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News: Two U.S. troops killed by rogue Afghan soldier Pakistan Supreme Court gives PM more time in graft case Storm Isaac heads for U.S. Gulf Coast, hurricane warning issued SEC to review "quiet period" IPO rule after Facebook mess - WSJ Libya minister quits after criticism over attacks Nigeria in talks with Islamists via "back channels" Nigeria navy frees 28 kidnapped oil workers New Jersey guy Christie has double-edged appeal in keynote speech More than 150 Haitians detained in Bahamas after boat runs aground Republican convention starts Tuesday despite storm: chairman Ron Paul feted in raucous six-hour farewell rally Isaac heads for U.S. Gulf Coast after drenching south Florida Storm Isaac forces Republicans to rework convention script Assad's forces accused of massacre near Syrian capital Venezuela struggles with refinery blaze after deadly blast Forecasters issue hurricane warning for northern Gulf of Mexico coast Graffiti artists thrive in reform-era Myanmar Dutch Liberals, Socialists in close race ahead of vote Ex-South Carolina governor to marry former mistress Analysis: Politics the priority for China as economy slows Britain wants to restart Assange talks with Ecuador Venezuela will not restart refinery until fire is out: official Afghans say top Haqqani leader was killed in U.S. drone strike Fed may struggle to deliver expected growth boost Argentine leader's image falls as inflation soars Empire State gunman planned to not return home: NY police Eleven corpses turn up along highway in southwestern Mexico Two dead as clashes flare again in Lebanon's Tripoli Germany wants EU convention to forge new treaty: paper Merkel's party keeps lead, coalition ally down: poll Iran urges developing nations at summit to oppose sanctions Soccer-Defensive errors cost Liverpool victory Hamas declines invite to Iran summit, citing Palestinian unity Israel arrests 3 settler boys suspected of attack on Palestinians Saudi Arabia arrests suspected militants with al-Qaeda links At least four killed in Ivory Coast gunbattle Egypt seeks regional meeting over Syria crisis Merkel backs Weidmann, warns allies on Greece rhetoric Syria Vice President makes public appearance, ending defection rumors Syrian driver says pro-Assad militia killed Japanese journalist Two U.S. troops killed by rogue Afghan soldier Sun,26 Aug 2012 11:47 PM PDT Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - A rogue Afghan soldier shot dead two U.S. troops in east Afghanistan on Monday, the NATO-led coalition said, the latest in a series of insider killings that have strained trust between the allies ahead of a 2014 pullout by foreign combat troops. The deaths in Laghman province brought to 12 the number of foreign soldiers killed this month, prompting NATO to increase security against insider attacks, including requiring soldiers to carry loaded weapons at all times on base. They also come a week after U.S. ... Full Story Top Pakistan Supreme Court gives PM more time in graft case Sun,26 Aug 2012 11:36 PM PDT Reuters - ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday adjourned a case that could see Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf being formally charged with contempt of court and disqualified. Ashraf appeared in court over his failure to comply with orders to reopen corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. The case has fuelled tension in a long-running standoff between the government and increasingly assertive judiciary. The court adjourned proceedings until September 18. ... Full Story Top Storm Isaac heads for U.S. Gulf Coast, hurricane warning issued Sun,26 Aug 2012 11:21 PM PDT Reuters - MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac swirled into the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, threatening to disrupt U.S. offshore oil and gas supplies and strengthen into a powerful hurricane that could make landfall near Louisiana almost seven years to the day after Katrina struck. The storm swiped south Florida on Sunday before moving into the warm Gulf waters, where it is expected to strengthen to a Category 2 hurricane and hit the Gulf Coast somewhere between Florida and Louisiana by midweek, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. ... Full Story Top SEC to review "quiet period" IPO rule after Facebook mess - WSJ Sun,26 Aug 2012 11:16 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - U.S. stock market regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reviewing whether to relax rules governing what companies can say ahead of initial public offerings, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The review comes after Facebook's botched listing, which prompted more than a dozen shareholder lawsuits accusing Facebook and its underwriters of obscuring the company's weakened growth forecasts ahead of the listing. Facebook shares have almost halved from their $38 IPO price. Some U.S. ... Full Story Top Libya minister quits after criticism over attacks Sun,26 Aug 2012 10:52 PM PDT Reuters - TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's interior minister resigned on Sunday, officials said, after he was criticised for failing to halt a surge of attacks on Sufi Muslim shrines that have raised fears of the spread of sectarian violence following the fall of Muammar Gaddafi. Attackers, described as ultra-conservative Islamists by some officials, bulldozed sites sacred to Sufi Muslims in the western city of Zlitan on Friday and the capital Tripoli on Saturday. ... Full Story Top Nigeria in talks with Islamists via "back channels" Sun,26 Aug 2012 10:51 PM PDT Reuters - ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's government is reaching out to radical Islamist sect Boko Haram, talking with some of its members via "back room channels" as it seeks a peaceful way out of the north's conflict, the president's spokesman said on Sunday. The militants ruled out peace talks in a statement on Thursday, unless the government accepts their demand to turn the roughly evenly mixed Muslim-Christian country of 160 million people into an Islamic state. But Reuben Abati, spokesman for President Goodluck Jonathan, told journalists talks were going on with some members. ... Full Story Top Nigeria navy frees 28 kidnapped oil workers Sun,26 Aug 2012 10:50 PM PDT Reuters - LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's navy said it had freed 28 local oil workers who were being held hostage by a criminal gang in the oil-producing Niger Delta. The hostages were Nigerian employees of Chinese oil servicing firm Sinopec, navy spokesman Commodore Kabir Aliyu said. They were kidnapped on Thursday by a gang called the Lapto Marine Force operating around the Bakassi waterways in Cross Rivers state and freed in the naval operation late on Friday, he said. "The gang ... ... Full Story Top New Jersey guy Christie has double-edged appeal in keynote speech Sun,26 Aug 2012 10:02 PM PDT Reuters - TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - It seems a natural assignment for Chris Christie, the bombastic, in-your-face New Jersey guy whose confrontational style as the Republican governor of a liberal state has made him a rising political star. Christie, who gives the keynote speech at the Republican convention on Tuesday, may not be used to being an opening act but he is perfectly comfortable delivering the red-meat rhetoric that fires up conservative activists. ... Full Story Top More than 150 Haitians detained in Bahamas after boat runs aground Sun,26 Aug 2012 06:51 PM PDT Reuters - NASSAU (Reuters) - More than 150 illegal Haitian migrants are in custody in the Bahamas, after their sail boat ran aground on Andros islands during stormy seas, officials said on Sunday. Jack Thompson, the Bahamas' director of immigration, said in a statement that the Haitians had been detained and were being held in a warehouse and a Roman Catholic Church center on Andros. The Bahamian authorities said they believe up to 200 migrants may have been aboard the boat, which ran aground on Saturday. The U.S. ... Full Story Top Republican convention starts Tuesday despite storm: chairman Sun,26 Aug 2012 06:49 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans, who have postponed the start of their national convention in Tampa, Florida, by one day because of the threat from Tropical Storm Isaac, will not delay it further and will start the proceedings on Tuesday, the party's chairman said on Sunday. "We're 100 percent full-steam ahead on Tuesday," Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told CNN. The convention where Mitt Romney will be nominated as the party's candidate to challenge President Barack Obama in the November 6 election was originally scheduled to run from Monday to Thursday. ... Full Story Top Ron Paul feted in raucous six-hour farewell rally Sun,26 Aug 2012 06:22 PM PDT Reuters - TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Thousands of die-hard Ron Paul supporters paid no heed to Tropical Storm Isaac on Sunday and held a marathon rally in Tampa to celebrate the 77-year-old congressman, who gave a farewell speech of more than an hour about his libertarian views. As Republican National Committee officials scrambled to adjust the storm-shortened schedule for this week's convention to nominate Mitt Romney for president, Paul followers gathered across town at the University of Southern Florida's Sun Dome. ... Full Story Top Isaac heads for U.S. Gulf Coast after drenching south Florida Sun,26 Aug 2012 04:50 PM PDT Reuters - KEY WEST, Florida (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac lashed south Florida with winds and heavy rain on Sunday after battering the Caribbean, threatening to interrupt most U.S. offshore oil production in the Gulf of Mexico and disrupting plans for the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Isaac is expected to strengthen to a Category 2 hurricane and hit the Gulf Coast somewhere between Florida and Louisiana at midweek - on or near the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina - the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in an advisory. ... Full Story Top Storm Isaac forces Republicans to rework convention script Sun,26 Aug 2012 04:34 PM PDT Reuters - TAMPA (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac forced Republicans on Sunday to rewrite the script for their national convention in Tampa as party officials scrambled to make sure candidate Mitt Romney's message to voters would not be blown off course. Isaac was expected to spare Tampa a direct hit and strike, with hurricane strength, farther north along the Gulf Coast this week. ... Full Story Top Assad's forces accused of massacre near Syrian capital Sun,26 Aug 2012 03:14 PM PDT Reuters - ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - Syrian opposition activists accused President Bashar al-Assad's army of massacring hundreds of people in a town close to the capital that government forces recaptured from rebels. About 320 bodies, including women and children, were found in houses and basements in the town of Daraya, southwest of Damascus, according to activists who said on Sunday most had been killed "execution-style" by troops. Activists uploaded several videos to the Internet showing rows of bloodied