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News: Sudan, South Sudan reach deal to end oil dispute: African Union Syrian army moves on rebels in Aleppo, Damascus Syria reaches oil deal with ally Russia Syrian rebels say seize security complex in eastern province Russia condemns "harmful" U.N. assembly resolution on Syria U.N. nations condemn Syria; Russia, China seen isolated Tropical Storm Ernesto races west over Caribbean Six killed in Mexico coal mine explosion Japanese minister tries out Osprey plane at Pentagon Venezuela electoral body probes both sides, baseball cap British coalition faces rift over political reform Some Turks call foul over Obama-Erdogan bat photo U.S., Pakistan appear to make little headway in spy meet Belarus expels Swedish ambassador, EU weighs response Putin "cheated us again," Russian band lawyer says Germany should use armed drones: defense minister Driver in death of Cuban dissident had bad driving record Suicide bomber kills self, wounds 9 in Kenya: police Clinton hails gay rights activists in wary Uganda France seizes Paris house of Equatorial Guinea leader's son Turkey ex-army chief voices concern at coup war game German prosecutors charge German Taliban suspect Iraq summons Turkey envoy to protest over visit India needs strict controls to avoid blackouts: power firm U.N. nations condemn Syria, demand political transition Russia says "extremely worried" by Aleppo violence Sudan protesters killed with automatic rifle ammunition: Amnesty Russia says ships not docking in Syria Rousseff's popularity defies Brazil slowdown Myanmar frees ill festival bomber on death row China to hold Gu Kailai murder trial on Aug. 9: sources Syrian army storms last rebel stronghold in Damascus Clinton urges Uganda's Museveni to consider "legacy" Aleppo assault erodes Syrian leader's power base Pakistan military court jails officers for extremist ties West African leaders slash taxes to battle high food prices Hamas frees Qaeda-tied leader of militant group in Gaza: source Belarus expels Swedish ambassador Bank of Canada to set rate moves, quarterly reports on same day CAR government says opposition behind violent youth protests Sudan, South Sudan reach deal to end oil dispute: African Union Fri,3 Aug 2012 06:55 PM PDT Reuters - ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Sudan and South Sudan have reached a deal on oil payments and will soon discuss when to resume southern oil exports through the north, a mediator from the African Union said on Saturday. Landlocked South Sudan shut down its entire oil production in January after failing to agree with Sudan on how much it should pay to export oil through northern pipelines. Oil is the lifeline of both economies. ... Full Story Top Syrian army moves on rebels in Aleppo, Damascus Fri,3 Aug 2012 06:04 PM PDT Reuters - ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - Syrian forces stormed the last rebel stronghold in the capital Damascus in tanks and armored vehicles on Friday and blasted artillery at rebels in Aleppo, where the United Nations said the army was preparing a massive assault. The violence came within hours of former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan quitting as international peace envoy for Syria, underlining the impotence of mediation efforts in the 17-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. A senior U.N. ... Full Story Top Syria reaches oil deal with ally Russia Fri,3 Aug 2012 05:57 PM PDT Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Syria has reached an agreement with ally Russia to secure much-needed fuel as a delegation of ministers sent by President Bashar al-Assad asked Moscow to help alleviate the effects of sanctions on the war-torn country. The trip was a rare foreign visit made by high-level Syrian officials, whose circles of support are shrinking as violence mounts between rebel fighters and forces loyal to Assad, who the West and Arab countries say must leave power. ... Full Story Top Syrian rebels say seize security complex in eastern province Fri,3 Aug 2012 05:57 PM PDT Reuters - AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels seized a security headquarters in the oil-producing province of Deir al-Zor on Friday, killing 13 security personnel in battles to control a major highway leading to Iraq, a rebel spokesman said. President Bashar al-Assad's forces have lost control over large swathes of Deir al-Zor in the last two months, but troops still surround the provincial capital, pounding the city with artillery and from the air. ... Full Story Top Russia condemns "harmful" U.N. assembly resolution on Syria Fri,3 Aug 2012 05:57 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia condemned a resolution on Syria which the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted on Friday as "harmful," complaining that it was tantamount to a show of support for rebels fighting to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told the 193-nation assembly that the Saudi-drafted resolution "hides blatant support to the armed opposition." Russia was among only 12 countries that voted against the non-binding text, which condemns Damascus and calls for a political transition. ... Full Story Top U.N. nations condemn Syria; Russia, China seen isolated Fri,3 Aug 2012 05:57 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. member states on Friday overwhelmingly voted to condemn the Syrian government at a special session of the General Assembly that Western diplomats said highlighted the isolation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's supporters Russia and