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• Suicide truck bomb kills about 100 in Iraq, mostly Iranian pilgrims
• Kurds and Shi'ite forces to coordinate in push to encircle Mosul
• Germany, 15 other countries press for arms control deal with Russia
• Colombia, rebels sign peace in sober ceremony amid opposition
• U.N. envoy sees continued U.S. work to end Syria war
• Aleppo rebels agree aid plan, Russia, Syria yet to approve: U.N.
• Wildfires tear across drought-striken parts of Peru
• Colombia signs contested new peace deal
• All Blacks put France's reinvigorated team to acid test
• Romero scores 17 as No. 10 Florida State routs Winthrop
• Venezuela crisis talks wobble, December meeting key
• Armed man kills woman in French missionaries' home
• Man City aim to extend unbeaten run at Burnley
• IBM 'failed' on Australia's census: Australian PM
• Hurricane Otto weakens as it moves across southern Nicaragua
• Hungary's leader had phone conversation with Donald Trump
• Gunman bursts into French monks' residence, kills woman
• Battle surrounds Trump's secretary of state pick
• The Latest: Hurricane Otto weakens to Category 1 storm
• One dead in attack on missionaries' home in France, suspect at large
• New Zealand 77-2 at lunch on day 1 in 2nd test vs. Pakistan
• Residents of French retirement home safe, suspect still at large: official
• Rooney leads Man United to 4-0 win with record-breaking goal
• Greece: 2 dead as fire rages through refugee camp
• FA chairman regrets 'appalling' failure over abuse coach
• China sends environmental inspection teams to seven more regions
• Migrants torch Greek camp after refugee deaths
• Colombia government, rebels sign revised peace agreement
• Car bomb attack kills 8 soldiers in Egypt's Sinai
• 1 big difference between French primary candidates: Russia
• No. 10 Louisville beats Wichita State 62-52 in Bahamas
• Record man Rooney gives Man Utd Europa lift
• Man Utd big winners, Southampton left sweating
• Hurricane, quake hit Central America
• Magnitude 7.0 offshore quake rattles El Salvador
• France urges labelling goods from Israeli settlements
• BHP Vale to fund, extend credit over Samarco disaster
• Turkey says 3 troops killed in Syrian government airstrike

Suicide truck bomb kills about 100 in Iraq, mostly Iranian pilgrims Posted: 24 Nov 2016 01:22 PM PST A suicide truck bomb killed about 100 people, most of them Iranian Shi'ite pilgrims, at a petrol station in the city of Hilla 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad on Thursday, police and medical sources said. Islamic State, the ultra hard-line Sunni militant group that considers all Shi'ites to be apostates, claimed responsibility the attack in an online statement. The group also is fighting off a U.S.-backed offensive on its stronghold Mosul, in northern Iraq, in which Iranian-trained Shi'ite militias are taking part.

Kurds and Shi'ite forces to coordinate in push to encircle Mosul Posted: 24 Nov 2016 11:23 AM PST By Isabel Coles, Saif Hameed and Ulf Laessing ERBIL/BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Kurdish and Shi'ite forces near Mosul have agreed to coordinate their operations in support of a U.S-backed offensive seeking to encircle and capture Islamic State's last major urban stronghold in Iraq, U.S. and Iraqi officials said on Thursday. The agreement will restrict the movement of the jihadists in and out of Mosul and aid the attempts of the forces ranged against them to complete the encirclement of the city from the western side, according to the officials. It came after Iraqi Kurdish and Shi'ite fighters linked up near the Islamic State-held town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, on Wednesday in an advance that cut the militant group's supply route from the rest of the territory it holds in western Iraq and Syria.

Germany, 15 other countries press for arms control deal with Russia Posted: 24 Nov 2016 04:04 PM PST Fifteen European countries have joined Germany in its push for a new arms control agreement with Moscow, saying more dialogue is needed to prevent an arms race in Europe after Russia's actions in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, a German newspaper said. "Europe's security is in danger," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told Die Welt newspaper in an interview published on Friday.

Colombia, rebels sign peace in sober ceremony amid opposition Posted: 24 Nov 2016 09:57 AM PST By Helen Murphy BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos and Marxist FARC rebel leader Rodrigo Londono signed a revised peace accord on Thursday in a far more sober ceremony than a first deal rejected last month by millions at a plebiscite. The government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) worked together in Cuba for four years to negotiate an end to the region's longest-running conflict that has killed more than 220,000 and displaced millions in the Andean nation. "It's final!" said Santos, standing before white banners of peace and Colombia's red, yellow and blue flag "I invite you to leave decades of violence forever in the past, to unite for all of us, for Colombia, for this dear nation, and to work together for reconciliation around shared ideals of peace." Opposition leader and former President Alvaro Uribe spearheaded the push to reject the original accord and wanted deeper changes to the new version.

