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News: Iran could strike U.S. bases if Israel attacks: Hezbollah Obama, Democrats to make their case as convention opens Japan to set energy policy but "no stance" on nuclear: minister Pro-settler graffiti found at torched monastery door Social sites have modest political impact: poll U.S. nears deal for $1 billion in Egypt debt relief: source Obama, on eve of convention, tours storm-hit Louisiana Republicans try to counter Democrats' convention Venezuela, indigenous groups dispute whether Amazon massacre took place Nine police hurt in more Northern Ireland sectarian riots Iran could strike US bases if Israel attacks: Hezbollah IRS warned, but did not act on tax strategy for private equity Sudan, South Sudan resume border talks with eye to oil Syrians fleeing war start to trickle into Europe Argentine judge orders arrest of Credit Suisse executive Top California Democrat likens Ryan to Nazi propagandist Dutch Liberals widen lead over Socialists: polls Algeria appoints new PM after months of delay Canada's Mackenzie River needs aid as climate "refrigerator" UK's Prince Harry happy to joke about naked Vegas pics Prince Harry happy to joke about naked Vegas pics OSCE says Azeri soldier pardon sets back peace process For San Antonio mayor, reflections of American Dream in convention speech Colombian rebels welcome peace talks "without hatred" Algeria appoints new PM, reshuffle expected Dutch Liberals widen lead over Socialists: poll "Sunshine" vitamin D found to speed tuberculosis recovery DR Congo Ebola outbreak death toll rises to 14: medics Credit Suisse denies Swiss help Germans dodge tax pact NATO chief: rogue Afghan attacks will not hasten pullout France to award Paul McCartney Legion of Honour LRA rebels capture dozens in raid in Central African Republic Red Cross chief to urge Syria's Assad to help aid effort Britain's Hague urges Ecuador to resume Assange talks quickly Spain bank rescue fund approves Bankia aid Thousands attend Milan funeral of leading reformist cardinal U.S. denies Israeli newspaper report of secret Iran contacts Russia says will retaliate if Britain has blacklisted officials Syria army destroys houses in "collective punishment" Argentina's latest trade dispute challenges U.S. over lemons Iran could strike U.S. bases if Israel attacks: Hezbollah Mon,3 Sep 2012 10:51 PM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iran could hit U.S. bases in the Middle East in response to any Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities even if American forces played no role in the attack, the leader of Lebanon's Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah said on Monday. "A decision has been taken to respond and the response will be very great," Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in an interview with the Beirut-based Al Mayadeen television. ... Full Story Top Obama, Democrats to make their case as convention opens Mon,3 Sep 2012 10:44 PM PDT Reuters - CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Democrats launch their case for U.S. President Barack Obama's re-election at his nominating convention on Tuesday, looking to draw a sharp contrast with Republican rival Mitt Romney and convince voters that Obama has the more sensible plan for economic recovery. First lady Michelle Obama's appearance highlights the opening night of the three-day Democratic gathering in Charlotte, North Carolina, which concludes with Obama's acceptance speech on Thursday to more than 65,000 supporters in a downtown football stadium. ... Full Story Top Japan to set energy policy but "no stance" on nuclear: minister Mon,3 Sep 2012 10:21 PM PDT Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is scheduled to set national energy policy early next week, Economics Minister Motohisa Furukawa said on Tuesday, although he said the government had not taken any particular position on the main question over the role of nuclear power. An anti-nuclear clamor has grown in Japan since an earthquake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima nuclear power plant in March last year, triggering the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years. ... Full Story Top Pro-settler graffiti found at torched monastery door Mon,3 Sep 2012 10:19 PM PDT Reuters - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Vandals torched the wooden door of a monastery near Jerusalem on Tuesday and pro-settler graffiti daubed in Hebrew was discovered on the building's stone walls, Israeli police said. "Police have opened a special investigation into the incident," Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said of the arson that occurred at the Latrun Monastery. Rosenfeld said the name of an unauthorized settler outpost evacuated this week, called "Migron" and the words "Jesus is a monkey" were also scrawled at the holy site located inside Israel but not far from the occupied West Bank. ... Full Story Top Social sites have modest political impact: poll Mon,3 Sep 2012 09:14 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Social networking sites play a modest role in influencing most U.S. users' political views, with the biggest impact among Democrats, a survey showed on Tuesday. The poll by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project comes as Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are using Facebook Inc pages and other social media as campaign tools ahead of the November election. "For most of those who use the sites, political material is just a small portion of what they post and what they read. ... Full Story Top U.S. nears deal for $1 billion in Egypt debt relief: source