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• On sensitive U.S. stopover, Taiwan leader connects to Twitter
• Iraqi forces advance at Mosul University, take areas along Tigris: officials
• At Paris meeting, major powers to warn Trump over Middle East peace
• Trump team struggles for cohesion on tougher China policy
• Venezuela's Maduro oversees military drill to guard 'socialist fatherland'
• Police take three for questioning after anti-terror raids in Brussels
• At least 3 killed in new Brazil prison beheadings
• Reports: Fighting in Brazil prison leaves at least 10 dead
• Dolce&Gabbana court millennials, Plein launches activewear
• Top Asian News 12:53 a.m. GMT
• Cuban migrants steps from US border hope for Trump solution
• Another suspected mastermind in Bangladesh attack arrested
• New Zealand 402-6 at lunch on day 4, 1st test vs. Bangladesh
• Emission probes could widen beyond Renault in France: Minister
• Iraq makes swift territorial gains against IS in Mosul
• Police hold 3 after Brussels anti-terror raids: reports
• Japan, Australia to strengthen defense ties, stress importance of TPP
• Twenty years after Diana campaign, new landmine crisis plagues Iraq and Syria
• An NBA franchise in Mexico is not yet on the horizon
• Britain's May to call for national unity in major Brexit speech
• Trump unleashes attack on US civil rights icon
• Australia names 4 spin specialists for India test series
• Major winter storm brings ice, freezing rain to central U.S.
• Blackout hits western and southern Libya
• Munster join Leinster in European Cup quarter-finals
• Emission probes could widen beyond Renault in France: Minister
• Alvaro Ortiz, Toto Gana share Latin America Amateur lead
• Icardi scores to help Inter fight back to beat Chievo 3-1
• Puerto Rican lawmakers pass controversial labor reform
• IOM: Only 4 survivors from migrant shipwreck off Libya
• On sensitive U.S. stopover, Taiwan leader connects to Twitter
• Benfica rallies from 3 goals down in Portuguese league
• Ricardo Lagos, ex-Chile president, runs to lead country again
• Thousands rally in Spain for ETA prisoner amnesty
• Mexico arrests man linked to murder of Honduran activist
• Chile city in state of emergency over wildfires
• Mali urges Gambia's leader to avoid 'bloodbath' and step down
• F1 great Stirling Moss, 87, in hospital with chest infection
• Costa, Payet absent but Chelsea, West Ham still both win 3-0

On sensitive U.S. stopover, Taiwan leader connects to Twitter Posted: 14 Jan 2017 04:07 PM PST By Jane Lanhee Lee SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, carving a careful diplomatic path on her stopovers in the United States, visited the headquarters of micro-messaging service Twitter Inc on Saturday and created a new account. A source with knowledge of the president's travel through San Francisco told Reuters she opened a Twitter account in English. Another source at the meeting said Tsai met with Twitter General Counsel Vijaya Gadde and that CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey was not present.

Iraqi forces advance at Mosul University, take areas along Tigris: officials Posted: 14 Jan 2017 01:07 PM PST By Isabel Coles and John Davison MOSUL, Iraq/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi special forces drove back Islamic State militants in the Mosul University campus on Saturday, while elite police units took over large areas along the east bank of the Tigris river, military officials said. The head of Iraq's Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) said security forces were close to seizing the entire east bank of the Tigris, which bisects Mosul north to south.

At Paris meeting, major powers to warn Trump over Middle East peace Posted: 14 Jan 2017 12:54 PM PST By John Irish and Lesley Wroughton PARIS (Reuters) - Major powers will send a message to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday that a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians is the only way forward, and warn that his plan to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem could derail peace efforts. Some 70 countries, including key European and Arab states as well as the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, are due in Paris for a meeting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected as "futile" and "rigged". Neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians will be represented.