China. The 193-nation assembly approved the Saudi-drafted resolution, which expressed "grave concern" at the escalation of violence in Syria and condemned the Security Council for its action, with 133 votes in favor, 12 against and 31 abstentions. ... Full Story Top Tropical Storm Ernesto races west over Caribbean Fri,3 Aug 2012 05:05 PM PDT Reuters - MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Ernesto swept over the tiny island of St. Lucia on Friday and could strengthen into a hurricane as it races westward across the Caribbean Sea, forecasters said. All warnings were dropped for the southeastern Caribbean islands by midday. By Friday evening, the storm was over open water about 250 miles west of St. Lucia and was not expected to threaten any other islands for the next few days. Ernesto was forecast to pass south of Jamaica on Sunday and then strengthen into a hurricane before hitting Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Wednesday, the U.S. ... Full Story Top Six killed in Mexico coal mine explosion Fri,3 Aug 2012 04:57 PM PDT Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Six miners were killed in a coal mine collapse in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila on Friday, an emergency rescue team source on the site told Reuters. One miner was rescued earlier, according to a separate report from the mine operator. The explosion was triggered when a large amount of methane gas ignited, causing the collapse of 100 tonnes of coal, mine owner Altos Hornos de Mexico (AHMSA) said in a statement. Nearly 300 miners evacuated the mine without incident, the company said. ... Full Story Top Japanese minister tries out Osprey plane at Pentagon Fri,3 Aug 2012 04:55 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japan's defense minister flew from the Pentagon grounds Friday in a revolutionary hybrid aircraft at the heart of a controversy that threatens to strain strong defense ties between the United States and its Asian ally. The minister, Satoshi Morimoto, donned a white flight helmet and goggles before taking the jump-seat, between the pilots, on the flat-gray Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey troop transport. ... Full Story Top Venezuela electoral body probes both sides, baseball cap Fri,3 Aug 2012 04:08 PM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's election commission is investigating both sides in this year's bitterly contested presidential race over alleged campaign irregularities, a mere two months before voters head to the polls in the South American OPEC nation. President Hugo Chavez is squaring off against youthful opposition candidate Henrique Capriles in an October 7 vote that has become the controversial socialist leader's toughest political battle of his 14 years in power. ... Full Story Top British coalition faces rift over political reform Fri,3 Aug 2012 03:58 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - The junior party in Britain's coalition government said on Friday the two-year-old alliance was entering "uncharted territory" after reports that Prime Minister David Cameron planned to drop promised parliamentary reforms. Newspapers said Cameron was set to abandon reforms to parliament's unelected upper chamber, the House of Lords, that have been championed by his Liberal Democrat partners after he failed to overcome opposition within his own Conservatives. Cameron's office said talks on the Lords were still in progress and that an announcement would be made in due course. ... Full Story Top Some Turks call foul over Obama-Erdogan bat photo Fri,3 Aug 2012 03:20 PM PDT Reuters - ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A photograph of U.S. President Barack Obama holding a baseball bat while talking on the phone to Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was intended to show their close relationship, a White House spokeswoman said, after the photo caused a stir in Turkey. The two leaders spoke on Monday to discuss the crisis in Syria, after which the photograph of Obama seated at his desk, talking on the phone while holding a bat autographed by black-American baseball great Hank Aaron, was released by the White House. ... Full Story Top U.S., Pakistan appear to make little headway in spy meet Fri,3 Aug 2012 03:15 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and Pakistani spy chiefs exchanged grievances in their first official meeting this week, sources familiar with the discussions said on Friday, but it was unclear if the two uneasy allies made any progress to end deep divisions on militants living in Pakistani tribal areas or on U.S. drone strikes. Lieutenant-General Zaheer ul-Islam, who was named in March to head the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), on his first official visit to Washington met on Thursday with CIA Director David Petraeus at CIA headquarters. ... Full Story Top Belarus expels Swedish ambassador, EU weighs response Fri,3 Aug 2012 03:08 PM PDT Reuters - STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Belarus has expelled Sweden's ambassador over his actions to support democracy, Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said on Friday, as the European Union's foreign policy chief said the bloc would consider responding with "appropriate" measures. The diplomatic dispute flared up after a plane chartered by a Swedish public relations firm dropped hundreds of teddy bears over Belarus on July 4 in a pro-democracy stunt, prompting President Alexander Lukashenko to sack his air defense chief and the head of the border guards. ... Full Story Top Putin "cheated