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• Russia and Turkey sign gas deal, seek common ground on Syria as ties warm
• Yemen's Houthis respond to air strike with missile attack
• Islamic State confirms death of propaganda chief: statement
• Colombia's Uribe presents proposals for peace accord changes
• German spy chief says Syrian suspect targeted Berlin airports
• EU officials see no end to sanctions against Russia over Ukraine
• Colombia to launch peace talks with ELN rebels
• Colombia revives stalled peace talks with ELN rebels
• Top Asian News 12:52 a.m. GMT
• Australian opposition decides to sink gay marriage vote
• Death toll rises to 22 in eastern China building collapse
• Survivors of deadly Pacific Northwest mudslide settle with state, landowner
• Rio shootout kills 3, closes streets in Copacabana, Ipanema
• China denies allegations its peacekeepers abandoned South Sudan posts
• Nearly a week after hurricane hit Haiti, UN appeals for aid
• Klinsmann insists he was not jockeying for Bradley's job
• Brazilian prosecutors bring new charges against ex-president
• Gaudreau signs 6-year deal with Calgary Flames
• Colombia to start peace talks with ELN rebels on Oct. 27
• Raiders thrive in tight games to get off to 4-1 start
• Blue Jays GM Atkins says Travis, Liriano improving
• Ravens fire Trestman, make Mornhinweg offensive coordinator
• Drug lord's sons want 'impartial' attack probe: lawyer
• Detroit's Jackson expected to miss 6 to 8 weeks
• Shooting deaths, school closures worsen Rio crime wave
• Another strange abrupt ending for Rangers after best record
• U.S. to provide Colombia with $10 million to support demining
• Sparks looked more poised than Lynx in Game 1 of WNBA Finals
• Brazil's Lula accused of influence peddling
• Crunch choice on new jet fighter looms over Tokyo air show
• Worried about your Samsung Note 7? Here are your options
• Hollande uncertain on Putin visit after Aleppo veto
• Most Afghan women serve sentences in elders' homes, not prisons
• Italy PM Renzi seeks to avoid party split over referendum
• Hundreds stranded in North Carolina floods after Hurricane Matthew
• Gabon doctor who cataloged post-electoral violence detained
• Danish fishermen fear further slashing of EU's cod quotas
• Obama declares major disaster in North Carolina from Hurricane Matthew
• IS bomb suspect planned to target Berlin airport: official

Russia and Turkey sign gas deal, seek common ground on Syria as ties warm Posted: 10 Oct 2016 12:32 PM PDT By Olesya Astakhova and Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey and Russia signed an agreement on Monday for the construction of a major undersea gas pipeline and vowed to seek common ground on the war in Syria, accelerating a normalization in ties nearly a year after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan hosted Russia's Vladimir Putin at an Ottoman-era villa in Istanbul for talks which touched on energy deals, trade and tourism ties, defense and the conflict in Syria, where the two leaders back opposing sides.

Yemen's Houthis respond to air strike with missile attack Posted: 10 Oct 2016 08:13 AM PDT By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's Houthi movement launched a ballistic missile deep into Saudi Arabia and may have also fired on a U.S. warship, two days after an apparent Saudi-led air strike killed 140 mourners at a funeral attended by powerful tribal leaders. Saturday's air strike ripped through a wake attended by some of the country's top political and security officials, outraging Yemeni society and potentially galvanizing powerful tribes to join the Houthis in opposing a Saudi-backed exiled government. On Monday, a Saudi-led coalition waging war in Yemen said it had intercepted a missile fired by the Houthis at a military base in Taif in central Saudi Arabia, striking deeper then ever before in the latest in a series of more than a dozen missile attacks.

Islamic State confirms death of propaganda chief: statement Posted: 10 Oct 2016 01:03 PM PDT Islamic State on Monday confirmed the death of its propaganda chief, whom the Pentagon said was killed in a U.S.-led air strike in Syria's Raqqa province last month. An statement posted online by the militant group paid tribute to Wa'il Adil Hasan Salman al-Fayad, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Furqan. The Pentagon said last month that a U.S.-led coalition air strike on Sept. 7 had killed al-Fayad.