U.N. envoy sees continued U.S. work to end Syria war Posted: 24 Nov 2016 03:06 PM PST The U.N. Special Envoy for Syria on Thursday said U.S. President Barack Obama could well keep working until his last day in office to end the war in Syria, and Russia did not want to be held responsible for the demolition of eastern Aleppo. "I would never underestimate an outgoing U.S. president as a lame duck," Staffan de Mistura said in an interview published on Friday in Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. "President Obama .... and Secretary of State John Kerry are very motivated to end the greatest humanitarian tragedy of this century that has played out during their time in office.

Aleppo rebels agree aid plan, Russia, Syria yet to approve: U.N. Posted: 24 Nov 2016 06:43 AM PST By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Syrian rebels in besieged east Aleppo have agreed to a U.N. plan for aid delivery and medical evacuations, but the United Nations is awaiting a green light from Russia and the Syrian government, humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said on Thursday. With freezing winter conditions setting in, about 275,000 people are trapped in east Aleppo, where the last U.N. food rations were distributed on Nov. 13.

Wildfires tear across drought-striken parts of Peru Posted: 24 Nov 2016 05:28 PM PST Wildfires have torn through more than 22,000 hectares (54,363 acres) of forest, protected areas and farmland in drought-striken parts of Peru as the Andean country suffers one of its driest periods in years, authorities said on Thursday. The spate of wildfires in the past week were likely started by accident after peasant farmers burned fields to prepare them for planting, said Edgar Ortega with Peru's Civil Defense Institute. Fires are now contained in five nature reserves, including the Laquipampa Wildlife Refuge that is home to the protected spectacled bear, the inspiration for the Paddington Bear character in English children's literature, said Cecilia Cabello with Peru's protected areas agency Sernanp.

Colombia signs contested new peace deal Posted: 24 Nov 2016 05:28 PM PST Colombia's government and FARC rebels signed a controversial revised peace accord to end their half-century conflict, set to be ratified in Congress despite bitter opposition. President Juan Manuel Santos and guerrilla leader Rodrigo "Timochenko" Londono signed the new deal with a pen made from a spent bullet, in a low-key ceremony in the capital Bogota. The new plan bypasses a vote by the Colombian people, against bitter opposition from critics.

All Blacks put France's reinvigorated team to acid test Posted: 24 Nov 2016 05:08 PM PST PARIS (AP) — It's time for France to find out how much it has improved under Guy Noves.

Romero scores 17 as No. 10 Florida State routs Winthrop Posted: 24 Nov 2016 04:59 PM PST ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) — Leticia Romero is finally feeling like her old self, and No. 10 Florida State can finally show what it's capable of on the court.

Venezuela crisis talks wobble, December meeting key Posted: 24 Nov 2016 04:53 PM PST Talks aimed at easing Venezuela's economic and political crisis are threatening to run off the rails and could come to a head on December 6, opposition members warned Thursday. The Vatican-backed "dialogue" aims to calm tensions as the center-right opposition demands a vote on removing Socialist President Nicolas Maduro. The opposition MUD coalition this week accused the government of boycotting the talks.

Armed man kills woman in French missionaries' home Posted: 24 Nov 2016 04:50 PM PST Montferrier-sur-Lez (France) (AFP) - An armed man stabbed a woman employee to death after bursting into a retirement home for missionaries in southern France on Thursday, a prosecutor said. The man, wearing a mask and carrying a sawn-off shotgun and a knife, tied up and killed the woman who worked at the home in the village of Montferrier-sur-Lez near Montpellier. More than 70 men and women who have served as missionaries in Africa live at the home.

Man City aim to extend unbeaten run at Burnley Posted: 24 Nov 2016 04:49 PM PST Manchester City head into their Premier League match against Burnley on Saturday boosted by having secured a place in the last 16 of the Champions League with a game to spare after a midweek draw at Borussia Moenchengladbach. The 1-1 result in Germany means manager Pep Guardiola and his City players can focus on the Premier League for the next month or so, beginning with a visit to Burnley.

IBM 'failed' on Australia's census: Australian PM Posted: 24 Nov 2016 04:44 PM PST International Business Machines Corp failed in its handling of the A$10 million ($7.4 million) IT contract for Australia's first predominantly online census, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Friday. IBM was the lead contractor for the five-yearly Aug. 9 household survey by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) that went offline the day after four distributed denial of service attacks that were caused by the website being flooded with clicks. "This was not a particularly clever attack or some great international assault on the census," Turnbull told Melbourne's 3AW radio on Friday.