us again," Russian band lawyer says Fri,3 Aug 2012 02:53 PM PDT Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Members of an all-woman Russian punk band on trial for staging a protest at the altar of Moscow's main cathedral will likely receive long jail terms despite President Vladimir Putin saying they should not be judged too harshly, a defense lawyer said. A Moscow court refused to hear most defense witnesses called to testify on Friday on behalf of the protest action by the Pussy Riot band, dimming hopes among human rights groups that Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29, could escape lengthy sentences. ... Full Story Top Germany should use armed drones: defense minister Fri,3 Aug 2012 02:42 PM PDT Reuters - BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany, which used unmanned aircraft in warfare during World War Two, should deploy armed drones in its military, its defense minister said. "A drone is nothing more than a plane without a pilot," Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere told the daily "Die Welt" in an article to appear on Saturday. He said he was in favor of the German armed forces using armed drones, according to an advance copy of the article. "Planes can be armed so why shouldn't unmanned aircraft be allowed to be armed as well? I don't understand that," he added. ... Full Story Top Driver in death of Cuban dissident had bad driving record Fri,3 Aug 2012 01:00 PM PDT Reuters - MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish politician who was driving a car that crashed in Cuba last month, killing the island's top dissident, was in proceedings to have his license revoked, according to Spain's national traffic authority. Spain's Direccion General de Trafico (DGT) advised Angel Carromero, vice president of the ruling Popular Party's "New Generations" movement, in May that it was initiating the process to withdraw his driving license, according to official records. Carromero was given 10 days to appeal the decision. The DGT was not available for comment. ... Full Story Top Suicide bomber kills self, wounds 9 in Kenya: police Fri,3 Aug 2012 12:40 PM PDT Reuters - NAIROBI (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber killed himself and wounded nine people when he detonated a grenade near a military air base in Nairobi on Friday, police said, in the latest such attack since Kenya's military foray into neighboring Somalia. The incident occurred in a Somali-dominated area, and police said the attacker had intended to blow up a group of soldiers near the perimeter of the air base. All but one of the wounded were civilian bystanders, police said. ... Full Story Top Clinton hails gay rights activists in wary Uganda Fri,3 Aug 2012 12:30 PM PDT Reuters - KAMPALA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday praised activists who opposed a tough draft law in Uganda targeting gays and lesbians, calling them an inspiration for others struggling to secure equal rights around the world. Clinton presented a coalition of Ugandan rights groups with the State Department's 2011 Human Rights Defender Award, a signal to African and Islamic nations that Washington will not backtrack in its fight against the legal and political persecution of homosexuals. ... Full Story Top France seizes Paris house of Equatorial Guinea leader's son Fri,3 Aug 2012 12:05 PM PDT Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - French investigators have seized a Paris townhouse belonging to the son of Equatorial Guinea's president as part of a money-laundering probe, a judicial source said on Friday. Millions of euros worth of art, antiques and other valuables were seized in February from the same six-floor building which is owned by Teodoro Obiang, agriculture minister and son of the small oil-rich African state's president. Two French judges issued arrest warrants last month for Obiang on money laundering charges, saying they suspected he had siphoned off state funds to buy property in France. ... Full Story Top Turkey ex-army chief voices concern at coup war game Fri,3 Aug 2012 11:03 AM PDT Reuters - SILIVRI, Turkey (Reuters) - A former Turkish military chief told a court on Friday that a 2003 war game, which prosecutors say was part of a coup plot, had gone too far in using real politicians' names and that he had raised his concerns at the time. The war game scenario, played out at a barracks in Istanbul in March 2003, is central to prosecution evidence in a case against 364 officers accused of seeking to topple the Islamist-rooted government of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. General Hilmi Ozkok was head of NATO's second largest armed forces between 2002 and 2006. ... Full Story Top German prosecutors charge German Taliban suspect Fri,3 Aug 2012 10:17 AM PDT Reuters - BERLIN (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Germany said on Friday they had charged a German man suspected of helping launch an attack on a military base in Afghanistan with being a member of an Islamist militant group and with preparing a serious act of violent subversion. The federal prosecutors' office said it suspected that the 26-year-old German national, identified only as Thomas U., was a member of a foreign "terrorist" association called the "German Taliban Mujahideen" (DTM) from December 2009 to July 2010. ... Full Story Top Iraq summons Turkey envoy to protest over visit Fri,3 Aug 2012 10:15 AM PDT Reuters - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq made a formal protest to Turkey's envoy in Baghdad on Friday after the Turkish foreign minister