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• With climate at 'breaking point', leaders urge breakthrough in Paris
• At NATO, Turkey remains defiant over Russian jet
• U.S. Embassy warns of imminent attack in Kabul
• U.S. tightens visa waiver program in wake of Paris attacks
• White House: Russia has intensified strikes on Islamic State in Syria
• Venezuela arrests three for killing of opposition candidate
• Spain's Rajoy stays away as candidates hold election debate
• Myanmar's HIV patients shunned despite progress in treatment
• Qatar 'shamed' by inaction on labour reform: Amnesty
• Kabore elected president of Burkina Faso: electoral commission
• French America's Cup skipper seriously injured in accident
• Mexico: burned-out van belonged to missing Australians
• UN chief says peacekeepers an option in Burundi
• Clinton presses Venezuela to uphold will of voters
• Obama offers governors individualized reports on refugees
• Nations most at risk of climate change urge lower warming cap
• Marin having trouble coming up with $1M cash bond
• Four dead as migrant truck attacked in Mali: sources
• Brazil's BTG Pactual looks to new leadership after Esteves jailed
• 'You're fat' card prompts London police action
• Coulter-Nile replaces injured Starc in Australia squad
• French court lifts freeze on Kadhafi's plane
• 3 men arrested in killing of Venezuela opposition leader
• Condemning attacks, leaders in Paris make careful leap to climate change
• Putin accuses Turkey over IS oil as pilot is returned to Russia
• AppDynamics raises $158 million, showing interest in late-stage financing
• US House may move quickly to overhaul visa waiver program
• Syria's Assad accuses France of 'supporting terrorism'
• 'Live positively': Togo's 'Tino' sets example for HIV/AIDS
• Top Asian News 10:33 p.m. GMT
• US criticizes imprisonment of China media freedom activist
• EU to relocate Sweden asylum seekers
• Erdogan says would resign if Putin IS oil trade claims proven
• Shades of Maradona as Higuain leads Napoli to top of Serie A
• Pope urges peace while visiting C. African Republic mosque
• Burkina Faso's Kabore on track for victory in presidential vote
• Putin, Obama discuss Syria political settlement
• Fury reveals water plan to beat drug fears
• Burkina's ex-PM Kabore looks set to win presidental vote

With climate at 'breaking point', leaders urge breakthrough in Paris Posted: 30 Nov 2015 11:38 AM PST By Bruce Wallace and Alister Doyle PARIS (Reuters) - World leaders launched an ambitious attempt on Monday to hold back rising temperatures, with the United States and China leading calls for the climate summit in Paris to mark a decisive turn in the fight against global warming. In a series of opening addresses to the U.N. talks, heads of state and government exhorted each other to find common cause in two weeks of bargaining to steer the global economy away from its dependence on fossil fuels. French President Francois Hollande said the world was at a "breaking point".

At NATO, Turkey remains defiant over Russian jet Posted: 30 Nov 2015 07:47 AM PST By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Turkey's prime minister dismissed on Monday any suggestion Ankara should apologize for downing a Russian warplane in its airspace last week, after winning strong NATO support for the right to defend itself. Six days after NATO member Turkey shot down the Russian fighter jet in the first known incident of its kind since the Cold War, calls for calm have gone largely unheeded as Ankara refuses to back down and Russia responds with sanctions. "No country should ask us to apologize," Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters following a meeting with NATO's secretary general at the alliance headquarters in Brussels.

U.S. Embassy warns of imminent attack in Kabul Posted: 30 Nov 2015 12:20 PM PST The U.S. Embassy in Kabul warned on Monday of an imminent attack in the Afghan capital, saying it had received credible reports of a threat within the next two days, although it had no other details. State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau told reporters the threat was not made specifically against the U.S. Embassy, U.S citizens or any American interests in Kabul. "U.S. Embassy Kabul has received credible reports of an imminent attack in Kabul city, Kabul province, Afghanistan within the next 48 hours," the embassy said in a post on its website.