Mon,3 Sep 2012 09:12 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is close to a deal with Egypt's new government for $1 billion in debt relief, a senior U.S. official said on Monday, as Washington seeks to help Cairo shore up its ailing economy in the aftermath of its pro-democracy uprising. U.S. diplomats and negotiators for Egypt's new Islamist president Mohamed Mursi - who took office in June after the country's first free elections - were working to finalize an agreement, the official said. ... Full Story Top Obama, on eve of convention, tours storm-hit Louisiana Mon,3 Sep 2012 08:22 PM PDT Reuters - LAPLACE, Louisiana (Reuters) - President Barack Obama toured hurricane-stricken Louisiana on Monday and promised federal recovery help as he sought to show his administration was on top of the disaster response on the eve of his Democrats' national convention in North Carolina. Obama was preceded by his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, who diverted from the campaign trail to Louisiana on Friday to inspect the fallout from Hurricane Isaac a day after accepting his party's nomination for the November 6 election. ... Full Story Top Republicans try to counter Democrats' convention Mon,3 Sep 2012 07:42 PM PDT Reuters - WOLFEBORO, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republicans prepared a counterpunch to the Democratic National Convention this week by introducing their new line of attack with a not-so-new question: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" While Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney spent time on his boat in New Hampshire on Monday, his running mate, Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan, and other Republican officials converged on Charlotte, North Carolina, where President Barack Obama will accept his party's nomination and enter the home stretch of the 2012 race for the White House. ... Full Story Top Venezuela, indigenous groups dispute whether Amazon massacre took place Mon,3 Sep 2012 06:12 PM PDT Reuters - RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Venezuela and indigenous groups are disputing whether an alleged massacre of Amazon villagers took place after Venezuela's government said it found no evidence of an attack. A group representing the Yanomami tribe last week said that Brazilian gold miners had crossed the border and attacked a village from a helicopter. It said the assault could have killed more than 70 people. ... Full Story Top Nine police hurt in more Northern Ireland sectarian riots Mon,3 Sep 2012 05:21 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Police in Northern Ireland fired plastic bullets and water cannon on rioters late on Monday in a second night of sectarian clashes between Catholics and Protestants that left nine police officers injured. Police fired plastic rounds for the first time during the disturbances after protesters threw petrol bombs, fireworks, bricks and stones at officers trying to separate rival groups in north Belfast. Rioters from the Protestant group hijacked a van at one point and pushed it at police lines. At least three of the injured officers were taken to a hospital. ... Full Story Top Iran could strike US bases if Israel attacks: Hezbollah Mon,3 Sep 2012 03:35 PM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iran could hit U.S. bases in the Middle East in response to any Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities even if American forces played no role in the attack, the leader of Lebanon's Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah said on Monday. "A decision has been taken to respond and the response will be very great," Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in an interview with the Beirut-based Al Mayadeen television. ... Full Story Top IRS warned, but did not act on tax strategy for private equity Mon,3 Sep 2012 03:27 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. tax authorities took no formal action after launching a probe five years ago of tax strategies used by private equity managers at firms such as Bain Capital LLC, leaving a legal gray area that is now being examined by New York's attorney general. In a move focusing more scrutiny on private equity at a politically turbulent time, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has subpoenaed documents from at least a dozen firms about how they reduce their managers' tax bills, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. ... Full Story Top Sudan, South Sudan resume border talks with eye to oil Mon,3 Sep 2012 03:23 PM PDT Reuters - KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - Former civil war foes Sudan and South Sudan are to resume talks on Tuesday in Ethiopia that mediators hope will produce a deal to secure the volatile joint border and clear the way for the two countries to resume oil exports. The countries have been locked in a series of disputes since South Sudan split from its northern neighbor over a year ago under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of war. Fighting along the 1,800-km (1,200-mile) border threatened to boil over into a full-scale war in April when South Sudan seized an oil-producing region long held by Sudan. ... Full Story Top Syrians fleeing war start to trickle into Europe Mon,3 Sep 2012 03:03 PM PDT Reuters - KOPINGEBRO, Sweden (Reuters) - Ali Jamal travelled thousands of miles on foot, by train and road to flee violence in Syria while Jomaah piled his family into a camper van to smuggle them north to Europe. They have now reached safety in Sweden, some of the growing thousands of Syrians who are evading the European Union's frontier controls to