bodies wrapped in sheets. ... Full Story Top Venezuela struggles with refinery blaze after deadly blast Sun,26 Aug 2012 03:10 PM PDT Reuters - PARAGUANA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan firefighters struggled on Sunday to put out a blaze at the country's biggest refinery sparked by an explosion that killed 41 people in one of the global oil industry's deadliest accidents. Officials at the 645,000 barrel-per-day Amuay refinery are trying to stop the fire still raging at two storage tanks from spreading to other nearby fuel storage facilities. That would delay Amuay's restart beyond the current estimate of two days. ... Full Story Top Forecasters issue hurricane warning for northern Gulf of Mexico coast Sun,26 Aug 2012 02:27 PM PDT Reuters - MIAMI (Reuters) - The U.S. National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane warning for the northern Gulf of Mexico coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle on Sunday. Isaac is still a tropical storm with 60 mph winds moving past the Florida Keys and headed into the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the NHC said in its 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) advisory. ... Full Story Top Graffiti artists thrive in reform-era Myanmar Sun,26 Aug 2012 02:23 PM PDT Reuters - (Note: strong language in paragraph 16) YANGON (Reuters) - A television set with wings hovers on a wall in a murky Yangon sidestreet. "This was my first one," says Aung, 33, pointing proudly to an image he spray-painted last year to protest media censorship and now duplicated across Myanmar's commercial capital. "Media freedom is a big issue for me." Aung, who requested that his full name be withheld, belongs to a new generation of Yangon street artists whose often politically charged graffiti was almost unthinkable before Myanmar's recent burst of reforms. ... Full Story Top Dutch Liberals, Socialists in close race ahead of vote Sun,26 Aug 2012 02:21 PM PDT Reuters - AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch Liberal Party, the pro-business movement led by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and the far-left Socialists are neck and neck ahead of a September 12 parliamentary election dominated by the euro zone crisis, two polls showed over the weekend. The fiscally conservative country is considered a core euro zone member, but the run-up to the ballot has highlighted growing discontent about Europe - in particular over the high cost of bailing out weaker euro zone states and the pressure for belt-tightening at home. ... Full Story Top Ex-South Carolina governor to marry former mistress Sun,26 Aug 2012 02:21 PM PDT Reuters - CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford said on Sunday he is engaged to marry his Argentine girlfriend, Maria Belen Chapur. "Yes, it's true and I stand by my statement," Sanford told Reuters by telephone. He referred to a statement given to CNN in which he said, "Yes, we are engaged, and I'm both happy and excited for what that means. I have long expressed my feelings for her, she's a wonderful person. My closest friends have met and love her, and I look forward to introducing her to still many more that have yet to do so. ... Full Story Top Analysis: Politics the priority for China as economy slows Sun,26 Aug 2012 02:20 PM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - China's policy chiefs have about two weeks left to decide about giving the economy a proper stimulative prod, or risk parading a new Communist Party leadership to the world just as growth falls below target for the first time in nearly four years. Factory activity is already at a nine-month low, according to the latest manufacturing sector survey from HSBC, signaling that the official August numbers for industrial production and trade published in a fortnight will foreshadow third quarter economic growth falling below the government's 7.5 percent goal. ... Full Story Top Britain wants to restart Assange talks with Ecuador Sun,26 Aug 2012 01:32 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Sunday it remained committed to reaching a diplomatic solution to the presence of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Ecuador's London embassy, after both countries took steps to defuse a row over his action in taking refuge there. Assange has been living in the embassy's cramped quarters for more than two months since fleeing there to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over rape and sexual assault allegations. ... Full Story Top Venezuela will not restart refinery until fire is out: official Sun,26 Aug 2012 12:52 PM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's Amuay refinery will not restart operations until it completely extinguishes a fire caused by an explosion on Saturday, a top refining official with state oil company PDVSA said on Sunday. (Reporting by Marianna Parraga, writing by Brian Ellsworth) Full Story Top Afghans say top Haqqani leader was killed in U.S. drone strike Sun,26 Aug 2012 12:30 PM PDT Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan said on Sunday it believed that a top commander of the militant Haqqani insurgent network had been killed in a U.S. drone strike, citing intelligence reports that it said countered Afghan Taliban claims that Badruddin Haqqani was still alive. Haqqani, who was head of operations and ran the network's vital business interests, was thought to have been killed during the strike this week in Pakistan's tribal North Waziristan, both Afghanistan's Interior Ministry and national spy agency said. ... Full Story Top Fed may struggle to deliver expected growth boost Sun,26 Aug 