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News: Insight: Azerbaijan eyes aiding Israel against Iran Analysis: Jonglei revolt gives South Sudan a security headache Japan PM picks senior lawmaker as finance minister in cabinet change Factbox: Five facts about new Finance Minister Jojima Chile's Pinera presents education-heavy 2013 budget bill Venezuela opposition mourns slaying of Capriles activists Japan PM to pick senior lawmaker Jojima as finance minister: media Canadian Auto Workers back labor deal with Chrysler Venezuela opposition fumes about deaths of party activists Kenya navy shells Somali town after rebels retreat Ex-wrestler props up India's PM, but he may want the job Son of China's Bo Xilai defends his father Palestinian authority aims to securitize $200 million of debt Factbox: Georgia's parliamentary election Georgia's Saakashvili challenged in parliamentary vote Del Ponte joins U.N. war crimes inquiry on Syria Two Kenyan police shot dead near Somalia border Third person dead from Venezuela election shooting: Capriles Canada says it took Guantanamo detainee early after U.S. pressure Nearly half of Yemenis go hungry post-revolt, says WFP Egypt signs $1 billion Turkish loan deal Major quake hits Colombia, no reports of death or damage Argentina president's image slides further as CPI, crime weigh Two Kenyan police officers shot dead near Somalia border Chavez to Obama: I'd vote for you, and you for me Two Americans killed in confused Afghan shootout Muslim protesters torch Buddhist temples, homes in Bangladesh Azerbaijan eyes aiding Israel against Iran France's Hollande faces street protest over EU fiscal pact String of Iraq blasts kills at least 32 Kenya navy shells Somali town after rebels announce retreat Italy business lobby head against second Monti government Russian Church tells Pussy Riot to repent before appeal In Syrian shadow, Iraq's Maliki juggles Tehran, Washington Large part of ancient souk in Syria's Aleppo in ashes: activists Turkish democracy is example for Muslim world: Erdogan Baghdad to make payments to ease Kurd oil conflict Saudi detains activist after demonstrations near Yemen border Insight: Three lawyers ask U.S. Supreme Court: Why here? Iran jury finds Reuters guilty over video script, pending judge's ruling: Press TV Insight: Azerbaijan eyes aiding Israel against Iran Sun,30 Sep 2012 11:06 PM PDT Reuters - BAKU (Reuters) - Israel's "go-it-alone" option to attack Iran's nuclear sites has set the Middle East on edge and unsettled its main ally at the height of a U.S. presidential election campaign. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exudes impatience, saying Tehran is barely a year from a "red line" for atomic capacity. Many fellow Israelis, however, fear a unilateral strike, lacking U.S. forces, would fail against such a large and distant enemy. ... Full Story Top Analysis: Jonglei revolt gives South Sudan a security headache Sun,30 Sep 2012 11:04 PM PDT Reuters - JUBA (Reuters) - A heavy-handed government disarmament campaign to halt tribal clashes in South Sudan's swampy eastern grasslands has triggered a small armed revolt against the rulers of the world's newest state, threatening planned oil exploration in the area. The budding insurgency in Jonglei state led by Murle militia chief David Yau Yau, a former theology student, may not number more than a few dozen fighters. But there are fears it could escalate by feeding on local grievances against South Sudan's army. ... Full Story Top Japan PM picks senior lawmaker as finance minister in cabinet change Sun,30 Sep 2012 10:45 PM PDT Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda appointed as finance minister on Monday a senior lawmaker who worked with him on a plan to raise the sales tax, in a cabinet reshuffle aimed at boosting his ruling party's chances in an election expected in months. Koriki Jojima, 65, who served as the parliamentary affairs chief for the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), will take charge of the world's third largest economy as it teeters on the brink of recession, hurt by a global slowdown and a strong yen. ... Full Story Top Factbox: Five facts about new Finance Minister Jojima Sun,30 Sep 2012 09:42 PM PDT Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda appointed senior lawmaker Koriki Jojima as finance minister on Monday in a cabinet shake-up seen as a last-ditch attempt to boost his Democratic Party's chances in an election expected soon. Following are key facts about the new finance minister: - Jojima, 65, the former head of a labor union at Japanese food seasonings