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09-04-2014 10:50 AM |
Ukraine, Russia agree peace moves but fighting rages on
- http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Hl...CASUALTIES.JPGBy Gareth Jones and Vladimir Soldatkin KIEV/ULAN BATOR (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday a deal to end fighting in eastern Ukraine could be reached this week, a clear attempt to show the West he was trying to deescalate the conflict despite renewed shelling. After speaking with Ukraine's Petro Poroshenko, Putin said their views on ending the violence were "very close" and Kiev and the rebels could reach an agreement by Friday, much-needed respite for the Ukrainian leader battling a crumbling eco**my. President Barack Obama said a ceasefire would succeed only if Moscow stopped sending troops to Ukraine.
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Obama says will 'degrade and destroy' Islamic State
- By Balazs Koranyi and David Mardiste TALLINN (Reuters) - The United States plans to fight Islamic State until it is ** longer a force in the Middle East and will seek justice for the killing of American journalist Steven Sotloff, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday. He added that destroying the militant group will take time because of the power vacuum in Syria, the abundance of battle-hardened fighters that grew out of al Qaeda during the Iraq war, and the need to build coalitions, including with local Sunni communities. Islamic State released a video on Tuesday showing the beheading of the U.S. "The bottom line is this, our objective is clear and that is to degrade and destroy (Islamic State) so that it's ** longer a threat **t just to Iraq but also the region and to the United States," Obama told a news conference.
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Guinea detects Ebola in new region as U.S. warns outbreak out of control
- http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/XO...ALTH-EBOLA.JPGBy Saliou Samb and Daniel Flynn CONAKRY/DAKAR (Reuters) - Guinea's government said on Wednesday that Ebola had spread to a previously unaffected region of the country, as U.S. Guinea, the first country to detect the hemorrhagic fever in March, had said it was containing the outbreak but authorities an**unced that nine new cases had been found in the southeastern prefecture of Kerouane. The area, some 750 km (470 miles) southeast of the capital Conakry, lies close to where the virus was first detected deep in Guinea's forest region. The epidemic has since spread to four other West African countries and killed more than 1,500 people.
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Path to jihad: from upscale Cairo to Islamic State beheadings
- http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Cw...RISIS-IRAQ.JPGBy Mahmoud Mourad CAIRO (Reuters) - After leaving his upscale Cairo neighborhood to fight with the Islamic State militant group in Syria and Iraq, Younes says he learned how to work as a sniper, fire heavy ******ry and behead prisoners using the proper technique. One year later he harbors the kind of ambition that could create a security nightmare for Egyptian authorities: to return home and hoist the Islamic State's black flag in Egypt as his comrades have over large swathes of Iraq and Syria. Eventually, says Younes, he and other Egyptian fighters in Islamic State intend to topple Egypt's U.S.-backed government and extend their caliphate to the biggest Arab nation. "We will **t be able to change the situation in Egypt from inside, but Egypt is to be opened from abroad," Younes, who asked that his last name be withheld, told Reuters in an interview conducted by Facebook.
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Obama says NATO must help strengthen Ukraine's military
- http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/vZ...CASUALTIES.JPGPresident Barack Obama urged NATO on Wednesday to help strengthen Ukraine's military and said the alliance must leave the door open to new members to counter what he called Russian aggression. Obama was speaking in Estonia, one of three ex-Soviet Baltic states bordering Russia that fear separatist rebellion in eastern Ukraine could herald problems for them. Obama, who will attend a NATO summit in Wales on Thursday, accused Russia of a 'brazen assault' on Ukraine, which for five months has been fighting pro-Russian separatists that Moscow describes as a defense force warding off Ukrainian aggressors.
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Israel shows evidence of rocket fire from Gaza schools
- http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/oy...DEAST-GAZA.JPGBy Luke Baker TEL AVIV (Reuters) - The Israeli military has provided its most detailed assessment yet of the conduct and impact of the Gaza war, including photographs indicating that militants stored and fired rockets from schools and a breakdown of the toll inflicted on Hamas. In a briefing at its headquarters in Tel Aviv, the Israel Defense Forces presented a minute picture of the structure and capability of Hamas and other militant groups operating in Gaza, an effort to explain the severity of the threat Israel faced and justify Israel's heavy tank shelling and air strikes during the 50-day conflict -- tactics that drew international criticism. Among the evidence laid out by a senior military ******r were details of the ranges and number of rockets fired by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, photographs showing how rocket launchers were hidden in graveyards and a school playground, and how tunnels were used to carry out and escape from the site of attacks.
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Shakhtar says club HQ occupied by armed men
- DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian soccer champion Shakhtar Donetsk says its club headquarters has been occupied by "armed men" as fighting between government troops and separatists continues.
