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• Kiev says forces shelled Russian armour inside Ukraine
• Iraqi Sunnis say could join new government, fight Islamic State
• Palestinians accuse Israel of violating Gaza truce
• 11 dead in attacks on air force bases in Pakistan's Quetta
• Boko Haram abduct dozens of boys in northeast Nigeria: witnesses
• German security recorded Clinton conversation: media
• Correction: Immigration-National Guard story
• Black box failed on Brazil politician's doomed flight
• UN approves measure to combat al-Qaida fighters
• U.S. hurricane center sees 20 percent chance of cyclone off west coast of Africa
• White House: Russia has no right to send vehicles, persons into Ukraine
• Chinese man accused of hacking for US defense data
• Iraqis welcome change of PM but challenges loom
• Russia denies its vehicles destroyed in Ukraine
• AP NewsAlert
• Mexico fines Chinese trade center $555,000
• U.S. aid to Iraq may speed up despite billions already spent
• UN, EU move against IS in Iraq
• Serena Williams advances to Cincy semifinals
• US airstrikes hit militants' vehicles near Sinjar
• Top Asian News at 10:00 p.m. GMT
• Mugabe's wife to lead ruling party's women's wing
• Islamic State 'massacres' 80 Yazidis in north Iraq: officials
• Rooney ready to lead from the front for United
• Operation transparency for Russian aid convoy
• Russian assures Hagel on Ukrainian relief
• Top Asian News at 9:30 p.m. GMT
• John Paulson invests once again in Puerto Rico
• No recording of crash that killed Brazil candidate
• Brazil's Socialists to decide on Silva candidacy next week
• UN Council targets jihadists in Iraq, Syria
• Top Asian News at 9:00 p.m. GMT
• U.N. Security Council blacklists Islamist militants in Iraq, Syria
• Merkel urges Putin to stop sending arms, advisors to Ukraine
• England favored over Canada in women's rugby final
• Merkel urges Putin in call to end stream of arms, fighters into Ukraine

Kiev says forces shelled Russian armour inside Ukraine Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:32 PM PDT By Natalia Zinets and Richard Balmforth KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine said its artillery partly destroyed a Russian armoured column that entered its territory overnight and said its forces came under shellfire from Russia on Friday in what appeared to be a major military escalation between the ex-Soviet states. Russia's government denied its forces had crossed into Ukraine and accused Kiev of trying to sabotage deliveries of aid. NATO said there had been a Russian incursion into Ukraine, while avoiding the term invasion, and European capitals accused the Kremlin of escalating the fighting. Kiev and its Western allies have repeatedly accused Russia of arming pro-Moscow separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine, and of sending undercover military units onto Ukrainian soil.

Iraqi Sunnis say could join new government, fight Islamic State Posted: 15 Aug 2014 03:19 PM PDT By Raheem Salman and Michael Georgy BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Tribal leaders and clerics from Iraq's Sunni heartland offered their conditional backing on Friday for a new government that hopes to contain sectarian bloodshed and an offensive by Islamic State militants that threatens to tear the country apart. One of the most influential tribal leaders said he was willing to work with Shi'ite prime minister-designate Haider al-Abadi provided a new administration respected the rights of the Sunni Muslim minority that dominated Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Ali Hatem Suleiman left open a possibility that Sunnis would take up arms against the Islamic State fighters in the same way as he and others joined U.S. and Shi'ite-led government forces to thwart an al Qaeda insurgency in Iraq between 2006 and 2009. Yet amid the signs that political accords were possible in the fractious nation, some 80 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority were "massacred" by Islamic State insurgents, a Yazidi lawmaker and two Kurdish officials said on Friday.

Palestinians accuse Israel of violating Gaza truce Posted: 15 Aug 2014 09:17 AM PDT By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - The Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza accused Israel on Friday of a cross-border shooting in violation of a truce that has largely held since getting off to a shaky start on Thursday. An Israeli military spokeswoman said: "We have no knowledge of such an incident." The Palestinian ministry in the coastal territory dominated by Hamas Islamists said Israeli troops shot at houses east of the town of Khan Younis. The ceasefire, renewed on Thursday for five days after a previous truce expired, has largely halted more than a month of fighting in which 1,945 Palestinians, many of them civilians, 64 Israeli soldiers and three civilians in Israel were killed.

