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• Islamic State figures killed in air strike; Baghdadi not believed among them
• Turkey sees Islamic State hand in bombing, vows election will go on
• Syrian army advances with help of Russian strikes; Putin reaches out to Saudis
• Arab citizen rams and stabs four Israelis, police stop suspected Palestinian car bomb
• Iranian-American journalist convicted, Iran news agency says
• Brussels 'waits for David'
• Belarus re-elects 'last dictator in Europe' for fifth term
• Top Asian News at 12:00 a.m. GMT
• Hiker dies after falling from rock on Appalachian Trail
• Lukashenko wins 83.49% of Belarus vote: election chief
• 3 Palestinians killed, 4 Israelis wounded in latest violence
• Lawyers urge Britain to accept more Syrian refugees
• AP Exclusive: Prince says Saudi will stay in charge of hajj
• Iran says verdict issued on Washington Post reporter
• Tom Lehman wins SAS Championship with late burst
• NATO: Helicopter crash at Kabul base kills 5
• Thousands rally against Erdogan as Turkey mourns deadliest attack
• 'Don't listen to quitters', says UK campaign to stay in EU
• Japan get third win but end as World Cup unlucky losers
• Britain dismisses reports about air force orders in Iraq
• Two shot dead in Ireland, including police officer
• Japan excels but leaves Rugby World Cup; QFs as expected
• Albania joins Germany, Poland, Romania at Euro 2016
• World took step towards greener GDP in 2014; more needed: PwC
• Turkey says two male suicide bombers behind Ankara blasts
• Mideast needs grants, not loans for refugee crisis: Lebanon
• NATO: Helicopter5 dead in non-hostile Kabul helicopter crash
• Bomb attack deepens divisions as Turkey faces bitter election
• Guineans vote for president despite violence, fraud fears
• Iranian-American journalist Rezaian convicted: Iran news agency
• Socialists hold off right-wing party to win Vienna vote
• Giroud scores twice as France beats Denmark 2-1
• Belarusians set to give Lukashenko fifth presidential term
• Nine killed in Cameroon blasts blamed on Boko Haram, as Chad toll rises
• Mexico posts probe into 43 missing students online
• Germany, Poland qualify for Euro 2016; Ireland into playoffs
• Albania qualifies for European Championship for 1st time
• Japan closes World Cup pool stage with 28-18 win over US
• At Ankara morgue, anger mixes with horror over attack

Islamic State figures killed in air strike; Baghdadi not believed among them Posted: 11 Oct 2015 12:51 PM PDT By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Eight senior figures from Islamic State were killed in an air strike while meeting in a town in western Iraq, but the group's reclusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi did not appear to be among them, residents of the town and hospital sources said. Iraq said on Sunday its air force had hit the meeting and had also struck a convoy that was carrying Baghdadi to attend it. It said Baghdadi had been driven away from the convoy in an unknown condition.The Iraqi military's announcement was the latest unconfirmed report of the possible death or injury of Baghdadi, who has survived a year of U.S.-led air strikes and multi-sided wars in two countries since proclaiming himself caliph of all Muslims after his forces swept through most of northern Iraq last year.

Turkey sees Islamic State hand in bombing, vows election will go on Posted: 11 Oct 2015 08:25 AM PDT By Orhan Coskun and Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey is targeting Islamic State in investigations of a double suicide bombing in Ankara that killed up to 128 people, officials said on Sunday, while opponents of President Tayyip Erdogan blamed him for the worst such attack in Turkish history. Government officials made clear that despite alarm over the attack on a rally of pro-Kurdish activists and civic groups, there would be no postponement of November polls Erdogan hopes can restore an overall majority for the AK Party he founded. Thousands of people gathered near the scene of the attack at Ankara's main railway station, many accusing Erdogan of stirring nationalist sentiment by his pursuit of a military campaign against Kurdish militants, a charge Ankara vehemently rejects.

