| Obama, security team meet on Syria chemical attack Posted: 24 Aug 2013 03:36 PM PDT  US President Barack Obama met with security aides Saturday to discuss a response to Syria's alleged use of chemical weapons after the Pentagon said it was preparing for possible military action.
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| Syria warns US not to intervene militarily Posted: 24 Aug 2013 02:54 PM PDT  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Syrian government accused rebels of using chemical weapons Saturday and warned the United States not to launch any military action against Damascus over an alleged chemical attack last week, saying such a move would set the Middle East ablaze.
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| Obama weighs possible military response after Syria chemical attack Posted: 24 Aug 2013 01:08 PM PDT  By Oliver Holmes and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama considered options on Saturday for a possible military strike on Syria in response to a nerve gas attack that killed hundreds as Syria sought to avert blame by saying its soldiers had found chemical weapons in rebel tunnels. A senior U.N. official arrived in Damascus to seek access for inspectors to the site of last Wednesday's attack, in which opposition accounts say between 500 and well over 1,000 civilians were killed by gas fired by pro-government forces. ...
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| Maduro vs. corruption: In earnest or power grab? Posted: 24 Aug 2013 11:38 AM PDT  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — There is little question Venezuela is a nation in desperate need of an anti-corruption crusade.
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| Baghdad funerals for 28 killed in park suicide bomb Posted: 24 Aug 2013 11:17 AM PDT  Baghdad residents held funerals Saturday for victims of a suicide bombing that killed 28 people in a city park, even as authorities pressed operations against militants to stem growing violence.
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| Despite turmoil, Syria regime feels new confidence Posted: 24 Aug 2013 09:31 AM PDT  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The signs would seem bad for President Bashar Assad. Blasts echo all day long over the Syrian capital as troops battle rebels entrenched on its eastern doorstep. The government admits the economy is devastated. Allegations of a horrific chemical attack have given new life to calls for international action against his regime.
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| Suspect arrested over Lebanese mosque bombings Posted: 24 Aug 2013 09:30 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese security forces arrested a suspect on Saturday in connection with the devastating double bombing the day before that killed at least 47 people in the northern city of Tripoli, the state news agency said.
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| For Fort Hood shooter, is execution punishment? Posted: 24 Aug 2013 09:12 AM PDT  Maj. Nidal Hasan and many of his victims in the Fort Hood shooting seem to want the same thing — his death. But while survivors and relatives of the dead view lethal injection as justice, the Army psychiatrist appears to see it as something else — martyrdom.
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| Iran says 'proof' Syria rebels used chemical weapons Posted: 24 Aug 2013 08:00 AM PDT  Iran, the chief regional ally of Damascus, said on Saturday there is "proof" Syrian rebels used chemical weapons in their conflict with the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
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| Iran's Rouhani acknowledges chemical weapons killed people in Syria Posted: 24 Aug 2013 05:42 AM PDT  DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday for the first time that chemical weapons had killed people in ally Syria and called for the international community to prevent their use. Rouhani stopped short of saying who he thought had used the arms, but Iran's Foreign Ministry on Saturday said evidence pointed to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Tehran has previously accused Syrian rebels of being behind what it called suspected chemical attacks. ...
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| Death toll in Lebanon bombings rises to 47 Posted: 24 Aug 2013 03:59 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese security forces arrested a suspect on Saturday in connection with the devastating double bombing the day before that killed at least 47 people in the northern city of Tripoli, the state news agency said. |
| Suicide bomber targets busy Baghdad cafe, killing 25 Posted: 24 Aug 2013 03:24 AM PDT By Kareem Raheem BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 25 people and wounded more than 50 in Baghdad on Friday when he detonated his explosives inside a busy cafe near a park popular with families, police and medical sources said. It was one of the worst attacks in Iraq since suicide bombers hit the same district two months ago, targeting a Shi'ite mosque and killing 29 worshippers during noon prayers. Friday's bombing took place in al-Qahira, a northern district of the capital that is home to mainly Shi'ite Muslims. ... |
| Afghanistan's Karzai says no rush to sign U.S. security pact Posted: 24 Aug 2013 03:17 AM PDT  KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan is in no rush to sign a pact with the United States setting out how many U.S. troops will stay after a NATO mission ends next year and may even delay a decision until after a presidential election, President Hamid Karzai said. Foreign combat troops are due to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014, when the NATO-led mission winds up and the responsibility for fighting Taliban insurgents is handed over to Afghan forces. ...
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| Iran president points to chemical weapons use in Syria Posted: 24 Aug 2013 01:06 AM PDT  Iranian President Hassan Rowhani on Saturday pointed to the use of chemical weapons in Syria, several days after opposition groups said chemical strikes near Damascus killed hundreds.
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| Fort Hood shooter convicted on 13 counts of murder Posted: 24 Aug 2013 12:36 AM PDT  FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — As the head of a military jury read a verdict convicting him of premeditated murder 13 times, Major Nidal Hasan stared intently at her. Then he let his eyes fall to the courtroom desk in front of him.
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| U.S. soldier who killed Afghan villagers gets life without parole Posted: 23 Aug 2013 05:34 PM PDT  By Eric M. Johnson TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - A decorated American soldier was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Friday for killing 16 unarmed Afghan civilians, mostly women and children, in two bloody nighttime forays from his military post. Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, a veteran of four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, has admitted to slaughtering the villagers in attacks on their family compounds in Kandahar province in March 2012. ...
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| Al Jazeera accuses AT&T of wrongly terminating contract Posted: 23 Aug 2013 05:11 PM PDT  By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T unfairly terminated an affiliation agreement with Al Jazeera America, the cable network says in a recently unsealed lawsuit that highlights AT&T's subscriber base in conservative states. Under a heavily redacted description of the alleged "bad faith scheme," Al Jazeera notes in its complaint that "AT&T has a large subscriber base in Texas and other conservative states in the South and Southwest. "Upon information and belief, it then began to cast around for an excuse to unilaterally terminate the Affiliation Agreement," the lawsuit says of AT&T. ...
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