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• New Mexico woman sues employer over medical pot
• AP ANALYSIS: Assessing the Gaza war outcome so far
• Flavors From the Melting Pot: Cassava Fries With Curry Mayonnaise
• Kurds unite to oust Iraq jihadists, rescue stranded civilians
• Car bombs kill 51 in Baghdad Shiite neighborhoods
• With US aimed the wrong way, most want new leaders
• Kurds, Islamic State clash near Kurdish regional capital
• Baghdad bombings kill at least 30: police, medics
• Indonesia releases 2005 Bali bombing convict
• US Treasury sanctions Kuwaitis for Iraq, Syria
• Death toll from Baghdad car bombs rises to 47: police
• Iraqi government air strike on Islamic State court kills 60
• Turkey seeks air corridor to evacuate wounded Palestinians
• Iraq: Car bombs kill 27 in Baghdad
• Lebanese army surrounds border town, evacuates refugees
• Potential Cameron challenger Johnson to stand as British MP
• Iraq TV: Airstrike kills 60 suspected militants
• US sanctions suspected terrorist financiers
• Treasury sanctions suspected terrorist financiers
• Five Best Wednesday Columns
• Pennsylvania museum says finds 6,500-year-old skeleton in its cellar
• From Syria to Ukraine, social media opens up warfare
• Saddam's allies moved his corpse, fearful Shi'ite militias would harm it: tribal leader
• 6,500-Year-Old 'Noah' Skeleton Discovered in Museum Basement
• Iraq TV: Airstrike kills 60 militants in north
• Maliki warns against interference in forming of new Iraq government
• New Afghan attack kills 7 after US general slain
• How the World Really Sees Obama’s America
• Afghan policeman turns on his colleagues, kills 7
• Top Asian News at 8:30 a.m. GMT
• Lebanon ceasefire falters; Saudi offers $1 billion to army
• Top Asian News at 8:00 a.m. GMT
• Top Asian News at 7:30 a.m. GMT
• Top Asian News at 7:00 a.m. GMT
• Top Asian News at 6:30 a.m. GMT
• Top Asian News at 6:00 a.m. GMT
• Top Asian News at 5:30 a.m. GMT

New Mexico woman sues employer over medical pot Posted: 06 Aug 2014 04:33 PM PDT A New Mexico physician's assistant who also is a medical marijuana patient says one of the state's largest health care providers violated her rights when it fired her following a positive drug test. Donna ...

AP ANALYSIS: Assessing the Gaza war outcome so far Posted: 06 Aug 2014 02:01 PM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — As indirect negotiations proceed in Egypt between Israel and Hamas following the war in Gaza, here is an assessment of the outcome so far of the month-long conflict, assuming the cease-fire holds:

Flavors From the Melting Pot: Cassava Fries With Curry Mayonnaise Posted: 06 Aug 2014 01:43 PM PDT He told me about a new movie Participant Media has coming out called The Hundred Foot Journey, which is about an Indian family running a restaurant in Southwest France and their trials adapting to their new culture.

Kurds unite to oust Iraq jihadists, rescue stranded civilians Posted: 06 Aug 2014 01:09 PM PDT Kurds from Iraq, Syria and Turkey joined forces in north Iraq Wednesday to try to reclaim areas lost to jihadists and rescue thousands of civilians stranded in mountains without food or water. The fate of the civilians, many of them from the Yazidi minority who fled to the Sinjar mountains after an attack by the Islamic State (IS) group at the weekend, has sparked international concern. In raids west and north of their main Iraqi hub of Mosul in recent days, IS fighters took over the towns of Sinjar and Zumar, further secured the border with Syria by seizing Rabia, and bagged several oilfields in the process. As part of the fightback, an Iraqi government airstrike smashed a hole in a Mosul building the jihadists had been using as a sharia (Islamic law) court, military spokesman Qassem Atta said.

