| U.S., Russia trade blows over Syria as warplanes pound Aleppo Posted: 25 Sep 2016 11:14 AM PDT  By Michelle Nichols and Suleiman Al-Khalidi UNITED NATIONS/AMMAN (Reuters) - The United States accused Russia of "barbarism" in Syria on Sunday as warplanes supporting Syrian government forces pounded Aleppo and Moscow said ending the civil war was almost "impossible". A diplomatic solution to the fighting looked unlikely as U.S. and Russian diplomats disagreed at a U.N. Security Council meeting called to discuss the violence, which has escalated since a ceasefire collapsed last week. Rebels, who are battling President Bashar al-Assad's forces for control of Aleppo, said any peace process would be futile unless the "scorched earth bombing" stopped immediately.
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| Trump tells Netanyahu he would recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital Posted: 25 Sep 2016 11:48 AM PDT  By Alana Wise WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Sunday told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that if elected, the United States would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the campaign said, marking a potential dramatic shift in U.S. policy on the issue. During the meeting that lasted more than an hour at Trump Tower in New York, Trump told Netanyahu that under his administration, the United States would "recognize Jerusalem as the undivided capital of the State of Israel." While Israel calls Jerusalem its capital, few other countries accept that, including the United States.
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| Erdogan sees 'ulterior motives' in U.S. case against gold trader Posted: 25 Sep 2016 01:12 PM PDT  By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan believes U.S. federal attorneys had ulterior motives in including references to him and his wife in court papers related to their prosecution of a gold trader, Turkish media on Sunday quoted him as saying. Reza Zarrab, a dual Turkish-Iranian national, was arrested in Miami in March. The 33-year-old businessman, who lived in Turkey, remains in custody in New York.
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| Spanish regional elections fail to break political deadlock Posted: 25 Sep 2016 01:12 PM PDT  By Miguel Vidal and Vincent West SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA/BILBAO, Spain (Reuters) - Spain's regional elections reinforced the center-right People's Party (PP) on Sunday while dealing a blow to the opposition Socialists but failed to signal a clear path to avoid a third nationwide vote in December. The ballots in the northern regions of Galicia and the Basque Country boosted acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy while the Socialists lost seats in both regions, but it remains to be seen if the results lead the Socialists to abstain in any future parliamentary vote of confidence to allow Rajoy a second term as leader. Rajoy's PP easily romped to an absolute majority in his native Galicia, a conservative stronghold.
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| Houthi official in Yemen offers border truce, amnesty Posted: 25 Sep 2016 12:46 PM PDT  A top official in Yemen's armed Houthi movement on Sunday offered to stop attacks on Saudi Arabia and an amnesty for Yemeni fighters opposing the group if the kingdom stopped air strikes and lifted a near blockade on the country. The move falls short of demands by Yemen's government and their backers in Saudi Arabia, but offers rare hope for a pause to 18 months of fighting which has killed at least 10,000 people and pushed impoverished Yemen toward famine. "(In exchange for) stopping the aggression against our country by land, sea and air, stopping the air strikes and lifting the siege imposed on our country, in return (we will)stop combat operations on the border," Saleh al-Samad, the chief of a Houthi-backed political council, said in a speech.
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| British PM May rebuffed calls to play bigger role in EU referendum campaign Posted: 25 Sep 2016 04:36 AM PDT  By Kylie MacLellan LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May repeatedly failed to back her predecessor David Cameron in his fight to keep Britain in the European Union and hampered his attempts to rein in migration, according to extracts from two books about the referendum. May, who served as interior minister under Cameron and succeeded him as prime minister when he resigned after Britain's vote to leave the EU, backed staying in the bloc but was largely absent from the campaign. The two books come as May faces the complex task of leading negotiations over Britain's EU divorce, having divulged little on her intended strategy.
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| McIlroy the big winner at East Lake Posted: 25 Sep 2016 05:12 PM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — Rory McIlroy holed two shots on the 16th hole at East Lake that made him a most unlikely FedEx Cup champion on Sunday.
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| Mall shooting suspect: 'Creepy,' multiple arrests, disputes Posted: 25 Sep 2016 05:05 PM PDT  OAK HARBOR, Wash. (AP) — The 20-year-old man suspected of killing five people with a rifle at a Macy's makeup counter had a string of run-ins with the law in recent years, including charges he assaulted his stepfather, and was described by a neighbor as so "creepy, rude and obnoxious" that she kept a Taser by her front door.
