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• Obama, GOP talks leading back to deficit debate
• Kerry, Karzai narrowing differences over security deal
• Twelve people drown in migrant boat accident off Egypt
• General in charge of nuclear missiles is fired
• Dan Harris in for Bill Weir as 'Nightline' anchor
• Syria jihadists accused of 'execution' war crimes
• Kerry drops into Kabul to prod Karzai on US withdrawal deal
• Rights group accuses Syrian rebels of war crimes
• Peace Prize goes to chemical-weapons watchdog
• This Nobel Peace Prize was only half right
• Russia says Syria rebels received Afghan training
• Live Twitter Chat with Tahar Boumedra Raises Awareness of Seven Hostages
• General in charge of ICBMs fired
• A look at the impact of recent Nobel Peace Prizes
• OPCW: Will Nobel Peace Prize help wipe out chemical weapons?
• New report says Syrian rebels committed war crimes
• Lawmakers Urge the U.S. to Save 7 Camp Ashraf Hostages, Protect Camp Liberty-Iraq, and Resettle MEK Members in America as Political Refugees, says OIAC
• Libya needs outside help to avoid perpetual war
• Global chemical watchdog wins Nobel Peace Prize
• Air raids and clashes near Syrian chemical weapons site
• Nobel Peace Prize rewards chemical watchdog's perseverance
• US oil boom drives new supplies, says energy agency
• Chemical weapons watchdog wins Nobel Peace Prize for Syrian mission
• Nobel Peace Prize win highlights work of chemical arms group OPCW
• U.N. urges Iraq to halt executions seen breaching international law
• New Women's History Book Credits Women for Saving Whiskey
• Syrian army retakes two Damascus suburbs from rebels: activists
• Gold-laced Kiswa graces haj shrine, then gets cut up
• UN rights office condemns 'obscene' Iraqi executions
• Western allies have little chance of influencing Libya
• What is the OPCW and what does it do?
• Iraq, Swiss firm sign $6B oil refinery contract
• Afghan President Karzai's brothers to offer him role if elected
• Syrian rebels killed 190 civilians in August dawn raid: HRW
• Real Captain Phillips warns cuts could hit Pentagon shipping program

Obama, GOP talks leading back to deficit debate Posted: 11 Oct 2013 03:06 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Suddenly it's about the deficits. As a deal moves toward ending the partial government shutdown, raising the nation's line of credit, and abandoning the drive to upend the 3-year-old health care law, Washington's attention is turning to spending and the red ink side of the government's ledger.

Kerry, Karzai narrowing differences over security deal Posted: 11 Oct 2013 02:45 PM PDT By Lesley Wroughton KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghan President Hamid Karzai narrowed differences in initial talks on Friday on terms for a future U.S. military presence in Afghanistan after 2014, a U.S. official said. Washington says it wants a deal done by the end of October but talks have stumbled over two issues that have become deal breakers for Kabul. Karzai has declared it can wait until after presidential elections in April next year, further straining what has become a rocky relationship between the allies. ...

Twelve people drown in migrant boat accident off Egypt Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:34 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Twelve people died when a boat carrying illegal migrants and Syrian refugees sank off Egypt's northern coast on Friday, security and medical sources said. "The Egyptian coast guards saved 72 Palestinians, 40 Syrians and four Egyptians," one security source said. The circumstances of the accident and the nationalities of the deceased were not yet known. More than 2 million refugees have fled Syria's civil war, mainly to neighbouring Iraq, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon. ...

General in charge of nuclear missiles is fired Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:34 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force fired the general in charge of its nuclear missiles on Friday, just two days after a Navy admiral with top nuclear weapons responsibilities was sacked. Both men are caught up in investigations of alleged personal misconduct, adding to a cascade of turmoil inside the nation's nuclear weapons force.

Dan Harris in for Bill Weir as 'Nightline' anchor Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:05 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — ABC News says Dan Harris is joining "Nightline" as a co-anchor, succeeding Bill Weir, who's headed to CNN.

Syria jihadists accused of 'execution' war crimes Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:03 PM PDT Damascus (AFP) - Jihadist fighters were accused Friday of war crimes over the killing of 190 civilians from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority, in the largest atrocity ever attributed to rebels.

Kerry drops into Kabul to prod Karzai on US withdrawal deal Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:58 PM PDT Secretary of State John Kerry's unannounced meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul Friday had one chief purpose: to accelerate stalled security talks dealing with the timing and circumstances of the US withdrawal from a costly war that's gone on for 12 years.

Rights group accuses Syrian rebels of war crimes Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:55 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian villagers described watching rebels advance on their homes, as mortars thudded around them. By the end of the August attack, 190 civilians had been killed, including children, the elderly and the handicapped, a human rights group said Friday in its most detailed account of alleged war crimes committed by those fighting the Damascus regime.

Peace Prize goes to chemical-weapons watchdog Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:47 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — The watchdog agency working to eliminate the world's chemical weapons won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a powerful endorsement of the inspectors now on the ground in Syria on a perilous mission to destroy the regime's stockpile of poison gas.

