port Wednesday from a Caribbean trip cut short by what is suspected to be among the largest such norovirus outbreaks in the last 20 years.

Aston Villa beats West Brom 4-3 in Premier League Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:08 PM PST BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — Christian Benteke settled a wild West Midlands derby with a second-half penalty to give Aston Villa a 4-3 win over West Bromwich Albion in a game that saw six goals scored in the first half.

European bat population bounces back from the brink: study Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:01 PM PST Europe's bat population is vulnerable, but conservation policies have boosted it by more than 40 percent after years of decline, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said on Thursday. European bat populations shrank, particularly during the second half of the 20th century, because of intensive agriculture, disappearing habitats and toxic chemicals used in treating roof timbers where they roost. The new report found conservation policies had helped to reverse the decline, but concluded bats should "still be considered vulnerable". They are also extremely sensitive to environmental change, which means they serve as an early indicator of climate change.

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