Hurricane Otto weakens as it moves across southern Nicaragua Posted: 24 Nov 2016 04:41 PM PST MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Hurricane Otto weakened rapidly as it moved across southern Nicaragua on Thursday after making landfall on that country's Caribbean coast as a dangerous Category 2 storm. It was the southernmost hurricane on record to hit Central America.

Hungary's leader had phone conversation with Donald Trump Posted: 24 Nov 2016 04:29 PM PST BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's prime minister said Thursday he spoke on the phone with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who invited him to Washington.

Gunman bursts into French monks' residence, kills woman Posted: 24 Nov 2016 04:25 PM PST PARIS (AP) — The French gendarmerie says a masked gunman has burst into a retirement home for monks in southern France and killed an elderly woman with a knife.

Battle surrounds Trump's secretary of state pick Posted: 24 Nov 2016 04:23 PM PST As families across a bitterly divided America gathered for Thanksgiving, a battle erupted Thursday in Donald Trump's camp over his pick for secretary of state, with loyalists seeking to block the path of Mitt Romney, a fierce former critic of the billionaire. With the president-elect hunkered down at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida for the holiday weekend -- from where he urged the country to unite after a "painful" campaign -- his team appears split over the prospect of making Romney, the Republican presidential candidate in 2012, America's top diplomat. Some of Trump's staunchest supporters have united to oppose naming a man who called the real estate magnate a "fraud" and a "conman" during the campaign, when he helped lead the party establishment's drive to sideline him.

The Latest: Hurricane Otto weakens to Category 1 storm Posted: 24 Nov 2016 04:22 PM PST MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — The Latest on Hurricane Otto (all times local):

One dead in attack on missionaries' home in France, suspect at large Posted: 24 Nov 2016 04:19 PM PST Police are searching for an armed man after finding a dead woman in a retirement home where some 60 missionaries are living in southwestern France, sources close to the matter said on Friday. The security forces have evacuated the residents, about 60, who are safe and sound," a local official told Reuters, adding that the search in the building was over. The home houses retired missionaries that had worked in Africa as well as a few nuns.

New Zealand 77-2 at lunch on day 1 in 2nd test vs. Pakistan Posted: 24 Nov 2016 04:14 PM PST HAMILTON, New Zealand (AP) — Newcomer Jeet Raval continued to prove his value to New Zealand as he batted through a tough first session to guide his team to 77-2 at lunch Friday on the first day of the second cricket test against Pakistan.

Residents of French retirement home safe, suspect still at large: official Posted: 24 Nov 2016 03:52 PM PST Police have brought to safety about 60 residents of a monks' retirement home in southwestern France where a woman was found dead but are still searching for an armed individual, a local official said on Friday. The security forces have evacuated the residents, about 60, who are safe and sound," the official told Reuters, adding that the search in the building was over.

Rooney leads Man United to 4-0 win with record-breaking goal Posted: 24 Nov 2016 03:49 PM PST Wayne Rooney surpassed Ruud van Nistelrooy as Manchester United's all-time top scorer in European competitions on Thursday, leading the English club to a 4-0 win over Feyenoord and keeping it alive in the Europa League.

Greece: 2 dead as fire rages through refugee camp Posted: 24 Nov 2016 03:44 PM PST ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Police say two people have died on the Greek island of Lesbos and two others were seriously injured after a fire raged through a refugee camp used for migrants facing deportation back to Turkey.

FA chairman regrets 'appalling' failure over abuse coach Posted: 24 Nov 2016 03:34 PM PST The chairman of England's Football Association said Thursday the governing body's failure to respond after a youth coach's conviction for sexually abusing young players was "appalling". Barry Bennell, who worked for Crewe Alexandra, Manchester City, Stoke City and several junior teams in northwest England, was given a four-year sentence for raping a British boy on a football tour of Florida in 1994 and a nine-year sentence for 23 offences against six boys in England in 1998.

China sends environmental inspection teams to seven more regions Posted: 24 Nov 2016 03:32 PM PST China has dispatched another seven environmental inspection teams to check how its anti-pollution rules are being implemented throughout the regions, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said late on Thursday. China's environment ministry was given authority earlier this year to investigate regions and enterprises without prior warning, and it was also empowered to summon any local government or company official to account for their actions.