U.S. tightens visa waiver program in wake of Paris attacks Posted: 30 Nov 2015 12:38 PM PST By Roberta Rampton and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House announced changes to the U.S. visa waiver program on Monday so that security officials can more closely screen travelers from 38 countries allowed to enter the United States without obtaining visas before they travel. Under the new measures, which were prompted by the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris by Islamic State militants, the Department of Homeland Security would immediately start to collect more information from travelers about past visits to countries such as Syria and Iraq, the White House said.

White House: Russia has intensified strikes on Islamic State in Syria Posted: 30 Nov 2015 01:26 PM PST The White House said on Monday it has seen "some intensification" of Russian air strikes against Islamic State in Syria during the past several weeks. White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters that Russia previously had infrequently targeted Islamic State in its campaign in Syria. Maps of Russian airstrikes prepared by the British government and seen by Reuters show that, at least as of a week ago, there has been little change in Moscow's practice of targeting non-Islamic State areas in Syria with its airstrikes.

Venezuela arrests three for killing of opposition candidate Posted: 30 Nov 2015 12:43 PM PST By Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Authorities arrested three people on Monday suspected in the murder of an opposition leader that shook Venezuela and drew international condemnation in the run-up to this weekend's election for a new legislature. Opposition leaders blamed last week's shooting of Luis Diaz, 44, a candidate for the Democratic Action party in central Guarico state, on the ruling Socialists. Officials say Diaz was a well-known criminal caught in a gang dispute linked to unions in Guarico, whose death was being manipulated to discredit the Socialist Party.

Spain's Rajoy stays away as candidates hold election debate Posted: 30 Nov 2015 04:51 PM PST Three of the candidates vying to become Spain's next prime minister clashed over the economy, corruption and Catalan independence in an election debate on Monday but a fourth, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, stayed away. Rajoy, whose People's Party holds a narrow lead in polls for the Dec. 20 election, said he had been invited to take part in more than 30 debates and could not "spend all day in debates." Candidates for the Socialists, business-friendly Ciudadanos and anti-austerity Podemos parties meanwhile set out their positions in a two-hour discussion on the Internet and television, attacking government policies and arguing among themselves.

Myanmar's HIV patients shunned despite progress in treatment Posted: 30 Nov 2015 04:49 PM PST By Ei Cherry Aung LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Shortly after Cho's husband passed away at his parent's home his family called to tell her he had died of AIDS and said she should get tested. In September, the former market stallholder went for another HIV test. "As soon as I found out I had HIV, I felt really sad as well as upset," the 43-year-old said, wiping tears from her cheeks.

Qatar 'shamed' by inaction on labour reform: Amnesty Posted: 30 Nov 2015 04:44 PM PST Qatar has done "almost nothing" to end labour abuse in the five years since being awarded football's 2022 World Cup despite huge global pressure to reform, Amnesty International said Tuesday. In a damning indictment, the human rights group said the lack of substantive change "shames" the gas-rich Gulf state and FIFA, football's governing body. Its statement was published to coincide with the controversial decision taken on December 2, 2010 to allow Qatar to host world sport's biggest tournament.

Kabore elected president of Burkina Faso: electoral commission Posted: 30 Nov 2015 04:41 PM PST Ouagadougou (AFP) - Roch Marc Christian Kabore won Burkina Faso's presidential election, official results showed, after a year of turmoil that saw the west African country's former leader deposed and the military try to seize power in a coup.

French America's Cup skipper seriously injured in accident Posted: 30 Nov 2015 04:30 PM PST America's Cup skipper Franck Cammas of Groupama Team France was seriously injured Monday when he fell off his high performance catamaran and the rudder sliced into his right ankle.

Mexico: burned-out van belonged to missing Australians Posted: 30 Nov 2015 04:28 PM PST MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in the Mexican state of Sinaloa said Monday that the burned-out vehicle found with two charred bodies inside was registered in the name of one of two missing Australians.