maker Ajinomoto Co, was first elected to parliament's lower house in 1996 as a member of the now defunct New Frontier Party led by veteran politician Ichiro Ozawa. ... Full Story Top Chile's Pinera presents education-heavy 2013 budget bill Sun,30 Sep 2012 06:28 PM PDT Reuters - SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera unveiled an education-heavy 2013 budget bill on Sunday, as he seeks to improve the right's social credentials before municipal elections in October and next year's presidential election. The budget bill proposes increasing public spending by roughly 5 percent next year, Finance Minister Felipe Larrain said as he submitted the proposal to Congress. The measure would bring total spending to around $63 billion, a record high. ... Full Story Top Venezuela opposition mourns slaying of Capriles activists Sun,30 Sep 2012 05:12 PM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles demanded justice on Sunday for the shooting of three of his activists, while President Hugo Chavez promised to expand his socialist agenda if he wins next weekend's election. With a week to go, Venezuela's presidential race looks close and tensions are rising. On Saturday, gunmen killed three pro-Capriles activists in Barinas state - the worst violence of the campaign. ... Full Story Top Japan PM to pick senior lawmaker Jojima as finance minister: media Sun,30 Sep 2012 04:59 PM PDT Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda plans to name senior lawmaker Koriki Jojima as the country's new finance minister in a cabinet shake-up due later on Monday, Japanese media reported. Jojima, who has served as parliamentary affairs chief in the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), would replace Jun Azumi and take charge of the world's third largest economy as it teeters on the brink of recession in the face of a global slowdown and strong yen. ... Full Story Top Canadian Auto Workers back labor deal with Chrysler Sun,30 Sep 2012 04:56 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Unionized workers at the Canadian operations of Fiat SpA's Chrysler Group LLC have voted in favor of a four-year labor agreement with the company, the Canadian Auto Workers union said on Sunday. Some 90 percent of the Chrysler workers who voted backed the deal, the CAW said in a statement. The agreement covers 8,000 employees. The Chrysler agreement was the last reached and approved by employees of a Detroit Three automaker in Canada after unionized workers at Ford Motor Co and General Motors Co ratified their contracts. ... Full Story Top Venezuela opposition fumes about deaths of party activists Sun,30 Sep 2012 02:49 PM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles demanded justice on Sunday for the shooting of three of his activists, while President Hugo Chavez promised to expand his socialist agenda if he wins next weekend's election. With a week to go, Venezuela's presidential race looks close and tensions are rising. On Saturday, gunmen killed three pro-Capriles activists in Barinas state - the worst violence of the campaign. ... Full Story Top Kenya navy shells Somali town after rebels retreat Sun,30 Sep 2012 02:23 PM PDT Reuters - MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Kenyan warships shelled the southern Somali port of Kismayu overnight after al Qaeda-linked rebels said they had abandoned the city, residents said on Sunday. Stunned by an assault by sea, air and ground forces late on Friday night, al Shabaab rebels fled the city that had been their key source of revenue, retreating to surrounding forests and towns. However, there were conflicting reports on Sunday evening about how much of Kismayu African Union forces (AMISOM) now controlled. ... Full Story Top Ex-wrestler props up India's PM, but he may want the job Sun,30 Sep 2012 02:12 PM PDT Reuters - LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - As a former wrestler, Mulayam Singh Yadav has got India's government where he likes it - in a vice-like grip. The ructions over fresh economic reforms that reduced the ruling coalition to a parliamentary minority last month left Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dependent on this wheeler-dealer from the country's dusty northern plains. In an interview with Reuters, Yadav insisted there were no strings attached to his support for Singh's Congress party, just a desire to keep the opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) out of power. ... Full Story Top Son of China's Bo Xilai defends his father Sun,30 Sep 2012 01:57 PM PDT Reuters - BOSTON (Reuters) - The Harvard-educated