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• Iraqi forces make first push into Mosul as offensive enters third week
• Exclusive: U.S. stopped Philippines rifle sale that senator opposed - sources
• Syrian army says rebel bombardment of Aleppo killed 84 in three days
• Erdogan rides patriotic wave with crackdown at home, combative policy abroad
• Police swoop on Paris migrant camp after Calais Jungle clearout
• Australia, Indonesia consider joint South China Sea naval patrols
• Mexico: Deforestation for avocados much higher than thought
• 2 for 1: Indians home with 2 chances to win World Series
• Colonial's gasoline, distillate lines shut after explosion, fire in Alabama
• U.S. diplomat meets with Maduro to bolster Venezuela dialogue
• Salvador prosecutors: $246M embezzled while Saca president
• 2 jockeys hospitalized after 4-horse pileup
• British spy chief warns of threats from 'aggressive' Russia
• Behind Philippines' ties with China, a billionaire and his rehab centers
• Police operation creates tension in Paris migrant camp
• Bale cements future at Real Madrid with contract extension
• US denounces latest Turkish media crackdown
• Czech human-trafficking gang members sentenced to jail in Britain
• North Dakota pipeline protester charged with attempted murder
• Simon rallies to beat Benneteau in Paris Masters first round
• Mexico rescues 2 abandoned jaguar cubs
• Foes in Venezuela's political crisis agree to cool rhetoric
• Bradley still seeking 1st win as Swansea loses at Stoke
• South Korean prosecutors arrest woman at center of political crisis: Yonhap
• Hackers say they're revealing more from trove of NSA data
• Torino slipping away from Europe after draw at Udinese
• Morocco protesters take to streets again over fishmonger's death
• GE-Baker Hughes tie-up the latest in a year of big deals
• Turkey wants Raqqa offensive to begin after Mosul campaign completed
• Valencia draws at Deportivo as struggling ex-champions meet
• China set to show off stealth jet at national air show
• Practical matters will outweigh puritanism for evangelical Rio mayor
• Hezbollah ally elected as Lebanon's new head of state
• U.N. says tank shell hits its Aleppo office
• Canada to lift Romania, Bulgaria visa requirement
• France clears Calais camp as concern mounts in Paris
• Turkey detains opposition newspaper editor, columnists
• UN extends Syria chemical weapons inspection mandate
• Saudi finance minister sacked by royal decree

Iraqi forces make first push into Mosul as offensive enters third week Posted: 31 Oct 2016 07:27 AM PDT By Stephen Kalin and Maher Chmaytelli EAST OF MOSUL/BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Advancing Iraq troops broke through Islamic State defense lines in an eastern suburb of Mosul on Monday, taking the battle for the insurgent stronghold to inside the city limits for the first time, a force commander said. Commanders had warned earlier that the battle for the city, the hardline militants' de facto capital in Iraq, could take weeks and possibly months. "They have entered Mosul," he said.

Exclusive: U.S. stopped Philippines rifle sale that senator opposed - sources Posted: 31 Oct 2016 01:54 PM PDT By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department halted the planned sale of some 26,000 assault rifles to the Philippines' national police after Senator Ben Cardin said he would oppose it, Senate aides told Reuters on Monday. Aides said Cardin, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was reluctant for the United States to provide the weapons given concerns about human rights violations in the Philippines.

Syrian army says rebel bombardment of Aleppo killed 84 in three days Posted: 31 Oct 2016 07:35 AM PDT Syria's army said on Monday the Nusra Front and what the army called other terrorist groups had killed 84 people, mostly women and children, in Aleppo during the past three days, in a bombardment that included chemical weapons and rocket fire. The Nusra Front broke allegiance with al Qaeda and changed its name to Jabhat Fateh al-Sham in July. It is one of the main rebel groups taking part in an offensive against government-held western Aleppo that began on Friday.