escape the turmoil of the past 18 months. That is raising calls for a more focused European response to a refugee crisis that has seen over 200,000 Syrians flee to Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and, especially, Turkey. ... Full Story Top Argentine judge orders arrest of Credit Suisse executive Mon,3 Sep 2012 02:43 PM PDT Reuters - BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - A judge in Argentina has ordered the arrest of Credit Suisse executive and former U.S. Treasury Undersecretary David Mulford because he failed to testify over a 2001 Argentine debt swap, the state news agency reported on Monday. Federal Judge Marcelo Martinez de Giorgi will ask Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant seeking Mulford's extradition for questioning over the bond exchange carried out by the government in an unsuccessful bid to avoid default. ... Full Story Top Top California Democrat likens Ryan to Nazi propagandist Mon,3 Sep 2012 02:42 PM PDT Reuters - CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - A top California Democratic Party official on Monday compared Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan to Nazi Germany's infamous propagandist Joseph Goebbels, drawing rebukes from both parties the day before the Democratic Party's nominating convention formally begins. In a story reported Monday by the San Francisco Chronicle, California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton was quoted as comparing distortions Ryan made in campaign speeches to lies used by Goebbels, a fierce anti-Semite and one of Adolf Hitler's closest cohorts. ... Full Story Top Dutch Liberals widen lead over Socialists: polls Mon,3 Sep 2012 02:37 PM PDT Reuters - AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Liberal Party has widened his lead over Socialist Party leader Emile Roemer in the run up to an election on September 12 that has been dominated by the euro zone crisis, two surveys showed on Monday. However, with no single party set to win more than about a quarter of the seats in parliament, the Netherlands still faces the prospect of months of coalition talks and political uncertainty. The fiscally conservative country is considered a core euro zone member and is one of the few that still has a triple-A credit rating. ... Full Story Top Algeria appoints new PM after months of delay Mon,3 Sep 2012 02:16 PM PDT Reuters - ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's president named Abdelmalek Sellal as the country's new prime minister on Monday, ending some political uncertainty almost four months after parliamentary elections. A new government was expected to be appointed immediately after the May 10 poll but a clash among decision makers delayed the decision. According to convention, Ahmed Ouyahia should have stepped down as prime minister following the poll, after which President Abdelaziz Bouteflika should have either invited Ouyahia back or named a new person for the job. ... Full Story Top Canada's Mackenzie River needs aid as climate "refrigerator" Mon,3 Sep 2012 02:01 PM PDT Reuters - OSLO (Reuters) - Canada's Mackenzie River basin needs better protection as a vast northern "refrigerator" slowing global climate change, experts said on Monday. Canada's longest river also needs a unifying plan to oversee water quality, wildlife and oil pollution that would be similar to European Union directives governing rivers such as the Rhine or Danube, they said. There is now a patchwork of government and local rules for the 1,800-km-long (1,100-mile) river that flows into the Arctic Ocean through a basin of forests and tundra covering 20 percent of Canada. ... Full Story Top UK's Prince Harry happy to joke about naked Vegas pics Mon,3 Sep 2012 01:41 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Harry was happy to poke fun at himself on Monday when he made his first official public appearance since pictures of him cavorting naked while on holiday in Las Vegas were published. The 27-year-old prince, third-in-line to the British throne, made news around the world two weeks ago when the pictures of him naked with a young woman in his hotel suite were printed in newspapers and on websites. ... Full Story Top Prince Harry happy to joke about naked Vegas pics Mon,3 Sep 2012 01:38 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Harry was happy to poke fun at himself on Monday when he made his first official public appearance since pictures of him cavorting naked while on holiday in Las Vegas were published. The 27-year-old prince, third-in-line to the British throne, made news around the world two weeks ago when the pictures of him naked with a young woman in his hotel suite were printed in newspapers and on websites. ... Full Story Top OSCE says Azeri soldier pardon sets back peace process Mon,3 Sep 2012 01:17 PM PDT Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - International mediators from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe said on Monday that Azerbaijan's decision to pardon an Azeri soldier who killed an Armenian officer had damaged the peace process in the region. Armenia and Azerbaijan have been at odds since the war between ethnic Azeris and Armenians that erupted in 1991 over the mainly Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh enclave. A ceasefire was signed in 1994 but new cross-border clashes this year have prompted worries of a resumption of fighting. ... Full Story Top For San Antonio mayor, reflections of American Dream in convention speech Mon,3 Sep 2012 01:12 PM PDT Reuters - SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Civil rights activist Rosie Castro toted her painfully