2012 12:05 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - It's the end of August, so all eyes will again be on the small Wyoming resort town of Jackson -- population 9,577 -- to see whether Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke fuels or dampens hopes of fresh monetary easing to lift the U.S. economy. The annual Jackson Hole summer retreat hosted by the Kansas City Fed has become a highlight of the global central banking calendar. Expectations this year have not soared to the heights of 2010 or 2011, but equity and commodity prices have been rising and could react badly if the U.S. central bank chief pulls his punches. ... Full Story Top Argentine leader's image falls as inflation soars Sun,26 Aug 2012 12:01 PM PDT Reuters - BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez's popularity sank to 30 percent in August, less than half of what it was a year earlier, according to a poll published on Sunday that portrayed a country worried about crime and high inflation. The telephone survey of 2,259 voting-age Argentines by polling company Management & Fit showed dissatisfaction with the interventionist policies that won Fernandez a landslide re-election 10 months ago. ... Full Story Top Empire State gunman planned to not return home: NY police Sun,26 Aug 2012 11:34 AM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The man who shot and killed a former co-worker and was himself killed by police near New York City's Empire State Building left his keys with his landlord on Friday to allow renovation of his apartment and apparently intended to never return, a police source said on Sunday. Jeffrey Johnson, 58, an out-of-work accessories designer, killed Steve Ercolino, with whom he had been feuding, on Friday in midtown Manhattan. Nine bystanders were wounded as the result of police gunfire, three hit by bullets and six injured by ricocheted fragments. ... Full Story Top Eleven corpses turn up along highway in southwestern Mexico Sun,26 Aug 2012 11:19 AM PDT Reuters - ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - Eleven corpses showing signs of torture and execution-style gunshot wounds were found in southwest Mexico on Sunday, according to local authorities. Ricardo Monreal, an official with the Guerrero state prosecutor's office, told Reuters the bodies were recovered in three different locations along the coastal highway northwest of the Pacific resort city of Acapulco. ... Full Story Top Two dead as clashes flare again in Lebanon's Tripoli Sun,26 Aug 2012 11:00 AM PDT Reuters - TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - Two people were killed on Sunday in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli, a security source said, where sporadic fighting between Sunni Muslims and Alawites over six days has mirrored sectarian faultlines in the raging conflict in neighboring Syria. Sunnis in Syria have been the driving force of a 17-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, whose minority Alawite sect has dominated the country's political and military elite for more than four decades. At least 18 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in nearly a week of clashes in Tripoli. ... Full Story Top Germany wants EU convention to forge new treaty: paper Sun,26 Aug 2012 10:28 AM PDT Reuters - BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants an EU 'convention' to draw up a new treaty for closer European political unification to help overcome the bloc's sovereign debt crisis, weekly Der Spiegel said on Sunday. Germany, the European Union's biggest economy, has long argued for more national competences, including over budgets, to be transferred to European institutions but faces strong resistance from other member states. Merkel hopes a summit of EU leaders in December can agree a concrete date for the start of the convention on a new treaty, Spiegel said. ... Full Story Top Merkel's party keeps lead, coalition ally down: poll Sun,26 Aug 2012 10:28 AM PDT Reuters - BERLIN (Reuters) - Support for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives has nudged higher, an opinion poll showed on Sunday, but the weakness of two smaller parties highlights the trouble she may face building another center-right coalition after Germany's 2013 election. The Emnid poll conducted for the Bild on Sunday newspaper showed the conservatives up one percentage point at 36 percent but their junior coalition partner, the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), down one point at 4 percent, below the 5 percent threshold for entering parliament. ... Full Story Top Iran urges developing nations at summit to oppose sanctions Sun,26 Aug 2012 10:17 AM PDT Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister urged delegates at a Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) developing nations summit on Sunday to oppose sanctions imposed by the West on the Islamic Republic to punish it for its nuclear activities. Western diplomats have sought to play down the importance of NAM at the start of Iran's three-year presidency of the body set up in 1961 to counter big power domination of international relations. However, Iran welcomed delegates from the group of 120 developing nations to the meeting it says proves that Washington has failed to isolate it from the rest of the world. ... Full Story Top Soccer-Defensive errors cost Liverpool victory Sun,26 Aug 2012 10:09 AM PDT Reuters - Aug 26 (Reuters) - Two defensive howlers cost Liverpool all three points as they drew 2-2 with Premier League champions Manchester City at Anfield on Sunday. The Merseysiders twice went ahead through Martin Skrtel and Luis Suarez on manager Brendan Rodgers' home debut, but failed to hold the lead on both occasions with costly errors at the back gifting Yaya Toure and Carlos Tevez goals. It means Rodgers' wait for a first Liverpool victory will wait another week after his side lost 3-0 to West Bromwich Albion last weekend. ... Full Story Top Hamas declines invite to Iran summit, citing Palestinian unity Sun,26 Aug 2012 09:49 AM PDT Reuters - GAZA (Reuters) - The Hamas Islamist government in Gaza said it had declined an invitation to a meeting of 120 developing nations in Tehran this week, heading off a potential confrontation with rival Palestinian leaders in the West Bank. Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas's leader in Gaza, had accepted the invite over the weekend but backtracked on Sunday "in order that the participation would not be an introduction to deepening a Palestinian, Arab and Muslim division over the Palestinian cause," said spokesman Taher al-Nono. ... Full Story Top Israel arrests 3 settler boys suspected of attack on Palestinians Sun,26 Aug 2012 09:44 AM PDT Reuters - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police arrested three Jewish settler boys suspected of throwing a firebomb earlier this month at a Palestinian vehicle in the West Bank that injured six people, a spokesman said on Sunday. The suspects, aged 12 to 13, from Bat Ayin, a settlement in the occupied West Bank, will appear in court later on Sunday to be remanded into custody, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. Four of the passengers wounded in the August 16 attack were members of the same family, two of them children. ... Full Story Top Saudi Arabia arrests suspected militants with al-Qaeda links Sun,26 Aug 2012 09:43 AM PDT Reuters - JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi authorities arrested a group of suspected al Qaeda-linked militants in Riyadh, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on state news agency SPA on Sunday. "After intense surveillance of the cell it was revealed that they have reached an advanced stage in their plan to implement their goals, which include preparing and setting explosives and testing them outside of Riyadh," the ministry said. Security forces arrested six members of the cell - all Yemeni nationals - after arresting their leader, a Saudi, and questioning him, the statement said. ... Full Story Top At least four killed in Ivory Coast gunbattle Sun,26 Aug 2012 08:57 AM PDT Reuters - ABIDJAN (Reuters) - At least four people were killed in an exchange of fire between soldiers and unidentified gunmen at an army checkpoint in southern Ivory Coast, the West African nation's defence minister said on Sunday. The world's top cocoa grower is struggling to cope with a spate of armed raids on police and military installations this month, raising fears of renewed instability following a conflict last year that killed 3,000 people. ... Full Story Top Egypt seeks regional meeting over Syria crisis Sun,26 Aug 2012 08:56 AM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's foreign minister wants Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran and Egypt to meet for talks to work out how to end the Syrian crisis, Egyptian officials said on Sunday, a meeting that would include a regional ally as well as opponents of Damascus. Iran backs Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose army and air force have been fighting rebels for 17 months, and Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt - under new president, Mohamed Mursi - have all called for an end to Assad's rule. Mursi put forward the plan at an Islamic conference in Saudi Arabia earlier this month. ... Full Story Top Merkel backs Weidmann, warns allies on Greece rhetoric Sun,26 Aug 2012 08:33 AM PDT Reuters - BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced support for Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann on Sunday, saying she welcomed his warnings about the handling of the euro zone debt crisis and saw his influence within the European Central Bank as positive. In an interview with public broadcaster ARD, Merkel also cautioned politicians in her coalition against talking up the possibility of a Greek exit from the euro zone, urging them to weigh their words "very carefully". ... Full Story Top Syria Vice President makes public appearance, ending defection rumors Sun,26 Aug 2012 08:05 AM PDT Reuters - DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syria's vice president Farouq al-Sharaa met an Iranian delegation on Sunday, marking the official's first appearance in weeks and ending rumors by opposition activists that he had defected from President Bashar al-Assad's government. The vice president met with a parliamentary delegation from Assad's main regional ally Iran, led by senior legislator Aleddin Borougerdi, according to a Reuters reporter who saw the group with Sharaa outside his office in Damascus. ... Full Story Top Syrian driver says pro-Assad militia killed Japanese journalist Sun,26 Aug 2012 07:59 AM PDT Reuters - AZAZ, Syria (Reuters) - The Syrian driver who took Japanese journalist Mika Yamamoto into the wartorn city of Aleppo said she had been shot dead by militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, after following rebels on a mission to rescue civilians. The 38-year-old driver, who gave his name only as Abdulrahman, told Reuters Yamamoto and her colleague Kazutaka Sato had crossed the Turkish border with two journalists working for the U.S.-funded al-Hurra television, and asked to be taken to the northern city of Aleppo. ... Full Story Top

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