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• CNN, NBC scrap Hillary Clinton TV projects
• ACTIONS MUST FOLLOW WORDS IN IRAN
• US slams 'detestable' Iraq attacks
• Wave of bombs across Baghdad kills 55
• Baghdad area bombings kill at least 50
• Syria probe ends ahead of disarmament mission
• Syria's neighbours plead for help with refugees
• Filmmaker scraps Hillary Clinton CNN documentary
• Car bombs kill 54 in Shi'ite districts of Baghdad
• Police free teenagers from suspected traffickers
• Pentagon chief, at Korean DMZ, says U.S. will not cut force in Korea
• Exclusive: Vatican Bank likely to close embassy accounts after Iran, Iraq red flags
• UN: Syria refugee crisis hurting region's economy
• Competition between Islamist militants may fuel big attacks
• How to win the next Mideast war – over water
• Is Syria's Assad Evil? Why the Answer Matters (Op-Ed)
• Turkey unveils reforms, some aimed at Kurds
• Analysis: From Syria to South China Sea, navies cruise back into vogue
• Waterkeeper movement thrives from Maine to Nepal
• Bombings across Iraq now touch on formerly safe havens
• Syrian FM says no talks with main opposition group
• UN: Syria refugee crisis threatens development
• Mortar shell lands near Chinese embassy in Syria
• Wave of car bombs across Baghdad kills 51
• Australia central bank subsidiary in Saddam link
• Wave of car bombs in Baghdad Shiite areas kills 24
• Iraqi officials: Car bomb kills 7 in Baghdad
• Oman looks beyond Iran sanctions for gas lifeline
• Iranian, US interests collide across Mideast

CNN, NBC scrap Hillary Clinton TV projects Posted: 30 Sep 2013 04:26 PM PDT By Liana B. Baker and Gabriel Debenedetti (Reuters) - Two television projects focused on Hillary Clinton got the axe on Monday after the programs became embroiled in partisan wrangling, including threats by the Republican National Committee (RNC) to boycott presidential debates sponsored by CNN and NBC. The filmmaker for CNN said he could not complete the project because he'd received no cooperation from either Democrats or Republicans, while industry sources said NBC's move had nothing to do with the RNC, the Clintons or NBC News, which is run separately from NBC's entertainment unit. ...

ACTIONS MUST FOLLOW WORDS IN IRAN Posted: 30 Sep 2013 04:00 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- American youngsters' love affair with their cellphones may be the greatest waste of time since Marie Antoinette packed up her Angora cats and her cakes and tried to escape to exile in Maine. But cynical Americans who don't get the importance of one recent phone call -- between Iran's new president and President Obama after the opening of the United Nations last week -- are really missing the point of one of the great moments of modern history.One has the right, of course, to be suspicious. ...

US slams 'detestable' Iraq attacks Posted: 30 Sep 2013 02:58 PM PDT Washington (AFP) - The United States on Monday condemned a series of attacks in Baghdad as well as the Kurdish town of Arbil as "detestable and disgraceful."

Wave of bombs across Baghdad kills 55 Posted: 30 Sep 2013 02:38 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A new wave of bombs tore through Baghdad on Monday, officials said, killing at least 55 people. Most of the blasts were car bombs detonated in Shiite neighborhoods, the latest of a series of well-coordinated attacks blamed on hard-line Sunni insurgents determined to rekindle large-scale sectarian conflict.

Baghdad area bombings kill at least 50 Posted: 30 Sep 2013 02:24 PM PDT Baghdad (AFP) - Twelve car bombs, mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas in and around Baghdad, killed at least 47 people Monday, while at least three died in a blast against Sunni worshippers, officials said.

Syria probe ends ahead of disarmament mission Posted: 30 Sep 2013 01:15 PM PDT Damascus (AFP) - UN experts wrapped up their investigation of alleged gas attacks in Syria on Monday, as a chemical weapons disarmament team arrived in neighbouring Lebanon ahead of their trip to Damascus.