Trump team struggles for cohesion on tougher China policy Posted: 14 Jan 2017 10:51 AM PST By David Brunnstrom and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The incoming U.S. administration's tough talk against China has set the stage for showdowns on everything from security to trade and cyberspace, but contradictory signals are sowing uncertainty over how far President-elect Donald Trump is prepared to go in confronting Beijing. Highlighting the contested South China Sea as a potential flashpoint, Trump's Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson threw out an explosive challenge to Beijing on Wednesday by calling for it be denied access to artificial islands it is building in the strategic waterway. A Trump transition adviser told Reuters that Tillerson, Trump's pick to be America's top diplomat, did not mean to suggest the new administration would impose a naval blockade, which would risk armed confrontation with China, something the new administration was not seeking.

Venezuela's Maduro oversees military drill to guard 'socialist fatherland' Posted: 14 Jan 2017 12:40 PM PST By Alexandra Ulmer CARACAS (Reuters) - His finger on a rifle trigger and wearing an olive green hat, President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday oversaw military exercises in crisis-wrought Venezuela, which he says is under threat of imperialist" invasion due to its oil wealth. State television broadcast footage of soldiers camouflaged as bushes shouting "socialist fatherland!" while commanders brandished Russian-made military equipment. "We're ready to defend our land, inch by inch, neighborhood by neighborhood, street by street," said Maduro during a drill in Miranda state.

Police take three for questioning after anti-terror raids in Brussels Posted: 14 Jan 2017 02:53 PM PST Belgian police detained three people for questioning after carrying out house searches in Brussels that were related to an anti-terrorism investigation, prosecutors said on Saturday. The house searches were carried out in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, which gained international attention when locals with links to Syria took part in the November 2015 attacks that killed 130 people in Paris. "The searches were carried out as part of an investigation by Brussels prosecutors," a spokeswoman for Brussels prosecutors said.

At least 3 killed in new Brazil prison beheadings Posted: 14 Jan 2017 05:35 PM PST At least three inmates were brutally executed and decapitated Saturday in a prison in Brazil's north, just days after 100 detainees died in prisons during gang-related bloodletting, officials said. The violence erupted at the Alcacuz correctional center, the biggest in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, when members of one gang were able to storm into another where rival gang members were held. "There are at least three inmates dead because we were able to see their heads," state prisons manager Zemilton Silva told local media.

Reports: Fighting in Brazil prison leaves at least 10 dead Posted: 14 Jan 2017 05:18 PM PST RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Fighting between rival gangs in a prison in northern Brazil on Saturday has reportedly left at least 10 inmates dead in the latest in a series of massacres in the South American country's penitentiaries. Three of the victims were beheaded.

Dolce&Gabbana court millennials, Plein launches activewear Posted: 14 Jan 2017 05:14 PM PST MILAN (AP) — If turmoil brings innovation and renovation, Italian menswear is in for a creative burst.

Top Asian News 12:53 a.m. GMT Posted: 14 Jan 2017 04:53 PM PST NEW DELHI (AP) — Counterterrorism police in Bangladesh have arrested another suspected mastermind of a July attack on a restaurant in the capital, officials said. The suspect, Jahangir Alam, was picked up on Friday night in a raid in Tangail district, 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of the capital, Dhaka, said Monirul Islam, head of the Counterterrorism and Transnational Crime Unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police. Details of the arrest procedures were not clear. The July 1 attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery, a popular restaurant frequented by foreigners and wealthy Bangladeshis, left 20 hostages, including 17 foreigners, dead. Five young men belonging to the domestic militant group Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh, or JMB, stormed the restaurant, sprayed bullets and threw grenades, and slaughtered the hostages.

Cuban migrants steps from US border hope for Trump solution Posted: 14 Jan 2017 04:53 PM PST CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — Dozens of Cuban immigrants remained stranded in Nuevo Laredo across the border from Texas on Saturday, uncertain what would happen following Washington's decision to end their privileged immigration access this week.