Syrian army advances with help of Russian strikes; Putin reaches out to Saudis Posted: 11 Oct 2015 10:55 AM PDT By Vladimir Soldatkin and Suleiman Al-Khalidi SOCHI, Russia/AMMAN (Reuters) - Russian warplanes pounded Syrian rebels unaffiliated with Islamic State on Sunday, insurgents said, helping Moscow's ally Bashar al-Assad reclaim territory and dealing a fresh setback to the strategy of Washington and its allies. President Vladimir Putin - who has infuriated Assad's enemies in the United States, Europe, Turkey and the Arab world by bombing the rebels to protect him - reached out to one of the Syrian leader's fiercest opponents by meeting the powerful defense minister of Saudi Arabia. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group that monitors the 4-year-old conflict, said the Syrian military and its Lebanese Hezbollah militia allies had taken control of Tal Skik, a highland area in Idlib province, after fierce Russian bombing.

Arab citizen rams and stabs four Israelis, police stop suspected Palestinian car bomb Posted: 11 Oct 2015 12:57 PM PDT By Jeffrey Heller and Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Arab Israeli stabbed four people near a bus stop in northern Israel on Sunday, as security forces confronted a spate of attacks against Israelis, mainly by Palestinians, in the Jewish state and the West Bank. Four Israelis and 24 Palestinians, including eight children, have died in 12 days of bloodshed, fueled in part by Muslim anger over increasing Jewish access to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem and with Palestinians attacking Israelis with knives, rocks and, in at least one incident, guns.

Iranian-American journalist convicted, Iran news agency says Posted: 11 Oct 2015 03:05 PM PDT DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A court in Iran has convicted Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, Iran's ISNA news agency said on Sunday, but the U.S. newspaper said Tehran was working a political angle by not disclosing details. ISNA quoted judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei as saying the California-born Rezaian, the paper's Tehran bureau chief, had 20 days to appeal the verdict. Rezaian was arrested in July 2014.

Brussels 'waits for David' Posted: 11 Oct 2015 02:57 PM PDT By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - David Cameron will have an expectant but not especially patient, or even attentive, audience when he meets fellow European Union leaders at a summit in Brussels at the end of this week. "Waiting for David" has become something of a catchphrase among diplomats and officials, who say the British prime minister is frustrating them by not yet detailing his demands for new EU legislation ahead of the membership referendum he plans to hold. British officials insist it is vital to prepare the ground and take time to find reforms to benefit all 28 member states.

Belarus re-elects 'last dictator in Europe' for fifth term Posted: 11 Oct 2015 05:10 PM PDT By Andrei Makhovsky MINSK (Reuters) - Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko won a fifth term in office by a landslide on Sunday in an election that could see an easing of relations with the West and raise questions about his ties to Vladimir Putin's Russia. Lukashenko's re-election five years ago led to mass protests and the imprisonment of leading opposition figures, but support for his 20-year-old regime has risen since he cast himself as a guarantor of stability in the face of an economic crisis and a pro-Russian separatist conflict in neighboring Ukraine. The West has long ostracized Lukashenko's Belarus, described in 2005 by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as "Europe's last dictatorship", over its human rights record and clamp-down on political dissent.

Top Asian News at 12:00 a.m. GMT Posted: 11 Oct 2015 05:02 PM PDT PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Going to see North Korea's most popular musical groups is kind of like a night at the concert anywhere — except for just about everything. There will be a pretty good light show. The skill of the performers will be unquestionable, their melodies pleasing to the ear. The arena will probably be packed and the crowd will rise to their feet several times to applaud. But for most non-North Koreans, that's where the feeling of familiarity quickly tapers off.

Hiker dies after falling from rock on Appalachian Trail Posted: 11 Oct 2015 04:50 PM PDT BOONSBORO, Md. (AP) — Authorities say an Appalachian Trail hiker has died after falling from Annapolis Rock.

Lukashenko wins 83.49% of Belarus vote: election chief Posted: 11 Oct 2015 04:47 PM PDT Minsk (AFP) - Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has won a fifth term with 83.49 percent of the vote, the head of the central electoral commission said Monday.