11 dead in attacks on air force bases in Pakistan's Quetta Posted: 15 Aug 2014 11:26 AM PDT Eleven Taliban-linked militants were killed and 13 members of the Pakistani security forces wounded in attacks on two air force bases in the west Pakistan city of Quetta on Thursday, officials said. Pakistan's military has been fighting an offensive against the Taliban insurgency in the remote, largely lawless region of North Waziristan on the Afghanistan border since June. A wing of the Pakistani Taliban said they had carried out Thursday night's raids in response to that offensive. "It is a revenge for the army's killing of innocent people in North and South Waziristan," said Ghalib Mehsud, who said he was a commander and spokesman for the Fidayeen Islam, a Taliban wing responsible for training suicide bombers.

Boko Haram abduct dozens of boys in northeast Nigeria: witnesses Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:40 AM PDT By Lanre Ola MAIDUGURI Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist Boko Haram fighters have abducted dozens of boys and men in a raid on a remote village in northeast Nigeria, loading them onto trucks and driving them off, witnesses who fled the violence said on Friday. The kidnappings came four months after Boko Haram, which is fighting to reinstate a medieval Islamic caliphate in religiously mixed Nigeria, abducted more than 200 schoolgirls from the village of Chibok. Several witnesses who fled after Sunday's raid on Doron Baga, a sandy fishing village near the shores of Lake Chad, said militants clothed in military and police uniforms had burned several houses and that 97 people were unaccounted for. Boko Haram, seen as the number one security threat to Africa's top economy and oil producer, has dramatically increased attacks on civilians in the past year, and what began as a grassroots movement has rapidly lost popular support as it becomes more bloodthirsty.

German security recorded Clinton conversation: media Posted: 15 Aug 2014 11:51 AM PDT German security agents recorded a conversation involving Hillary Clinton while she was U.S. Secretary of State, media reported on Friday, a potential embarrassment for Berlin which has lambasted Washington for its widespread surveillance. Clinton's words were intercepted while she was on a U.S. government plane, Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and German regional public broadcasters NDR and WDR said, without giving details of where she was or when the recording was made. The respected broadsheet quoted German government sources saying the conversation had been picked up "by accident" and was not part of any plan to spy on Washington's top diplomat.

Correction: Immigration-National Guard story Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:47 PM PDT HIDALGO, Texas (AP) — HIDALGO, Texas (AP) — In a story Aug. 14 about the National Guard arriving on the Texas border, The Associated Press, relying on information from the Texas National Guard, reported erroneously that the deployments were part of the 1,000 troops ordered by Gov. Rick Perry. Texas National Guard Master Sgt. Ken Walker said the troops, which are part of a counterdrug task force, do not count toward Perry's "Operation Strong Safety."

Black box failed on Brazil politician's doomed flight Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:46 PM PDT The black box recovered from the wreckage of the plane crash that killed Brazilian socialist presidential candidate Eduardo Campos failed to record his flight, the air force said Friday. The two hours of recordings it contained were not related to Wednesday's doomed flight, according to the military branch in charge of the investigation into the crash.

UN approves measure to combat al-Qaida fighters Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:41 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Responding to the growing terrorist threat in Iraq and Syria, the U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions Friday on six men for recruiting or financing foreign fighters and threatened additional sanctions against those supporting terrorist groups.