Car bombs kill 51 in Baghdad Shiite neighborhoods Posted: 06 Aug 2014 12:27 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A string of car bombs tore through busy shopping streets in several Baghdad neighborhoods on Wednesday night killing 51 people as the army announced that one of its airstrikes had killed 60 militants in the northern city of Mosul.

With US aimed the wrong way, most want new leaders Posted: 06 Aug 2014 12:03 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has checked out, and the American people have noticed.

Kurds, Islamic State clash near Kurdish regional capital Posted: 06 Aug 2014 12:02 PM PDT By Ahmed Rasheed and Isra' al-Rubei'i BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Kurdish forces attacked Islamic State fighters near the Kurdish regional capital of Arbil in northern Iraq on Wednesday in a change of tactics supported by the Iraqi central government to try to break the Islamists' momentum. The attack 40 km (25 miles) southwest of Arbil came after the Sunni militants inflicted a humiliating defeat on the Kurds on Sunday with a rapid advance through three towns, prompting Iraq's prime minister to order his air force for the first time to back the Kurdish forces. Now we are clashing with the Islamic State in Makhmur," said Jabbar Yawar, secretary-general of the ministry in charge of the Kurdish peshmerga fighters. The location of the clashes puts the Islamic State fighters closer than they have ever been to the Kurdish semi-autonomous region since they swept through northern Iraq almost unopposed in June.

Baghdad bombings kill at least 30: police, medics Posted: 06 Aug 2014 11:53 AM PDT Five bomb attacks, including four car bombings, killed at least 30 people and wounded around 70 others Wednesday in several Baghdad districts, Iraqi police and medical sources said. In the deadliest strike, two near simultaneous blasts in the northeastern Shiite area of Sadr City killed at least 16 people and wounded 34, a police colonel told AFP. Medical sources confirmed the toll. Another car bomb near a market area in the Ur district, north of Sadr City, killed at least eight and wounded 21, the same sources said.

Indonesia releases 2005 Bali bombing convict Posted: 06 Aug 2014 11:50 AM PDT An Indonesian bombmaker convicted of helping to orchestrate terror attacks on the resort island of Bali in 2005 which killed 20 people was released on parole Wednesday, an official said. Muhammad Cholili, 36, was sentenced to 18 years in prison in September 2006 for assisting slain ringleaders Noordin Mohammad Top and Azahari Husin to assemble the explosives used in the blasts. Noordin and Azahari were key members of the Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah extremist network blamed for a string of deadly attacks in Indonesia, including the 2002 Bali bombing which killed 202 people, mostly Western holidaymakers. "Muhammad Cholili has been released on parole today after several remissions which he received for good behaviour.

US Treasury sanctions Kuwaitis for Iraq, Syria Posted: 06 Aug 2014 11:44 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The US Treasury Department announced Wednesday it is levying sanctions against three men suspected of helping finance what it says are terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria — a move that targeted two well-known Kuwaiti men and showed Washington's growing frustration with its Gulf ally.

Death toll from Baghdad car bombs rises to 47: police Posted: 06 Aug 2014 11:25 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The death toll from car bomb attacks on crowded markets in Shi'ite districts of Baghdad on Wednesday climbed to 47, police said. Islamic State Sunni militants, which have declared a 'caliphate' in swathes of Iraq and Syria that it controls and threatens to march on Baghdad, have claimed several Baghdad bombings in the past and believe Shi'ites are infidels who deserve to be killed. (Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)

Iraqi government air strike on Islamic State court kills 60 Posted: 06 Aug 2014 11:19 AM PDT An Iraqi government air strike on a Sharia court set up by Islamic State militants in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul killed 60 people on Wednesday, the office of the prime minister's military spokesman said. The Islamic State judge who ran the court was among those killed, the spokesman said. Hospital officials and witnesses said earlier that the air strike had killed 50 people in a makeshift prison set up by the Islamic State, which seized large chunks of Iraq in June.