shy twin boys everywhere, and they weren't always thrilled about the outings: distributing political literature, attending farm worker rallies and visiting the voting booth. But the early introduction into political life made its mark on Julian and Joaquin Castro, who left their hardscrabble San Antonio neighborhood to attend Stanford and Harvard Law School before returning to their native city. ... Full Story Top Colombian rebels welcome peace talks "without hatred" Mon,3 Sep 2012 12:48 PM PDT Reuters - BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's FARC rebel leader said on Monday the group would join peace talks with the government "without hatred or arrogance" in its first response to President Juan Manuel Santos' announcement of imminent negotiations. The prospect of talks, likely to take place in Norway and Cuba, has raised Colombians' hopes of an end to five decades of bloodshed - though past governments' failures to end Latin America's longest-running insurgency show the path is not easy. ... Full Story Top Algeria appoints new PM, reshuffle expected Mon,3 Sep 2012 12:18 PM PDT Reuters - ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's president named Abdelmalek Sellal as the country's new prime minister on Monday, the first appointment in a cabinet reshuffle, and other ministers were due to be named later in the day, a senior government official said. "I confirm that Sellal is our new prime minster," he told Reuters. Sellal, a technocrat, has served for more than a decade as minister for various departments and was President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's campaign director for the 2004 presidential election. ... Full Story Top Dutch Liberals widen lead over Socialists: poll Mon,3 Sep 2012 12:06 PM PDT Reuters - AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Liberal Party has widened his lead over Socialist Party leader Emile Roemer in the run up to an election on September 12 that has been dominated by the euro zone crisis, a survey showed on Monday. However, with no single party set to win more than about a quarter of the seats in parliament, the Netherlands still faces the prospect of months of coalition talks and political uncertainty. The fiscally conservative country is considered a core euro zone member and is one of the few that still has a triple-A credit rating. ... Full Story Top "Sunshine" vitamin D found to speed tuberculosis recovery Mon,3 Sep 2012 12:01 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have shown how and why the "sunshine" vitamin D can speed recovery in tuberculosis (TB) patients, helping explain why the so-called heliotherapy of a bygone, pre-antibiotic era may have done some good. From the late 1800s - well before the development of antibiotics in 1930s - TB patients were often sent to retreats where they were encouraged to soak up the sun's rays in what was known as heliotherapy or phototherapy. ... Full Story Top DR Congo Ebola outbreak death toll rises to 14: medics Mon,3 Sep 2012 11:54 AM PDT Reuters - KINSHASA (Reuters) - The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 14 and the crisis is not yet under control, medical officials said on Monday. The epicenter of the outbreak, which killed its first victim last month, is in the busy town of Isiro in Orientale Province, but it has spread to the settlement of Viadana 75 km (45 miles) away, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a statement. WHO also called for aid of nearly $2 million to help Congo's weakened health sector cope with the disease. ... Full Story Top Credit Suisse denies Swiss help Germans dodge tax pact Mon,3 Sep 2012 11:45 AM PDT Reuters - ZURICH (Reuters) - The head of Credit Suisse denied on Monday that Swiss banks have been undermining a tax pact with Germany by helping wealthy clients move funds to rival financial centers such as Singapore to avoid becoming subject to taxes. German media have accused Swiss banks of telling German clients to shift money to Singapore, Asia's prominent finance centre, to avoid detection and taxation of their assets. ... Full Story Top NATO chief: rogue Afghan attacks will not hasten pullout Mon,3 Sep 2012 11:40 AM PDT Reuters - BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A surge in attacks against NATO-led foreign troops by rogue members of the Afghan security forces threatens to erode trust between the international force and Afghans, but will not cause NATO allies to pull out early, the alliance's chief said. Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the alliance's plans to gradually hand over security to Afghan forces and pull out most troops by end-2014 would not be disrupted by the attacks. "These insider attacks are a matter of strong concern. ... Full Story Top France to award Paul McCartney Legion of Honour Mon,3 Sep 2012 11:30 AM PDT Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande is scheduled to decorate former Beatle Paul McCartney with a Legion of Honour award, the president's office told Reuters on Monday. In the ceremony scheduled for September 8, McCartney will be made an officer of the Legion of Honour, France's highest public distinction which has been awarded to the likes of actor Clint Eastwood and singer Liza Minnelli. No one at McCartney's office was available for comment. ... Full Story Top LRA rebels capture dozens in raid in Central African Republic Mon,3 Sep 2012 11:20 AM PDT Reuters - BANGUI (Reuters) - Ugandan Lords Resistance Army (LRA) rebels kidnapped 55 people, half of them girls, in a raid on two villages in a remote eastern corner of Central African Republic, a local gendarme and a witness said on Monday. The September 