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• U.S. believes Iran launched air raids on Islamic State in Iraq
• U.S. leads 25 more air strikes against Islamic State militants: CENTCOM
• Lebanon says detained woman was Baghdadi wife for three months
• U.S. military monitoring Islamic State training in Libya: general
• Obama says poor economic situation may change Putin ways
• Ambitious and impatient, Afghan leader eyes aid, peace, reform
• Rain still falling in California after major storm breaks records
• Top Asian News at 12:30 a.m. GMT
• India fields first in 2-day tour match in Adelaide
• Green groups urge climate fund to exclude fossils
• AP Interview: Coe's vision to revamp athletics
• City losses cut to $36 million after breaching FFP
• Van Dijk goal gives Celtic sixth successive win
• Judge detains alleged US terror recruit
• UN sets modest hopes for climate pledges at 2015 Paris summit
• US state coalition sues over immigration order
• Britain's Small Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan dies
• Mexico national coach signs up for 4 more years
• Western sanctions, ruble crash hit Russians hard
• Colombia, Marxist FARC rebels to restart peace talks this month
• Treasurer warns Australians on living standards
• Avian flu outbreak hits 2 British Columbia farms
• Badillo, first Puerto Rico-born congressman, dies
• $100 billion climate finance goal 'a very small sum': UN climate chief
• Britain launches new 'Google tax' on multinationals
• U.S. couple leaves Qatar after convictions overturned in child death
• Chelsea, Man City show Premier League might
• UN weather agency: 2014 on track for hottest year
• Mexico federal police, troops to patrol Acapulco
• US couple cleared in daughter's death leaves Qatar
• Chilean arrested in Mexico protest returns home
• Rare dinosaur skeleton goes on display in London
• Syria chemical weapons bases' destruction to begin
• Turner painting of Rome sells for record £30.3 mln in London
• Brazil targets Petrobras contractors as corruption probe expands
• Japan to visit Vancouver for Davis Cup opener
• Canada scientists bargain for right to speak out
• Air bag maker refuses to expand recall coast to coast

U.S. believes Iran launched air raids on Islamic State in Iraq Posted: 03 Dec 2014 11:11 AM PST By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has indications that Iran has carried out air strikes on Islamic State targets in Iraq in recent days in what appeared to be the first such operations by Iran's air force, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. A senior Iranian official denied that Iran had launched any such strikes. U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the United States had indications that Iran had used F-4 Phantoms to launch the raids in Diyala near the Iranian border in the last several days. ...

U.S. leads 25 more air strikes against Islamic State militants: CENTCOM Posted: 03 Dec 2014 10:23 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States military launched 14 more strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and led 11 strikes in Iraq since Monday, according to U.S. Central command. The strikes in Syria, centered near the border town of Kobani, hit a large group of militant fighters as well as various fighting positions, Central Command said in a statement on Wednesday. In Iraq, the U.S-led strikes in six cities - Mosul, Ramadi, Tal Afar, Sinjar, Qaim and Falluja - destroyed bunkers, buildings, vehicles and two weapon facilities for the militant group. ...

Lebanon says detained woman was Baghdadi wife for three months Posted: 03 Dec 2014 01:36 PM PST BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's interior minister said on Wednesday that a women detained by security forces was the wife of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi for three months, the first Lebanese government official to speak publicly on the arrest. Security officials in Lebanon, speaking on condition of anonymity, had said on Tuesday that the Lebanese army detained a wife and daughter of Baghdadi as they crossed from Syria late last month. ...

U.S. military monitoring Islamic State training in Libya: general Posted: 03 Dec 2014 03:27 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military is closely monitoring a nascent effort by Islamic State, the militant group that has overrun parts of Syria and Iraq, to train a couple of hundred fighters in eastern Libya, the commander of U.S. forces in Africa said on Wednesday. Army General David Rodriguez, head of the U.S. Africa Command, said it was not yet clear how closely aligned the trainees were with Islamic State or whether the effort should be targeted by U.S. forces. He said he had not recommended U.S. ...

Obama says poor economic situation may change Putin ways Posted: 03 Dec 2014 09:43 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he doubted Russian President Vladimir Putin will change course until politics catch up with the rough economic situation in Russia. Obama said Putin has promoted a nationalist, backward-looking approach to Russian policy that scares neighbors and hurts Moscow's economy. (Reporting by Steve Holland; Editing by Bill Trott)

Ambitious and impatient, Afghan leader eyes aid, peace, reform Posted: 03 Dec 2014 03:09 PM PST By Hamid Shalizi and Kay Johnson KABUL (Reuters) - New Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has set about overhauling a dysfunctional administration and containing a growing insurgency with plenty of energy, and some would say impatience, in marked contrast to his predecessor. Where Hamid Karzai tended to invite tribal officials and ministers for talks at the presidential palace, Ghani, inaugurated in September after months of wrangling with his rival, has been more hands-on. ...