3 Palestinians killed, 4 Israelis wounded in latest violence Posted: 11 Oct 2015 04:45 PM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — A wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence showed no signs of abating Sunday, as three Palestinians, including a 2-year-old and a 13-year-old, were killed by Israeli forces, and four Israelis were wounded in an evening stabbing attack.

Lawyers urge Britain to accept more Syrian refugees Posted: 11 Oct 2015 04:43 PM PDT Britain must accept more Syrian refugees faster in response to a humanitarian crisis of people fleeing conflict, a group of over 300 lawyers demanded in a statement released Monday. The group, which includes a former president of Britain's supreme court and other prominent figures, called for the suspension of a system whereby asylum seekers claim asylum in the first EU country to which they arrive. "We consider that the UK Government's offer to resettle 20,000 of the most vulnerable Syrian refugees from camps in the Middle East, spread over five years, is too low, too slow and too narrow," the statement read.

AP Exclusive: Prince says Saudi will stay in charge of hajj Posted: 11 Oct 2015 04:39 PM PDT ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal on Sunday rejected the idea of sharing the administration of the annual hajj pilgrimage with other Muslim nations, saying Riyadh considers it "a matter of sovereignty" and a "privilege."

Iran says verdict issued on Washington Post reporter Posted: 11 Oct 2015 04:35 PM PDT A verdict has been issued in the trial in Iran of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, the country's judiciary said Sunday, without detailing the judgment but hinting at a conviction. "The verdict for this case has been issued," Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejeie, the judiciary's spokesman and deputy chief, was quoted as saying on its official website. "This verdict can be appealed," he said, suggesting Rezaian had been found guilty.

Tom Lehman wins SAS Championship with late burst Posted: 11 Oct 2015 04:31 PM PDT CARY, N.C. (AP) — Tom Lehman had an eagle and three birdies in the final four holes Sunday to win the Champions Tour's SAS Championship.

NATO: Helicopter crash at Kabul base kills 5 Posted: 11 Oct 2015 04:19 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A military helicopter crashed Sunday at the NATO base in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing five coalition members and injuring five others, authorities said.

Thousands rally against Erdogan as Turkey mourns deadliest attack Posted: 11 Oct 2015 04:16 PM PDT Thousands of mourners filled the streets of Ankara Sunday and vented their anger at President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after 97 people were killed in the country's worst-ever terror attack, while the government raced to identify the two male suicide bombers it blamed for the bloodshed. Flags flew at half-mast across Turkey on the first of three days of national mourning declared by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, as questions grew over who could have ordered Saturday's bombings on a peace rally in Ankara. Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), one of the groups that had organised the rally, said it believes the death toll now stands at 128.

'Don't listen to quitters', says UK campaign to stay in EU Posted: 11 Oct 2015 04:09 PM PDT By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is stronger and safer and families are better off in the European Union, the so-called 'in campaign' said on Monday, launching its fight to keep the country in the European Union by branding its opponents "quitters". Backed by what it called "the best of Britain", the launch of the 'Britain Stronger in Europe' group marks the official start of a battle to win over voters in the referendum on EU membership which is due to be held by the end of 2017. Debate over Britain's continued membership of the 28-member bloc has dogged Conservative governments for years, with Prime Minister David Cameron conceding ground to Eurosceptics by offering the referendum.

Japan get third win but end as World Cup unlucky losers Posted: 11 Oct 2015 03:41 PM PDT Japan ended their stunning World Cup campaign on Sunday by beating the United States 28-18 to become the first nation to win three group games but fail to reach the quarter finals. The Brave Blossoms have already caused the biggest sensation in World Cup history by beating South Africa 34-32 in their opening Pool B game. The winning points came from Kotaro Matsushima, Yoshikazu Fujita and Amanaki Mafi tries, and the reliable kicking of full back Ayumu Goromaru, who took his Test points haul beyond 700.

Britain dismisses reports about air force orders in Iraq Posted: 11 Oct 2015 03:37 PM PDT MOSCOW/LONDON (Reuters) - Russia called in the British defense attache in Moscow on Sunday after a British newspaper published what London said was an inaccurate report that its pilots had been given permission to attack Russian jets if fired on. The British tabloid, Daily Star Sunday, quoted unnamed senior defense sources as saying it was just "a matter of time" before British fighters were involved in a confrontation with Russian jets over Iraq. Moscow this month began bombing rebels in Syria in support of its ally, President Bashar al-Assad.