U.S. hurricane center sees 20 percent chance of cyclone off west coast of Africa Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:39 PM PDT (Reuters) - An area of low pressure located midway between the west coast of Africa and the Cape Verde Islands has a 20 percent chance of becoming a tropical cyclone during the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Friday. "Any additional development of this system is expected to be limited as it moves west-northwestward into an unfavorable environment," the Miami-based weather forecaster said. (Reporting by Koustav Samanta in Bangalore; Editing by Ken Wills)

White House: Russia has no right to send vehicles, persons into Ukraine Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:32 PM PDT The White House said on Friday it could not confirm reports that Ukraine had disabled vehicles in a Russian convoy inside Ukraine and warned Moscow that any intervention into Ukraine without Kiev's permission was unacceptable. "Even as we work to gather information, we reiterate our concern about repeated Russian and Russian-supported incursions into Ukraine," White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said in a statement. "Russia has no right to send vehicles, persons, or cargo of any kind into Ukraine, under any pretext, without the government of Ukraine's permission." Ukraine said its artillery destroyed part of a Russian armored column that entered its territory overnight and said its forces came under shellfire from Russia on Friday in what appeared to be a major military escalation between the ex-Soviet states.

Chinese man accused of hacking for US defense data Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:28 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal grand jury has charged a Chinese businessman with a computer hacking scheme to steal information on military projects, including fighter jets, to sell to Chinese companies.

Iraqis welcome change of PM but challenges loom Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:24 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Nouri al-Maliki's decision to step down as Iraq's prime minister raised hopes Friday for a new government that can roll back an increasingly powerful Sunni insurgency and prevent the country from splitting apart.

Russia denies its vehicles destroyed in Ukraine Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:08 PM PDT KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russia (AP) — NATO on Friday said a Russian military column ventured overnight into Ukraine, and the Ukrainian president said his forces destroyed most of it. Russia denied all of this, but the reports spooked global markets and overshadowed optimism driven by agreement over a Russian aid convoy bound for eastern Ukraine.

AP NewsAlert Posted: 15 Aug 2014 03:45 PM PDT AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry indicted for abuse of power over threat to veto prosecutors' funding.

Mexico fines Chinese trade center $555,000 Posted: 15 Aug 2014 03:44 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican environmental authorities have levied a $555,000 fine against a project to build a massive trade center south of Cancun to showcase Chinese products.

U.S. aid to Iraq may speed up despite billions already spent Posted: 15 Aug 2014 03:26 PM PDT By Arshad Mohammed and Missy Ryan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States may accelerate U.S. economic and military aid to Iraq with the end of Nuri al-Maliki's eight-year reign but will first want proof that the country's new leaders have abandoned his sectarian ways. Maliki's surprise announcement that he would give way to Haider al-Abadi as Iraq's prime minister removes the man blamed by Washington for the revival of vicious sectarianism in Iraq and the advance of the Islamic State deep into Iraqi territory. U.S. officials said his departure, which may not occur until September, could open the door to greater military and economic assistance to a new Iraqi government if it adopts an inclusive agenda.

UN, EU move against IS in Iraq Posted: 15 Aug 2014 03:12 PM PDT Iraqis and foreign powers voiced relief Friday after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki agreed to step down, as the UN targeted Islamist militants and the EU backed the arming of their Kurdish rivals. As aid groups tried to cope with the hundreds of thousands of people displaced by Islamist advances in northern Iraq, ingredients of a fightback began falling into place. In New York, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution aimed at weakening Islamists in Iraq and Syria by cutting off funding and the flow of foreign fighters. On Maliki's decision to step down, US National Security Adviser Susan Rice said it was "another major step forward" in uniting Iraq, where so-called Islamic States jihadists have snapped up large swathes of land in a lightning and brutal offensive, raising the spectre of genocide.

Serena Williams advances to Cincy semifinals Posted: 15 Aug 2014 03:11 PM PDT MASON, Ohio (AP) — Serena Williams advanced to the semifinals of a tournament she has never won. Given her history in Cincinnati, she'll avoid thinking about the long-awaited title.

US airstrikes hit militants' vehicles near Sinjar Posted: 15 Aug 2014 03:10 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military officials say airstrikes from drones have destroyed two armed vehicles south of the Iraqi town of Sinjar, the latest American-led military actions against forces of the Islamic State group.

Top Asian News at 10:00 p.m. GMT Posted: 15 Aug 2014 03:02 PM PDT DAEJEON, South Korea (AP) — Pope Francis called Friday for Catholics to combat the allure of materialism, an appeal that might be a hard sell in South Korea, a newly rich and hyper-competitive country. Far from being considered an evil, the trappings of wealth are often linked here to the hard work, sacrifice and gritty persistence of generations who hustled their nation out of war, dictatorship and poverty into an Asian powerhouse.

