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• Kurdish convoy heads to Syria to take on Islamic State
• Gas deal still eludes Ukraine and Russia at EU talks
• French soldier killed in clash with Islamist militants in Mali
• Israeli far-right activist shot and wounded in Jerusalem
• NATO jets track 'unusual' Russian bomber sorties
• U.N. peacekeepers free 67 hostages in Central African Republic
• Hornets' Taylor pleads guilty to domestic violence
• FIFA: Men's World Cup could be on artificial turf
• UN says Syria's neighbors at 'breaking point'
• Gypsy 'cheat' entry in Spanish dictionary sparks outrage
• Bodies found in Mexico where 3 Texans missing
• Bayern advances 3-1 over Hamburg in German Cup
• Juventus loses 1-0 at Genoa, Roma beats Cesena 2-0
• City's League Cup defense ended by Newcastle
• Murray on brink of World Finals as Federer battles through
• Varane nets 2, Madrid beats 3rd-tier rival in Copa
• Biden voices support for Northern Ireland talks
• Federer, Murray advance at Paris Masters
• Mexico archaeologists explore Teotihuacan tunnel
• Rappers Young Fathers win Britain's Mercury Prize
• Australian surfer kicks shark as it bites his foot
• Iran wants sanctions lifted before nuclear deal
• UN holds emergency meeting on Israel tensions
• WHO: Ebola decline in Liberia could be real trend
• Palestinians urge UN to demand Israel end settlements
• Rennes beats Marseille in French League Cup
• Man shot in suspected assassination in Jerusalem
• Muguruza beats Makarova at Tournament of Champions
• Mexican president meets with kin of 43 missing students
• Egypt starts work on Gaza buffer after bombing
• S.Africa police arrest Meyiwa killing suspects
• Sistine Chapel gets brighter look, cooler feel
• Anonymous US comment on Israel roils relations
• Russia says French warship handover next month, sparking denial
• New Ebola cases slowing in Liberia but too soon to celebrate: WHO

Kurdish convoy heads to Syria to take on Islamic State Posted: 29 Oct 2014 12:43 PM PDT By Dasha Afanasieva and Alexander Dziadosz SURUC Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) - A convoy of peshmerga fighters from northern Iraq headed across southeastern Turkey on Wednesday towards the Syrian town of Kobani to try to help fellow Kurds break an Islamic State siege which has defied U.S.-led air strikes. Kobani, on the border with Turkey, has been under assault for more than a month and its fate has become a test of the U.S.-led coalition's ability to combat the Sunni Muslim insurgents. ...

Gas deal still eludes Ukraine and Russia at EU talks Posted: 29 Oct 2014 02:12 PM PDT By Barbara Lewis and Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Ukraine and Russia bargained late into the night on Wednesday but European Union officials trying to broker a deal to resume gas supplies to Kiev as winter sets in said there was still no accord to announce. At talks in Brussels hosted by energy commissioner Guenther Oettinger two days before he makes way for a new EU executive team, officials cancelled an evening news conference at which they had hoped to announce a deal after months of negotiation. ...

French soldier killed in clash with Islamist militants in Mali Posted: 29 Oct 2014 02:57 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Wednesday a French soldier was killed during a fierce clash between its forces and Islamist militants in northern Mali earlier in the day. The offices of President Francois Hollande and Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian both confirmed the death on Wednesday of Thomas Dupuy, a sergeant from a commando parachutist unit in the air force. His death raised to 10 the number of French soldiers killed since France intervened militarily in Mali in January 2013 to help drive out Islamist insurgents who had seized control of the former French colony's north. ...

Israeli far-right activist shot and wounded in Jerusalem Posted: 29 Oct 2014 04:52 PM PDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A far-right Israeli activist was shot and wounded in Jerusalem on Wednesday as he left a conference promoting a Jewish campaign to permit praying at a flashpoint Old City compound holy to both Jews and Muslims, Israeli officials said. Police confirmed that an unnamed man on a motorcycle had shot a Jewish man in his 50s outside the Menachem Begin Centre complex located near the walled Old City, and named for the late Israeli prime minister. ...