Turkey seeks air corridor to evacuate wounded Palestinians Posted: 06 Aug 2014 10:58 AM PDT By Nick Tattersall and Tulay Karadeniz ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey is seeking Israeli and Egyptian agreement for an air corridor to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza and evacuate possibly thousands of injured Palestinians for treatment, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Wednesday. In an interview with Reuters, Davutoglu also said Turkey was stepping up aid to an estimated 1.5 million people displaced in northern Iraq's Kurdish region after a rapid advance by Islamic State militants brought the violence closer to its borders.

Iraq: Car bombs kill 27 in Baghdad Posted: 06 Aug 2014 10:51 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi medical and security officials say two car bombs have exploded in Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad killing 27 people.

Lebanese army surrounds border town, evacuates refugees Posted: 06 Aug 2014 10:43 AM PDT By Samia Nakhoul ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF ARSAL Lebanon (Reuters) - Lebanon's army surrounded a border town occupied by Islamist militants on Wednesday as mediators reported progress in negotiations to end to the most serious spillover of Syria's civil war yet onto Lebanese soil. Soldiers arrested men and evacuated refugees from the hill town of Arsal on the border with Syria. "We saw death with our own eyes," said Mariam Seifeddin, a 35-year-old mother of nine, who said she had sheltered with about 50 others in a single room without food or water for three days amid intense fighting. Saudi Arabian King Abdullah granted $1 billion to help the Lebanese army bolster security as they battle militants in Arsal on the Syrian frontier.

Potential Cameron challenger Johnson to stand as British MP Posted: 06 Aug 2014 09:27 AM PDT London Mayor Boris Johnson indicated Wednesday that he would stand for election to the House of Commons next year, a move that could eventually position him as a successor to British Prime Minister David Cameron. Some in Cameron's Conservative Party see Johnson as a popular figure with a high profile who could be a successful future leader if he were to win a seat at next May's general election. "In all probability I will try to find somewhere to stand in 2015," Johnson said following a speech in London. Cameron's Conservatives, currently senior partners in a coalition government, face a tough fight to win next year's election.

Iraq TV: Airstrike kills 60 suspected militants Posted: 06 Aug 2014 08:49 AM PDT An Iraqi army airstrike targeting the Islamic State group that's seized wide swaths of territory across the country's north killed some 60 suspected militants Wednesday, state television reported.

US sanctions suspected terrorist financiers Posted: 06 Aug 2014 08:47 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department is levying sanctions against three men suspected of helping finance terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria.

Treasury sanctions suspected terrorist financiers Posted: 06 Aug 2014 08:43 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department is levying sanctions against three men suspected of helping finance terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria.

Five Best Wednesday Columns Posted: 06 Aug 2014 08:25 AM PDT Zalmay Khalilzad in The Washington Post on why the United State's needs to act swiftly in Iraq. Khalilzad writes that because of the Islamic State's recent advances, it is important for the U.S. to supply the Kurds and the Iraqis with increased aid. The United States should move immediately to work with local forces opposed to the Islamic State — not just the government in Baghdad but also Sunni Arabs and the Kurds. Washington is open to the idea, according to testimony by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Brett McGurk before the Senate last month; In particular, the United States can play a key role in expediting the provision of ammunition and training, operational advice and coordination among these local forces and some of Iraq's concerned neighbors." Khalilzad suggests that, because of the changing conditions on the ground, U.S. policy must also change.

Pennsylvania museum says finds 6,500-year-old skeleton in its cellar Posted: 06 Aug 2014 08:22 AM PDT By Daniel Kelley PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A Philadelphia archaeology museum said on Tuesday its researchers have discovered an extremely rare 6,500-year-old human skeleton in its own basement, where it had been in storage for 85 years. The Penn Museum, affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, said it had lost track of all documentation for the skeleton which dates to roughly 4500 BC. But the paperwork turned up this summer, as part of a project to digitize old records from a 1922-1934 joint expedition by the British Museum and the Penn Museum to modern-day Iraq. Researchers were able to determine that the skeleton was unearthed around 1930 as part of an excavation into the Royal Cemetery of Ur led by Sir Leonard Woolley. A researcher on the digitization project, William Hafford, mentioned the records to Janet Monge, the museum' chief curator.