Syria's neighbours plead for help with refugees Posted: 30 Sep 2013 01:07 PM PDT Geneva (AFP) - Syria's neighbours pleaded Monday for more international support to tackle the huge influx of refugees from the war-ravaged country, warning the burden could destablise the whole region.

Filmmaker scraps Hillary Clinton CNN documentary Posted: 30 Sep 2013 12:47 PM PDT Washington (AFP) - An Oscar-winning filmmaker has abandoned a planned documentary on Hillary Clinton, following an outcry from Republicans who argued the film would promote the former secretary of state's presidential run.

Car bombs kill 54 in Shi'ite districts of Baghdad Posted: 30 Sep 2013 12:34 PM PDT By Kareem Raheem BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Car bombs killed at least 54 people in mostly Shi'ite Muslim areas of Baghdad on Monday as suspected Sunni Muslim militants pursued a campaign to plunge Iraq back into sectarian strife. Altogether 14 bombs shook Baghdad, the deadliest of them in Sadr City, where a white car blew up near where men had gathered to seek work, killing seven people, including two soldiers. "The driver said he would move the car soon, but it exploded a few minutes later," said Abu Mohammed, a worker at the scene, where bits of molten metal lay among cars wrecked in the blast. ...

Police free teenagers from suspected traffickers Posted: 30 Sep 2013 11:06 AM PDT The Hague (AFP) - Dutch and British police have arrested four suspected human traffickers and rescued four teenage girls hidden in the back of a camping car headed for Britain, Dutch prosecutors said on Monday.

Pentagon chief, at Korean DMZ, says U.S. will not cut force in Korea Posted: 30 Sep 2013 09:19 AM PDT By David Alexander PANMUNJOM, Korean Demilitarized Zone (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel toured the Korean DMZ on Monday under the watchful eye of North Korean soldiers and said the Pentagon had no plans to reduce its 28,500-member force in the South despite budget constraints. "This is probably the only place in the world where we have always a risk of confrontation," Hagel said after visiting a blue, single-story building with a corrugated metal roof where talks are held with North Koreans in the truce village of Panmunjom. ...

Exclusive: Vatican Bank likely to close embassy accounts after Iran, Iraq red flags Posted: 30 Sep 2013 09:02 AM PDT By Lisa Jucca and Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican bank is likely to close all accounts held by foreign embassies, following concerns about large cash deposits and withdrawals by the missions of Iran, Iraq and Indonesia, according to people with knowledge of the situation. The Vatican's financial watchdog, which examined the transactions in 2011, believed the embassies' justifications for the transactions were too vague or disproportionate to the amounts -- up to 500,000 euros at a time -- these people said. ...

UN: Syria refugee crisis hurting region's economy Posted: 30 Sep 2013 08:52 AM PDT BERLIN (AP) — The exodus of Syrians from their country threatens economic development throughout the Middle East because neighboring nations cannot cope with the influx of refugees, a top U.N. official said Monday. A U.S. diplomat, meanwhile, called for an action plan to deal with the extraordinary refugee crisis.

Competition between Islamist militants may fuel big attacks Posted: 30 Sep 2013 08:51 AM PDT By Myra MacDonald LONDON (Reuters) - The assault on Kenya's Westgate shopping mall has brought into sharp relief a pattern likely to complicate efforts to counter Islamist militants - competition among jihadis can increase the risk of a major attack. As with the 2008 assault on the Indian city of Mumbai and this year's raid on an Algerian desert gas plant, the attack in Nairobi by Somalia's al Shabaab was preceded by in-fighting or loss of supporters to other militant groups. ...

How to win the next Mideast war – over water Posted: 30 Sep 2013 08:50 AM PDT A few decades from now, nations in the Middle East and North Africa could face potentially catastrophic water shortages that could pose an even greater challenge than the upheavals gripping Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, and elsewhere.

