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Russian jet broke up in mid air, too early for conclusions, official says

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 01:51 PM PST

Handout photo satellite image of the Russian airplane crash site on the Sinai PeninsulaBy Lin Noueihed, Ahmed Aboulenein and Alexander Winning CAIRO/MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula broke up in mid-air, an official of a Moscow-based aviation agency said on Sunday after visiting the disaster site, but stressed it was too early to draw conclusions from this. Russian authorities also ordered Kogalymavia airline, operator of the Airbus A321 which came down on Saturday killing all 224 people on board, not to fly its jets of the same model until the causes of the crash are known. The jet, which Kogalymavia flew under the brand name Metrojet, was carrying holidaymakers from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg when it crashed into a mountainous area of central Sinai shortly after losing radar contact near cruising altitude.


Al Qaeda chief urges militant unity against Russia in Syria

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 01:37 PM PST

Still image from video shows then-Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri speaking from an unknown location in this file photoAl Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri called on Muslim supporters to band together to confront the threat from the West and Russia in Syria and Iraq, the latest recording suggesting greater unity between al Qaeda and Islamic State. "The Americans, Russians, Iranians, Alawites, and Hezbollah are coordinating their war against us -- are we not capable of stopping the fighting amongst ourselves so we can direct all our efforts against them?" Zawahri said in an audio recording released on the Internet on Sunday. It was not clear when the recording was made but references to Russian aggression suggest it was made after Russia, an ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, launched air raids against opposition groups and Islamic State in Syria on Sept. 30.


UN says more than 700 people killed in Iraq in October

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 12:44 PM PST

BAGHDAD (AP) — The United Nations says the number of Iraqis killed in violence in October was 714, up from 537 people in the previous month.

Iraq PM declares emergency in areas hit by heavy rain

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 11:50 AM PST

Displaced Iraqis carry mattresses and blankets through flood water at a camp in Baghdad following heavy rainfall on October 30, 2015Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared an emergency in areas overwhelmed by heavy rain that has caused widespread flooding and multiple deaths, his office said Sunday. Abadi ordered a "declaration of emergency in the areas affected by torrential rainwater that exceeded drainage capacity", his office said in a statement. Iraq was hit by multiple days of heavy rain that, when combined with the country's decrepit infrastructure, caused major flooding in Baghdad and other areas that resulted in deaths and health problems.


Islamic State takes Syrian town as fighting looks set to intensify

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 11:45 AM PST

Women walk past damaged buildings along a street in the old city of HomsBy John Davison and Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters drove Syrian government forces from a western town on Sunday, a monitoring group reported, as fighting escalated despite a flurry of diplomatic activity and talks between regional rivals. Syrian parties to the multi-sided conflict said they saw no end to fighting between rebels and the government despite talks in Vienna on Friday that included Iran for the first time. Iran's supreme leader meanwhile said elections should be held to end the war, echoing a proposal by Russia that has been dismissed by President Bashar al-Assad's opponents as a ruse by his allies to keep him in power.


Construction begins in Bahrain of British army base

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 10:00 AM PST

A naval officer stands on the flight deck of British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, in Portsmouth, southern England on November 5, 2010Construction work has begun in Bahrain to build Britain's first permanent military base in the Middle East since 1971, amid security threats in the region, Bahrain's state media reported Sunday. "The ground-breaking ceremony for the establishment of the marine facilities headquarters in the kingdom of Bahrain" was launched on Saturday, the official BNA news agency. The ceremony was attended by British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid al-Khalifa, it said.


Sanders spends $2M on 1st ad campaign in Iowa, New Hampshire

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 09:58 AM PST

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, speaks during a campaign stop at the William B. Cashin Senior Activity Center, Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders launched his first television ads in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire on Sunday, pouring $2 million into an ad buy that casts his campaign as a sharp break with the status-quo.


Islamic State group advances in central Syria, seizing town

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 09:07 AM PST

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, right, meets with U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015. Al-Moallem said "important" points were made during international talks aimed at reviving the peace process but that negotiators failed to convince his government's foes to curb their support for "terrorism." (SANA via AP)BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State militant group is advancing in central Syria, seizing control of a town that lies near a highway leading to the capital, Damascus, and attacking another, activists and the group said Sunday.