Colombia's Uribe presents proposals for peace accord changes Posted: 10 Oct 2016 05:49 PM PDT Colombia's former President Alvaro Uribe on Monday proposed that leaders of the Marxist FARC rebel group lose their freedom for at least five years and they would be banned from elected office as part of changes to a peace deal between the government and the insurgents. Uribe, now a popular opposition senator, led the group of Colombians that narrowly rejected a peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in a plebiscite last week, throwing a long negotiation to end the 52-year war into limbo. Representatives of those who voted "No" presented the government with the first in a series of changes they want implemented in the accord which was signed on Sept. 26 by President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC leader Rodrigo Londono, better known by his nom de guerre Timochenko.

German spy chief says Syrian suspect targeted Berlin airports Posted: 10 Oct 2016 02:10 PM PDT The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency (BfV) said a Syrian suspect arrested on Monday was building a bomb and probably planned to attack one of the airports in Berlin. Hans-Georg Maassen told public broadcaster ARD that intelligence leads had suggested in early September that militant group Islamic State (IS) was planning an attack on Germany's transport infrastructure. Spies managed to track down and identify the suspect in the eastern state of Saxony last Thursday and started a round-the-clock observation, Maassen said.

EU officials see no end to sanctions against Russia over Ukraine Posted: 10 Oct 2016 01:06 PM PDT European Parliament President Martin Schulz told an event hosted by the German newspaper Passauer Neue Presse that the EU's sanctions against Moscow were linked to the Minsk peace agreement that was supposed to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine and could only be lifted when the conditions for their withdrawal had been met. Schulz condemned in harsh terms Russia's actions in Ukraine and its support for right-wing nationalists in Europe.

Colombia to launch peace talks with ELN rebels Posted: 10 Oct 2016 06:02 PM PDT The Colombian government and the country's second-largest rebel group, the ELN, announced they would launch negotiations on October 27 in Ecuador's capital, with President Juan Manuel Santos predicting "total peace". Both sides have committed to doing everything in their power to "create an environment favorable to peace" once the talks begin, according to a joint statement delivered at the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry in Caracas. The move comes as welcome news for Santos, fresh from his Nobel Peace Prize win but still reeling from voters' rejection in a referendum of a peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the country's largest rebel group.

Colombia revives stalled peace talks with ELN rebels Posted: 10 Oct 2016 05:54 PM PDT BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's government and rebels from the National Liberation Army have agreed to revive a stalled peace effort, providing a boost to President Juan Manuel Santos as he tries to recover from voters' shocking rejection of a deal with the much-larger FARC guerrilla group.

Top Asian News 12:52 a.m. GMT Posted: 10 Oct 2016 05:53 PM PDT KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide car bombing killed 14 people, including 10 Afghan police officers, as the Taliban launched a large-scale attack Monday on the capital in southern Helmand province, the heartland of the insurgency. Since the beginning of this year's fighting season, the Taliban have expanded their footprint across most of the province and have been at the gates of the city of Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital, for weeks. According to Haji Marjan, police chief of Nad Ali district who has been deployed to the city, the explosion happened around 11.30 a.m., after the Taliban earlier targeted police checkpoints across Lashkar Gah.

Australian opposition decides to sink gay marriage vote Posted: 10 Oct 2016 05:52 PM PDT CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian opposition on Tuesday decided to block government plans for a public but non-binding vote on recognizing gay marriage, arguing it would better if the issue was decided in Parliament.

Death toll rises to 22 in eastern China building collapse Posted: 10 Oct 2016 05:49 PM PDT BEIJING (AP) — The death toll has risen to at least 22 in the collapse of a group of decrepit homes in eastern China, state media reported Tuesday.

Survivors of deadly Pacific Northwest mudslide settle with state, landowner Posted: 10 Oct 2016 05:41 PM PDT (Reuters) - Survivors and family members of those who perished in a deadly 2014 mudslide in Washington State have settled their lawsuits against the state and the owner of a hillside that collapsed near the town of Oso, about 60 miles (97 km) north of Seattle, officials said. The settlement, announced as opening arguments were set to begin in a trial over family members' claims in King County Superior Court on Monday, was praised by Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson as "a fair resolution for all parties." All told, the state and Grandy Lake Forest Associates, which owned the hillside that collapsed, agreed to pay $60 million to the families, including about $400,000 in attorneys' fees, the Seattle Times reported. Attorneys for the families had argued that Washington state and Grandy Lake Forest Associates were aware that residents were at risk for a deadly slide but made no attempts to divert the river or relocate homes.