Rain still falling in California after major storm breaks records Posted: 03 Dec 2014 04:32 PM PST By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A major Pacific storm that broke records across Southern California and delivered a small measure of relief to the drought-stricken state brought more rain on Wednesday but the danger of major mudslides in wildfire-scarred areas appeared to have passed, officials said. The sub-tropical storm, which originated in the Pacific Ocean south of Hawaii, was the strongest to hit Southern California since at least February and poured at least an inch (2. ...

Top Asian News at 12:30 a.m. GMT Posted: 03 Dec 2014 04:32 PM PST HONG KONG (AP) — Three founders of a civil disobedience campaign that helped spark Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests surrendered to police Wednesday, saying they want to take responsibility for their actions and that time has come to end the increasingly violent street demonstrations. Professors Benny Tai Yiu-ting and Chan Kin-man and the Rev. Chu Yiu-ming haven't been charged and left the police station later Wednesday after being warned by authorities that protests that have blocked streets in the Asian financial center for more than two months are illegal.

India fields first in 2-day tour match in Adelaide Posted: 03 Dec 2014 04:30 PM PST ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Cricket Australia Chairman's XI captain Ashton Turner won the toss and elected to bat first against India in their tour match Thursday.

Green groups urge climate fund to exclude fossils Posted: 03 Dec 2014 04:26 PM PST LIMA, Peru (AP) — Environmental groups are demanding tighter rules on climate finance for poor nations after an Associated Press investigation showed Japan bankrolled coal-fired power plants with money earmarked for fighting global warming.

AP Interview: Coe's vision to revamp athletics Posted: 03 Dec 2014 04:16 PM PST LONDON (AP) — Pitching his vision to overhaul the sport that has shaped his life, Sebastian Coe is apprehensive. Although track and field is not facing an imminent crisis, according to the IAAF presidential hopeful, it is "precariously placed."

City losses cut to $36 million after breaching FFP Posted: 03 Dec 2014 04:14 PM PST LONDON (AP) — Manchester City halved its financial losses during its run to the Premier League title last season, and hopes to avoid breaching UEFA's Financial Fair Play regulations again.

Van Dijk goal gives Celtic sixth successive win Posted: 03 Dec 2014 04:08 PM PST Glasgow (AFP) - Virgil van Dijk came to Celtic's aid once again as he scored the only goal in a 1-0 win over Partick Thistle on Wednesday that sent the champions three points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership.

Judge detains alleged US terror recruit Posted: 03 Dec 2014 04:06 PM PST MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A judge has reversed an order that temporarily freed a man accused of trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group.

UN sets modest hopes for climate pledges at 2015 Paris summit Posted: 03 Dec 2014 03:58 PM PST By Alister Doyle LIMA (Reuters) - Government pledges due in 2015 to cut rising world greenhouse gases will be too weak to avert the worst of global warming and merely be part of a long haul to agree far tougher curbs, the United Nations said on Wednesday. Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, told Reuters TV at 190-nation talks in Lima on limiting warming that it was unrealistic to expect a miracle solution at a U.N. summit in Paris in a year's time. Governments agreed in 2010 to a long-term goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3. ...

US state coalition sues over immigration order Posted: 03 Dec 2014 03:52 PM PST AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas is leading a 17-state coalition suing over President Barack Obama's recently announced executive actions on immigration, arguing in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that the move "tramples" key portions of the U.S. Constitution.

Britain's Small Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan dies Posted: 03 Dec 2014 03:50 PM PST London (AFP) - British Rolling Stones collaborator and Small Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan died on Wednesday aged 69, his manager said.

Mexico national coach signs up for 4 more years Posted: 03 Dec 2014 03:44 PM PST MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico national team coach Miguel Herrera says Wednesday that he has renewed his contract to stay in charge of the team until 2018.

Western sanctions, ruble crash hit Russians hard Posted: 03 Dec 2014 03:21 PM PST MOSCOW (AP) — Oyster Bar built a thriving business serving mollusks to well-heeled Muscovites. Then came Western sanctions, and the restaurant was forced to rechristen itself this fall. Today, it serves up burgers and pizza under a new name: No Oyster Bar.

Colombia, Marxist FARC rebels to restart peace talks this month Posted: 03 Dec 2014 03:17 PM PST By Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - The Colombian government and leftist rebels will renew peace talks this month, reviving efforts to end five decades of war, officials said on Wednesday. Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos had suspended the two-year-old peace talks until the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels released five hostages, including an army general, captured last month. The guerrillas freed all the captives last week, including General Ruben Dario Alzate, who subsequently resigned. ...

Treasurer warns Australians on living standards Posted: 03 Dec 2014 03:17 PM PST CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia's treasurer warned on Thursday that Australians' living standards could fall as the economy slows and a hostile Senate keeps blocking key budget legislation.

Avian flu outbreak hits 2 British Columbia farms Posted: 03 Dec 2014 03:14 PM PST VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Four poultry farms where an outbreak of avian influenza was discovered in British Columbia are now under quarantine and thousands of their turkeys and chickens will be euthanized, officials said Wednesday.

Badillo, first Puerto Rico-born congressman, dies Posted: 03 Dec 2014 03:04 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Herman Badillo, a New York City politician who became the first person born in Puerto Rico to become a U.S. congressman, died Wednesday morning. He was 85.

