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• U.S. and Arab allies launch first strikes on militants in Syria
• Obama's Syria war carries risks for him at home and abroad
• Shadowy al Qaeda cell, hit by U.S. in Syria, seen as 'imminent' threat
• Exclusive: U.S. told Iran of intent to strike Islamic State in Syria - source
• Briton held by Islamic State sends audio message to family
• Hezbollah leader opposes U.S.-led action in Syria
• Fight against Syria jihadists game changer: UN envoy
• Vatican puts ex-Dominican envoy under house arrest
• Cameron says Britain cannot 'opt out' of fight against IS
• Saudi Arabia confirms role in strikes against Islamic State in Syria
• Top Asian News at 11:30 p.m. GMT
• Family hope for toddler saved from 'mass murder' shipwreck
• Suspect charged in case of missing US student
• Defeating corruption dominates Brazil debate
• PM: Haiti to hold much-delayed vote ASAP
• Mercedes labor chief seeks UAW foothold in Alabama
• Family of British hostage pleads for release
• Virgin Islands postal clerk found guilty of fraud
• Arsenal out of League Cup, Liverpool advance
• Fired UPS worker kills two supervisors, self, in Alabama shooting
• Mexico frees Cuban survivors found at sea, some bound for U.S. border
• Britain's Cameron overheard saying Queen 'purred' at Scottish 'No' vote
• Airstrikes alone may not defeat Sunni militants
• Syria can't stop US strikes, but hopes to benefit
• Australian counterterror officer shoots man dead
• Ronaldo's 4 goals leads Madrid to another rout
• US says airstrikes may have 'disrupted' plotting
• Merah's 'jihadi' brother-in-law walks free after flight bungle
• 3 suspects ordered held in Chile bomb attack
• U.N. climate summit sets goals to save forests, use clean energy
• Catalan government to call independence vote 'this week'
• Judge in Chile jails bombing suspects during investigation
• Colombia: Venezuela must be 'constructive' at UN
• Judge temporarily restores federal protections to wolves in Wyoming
• Kurdish refugees in Turkey adjust to harsh new reality
• Montreal to host Formula E race: mayor
• Norway to pay Peru $300 million for forest-based emissions reductions
• Canada senator's trial set to scuttle Tory re-election
• Rousseff regains edge in Brazil presidential race as Silva slips

U.S. and Arab allies launch first strikes on militants in Syria Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:38 PM PDT By Phil Stewart and Tom Perry WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United States and its Arab allies bombed militant groups in Syria for the first time on Tuesday, killing scores of Islamic State fighters, members of a separate al Qaeda-linked group and opening a new front amid shifting Middle East alliances. The attacks encountered no objection, and even signs of tacit approval, from President Bashar al-Assad's Syrian government, which said Washington had warned Damascus in advance. ...

Obama's Syria war carries risks for him at home and abroad Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:06 PM PDT By Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Appearing relaxed enough to crack a joke, U.S. President Barack Obama took to the world stage on Tuesday after launching airstrikes in Syria against Islamic State militants but he is still facing huge political risks at home and abroad. The reason for Obama's good humor? His diplomacy paid off this time, with military contributions from five Arab states. One of his first items of business after arriving in New York for meetings at the United Nations was to personally thank representatives from the five. ...

Shadowy al Qaeda cell, hit by U.S. in Syria, seen as 'imminent' threat Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:35 PM PDT By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While the world has focused on a U.S.-led air assault on Islamic State strongholds in Syria, American officials said they also struck a blow there against a little-known cadre of hardened al Qaeda militants that posed a more immediate threat to the West. The strikes early on Tuesday on what Washington called the Khorasan Group, so shadowy that U.S. officials had barely uttered its name in public, were staged to disrupt a plot against U.S. or European targets that the Pentagon said was "nearing the execution phase." The U.S. ...