From Syria to Ukraine, social media opens up warfare Posted: 06 Aug 2014 08:02 AM PDT By Peter Apps WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 2013, Eliot Higgins used videos posted online from Syria to track weapons and pinpoint a chemical strike in Damascus from a computer in the English Midlands. This year, the British blogger and activist is using the same techniques to investigate the missiles in Ukraine believed to have brought down Flight MH17. As conflict flares in the Middle East and Ukraine, the number of images posted on social media is increasing exponentially, giving observers half a world away unprecedented visibility of events on the ground. Footage and still photographs have helped activists and experts identify what they say are Iranian aircraft in Iraq, foreign arms - including U.S.-made rockets - in Syria and killings from Gaza to Nigeria.

Saddam's allies moved his corpse, fearful Shi'ite militias would harm it: tribal leader Posted: 06 Aug 2014 06:53 AM PDT By Ahmed Rasheed and Isra' al-Rubei'i BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Executed former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's Sunni tribal allies moved his body from a family plot eight months ago, fearful that Shi'ite militias would harm it, a tribal leader told Reuters on Wednesday. The caution paid off for Saddam's supporters and perhaps Iraq, where tensions between Sunnis and Shi'ites would certainly explode into even more violence if any harm is done to the corpse of a man who still commands the respect of his sect. A leader from Saddam's Albu Nasir tribe and a police official told Reuters that Shi'ite militiamen broke into the grave site, tore down photographs of the former Iraqi leader and then set the area on fire. Our fears proved true," said the tribal leader who asked not to be named."There were four of us that took up this mission.

6,500-Year-Old 'Noah' Skeleton Discovered in Museum Basement Posted: 06 Aug 2014 06:32 AM PDT Scientists at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia are quite literally cleaning the skeletons out of their closets. Museum staff recently rediscovered a 6,500-year- old human skeleton that's been boxed up in the basement for 85 years. The human remains inside the box were originally unearthed between 1929 and 1930 at the site of Ur in modern-day Iraq by Sir Leonard Woolley and his team of archaeologists from the Penn and British Museums, according to the records.

Iraq TV: Airstrike kills 60 militants in north Posted: 06 Aug 2014 05:27 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi army airstrike in the militant-held northern city of Mosul on Wednesday killed 60 fighters from the extremists Islamic State group, Iraq's state television reported.

Maliki warns against interference in forming of new Iraq government Posted: 06 Aug 2014 03:56 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who is under mounting pressure to give up his bid for a third term in office, said on Wednesday that any unconstitutional attempt to form a new government would open "the gates of hell" in the country. In his weekly address to the nation, Maliki also said he rejected any outside interference in the process, an apparent reference to regional power broker Tehran, which Iranian officials have said believes Maliki can no longer hold his country together. (Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

New Afghan attack kills 7 after US general slain Posted: 06 Aug 2014 03:53 AM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S. officials prepared Wednesday to fly the body of a two-star general slain in an Afghan "insider attack" back home, as a similar attack saw an Afghan police officer drug and shoot dead seven of his colleagues, authorities said.

How the World Really Sees Obama’s America Posted: 06 Aug 2014 02:15 AM PDT With every new geopolitical crisis and hotspot that flares up, the idea that the U.S. has lost its global mojo surfaces once more. President Obama was asked about it again at his press conference on Friday. ...

Afghan policeman turns on his colleagues, kills 7 Posted: 06 Aug 2014 02:01 AM PDT KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan policeman turned his gun on his colleagues at a police checkpoint in the country's south, killing seven policemen, a provincial official said Wednesday.