Erdogan rides patriotic wave with crackdown at home, combative policy abroad Posted: 31 Oct 2016 12:04 PM PDT By Humeyra Pamuk and Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL (Reuters) - In the three and half months since a failed military coup, Turkey has sacked or suspended more than 110,000 people, launched a military incursion into Syria, and repeatedly threatened to do the same in Iraq. To cheers from his supporters, President Tayyip Erdogan, evoking the glories of Turkey's Ottoman past, has vowed to root out enemies at home and abroad, from followers of the cleric he blames for the coup attempt, to Kurdish militants and Islamic State jihadists. In the latest purge, police on Monday detained the editor and senior staff of the Cumhuriyet newspaper - one of few outlets still critical of Erdogan - over its alleged support for the July putsch.

Police swoop on Paris migrant camp after Calais Jungle clearout Posted: 31 Oct 2016 11:44 AM PDT By Johnny Cotton and Emmanuel Jarry PARIS (Reuters) - French riot police swooped on a makeshift migrant camp in northeast Paris on Monday, sparking a brief standoff at a site where numbers have soared since the closure of the Jungle shanty town in the northern port city of Calais. The operation, largely consisting of identity checks on some of an estimated 2,500 migrants sleeping rough around a canal and railway bridge near Paris's Stalingrad metro station, came as pressure mounts on the government to shut the camp. Tension has risen with the speculation that police will move in to evacuate and close the camp definitively in the coming days, as the Paris authorities are demanding.

Australia, Indonesia consider joint South China Sea naval patrols Posted: 31 Oct 2016 03:14 PM PDT Australia is considering joint naval patrols with Indonesia in the contested South China Sea, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Tuesday. Bishop said Indonesia's request for joint patrols at a bilateral meeting in Bali last week was "consistent with our policies of exercising our right of freedom of navigation." "That's in accordance with international law and our support for peace and stability in the region," Bishop told Australian Broadcasting Corp radio. Australia, a staunch U.S. ally, has previously drawn criticism from China for running surveillance flights over disputed islands in the South China Sea and supporting U.S. freedom of navigation exercises there.

Mexico: Deforestation for avocados much higher than thought Posted: 31 Oct 2016 05:39 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — Deforestation caused by the expansion of Mexican avocado orchards is much higher than previously thought, authorities said Monday.

2 for 1: Indians home with 2 chances to win World Series Posted: 31 Oct 2016 05:31 PM PDT CLEVELAND (AP) — Terry Francona watched the mass of humanity from high above.

Colonial's gasoline, distillate lines shut after explosion, fire in Alabama Posted: 31 Oct 2016 04:59 PM PDT Colonial Pipeline Co [COLPI.UL] shut down both of its main gasoline and distillates pipelines on Monday following an explosion and fire in Shelby County, Alabama, the second time the pipeline has been closed in two months. A segment of the pipeline was undergoing maintenance on Monday afternoon when it exploded, resulting in several workers suffering serious injuries, according to the Shelby County sheriff's office. The explosion occurred near Shelby County Highway 13 and River Road, the sheriff's office said, adding the number of those injured is believed to be less than ten.

U.S. diplomat meets with Maduro to bolster Venezuela dialogue Posted: 31 Oct 2016 04:57 PM PDT By Brian Ellsworth CARACAS (Reuters) - A senior U.S. diplomat on Monday met with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as part of an effort to support dialogue between the government and the opposition amid an escalating political standoff and a worsening economic crisis. The arrival of Tom Shannon, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and an expert on Latin America, may help spur negotiations between the two sides, which over the years have repeatedly held talks that generated few concrete results. "I had a good conversation with Thomas Shannon.

Salvador prosecutors: $246M embezzled while Saca president Posted: 31 Oct 2016 04:56 PM PDT SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Prosecutors in El Salvador say government officials embezzled at least $246 million during President Tony Saca's 2004-2009 administration.