son of disgraced Chinese political leader Bo Xilai defended his father against charges of taking bribes and having improper sexual relationships, saying he believed in his father's good character. "Personally, it is hard for me to believe the allegations that were announced against my father, because they contradict everything I have come to know about him throughout my life," Bo Guagua said in a statement posted on the microblog site Tumblr. ... Full Story Top Palestinian authority aims to securitize $200 million of debt Sun,30 Sep 2012 01:54 PM PDT Reuters - KUWAIT (Reuters) - Palestinian authorities are aiming to securitize an initial $200 million of some $1.3 billion worth of government debt by the first quarter of 2013 to help reduce state borrowing from local banks, a top banker said on Sunday. "The Ministry of Finance is much more ready for securitizing the old debt rather than creating new debt, because we are not even rated," Palestinian Monetary Authority Governor Jihad al-Wazir said ahead of a Monday meeting of Arab central bankers in Kuwait. ... Full Story Top Factbox: Georgia's parliamentary election Sun,30 Sep 2012 01:34 PM PDT Reuters - TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia holds a parliamentary election on Monday in which President Mikheil Saakashvili's ruling United National Movement (UNM) faces a challenge from billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili's Georgian Dream coalition. Here are some key facts about Georgia and the election. GEORGIA: * Georgia is a nation of 4.5 million people in the South Caucasus. It has a shoreline on the Black Sea and borders Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey. It is mostly Orthodox Christian. ... Full Story Top Georgia's Saakashvili challenged in parliamentary vote Sun,30 Sep 2012 01:34 PM PDT Reuters - TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgians elect a parliament on Monday with tension high after a prison abuse scandal that has turned the vote into the biggest test of President Mikheil Saakashvili's grip on the Caucasus Mountain nation in nearly a decade in power. Saakashvili, a pro-Western leader who swept to the presidency after the bloodless Rose Revolution of 2003 and fought a five-day war with Russia in 2008, hopes to head off a challenge led by a once-reclusive tycoon with a fortune nearly half the size of the former Soviet republic's economy. ... Full Story Top Del Ponte joins U.N. war crimes inquiry on Syria Sun,30 Sep 2012 01:06 PM PDT Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - Carla del Ponte, a former U.N. chief prosecutor, was on Friday appointed a member of a United Nations commission investigating war crimes in Syria. The commission is gathering evidence for possible future trials of individuals and military units suspected of committing abuses in the 18-month-old conflict in which forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad are seeking to quell an uprising against him. ... Full Story Top Two Kenyan police shot dead near Somalia border Sun,30 Sep 2012 12:35 PM PDT Reuters - GARISSA, Kenya (Reuters) - Two police officers were shot dead in Kenya on Sunday in the northern town of Garissa close to the border with Somalia, police said, hours after a child was killed in a grenade attack on a church in Nairobi. Kenya has been hit by a series of grenade and gun attacks since it sent troops into Somalia last October in pursuit of Islamist al Shabaab militants whom it blamed for kidnapping its security personnel and Western tourists. ... Full Story Top Third person dead from Venezuela election shooting: Capriles Sun,30 Sep 2012 12:25 PM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - A third opposition supporter has died from a shooting at a rally this weekend that was the worst violence of Venezuela's volatile election campaign, presidential candidate Henrique Capriles said on Sunday. "We are going to defeat violence in Venezuela," Capriles told a rally in Caracas, after confirming the third fatality in the confrontation at an opposition event in Barinas state on Saturday. (Reporting by Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Jackie Frank) Full Story Top Canada says it took Guantanamo detainee early after U.S. pressure Sun,30 Sep 2012 11:49 AM PDT Reuters - OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada, which allowed Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr to be transferred to a prison in his homeland months earlier than expected, did so after pressure from the United States, Foreign Minister John Baird said on Sunday. Baird declined to comment on