made a surprise visit to an oil-rich Iraqi city claimed by both the central government and the country's autonomous Kurdistan region. In response, Turkey summoned the Iraqi ambassador in Ankara and warned Baghdad to be "careful" in its remarks. The latest in a series of diplomatic spats and tit-for-tat summonings of envoys between the neighboring countries is likely to worsen already strained relations. ... Full Story Top India needs strict controls to avoid blackouts: power firm Fri,3 Aug 2012 10:09 AM PDT Reuters - MUMBAI (Reuters) - India needs a more cohesive energy policy and stringent grid management to avoid a recurrence of the power outages that hit hundreds of millions of people this week, the chief executive of Reliance Infrastructure Ltd said in an interview. Reliance Infrastructure, India's largest private electric utility, provides power to 30 million people in financial capital Mumbai and political capital New Delhi. ... Full Story Top U.N. nations condemn Syria, demand political transition Fri,3 Aug 2012 10:05 AM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly voted to condemn the Syrian government and demanded a political transition in Syria, where 17 months of fighting between forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and opposition fighters. The 193-nation assembly approved the Saudi-drafted non-binding resolution, which expressed "grave concern" at the escalation of violence in Syria, with 133 votes in favor, 12 against and 31 abstentions. ... Full Story Top Russia says "extremely worried" by Aleppo violence Fri,3 Aug 2012 10:04 AM PDT Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it was "extremely worried" by violence in the Syrian city of Aleppo and called for an immediate halt to the bloodshed. A Foreign Ministry statement also said deliveries of weapons from abroad and other support for rebels fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad contradicted international attempts to find a peaceful solution to the crisis. (Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska) Full Story Top Sudan protesters killed with automatic rifle ammunition: Amnesty Fri,3 Aug 2012 09:51 AM PDT Reuters - KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Eight Sudanese protesters killed this week at an anti-government demonstration in the Darfur region were shot with live ammunition used in automatic rifles, Amnesty International said, citing medical sources. Police have said they were forced to act when Tuesday's protest escalated, but exercised only minimum force. They did not say whether they had fired live ammunition. Sudan said eight people had been killed during the clashes between police and protesters in Nyala, Darfur's biggest town. ... Full Story Top Russia says ships not docking in Syria Fri,3 Aug 2012 09:49 AM PDT Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian military source was quoted on Friday as saying Moscow was sending three naval ships and up to 360 marines to Syria, but the Defense Ministry said there were no plans for the vessels to dock in the war-torn country. Three Russian news agencies quoted a source in the General Staff as saying the vessels, already in the Mediterranean, would arrive in Tartus this week or early next week with supplies for Russia's only permanent warm water port outside the former Soviet Union. ... Full Story Top Rousseff's popularity defies Brazil slowdown Fri,3 Aug 2012 09:33 AM PDT Reuters - SAO PAULO (Reuters) - President Dilma Rousseff continues to enjoy high popularity as Brazilian consumers remain largely unfazed by a recent economic slowdown and very optimistic about their country's future, according to a poll released on Friday. About 57 percent of those polled said they thought Rousseff's government was either "great" or "good," according to the survey by the National Transport Confederation, or CNT. That was up from 49 percent in the CNT's last poll, released in August 2011. ... Full Story Top Myanmar frees ill festival bomber on death row Fri,3 Aug 2012 09:15 AM PDT Reuters - YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's president on Friday pardoned a cancer-stricken man sentenced to death for killing 10 people in a festival bombing two years ago, the latest of hundreds of prisoners to be freed under the country's reformist government. Phyo Wai Aung, 33, who has liver cancer and is paralyzed from below the waist, was released four days after a visit to Yangon's Insein Prison by United Nations Special Human Rights Rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana, a family member told Reuters. ... Full Story Top China to hold Gu Kailai murder trial on Aug. 9: sources Fri,3 Aug 2012 09:02 AM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - China will open the murder trial of Gu Kailai, the wife of ousted Communist Party Politburo member Bo Xilai, on August 9, two sources said on Friday, a case at the center of a scandal that has rocked the government and could bring Gu the death penalty. Both sources requested anonymity, citing the sensitivity of the case, and provided no other details. China only last week formally announced Gu's indictment on charges of murdering a British man in November. ... Full Story Top Syrian army storms last rebel stronghold in Damascus Fri,3 Aug 2012 08:50 AM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian troops backed by dozens of tanks and armored vehicles stormed Damascus' southern district of Tadamon on Friday, in an attempt to wrest back control of the last rebel stronghold in the capital, a witness and activists said. Activists said most of the district was