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| Bilic fumes at West Ham flops Posted: 25 Sep 2016 04:57 PM PDT  Slaven Bilic has warned his West Ham flops they won't be allowed to live off past achievements after Southampton condemned them to a fourth successive Premier League defeat. Bilic's side were lauded after finishing seventh last season but just months later they are languishing in the relegation zone following a miserable 3-0 home defeat on Sunday. West Ham have the worst defensive record in the league after conceding 14 goals in their last four matches and Bilic is starting to lose patience with a team that looked desperately short of confidence against the Saints.
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| Canada Unifor union ratifies C$554-million new investment GM deal Posted: 25 Sep 2016 04:55 PM PDT  Canada's Unifor union ratified a deal with General Motors Co that will see the auto maker invest C$554 million ($420.84 million) in its local plants, the labor group said on Sunday. Workers voted 64.7 percent to ratify the agreement, Unifor said in a statement. The union said earlier in the day the bulk of the GM's investment will go toward the Oshawa and St. Catharines plants in the province of Ontario, which will get C$400 million and C$150 million, respectively.
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| Yemen rebel leader proposes border truce with Saudi Posted: 25 Sep 2016 04:47 PM PDT  A leader of Yemen's Shiite Huthi rebels on Sunday proposed a truce on the country's border with Saudi Arabia in an exchange for a halt in Saudi-led strikes on his forces. The proposal, coinciding with a surge in fighting after peace talks were suspended last month, was made by Salah al-Sammad, head of a new council appointed by the rebels and their allies to run the country. Sammad called on Saudi Arabia to "stop naval, air and land aggression, cease air raids and lift the blockade of our country, in exchange for an end to combat operations on the border and to (rebel) missile launches into Saudi territory," he said, in a speech published on the sabanews website.
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| Grayson Murray wins Web.com Tour event in Ohio Posted: 25 Sep 2016 04:26 PM PDT COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Grayson Murray won the Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship on Sunday and Cameron Smith and Kevin Tway wrapped up PGA Tour cards. |
| Spain's regional elections give boost to Rajoy's party Posted: 25 Sep 2016 04:17 PM PDT  MADRID (AP) — Acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative Popular Party got a boost in regional elections Sunday, while the opposition Socialists lost ground.
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| Streaking Canadians to face Team Europe in World Cup finals Posted: 25 Sep 2016 04:10 PM PDT  TORONTO (AP) — Sidney Crosby and the Canadians look as if they can't be stopped.
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| Squeezing North Korea: old friends take steps to isolate regime Posted: 25 Sep 2016 04:06 PM PDT  By Ju-min Park and Tony Munroe SEOUL (Reuters) - From kicking out North Korean workers and ending visa-free travel for its citizens, to stripping flags of convenience from its ships, Cold War-era allies from Poland to Mongolia are taking measures to squeeze the isolated country. More such moves, with prodding from South Korea and the United States, are expected after North Korea recently defied U.N. resolutions to conduct its fifth nuclear test. North Korea's limited global links leave most countries with few targets for penalizing the regime on their own.
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| AP Interview: Wade ready for his Chicago challenge Posted: 25 Sep 2016 03:37 PM PDT MIAMI (AP) — It's not like Dwyane Wade has never dealt with change before. |
| Spain's regional elections boost acting PM's party, weaken Socialists Posted: 25 Sep 2016 03:36 PM PDT  Regional elections in Spain on Sunday strengthened acting Prime Minister's Mariano Rajoy's conservatives and weakened the Socialists, under pressure to let him form a government and end a months-long political impasse. The country is being run by a government without full powers following inconclusive elections in December and June that saw Rajoy's Popular Party (PP) win without an absolute majority and other parties fail to forge a rival coalition.
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| Brazilian city council candidate shot dead at Rio rally Posted: 25 Sep 2016 03:35 PM PDT RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian police say gunmen have killed a city council candidate as he was leaving a political rally outside Rio de Janeiro. |
| Some notable deaths of active MLB players Posted: 25 Sep 2016 03:34 PM PDT A look at some of the notable deaths of active Major League Baseball players in recent years: |
| Activists in Mexico urge US expats to derail Trump Posted: 25 Sep 2016 03:31 PM PDT  A human rights group is urging the nearly one million US citizens who live in Mexico to vote in hopes of keeping Republican Donald Trump out of the White House, organizers said Sunday. "We are going to mobilize the almost eight million Americans who live abroad, a million of them in Mexico, and we want them to vote to stop Donald Trump," said Joseph Huff-Hannon, a campaign leader at Avaaz, an activist organization for political, environmental and human rights issues. Under the shadow of Mexico's Angel of Independence monument, about 200 people gathered to register to vote next to a billboard-sized placard featuring an anti-Trump cartoon, one day ahead of the first presidential debate between Trump and his Democratic counterpart Hillary Clinton.