$100 billion climate finance goal 'a very small sum': UN climate chief Posted: 03 Dec 2014 02:57 PM PST LIMA, Peru (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An international goal of providing $100 billion each year by 2020 to help vulnerable countries adapt to climate change impacts and pursue green growth is far off what is needed to achieve a global clean revolution, the U.N.'s top climate change official said on Wednesday. Christiana Figueres told journalists at U.N. climate talks in Lima that in terms of paying for the efforts needed to shift economies worldwide onto a low-carbon track "$100 billion is frankly a very, very small sum". ...

Britain launches new 'Google tax' on multinationals Posted: 03 Dec 2014 02:56 PM PST London (AFP) - The British government on Wednesday slapped a new tax rate on multinational companies that seek to avoid paying their fair share to Treasury coffers.

U.S. couple leaves Qatar after convictions overturned in child death Posted: 03 Dec 2014 02:54 PM PST By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. couple who were convicted and later cleared of wrongdoing in the death of their adopted African-born daughter in Qatar left the Gulf Arab state on Wednesday after a travel ban was lifted, ending a nearly two-year ordeal, their supporters and a U.S. diplomat said. Matthew and Grace Huang left Doha, headed for Los Angeles to reunite with their two other children, also adopted, following a flurry of diplomacy on behalf of the family after an appeals court threw out their conviction. "Matt and Grace Huang are wheels up from Qatar," U.S. ...

Chelsea, Man City show Premier League might Posted: 03 Dec 2014 02:52 PM PST London (AFP) - The Premier League is already threatening to turn into a two-horse race after leaders Chelsea and closest rivals Manchester City both cruised to one-sided victories on Wednesday.

UN weather agency: 2014 on track for hottest year Posted: 03 Dec 2014 02:51 PM PST LIMA, Peru (AP) — With temperature data showing 2014 currently tied for the hottest year on record, the U.N. weather agency on Wednesday rejected claims that global warming has paused.

Mexico federal police, troops to patrol Acapulco Posted: 03 Dec 2014 02:45 PM PST MEXICO CITY (AP) — Federal police and soldiers will take over policing duties in the resort of Acapulco to ensure the safety of tourists amid a wave of violence and protests that has scared away visitors, Mexican authorities said Wednesday.

US couple cleared in daughter's death leaves Qatar Posted: 03 Dec 2014 02:43 PM PST DOHA, Qatar (AP) — An American couple left the Gulf nation of Qatar on Wednesday after being cleared of charges in their adopted 8-year-old daughter's death, ending a nearly two-year legal saga they contend was rooted in confusion over cross-cultural adoption.

Chilean arrested in Mexico protest returns home Posted: 03 Dec 2014 02:39 PM PST MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Chilean man who was in Mexico studying for a doctorate and ended up jailed for participating in a protest march has returned home.

Rare dinosaur skeleton goes on display in London Posted: 03 Dec 2014 02:39 PM PST London (AFP) - A rare dinosaur skeleton goes on display at London's Natural History museum on Thursday -- the first to be exhibited there in a century.

Syria chemical weapons bases' destruction to begin Posted: 03 Dec 2014 02:34 PM PST UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The destruction of 12 chemical weapons facilities in Syria is expected to start later this month, and the work should be complete by the end of June 2015, U.N. diplomats said Wednesday.

Turner painting of Rome sells for record £30.3 mln in London Posted: 03 Dec 2014 02:32 PM PST London (AFP) - A large oil painting of Rome by JMW Turner fetched the highest price ever paid for a work by the British artist at an auction in London on Wednesday.

Brazil targets Petrobras contractors as corruption probe expands Posted: 03 Dec 2014 02:10 PM PST By Brad Haynes SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's comptroller general opened cases on Wednesday against eight engineering conglomerates suspected of bribery and fraud in deals with Petrobras, holding them accountable for their role in a widening corruption scandal at the state-run oil company. If found responsible for the alleged graft scheme, some of Brazil's biggest infrastructure and construction firms could be blocked for years from taking government contracts, complicating President Dilma Rousseff's push to expand investments in roads, bridges, rail lines and energy projects. ...

Japan to visit Vancouver for Davis Cup opener Posted: 03 Dec 2014 01:58 PM PST Japan will face Canada at Vancouver in the first round of next year's Davis Cup tournament, Tennis Canada announced Wednesday. Canada enjoyed success at the venue during their run to the 2013 Davis Cup semi-finals, but lost 4-1 to Japan in Tokyo last February in thie yhear's opening round. "The team is extremely excited to be returning to Vancouver for this tie," Canadian Davis Cup captain Martin Laurendeau said.

Canada scientists bargain for right to speak out Posted: 03 Dec 2014 01:57 PM PST A union representing 15,000 Canadian government scientists said Wednesday their right to speak publicly about their work regardless of what they discover should be addressed in contract negotiations.

Air bag maker refuses to expand recall coast to coast Posted: 03 Dec 2014 01:55 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Japan's Takata Corp. rejected federal regulators' demand Wednesday for an expanded, nationwide recall of millions of air bags, setting up a possible legal showdown and leaving some drivers to wonder about the safety of their cars.

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