Another suspected mastermind in Bangladesh attack arrested Posted: 14 Jan 2017 04:53 PM PST NEW DELHI (AP) — Counterterrorism police in Bangladesh have arrested another suspected mastermind of a July attack on a restaurant in the capital, officials said.

New Zealand 402-6 at lunch on day 4, 1st test vs. Bangladesh Posted: 14 Jan 2017 04:34 PM PST WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Tom Latham was out for 177 and Henry Nicholls made a slow but timely half century as New Zealand edged past the follow on mark before lunch Sunday on the fourth day of the first cricket test against Bangladesh.

Emission probes could widen beyond Renault in France: Minister Posted: 14 Jan 2017 04:21 PM PST A judicial investigation into diesel emissions testing in France could widen beyond Renault after tests showed other carmakers had exceeded the authorized levels, the French environment minister said on Sunday, without elaborating. Shares in Renault fell more than 4 percent to their lowest level in around a month on Friday after a source at the Paris prosecutor's office said it had launched a judicial probe into possible cheating on exhaust emissions at the French carmaker. Volkswagen's admission that some of its diesel vehicles were fitted with software designed to hide the true level of emissions they produced has highlighted that most cars spew out far greater amounts of health-threatening nitrogen oxide (NOx) in everyday driving conditions than in laboratory tests.

Iraq makes swift territorial gains against IS in Mosul Posted: 14 Jan 2017 04:11 PM PST MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi forces have won a string of swift territorial gains in Mosul in the fight against the Islamic State group after months of slow progress, with a senior officer on Saturday laying claim to a cluster of buildings inside Mosul University and another edge of a bridge.

Police hold 3 after Brussels anti-terror raids: reports Posted: 14 Jan 2017 04:06 PM PST Belgian police were holding three people for questioning after anti-terror raids late Saturday in central Brussels, reports said. Four raids took place in the Molenbeek district but no arms or explosives were found, the Belga news agency said, citing a spokeswoman for the Brussels prosecutor's office. The gritty Molenbeek area was home to several of those who took part in the deadly Islamic State-claimed November 2015 attacks in Paris and the suicide bombings of Brussels airport and the metro in March 2016.

Japan, Australia to strengthen defense ties, stress importance of TPP Posted: 14 Jan 2017 04:06 PM PST By Harry Pearl SYDNEY (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met his Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull in Sydney on Saturday where the pair agreed to deepen defense ties and stressed the importance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Abe's visit comes amid heightened regional tension in the South China Sea and fears U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will push ahead with his pledge to kill the trade agreement once he takes office on Jan. 20. "We have confirmed our commitment to the rule of law, free trade and open markets in our region," Turnbull told reporters at a joint press conference.

Twenty years after Diana campaign, new landmine crisis plagues Iraq and Syria Posted: 14 Jan 2017 04:03 PM PST By Astrid Zweynert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Twenty years after Princess Diana's iconic visit to a minefield in Angola, the world faces a new landmine crisis in Syria and Iraq on a scale not seen for decades, campaigners said on Sunday. The Mines Advisory Group said it had cleared and destroyed more than 9,000 newly laid landmines in both countries in the past six months in areas formerly occupied by the Islamic State militant group. Jane Cocking, the group's chief executive, said at least $100 million of additional funding will be needed per year to tackle both newly laid land mines and those still in the soil from previous conflicts in more than 60 countries.

An NBA franchise in Mexico is not yet on the horizon Posted: 14 Jan 2017 04:02 PM PST MEXICO CITY (AP) — An NBA franchise in Mexico City? Not so fast.

Britain's May to call for national unity in major Brexit speech Posted: 14 Jan 2017 04:02 PM PST Prime Minister Theresa May will use a major speech on Brexit next week to call on Britons to reject the acrimony of last year's referendum and unite around the vision of a Britain more open to the world, her office said on Sunday. May intends to kick off the formal process of negotiating the terms of Britain's exit from the European Union by the end of March, but has given little away about what deal she will be seeking, frustrating some investors, businesses and lawmakers. "Now we need to put an end to the division and the language associated with it – 'Leaver' and 'Remainer' and all the accompanying insults – and unite to make a success of Brexit and build a truly Global Britain," May is expected to say.

