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• Al Jazeera America needs to define mission to find viewers
• August 19: World Humanitarian Day, Aviation Day, National Soft Ice Cream Day
• Iraq seeks help from US amid growing violence
• Judge: Bradley Manning 'had reason to believe' his acts could injure the US
• Fort Hood suspect kicked gun from officer's hand
• Soccer-Palestinians want Israel banned for barring delegates
• More thugs and guns on the streets of Cairo
• Obama is eager member of golfing presidents' club
• Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline bombed: officials
• Oil rises for 6th day in a row
• Battles across Egypt, and alarmed comparisons to Syria and Iraq
• Military judge finds Manning's WikiLeaks acts 'wanton and reckless'
• Iraq seeking US drones to curb al-Qaida threat
• 4-Star General Barry McCaffrey-- Former US Drug Czar, Latin America & Iraq Commander -- To Keynote Int'l Firefighters Health Symposium, Denver, Thurs Aug 22 10:15 AM, Hyatt Regency; Also Q&A 2:30
• Syrian airstrike kills at least 15, wounds dozens
• August can play havoc with a president's vacation
• Pentagon Addresses Sexual Assault, but Some in Congress Are Skeptical
• Beirut bomb may have been suicide attack: minister
• Obama's August Blues: No One's Listening
• Is the Egyptian military sowing the seeds of an Islamist insurgency?
• Iraq Kurds reach out to Baghdad to fight surging al Qaeda
• Arming Al Qaeda: Anti-Tank Weapons Sent to Aid Syrian Rebels Landing in Hands of Extremists, Experts Say
• Fort Hood-area Muslims still stunned by gunman's violent outburst
• A LOOK AHEAD
• Syrian refugees pour into Iraq at new crossing, U.N. says
• Oil up further above $107 a barrel on Egypt crisis
• FIFA seeks Israel help over Palestinian tournament
• UN reports sudden wave of Syrians fleeing to Iraq
• Soccer-Palestinians want FIFA to ban Israel for barring delegates
• Other crises overshadow growing violence in Iraq
• Egypt's Army Crosses the Rubicon
• Brent steadies under $110, set for weekly rise on Egypt unrest
• 10 Things to Know for Friday

Al Jazeera America needs to define mission to find viewers Posted: 16 Aug 2013 03:56 PM PDT By Liana B. Baker NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cable TV viewers and advertisers will find out on Tuesday what Al Jazeera America stands for: is it a U.S. network, a Mideast news outlet, or something in between? Defining its mission clearly will be crucial for Al Jazeera to gain a foothold in the United States, a goal that has so far eluded the award-winning network funded by the emir of Qatar, according to advertisers, executives and industry experts. Globally, Al Jazeera is seen in more than 260 million homes in 130 countries. ...

August 19: World Humanitarian Day, Aviation Day, National Soft Ice Cream Day Posted: 16 Aug 2013 03:12 PM PDT World Humanitarian Day

Iraq seeks help from US amid growing violence Posted: 16 Aug 2013 03:10 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A resurgence of violence and a renewed threat from al-Qaida have recently revived flagging U.S. interest in Iraq, officials said Friday as Baghdad asked for new help to fight extremists less than two years after it forced American troops to withdraw.

Judge: Bradley Manning 'had reason to believe' his acts could injure the US Posted: 16 Aug 2013 03:00 PM PDT The scene has been set for the sentencing of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the young US Army intelligence analyst convicted on multiple espionage violations in the largest leak of classified information in American history.

Fort Hood suspect kicked gun from officer's hand Posted: 16 Aug 2013 01:47 PM PDT FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — With the gunman standing over her, Fort Hood police officer Kimberly Munley tried to fire her weapon as she lay bleeding on the ground. Nothing happened.

Soccer-Palestinians want Israel banned for barring delegates Posted: 16 Aug 2013 01:28 PM PDT (Updates after most delegates allowed entry) By Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Palestinian sports supremo Jibril Rajoub has threatened to call for Israel's expulsion from FIFA after it initially denied officials entry to the West Bank for a youth tournament on security grounds. Israel stopped about a dozen officials accompanying teams from Iraq, Jordan and United Arab Emirates and delegates from the Asian Football Confederation. However, by Friday evening all except one were cleared to enter, a Palestinian soccer official said. ...

More thugs and guns on the streets of Cairo Posted: 16 Aug 2013 01:27 PM PDT Persistent reports of "popular committees" being formed are coming in from Cairo and other Egyptian cities.

Obama is eager member of golfing presidents' club Posted: 16 Aug 2013 01:19 PM PDT VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. (AP) — American presidents love golf — 15 of the last 18 have played — and Barack Obama is an eager member of that club.

Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline bombed: officials Posted: 16 Aug 2013 01:17 PM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb attack halted the flow of crude oil through a pipeline running from Iraq's Kirkuk oil fields to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan in Turkey, two Iraqi oil officials said on Friday. The attack took place at around 0100 GMT on Friday near the al-Shura area 60 km (40 miles) to the south of the city of Mosul. The officials said repair work would be complete in around 48 hours. "Attackers planted a roadside bomb near a section of the pipeline," one official said. ...

Oil rises for 6th day in a row Posted: 16 Aug 2013 12:40 PM PDT The price of oil rose for the sixth consecutive day Friday on continuing violence in Egypt and supply disruptions elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa.

Battles across Egypt, and alarmed comparisons to Syria and Iraq Posted: 16 Aug 2013 12:22 PM PDT Egypt is erupting before the world's eyes, and there is no technology-babble about Facebook or Twitter revolutions anymore. Instead there's a Hobbesian, zero-sum battle being fought that is narrowing whatever window is left for compromise and reconciliation.

Military judge finds Manning's WikiLeaks acts 'wanton and reckless' Posted: 16 Aug 2013 12:20 PM PDT By Tom Ramstack FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The military judge who will determine how long U.S. soldier Bradley Manning will spend in prison for the biggest breach of classified data in the nation's history on Friday said she found that his acts were "wanton and reckless." Judge Colonel Denise Lind last month found Manning, 25, guilty of 20 criminal counts, including espionage and theft, for handing over some 700,000 secret U.S. documents to the WikiLeaks pro-transparency website. On Monday, she will begin deliberations on Manning's sentence. ...

Iraq seeking US drones to curb al-Qaida threat Posted: 16 Aug 2013 12:19 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Iraq's top diplomat says lethal U.S. drones could be based in Iraq to help fight a growing threat by al-Qaida.

4-Star General Barry McCaffrey-- Former US Drug Czar, Latin America & Iraq Commander -- To Keynote Int'l Firefighters Health Symposium, Denver, Thurs Aug 22 10:15 AM, Hyatt Regency; Also Q&A 2:30 Posted: 16 Aug 2013 11:55 AM PDT 1200 FIREFIGHTER WORLD LEADERS EXPECTED;  McCAFFREY SESSIONS OPEN TO PRESS, AVAIL BEFORE AND AFTER EACHGEN. McCAFFREY TO ADDRESS "WHAT IS LEADERSHIP", FIREFIGHTERS' HEROISM ON 9-11 AND BEYOND, INCLUDING FIGHTING THOUSANDS OF DANGEROUS METH LAB EXPLOSION FIRES, PLUS STAYING HEALTHY DESPITE THEIR STRESS; McCAFFREY SESSIONS HOSTED BY CRC HEALTH GROUPDENVER, Aug. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Four-Star General Barry R. ...

Syrian airstrike kills at least 15, wounds dozens Posted: 16 Aug 2013 11:33 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian warplanes struck targets in a rebel-held district in the contested northern city of Aleppo Friday, killing at least 15 people, wounding dozens of others and leaving some buried under the rubble of buildings, activists said.

August can play havoc with a president's vacation Posted: 16 Aug 2013 11:33 AM PDT By Steve Holland EDGARTOWN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - August has a way of interfering with a U.S. president's best-laid plans for vacation. Just ask Barack Obama. Or Bill Clinton. Or either of the presidents named Bush. Obama, determined to take a week off from his typically grinding schedule, interrupted his holiday briefly on Thursday to condemn the killing of hundreds of people in a violent crackdown on demonstrators by Egypt's military government. But at the risk of a new round of criticism, Obama promptly went on to play golf after the morning statement. ...

Pentagon Addresses Sexual Assault, but Some in Congress Are Skeptical Posted: 16 Aug 2013 10:13 AM PDT The Pentagon on Thursday introduced a set of provisions designed to crack down on sexual assaults in the military, but some lawmakers said the efforts came up short.

Beirut bomb may have been suicide attack: minister Posted: 16 Aug 2013 10:08 AM PDT By Stephen Kalin BEIRUT (Reuters) - The death toll from a car bomb which ripped through the southern Beirut stronghold of Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah rose to 24 on Friday, and the government said the explosion may have been a suicide attack. Thursday's blast, a month after a car bomb wounded more than 50 people in the same district of the Lebanese capital, came amid sectarian tensions over the intervention of Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah against Sunni rebels in Syria's civil war. ...

Obama's August Blues: No One's Listening Posted: 16 Aug 2013 09:03 AM PDT The Edge is National Journal's daily look at today in Washington -- and what's coming next. The email features analysis from NJ's top correspondents, the biggest stories of the day -- and always a few surprises. To subscribe, click here.