Exclusive: U.S. told Iran of intent to strike Islamic State in Syria - source Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:39 PM PDT By Parisa Hafezi, Louis Charbonneau and Arshad Mohammed UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States informed Iran in advance of its intention to strike Islamic State militants in Syria and assured Tehran that it would not target the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a senior Iranian official told Reuters. The communication, confirmed in part by a senior U.S. ...

Briton held by Islamic State sends audio message to family Posted: 23 Sep 2014 01:22 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - The wife of a British aid worker being held by Islamic State - the militant group targeted by U.S. and Gulf Arab air strikes in Syria - said on Tuesday she had received an audio message from her husband. "An audio file of Alan pleading for his life has just been received by me," Barbara Henning said in a statement released via Britain's Foreign Office. ...

Hezbollah leader opposes U.S.-led action in Syria Posted: 23 Sep 2014 12:19 PM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - The leader of Hezbollah said on Tuesday he opposed U.S-led air strikes on Syria, where his Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim group has been fighting alongside forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, whose group is one of the most important helping Assad fight a Sunni-dominated insurgency, was speaking after strikes against Islamic State (IS) and other groups in Lebanon's neighbor Syria. ...

Fight against Syria jihadists game changer: UN envoy Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:44 PM PDT United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The UN envoy for Syria on Tuesday called the fight against jihadists in Syria a game changer, and said US air strikes could even help ease humanitarian needs.

Vatican puts ex-Dominican envoy under house arrest Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:40 PM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican put its former ambassador to the Dominican Republic under house arrest Tuesday after opening a criminal trial against him, the first time a high-ranking Vatican official has ever faced criminal charges for sexually abusing youngsters.

Cameron says Britain cannot 'opt out' of fight against IS Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:38 PM PDT London (AFP) - Britain cannot opt out of a battle against Islamic State jihadists, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday, as newspapers reported he was considering joining air strikes targeting the group.

Saudi Arabia confirms role in strikes against Islamic State in Syria Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:38 PM PDT RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's air force participated in U.S.-led bombing strikes against Islamic State insurgents in Syria, its official news agency said on Wednesday, a rare foreign sortie for the kingdom's military. Saudi Arabia, a U.S. ally, the world's top oil exporter and birthplace of Islam, has funneled cash and arms to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but has also opposed Islamist militants within the anti-Assad insurgency. ...

Top Asian News at 11:30 p.m. GMT Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:33 PM PDT BEIJING (AP) — A life sentence given to a moderate Chinese scholar on Tuesday shows the ruling Communist Party is cutting off dialogue on ethnic tensions and could backfire by radicalizing minorities, scholars and analysts said. A court found economics professor Ilham Tohti, an ethnic Uighur Muslim, guilty of separatism and sentenced him to life in prison. It was the most severe penalty in a decade for illegal political speech in China and eclipsed the 11-year jail sentence given Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo on subversion charges.

Family hope for toddler saved from 'mass murder' shipwreck Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:32 PM PDT Athens (AFP) - Dozens of families have offered to adopt a Syrian toddler who survived the "mass murder" of a migrant shipwreck in which 500 people were deliberately drowned, Greek authorities said Tuesday.

Suspect charged in case of missing US student Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:29 PM PDT CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia (AP) — Police say they have charged a suspect in the disappearance of a British-born University of Virginia student.

Defeating corruption dominates Brazil debate Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:29 PM PDT Brasília (AFP) - Less than two weeks before Brazil's presidential vote, corruption concerns dominate the campaign, amid allegations that leading politicians benefited from huge kickbacks on oil deals by state-owned energy giant Petrobras.

PM: Haiti to hold much-delayed vote ASAP Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:24 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe says the country will hold long overdue elections no later than early next year.

Mercedes labor chief seeks UAW foothold in Alabama Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:13 PM PDT The head labor official on Daimler AG's supervisory board says he considers it "unacceptable" that the German automaker's Mercedes plant in Alabama stands alone among the company's factories around the world without union representation for its workers.