Trump unleashes attack on US civil rights icon Posted: 14 Jan 2017 03:55 PM PST President-elect Donald Trump lashed out Saturday at a prominent civil rights icon and lawmaker who said he is skipping next week's inauguration ceremony because he sees the New York businessman's election as illegitimate. Trump aimed his latest Twitter blast at longtime congressman John Lewis and the majority-black district in Georgia he represents, drawing widespread criticism just days before the holiday honoring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. A park near the monument to King was the endpoint Saturday of the first major protest in Washington ahead of Trump's January 20 inauguration: nearly 2,000 people rallied both in honor of King and against the president-elect.

Australia names 4 spin specialists for India test series Posted: 14 Jan 2017 03:48 PM PST SYDNEY (AP) — Uncapped legspinner Mitch Swepson was named among four specialist spinners in the Australia cricket squad for a four-test series in India from Feb. 23.

Major winter storm brings ice, freezing rain to central U.S. Posted: 14 Jan 2017 03:38 PM PST (Reuters) - Freezing rain fell across much of the Great Plains and Midwest on Saturday as a major ice storm already blamed for the death of a motorist in Missouri and dozens of canceled flights threatened to wreak further havoc. Ice, freezing rain and winter weather warnings and advisories were in effect for a vast swath of the country stretching from northern Texas east across parts of the Midwest and into the Washington D.C. area, according to the National Weather Service.

Blackout hits western and southern Libya Posted: 14 Jan 2017 03:22 PM PST Western Libya was plunged into darkness late on Saturday as a blackout already affecting the south spread to the capital, Tripoli, and other major cities, the national power company said. The blackout extended from Libya's western border with Tunisia to the city of Ajdabiya, nearly 900 km (560 miles) to the east, national power company GECOL said in a statement. The electricity grid had collapsed because a number of cities in western Libya had rejected terms for sharing out power cuts, it said.

Munster join Leinster in European Cup quarter-finals Posted: 14 Jan 2017 03:11 PM PST Paris (AFP) - Two-time winners Munster joined fellow Irish side Leinster in the European Champions Cup quarter-finals on Saturday with a fractious 14-12 win over Glasgow.

Emission probes could widen beyond Renault in France: Minister Posted: 14 Jan 2017 03:04 PM PST A judicial investigation into diesel emissions testing in France could widen beyond Renault after tests showed other carmakers had exceeded the authorized levels, the French environment minister said on Sunday, without elaborating. Shares in Renault fell more than 4 percent to their lowest level in around a month on Friday after a source at the Paris prosecutor's office said it had launched a judicial probe into possible cheating on exhaust emissions at the French carmaker. Volkswagen's admission that some of its diesel vehicles were fitted with software designed to hide the true level of emissions they produced has highlighted that most cars spew out far greater amounts of health-threatening nitrogen oxide (NOx) in everyday driving conditions than in laboratory tests.

Alvaro Ortiz, Toto Gana share Latin America Amateur lead Posted: 14 Jan 2017 02:39 PM PST PANAMA CITY (AP) — Alvaro Ortiz of Mexico and Toto Gana of Chile handled the breezy conditions Saturday to share the lead in the Latin America Amateur Championship and go into the final round with a spot in the Masters at stake.

Icardi scores to help Inter fight back to beat Chievo 3-1 Posted: 14 Jan 2017 02:35 PM PST MILAN (AP) — Serie A's top goalscorer will not be moving to the Chinese Super League anytime soon.