Is the Egyptian military sowing the seeds of an Islamist insurgency? Posted: 16 Aug 2013 07:46 AM PDT Shut out from the government, the Muslim Brotherhood may see no option but to embrace violence

Iraq Kurds reach out to Baghdad to fight surging al Qaeda Posted: 16 Aug 2013 06:40 AM PDT By Suadad al-Salhy BAGHDAD (Reuters) - When hundreds of al Qaeda fighters in armored trucks attacked the northern Iraqi town of Shirqat with machine guns last week, the local army unit called for backup and set off in pursuit. But after a two-hour chase through searing desert heat, most militants vanished into a cluster of Kurdish villages where the Iraqi army cannot enter without a nod from regional authorities. ...

Arming Al Qaeda: Anti-Tank Weapons Sent to Aid Syrian Rebels Landing in Hands of Extremists, Experts Say Posted: 16 Aug 2013 06:30 AM PDT "Because the most radical elements of the resistance are the most potent, they will begin to seize more and more weapons. This is a huge negative for stability in the region."

Fort Hood-area Muslims still stunned by gunman's violent outburst Posted: 16 Aug 2013 06:02 AM PDT By Eric M. Johnson KILLEEN, Texas (Reuters) - Members of Killeen's tight-knit Muslim community remember Nidal Hasan as a quiet loner who stood shoeless on the carpet of their mosque almost four years ago and sang the first words of the morning call to prayer: "Allahu akbar." They still have trouble understanding how, just a few hours later, the Army psychiatrist could have shouted those same words - "God is greatest" in Arabic - and then fatally shot 13 soldiers and wounded 31 others, witnesses said. ...

A LOOK AHEAD Posted: 16 Aug 2013 06:02 AM PDT What's next on nonproliferation and international security, in Washington and around the globe.

Syrian refugees pour into Iraq at new crossing, U.N. says Posted: 16 Aug 2013 05:43 AM PDT GENEVA (Reuters) - Thousands of Syrian refugees poured into the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq on Thursday, taking advantage of a new bridge along the largely closed border, the United Nations said on Friday. Between 5,000 and 7,000 refugees followed a first group of some 750 people who crossed the pontoon bridge at Peshkhabour over the Tigris River, and more buses were seen dropping off families on the Syrian side, it said. "Thousands of Syrians crossed into northern Iraq yesterday (Thursday) in a sudden, massive movement," Adrian Edwards, spokesman of the U.N. ...

Oil up further above $107 a barrel on Egypt crisis Posted: 16 Aug 2013 05:23 AM PDT The price of oil climbed higher above $107 a barrel on Friday amid fears of potential supply disruptions as violence in Egypt continued to spiral.

FIFA seeks Israel help over Palestinian tournament Posted: 16 Aug 2013 04:51 AM PDT ZURICH (AP) — FIFA says six players and officials from visiting Arab teams still require Israeli permission to attend a youth soccer tournament hosted by the Palestine Football Association.

UN reports sudden wave of Syrians fleeing to Iraq Posted: 16 Aug 2013 03:32 AM PDT GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency says an unusually large wave of Syrian families has been pouring into Iraq's Kurdistan region this week.

Soccer-Palestinians want FIFA to ban Israel for barring delegates Posted: 16 Aug 2013 02:32 AM PDT By Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Palestinian sports supremo Jibril Rajoub has threatened to call for Israel's expulsion from world soccer's governing body after it denied a number of officials entry to the West Bank for a youth tournament on security grounds. "At the next FIFA Congress, the Palestinian FA is planning to ask for Israel's expulsion in response to its violations against Palestinian sport," Rajoub said on Thursday before the planned start of an international youth tournament. ...

Other crises overshadow growing violence in Iraq Posted: 16 Aug 2013 12:48 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Security crises in Egypt, Syria and other countries are overshadowing rising death tolls and new fears of civil war in Iraq, once the top U.S. priority in the Mideast. However, the prospect that sectarian violence could fuel instability beyond Iraq's borders remains a concern for the Obama administration.

Egypt's Army Crosses the Rubicon Posted: 16 Aug 2013 12:00 AM PDT "Sire, clear the square with gunfire or abdicate."

Brent steadies under $110, set for weekly rise on Egypt unrest Posted: 15 Aug 2013 11:59 PM PDT By Jessica Jaganathan and Luke Pachymuthu SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Brent crude steadied under $110 a barrel on Friday and remained on track for a weekly rise as unrest in Egypt stoked supply fears, but worries the Federal Reserve could soon trim its commodity-friendly stimulus curbed gains. Fears that violence in Egypt could affect the Suez Canal -through which a major portion of the world's oil is shipped - or spread across the Middle East, where supplies already face disruptions, drove Brent to a four-month high on Thursday. ...

10 Things to Know for Friday Posted: 15 Aug 2013 06:00 PM PDT Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday:

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