NATO jets track 'unusual' Russian bomber sorties Posted: 29 Oct 2014 01:03 PM PDT By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO aircraft tracked Russian strategic bombers over the Atlantic and Black Sea on Wednesday and sorties of fighters over the Baltic in what the Western alliance called an unusual burst of activity at a tense time in East-West relations. In all, NATO said in a statement, its jets had intercepted four groups of Russian aircraft in about 24 hours since Tuesday, and some were still on maneuvers late on Wednesday afternoon. "These sizeable Russian flights represent an unusual level of air activity over European airspace," the alliance said. ...

U.N. peacekeepers free 67 hostages in Central African Republic Posted: 29 Oct 2014 01:44 PM PDT BANGUI (Reuters) - U.N. peacekeepers in the Central African Republic freed 67 hostages who had been seized by militia groups, a spokeswoman for the U.N. mission known as MINUSCA said on Wednesday. Four women were taken hostage in the capital Bangui while the rest were seized in the interior of the country, spokeswoman Myriam Dessables told a news conference. All were released after military operations by the peacekeepers. The releases represent positive news for civilians and the U.N. ...

Hornets' Taylor pleads guilty to domestic violence Posted: 29 Oct 2014 04:42 PM PDT EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Charlotte Hornets forward Jeffery Taylor pleaded guilty Wednesday to a domestic violence charge and admitted he pushed his girlfriend at a hotel in Michigan.

FIFA: Men's World Cup could be on artificial turf Posted: 29 Oct 2014 04:37 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — The men's World Cup could be played "sooner rather than later" on artificial pitches, FIFA said Wednesday in the latest defense of its decision not to stage the 2015 women's tournament in Canada on grass.

UN says Syria's neighbors at 'breaking point' Posted: 29 Oct 2014 04:34 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The director of the United Nations' humanitarian operations is warning that some of Syria's neighbors are at their "breaking point," caught between a sense of duty to keep their borders open to refugees and a responsibility to their own citizens.

Gypsy 'cheat' entry in Spanish dictionary sparks outrage Posted: 29 Oct 2014 04:26 PM PDT An entry in Spain's top dictionary has outraged one of the country's oldest minorities by defining "gypsy" as synonymous with lying and cheating. The offending entry is in the Royal Spanish Academy's annual update to its dictionary, the ultimate authority on the language in Spain and Latin America. One activist, Patricia Caro Maya, said the academy's definition of gypsy "has always had false connotations of stealing and cheating as a cultural characteristic of ours." The academy declined to comment on the issue to AFP, but cited the introduction to its dictionary, which says it takes care to avoid "gratuitously slanted or offensive" definitions.

Bodies found in Mexico where 3 Texans missing Posted: 29 Oct 2014 04:21 PM PDT MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — Four bodies were found Wednesday east of the border city of Matamaros, near where three young Americans went missing more than two weeks ago, a Mexican state official said.

Bayern advances 3-1 over Hamburg in German Cup Posted: 29 Oct 2014 04:19 PM PDT FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A spectator ran onto the pitch and hit Franck Ribery with a scarf in stoppage time of Bayern Munich's 3-1 victory at Hamburger SV in the second round of the German Cup on Wednesday.

Juventus loses 1-0 at Genoa, Roma beats Cesena 2-0 Posted: 29 Oct 2014 04:18 PM PDT MILAN (AP) — A stoppage-time goal saw Juventus fall to its first league defeat since March as it lost 1-0 at Genoa on Wednesday, allowing Roma to move level at the top of Serie A with a 2-0 win over Cesena.

City's League Cup defense ended by Newcastle Posted: 29 Oct 2014 04:14 PM PDT MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester City's defense of the League Cup was ended by a 2-0 home loss to Newcastle in the last 16 on Wednesday, with an injury to playmaker David Silva completing a miserable night for the out-of-form English champions.