UN chief says peacekeepers an option in Burundi Posted: 30 Nov 2015 04:25 PM PST UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday that deploying peacekeepers to Burundi was an option to quell the violence but recommended that a UN team be first sent to help bolster dialogue. Ban laid out three options to address the crisis in a letter to the UN Security Council, which has adopted a resolution calling for measures to prevent mass atrocities in Burundi. Among those options was setting up a special political mission to monitor human rights, support dialogue and lay the groundwork for a possible peacekeeping operation.

Clinton presses Venezuela to uphold will of voters Posted: 30 Nov 2015 04:23 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says Venezuela's voters should have the final say in their country's congressional elections.

Obama offers governors individualized reports on refugees Posted: 30 Nov 2015 04:14 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is proposing to offer governors individualized reports about refugees in their states.

Nations most at risk of climate change urge lower warming cap Posted: 30 Nov 2015 03:55 PM PST By Megan Rowling PARIS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Leaders from a group of 43 countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change called on the first day of U.N. climate talks for a new deal that puts the world on track to limit global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. To achieve that goal - which is tougher than the expected 2 degree Celsius cap at the talks - would require cutting carbon emissions to zero and adopting 100 percent renewable energy by 2050, the nations said. Meeting it would demand much higher ambition at the talks than is now on the table, with experts saying current pledges from over 180 nations to curb planet-warming emissions add up to a temperature rise of at least 2.7 degrees Celsius.

Marin having trouble coming up with $1M cash bond Posted: 30 Nov 2015 03:33 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Former Brazilian soccer federation president Jose Maria Marin is having trouble coming up with the $1 million he is to post as part of his bond on federal corruption changes.

Four dead as migrant truck attacked in Mali: sources Posted: 30 Nov 2015 03:27 PM PST Armed men attacked a lorry carrying migrants in northern Mali, killing four people and wounding six, UN and medical sources told AFP on Monday. Four men on motorbikes opened fire on the lorry as it travelled towards Kidal, in the country's far northeast, a medical source said, citing witness accounts. The UN mission in Mali said the wounded were taken by helicopter to Gao, the main city in the restive north, for treatment.

Brazil's BTG Pactual looks to new leadership after Esteves jailed Posted: 30 Nov 2015 03:18 PM PST By Guillermo Parra-Bernal and Tatiana Bautzer SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Grupo BTG Pactual SA looked to new leadership to steer it out of crisis on Monday after controlling shareholder André Esteves resigned as CEO and chairman following his jailing as part of Brazil's sweeping corruption probe. Shares and bonds in Latin America's largest independent investment bank plummeted, reflecting concerns about the impact of the investigation on operations after the Supreme Court extended Esteves' detention indefinitely. Esteves, through his lawyer, has denied the allegations.

'You're fat' card prompts London police action Posted: 30 Nov 2015 03:17 PM PST British police stepped in on Monday after a woman on London's metro system was handed a card calling her a "fat, ugly human". Health worker Kara Florish said in a tweet the card she was given on the Underground was "hateful" and "cowardly" and "could potentially upset people struggling with confidence".

Coulter-Nile replaces injured Starc in Australia squad Posted: 30 Nov 2015 03:17 PM PST SYDNEY (AP) — Pace bowler Nathan Coulter-Nile has been called into the Australia squad to replace the injured Mitchell Starc for the first test against the West Indies starting Dec. 10.

French court lifts freeze on Kadhafi's plane Posted: 30 Nov 2015 03:16 PM PST A French court Monday lifted a freeze order on slain Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi's personal plane, ending a bitter battle over the luxury aircraft between a Kuwaiti conglomerate and the Libyan government. Kuwait's Al-Kharafi group had the Airbus A340, seen as a symbol of Kadhafi's extravagance by the rebels who overthrew him, seized amid a near billion-euro debt related to a contract to build a beach resort in Libya. The plane has been in the southern French city of Perpignan since 2012, soon after Kadhafi's regime fell, having been sent there for three million euros' worth of maintenance work by Air France -- a tab also as yet unpaid.

