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• Turkey downs drone as Syria launches Aleppo offensive
• Palestinians set fire to Jewish shrine; Israeli soldier stabbed
• Obama, Park say North Korea must show willing to get nuclear deal
• Islamic State gunman kills five at Shi'ite center in Saudi Arabia
• Turkey grumbles as EU hails deal to stem migration
• MSF says U.S. tank entered compound of bombed Afghan hospital without permission
• Chinese billionaire granted bail in UN bribery scheme case
• San Francisco Chinatown probe defendant charged with murder
• UK man gets 20 years for trying to set up US al-Qaida camp
• Palestinians urge international protection, Israel says no
• Brazil's top court rejects US pilots' appeal in 2006 crash
• Greece's Tsipras win austerity vote after snap poll
• Top Asian News at 11:30 p.m. GMT
• Hungary seals off key crossing from Croatia to migrants: AFP reporters
• Hungary closes border with Croatia to free flow of migrants
• Five killed, 9 hurt in gun attack on Saudi Shiites: ministry
• Hungary shuts off migrant route from Croatia
• Clinton aide testifies as Democrats slam Benghazi panel
• Guinea president re-elected in first round: provisional results
• The Latest: Hungary shuts Croatian border to migrant flow
• Rafael helps Lyon to 1-1 draw with Monaco in French league
• Mexico captures purported drug capo near Texas border
• Abu Hamza aide given 20 years on US terror charges
• 4 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in unrest, stabbing
• FIFA investigates Germany World Cup vote bribery allegations
• New IS branch claims Saudi shooting that killed 5
• Du Preez proud of Springboks' World Cup recovery
• US-designated 'terrorist' killed in Syria strike: monitor
• IS affiliate claims deadly attack on Saudi Shiites
• France urges climate talks progress, Hollande downbeat
• Slovenia suspends trains from Croatia ahead of migrant arrivals: railways
• Macau billionaire in U.N. bribery case gets $50 million bail
• Nervous New Zealanders await outcome of their World Cup quarter-final
• Obama says 'no meeting of minds' with Russia on Syria
• Column: Olympic athletes need to think beyond Rio Games
• US reviewing VW's 'Clean Diesel' ads for fraudulent claims
• Kerry calls Abbas, Netanyahu to urge Mideast calm: US official
• US to conduct counter-Boko Haram ops in Nigeria
• Rio 2016: No viral testing of sewage-filled Olympic waters
• Kerry, Netanyahu to discuss Israeli-Palestinian tensions

Turkey downs drone as Syria launches Aleppo offensive Posted: 16 Oct 2015 11:51 AM PDT By Mariam Karouny and Orhan Coskun BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey shot down a drone on Friday in an incident highlighting the dangers of multiple air combat operations over Syria, where government troops and their allies backed by Russian jets have launched an offensive against rebels near Aleppo. The army offensive south of the city, backed by Hezbollah and Iranian fighters, further expands its 10-day-old counter-attack in western Syria against insurgents battling to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. The army campaign has been coordinated with Russian jets, which began air strikes in support of Assad on Sept. 30, and Syria's own air force.

Palestinians set fire to Jewish shrine; Israeli soldier stabbed Posted: 16 Oct 2015 11:39 AM PDT By Ari Rabinovitch JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinians set fire to a Jewish shrine in the occupied West Bank, and an attacker disguised as a journalist stabbed an Israeli soldier on Friday as tensions ran high after more than two weeks of violence. Shortly after the arson attack on the tomb of biblical patriarch Joseph, Palestinian protesters threw stones over the border of the Gaza Strip at Israeli forces who fired back, killing two and wounding scores of others in the crowd, Palestinian medical officials said. The worst outbreak in bloodshed in months has killed at least 37 Palestinians, including attackers and children in assaults and confrontations, and seven Israelis in stabbings and other attacks on buses and in the streets.