reports an angry Washington had insisted on Khadr's quick return after someone in Canada leaked a secret U.S. report on him. Khadr, 26, the youngest prisoner and last Westerner held in the Guantanamo military base, was sent back to Canada on Saturday to finish his sentence. ... Full Story Top Nearly half of Yemenis go hungry post-revolt, says WFP Sun,30 Sep 2012 11:27 AM PDT Reuters - SANAA (Reuters) - Nearly half of Yemenis go to bed hungry every night as political instability compounds a global food and fuel price surge, giving the Arabian Peninsula state the world's third-highest rate of child malnutrition, the World Food Programme said on Sunday. Yemen has been in turmoil since last year's revolt against 33 years of rule by Ali Abdullah Saleh when already weak state control in outlying regions broke down as the army split into pro- and anti-Saleh factions and al Qaeda militants occupied some areas. ... Full Story Top Egypt signs $1 billion Turkish loan deal Sun,30 Sep 2012 11:23 AM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt signed a deal on Sunday to loan $1 billion from Turkey, half of the aid package Ankara promised Cairo earlier this month, Egypt's state news agency reported. President Mohamed Mursi signed the loan agreement with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan after giving a speech at Turkey's ruling AK Party conference. "President Mohamed Mursi and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed on signing a loan worth $1 billion dollars from Turkey," MENA state news agency said, quoting Egypt's finance minister. It did not give further details of the agreement. ... Full Story Top Major quake hits Colombia, no reports of death or damage Sun,30 Sep 2012 11:02 AM PDT Reuters - BOGOTA (Reuters) - A large earthquake shook Colombia on Sunday, rattling residents in the southwest of the Andean nation, but there were no reports of deaths or major damage, authorities said. The 7.1-magnitude quake had its epicenter in the southwestern province of Cauca with a depth of about 103 miles, Colombian officials said. "So far there are no reports that there has been damage to any part of the country, only reports that it was felt," Jaime Raigosa, coordinator of the National Seismological Network, said. "Fortunately, the quake was deep." The U.S. Geological Survey had reported a 7. ... Full Story Top Argentina president's image slides further as CPI, crime weigh Sun,30 Sep 2012 10:48 AM PDT Reuters - BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina President Cristina Fernandez's popularity continued its downward slide in September, sinking to 24.3 percent from 30 percent in August, according to a poll published on Sunday, as high inflation and worries over crime weighed. As recently as September 2011, a month before winning her second term, Fernandez had a 64.1 percent popularity rating while campaigning on promises of deepening the interventionist policy model of her late husband and predecessor as president, Nestor Kirchner. The 24. ... Full Story Top Two Kenyan police officers shot dead near Somalia border Sun,30 Sep 2012 10:45 AM PDT Reuters - GARISSA, Kenya (Reuters) - Two Kenyan police officers were shot dead and their rifles stolen on Sunday in the northern town of Garissa near the border with Somalia, police said. The killings came hours after a nine-year-old boy was killed in the capital Nairobi by a grenade attack on a church by suspected sympathizers of Somali al Shabaab rebels and days after Kenyan troops led an offensive against the insurgents in their last stronghold in Somalia. (Reporting by Abdisalan Mohamed; Writing by Duncan Miriri; Editing by Robin Pomeroy) Full Story Top Chavez to Obama: I'd vote for you, and you for me Sun,30 Sep 2012 10:43 AM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - With both presidents facing tight re-election fights, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez gave a surprise endorsement to Barack Obama on Sunday - and said the U.S. leader no doubt felt the same. "I hope this doesn't harm Obama, but if I was from the United States, I'd vote for Obama," the socialist Chavez said of a man he first reached out to in 2009 but to whom he has since generally been insulting. Chavez is running for a new six-year term against opposition challenger Henrique Capriles, while Obama seeks re-election in November against Republican candidate Mitt Romney. ... Full Story Top Two Americans killed in confused Afghan shootout Sun,30 Sep 2012 10:39 AM PDT Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - Two Americans were killed in Afghanistan during an