Top Asian News at 8:30 a.m. GMT Posted: 06 Aug 2014 01:32 AM PDT LUDIAN, China (AP) — The death toll in southern China's earthquake jumped from 410 to 589 on Wednesday as search and rescue teams found scores more bodies while pushing into isolated mountain communities to clear debris from collapsed homes. The Yunnan provincial government said more than 2,400 people were injured in Sunday's 6.1 magnitude quake in the mountainous farming region of Ludian county — the country's deadliest temblor in four years and its biggest test of emergency response under leader Xi Jinping.

Lebanon ceasefire falters; Saudi offers $1 billion to army Posted: 06 Aug 2014 01:04 AM PDT The Lebanese army and Islamist militants clashed on Wednesday despite a 24-hour ceasefire agreed to end five days of fighting that has killed dozens of people in the most serious spillover of Syria's three-year civil war into Lebanon. Saudi Arabian King Abdullah granted $1 billion to help the Lebanese army to bolster security as they battle militants who have seized the border town of Arsal on the Syrian frontier, state news agency SPA reported. "The ceasefire is continuing, but we are responding to any violations," a security official said. Arsal's mayor Ali Hujeiri, by phone, said the gunmen were on the outskirts of the town.

Top Asian News at 8:00 a.m. GMT Posted: 06 Aug 2014 01:02 AM PDT LUDIAN, China (AP) — The death toll in southern China's earthquake jumped from 410 to 589 on Wednesday as search and rescue teams found scores more bodies while pushing into isolated mountain communities to clear debris from collapsed homes. The Yunnan provincial government said more than 2,400 people were injured in Sunday's 6.1 magnitude quake in the mountainous farming region of Ludian county — the country's deadliest temblor in four years and its biggest test of emergency response under leader Xi Jinping.

Top Asian News at 7:30 a.m. GMT Posted: 06 Aug 2014 12:32 AM PDT LUDIAN, China (AP) — The death toll in southern China's earthquake jumped from 410 to 589 on Wednesday as search and rescue teams found scores more bodies while pushing into isolated mountain communities to clear debris from collapsed homes. The Yunnan provincial government said more than 2,400 people were injured in Sunday's 6.1 magnitude quake in the mountainous farming region of Ludian county — the country's deadliest temblor in four years and its biggest test of emergency response under leader Xi Jinping.

Top Asian News at 7:00 a.m. GMT Posted: 06 Aug 2014 12:03 AM PDT LUDIAN, China (AP) — The death toll in southern China's earthquake rose to 589 on Wednesday as search and rescue teams pushed into isolated mountain communities to clear debris from collapsed homes. The Yunnan provincial government said more than 2,400 people were injured in Sunday's 6.1 magnitude quake in the mountainous Yunnan farming region of Ludian county — the country's deadliest temblor in four years.

Top Asian News at 6:30 a.m. GMT Posted: 05 Aug 2014 11:32 PM PDT LUDIAN, China (AP) — The death toll in southern China's earthquake rose to 589 on Wednesday as search and rescue teams pushed into isolated mountain communities to clear debris from collapsed homes. The Yunnan provincial government said more than 2,400 people were injured in Sunday's 6.1 magnitude quake in the mountainous Yunnan farming region of Ludian county — the country's deadliest temblor in four years.

Top Asian News at 6:00 a.m. GMT Posted: 05 Aug 2014 11:02 PM PDT LUDIAN, China (AP) — The death toll in southern China's earthquake rose to 589 on Wednesday as search and rescue teams pushed into isolated mountain communities to clear debris from collapsed homes. The Yunnan provincial government said more than 2,400 people were injured in Sunday's 6.1 magnitude quake in the mountainous Yunnan farming region of Ludian county — the country's deadliest temblor in four years.

Top Asian News at 5:30 a.m. GMT Posted: 05 Aug 2014 10:32 PM PDT LUDIAN, China (AP) — The death toll in southern China's earthquake rose to 589 on Wednesday as search and rescue teams pushed into isolated mountain communities to clear debris from collapsed homes. The Yunnan provincial government said more than 2,400 people were injured in Sunday's 6.1 magnitude quake in the mountainous Yunnan farming region of Ludian county — the country's deadliest temblor in four years.

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