This Nobel Peace Prize was only half right Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:08 PM PDT This year's Nobel Peace Prize puts a worthy spotlight on the job of ridding the world of one type of weapon of mass destruction. The award went to an international body that is now trying to clear Syria of chemical weapons and has been tasked under a 1997 treaty to eliminate these weapons everywhere.

Russia says Syria rebels received Afghan training Posted: 11 Oct 2013 11:59 AM PDT Moscow (AFP) - Russia on Friday accused Syrian rebels of receiving chemical weapons training in lawless regions of Afghanistan and planning attacks on the territory of Iraq.

Live Twitter Chat with Tahar Boumedra Raises Awareness of Seven Hostages Posted: 11 Oct 2013 10:47 AM PDT Former senior UN official calls on International Community to Take Action and Demands Release of HostagesWASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- IranNewsUpdate.com – Yesterday Dr. Tahar Boumedra, the former Head of Human Rights Office of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq responded to real-time questions about the September 1, 2013 attack on Camp Ashraf and the status of the seven hostages taken by the Iraqi government.  Dr. Boumedra was responsible for the Ashraf dossier for more than three years.A resounding theme of Dr. ...

General in charge of ICBMs fired Posted: 11 Oct 2013 10:14 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force said Friday it fired the two-star general in charge of its nuclear missiles in response to an investigation into alleged personal misbehavior. It was the second sacking this week of a senior commander of nuclear forces.

A look at the impact of recent Nobel Peace Prizes Posted: 11 Oct 2013 10:08 AM PDT STOCKHOLM (AP) — By honoring the global chemical weapons watchdog, the Nobel Peace Prize committee stuck to its tradition of not just awarding past achievements, but highlighting a cause, movement or process it hopes can promote world peace.

OPCW: Will Nobel Peace Prize help wipe out chemical weapons? Posted: 11 Oct 2013 09:47 AM PDT In the 16 years since its creation, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has been quietly going about its work, cataloging and destroying chemical weapons arsenals around the world.

New report says Syrian rebels committed war crimes Posted: 11 Oct 2013 09:28 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Jihadi-led rebel fighters in Syria killed at least 190 civilians and abducted more than 200 during an offensive against pro-regime villages, committing a war crime, an international human rights group said Friday.

Lawmakers Urge the U.S. to Save 7 Camp Ashraf Hostages, Protect Camp Liberty-Iraq, and Resettle MEK Members in America as Political Refugees, says OIAC Posted: 11 Oct 2013 09:07 AM PDT WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a Congressional briefing, a bipartisan group of lawmakers called on the United States Government to accept a significant number of the residents of Camp Liberty, members of the main Iranian opposition movement, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/PMOI), as political refugees.Rep. ...

Libya needs outside help to avoid perpetual war Posted: 11 Oct 2013 09:04 AM PDT Early on Thursday, Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was taken from his hotel in Tripoli at gunpoint. Though he was released a few hours later, the kidnapping is a sad commentary on the state into which Libya has fallen in the two years since Muammar Qaddafi's death – and a harbinger of an ominous future ahead. Mr. Zeidan's kidnapping also points to the difficulties that have plagued the West's relationship with the country that NATO warplanes helped free from Qaddafi in 2011.

Global chemical watchdog wins Nobel Peace Prize Posted: 11 Oct 2013 08:12 AM PDT Efforts to eliminate chemical weapons won a Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for the global watchdog trying to destroy Syria's stockpiles of nerve gas and other poisonous agents. By giving its prestigious prize ...

Air raids and clashes near Syrian chemical weapons site Posted: 11 Oct 2013 07:46 AM PDT By Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian air force warplanes bombarded rebel-held targets close to a major chemical weapons facility on Friday in fighting that highlights the perils facing an international mission to eliminate President Bashar al-Assad's chemical arsenal. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, is due to visit 20 sites across Syria to verify the destruction of 1,000 tons of chemical agents and precursors. ...

Nobel Peace Prize rewards chemical watchdog's perseverance Posted: 11 Oct 2013 07:46 AM PDT The Hague (AFP) - The winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize is a body that has spent years trying to rid the world of chemical weapons in relative obscurity and was recently thrust into the limelight by the Syrian crisis.

US oil boom drives new supplies, says energy agency Posted: 11 Oct 2013 07:20 AM PDT Paris (AFP) - Global oil demand this year is being slightly boosted by recovery of European economies, and new production is building up fast in a rapidly changing oil market, the IEA said on Friday.

Chemical weapons watchdog wins Nobel Peace Prize for Syrian mission Posted: 11 Oct 2013 05:55 AM PDT By Balazs Koranyi and Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) - The global chemical weapons watchdog working to eliminate chemical arms stockpiles around the battlefields of Syria's civil war won the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a relatively small organisation with a modest budget, dispatched experts to Syria after a sarin gas attack killed more than 1,400 people near Damascus in August. Their deployment under a U.N. mandate helped avert a U.S. ...

Nobel Peace Prize win highlights work of chemical arms group OPCW Posted: 11 Oct 2013 05:47 AM PDT The Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), already in the news for its fast-moving effort to rid Syria of chemical arms, received a boost today in the form of the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.