Rio shootout kills 3, closes streets in Copacabana, Ipanema Posted: 10 Oct 2016 05:36 PM PDT RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — An hours-long shootout between police and suspected criminals in Rio de Janeiro has left three people dead, as well as blocking streets and closing shops in the posh Copacabana and Ipanema districts.

China denies allegations its peacekeepers abandoned South Sudan posts Posted: 10 Oct 2016 05:32 PM PDT China's defense ministry has rejected as "malicious speculation" allegations by a U.S.-based group that Chinese peacekeepers had abandoned their posts in South Sudan in July instead of protecting civilians. Chinese troops are part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, which has been ravaged by conflict between rival forces loyal to the President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar. The Center For Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC) said in a report published last week that Chinese peacekeepers with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) had withdrawn from a civilian protection zone in July after coming under attack.

Nearly a week after hurricane hit Haiti, UN appeals for aid Posted: 10 Oct 2016 05:31 PM PDT MARFRANC, Haiti (AP) — At a cramped police station serving as a makeshift clinic, Darline Derosier fastened IV drips to jail cell bars, wiped the brows of cholera patients and tended to the wounds of those injured when Hurricane Matthew slammed into Haiti's southwestern peninsula.

Klinsmann insists he was not jockeying for Bradley's job Posted: 10 Oct 2016 05:31 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Jurgen Klinsmann rejects Bob Bradley's claims the former German star angled in 2010 to succeed him as U.S. coach.

Brazilian prosecutors bring new charges against ex-president Posted: 10 Oct 2016 05:28 PM PDT RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian prosecutors said on Monday that they brought new charges against former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, adding yet another accusation to a series of corruption charges against the embattled left-leaning leader who is also a presidential hopeful for 2018.

Gaudreau signs 6-year deal with Calgary Flames Posted: 10 Oct 2016 05:23 PM PDT CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Calgary Flames NHL Forward Johnny Gaudreau has a new contract in time to start the NHL regular season.

Colombia to start peace talks with ELN rebels on Oct. 27 Posted: 10 Oct 2016 05:21 PM PDT By Helen Murphy and Eyanir Chinea BOGOTA/CARACAS (Reuters) - Colombia's government and second-biggest rebel group announced on Monday they will start formal peace talks on Oct. 27 in a boost for President Juan Manuel Santos after the rejection of his deal with the larger FARC guerrilla group. On the contrary, it will be stronger, and now that we will advance with the ELN, it will be complete." Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize last week for his efforts to end a 52-year-old war with the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia: a surprising choice given voters narrowly rejected a deal he signed with them last month. At war for five decades after being founded by radical Catholic priests and inspired by Cuba's revolution, the ELN has been in on-and-off closed-door talks with the government since January 2014 on how the two sides would conduct peace negotiations and what would be on the table.

Raiders thrive in tight games to get off to 4-1 start Posted: 10 Oct 2016 05:12 PM PDT ALAMEDA, California (AP) — The Oakland Raiders have been playing with fire this season and mostly have come out unharmed.

Blue Jays GM Atkins says Travis, Liriano improving Posted: 10 Oct 2016 05:01 PM PDT TORONTO (AP) — Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins expects second baseman Devon Travis to return from a sore right knee and play in the AL Championship Series and says left-hander Francisco Liriano is improving after a concussion last week.

Ravens fire Trestman, make Mornhinweg offensive coordinator Posted: 10 Oct 2016 04:52 PM PDT OWINGS MILLS, Maryland (AP) — Convinced that the Baltimore Ravens' sputtering offense wasn't going to improve with Marc Trestman calling the shots, coach John Harbaugh fired his offensive coordinator Monday and replaced him with quarterbacks coach Marty Mornhinweg.