Is Syria's Assad Evil? Why the Answer Matters (Op-Ed) Posted: 30 Sep 2013 07:54 AM PDT LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

Turkey unveils reforms, some aimed at Kurds Posted: 30 Sep 2013 07:14 AM PDT ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's prime minister on Monday announced a long-awaited package of proposals aimed at democratic reform, including lifting some restrictions on the use of the Kurdish language and on wearing Islamic headscarves.

Analysis: From Syria to South China Sea, navies cruise back into vogue Posted: 30 Sep 2013 07:03 AM PDT By Peter Apps LONDON (Reuters) - After a quarter century of Middle Eastern land wars and a sharp fall in big powers' naval spending after the Cold War, sea power is back in vogue in response to the rise of China and Western reluctance to deploy ground troops in conflicts like Syria. The greater interest in navies is being felt from the corridors of Washington to the pirate hunting grounds off Africa and the shipyards of Asia. ...

Waterkeeper movement thrives from Maine to Nepal Posted: 30 Sep 2013 06:58 AM PDT YARMOUTH, Maine (AP) — For 22 years, Joe Payne has patrolled the waters of Casco Bay, improving water quality, restoring clam flats, protecting young lobsters and mobilizing oil spill cleanup efforts.

Bombings across Iraq now touch on formerly safe havens Posted: 30 Sep 2013 05:42 AM PDT A rash of car bombs killed dozens across Baghdad on Monday, the latest in a series of deadly bombings that have racked Iraq over the past several days. The violence has brought the country's civilian death toll to its worst level since 2008.

Syrian FM says no talks with main opposition group Posted: 30 Sep 2013 05:39 AM PDT DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's foreign minister says the main Western-backed opposition group should not take part in a future peace conference because it had overwhelmingly supported a U.S. strike against Damascus over an attack last month in which chemical weapons were used.

UN: Syria refugee crisis threatens development Posted: 30 Sep 2013 05:32 AM PDT The head of the United Nations development agency is warning that Syria's refugee crisis is threatening economic development throughout the region because host countries cannot cope with the influx. Helen ...

Mortar shell lands near Chinese embassy in Syria Posted: 30 Sep 2013 02:53 AM PDT DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's state-run news agency says three mortar shells have hit the capital, Damascus, one of them landing near the Chinese embassy.

Wave of car bombs across Baghdad kills 51 Posted: 30 Sep 2013 02:31 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A wave of car bombs struck mainly in Shiite neighborhoods of Bagdad on Monday morning, killing at least 51 people and wounding dozens more, officials said, the latest in relentless violence roiling Iraq in recent months.

Australia central bank subsidiary in Saddam link Posted: 30 Sep 2013 01:09 AM PDT Sydney (AFP) - The Reserve Bank of Australia on Monday admitted staff from a subsidiary visited Iraq at the height of UN sanctions after it was accused of attempting to strike an illegal deal with Saddam Hussein.

Wave of car bombs in Baghdad Shiite areas kills 24 Posted: 30 Sep 2013 01:01 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A wave of car bombs struck Shiite neighborhoods of Bagdad on Monday morning, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens, officials said, the latest in relentless violence roiling Iraq in recent months.

Iraqi officials: Car bomb kills 7 in Baghdad Posted: 29 Sep 2013 11:52 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say a car bomb explosion in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad has killed at least seven people and wounded 14.

Oman looks beyond Iran sanctions for gas lifeline Posted: 29 Sep 2013 11:27 PM PDT By Daniel Fineren DUBAI (Reuters) - If Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's dream of reaching a deal with world powers on Tehran's nuclear program in six months comes true, Oman, an important intermediary in the dispute, could be a big winner. There have been too many false dawns in Iran's decade-old standoff with the West over Tehran's nuclear program to bank on Rouhani's call in New York last week for a deal within 3-6 months. ...

Iranian, US interests collide across Mideast Posted: 29 Sep 2013 11:05 PM PDT The groundbreaking dialogue between Iran and the U.S. has raised speculation of further advances to ease their 34-year diplomatic estrangement. But the two countries have overlapping interests across the Middle East and beyond that are sharply at odds.

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