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West Africa Ebola death toll accelerates to more than 1,900: WHO
- More than 1,900 people have died in the world's worst outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, marking a major acceleration in fatalities from just over 1,500 last week. Margaret Chan told a news conference in Washington that 3,500 confirmed or probable cases of Ebola have been reported in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia as of this week.
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Paris suspends delivery of warship to Russia over Ukraine
- http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/4y...6311-1-1-0.jpgFrance said Wednesday "conditions" were **t in place to deliver the first of two Mistral-class warships to Russia, a move planned later this year that has sparked controversy given the crisis in Ukraine. Paris agreed in 2011 to build and sell the two advanced helicopter assault ships to Russia for a total of 1.2 billion euros ($1.6 billion) with the first scheduled for delivery in October or **vember and the second in 2015. Until recently, French leaders had refused to back down on a sale crucial to a country suffering from stagnant growth and record-high unemployment, despite widespread condemnation due to Russia's involvement in the Ukraine crisis. "The President of the Republic declared that, despite the prospect of a ceasefire which still remains to be confirmed and implemented, the conditions for France to deliver the first warship are **t to date in place," Francois Hollande's ****** an**unced Wednesday in a statement, on the eve of a major NATO summit.
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Iran denies pulling out of Sudan cultural centers
- CAIRO (AP) — A semi-official news agency in Iran is reporting that the Islamic Republic has denied pulling out of its cultural centers in Sudan after the government there ordered them closed.
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Somalia Shebab chief likely dead in US strike
- http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/5J...3812-1-1-0.jpgThe death of the leader of Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels in a US air strike is a "very strong probability," but still remains unconfirmed, security sources told AFP Wednesday. Pentagon press secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby confirmed that the late Monday attack was aimed at the group's leader Ahmed Abdi Godane, also referred to as Abu-Zubayr, and that the ordnance definitely hit a meeting of Shebab chiefs. "US special operations forces using manned and unmanned aircraft destroyed an encampment and a vehicle using several Hellfire missiles and laser-guided munitions," Kirby said.
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Poland says Ukraine should get support to counter military threats
- Poland believes that Ukraine should be supported to increase its resilience to military threats, Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski said on the eve of a NATO summit in Wales. "Poland's position is that it is **t only worth discussing, (...) but Ukraine should be supported **t only by sanctions, but also by extending military-technical support," Komorowski told a news briefing before leaving for Wales. "This is **t equivalent with an engagement of NATO in military actions, but it is a **rmal thing to support countries whom you wish well also in terms of increasing their resilience to military threats." Earlier on Wednesday, U.S.
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U.S. GMO labeling foes triple spending in first half of this year over 2013
- http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/LE...LITICS-GMO.JPGOpponents of mandatory labeling for foods made with genetically modified organisms spent more than $27 million in the first six months of this year on GMO-related lobbying, roughly three times their spending in all of 2013, according to an analysis released Wednesday. The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and major food makers such as Coca-Cola Co and PepsiCo Inc and top biotech seed makers Monsanto Co and DuPont were among heavy spenders on GMO labeling-related lobbying, according to a report issued by the Environmental Working Group. All told, the opponents of GMO labeling disclosed $15.2 million in lobbying expenditures for the second quarter of 2014, bringing the six-month total for 2014 to $27.5 million. Representative Mike Pompeo that would block state laws that require GMO labeling on food packages.
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Lesotho PM safely back home after 'coup'
- http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/_C...ac296e0f67.jpgLesotho's embattled prime minister, who fled an apparent coup attempt at the weekend, was escorted home by South African police under tight security Wednesday, an aide said. Prime Minister Tom Thabane "got in safely", one of his aides Samonyane Ntsekele told AFP by phone from the premier's official residence, which remained under guard by the South Africans. After regional mediators brokered a deal to ease the country's political crisis at an emergency meeting in Pretoria, Thabane was due to return home on Tuesday but his departure from South Africa was delayed over security fears. "Security measures were in place and so far we are fine," said newly-appointed army chief General Maaparankoe Mahao, who also fled to South Africa after an attempt to assassinate him.
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Russia beats Azerbaijan 4-0 in friendly
- MOSCOW (AP) — Alexander Kerzhakov became Russia's record scorer Wednesday as his team thrashed Azerbaijan 4-0 in a friendly.
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Group: Islamic militants killed 770 Iraqi troops
- BAGHDAD (AP) — Militants from the Islamic State group carried out a mass killing of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers captured when the extremists overran a military base **rth of Baghdad in June, a leading international watchdog said Wednesday.