Obama, Park say North Korea must show willing to get nuclear deal Posted: 16 Oct 2015 01:59 PM PDT By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and South Korean President Park Geun-hye said on Friday they were open to negotiations with North Korea on sanctions but Pyongyang needed to show it was serious about abandoning its nuclear weapons program. Asked if he saw the possibility of a deal with North Korea like that reached with Iran, Obama told a joint news conference after talks with Park in Washington that he saw no indication that North Korea envisioned a future without nuclear weapons.

Islamic State gunman kills five at Shi'ite center in Saudi Arabia Posted: 16 Oct 2015 02:20 PM PDT A gunman shot and killed five people in an attack on a Shi'ite Muslim meeting hall in Saudi Arabia on Friday before being shot dead by police, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV said, in an attack claimed by Islamic State. The deadly assault will raise tensions in the kingdom's largely Shi'ite Eastern province, a focus of the ultra-violent Sunni militants who view them as apostates worthy of death. A resident reached by telephone told Reuters that the assailant approached the meeting hall in the eastern city of Saihat in a taxi but was stopped at a checkpoint manned by volunteers protecting the site.

Turkey grumbles as EU hails deal to stem migration Posted: 16 Oct 2015 09:45 AM PDT By Daren Butler and Alastair Macdonald ISTANBUL/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Turkish leaders accused Europeans on Friday of treating their country shabbily and warned that a new deal with the EU to help stem the flow of migrants to Europe was not completely finalised. Officials in Brussels, where EU leaders agreed overnight to offer Ankara cash, easier visa terms and a "re-energized" consideration of its EU membership bid, voiced cautious optimism that Turkey would do its part to encourage Syrian refugees not to head to Europe and to deter economic migrants from Asia. President Tayyip Erdogan, the object of ardent wooing over the past month by Europeans who had long shown a cold shoulder to what they see as his increasingly authoritarian ways, told Turks he was unimpressed by their belated change of heart.

MSF says U.S. tank entered compound of bombed Afghan hospital without permission Posted: 16 Oct 2015 10:28 AM PDT By Krista Mahr KABUL (Reuters) - Medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Friday that a U.S. tank entered the grounds of its hospital in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz without permission, damaging the compound that was hit in a U.S. air strike earlier this month. The group said in a statement that the vehicle was carrying a team from a joint investigation being conducted by the United States, NATO and Afghan government into why a U.S. aircraft fired on the hospital, killing at least 22 staff and patients. A spokesperson for NATO's Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan did not immediately confirm or deny the report.

Chinese billionaire granted bail in UN bribery scheme case Posted: 16 Oct 2015 04:52 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Over a prosecutor's objections, bail conditions were set Friday for a Chinese billionaire at the center of a bribery case that has drawn scrutiny into the operations of the United Nations.

San Francisco Chinatown probe defendant charged with murder Posted: 16 Oct 2015 04:51 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A multi-year racketeering investigation of a San Francisco Chinatown group that led to the conviction of a California state senator escalated Friday when federal prosecutors charged a key defendant with murder.

UK man gets 20 years for trying to set up US al-Qaida camp Posted: 16 Oct 2015 04:51 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — A British man being treated for schizophrenia was sentenced to 20 years in prison on U.S. charges that he helped in a failed attempt to set up an al-Qaida training camp in a remote part of Oregon two years before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

Palestinians urge international protection, Israel says no Posted: 16 Oct 2015 04:42 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Palestinians urged the U.N. Security Council on Friday to immediately provide international protection for the Palestinian people in an escalating conflict with Israel, which rejected any international presence at Jerusalem's holiest site.

Brazil's top court rejects US pilots' appeal in 2006 crash Posted: 16 Oct 2015 04:36 PM PDT SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's Supreme Court has rejected two U.S. pilots' appeal of their conviction and prison sentence for their role in a 2006 midair jet collision over the Amazon that killed 154 people.

Greece's Tsipras win austerity vote after snap poll Posted: 16 Oct 2015 04:33 PM PDT ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's parliament has approved a new round of austerity measures — the first major test for leftwing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after snap general elections last month, triggered by dissent over Greece's latest bailout deal.