Two shot dead in Ireland, including police officer Posted: 11 Oct 2015 03:33 PM PDT A police officer and another man were shot dead and a woman seriously injured in a shooting at a house in Ireland on Sunday, police said in a statement. The shooting occurred at a home near Omeath, County Louth, close to the border with Northern Ireland, police said. "Two people (adult males) have been fatally injured and one adult female seriously injured as a result of this incident," a statement from the national police service An Garda Siochana read.

Japan excels but leaves Rugby World Cup; QFs as expected Posted: 11 Oct 2015 03:31 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — For all the potential for mayhem after Japan's shocking opening win over South Africa, the biggest upset in Rugby World Cup history, the quarterfinals panned out as expected with one glaring exception.

Albania joins Germany, Poland, Romania at Euro 2016 Posted: 11 Oct 2015 03:14 PM PDT LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) — Albania joined World Cup winner Germany, Poland and Romania in clinching a spot at next year's European Championship on Sunday after winning their final qualifying games.

World took step towards greener GDP in 2014; more needed: PwC Posted: 11 Oct 2015 03:01 PM PDT Governments took a step towards greener economic growth in 2014 but will need to do far more to limit rising temperatures to a United Nations goal of two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), a study by accountancy firm PwC said on Monday. The carbon intensity of the world economy - the amount of greenhouse gases emitted per dollar of gross domestic product (GDP) - fell by 2.7 percent in 2014, the steepest decline since PwC started issuing reports seven years ago, it said. "The 2014 numbers suggest a turning point" towards making growth less dependent on fossil fuels, said PwC, a network of firms in 157 countries in assurance, advisory and tax services.

Turkey says two male suicide bombers behind Ankara blasts Posted: 11 Oct 2015 02:51 PM PDT Two male suicide bombers carried out the devastating twin bombings this weekend in Ankara, the office of the Turkish prime minister said Sunday, as the toll rose to 97 dead. "Work is continuing to identify the corpses of the two male terrorists who carried out the suicide bombings" on Saturday, the office of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in a statement.

Mideast needs grants, not loans for refugee crisis: Lebanon Posted: 11 Oct 2015 02:48 PM PDT The Middle East needs grants, not loans, to deal with the millions of refugees who have fled conflicts in the region, a senior Lebanese official said Sunday. Speaking a day after the UN and World Bank announced plans to increase lending to help the region deal with the catastrophic spillover of conflicts in Syria and beyond, the director general of the Lebanese finance ministry, Alain Bifani, said the aid should instead be interest-free. It cannot be loans," Bifani told AFP on the sidelines of the World Bank and IMF annual meetings in Lima, Peru.

NATO: Helicopter5 dead in non-hostile Kabul helicopter crash Posted: 11 Oct 2015 02:46 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A military helicopter crashed in a non-hostile incident Sunday at the NATO base in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing five coalition members and injuring five others, authorities said.

Bomb attack deepens divisions as Turkey faces bitter election Posted: 11 Oct 2015 02:39 PM PDT By Nick Tattersall and Orhan Coskun ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Aside from a carefully worded statement urging unity, President Tayyip Erdogan was unusually quiet after Turkey's worst ever bomb attack. Modern Turkey's most divisive leader has in the past had no hesitation in dominating the air waves at times of crisis, rallying his fervent supporters and lambasting his opponents in equal measure in defense of the state. For those loyal to Erdogan and the Islamist-rooted AK Party he founded, the bombings marked another murky conspiracy by foreign-backed forces to undermine the Turkish state and damage its standing in the Middle East.

Guineans vote for president despite violence, fraud fears Posted: 11 Oct 2015 02:37 PM PDT Incumbent President Alpha Conde, the country's first democratically elected president who is tipped to win a second term, led appeals for calm after around a dozen people were killed in deadly clashes between rival camps on Thursday and Friday. Conde, now 77, won the country's first democratic elections in 2010 after spending some 30 years in exile, but they were tainted by violence and accusations of fraud, as were legislative polls in 2013.

