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• Eight soldiers killed, Istanbul palace attacked as Turkish unrest mounts
• Germany backs Greek bailout as Tsipras mulls early polls
• Ferry packed with Syrian refugees heads for Greek mainland
• South Sudan's Kiir tells U.S. he will sign peace deal: U.S. spokesman
• U.N. says air strikes on Yemen port could worsen aid crisis
• Palestinian detainee ends 65-day hunger-strike
• Top Asian News at 12:00 a.m. GMT
• US Air Force test-launches unarmed missile from California
• Lightning delays US women's exhibition with Costa Rica
• Pelosi: House Democrats will sustain Obama veto on Iran deal
• Stocks lower as Fed minutes keep rate increase in play
• Unknown assailants snatch Palestinians in Sinai: Hamas
• Jet grazes US jet bridge after landing; no injuries
• UK police head to France to counter migrant traffickers
• Jamaican Maroon leader Frank Lumsden dies at 73
• Brazil Supreme Court debates decriminalization of drugs
• Serena Williams, Novak Djokovic win Cincinnati openers
• Rebels urge UN to remove 'security zones' in northern Mali
• US mom admits to killing three sons in past 13 months
• El Salvador: 125 killings in 3 days as gang violence soars
• Reijnen sprints to USA Pro Challenge win in Aspen
• Wall Street Journal denies accusations about Iran reporter
• Palestinians abducted by gunmen in Egypt
• Ex-chemical company president pleads guilty in West Virginia spill
• Valencia, Shakhtar win 1st legs in Champions League playoffs
• Mexico deploys drones to protect sea turtle nesting grounds
• Mexican investigating ex-Green Party candidate over sharks
• Bolivia inmates on hunger strike... for better food
• Groundwater pumping speeding subsidence in Central California: NASA
• Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials
• Grisly killing becomes political battleground in Venezuela
• Regulator investigates NuVista pipeline leak in northern Alberta
• I've not been good enough, admits Rooney
• Valencia beats Monaco 3-1 in Champions League playoff
• Attackers on moped kill Tunisian policeman, wound 2 others
• Shakhtar beats Rapid Vienna 1-0 in Champions League playoff
• Yemeni rebels rebound with new attacks after setbacks
• Berget double hurts Celtic's Champions League hopes
• Bangkok attack turns Malaysia family's vacation into tragedy

Eight soldiers killed, Istanbul palace attacked as Turkish unrest mounts Posted: 19 Aug 2015 12:17 PM PDT By Nick Tattersall and Seyhmus Cakan ISTANBUL/DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Gunmen fired on police outside an Istanbul palace and a bomb killed eight soldiers in the southeast on Wednesday, heightening a sense of crisis as Turkey's leaders struggled to form a new government. The Istanbul governor's office said two members of a "terrorist group" armed with hand grenades and an automatic rifle were caught after attacking the Dolmabahce palace, popular with tourists and home to the prime minister's Istanbul offices. Militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) meanwhile killed eight soldiers with a roadside bomb in the southeastern province of Siirt, the military said, intensifying a conflict there after the breakdown of a two-year ceasefire last month.

Germany backs Greek bailout as Tsipras mulls early polls Posted: 19 Aug 2015 12:07 PM PDT BERLIN/ATHENS (Reuters) - The German parliament approved a third bailout for Greece on Wednesday after Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said the country should get "a new start", while in Athens the government agonized over whether to call a snap election. The Bundestag vote cleared one of the final obstacles to Greece getting funding so that it can make a 3.2 billion-euro debt repayment to the European Central Bank on Thursday. The Dutch parliament also gave its blessing to the Greek rescue, while the board of the euro zone's bailout fund in a teleconference approved disbursing the first tranche of funds under the new Greek program.

Ferry packed with Syrian refugees heads for Greek mainland Posted: 19 Aug 2015 12:45 PM PDT By Alkis Konstantinidis KOS, Greece, (Reuters) - A passenger ship carrying hundreds of Syrian refugees was heading to the Greek mainland from islands in the Aegean Sea on Wednesday amid confusion over its final destination and the fate of passengers. On top of its economic crisis, cash-strapped Greece has been battling a huge influx in migrants arriving by boat from neighboring Turkey in recent weeks. About 21,000 people landed on Greek shores last week alone, prompting Athens to appeal to the European Union for help.