exchange of fire between NATO-led forces and the Afghan army that may have been the result of a misunderstanding, as the death toll of U.S. military and civilian personnel passed 2,000. A U.S. official, who asked not to be identified, said on Sunday that an American soldier and a civilian contractor had been killed in the incident in eastern Afghanistan, the circumstances of which remain unclear. ... Full Story Top Muslim protesters torch Buddhist temples, homes in Bangladesh Sun,30 Sep 2012 10:14 AM PDT Reuters - COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Hundreds of Muslims in Bangladesh burned at least four Buddhist temples and 15 homes of Buddhists on Sunday after complaining that a Buddhist man had insulted Islam, police and residents said. Members of the Buddhist minority in the Cox's Bazar area in the southeast of the country said unidentified people were bent on upsetting peaceful relations between Muslims and Buddhists. Muslims took to the streets in the area late on Saturday to protest against what they said was a photograph posted on Facebook that insulted Islam. ... Full Story Top Azerbaijan eyes aiding Israel against Iran Sun,30 Sep 2012 09:46 AM PDT Reuters - BAKU (Reuters) - Israel's "go-it-alone" option to attack Iran's nuclear sites has set the Middle East on edge and unsettled its main ally at the height of a U.S. presidential election campaign. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exudes impatience, saying Tehran is barely a year from a "red line" for atomic capacity. Many fellow Israelis, however, fear a unilateral strike, lacking U.S. forces, would fail against such a large and distant enemy. ... Full Story Top France's Hollande faces street protest over EU fiscal pact Sun,30 Sep 2012 09:41 AM PDT Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters marched through Paris on Sunday against a European fiscal pact, the first major display of public anger to face President Francois Hollande since his May election. The march organized by the Left Front coalition drew trade unionists, far-left sympathizers and other opponents of the EU accord, two days before lawmakers start to debate a draft law of the budget pact in the lower house of parliament. ... Full Story Top String of Iraq blasts kills at least 32 Sun,30 Sep 2012 09:24 AM PDT Reuters - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Coordinated bomb attacks killed more than 32 people across Iraq on Sunday, the latest violence in an insurgency the government has failed to quell more than nine months after the last U.S. troops withdrew. Violence in Iraq has eased since the carnage of 2006-2007, but Sunni Islamists still launch frequent attacks to undermine the Shi'ite-led government's claim to provide security and prove they remain a potent threat. ... Full Story Top Kenya navy shells Somali town after rebels announce retreat Sun,30 Sep 2012 09:21 AM PDT Reuters - MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Kenyan warships shelled the southern Somali port of Kismayu overnight after al Qaeda-linked rebels said they had abandoned the city, residents said on Sunday. Stunned by an assault by sea, air and ground forces late on Friday night, al Shabaab rebels fled the city that had been their key source of revenue, retreating to surrounding forests and towns. The shells may have been targeting any remaining pockets of resistance or military installations in the city that was the rebels' last stronghold. ... Full Story Top Italy business lobby head against second Monti government Sun,30 Sep 2012 09:16 AM PDT Reuters - ROME (Reuters) - Italy needs a strong political government, not another technocrat administration when Prime Minister Mario Monti's term ends in the spring, the head of the country's main employers' confederation said on Sunday. Talk of Monti being reinstalled after the elections has been swirling in Italy and the prime minister said in New York on Thursday that if no clear winner emerges from the vote he would be willing to carry on if asked to. However, the unelected former European commissioner also made it clear that he would not be a candidate at the election. ... Full Story Top Russian Church tells Pussy Riot to repent before appeal Sun,30 Sep 2012 08:47 AM PDT Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian Orthodox Church on Sunday called for members of the Pussy Riot punk band to repent, on the eve of an appeal court hearing they hope will quash their two-year jail sentences for performing an anti-Kremlin song in Moscow's main cathedral. The three women - who belted out a "punk prayer" criticizing President