under the control of government forces by early evening and that government troops had executed at least 12 people. Their reports could not be immediately verified. "Thousands of soldiers have entered the neighborhood, they are conducting house to house raids," a resident said. ... Full Story Top Clinton urges Uganda's Museveni to consider "legacy" Fri,3 Aug 2012 08:42 AM PDT Reuters - KAMPALA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Africa's leaders should respect the rules on Friday when she met Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, a strong Washington ally who has changed the constitution to prolong his hold on power. She met Museveni, who is serving his fourth elected term after coming to power in 1986, as part of a seven-nation African tour that began in Senegal on Wednesday. At their meeting in the capital, Kampala, Clinton urged Museveni, a U.S. ... Full Story Top Aleppo assault erodes Syrian leader's power base Fri,3 Aug 2012 08:36 AM PDT Reuters - ANTAKYA, Turkey (Reuters) - Syrians fleeing fighting in Aleppo are furious that President Bashar al-Assad could turn so much firepower on a city that had stayed mostly aloof from the 17-month-old revolt against him. Some say Syrian leader's decision to unleash warplanes, helicopter gunships, tanks and artillery against rebels seeking to seize Aleppo could prove fatal to his chances of survival. "I never expected Assad to do this," said Nabil Najjar, a 72-year-old carpenter, sitting on a mattress in a sparsely furnished two-room flat in the Turkish city of Antakya. ... Full Story Top Pakistan military court jails officers for extremist ties Fri,3 Aug 2012 08:35 AM PDT Reuters - ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistan military court sentenced five army officers to prison on Friday for having ties with a radical Islamist group, the military said in a statement. Brigadier Ali Khan, the highest-ranking officer in the group, was sentenced to five years in jail. Khan was arrested last year for suspected links with Hizb-ut-Tahrir, a radical political group that wants to establish an Islamic caliphate across the Muslim world. The military did not provide details of when the other four, all army majors, were arrested. ... Full Story Top West African leaders slash taxes to battle high food prices Fri,3 Aug 2012 08:16 AM PDT Reuters - NIAMEY/ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Mali, Niger and Ivory Coast have slashed or removed taxes on a range of imported basic foods as they try to contain rising food prices, which led to protests in a number of countries when they last spiked five years ago. Grain prices hit record highs on international markets in July as drought scorched crops in the U.S. midwest and Russia, prompting the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization to warn that it was concerned about prices although it did not yet see a repeat of the 2007/08 crisis. ... Full Story Top Hamas frees Qaeda-tied leader of militant group in Gaza: source Fri,3 Aug 2012 07:50 AM PDT Reuters - GAZA (Reuters) - Gaza's Islamist Hamas government has freed a militant group's leader who is believed to have ties to al Qaeda and had been detained for 17 months, a source from a Jihadist Salafi group said on Friday. Hisham Al-Saedni, also known as Abu Al-Waleed Al-Maqdissi, was freed late on Thursday, the source said. Hamas declined immediate comment. Saedni, in his late 50s, is believed to head the Jihadist Salafi group Tawhid and Jihad (One God and Holy War). ... Full Story Top Belarus expels Swedish ambassador Fri,3 Aug 2012 07:44 AM PDT Reuters - STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Belarus has expelled Sweden's ambassador over actions to support democracy, Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said on Friday. A plane chartered by a Swedish public relations firm dropped hundreds of teddy bears over Belarus on July 4 in a pro-democracy stunt, prompting President Alexander Lukashenko to sack his air defense chief and the head of the border guards. "The Lukashenko regime in Belarus has decided to expel our ambassador," Bildt told reporters. "They have made accusations against the ambassador. They are groundless. ... Full Story Top Bank of Canada to set rate moves, quarterly reports on same day Fri,3 Aug 2012 07:40 AM PDT Reuters - OTTAWA (Reuters) - Starting in 2013, the Bank of Canada will publish its quarterly Monetary Policy Report (MPR) on the same day as its interest rate decisions, not the day afterwards as at present, the central bank announced on Friday. It reconfirmed the schedule for the remainder of 2012, with the October MPR to be released on October 24, a day after the October 23 rate decision. And it noted that it retained, as always, the option of making unscheduled rate announcements at any time in the event of extraordinary circumstances. ... Full Story Top CAR government says opposition behind violent youth protests Fri,3 Aug 2012 07:17 AM PDT Reuters - BANGUI (Reuters) - Central African Republic's defense minister on Friday accused opposition politicians of being behind violent protests that saw demonstrators clash with security forces in the capital, Bangui. Angry youths blocked the riverside capital's main streets with burning barricades on Thursday and gunfire erupted as the security forces sought to put down the protest. They vandalized monuments to President Francois Bozize and broke into a jail, freeing hundreds of prisoners. Fifteen demonstrators and three gendarmes were hurt in the ensuing clashes. ... Full Story Top

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