Top Asian News at 11:30 p.m. GMT Posted: 16 Oct 2015 04:32 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. is ready to negotiate with longtime adversary North Korea as it has with Iran, but Pyongyang has to be serious about abandoning nuclear weapons, President Barack Obama said Friday. Obama was speaking after meeting with South Korean President Park Geun-hye, a close ally, who echoed the U.S. leader's view.

Hungary seals off key crossing from Croatia to migrants: AFP reporters Posted: 16 Oct 2015 04:20 PM PDT Zákány (Hungary) (AFP) - Hungary closed a key crossing point with fellow EU member Croatia on Friday to try keep out migrants, sealing it with barbed wire in the same way it closed its border with Serbia, AFP reporters said.

Hungary closes border with Croatia to free flow of migrants Posted: 16 Oct 2015 04:10 PM PDT BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary shut down its border with Croatia to the free flow of migrants on Saturday, a move experts say could leave thousands of people on their way to western Europe stranded in the small Balkan nation.

Five killed, 9 hurt in gun attack on Saudi Shiites: ministry Posted: 16 Oct 2015 03:18 PM PDT A gunman shot dead five people at a Shiite gathering in eastern Saudi Arabia on Friday before police shot him dead, the interior ministry said. Nine others were wounded," an interior ministry spokesman said in a statement.

Hungary shuts off migrant route from Croatia Posted: 16 Oct 2015 04:01 PM PDT By Marton Dunai and Aleksandar Vasovic ZAKANY/BEREMEND, Hungary (Reuters) - Hungary declared its southern border with Croatia closed to migrants on Friday, diverting them into tiny Slovenia in a measure of Europe's disjointed response to the flow of people reaching its shores in flight from war and poverty. With autumn winds and rain whipping the Balkans, a last train drew up at the border, and some 2,000 migrants disembarked for the short, muddy walk past razor wire into Hungary as a midnight cut-off point expired. Hungary has erected a steel fence almost the length of its southern frontier, declaring it is duty-bound to secure the borders of the European Union from mainly Muslim migrants threatening, it says, the prosperity, security and "Christian values" of Europe.

Clinton aide testifies as Democrats slam Benghazi panel Posted: 16 Oct 2015 03:57 PM PDT Hillary Clinton's long-time confidante testified Friday before US lawmakers investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Libya, as Democrats slammed the Republican-led actions as efforts to "derail" the ex-secretary of state's White House bid. Huma Abedin, trusted advisor to Clinton during her State Department years and now a vice chairwoman of her presidential campaign, spent seven hours in a closed-door session of the House Committee on Benghazi. Members said their questions were related to the attacks of September 11, 2012 that killed four Americans, including ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.

Guinea president re-elected in first round: provisional results Posted: 16 Oct 2015 03:56 PM PDT Guinean leader Alpha Conde was re-elected to a second term in the first round of the country's disputed presidential polls, according to provisional results released on Friday. Results published by the Independent National Electoral Commission, from areas representing over 90 per cent of the electoral roll, showed Conde winning an outright majority with nearly 2.2 million votes. Turnout in the October 11 election, which his main rival Cellou Dalein Diallo has denounced as a "masquerade", was put at around 66 percent, well below an initial estimate of 75 percent.

The Latest: Hungary shuts Croatian border to migrant flow Posted: 16 Oct 2015 03:55 PM PDT BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The latest news as migrants fleeing war or seeking a better life make their way across Europe by the tens of thousands. All times local.

Rafael helps Lyon to 1-1 draw with Monaco in French league Posted: 16 Oct 2015 03:53 PM PDT MONACO (AP) — Rafael scored a late equalizer to give Lyon a 1-1 draw against 10-man Monaco on Friday in the French league.