1 attack highlights the challenges facing Ugandan and U.S. Special Forces who are trying to help stretched local militaries end one of Africa's longest-running insurgencies that is blamed for killing thousands of civilians in several nations. ... Full Story Top Red Cross chief to urge Syria's Assad to help aid effort Mon,3 Sep 2012 11:18 AM PDT Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - The new head of the Red Cross will urge Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to improve humanitarian access to civilians in the war-torn country, the aid agency said on Monday as he arrived in Syria for a three-day visit. Peter Maurer said he would also continue efforts to gain access for his agency to Syria's detention centers - which rights groups say hold tens of thousands of people rounded up during the 17-month-old conflict, including teenagers. ... Full Story Top Britain's Hague urges Ecuador to resume Assange talks quickly Mon,3 Sep 2012 10:49 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and Ecuador should resume talks over the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, as early as possible, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Monday. Assange has been living in the embassy's cramped quarters since fleeing there in June to avoid extradition to Sweden where he is wanted for questioning over rape and sexual assault allegations. Ecuador has granted asylum to Assange, but the former computer hacker faces arrest if he leaves the embassy in central London. ... Full Story Top Spain bank rescue fund approves Bankia aid Mon,3 Sep 2012 10:41 AM PDT Reuters - MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's national bank rescue fund approved an immediate capital injection of 4.5 billion euros ($5.66 billion) into ailing lender Bankia on Monday, the Fund for Orderly Bank Restructuring, or FROB, said in a statement. "The operation will be carried out by the FROB subscribing to a capital increase," the FROB said in a statement. The FROB added that the operation was subject to approval from the Bank of Spain and the government. The operation will restore Bankia's core capital to meet regulatory levels, the FROB said. ($1 = 0. ... Full Story Top Thousands attend Milan funeral of leading reformist cardinal Mon,3 Sep 2012 10:39 AM PDT Reuters - MILAN (Reuters) - Thousands attended the funeral in Milan cathedral on Monday of Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, an outspoken progressive whose last testament was a scathing attack on the Roman Catholic Church, which he called 200 years out of date. More than 200,000 people filed past Martini's body lying in state in the soaring gothic cathedral over the weekend, underling the love and respect in which he was held in Italy's business capital,where he was archbishop for more than 20 years. ... Full Story Top U.S. denies Israeli newspaper report of secret Iran contacts Mon,3 Sep 2012 10:23 AM PDT Reuters - TOLEDO, Ohio (Reuters) - The White House on Monday denied an Israeli newspaper report that accused Washington of secretly negotiating with Tehran to keep the United States out of a future Israel-Iran war. The Jewish state also played down the front-page report in its biggest-selling daily, Yedioth Ahronoth, which followed unusually public disagreement between the allies about how to tackle Iran's controversial nuclear program. "It's incorrect, completely incorrect," White House spokesman Jay Carney told Reuters while accompanying President Barack Obama on a campaign trip in Ohio. ... Full Story Top Russia says will retaliate if Britain has blacklisted officials Mon,3 Sep 2012 09:34 AM PDT Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Monday it would retaliate if Britain confirmed a media report that it could ban dozens of Russian officials from entering the country for their alleged roles in the 2009 prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. Russia's Foreign Ministry said it had asked Britain whether it had blacklisted 60 people including judges, intelligence officers and prosecutors, as a newspaper reported. The ministry did not say what a Russian diplomatic response could entail. ... Full Story Top Syria army destroys houses in "collective punishment" Mon,3 Sep 2012 09:07 AM PDT Reuters - AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian army bulldozers razed houses in western Damascus on Monday, pursuing what activists called the first campaign of collective punishment targeting people's property in areas of the capital hostile to President Bashar al-Assad. In northern Syria, 18 bodies were found in the rubble of a house bombed by a Syrian warplane in the rebel-held town of al-Bab and 13 more are missing, an opposition watchdog group said. Bulldozers backed by combat troops demolished buildings in the poor Tawahin district, near the Damascus-Beirut highway, activists and residents said. ... Full Story Top Argentina's latest trade dispute challenges U.S. over lemons Mon,3 Sep 2012 09:04 AM PDT Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - Argentina has filed its third trade dispute in two weeks, the World Trade Organization said on Monday, challenging U.S. laws that it says have blocked imports of fresh lemons from the northwestern region of Argentina. The United States, Japan and Mexico filed trade complaints about Argentina's import licensing policies two weeks ago, prompting Argentina to say it would hit back with disputes over U.S. beef and lemons. It filed the complaint about beef on August 30. The United States must try to settle the dispute in bilateral talks with Argentina. ... Full Story Top

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