Family of British hostage pleads for release Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:08 PM PDT London (AFP) - The wife of a British taxi driver held by Islamic State jihadists pleaded for his release on Tuesday, saying she had received a recording of him begging for his life.

Virgin Islands postal clerk found guilty of fraud Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:01 PM PDT CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) — A former postal clerk in the U.S. Virgin Islands has been found guilty of embezzling money from the U.S. Postal Service.

Arsenal out of League Cup, Liverpool advance Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:00 PM PDT Liverpool beat Middlesbrough 14-13 in a marathon penalty shootout in the third round of the League Cup on Tuesday, after Arsenal and Everton both bowed out of the competition.

Fired UPS worker kills two supervisors, self, in Alabama shooting Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:57 PM PDT By Sherrel Wheeler Stewart BIRMINGHAM Ala. (Reuters) - A recently-fired UPS employee on Tuesday shot dead two supervisors at the company facility where he had worked in Birmingham, Alabama before turning the gun on himself, police said. The gunman, who was wearing a brown UPS uniform, had been terminated earlier this month and had learned a day earlier that he had lost his appeal to get his job back, police said, adding that his motive was not immediately clear. Police had earlier said that the man was fired yesterday. The shooting occurred shortly before 9:30 a.m. ...

Mexico frees Cuban survivors found at sea, some bound for U.S. border Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:55 PM PDT CHETUMAL Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico on Tuesday released 14 Cuban migrants rescued at sea this month and some of them headed for the United States by bus to take advantage of a U.S. policy that allows Cubans arriving by land to stay. The Cubans, who were without food and survived by drinking rain water, were intercepted off the Yucatan peninsula badly sunburned and dehydrated after three weeks adrift during which many of their companions died. Mexico's government had said they would likely be deported. ...

Britain's Cameron overheard saying Queen 'purred' at Scottish 'No' vote Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:54 PM PDT MANCHESTER England (Reuters) - Britain's monarch is famously above politics, but Prime Minister David Cameron was overheard on Tuesday saying Queen Elizabeth had "purred" with happiness when he phoned her to inform her Scotland had voted to reject independence. In New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly, TV crews accidentally picked up remarks Cameron made to Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of the city, which are likely to embarrass Queen Elizabeth and the British leader. "She purred down the line. ...

Airstrikes alone may not defeat Sunni militants Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:54 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — In their Syrian strongholds, extremists from the Islamic State group had been moving into civilian apartment buildings for cover days before the U.S. and its allies began pounding them before dawn Tuesday, activists say. It's just one sign of the difficulties in trying to destroy the group by relying mainly on airstrikes.

Syria can't stop US strikes, but hopes to benefit Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:51 PM PDT Beirut (AFP) - It may be unable to prevent US-led strikes on its territory, but Syria is hoping the military action against Islamic State jihadists will work to its advantage, analysts said.

Australian counterterror officer shoots man dead Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:47 PM PDT CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A suspected terrorist was shot dead and two counterterrorism police were stabbed Tuesday in a confrontation in Australia's second largest city that some experts suspect is inspired by the Islamic State group's call to supporters to wage terror in their home countries.

Ronaldo's 4 goals leads Madrid to another rout Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:46 PM PDT BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo made amends for conceding a penalty by scoring four times as he led Real Madrid to a 5-1 rout of Elche in the Spanish league on Tuesday.

US says airstrikes may have 'disrupted' plotting Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:44 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — There is no indication of advanced al-Qaida or Islamic State group terror plotting inside the United States, but airstrikes in Syria may have temporarily disrupted attack planning against U.S. or Western targets, according to a security bulletin Tuesday from the FBI and the Homeland Security Department.

Merah's 'jihadi' brother-in-law walks free after flight bungle Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:44 PM PDT Paris (AFP) - Confusion reigned Tuesday over the whereabouts of three suspected French jihadists arrested in Turkey who include the brother-in-law of Toulouse killer Mohammed Merah after an apparent bungle by authorities.