2 jockeys hospitalized after 4-horse pileup Posted: 31 Oct 2016 04:39 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — Britain's champion jockey, Jim Crowley, and fellow rider Frederik Tylicki were taken to the hospital with suspected spinal injuries following a pile-up involving four horses at Kempton on Monday.

British spy chief warns of threats from 'aggressive' Russia Posted: 31 Oct 2016 04:19 PM PDT "Russia is at work across Europe and in the UK today. It is MI5's job to get in the way of that," Parker told the Guardian newspaper. The director general of the UK's domestic security service was speaking after British warships earlier this month shadowed a Russian aircraft carrier battle group through the North Sea, which was en route to the eastern Mediterranean.

Behind Philippines' ties with China, a billionaire and his rehab centers Posted: 31 Oct 2016 04:17 PM PDT By Adam Jourdan and Jackie Cai SHANGHAI (Reuters) - At the end of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's landmark visit to China last month, he held a brief private meeting with a businessman who may have played a crucial role in improving ties between the two nations. Huang Rulun, a rags-to-riches Chinese billionaire funding two huge drug rehabilitation centers in the Philippines, has been held up by Duterte as a symbol of the relationship between the two nations. Born to a poor family in coastal Fujian province, Huang was a small-time businessman in the Philippines in the 1980s.

Police operation creates tension in Paris migrant camp Posted: 31 Oct 2016 04:17 PM PDT PARIS (AP) — French authorities finished clearing out the makeshift shelters in the squalid Calais migrant camp known as the "jungle" on Monday, after moving more than 6,000 people to temporary housing in a long-awaited effort to tackle France's migrant crisis.

Bale cements future at Real Madrid with contract extension Posted: 31 Oct 2016 04:16 PM PDT MADRID (AP) — With his focus on winning more trophies, Gareth Bale signed a new deal Monday that ties him to Real Madrid until 2022.

US denounces latest Turkish media crackdown Posted: 31 Oct 2016 04:09 PM PDT The United States issued a stern rebuke to its ally Turkey on Monday after authorities stepped up their persecution of media outlets critical of the government. Washington regularly expresses concern about the increasingly authoritarian treatment of the media by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government. "The United States is deeply concerned by what appears to be an increase in official pressure on opposition media outlets in Turkey," he said.

Czech human-trafficking gang members sentenced to jail in Britain Posted: 31 Oct 2016 04:08 PM PDT By Umberto Bacchi LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Five members of a gang that trafficked people from eastern Europe to Britain and forced them to live in inhumane conditions while working to pay off fictional debts were sentenced by a British court on Monday. Czech nationals Ruzena Tancosova, Petr Tancos, Nela Dzurkova, Martin Tancos and Katerina Kerujova were found guilty of human trafficking and slavery offences at Plymouth Crown Court on Oct. 24. The victims lived in squalid conditions and were forced to work in a car wash and at a meat packing factory to pay off debts their traffickers claimed they owed, according to prosecutors.

North Dakota pipeline protester charged with attempted murder Posted: 31 Oct 2016 03:54 PM PDT A demonstrator protesting last week at the construction site of an oil pipeline in North Dakota was charged on Monday with the attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, according to court documents. Red Fawn Fallis, 37, was confronted by two officers on the evening of Oct. 27, according to an affidavit, when she was taking part in a demonstration against the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline project. The affidavit said law enforcement was working to clear protesters from a camp on private property and attempted to arrest Fallis for being "an instigator and acting disorderly," when a struggle occurred with the officers.

Simon rallies to beat Benneteau in Paris Masters first round Posted: 31 Oct 2016 03:49 PM PDT PARIS (AP) — Gilles Simon rallied to beat Julien Benneteau 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in an all-French match in the first round of the Paris Masters on Monday.

Mexico rescues 2 abandoned jaguar cubs Posted: 31 Oct 2016 03:48 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — Animal welfare activists and authorities in southern Mexico rescued two jaguar cubs found on their own in a farm field near the Calakmul nature reserve, which is also home to a Mayan ruin site.