Puerto Rican lawmakers pass controversial labor reform Posted: 14 Jan 2017 02:31 PM PST SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's House of Representatives approved on Saturday a controversial labor reform called for by a federal control board overseeing the island's finances as part of efforts to improve economic conditions on the U.S. territory.

IOM: Only 4 survivors from migrant shipwreck off Libya Posted: 14 Jan 2017 02:28 PM PST ROME (AP) — A migrant ship carrying around 100 people capsized in the frigid waters off Libya on Saturday and only four survivors had been rescued after hours of searching, aid groups said.

On sensitive U.S. stopover, Taiwan leader connects to Twitter Posted: 14 Jan 2017 02:16 PM PST By Jane Lanhee Lee SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, carving a careful diplomatic path on her stopovers in the United States, visited the headquarters of micro-messaging service Twitter Inc and opened her official account on Saturday. A source with knowledge of the president's travel through San Francisco told Reuters she met with the "head of Twitter" but declined to confirm if that person was CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey. The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, did not provide further details of her meetings in the U.S. tech capital.

Benfica rallies from 3 goals down in Portuguese league Posted: 14 Jan 2017 02:14 PM PST LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portuguese league leader Benfica salvaged a 3-3 home draw against Boavista after conceding three times in the first 25 minutes on Saturday.

Ricardo Lagos, ex-Chile president, runs to lead country again Posted: 14 Jan 2017 01:56 PM PST Ricardo Lagos, a leading opponent of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet who later went on to serve as president from 2000 to 2006, on Saturday accepted his party's nomination to run in the 2017 presidential election. The 78-year-old, who will represent the center-left Party for Democracy (PPD), vowed to improve communication between politicians and the public, invest in infrastructure, push forward with pension and education reform and tackle low productivity. Lagos is well-known in Chile for his central role in the battle to bring democracy to the country in the 1980s.

Thousands rally in Spain for ETA prisoner amnesty Posted: 14 Jan 2017 01:46 PM PST Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Bilbao in northern Spain on Saturday, calling for amnesty for prisoners of the ETA Basque separatist group. Protesters in the Basque country, who hold this demonstration every January, held up placards of a finger pointing to the sky as they denounced the prison conditions endured by Basque separatists. Almost all members of ETA, a group that gave up armed resistence to Spain in 2011, have been jailed but the movement has refused to disband.

Mexico arrests man linked to murder of Honduran activist Posted: 14 Jan 2017 01:46 PM PST MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities say they have arrested a member of the Honduran military wanted in connection with the March 2016 murder of a prominent environmental activist in Honduras.

Chile city in state of emergency over wildfires Posted: 14 Jan 2017 01:43 PM PST Chile on Saturday declared a local state of emergency over wildfires plaguing the landmark tourist-draw city of Valparaiso. The hilly Pacific city, part of which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has been put under military authority to coordinate firefighting and government asset deployment efforts.

Mali urges Gambia's leader to avoid 'bloodbath' and step down Posted: 14 Jan 2017 01:39 PM PST Mali's president called Saturday for Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh to step down and avoid an unnecessary "bloodbath" by clinging to power and forcing a potential military intervention. The Gambia's political crisis dominated a summit co-organised by Mali and France as Gambian president-elect Adama Barrow made a surprise appearance to meet with west African leaders seeking their help to end the impasse. "On January 19, I dare to hope that African wisdom will convince our brother (Jammeh) that the good Muslim that he claims to be understands the greater good for The Gambia, which does not need a bloodbath," President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita told journalists.

F1 great Stirling Moss, 87, in hospital with chest infection Posted: 14 Jan 2017 01:37 PM PST LONDON (AP) — The family of Stirling Moss says the British motor racing great is recovering from a severe chest infection in a Singapore hospital.

Costa, Payet absent but Chelsea, West Ham still both win 3-0 Posted: 14 Jan 2017 01:32 PM PST LONDON (AP) — Top-scorer Diego Costa wasn't missed by English Premier League leader Chelsea.

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