Migrants torch Greek camp after refugee deaths Posted: 24 Nov 2016 03:32 PM PST Angry migrants set fire to a camp on the Greek island of Lesbos Thursday after a woman and her child died following a gas cylinder explosion, local police said. In an apparent act of rage, migrants then set fire to the Moria camp on Lesbos, causing significant damage, police said. Several fires have erupted in refugee camps on the Greek islands, where some 16,000 people became stranded after the European Union signed a deal that was aimed at stemming the influx of migrants.

Colombia government, rebels sign revised peace agreement Posted: 24 Nov 2016 03:23 PM PST BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos signed a revised peace agreement with the country's largest rebel movement on Thursday, making a second attempt within months to end a half century of hostilities.

Car bomb attack kills 8 soldiers in Egypt's Sinai Posted: 24 Nov 2016 03:22 PM PST Eight Egyptian soldiers were killed in a car bomb attack targeting a checkpoint in Sinai, where the local affiliate of the Islamic State group is leading an insurgency, the army said Thursday. "A group of armed terrorists attacked one of the security checkpoints in north Sinai," the army spokesman said. "A car bomb attack, the clashes that ensued and a blast targeting one of the vehicles left eight members of the armed forces dead," he added.

1 big difference between French primary candidates: Russia Posted: 24 Nov 2016 03:11 PM PST PARIS (AP) — Perhaps the biggest difference between the two men competing in France's conservative presidential primary is how they view Vladimir Putin's Russia. And whatever French voters decide in Sunday's primary runoff, it's pretty clear what Putin's preference would be.

No. 10 Louisville beats Wichita State 62-52 in Bahamas Posted: 24 Nov 2016 03:05 PM PST PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) — Louisville added a late-night wrinkle to its defense, ran out to a big lead and hung on to earn a trip to the Battle 4 Atlantis championship game.

Record man Rooney gives Man Utd Europa lift Posted: 24 Nov 2016 03:05 PM PST Wayne Rooney became Manchester United's outright leading European goal-scorer as Jose Mourinho's side enhanced their chances of progressing in the Europa League by sinking Feyenoord 4-0 on Thursday. Rooney struck in the 35th minute to claim his 39th European goal, one more than Ruud van Nistelrooy, and move to within just one goal of Bobby Charlton's all-time club scoring record of 249.

Man Utd big winners, Southampton left sweating Posted: 24 Nov 2016 02:59 PM PST Wayne Rooney claimed a piece of club history as he set Manchester United on the way to a 4-0 Europa League win over Feyenoord on Thursday that saw them close on the last 32. Rooney got the opening goal against the Dutch side at Old Trafford to score for the 39th time in Europe, matching Ruud van Nistelrooy's club record. Juan Mata and Jesse Lingard also netted either side of an own goal by Brad Jones and United now need only draw away to Zorya Luhansk in their final Group A match to qualify.

Hurricane, quake hit Central America Posted: 24 Nov 2016 02:53 PM PST Central America suffered a hurricane and offshore earthquake at the same time on Thursday, triggering alarm in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Costa Rica but no immediate reports of any casualties. Nicaragua was caught in the middle of both events, with Hurricane Otto, a storm packing winds of up to 175 kilometers (110 miles) per hour at the time, plowing into its Caribbean coast while the 7.0 quake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, off its other coast. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega declared a national emergency to handle both potential disasters.

Magnitude 7.0 offshore quake rattles El Salvador Posted: 24 Nov 2016 02:52 PM PST SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A magnitude 7.0 earthquake rattled El Salvador's Pacific coast Thursday, but the country's civil defense agency said there were no immediate reports of damages or injuries.

France urges labelling goods from Israeli settlements Posted: 24 Nov 2016 02:42 PM PST PARIS (AP) — France published an official notification Thursday urging businesses to use labels to identify goods produced in the Israeli settlements, prompting a swift condemnation from Israel.

BHP Vale to fund, extend credit over Samarco disaster Posted: 24 Nov 2016 02:36 PM PST BHP Billiton and Vale Sa have each approved $181 million to fund remediation and compensation programs at the Samarco iron ore joint venture in Brazil following a deadly mine disaster in November 2015. Likewise, BHP and Vale will each extend credit lines of $115 million each to Samarco, the companies said. BHP told Reuters in October it expects to complete work by year-end to contain the remaining waste that spewed from the Samarco iron ore project, causing Brazil's worst environmental disaster on record.

Turkey says 3 troops killed in Syrian government airstrike Posted: 24 Nov 2016 02:34 PM PST ISTANBUL (AP) — Three Turkish soldiers were killed in northern Syria in what the Turkish military said was a pre-dawn Syrian airstrike on Thursday, an account disputed by Syrian activists, who said the soldiers were killed by an Islamic State suicide attack the day before.

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