Murray on brink of World Finals as Federer battles through Posted: 29 Oct 2014 04:13 PM PDT Paris (AFP) - Andy Murray turned in a clinical performance on Wednesday as he joined Roger Federer, Stan Wawrinka, David Ferrer, Grigor Dimitrov and Milos Raonic in the third round of the Paris Masters.

Varane nets 2, Madrid beats 3rd-tier rival in Copa Posted: 29 Oct 2014 04:11 PM PDT BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Raphael Varane headed in two corner kicks to help Real Madrid start its Copa del Rey title defense with a 4-1 win at third-division Cornella on Wednesday.

Biden voices support for Northern Ireland talks Posted: 29 Oct 2014 04:09 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden is throwing his support behind a new round of power-sharing talks in Northern Ireland.

Federer, Murray advance at Paris Masters Posted: 29 Oct 2014 04:04 PM PDT PARIS (AP) — Roger Federer was made to fight all the way by local favorite Jeremy Chardy before reaching the third round of the Paris Masters on Wednesday, while Andy Murray moved one match away from qualifying for the ATP Finals.

Mexico archaeologists explore Teotihuacan tunnel Posted: 29 Oct 2014 03:52 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — A yearslong exploration of a tunnel sealed almost 2,000 years ago at the ancient city of Teotihuacan yielded thousands of relics and the discovery of three chambers that could hold more important finds, Mexican archaeologists said Wednesday.

Rappers Young Fathers win Britain's Mercury Prize Posted: 29 Oct 2014 03:49 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — Hip-hop trio Young Fathers have won Britain's profile-boosting Mercury Prize for the album "Dead."

Australian surfer kicks shark as it bites his foot Posted: 29 Oct 2014 03:44 PM PDT SYDNEY (AP) — A 20-year-old competition surfer said on Thursday he accidentally stepped on a shark's head before it bit him off the Australian east coast.

Iran wants sanctions lifted before nuclear deal Posted: 29 Oct 2014 03:41 PM PDT Iran wants all Western sanctions to be lifted before striking a deal on its contested nuclear programme by a November deadline, a top official said Wednesday. The six powers in the talks with Iran -- Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States plus Germany, known as the P5+1 -- have set November 24 as the deadline. The chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi said the US proposal of a gradual lifting of sanctions was "unacceptable." A Western diplomat close to the negotiations with Iran on Monday said a firm deal by the deadline was highly unlikely, saying Tehran would have to make "significant gestures."

UN holds emergency meeting on Israel tensions Posted: 29 Oct 2014 03:40 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. official warned in an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Wednesday that Israel's plans for further settlements in east Jerusalem threaten the viability of the future Palestinian state. Close ally the United States also warned against Israel's plans.

WHO: Ebola decline in Liberia could be real trend Posted: 29 Oct 2014 03:35 PM PDT DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The rate of new Ebola infections in Liberia appears to be declining and could represent a genuine trend, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, but the epidemic is far from over.

Palestinians urge UN to demand Israel end settlements Posted: 29 Oct 2014 03:34 PM PDT The Palestinians urged the UN Security Council on Wednesday to demand that Israel immediately reverse plans to build more Jewish settlements, at an emergency meeting called to address tensions in east Jerusalem. The 15-nation council met for urgent talks at Jordan's request after Israel announced plans on Monday to build 1,000 new settler homes in east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians consider the capital of a future state.

Rennes beats Marseille in French League Cup Posted: 29 Oct 2014 03:34 PM PDT RENNES, France (AP) — Philipp Hosiner scored the winner in added time as Rennes came from a goal down to beat league leader Marseille 2-1 in a third-round upset in the French League Cup on Wednesday.

Man shot in suspected assassination in Jerusalem Posted: 29 Oct 2014 03:27 PM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — A gunman on motorcycle shot a prominent hard-line Jewish activist on Wednesday, Israeli police and legislators said, seriously wounding the man and then fleeing in a suspected assassination attempt.