Mugabe's wife to lead ruling party's women's wing Posted: 15 Aug 2014 03:01 PM PDT The wife of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe was on Friday chosen to lead the ruling party's powerful women's wing, catapulting her into active politics and adding new intrigue to the battle to succeed the 90-year-old strongman. The nomination of 49-year-old Grace Mugabe as the "sole" candidate for the position of the national secretary of the ZANU-PF women's league was endorsed by a conference in Harare. Her new position will propel her into the ZANU-PF party's supreme decision-making body, the politburo. As the national secretary of the party's women wing, the former presidential typist will sit in the ZANU-PF inner cabinet and play an active role in the faction-riven battle to succeed her husband, who took power in 1980 on Zimbabwe's independence from Britain.

Islamic State 'massacres' 80 Yazidis in north Iraq: officials Posted: 15 Aug 2014 03:00 PM PDT Islamic State insurgents "massacred" some 80 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority in a village in the country's north, a Yazidi lawmaker and two Kurdish officials said on Friday. "They arrived in vehicles and they started their killing this afternoon," senior Kurdish official Hoshiyar Zebari told Reuters. A push by Islamic State militants through northern Iraq to the border with the Kurdish region has alarmed the Baghdad government, drawn the first U.S. air strikes since the end of American occupation in 2001 and sent tens of thousands of Yazidis and Christians fleeing for their lives. Yazidi parliamentarian Mahama Khalil said he had spoken to villagers who had survived the attack.

Rooney ready to lead from the front for United Posted: 15 Aug 2014 02:58 PM PDT Wayne Rooney believes he is ready to play a lead role in Louis van Gaal's Manchester United revolution after being appointed as the team's new captain. Van Gaal named Rooney as the United skipper on Tuesday and he will wear the armband as permanent captain for the first time in Saturday's Premier League opener against Swansea at Old Trafford. Before handing him the armband, United manager van Gaal reminded Rooney he must be a role model for United players and fans both on the pitch and off it. Rooney has been stand-in captain on several occasions during his 10-year spell at United, but this is the first time he has been given the honour on a full-time basis.

Operation transparency for Russian aid convoy Posted: 15 Aug 2014 02:52 PM PDT Kamensk-Shakhtinsky (Russia) (AFP) - Two men lift the tarp of a Russian truck near the border with conflict-ridden Ukraine, showing the cargo to around 25 journalists with cameras and microphones in hand. "What a lot of journalists for sacks of sugar," mutters the driver, Alexander, whose truck is one of 280 that Moscow says are loaded with humanitarian aid. Officials of Russia's emergency ministry show the goods packed on 10 of the trucks to the journalists: cartons full of items such as baby formula, meal rations and bottled water. You see that we have nothing to hide -- these trucks are carrying nothing but humanitarian aid," said Sergei Karavaytsev, the ministry's chief of international operations.

Russian assures Hagel on Ukrainian relief Posted: 15 Aug 2014 02:48 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu "guaranteed" Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday that no Russian troops are involved in the transport of humanitarian relief supplies to eastern Ukraine, a Pentagon spokesman said.

Top Asian News at 9:30 p.m. GMT Posted: 15 Aug 2014 02:33 PM PDT DAEJEON, South Korea (AP) — Pope Francis called Friday for Catholics to combat the allure of materialism, an appeal that might be a hard sell in South Korea, a newly rich and hyper-competitive country. Far from being considered an evil, the trappings of wealth are often linked here to the hard work, sacrifice and gritty persistence of generations who hustled their nation out of war, dictatorship and poverty into an Asian powerhouse.

John Paulson invests once again in Puerto Rico Posted: 15 Aug 2014 02:33 PM PDT SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — New York hedge fund billionaire John Paulson has made another high-profile purchase in Puerto Rico, which is pushing to attract more investors to the U.S. territory.

