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• Officials: Attacks kill 10 people in Iraq
• Bomb attack kills seven in northern Iraq tea house: police, medics
• Officials: 2 attacks kill 9 people in Iraq
• 'Prolonged exposure' therapy may help vets with PTSD
• Outspoken Assad supporter assassinated in Lebanon
• West Point gets a new commander in Gen. Caslen
• Freelance reporters train in combat zone first aid
• Liz Cheney run for Wyoming Senate seat: Is she a lock to win?
• Prominent Assad supporter assassinated in Lebanon
• Official: Iran open for nuke talks once team named
• UN: Some 5,000 Syrians being killed every month
• Iran's Rouhani says Israel threats 'laughable'
• Officials: Bombing kills 4 people in Iraq
• Cheney will challenge Enzi, McConnell launches coal ads, and watch out, Scott DesJarlais
• Packed boat capsizes near remote Australian island
• Today in History
• Iran dissidents in Iraq, accused of rights abuses, slam UN envoy

Officials: Attacks kill 10 people in Iraq Posted: 17 Jul 2013 02:30 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Attacks in Iraq targeting diners in two cafes and swimmers in a stream killed at least 10 people on Wednesday, as violence surges during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Bomb attack kills seven in northern Iraq tea house: police, medics Posted: 17 Jul 2013 02:07 PM PDT MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A bomb blast in a teahouse in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul killed at least seven people on Wednesday, police and medics said. The violence is part of a sustained campaign of militant attacks this year that has prompted fears of wider conflict in a country where ethnic Kurds and Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims have yet to find a stable power-sharing compromise. Medics said they had received the corpses of six men and one child following the attack in the Bab Laqash neighborhood of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of the capital Baghdad. ...

Officials: 2 attacks kill 9 people in Iraq Posted: 17 Jul 2013 01:25 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Two attacks in Iraq targeting diners in a cafe and swimmers in a stream on Wednesday killed at least nine people, as violence surges during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

'Prolonged exposure' therapy may help vets with PTSD Posted: 17 Jul 2013 01:14 PM PDT By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Therapy that involves repeatedly processing painful memories and approaching anxiety-provoking situations in a safe way may ease symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among veterans, a new study suggests. Although there is good evidence so-called prolonged exposure therapy can help people with PTSD, researchers said most of the data come from civilians, including women who have been sexually assaulted. ...

Outspoken Assad supporter assassinated in Lebanon Posted: 17 Jul 2013 12:02 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Gunmen burst into the first floor apartment of a pro-government Syrian journalist Wednesday, killing him in a hail of nearly 30 bullets in a Hezbollah stronghold in southern Lebanon.

West Point gets a new commander in Gen. Caslen Posted: 17 Jul 2013 11:33 AM PDT WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen Jr. has taken the top command position at West Point during a ceremony Wednesday morning on the campus overlooking the Hudson River.

Freelance reporters train in combat zone first aid Posted: 17 Jul 2013 09:55 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — In an era when news organizations are shutting foreign bureaus to cut costs, more of the dangerous work of reporting from the world's trouble spots is falling to freelancers, who often must fend for themselves to get the story out and get out alive.

Liz Cheney run for Wyoming Senate seat: Is she a lock to win? Posted: 17 Jul 2013 08:36 AM PDT Surprise – Liz Cheney is going to run for a Senate seat in Wyoming next year. That's where the Cheney family has roots, since dad Dick Cheney went to school there and was Wyoming's lone representative before he became George W. Bush's vice president.

Prominent Assad supporter assassinated in Lebanon Posted: 17 Jul 2013 07:12 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Gunmen assassinated a prominent Syrian pro-government figure at his home in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, shooting him nearly 30 times in the latest sign of Syria's civil war spilling over into its smaller neighbor.

Official: Iran open for nuke talks once team named Posted: 17 Jul 2013 07:11 AM PDT TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran will be ready to resume nuclear talks with world powers as soon as the country's president-elect puts together his negotiating team, the foreign minister said Wednesday amid signals on both sides to try to quickly restart dialogue.

UN: Some 5,000 Syrians being killed every month Posted: 17 Jul 2013 06:36 AM PDT An estimated 5,000 Syrians are dying every month in the country's civil war and refugees are fleeing at a rate not seen since the 1994 Rwanda genocide, U.N. officials said Tuesday. "In Syria today, ...

Iran's Rouhani says Israel threats 'laughable' Posted: 17 Jul 2013 05:43 AM PDT DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian President-elect Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday it was laughable for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to say that Tehran was getting close to Israel's "red line" over its nuclear program and derided the Jewish state's ability to strike Iran. The election of relative moderate Rouhani last month led to hopes amongst some in the West of progress towards resolving the decade-old nuclear dispute. But Netanyahu warned the world not to be distracted by crises in Syria and Egypt. ...

Officials: Bombing kills 4 people in Iraq Posted: 17 Jul 2013 04:05 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say a bombing targeting a stream where youngsters had sought refuge from the summer heat has killed four people.

Cheney will challenge Enzi, McConnell launches coal ads, and watch out, Scott DesJarlais Posted: 17 Jul 2013 01:40 AM PDT Wake-Up Call! is Hotline's daily morning briefing on campaigns and elections. Click here to subscribe.WHAT'S NEWSAfter reaching a deal to move beyond a fight over filibusters Tuesday that led to the confirmation of CFPB Dir. Richard Cordray, the Senate is poised to take the rest of the week to clear a handful of long-delayed executive-branch nominations, including Labor Sec.-designate Thomas Perez and EPA Admin.-designate Gina McCarthy (National Journal Daily).WY SEN: Dick Cheney daughter Liz Cheney (R) "says she will run against" Sen. Michael Enzi (R) in a GOP primary. ...

Packed boat capsizes near remote Australian island Posted: 16 Jul 2013 09:29 PM PDT SYDNEY (AP) — A boat carrying around 150 asylum seekers capsized in the Indian Ocean, spilling men, women and infants into rough waters and killing four people, Australian officials said Wednesday.

Today in History Posted: 16 Jul 2013 09:01 PM PDT Today is Wednesday, July 17, the 198th day of 2013. There are 167 days left in the year.

Iran dissidents in Iraq, accused of rights abuses, slam UN envoy Posted: 16 Jul 2013 06:07 PM PDT By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The outgoing U.N. special envoy to Iraq on Tuesday accused the leaders of an Iranian dissident group at a camp in Iraq of human rights abuses, an allegation the movement dismissed as baseless and potentially dangerous for the exiled dissidents. Members of the Iranian dissident group Mujahadin-e-Khalq living in Camp Hurriya near Baghdad have been transferred there from Camp Ashraf north of the Iraqi capital, where they had lived for nearly a decade until last year. ...

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