Muguruza beats Makarova at Tournament of Champions Posted: 29 Oct 2014 03:24 PM PDT SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Garbine Muguruza's perfect serve helped her to a surprise 6-2, 6-1 victory over top-seeded Ekaterina Makarova of Russia in the group stage at the season-ending WTA Tournament of Champions on Wednesday.

Mexican president meets with kin of 43 missing students Posted: 29 Oct 2014 03:20 PM PDT President Enrique Pena Nieto met for the first time Wednesday with families of 43 students who went missing over a month ago in violence involving police and drug gang hitmen. In a country weary of years of mostly drug gang-linked violent crime, the case of the missing in Guerrero state has shocked Mexico, made headlines worldwide and brought thousands to the streets demonstrating for justice. The parents of the all-male students at a teachers' college in Guerrero want state and federal authorities to continue searching in the Iguala area. They met Pena Nieto at the Los Pinos presidential residence and were expected to appear before media later.

Egypt starts work on Gaza buffer after bombing Posted: 29 Oct 2014 03:12 PM PDT Egypt began demolishing houses along its border with Gaza on Wednesday to set up a buffer zone to prevent militant infiltration and arms smuggling following a wave of deadly attacks. The move, which will see about 800 homes razed, comes after a suicide bomber killed 30 soldiers in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, which borders the Palestinian territory, last Friday. It also comes two days after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi enacted a decree allowing military trials for civilians suspected of attacking state infrastructure, as he promised a tough response to what he called the "existential threat" posed by the militants. The authorities want to establish a 500 metre (yard) wide buffer zone along the 10 kilometre (six mile) long border with Gaza.

S.Africa police arrest Meyiwa killing suspects Posted: 29 Oct 2014 03:12 PM PDT South African police have arrested two people in connection with the murder of national football captain Senzo Meyiwa during a robbery at his pop-star girlfriend's home, media reported Wednesday. According to the public broadcaster SABC, two men were being held for questioning after they were arrested in Nongoma, in the eastern KwaZulu Natal province. Police in Johannesburg could not immediately confirm the arrest. The SABC said the suspects were nabbed following a tip-off by members of the public.

Sistine Chapel gets brighter look, cooler feel Posted: 29 Oct 2014 03:06 PM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Sistine Chapel has a brighter, cooler new look.

Anonymous US comment on Israel roils relations Posted: 29 Oct 2014 03:04 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Anonymous White House criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that drew condemnation in Israel is roiling Washington politics, putting the U.S. administration on the defensive and prompting congressional demands for President Barack Obama to repudiate the remarks.

Russia says French warship handover next month, sparking denial Posted: 29 Oct 2014 02:56 PM PDT Russia said Wednesday that the controversial handover of a French warship would take place on November 14, but the manufacturer immediately denied setting a date amid pressure on Paris to scrap the deal. France is facing mounting opposition over the contract against the backdrop of Moscow's role in the Ukraine crisis, further complicated by Russia's decision to recognise the results of a separatist vote in Ukraine's east due this weekend. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said the country's state-run arms dealer had received an invitation to attend a ceremony on November 14 for the handing over of the first of two Mistral helicopter carriers.

New Ebola cases slowing in Liberia but too soon to celebrate: WHO Posted: 29 Oct 2014 02:50 PM PDT The rate of new Ebola infections appears to be slowing in hard-hit Liberia, but the crisis is far from over, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. "It appears that the trend is real in Liberia and there may indeed be a slowing of the epidemic there," WHO assistant director-general Bruce Aylward told reporters in Geneva. Aylward added, though, that he was "terrified that the information will be misinterpreted and that people will begin to think Ebola is under control." Later on Wednesday, the WHO is set to publish the latest death toll from the Ebola outbreak that has been ravaging west Africa, with the number of deaths expected to pass the 5,000 mark.

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