Vladimir Putin's close ties to the Russian Orthodox Church - were convicted of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" by a district court on August 17. ... Full Story Top In Syrian shadow, Iraq's Maliki juggles Tehran, Washington Sun,30 Sep 2012 08:33 AM PDT Reuters - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's move to inspect Iranian aircraft flying to Syria may appease the United States but also shows how crisis in Damascus has pushed Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki into an ever more delicate balancing act between his two main allies. When he faced a parliamentary revolt this year, he could count on Tehran to pull strings of influence over restive fellow Shi'ite politicians in Iraq's majority community that saw the Iraqis quickly fall in line again behind the Shi'ite premier. ... Full Story Top Large part of ancient souk in Syria's Aleppo in ashes: activists Sun,30 Sep 2012 08:10 AM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Large parts of Aleppo's covered market, the largest of its kind in the world and a UNESCO world heritage site that traces its history back to the 14th century, have been reduced to ashes as government forces and rebels fight for control of the city. The historic market was largely undamaged by earlier fighting in Syria's largest city, but in the early hours of Saturday some of its shops caught fire during clashes in circumstances that remain unclear. ... Full Story Top Turkish democracy is example for Muslim world: Erdogan Sun,30 Sep 2012 07:51 AM PDT Reuters - ANKARA (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan trumpeted Turkey's credentials as a rising democratic power on Sunday, saying his Islamist-rooted ruling party had become an example to the Muslim world after a decade in charge. Addressing thousands of party members and regional leaders at a congress of his Justice and Development (AK) Party, Erdogan said the era of military coups in the nation of 75 million people was over. ... Full Story Top Baghdad to make payments to ease Kurd oil conflict Sun,30 Sep 2012 07:40 AM PDT Reuters - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Oil payments from Baghdad to Iraq's Kurdish region will be transferred today, Kurdish Energy Minister Ashti Hawrami said on Sunday, offering hope that a long-running conflict between the central government and autonomous region is easing. Baghdad and Kurdistan agreed earlier this month to draw a line under a dispute over oil payments after the latter pledged to continue exports and Baghdad said it would pay foreign companies working there. ... Full Story Top Saudi detains activist after demonstrations near Yemen border Sun,30 Sep 2012 07:37 AM PDT Reuters - JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - A Saudi activist detained after calling for protests against the displacement of families near the border with Yemen began a hunger strike on Sunday, his lawyer said. Eisa al-Marzouq al-Nakhifi, from Jazan Province in southern Saudi Arabia, was arrested two weeks ago and started a hunger strike to protest against being detained without any date set for a court hearing, his lawyer told Reuters. ... Full Story Top Insight: Three lawyers ask U.S. Supreme Court: Why here? Sun,30 Sep 2012 07:26 AM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - For more than three decades survivors of human rights abuses in foreign countries have turned to U.S. federal courts to seek justice. On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court hears a case that could make that impossible. The case pits a Nigerian widow against a multinational oil company. Esther Kiobel and others say Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell) helped the Nigerian government commit human rights violations against her husband, who was executed in 1995. ... Full Story Top Iran jury finds Reuters guilty over video script, pending judge's ruling: Press TV Sun,30 Sep 2012 06:54 AM PDT Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian jury voted on Sunday to convict the Reuters news organization over a video script that contained an error, Iran's Press TV reported. The final decision will be made by a judge, who is expected to issue his verdict next month. In March, the Iranian government suspended the press accreditation of Reuters staff in Tehran after the publication of a video script on women's martial arts training that incorrectly referred to the athletes as "assassins". Reuters journalists have not been able to report inside Iran since then. ... Full Story Top

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