3 men arrested in killing of Venezuela opposition leader Posted: 30 Nov 2015 03:04 PM PST CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan officials have arrested three men in connection with the assassination of an opposition leader.

Condemning attacks, leaders in Paris make careful leap to climate change Posted: 30 Nov 2015 02:57 PM PST By Alister Doyle PARIS (Reuters) - For world leaders attending a long-planned climate summit in Paris just weeks after 130 people were killed by Islamic State militants in the French capital, addressing the coincidental convergence of global warming and terrorism was unavoidable. In a series of some 150 opening speeches at the heavily guarded facility on the outskirts of Paris, most heads of state and prime ministers offered condolences to their French hosts, pivoting quickly, sometimes awkwardly, to the climate talks. Many said the decision to press on with the summit in Paris so soon after the attacks was itself a rebuke to extremists trying to sow fear and disrupt normal life.

Putin accuses Turkey over IS oil as pilot is returned to Russia Posted: 30 Nov 2015 02:50 PM PST Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused Ankara of shooting down a Russian warplane to protect supplies of oil from the Islamic State group to Turkey, after snubbing his Turkish counterpart at a climate conference in France. The Kremlin strongman fired the latest salvo in the furious war of words over the downing of the Russian jet on the Syrian border last week as the body of a pilot killed in the incident was returned home. Turkish authorities meanwhile again pledged not to apologise over the incident, as Moscow rolled out its sanctions aimed at exacting economic revenge.

AppDynamics raises $158 million, showing interest in late-stage financing Posted: 30 Nov 2015 02:49 PM PST SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - AppDynamics, a maker of software to manage and analyze applications, has raised $158 million from investors, showing that some highly valued companies are still earning investor enthusiasm despite indications of a pullback in late-stage venture capital. The new funding round, announced by the company on Monday, puts AppDynamics total financing at roughly $450 million. The round was led by General Atlantic and Altimeter Capital, with participation from Adage Capital, Industry Ventures, Goldman Sachs and Cross Creek Advisors. ...

US House may move quickly to overhaul visa waiver program Posted: 30 Nov 2015 02:48 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress may move quickly to overhaul a program that allows travel to the U.S. with no visa, something that has come under criticism following the Paris terror attacks.

Syria's Assad accuses France of 'supporting terrorism' Posted: 30 Nov 2015 02:47 PM PST Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accused France of "supporting terrorism" and said he saw Prague as a possible venue for signing any future peace deal to end his country's four-year civil war, in comments broadcast Monday on Czech TV. In an interview due to be aired in full on Tuesday, the Syrian strongman was asked whether he could see a peace deal being signed in Prague, as Czech President Milos Zeman had suggested in September. "Naturally, if you ask Syrians they will tell you they don't want a peace conference in France, for example, because France supports terrorism and war, not peace," he said on the CT public station.

'Live positively': Togo's 'Tino' sets example for HIV/AIDS Posted: 30 Nov 2015 02:37 PM PST Augustin Dokla is arguably Togo's most famous person with HIV, having lived with the virus -- against the odds –- since 1999. Among friends at Espoir-Vie, the West African nation's largest non-governmental association for people living with HIV, Dokla exudes optimism. Dokla tested positive for HIV in 1999 after a bout of serious pneumonia, which saw him spend three months in hospital.

Top Asian News 10:33 p.m. GMT Posted: 30 Nov 2015 02:33 PM PST PARIS (AP) — The latest news from the U.N. climate conference that began Monday in Paris. All times local: 9:15 p.m. U.S. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy says the House will not go along if President Barack Obama tries to commit taxpayer money to support a climate accord reached in Paris. He says Congress has the authority to decide how to spend U.S. taxpayer dollars, "and I don't think that's the best use of our money." McCarthy suggested that a must-pass year-end spending bill currently in the works could become the vehicle for language blocking any such expenditure. The California Republican on Monday also criticized Obama's overall approach at the Paris talks, saying he should be focusing on America's progress in switching to natural gas and thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

US criticizes imprisonment of China media freedom activist Posted: 30 Nov 2015 02:33 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is criticizing China's imprisonment of a media freedom activist who was sentenced to six years after the late addition of charges that his attorneys were not given a chance to defend against.