Iranian-American journalist Rezaian convicted: Iran news agency Posted: 11 Oct 2015 02:36 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A court in Iran has convicted Iranian-American journalist Jason Rezaian, but details have yet to be disclosed, Iran's ISNA news agency reported on Sunday, quoting a judiciary official. "He has been convicted. ... But I don't have the details of his verdict," the news agency quoted judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei as saying. Ejei added that California-born Rezaian, the Washington Post's Tehran bureau chief, had 20 days to appeal the verdict. (Editing by Peter Cooney and Howard Goller)

Socialists hold off right-wing party to win Vienna vote Posted: 11 Oct 2015 02:25 PM PDT VIENNA (AP) — The Socialist party held on to Vienna city hall in a municipal election on Sunday, fighting off a challenge from a right-wing populist party campaigning on Austrian concerns over mass migration.

Giroud scores twice as France beats Denmark 2-1 Posted: 11 Oct 2015 02:22 PM PDT COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — France striker Olivier Giroud received a welcome confidence boost as he scored twice Sunday in a 2-1 win over Denmark in a friendly match.

Belarusians set to give Lukashenko fifth presidential term Posted: 11 Oct 2015 02:21 PM PDT MINSK, Belarus (AP) — President Alexander Lukashenko was set to win a fifth term in Sunday's election with ease, but he said anything less than 80 percent of the vote would be a sign that his support was slipping. Both the official exit polls and the chief election official later predicted he would get even more.

Nine killed in Cameroon blasts blamed on Boko Haram, as Chad toll rises Posted: 11 Oct 2015 02:19 PM PDT Yaoundé (AFP) - Twin suicide blasts on Sunday killed at least nine people in far northern Cameroon, a day after triple explosions in Chad left 41 dead, in a weekend of violence blamed on Boko Haram Islamists. Both countries are part of a regional coalition that has been fighting the militants, who in recent months have extended their bloody assaults well beyond their traditional fiefdom in northern Nigeria. Two female suicide bombers carried out the attacks in the Cameroonian village of Kangaleri, security and local sources said.

Mexico posts probe into 43 missing students online Posted: 11 Oct 2015 02:17 PM PDT Mexico's attorney general published online on Sunday the 54,000 pages of documents from the much-criticized investigation into last year's disappearance of 43 students. The massive file, divided into 85 tomes and 13 annexes, was posted on Attorney General Arely Gomez's office's website, fulfilling her promise to open up a case that has bedevilled President Enrique Pena Nieto's administration. Gomez's predecessor, Jesus Murillo Karam, concluded that police in the southern city of Iguala attacked the students on September 26, 2014, after they had seized buses for a protest in Mexico City.

Germany, Poland qualify for Euro 2016; Ireland into playoffs Posted: 11 Oct 2015 02:16 PM PDT LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) — Germany and Poland clinched their places at next year's European Championship with 2-1 home victories over Georgia and Ireland in their final qualifying games on Sunday.

Albania qualifies for European Championship for 1st time Posted: 11 Oct 2015 02:05 PM PDT YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Albania qualified for its first major tournament by beating Armenia 3-0 on Sunday in its final qualifier for next year's European Championship.

Japan closes World Cup pool stage with 28-18 win over US Posted: 11 Oct 2015 02:00 PM PDT GLOUCESTER, England (AP) — Japan's 28-18 win over the United States on Sunday brought the curtains down on a Rugby World Cup pool stage that it lit up on the opening weekend.

At Ankara morgue, anger mixes with horror over attack Posted: 11 Oct 2015 01:49 PM PDT They came from all over Turkey to recover on Sunday what remained of their loved ones. Gathered inside a morgue in Ankara, the families of the victims of the double suspected suicide bombing attack on Saturday struggled to come to terms with their loss and the manner in which it happened. At least 95 people were killed in the attack targeting a major peace rally planned for Saturday in Ankara, which had attracted activists from all over the country.

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