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| Tatar's OT winner lifts Europe into World Cup of Hockey final Posted: 25 Sep 2016 03:24 PM PDT  Tomas Tatar scored his second goal of the game 3:43 into overtime as Team Europe advanced to the final of the World Cup of Hockey with a 3-2 win over Sweden. Tatar, of Slovakia, scored a controversial goal on Sunday as the puck appeared to go in off his skate and past a startled Swedish goaltender Henrik Lundqvist at the Air Canada Centre arena. "He created that whole overtime goal," said Team Europe coach Ralph Krueger of Tatar.
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| Moscow prepares for 1st English visit since Euro 2016 clash Posted: 25 Sep 2016 03:23 PM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian police are getting ready for Tottenham's game against CSKA Moscow on Tuesday in the Champions League. It's the first visit by an English club to Russia since clashes between the two countries' fans marred the European Championship, though a repeat of that mass violence appears unlikely.
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| Fuel tanker continues to burn off Mexico's Gulf coast Posted: 25 Sep 2016 03:14 PM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A fuel tanker carrying gasoline and diesel continued to burn off the Gulf coast of Mexico on Sunday, a day after it erupted in flames.
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| Suspect in Pippa royal photo 'hack' bailed by UK police Posted: 25 Sep 2016 03:11 PM PDT  A suspected hacker was bailed by British police on Sunday following reports that 3,000 photographs had been stolen from Pippa Middleton, sister-in-law of Prince William, and were up for sale. The pictures were reported by The Sun and Daily Mail newspapers to have been stolen from Middleton's iCloud account and included shots of her sister Kate, plus her and William's children Prince George, three, and Princess Charlotte, one. London's Metropolitan Police said on Sunday a 35-year-old man arrested a day earlier had been released on bail, to return to a police station in the British capital in late November.
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| Jewish settlement soccer clubs bring politics to the pitch Posted: 25 Sep 2016 02:50 PM PDT  GIVAT ZEEV, West Bank (AP) — The Beitar Shabi Givat Zeev players huddled around for a training session, lobbing soccer balls as an autumn evening breeze swept through the surrounding rocky hills. It was a routine scene played out on soccer fields around the world, but if Palestinian authorities have their way, the team could soon find itself permanently sidelined.
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| Injured Tuilagi set to miss autumn Tests Posted: 25 Sep 2016 02:48 PM PDT  Star centre Manu Tuilagi is set to miss England's autumn Tests against South Africa, Australia, Argentina and Fiji with a groin injury, his Leicester club said Sunday. The 25-year-old has not played since the first game of the English Premiership season and the Tigers' director of rugby Richard Cockerill believes he will be out for another "six to eight weeks".
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| With Mario Balotelli rested, Nice wins anyway to stay top Posted: 25 Sep 2016 02:45 PM PDT PARIS (AP) — Striker Mario Balotelli was rested to protect a sore hip and his replacement Alassane Plea scored the winner as Nice beat struggling Nancy 1-0 Sunday to stay top of the French league. |
| Priest reported kidnapped found slain in western Mexico Posted: 25 Sep 2016 02:43 PM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A missing Mexican priest was found shot dead off the side of a highway in western Mexico days after he was kidnapped from his parish residence, state prosecutors said Sunday. He was the third Roman Catholic priest to be slain in Mexico in the last week.
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| At least 26 killed in Aleppo as UN meets over Syria Posted: 25 Sep 2016 02:41 PM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — At least 26 civilians were killed in fresh government airstrikes on the contested city of Aleppo, Syrian activists said Sunday, as the United Nations Security Council convened an emergency meeting on the spiraling violence in Syria but failed to take any action because of deep divisions between Russia and the Western powers.