EU to relocate Sweden asylum seekers Posted: 30 Nov 2015 02:32 PM PST Overwhelmed by a stream of migrants, Sweden will soon benefit from a "relocation" programme for some of its asylum seekers, the European Commissioner of Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos said Monday. "Sweden is among the group of member states that has welcome the highest number of refugees this year," Avramopoulos said at a press conference in Stockholm, adding that Sweden had made "tremendous efforts". Earlier this month Sweden asked Brussels to relocate to other EU countries some of the asylum seekers arriving by the thousands in the Scandinavian country.

Erdogan says would resign if Putin IS oil trade claims proven Posted: 30 Nov 2015 02:24 PM PST Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday said he would be ready to quit office if allegations by Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that Turkey traded oil with Islamic State (IS) jihadists were proven. If such a thing is proven, the nobility of our nation would require that I would not stay in office," Erdogan was quoted by the state-run Anatolia news agency as saying on the sidelines of the UN climate talks near Paris, which Putin is also attending.

Shades of Maradona as Higuain leads Napoli to top of Serie A Posted: 30 Nov 2015 02:11 PM PST ROME (AP) — Displaying a form at the San Paolo stadium not witnessed since Diego Maradona's exploits, Gonzalo Higuain scored twice in a 2-1 win over 10-man Inter Milan on Monday to provide a big boost for Napoli's title chances.

Pope urges peace while visiting C. African Republic mosque Posted: 30 Nov 2015 02:06 PM PST BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Pope Francis made a historic visit to the last remaining Muslim neighborhood in Central African Republic's capital Monday, a move that almost immediately opened up a part of the divided city troubled for months by retaliatory violence between Muslim and Christian militias.

Burkina Faso's Kabore on track for victory in presidential vote Posted: 30 Nov 2015 02:03 PM PST By Mathieu Bonkoungou OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Roch Marc Kabore, a former prime minister, was on course for victory on Monday as results poured in from an election to choose Burkina Faso's first new president in decades. Provisional results from around 72 percent of the country's communes showed that Kabore had 54 percent of the vote against 29 percent for Zephirin Diabre, a former finance minister, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission. Fourteen candidates contested the election but it looked possible that Kabore could win an outright majority without the need for a run-off.

Putin, Obama discuss Syria political settlement Posted: 30 Nov 2015 02:02 PM PST Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that he and President Barack Obama have a shared understanding on how to move toward a political settlement in Syria, but added that incidents like the recent downing of a Russian warplane by a Turkish fighter jet stymie broader cooperation against extremism.

Fury reveals water plan to beat drug fears Posted: 30 Nov 2015 01:59 PM PST Tyson Fury claims he suffered from dehydration after his shock heavyweight title win against Wladimir Klitschko because he refused to drink water in his dressing room in case it was drugged in a bid to discredit him. English underdog Fury stunned Klitschko in Dusseldorf on Saturday to win the WBA, IBF and WBO belts with a clear points victory. "I had good information from good resources not to touch anything in the changing rooms because they might try and drug you," Fury told reporters.

Burkina's ex-PM Kabore looks set to win presidental vote Posted: 30 Nov 2015 01:56 PM PST Burkina Faso's former premier Roch Marc Christian Kabore took the lead in a crucial presidential poll, initial partial results showed Monday, after a year of turmoil that saw people power oust former strongman Blaise Compaore and repel a military coup. Partial results in the landmark poll showed Kabore, who governed under Compaore but later turned his back on the old regime, well ahead of his main rival Zephirin Diabre with 54.27 percent of the votes. The election was aimed at setting the country on a fresh path to democracy.

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