3 suspects ordered held in Chile bomb attack Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:43 PM PDT SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Three members of an anarchist cell suspected in Chile's worst bomb attack in decades were ordered by a judge Tuesday to remain in jail or under house arrest.

U.N. climate summit sets goals to save forests, use clean energy Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:42 PM PDT By Alister Doyle UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A United Nations summit on climate change agreed on Tuesday to widen the use of renewable energy and raise billions of dollars in aid for developing countries in an effort to increase the prospects for a wide-ranging deal to slow global warming. The one-day summit, hosted by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, set goals to halt losses of tropical forests by 2030, improve food production and hike the share of electric vehicles in cities to 30 percent of new vehicle sales by 2030. ...

Catalan government to call independence vote 'this week' Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:38 PM PDT Barcelona (AFP) - Catalonia's nationalist government said Tuesday it will "this week" call a non-binding referendum on independence from Spain on November 9, setting the stage for a showdown with Spain's central government which categorically opposes the vote.

Judge in Chile jails bombing suspects during investigation Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:38 PM PDT SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A judge in Chile has ordered two suspects linked to the country's worst bomb attack in more than 20 years to be jailed for 10 months and placed a third under house arrest while police and the prosecutor's office investigate. The order issued on Tuesday by Judge Rene Cerda said Juan Flores and Nataly Casanova would be held in jail for 10 months and Guillermo Duran would be put under house arrest. After that, authorities would have to present any evidence before a court. ...

Colombia: Venezuela must be 'constructive' at UN Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:38 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says he hopes Venezuela will play a "constructive" role if it gains a seat on the U.N. Security Council.

Judge temporarily restores federal protections to wolves in Wyoming Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:37 PM PDT By Laura Zuckerman (Reuters) - A U.S. judge temporarily restored federal protections to wolves in Wyoming on Tuesday in a victory for conservationists that is sure to draw criticism from ranchers and hunters who blame wolves for preying on livestock and big-game animals. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in 2012 that wolves had successfully come back from the brink of extinction in Wyoming, and that the population of about 300 animals could be managed by the state, which established hunting seasons. ...

Kurdish refugees in Turkey adjust to harsh new reality Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:34 PM PDT Suruc (Turkey) (AFP) - When he finally managed to cross the Turkish border to find sanctuary from jihadists in Syria, Abdelaziz Temo looked for shade to find refuge from the sun and water to refresh himself.

Montreal to host Formula E race: mayor Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:29 PM PDT Montreal (AFP) - Montreal is poised to host a leg of the fledgling Formula E electric motorsport championship, the Canadian city's mayor said Tuesday.

Norway to pay Peru $300 million for forest-based emissions reductions Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:26 PM PDT (Reuters) - Norway plans to spend as much as $300 million to support a program in Peru to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the destruction of the world's fourth largest tropical forest, the two countries announced on Tuesday. Norway pledged to pay for verified reductions in emissions generated by projects in Peru that succeed in cutting deforestation, consequently reducing the amounts of carbon dioxide currently being emitted. The countries announced the program during the United Nations Climate Summit in New York. ...

Canada senator's trial set to scuttle Tory re-election Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:24 PM PDT Ottawa (AFP) - A Canadian senator's trial on bribery charges linked to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former right-hand man was scheduled Tuesday to start in the middle of an election year.

Rousseff regains edge in Brazil presidential race as Silva slips Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:13 PM PDT By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Dilma Rousseff has regained a slight edge in Brazil's presidential race after weeks of aggressive campaigning against environmentalist Marina Silva, who is losing some voter support in the campaign's homestretch, polls showed on Tuesday. Rousseff and Silva are tied at 41 percent in a likely second-round runoff that is expected to decide the election, according to a survey by the Ibope polling firm. ...

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