South Sudan's Kiir tells U.S. he will sign peace deal: U.S. spokesman Posted: 19 Aug 2015 12:52 PM PDT South Sudan's President Salva Kiir told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday he intends to sign a peace deal to end a 20-month-old conflict, a State Department spokesman said. "President Kiir assured the secretary that he has every intention of signing the peace agreement," spokesman John Kirby told reporters after Kerry called Kiir. "He said he needed a couple of more days of consultations but he made it very clear it was his intention to sign, which is encouraging." Kiir told Kerry that he had some concerns that had now been addressed, Kirby added.

U.N. says air strikes on Yemen port could worsen aid crisis Posted: 19 Aug 2015 02:17 PM PDT By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations aid chief Stephen O'Brien said on Wednesday that air strikes by Saudi-led coalition airplanes on Yemen's Red Sea port of Hodeida were unacceptable and could worsen the country's humanitarian crisis. Hodeida, controlled by Iranian-allied Houthi forces, has become a focal point of efforts to resupply the impoverished Arab state, battered by five months of war that has killed over 4,300 people. "These attacks are in clear contravention of international humanitarian law and are unacceptable," O'Brien said of the Tuesday attacks on the port during a briefing to the 15-member U.N. Security Council.

Palestinian detainee ends 65-day hunger-strike Posted: 19 Aug 2015 12:48 PM PDT By Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian detainee Mohammed Allan ended his 65-day hunger strike against his detention without trial on Wednesday after the Israeli Supreme Court suspended his arrest warrant, his lawyer said. Allan has sustained brain damage as result of his hunger strike and is hospitalized in Israel in critical condition. The 31-year-old Islamic Jihad activist's case was being monitored closely by opposing sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which had looked likely to boil over into new violence if Allan were to have died as result of his strike.

Top Asian News at 12:00 a.m. GMT Posted: 19 Aug 2015 05:03 PM PDT BANGKOK (AP) — A police manhunt was underway Wednesday for an "unidentified foreign man" shown in a security video leaving a backpack at a popular Bangkok shrine just minutes before a bomb exploded there. Two other people seen on the video near the man are also considered suspects in Monday's deadly bombing, police said.

US Air Force test-launches unarmed missile from California Posted: 19 Aug 2015 04:43 PM PDT VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, California (AP) — The U.S. Air Force says an unarmed Minuteman 3 missile was launched from California in a test of the intercontinental ballistic missile system.

Lightning delays US women's exhibition with Costa Rica Posted: 19 Aug 2015 04:40 PM PDT CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Lightning has delayed the U.S. women's soccer team's exhibition game against Costa Rica on Wednesday night.

Pelosi: House Democrats will sustain Obama veto on Iran deal Posted: 19 Aug 2015 04:38 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats have the votes, if necessary, to uphold President Barack Obama's veto of a resolution against his Iran nuclear deal, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday.

Stocks lower as Fed minutes keep rate increase in play Posted: 19 Aug 2015 04:35 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks posted solid losses on Wednesday as investors got mixed signals from the Federal Reserve over the possibility of an interest rate hike in September. Energy stocks fell as the price of oil plummeted.

Unknown assailants snatch Palestinians in Sinai: Hamas Posted: 19 Aug 2015 04:35 PM PDT Gunmen in Egypt boarded a bus carrying Palestinians from Cairo to Gaza and seized four of the passengers before letting the others continue, Hamas officials in the strip said early Thursday. Interior ministry spokesman Iyad Bezem said in a statement that the kidnapping took place late Wednesday night in the troubled northern Sinai region as the bus headed for the Rafah border crossing into Gaza. A Hamas foreign ministry statement "condemned...the kidnapping of a number of Palestinians".

Jet grazes US jet bridge after landing; no injuries Posted: 19 Aug 2015 04:30 PM PDT CHANTILLY, Virginia (AP) — A United Airlines flight arriving from Dublin grazed a jet bridge after landing at Dulles International Airport. No one was injured.

UK police head to France to counter migrant traffickers Posted: 19 Aug 2015 04:08 PM PDT British police officers will be deployed to the French port of Calais to combat gangs smuggling migrants across the Channel, the Home Office said Thursday. The officers will work alongside their French counterparts in a "Command and Control Centre", Britain's interior ministry said ahead of Home Secretary Theresa May's visit to Calais later Thursday. The new centre "will find and disrupt organised criminals who attempt to smuggle migrants illegally into northern France and across the Channel by ensuring intelligence and enforcement work is more joined up and collaborative", the Home Office said.