Mexico captures purported drug capo near Texas border Posted: 16 Oct 2015 03:52 PM PDT CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican soldiers captured the purported leader of a Gulf Cartel faction in the northern border city of Matamoros on Friday, the state government said.

Abu Hamza aide given 20 years on US terror charges Posted: 16 Oct 2015 03:42 PM PDT A Briton convicted over an attempt to set up a jihad training camp in the US on orders from hate preacher Abu Hamza was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday in New York. Haroon Aswat, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, cut a despondent figure in the Manhattan federal court, dressed in a faded prison shirt and wearing his long dark hair plaited in braids. First arrested in Zambia in 2005, Aswat was extradited last year to the United States where he pleaded guilty in March to one count of providing material support to Al-Qaeda and one count of conspiring to support the terror group.

4 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in unrest, stabbing Posted: 16 Oct 2015 03:40 PM PDT RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Stone-throwing protests erupted across the West Bank and Gaza on Friday, and assailants firebombed a site revered by Jews as the tomb of biblical Joseph on a "day of rage" against Israel. Four Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire, including a laborer disguised as a journalist who stabbed an Israeli soldier.

FIFA investigates Germany World Cup vote bribery allegations Posted: 16 Oct 2015 03:38 PM PDT BERNE, Switzerland (AP) — The corruption scandal sweeping world soccer engulfed Germany as FIFA said Friday that it would investigate "very serious allegations" that voters were bribed to win the 2006 World Cup bid.

New IS branch claims Saudi shooting that killed 5 Posted: 16 Oct 2015 03:35 PM PDT RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A previously unheard of Islamic State group branch with links to Bahrain has purportedly claimed responsibility for a deadly shooting Friday targeting Shiite worshippers in eastern Saudi Arabia.

Du Preez proud of Springboks' World Cup recovery Posted: 16 Oct 2015 03:22 PM PDT South Africa captain Fourie du Preez hailed the side's resolve after they avoided becoming the "worst Springbok team of all-time" by reaching a World Cup quarter-final against Wales. Two-time world champions South Africa saw their 2015 tournament start in the worst possible fashion when they were beaten 34-32 by outsiders Japan in their opening pool match -- one of the all-time great sporting upsets.

US-designated 'terrorist' killed in Syria strike: monitor Posted: 16 Oct 2015 03:16 PM PDT A US-designated member of Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate Al-Nusra Front has been killed in an airstrike in the north of the country, a monitor said Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sanafi al-Nasr, a Saudi national, had been killed in an airstrike in Aleppo province along with two other senior Al-Nusra members. The monitor said the three were killed in an airstrike that hit their car in the west of Syria's northern Aleppo province on Thursday.

IS affiliate claims deadly attack on Saudi Shiites Posted: 16 Oct 2015 03:02 PM PDT Riyadh (AFP) - Sunni extremists affiliated to the Islamic State group claimed Friday's attack on a Shiite gathering in eastern Saudi Arabia, which police said left five people dead.

France urges climate talks progress, Hollande downbeat Posted: 16 Oct 2015 02:57 PM PDT French President Francois Hollande, on a visit to Iceland Friday, said he was "very pessimistic" about the effects of climate change as negotiators prepare for preparatory talks in Bonn on a climate rescue pact. France is hosting a crucial year-end UN climate conference and officials will meet in the former west German capital on Monday for five days of intense debate over the blueprint for what would be the first-ever global climate agreement. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius earlier urged delegates to make progress at the final official negotiating round before the November 30-December 11 Paris conference.

Slovenia suspends trains from Croatia ahead of migrant arrivals: railways Posted: 16 Oct 2015 02:57 PM PDT Slovenia on Friday suspended its rail links with Croatia ahead of the anticipated arrival of large numbers of migrants being rerouted towards the Alpine country after Hungary announced it would close its border with Croatia. "Given the exceptional circumstances, the passenger traffic between Croatia and Slovenia has been suspended," Slovenia's national rail company said on its website, adding it had taken the decision "in coordination with the authorities". Earlier Croatia announced that it would divert migrants to Slovenia after Hungary said it would close the border with its fellow EU member -- a major transit point for tens of thousands of refugees -- at midnight (2200 GMT).