Foes in Venezuela's political crisis agree to cool rhetoric Posted: 31 Oct 2016 03:41 PM PDT CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Opposition and government leaders agreed Monday to tone down their heated rhetoric in the first step of Vatican-sponsored talks on defusing Venezuela's political crisis over efforts to remove embattled President Nicolas Maduro.

Bradley still seeking 1st win as Swansea loses at Stoke Posted: 31 Oct 2016 03:41 PM PDT STOKE, England (AP) — Stoke striker Wilfried Bony scored twice against his former club in a 3-1 victory over Swansea in the English Premier League on Monday, leaving American coach Bob Bradley still seeking his first win in charge of the Welsh club.

South Korean prosecutors arrest woman at center of political crisis: Yonhap Posted: 31 Oct 2016 03:39 PM PDT The woman at the center of a political scandal that has cast the South Korean presidency into crisis was detained late on Monday, Yonhap News Agency reported, hours after she had arrived at the office of local prosecutors to answer questions. Prosecutors are investigating allegations that Choi Soon-sil used her friendship with President Park Geun-hye to influence state affairs by gaining access to classified documents and benefited personally through non-profit foundations, a prosecution official said earlier. Worried that Choi may be a flight risk and could destroy evidence, prosecutors placed her under emergency detention without a warrant, Yonhap reported, citing a prosecution official.

Hackers say they're revealing more from trove of NSA data Posted: 31 Oct 2016 03:34 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — A group calling itself "Shadow Brokers" says it has released another gem from its trove of high-level hacking tools stolen from the U.S.'s National Security Agency, potentially offering added insight into how America's spies operate online.

Torino slipping away from Europe after draw at Udinese Posted: 31 Oct 2016 03:22 PM PDT ROME (AP) — Despite the influence of England goalkeeper Joe Hart, Torino's chances of qualifying for Europe are slipping away match by match.

Morocco protesters take to streets again over fishmonger's death Posted: 31 Oct 2016 03:21 PM PDT The death in Al Hoceima on Friday of Mouhcine Fikri has triggered one of the largest protests nationwide since 2011 when the February 20 movement organized demonstrations for democratic reform inspired by the Arab Spring uprisings across the region. Large-scale protests are rare in Morocco, where the king still holds ultimate sway. Morocco calmed Arab Spring-style protests in 2011 with reforms, spending and tougher security while leaders in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya were swept from power.

GE-Baker Hughes tie-up the latest in a year of big deals Posted: 31 Oct 2016 03:21 PM PDT GE and Baker Hughes said Monday they're combining their oil and gas businesses, the latest deal in a big year for corporate mergers and acquisitions.

Turkey wants Raqqa offensive to begin after Mosul campaign completed Posted: 31 Oct 2016 03:06 PM PDT Turkey wants the operation on Raqqa, Islamic State's main stronghold in Syria, to start after Mosul and Euphrates Shield operations have been completed, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Monday. "Turkey's stance on the Raqqa operation is clear. It would be better both militarily and strategically to conduct this operation after the Mosul operation and Turkey's Euphrates Shield operation are completed," Kurtulmus told reporters in Ankara.

Valencia draws at Deportivo as struggling ex-champions meet Posted: 31 Oct 2016 03:00 PM PDT LA CORUNA, Spain (AP) — Deportivo La Coruna and Valencia, two former champions fallen on hard times, drew 1-1 in the Spanish league on Monday.

China set to show off stealth jet at national air show Posted: 31 Oct 2016 02:58 PM PDT By Tim Hepher and Brenda Goh ZHUHAI, China (Reuters) - China prepared to unveil its latest military capabilities and new partnerships in civil aerospace at the opening of an air show in the southern city of Zhuhai on Tuesday. Airshow China is seen as an opportunity for China, which is set to overtake the U.S. as the world's top aviation market in the next decade, to demonstrate its ambitions in civil aerospace and to underline its military clout to neighbors and the world. Topping Zhuhai's biennial agenda is the public debut of the Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter.