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| Aid delivered to four besieged towns in Syria: ICRC Posted: 25 Sep 2016 02:36 PM PDT Seventy trucks of humanitarian aid were delivered on Sunday to four besieged towns in Syria for the first time in almost six months, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said. The aid organisation said convoys were delivered to Madaya and Zabdani near Damascus and to the villages of al Foua and Kefraya in Idlib province in the north west. Kefraya and al-Foua, in Idlib province in northwest Syria, have around 20,000 people, according to U.N. estimates, and have been surrounded by insurgents since April 2015. |
| Reports: Roma forward El Shaarawy unhurt after car crash Posted: 25 Sep 2016 02:31 PM PDT ROME (AP) — Roma and Italy forward Stephan El Shaarawy has escaped unhurt from a car crash in which his vehicle was badly damaged. |
| Local candidate killed in Rio suburb, highlighting crime woes Posted: 25 Sep 2016 02:31 PM PDT By Paulo Prada RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A candidate for town council in upcoming municipal elections was shot to death in a Rio de Janeiro suburb on Sunday, the latest in a wave of killings of local politicians in the city's outskirts in recent months. The fatal shooting, which coincided with an increase in violent crime in the Brazilian metropolis despite the mostly safe staging of the Olympic Games in August, took place shortly after the candidate, seeking a council seat in the town of Itaboraí, attended a campaign event a week before municipal elections. Rio's military police force, which confirmed the shooting in a statement, declined to give the victim's name, but local media identified the slain candidate as José Ricardo Guimarães, 49. |
| Bosnian Serbs vote on disputed 'Republic Day' Posted: 25 Sep 2016 02:31 PM PDT  Serbs in Bosnia voted Sunday to keep celebrating a statehood day in January, a date tied to the divided nation's brutal 1990s war and a sensitive issue for other ethnic groups. The poll is the brainchild of Milorad Dodik, nationalist leader of the Bosnian Serb-run entity Republika Srpska (RS), which partners the Muslim-Croat Federation in the fragile country. After three-quarters of the ballot had been counted, 99.8 percent of the votes were in favour of keeping January 9 the RS' "Republic Day," officials said.
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| The Latest: Mall suspect 'creepy, rude and obnoxious' Posted: 25 Sep 2016 02:26 PM PDT  BURLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — The Latest on a deadly mall shooting in Washington state (all times local):
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| APNewsBreak: FIFA disbands racism task force, says job done Posted: 25 Sep 2016 02:16 PM PDT  MANCHESTER, England (AP) — FIFA has disbanded its anti-racism task force, declaring the work complete despite ongoing concerns about discriminatory behavior at matches in 2018 World Cup host Russia.
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| Young stars of social media fill Dolce&Gabbana front row Posted: 25 Sep 2016 02:06 PM PDT  MILAN (AP) — Social media stars have brought a fresh buzz to Milan Fashion Week. As word of their whereabouts spreads, gaggles of fans gather outside the restaurant or show venue where they are gathered, hoping for the chance to get a selfie — the pixel version of the 15 minutes of fame.
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| Hart spoils Totti party, Lazio join scudetto chase Posted: 25 Sep 2016 02:03 PM PDT  England goalkeeper Joe Hart upset the upcoming birthday celebrations of Francesco Totti in a 3-1 win for Torino over Roma as rivals Lazio brazenly joined the scudetto race Sunday. Ousted from Manchester City by Pep Guardiola last month, Hart joined unfashionable Serie A side Torino in a bid to maintain his status as England's number one shot-stopper. Having kept 'Granata' fans guessing during a few nervous displays in recent weeks, the on-loan City 'keeper was rock solid throughout at Torino's Stadio Olimpico where the only blot on his report card was Totti's 55th minute penalty for the visitors.
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| Six bodies found in parking lot in Mexico's Sinaloa state Posted: 25 Sep 2016 02:00 PM PDT The bodies of five men and a woman were found in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, home turf of captured drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, state prosecutors said on Sunday. The corpses were found at dawn in a parking lot in the Pacific port of Mazatlan, said Guadalupe Martinez, a spokesman for the state attorney general's office in Sinaloa. It also was unclear whether the deaths were related to conflicts between Guzman's Sinaloa Cartel and rival gangs in the state, where violence has crept up again in recent months. |
| Totti reaches 250 goals but Roma loses at Torino Posted: 25 Sep 2016 01:56 PM PDT  MILAN (AP) — Before Sunday, only one player had scored 250 goals in Serie A. Now there are two.
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| East Timor leaders to visit Rhode Island Posted: 25 Sep 2016 01:51 PM PDT PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Two top leaders of East Timor are scheduled to speak at Rhode Island College. |