Jamaican Maroon leader Frank Lumsden dies at 73 Posted: 19 Aug 2015 04:07 PM PDT KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Frank Lumsden, a Jamaican who worked as a commodities trader in Chicago before returning to his homeland to focus on reviving the Caribbean island's Maroon culture in a backwoods community, has died. He was 73.

Brazil Supreme Court debates decriminalization of drugs Posted: 19 Aug 2015 04:01 PM PDT SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday began debating a drug case that could lead to the decriminalization of possession for personal use in the South American country.

Serena Williams, Novak Djokovic win Cincinnati openers Posted: 19 Aug 2015 03:53 PM PDT MASON, Ohio (AP) — Serena Williams pumped her fist after each important point and screamed as she smacked another emphatic shot. The defending Cincinnati champion wasn't going to ease into the tournament.

Rebels urge UN to remove 'security zones' in northern Mali Posted: 19 Aug 2015 03:52 PM PDT Mali's main Tuareg rebel group on Wednesday urged the United Nations to lift "all the security zones" set up in the country's north in response to deadly clashes between rival groups that have threatened to unravel a newly agreed peace deal. Three days of fighting between pro-government Tuareg militants and Tuareg rebels from the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) prompted UN peacekeepers on Tuesday to install a 20-kilometre (12-mile) safe zone around the town of Kidal to protect civilians. In a statement, the CMA asked the UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA) to immediately remove "all the security zones established" and "let the different parties settle their differences".

US mom admits to killing three sons in past 13 months Posted: 19 Aug 2015 03:51 PM PDT A US mother in Ohio admitted killing her three young sons in separate incidents over the past 13 months because her husband paid more attention to the boys than a daughter, police said. Brittany Pilkington called 911 shortly after 3:00 am Tuesday to report that her three-month-old baby, Noah, wasn't breathing. Another three-month-old son, Niall, was found dead by father Joseph Pilkington when he came home from work in July last year.

El Salvador: 125 killings in 3 days as gang violence soars Posted: 19 Aug 2015 03:49 PM PDT SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — At least 125 people have been killed in El Salvador in the last three days, authorities said Wednesday as a wave of violence continues to plague the Central American nation.

Reijnen sprints to USA Pro Challenge win in Aspen Posted: 19 Aug 2015 03:44 PM PDT ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Kiel Reijnen survived the tough climb up Independence Pass, then a harrowing descent into Aspen to win the third stage of the USA Pro Challenge on Wednesday.

Wall Street Journal denies accusations about Iran reporter Posted: 19 Aug 2015 03:27 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday denied Iranian state media accusations that one of the newspaper's senior reporters of conspiring against Iran's government.

Palestinians abducted by gunmen in Egypt Posted: 19 Aug 2015 03:26 PM PDT GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza's Hamas rulers say gunmen abducted four Palestinians in neighboring Sinai after intercepting a bus bound for Cairo airport.

Ex-chemical company president pleads guilty in West Virginia spill Posted: 19 Aug 2015 03:25 PM PDT (Reuters) - The former president of a chemical company charged in the contamination of West Virginia's biggest source of drinking water pleaded guilty on Wednesday to three federal pollution counts. Gary Southern, 53, was the last Freedom Industries Inc executive charged in the Elk River spill in January 2014. The leak of a coal-washing chemical near Charleston contaminated the drinking water of about 300,000 people.

Valencia, Shakhtar win 1st legs in Champions League playoffs Posted: 19 Aug 2015 03:19 PM PDT Valencia is close to completing its return to the Champions League after beating Monaco 3-1 Wednesday in their first leg playoff on a night full of late goals by teams fighting to reach the lucrative group stage of Europe's top club competition.

Mexico deploys drones to protect sea turtle nesting grounds Posted: 19 Aug 2015 03:16 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials say they have begun flying two drones over sea turtle nesting grounds on the Pacific coast to better monitor and protect the sensitive habitats.

Mexican investigating ex-Green Party candidate over sharks Posted: 19 Aug 2015 03:09 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities said Wednesday they are investigating a former candidate of Mexico's Ecological Green Party who posted photos of himself with a haul of more than 20 juvenile sharks.