No recording of crash that killed Brazil candidate Posted: 15 Aug 2014 02:29 PM PDT RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's Air Force says the black box recovered from the wreckage of the plane crash that killed a presidential candidate does not contain a recording of the flight.

Brazil's Socialists to decide on Silva candidacy next week Posted: 15 Aug 2014 02:26 PM PDT The party of the presidential candidate killed in a plane crash will meet on Wednesday to choose a replacement to run in the Oct. 5 election, most likely his running mate, Marina Silva, the leader of a party backing the ticket said on Friday. Eduardo Campos was running third in recent polls for the Brazilian Socialist Party, when the executive jet carrying him to a campaign stop in the port city of Santos crashed on Wednesday after an aborted landing in bad weather. The expected candidacy of Silva, an environmentalist who won almost 20 percent of the votes in a presidential bid in 2010, could upend the race just seven weeks before election day. A meeting has been called for Wednesday Aug. 20," Roberto Freire, leader of the Popular Socialist Party, told Reuters.

UN Council targets jihadists in Iraq, Syria Posted: 15 Aug 2014 02:06 PM PDT The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday aimed at weakening Islamists in Iraq and Syria with measures to choke off funding and the flow of foreign fighters. It represents the most wide-ranging response yet by the top United Nations body to the jihadists who now control large swaths of territory in both countries and have been accused of atrocities. The British-drafted measure also placed six Islamist leaders -- from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other nations -- on the Al-Qaeda sanctions list, which provides for a travel ban and assets freeze. The six include senior Al-Qaeda leaders who have provided financing to the Al-Nusra Front in Syria and Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, the spokesman for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), now renamed Islamic State (IS).

Top Asian News at 9:00 p.m. GMT Posted: 15 Aug 2014 02:02 PM PDT DAEJEON, South Korea (AP) — Pope Francis called Friday for Catholics to combat the allure of materialism, an appeal that might be a hard sell in South Korea, a newly rich and hyper-competitive country. Far from being considered an evil, the trappings of wealth are often linked here to the hard work, sacrifice and gritty persistence of generations who hustled their nation out of war, dictatorship and poverty into an Asian powerhouse.

U.N. Security Council blacklists Islamist militants in Iraq, Syria Posted: 15 Aug 2014 02:01 PM PDT By Michelle Nichols and Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council took aim at Islamist militants in Iraq and Syria on Friday, blacklisting six people including the Islamic State spokesman and threatening sanctions against those who finance, recruit or supply weapons to the insurgents. The 15-member council unanimously adopted a resolution that aims to weaken the Islamic State - an al Qaeda splinter group that has seized swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria and declared a caliphate - and al Qaeda's Syrian wing, Nusra Front.

Merkel urges Putin to stop sending arms, advisors to Ukraine Posted: 15 Aug 2014 02:01 PM PDT German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to "stop the flow of military equipment, military advisers and armed personnel crossing the border with Ukraine," in a telephone call on Friday. During the conversation, Merkel expressed "concern about the situation in eastern Ukraine", her spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement. Merkel also "expressed hope that the humanitarian convoys reach their destination quickly, to relieve the suffering" in Ukraine. Kiev and Moscow have been wrangling for days over a Russian convoy that Moscow says is carrying humanitarian aid for besieged rebel-held cities but which Kiev suspects could be a "Trojan horse" to provide military help to the insurgents.

England favored over Canada in women's rugby final Posted: 15 Aug 2014 02:00 PM PDT PARIS (AP) — England has the superior experience, power, and pedigree in the Women's Rugby World Cup final on Sunday.

Merkel urges Putin in call to end stream of arms, fighters into Ukraine Posted: 15 Aug 2014 01:55 PM PDT German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call on Friday to help defuse the crisis in Ukraine and halt the stream of weapons and armed personnel into the country, her office said in a statement on Friday. "The chancellor expressed her concern about the situation in the east of Ukraine. In view of the need for an urgent ceasefire she urged the president to help de-escalate the situation and in particular to halt the stream of weapons, military advisers and armed personnel into Ukraine," spokesman Steffen Seibert said. The foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France are due to meet in Berlin on Sunday.

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