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Costco is fined, to fix refrigerant leaks in Clean Air Act case
- http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/7X...HATTOWATCH.JPG(Reuters) - Costco Wholesale Corp will pay a $335,000 fine and spend about $2 million over three years to fix refrigerant leaks and make other improvements at 274 stores to settle allegations that the warehouse club operator violated the federal Clean Air Act. Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday said Costco failed from 2004 to 2007 to promptly repair leaks from its refrigeration equipment of the refrigerant R-22, an ozone-depleting greenhouse gas with roughly 1,800 times more global warming potential than carbon dioxide. Costco also failed to keep adequate records of its servicing of refrigeration equipment to prevent leaks, the agencies said. The settlement requires Costco to retrofit or replace commercial refrigeration equipment at 30 stores.
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Top Asian News at 5:00 p.m. GMT
- UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council called Wednesday on "countries with influence" to press al-Qaida-linked insurgents to release 45 U.N. peacekeepers from Fiji abducted last week in the Golan Heights. A press statement approved by all 15 council members after a briefing by U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous again demanded the immediate and unconditional release of the Fijian peacekeepers.
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IS '**t invincible,' weakened by air strikes: US official
- http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/rT...61c258e60c.jpgIslamic State jihadists in Iraq and Syria pose a genuine threat to the West but are "**t invincible," and US air strikes have exposed their weaknesses, a top US intelligence official said Wednesday. Matthew Olsen, director of the National Counter-Terrorism Center, said there is ** "credible" evidence that IS fighters are plotting an imminent attack on America but ack**wledged the group could eventually try to strike at the United States. US bombing raids in Iraq over the past month have shown the militants are vulnerable to concerted action on the battlefield, Olsen said at an event organized by the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington.
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Number of child immigrants at US border declining
- WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of immigrant children caught alone illegally crossing the Mexican border into the United States continued to decline in August, according to figures disclosed Wednesday by the Homeland Security Department.
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Attack on Somali Islamist leader seen triggering power struggle
- http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/px...IA-SHABAAB.JPGWashington believes its laser-guided attack on Monday killed Ahmed Godane, who aligned al Shabaab with al Qaeda and authorized the group's deadly raid on a Nairobi shopping mall last year. Al Shabaab, usually vocal on social media and other channels of communication, has yet to comment. With ** obvious candidate to replace the man who ruled al Shabaab with an iron fist and killed off many of his rivals, experts say there is a real chance his death would trigger in-fighting or the formation of smaller, potentially more dangerous, splinter movements. "If it is confirmed that he is in fact dead, it is a game changer in many ways for al Shabaab," said Abdi Aynte, director of the Heritage Institute for Policy Studies in Mogadishu.
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Tech insider: Firms halting spread of grisly video
- PARIS (AP) — A Silicon Valley insider says tech companies drafted plans to scrub the web after a grisly video showing the beheading of an American journalist by Islamic State militants — and implemented them this week after a second killing.
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US ground troops to train in Ukraine next week
- WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says 200 U.S. soldiers will participate in an exercise in western Ukraine starting next week. It would be the first presence of American ground troops in Ukraine since the crisis with Russian-backed separatists began.
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London FTSE ends higher on Ukraine news, ECB rate prospects
- http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/MY...0839da07ba.jpgLondon's leading share index ended higher on Wednesday on reports of a ceasefire in Ukraine and renewed prospects of eurozone monetary easing on the eve of a European Central Bank rate decision, traders said. The benchmark FTSE 100 gained 0.65 percent to end on 6,873.58 points. "Europe has had a major kick-start as news of a ceasefire agreement in the Ukraine hits the wires," IG sales trader Will Hedden said. Ukraine's beleaguered President Petro Poroshenko an**unced on Wednesday that he and Russia's Vladimir Putin had agreed to a "permanent ceasefire" in the east of the former Soviet country.
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Boko Haram battles for territory in **rtheast Nigeria
- By Joe Hemba DAMATURU Nigeria (Reuters) - Boko Haram militants have seized an unguarded town in **rtheast Nigeria without firing a shot, witnesses said on Wednesday, as the Islamic insurgency took a new turn - seizing and controlling territory. ** one was harmed in the takeover - a departure for Boko Haram, which has killed thousands since launching an uprising in 2009, including several massacres of civilians. "They went preaching in the whole town, asking people to leave government work and join them to do the work of Allah," said Musa Abdullahi, a trader who escaped Bara, in Yobe state. Boko Haram's attacks appear to have shifted focus in recent weeks away from simply creating mayhem to taking ground and holding it.
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UN: Fight against Ebola to cost $600 million
- DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — At least $600 million is needed to fight West Africa's current Ebola outbreak, the World Health Organization an**unced Wednesday, as the death toll shot up by about 400 in a week to more than 1,900 people.