Drug lord's sons want 'impartial' attack probe: lawyer Posted: 10 Oct 2016 04:46 PM PDT Prosecutors questioned on Monday a lawyer for imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman after he relayed a message from his client's sons denying their involvement in the killing of troops. Refugio Rodriguez was asked to appear at the attorney general's office after he told news outlets, including AFP, that Jesus Alfredo and Ivan Guzman rejected allegations they were behind the September 30 ambush that killed five soldiers. After emerging from an hours-long meeting at the anti-organized crime unit, Refugio Rodriguez said he repeated to the authorities that the brothers denied a role in the "terrible" attack in Culiacan, capital of the northern state of Sinaloa.

Detroit's Jackson expected to miss 6 to 8 weeks Posted: 10 Oct 2016 04:45 PM PDT AUBURN HILLS, Michigan (AP) — Detroit Pistons guard Reggie Jackson is expected to miss the first month of the NBA season with knee and thumb problems.

Shooting deaths, school closures worsen Rio crime wave Posted: 10 Oct 2016 04:45 PM PDT Police killed at least two suspected drug traffickers on Monday during a day-long shootout in the hills overlooking one of Rio de Janeiro's wealthiest districts, the latest in a wave of violent clashes that elsewhere in the city caused 8,000 children to miss school. The shootout, in the Pavão-Pavãozinho slum above the beachside neighborhoods of Ipanema and Copacabana, highlighted what many Rio residents fear is a sharp decline in security just two months after the city hosted the Olympics and as public security budgets have been slashed because of Brazil's worst recession in nearly a century. A video posted online by local media showed one of the drug trafficking suspects plummeting from a stone hillside after being shot in one exchange.

Another strange abrupt ending for Rangers after best record Posted: 10 Oct 2016 04:42 PM PDT ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Just like that, with another strange ending in Toronto, the season ended for the Texas Rangers.

U.S. to provide Colombia with $10 million to support demining Posted: 10 Oct 2016 04:35 PM PDT The United States will provide Colombia with $10 million to help its efforts to clear landmines in the South American country, the Pentagon said on Monday. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter informed Colombian Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas of the U.S. commitment in a phone call on Monday, the Pentagon said in a statement. Decades of fighting between Colombia's armed forces and rebel groups has left the country contaminated by landmines and unexploded munitions, with 31 of its 32 departments affected.

Sparks looked more poised than Lynx in Game 1 of WNBA Finals Posted: 10 Oct 2016 04:31 PM PDT MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Lynx have a core group of players participating in their fifth WNBA Finals in the last six seasons. The Los Angeles Sparks only have one player who has made it this far before, and she is a seldom-used reserve.

Brazil's Lula accused of influence peddling Posted: 10 Oct 2016 04:29 PM PDT Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian prosecutors on Monday accused former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of influence peddling, compounding the woes of a fallen political giant already charged in the Petrobras scandal. The new charges allege that after leaving office in 2010 and until 2015, Lula helped the construction company Odebrecht win contracts in Angola. Lula intervened with a government bank called BNDES so it would provide financing for Odebrecht projects in the southern African country, prosecutors said.

Crunch choice on new jet fighter looms over Tokyo air show Posted: 10 Oct 2016 04:26 PM PDT By Tim Kelly and Nobuhiro Kubo TOKYO (Reuters) - Faced with a growing North Korean threat and expanding Chinese power, Japan's military and aerospace industry will use this week's airshow in Tokyo to push the case to develop a highly advanced, and costly, stealth fighter jet. Tokyo faces a crunch choice between ordering an industry-pleasing advanced stealth fighter or opting for a cheaper conventional combat jet that will deliver a bigger bang for taxpayers' yen. In March, Japan's Ministry of Defence issued a request for information (RFI) to gauge interest among foreign aerospace companies for jointly developing the F-3, which would operate alongside Lockheed Martin's new F-35s and older F-15s.

Worried about your Samsung Note 7? Here are your options Posted: 10 Oct 2016 04:22 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Worries about the safety of Samsung's replacement Galaxy Note 7 smartphones have consumers fretting about what to do.