Macau billionaire in U.N. bribery case gets $50 million bail Posted: 16 Oct 2015 02:52 PM PDT A billionaire real estate developer from Macau accused by U.S. authorities of bribing a former United Nations General Assembly president on Friday won the right to be released on $50 million bail and live under house arrest in a luxury Manhattan apartment. Ng Lap Seng, 68, had been in U.S. custody since his arrest on Sept. 19, after a federal judge previously determined his financial resources made the Chinese national too much of a flight risk. Daniel Richenthal, the prosecutor, said the U.S. government may appeal.

Nervous New Zealanders await outcome of their World Cup quarter-final Posted: 16 Oct 2015 02:52 PM PDT All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has done his bit to calm nerves at home as millions of nervous New Zealanders await the outcome of their World Cup quarter-final against France. The 2007 meltdown against France is still raw in the memory of the rugby-obsessed nation praying there is no repeat in Saturday's quarter-final rematch, again at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium. The mood has not been helped by the All Blacks stuttering during pool matches eight years on.

Obama says 'no meeting of minds' with Russia on Syria Posted: 16 Oct 2015 02:46 PM PDT President Barack Obama said on Friday the only area of U.S. understanding with Russia on Syria was on how to prevent accidental clashes between their planes engaged in the conflict, but they differed on principles and strategies to bring peace. Speaking at a news conference after meeting with South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Obama said the Syrian civil war was a magnet for extremists and could only end with a political solution leading to a new inclusive government. "There's no meeting of the minds in terms of strategy," he said, which reflected a fundamental difference with President Vladimir Putin over the continuing rule of President Bashar al-Assad.

Column: Olympic athletes need to think beyond Rio Games Posted: 16 Oct 2015 02:45 PM PDT Around the world, thousands of Olympic athletes are training intensely for the biggest moment of their lives.

US reviewing VW's 'Clean Diesel' ads for fraudulent claims Posted: 16 Oct 2015 02:26 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — "Aren't diesels dirty?" asks the grandmother in the passenger seat of the gleaming new VW Golf SportWagen.

Kerry calls Abbas, Netanyahu to urge Mideast calm: US official Posted: 16 Oct 2015 02:23 PM PDT US Secretary of State John Kerry has called the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to express concern at recent violence and ask them to work to restore calm, an official said Friday. The move comes amid mounting clashes in Israel and the Palestinian territories that have raised fears of a full-scale uprising, with an overnight arson attack on a Jewish holy site in the West Bank the latest incident to heighten tensions. Kerry, in Milan as part of a European tour, spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, the State Department official said, to discuss "how best to end the recent wave of violence, and to offer U.S. support for efforts to restore calm as soon as possible".

US to conduct counter-Boko Haram ops in Nigeria Posted: 16 Oct 2015 02:11 PM PDT The United States will conduct surveillance and intelligence operations against Boko Haram inside Nigeria, sources familiar with the plan told AFP Friday, a significant escalation of Washington's role in combatting the Islamist group. The operations will be carried out as part of the recently announced deployment of up to 300 US military personnel to neighboring Cameroon, officials said. "This is going to be part of our Boko Haram efforts that will be operating throughout the region," one of the sources said on condition of anonymity.

Rio 2016: No viral testing of sewage-filled Olympic waters Posted: 16 Oct 2015 02:09 PM PDT RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro's Olympic organizing committee ruled out conducting viral tests of the human sewage-laden waterways where the 2016 Games' aquatic events will be held, following recommendations from the World Health Organization, a Rio 2016 spokesman said Friday.

Kerry, Netanyahu to discuss Israeli-Palestinian tensions Posted: 16 Oct 2015 02:08 PM PDT MILAN (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry plans to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week in Europe to discuss easing Israeli-Palestinian tensions.

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