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Ukraine PM rejects Putin ceasefire plan as bid to deceive West
- http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Qw...fcf853018b.jpgUkraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Wednesday rejected a ceasefire plan unveiled by Russian President Vladimir Putin as an attempt to deceive the West about Moscow's real intentions. "This latest plan is a**ther attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of the international community ahead of the NATO summit and an attempt to avert the EU's inevitable decision to unleash a new wave of sanctions against Russia," he said in a statement. "The best plan for ending Russia's war against Ukraine has only one single element -- for Russia to withdraw its troops, its mercenaries and its terrorists from Ukrainian territory."
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UN seeks help to free abducted UN peacekeepers
- UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council called Wednesday on "countries with influence" to press al-Qaida-linked insurgents to release 45 U.N. peacekeepers from Fiji abducted last week in the Golan Heights.
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France friendly first step as Spain rebuilds
- http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Wy...7067008ff0.jpgPARIS (AP) — Filling the midfield void left by the international retirements of Xavi Hernandez and Xabi Alonso is one of the big challenges facing Spain as it seeks to rebuild following a shambolic World Cup performance.
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Russia protests over photographer's 'barbarous' killing in Ukraine
- The Russian Foreign Ministry accused Ukrainian forces on Wednesday of responsibility for the "barbarous" killing of a Russian photojournalist and demanded an investigation. Andrei Stenin, 33, was confirmed dead earlier on Wednesday by his employers, state-run Rossiya Segodnya, or Russia Today, and by Russia's Investigative Committee. The Investigative Committee said in a statement it believed Stenin was killed on Aug. 6 while traveling with a convoy of refugees that was fired on by Ukrainian tanks close to the town of Snizhne in the Donetsk region. "He did everything so that people, the whole world, knew the truth about the tragic events in Donetsk," President Vladimir Putin said in a letter of condolence to Stenin's mother published on the Kremlin website.
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Kremlin says status of east Ukraine **t addressed in ceasefire plan
- Vladimir Putin's spokesman said on Wednesday the Russian president's proposal for steps towards a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine did **t seek to address the status of the territory, Russian news agencies reported. "This is **t a comprehensive plan. This is a proposal on priority measures and everything else is an issue for further negotiation," spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by Interfax in response to a question about the status of the areas claimed by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine.
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Italy may begin ******* deliveries to Iraq Kurds by September 10
- Italy should be able to start deliveries of ******* to Kurdish forces by next week, once final arrangements with Iraqi authorities are completed, Defense Minister Roberta Pi**tti told parliament on Wednesday. Along with other European countries, including Germany and France, Italy has agreed to send Kurdish forces a quantity of light ******* to use against Islamic State militants who have swept into **rthern Iraq. Pi**tti told a parliamentary committee hearing that logistical preparations were underway and deliveries, worth a total of 1.9 million euros ($2.50 million), could begin by Sept. 10 once the final authorization had been received.
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Ashya King's parents reunited with cancer-stricken son
- http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/bc1...7865-1-1-1.jpgMálaga (Spain) (AFP) - The British parents jailed after taking their critically-ill son Ashya King from hospital enjoyed an emotional reunion with him at his bedside in Spain on Wednesday, an official said. Brett King, 51, and his wife Neghemeh King, 45, saw their five-year-old son for the first time since they walked free, following the lifting of an extradition order against them by British prosecutors. The couple were detained on Saturday for having taken Ashya, who has a brain tumour, out of a British hospital without doctors' consent. Brett King had told reporters on Wednesday he feared he would **t be allowed to see Ashya because an English court has had legal custody of the boy since last week when his parents took him to Spain.
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Obama says beheading videos won't intimidate US
- TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — President Barack Obama said Wednesday that the United States will **t be intimidated by Islamic State militants after the beheading of a second American journalist and will build a coalition to "degrade and destroy" the group.
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Anger as decapitated Lebanese soldier is buried
- FNAYDEK, Leba**n (AP) — Thousands of angry mourners on Wednesday buried a Lebanese soldier beheaded by Islamic militants, rocking his flag-draped coffin and firing their guns into the air as they accused the government of neglect for failing to negotiate his release.
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France suspends delivery of warship to Russia
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Obama casts Russia as threat to peace in Europe
- TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Lashing out at Russia, President Barack Obama on Wednesday cast Moscow's aggression in Ukraine as a threat to peace in Europe. He vigorously vowed to come to the defense of NATO allies that fear they could be Vladimir Putin's next target.
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Egypt court: State satellite must pull Al-Jazeera
- CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's state news agency reported Wednesday that an administrative court ordered a state-run satellite to implement its order to stop broadcasting the local Al-Jazeera affiliate. State-run NileSat said the court ruling doesn't affect it, however, because it doesn't carry Al-Jazeera Mubasher Misr.
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