Hollande uncertain on Putin visit after Aleppo veto Posted: 10 Oct 2016 04:08 PM PDT French President Francois Hollande has not yet decided whether to meet Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Paris next week, after the Kremlin blocked a UN bid to end the bombing of Aleppo, Paris said Monday. Putin is due in Paris on October 19 to inaugurate a new Orthodox church near the Eiffel Tower in a visit that is fast turning into a diplomatic headache for France. On Sunday, Hollande left open the question of whether he would receive Putin, describing the scorched-earth campaign in the Syrian city of Aleppo as a war crime.

Most Afghan women serve sentences in elders' homes, not prisons Posted: 10 Oct 2016 04:07 PM PDT By Mohammadullah Himatyar SHARANA, Afghanistan (Reuters) - When 18-year-old Fawzia was convicted of elopement and adultery, a local Afghan court in the southeastern province of Paktika sentenced her to jail. "I was treated like an animal and kept like a slave," Fawzia told Reuters in Sharana, the provincial capital of Paktika. Fawzia is a familiar name by which she is known to relatives and close friends.

Italy PM Renzi seeks to avoid party split over referendum Posted: 10 Oct 2016 03:56 PM PDT Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi sought Monday to avoid a rift in his Democratic Party over an upcoming referendum on constitutional reforms. The changes are aimed at increasing political stability in a country which has had 63 governments since 1945, with Renzi's future riding on the outcome of the December 4 plebiscite. For months the centre-left Democratic Party has been split on the issue, with a minority of lawmakers deeming the mooted reforms and the new electoral law which would accompany them to be dangerous to democracy.

Hundreds stranded in North Carolina floods after Hurricane Matthew Posted: 10 Oct 2016 03:51 PM PDT By Jonathan Drake LUMBERTON, N.C. (Reuters) - Hundreds of people were rescued by boat and helicopter as floodwaters inundated North Carolina towns on Monday in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, and officials warned that life-threatening flooding from swollen rivers would continue for days. Matthew, the most powerful Atlantic storm since 2007, was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone on Sunday. The hurricane killed around 1,000 people in Haiti and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday some Haitian towns and villages had just about been "wiped off the map." In the United States, the number of fatalities rose to at least 23, with nearly half in North Carolina.

Gabon doctor who cataloged post-electoral violence detained Posted: 10 Oct 2016 03:34 PM PDT A doctor in Gabon who helped treat and catalog injuries inflicted on protesters during the violent aftermath of a disputed August election has been detained for four days, a relative and rights activists said on Monday. Sylvie Nkoghe-Mbot was arrested on Thursday at a Libreville hospital where she was visiting victims wounded last month during a rare bout of violence in the Central African country after the re-election of President Ali Bongo, her brother told Reuters. "We still have not been told why she was detained and we haven't been able to communicate with her," said Rene Nkoghe, reached by telephone.

Danish fishermen fear further slashing of EU's cod quotas Posted: 10 Oct 2016 03:31 PM PDT BAGENKOP, Denmark (AP) — A stiff wind buffets Ulrik Koelle Hansen's trawler as he heads out of this tiny fishing village in search of an early morning catch, but it's nothing to the battering he predicts if the European Union slashes the fishing quota for cod in the western Baltic, as it did late Monday.

Obama declares major disaster in North Carolina from Hurricane Matthew Posted: 10 Oct 2016 03:23 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency in North Carolina on Monday after Hurricane Matthew roared through the state over the weekend, the White House said. The action makes federal funding available to affected individuals in 10 counties hit by the storm, the White House said in a statement. (Reporting by Eric Beech; Editing by Eric Walsh)

IS bomb suspect planned to target Berlin airport: official Posted: 10 Oct 2016 03:18 PM PDT A Syrian refugee arrested in Germany on Monday after being tied up by three compatriots was plotting to bomb a Berlin airport in the name of the Islamic State group, the head of domestic intelligence said. "We have received information from the secret services that he initially wanted to target trains in Germany before finally deciding on one of Berlin's airports," Hans-Georg Maassen told German public TV channel ARD. While some German media outlets over the weekend suggested the suspect, Jaber Albakr, 22, had such a target in mind, this was the first official confirmation.

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