Bolivia inmates on hunger strike... for better food Posted: 19 Aug 2015 03:03 PM PDT Inmates at one of Bolivia's most violent prisons have gone on hunger strike demanding they be fed at least as well as police dogs and horses, their leaders said Wednesday. Around 500 inmates have joined the two-day-old hunger strike, according to the organizers at the Palmasola maximum security prison, which drew global attention when Pope Francis visited it in July. Some police dogs have 15 bolivianos a day for their food," strike leader Fidel Herrera told TV network Gigavision.

Groundwater pumping speeding subsidence in Central California: NASA Posted: 19 Aug 2015 03:00 PM PDT Parts of the San Joaquin Valley in Central California are sinking faster than ever due to excessive groundwater pumping as the state deals with a devastating drought, a NASA report released on Wednesday said. "Groundwater acts as a savings account to provide supplies during drought, but the NASA report shows the consequences of excessive withdrawals as we head into the fifth year of historic drought," Department of Water Resources Director Mark Cowin said in the statement. "Because of increased pumping, groundwater levels are reaching record lows - up to 100 feet (30 meters) lower than previous records," he said.

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials Posted: 19 Aug 2015 02:56 PM PDT Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:

Grisly killing becomes political battleground in Venezuela Posted: 19 Aug 2015 02:48 PM PDT CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The grisly slaying of a woman has become yet another political flashpoint in hyper-polarized Venezuela, with supporters and opponents of the country's socialist administration each saying the killers were working for the other side.

Regulator investigates NuVista pipeline leak in northern Alberta Posted: 19 Aug 2015 02:48 PM PDT The Alberta Energy Regulator is investigating a leak on a NuVista Energy pipeline in northern Alberta that spilled 100 cubic meters, roughly 629 barrels, of oil and water and natural gas emulsion, the regulator said on Wednesday. Bob Curran, director of public affairs at the Alberta Energy Regulator, said NuVista shut in the line and a clean-up was under way. NuVista Chief Executive Jonathan Wright said the company responded within minutes of the leak being reported and is cooperating with the AER and local First Nations representatives.

I've not been good enough, admits Rooney Posted: 19 Aug 2015 02:40 PM PDT Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney has admitted that his performances to date this season have not been up to scratch, but he is confident the goals will start flowing soon. With Robin van Persie and Radamel Falcao having left Old Trafford during the close season and Javier Hernandez out of favour, Rooney has started the season as the lone striker in manager Louis van Gaal's 4-2-3-1 system. "I've had one bad game this season and everyone's all over it," Rooney told reporters after United's 3-1 win over Club Brugge in the home leg of their Champions League play-off tie on Tuesday.

Valencia beats Monaco 3-1 in Champions League playoff Posted: 19 Aug 2015 02:36 PM PDT VALENCIA, Spain (AP) — Valencia forward Sofiane Feghouli scored after setting up the opener to lead the Spanish club to a 3-1 win over Monaco on Wednesday in the first leg of their Champions League playoff.

Attackers on moped kill Tunisian policeman, wound 2 others Posted: 19 Aug 2015 02:34 PM PDT TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A Tunisian official says two men on a moped opened fire with a rifle on three policemen in the resort town Sousse, killing one and wounding the other two.

Shakhtar beats Rapid Vienna 1-0 in Champions League playoff Posted: 19 Aug 2015 02:32 PM PDT VIENNA (AP) — Shakhtar Donetsk beat Rapid Vienna 1-0 in the first leg of their Champions League playoff Wednesday, positioning itself for reaching the group stage for a sixth straight season.

Yemeni rebels rebound with new attacks after setbacks Posted: 19 Aug 2015 02:30 PM PDT SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Houthi rebels in Yemen attacked pro-government forces for the second consecutive day Wednesday after weeks of retreating, security officials said.

Berget double hurts Celtic's Champions League hopes Posted: 19 Aug 2015 02:26 PM PDT Celtic's hopes of reaching the lucrative group stages of the Champions League were dealt a late blow as Jo Inge Berget scored for Malmo in stoppage time as the Swedish champions lost 3-2 in the first leg of their play-off round match at Parkhead. The hosts had come out of the blocks flying as Leigh Griffiths slotted past Johan Wiland in the third minute before Nir Bitton headed home a Stefan Johansen corner in the 10th minute.

Bangkok attack turns Malaysia family's vacation into tragedy Posted: 19 Aug 2015 02:24 PM PDT KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — This week's deadly bombing in Bangkok left a Malaysian family struggling to come to grips with an attack that claimed at least four clan members who had been enjoying a Thai vacation.

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