Practical matters will outweigh puritanism for evangelical Rio mayor Posted: 31 Oct 2016 02:54 PM PDT By Paulo Prada RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - In a city best known for bacchanalia and flesh-filled beaches, the election of an evangelical bishop as mayor has some free-wheeling residents of Rio fretting. "Don't expect a theocracy in Rio anytime soon," said Mauricio Santoro, a political scientist at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. "Evangelicals have a long-term political project and the last thing they want is to seem like radicals." Part of a shift to the right in Brazil after thirteen years of leftist governments, Marcelo Crivella, a 59-year-old senator and former pastor for the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, became the first member of the country's evangelical clergy to reach a top executive office.

Hezbollah ally elected as Lebanon's new head of state Posted: 31 Oct 2016 02:50 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's parliament elected former army commander Michel Aoun as president on Monday, filling a post that had been vacant for more than two years and injecting hope that the country's long-running political paralysis would come to an end.

U.N. says tank shell hits its Aleppo office Posted: 31 Oct 2016 02:33 PM PDT A tank shell hit the United Nations office in western Aleppo on Sunday, damaging the top floors of a building that is well known to be the U.N. base in the contested Syrian city, a U.N. statement said on Monday. "It is appalling that the building that houses the U.N. offices was directly targeted," the top U.N. official in Syria, Ali Al-Za'tari, said in a statement. "We strongly condemn the increased violence in all of Aleppo, east and west, which has resulted in the death and injury of scores of civilians, including children." The U.N. statement did not mention any people being hurt by the explosion, nor did it specify how it was known to be a tank shell, rather than any other type of munition, or which side was responsible for firing the shell.

Canada to lift Romania, Bulgaria visa requirement Posted: 31 Oct 2016 02:33 PM PDT Canada will lift a visa requirement for Romanian and Bulgarian travelers at the end of next year and ease some restrictions before then, the government announced Monday. The two EU nations had made visa-free travel a key condition for their support of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) that was signed by Canada and the EU on Sunday. After Romania and Bulgaria reached a deal with Ottawa a week ago on the visa waivers -- which will go into effect on December 1, 2017 -- they lifted their respective threats to block the free trade accord.

France clears Calais camp as concern mounts in Paris Posted: 31 Oct 2016 02:27 PM PDT French demolition teams cleared the last shacks in the Calais "Jungle" on Monday, signalling the end of the notorious camp as concerns mount for thousands of migrants sleeping rough in Paris. Squads of workers using diggers, tractors and cranes had torn down the final tents and makeshift migrant homes on the windswept stretch of northern coastline. Sand, mud and piles of rubbish now mark the spot where thousands of migrants and refugees passed through as they tried to sneak into Britain, making the "Jungle" camp a symbol of Europe's migrant crisis.

Turkey detains opposition newspaper editor, columnists Posted: 31 Oct 2016 02:25 PM PDT ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish police detained the chief editor and at least 11 senior staff of Turkey's opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper on Monday, a move that signals a widening crackdown on dissenting voices.

UN extends Syria chemical weapons inspection mandate Posted: 31 Oct 2016 02:24 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted Monday to extend the mandate of inspectors charged with determining who is behind confirmed chemical weapons attacks in Syria.

Saudi finance minister sacked by royal decree Posted: 31 Oct 2016 02:22 PM PDT Saudi Arabia on Monday sacked its veteran finance minister as the kingdom undergoes a major economic restructuring because of lower oil revenues. Ibrahim al-Assaf "has been removed from his position", said a royal decree, one of a series of orders from King Salman, published by the official SPA news agency. Assaf was replaced by Mohammed Aljadaan, head of the Capital Market Authority which regulates the stock market.

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