U.N. urges Iraq to halt executions seen breaching international law Posted: 11 Oct 2013 05:27 AM PDT GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations called on Iraq on Friday to halt all executions after 42 people were hanged this week in what it said were most probably illegal mass executions ordered by Baghdad's "seriously flawed" justice system. They were executed for mass killings and other offences on Wednesday and Thursday - which was World Day against the Death Penalty. The world body called on Iraq to stop the executions and commute the sentences of the hundreds of other people believed to be on death row. ...

New Women's History Book Credits Women for Saving Whiskey Posted: 11 Oct 2013 05:00 AM PDT Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch and Irish WhiskeyLINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Potomac Books announces the first book written on the history of women in whiskey—Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey. The title is available in bookstores nationwide and select Costco warehouses October 15.In Whiskey Women, Wall Street Journal-bestselling author Fred Minnick dispels the masculine myths that whiskey is a man's drink. Minnick argues whiskey may not exist without female contributions. ...

Syrian army retakes two Damascus suburbs from rebels: activists Posted: 11 Oct 2013 04:49 AM PDT By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian army troops and Shi'ite militia fighters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad captured two southern suburbs of Damascus on Friday, killing at least 70 people, opposition activists said. The fighters, including some from the Lebanese Shi'ite movement Hezbollah and Iraqi Shi'ites backed by Syrian army tanks, searched al-Thiabiya and Husseiniya, a Palestinian refugee camp, for pockets of resistance after overrunning them, the sources said. ...

Gold-laced Kiswa graces haj shrine, then gets cut up Posted: 11 Oct 2013 04:17 AM PDT By Amena Bakr MECCA (Reuters) - More than 200 men have been laboring in a Saudi factory for eight months to produce the gold-embroidered, black-dyed Kiswa, a silk cover for the square building called the Kaaba that is a focal point of the annual haj pilgrimage to Mecca. The ornate protective covering produced at the Mecca factory will be draped over the Kaaba at the start of the haj, which this year is expected to begin on October 14. ...

UN rights office condemns 'obscene' Iraqi executions Posted: 11 Oct 2013 04:17 AM PDT Geneva (AFP) - The UN rights office Friday condemned Iraq's "obscene" execution of 42 convicts within a week, saying the country's justice system was too flawed to allow any use of capital punishment.

Western allies have little chance of influencing Libya Posted: 11 Oct 2013 03:23 AM PDT By Myra MacDonald LONDON (Reuters) - With Libya sliding into anarchy - its prime minister was briefly kidnapped by militiamen on Thursday - Western countries are repeating their commitment to help the North African country complete its transition to democracy after its 2011 revolution. But they have few good options to back up those promises beyond hoping the Libyan people themselves can eventually agree on a system of governance to reduce fighting between the country's many ethnic, tribal and regional factions. ...

What is the OPCW and what does it do? Posted: 11 Oct 2013 02:22 AM PDT THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Organization for the Probition of Chemical Weapons was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its work to rid the world of such weapons. Here's a look at the OPCW and the work it has been doing over the past 15 years:

Iraq, Swiss firm sign $6B oil refinery contract Posted: 11 Oct 2013 02:14 AM PDT Iraq's prime minister says his country has signed a $6 billion contract with Swiss company Satarem to build and run an oil refinery in southern Iraq. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office announced the ...

Afghan President Karzai's brothers to offer him role if elected Posted: 10 Oct 2013 10:48 PM PDT By Jessica Donati KABUL (Reuters) - As President Hamid Karzai's brothers began a campaign this week to take power in war-shattered Afghanistan, they left open the prospect that the incumbent will be able to use family ties to remain in government after his second term ends next April. Despite the years of feuding that has riven the hugely wealthy clan, the Karzai brothers plan to offer the outgoing president, who is constitutionally barred from running again, a position in their government. ...

Syrian rebels killed 190 civilians in August dawn raid: HRW Posted: 10 Oct 2013 09:07 PM PDT By Oliver Holmes BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels killed at least 190 civilians and took more than 200 hostage during an offensive in Latakia province in August, Human Rights Watch said on Friday, in what it calls the first evidence of crimes against humanity by opposition forces. HRW said many of the dead had been executed by militant groups, some linked to al Qaeda, who overran army positions at dawn on August 4 and then moved into 10 villages nearby where members of President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect lived. ...

Real Captain Phillips warns cuts could hit Pentagon shipping program Posted: 10 Oct 2013 06:08 PM PDT By David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An American merchant marine captain made famous by a Tom Hanks movie after being kidnapped by Somali pirates warned on Thursday that looming U.S. budget cuts could sink part of a program that keeps U.S.-flagged ships ready to ferry military supplies and aid around the world. Richard Phillips, who was held hostage after Somali pirates seized his vessel in 2009, is backing a campaign to halt the budget cuts, saying they could reduce by a third the size of the 60-strong U.S. commercial fleet that regularly carries cargo for the military. ...

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