Iranian opposition mourns refugees killed in Iraq attack

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 08:48 AM PST

PARIS (AP) — Hundreds of people have gathered in Paris to honor members of an Iranian opposition group killed in an attack on an Iraqi camp.

Iraq combats cholera with massive vaccination campaign

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 07:40 AM PST

An internally displaced Iraqi girl receives a dose of cholera vaccine at a camp near Basra on November 1, 2015Iraq is carrying out a major vaccination campaign to combat a cholera outbreak that has infected more than 2,200 people, the health ministry said on Sunday. The campaign, focused on vaccinating people displaced by conflict including the war with the Islamic State group, began Saturday, health minister Adeela Hammoud Hussein said in a statement. The World Health Organisation shipped more than 500,000 doses of oral cholera vaccine to Iraq, enough to treat some 250,000 people.


With security high, Turkey's Kurds say they are voting for peace

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 07:10 AM PST

Turkish police wait in front of a school serving as a polling station for elections in Diyarbakir on November 1, 2015Leaning against an armoured truck, masked Turkish policemen with rifles slung over their shoulders scan the crowds queueing to vote in a neighbourhood of the main Kurdish city of Diyarbakir. Security is high in the Kurdish majority southeast for Sunday's vote following a new flare-up in the conflict between Kurdish rebels and the Turkish state and a wave of jihadist attacks which have left several hundred people dead since July. The wall surrounding Suleyman Nazif school in Diyarbakir's Sur district, which has been turned into a polling station for the vote, is pockmarked with bullet holes.


Rights group: Egypt has prevented scores from travelling

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 06:57 AM PST

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt has unlawfully prevented "scores" of people from leaving the country over the past year, U.S. based-Human Rights Watch said in a new report released Sunday.

Lake Chad clashes leave 14 Boko Haram members dead: government

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 05:02 AM PST

Chad soldiers display arms captured from Boko Haram militants on April 3, 2015 in Malam Fatori, in northeastern NigeriaN'Djamena (AFP) - The Chadian government said Sunday that soldiers repelled two attacks by Boko Haram on army posts around Lake Chad, leaving 14 militants dead. "Two members of Boko Haram were neutralised and a third blew himself up, wounding 11 civilians" during an attempted suicide attack on the Bougouma army post, the government said in a statement, referring to the Nigerian jihadist group. Soldiers killed 11 Boko Haram members during a second attempted attack on the Kaika army post, also in the Lake Chad region, the statement said.


U.S., allies launch 9 air strikes in Syria, 16 in Iraq

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 04:43 AM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S.-led coalition conducted nine air strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria and 16 in Iraq on Saturday, the military said in a statement on Sunday. In Syria, air strikes involving fighter, ground-attack and drone aircraft targeted two locations: six strikes near Mar'a and three strikes near Al Hawl, the statement said. In Iraq, air strikes involving bomber, attack, ground-attack and drone aircraft targeted seven locations: near Al Huwayjah, Bayji, Mosul, Ramadi, Sinjar, Sultan Abdallah and Tal Afar, the statement said. ...

Kurdish forces prepare for battle to retake Iraq's Sinjar

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 02:35 AM PST

Wider Image: Kurdish Women Battle Islamic StateBy Isabel Coles ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Kurdish forces are massing in northwest Iraq for an offensive to retake the town of Sinjar from Islamic State militants who overran it more than a year ago, killing and enslaving thousands of its Yazidi residents and triggering U.S.-led air strikes. Sinjar is a symbolic and strategic prize sitting astride the main highway linking the cities of Mosul and Raqqa - Islamic State's bastions in Iraq and Syria. In December 2014, Kurdish forces drove Islamic State from north of Sinjar mountain, a craggy strip some 60 km (40 miles) long, but the radical Sunni insurgents maintain control of the southern side where the town is located.


Turkey in facts and figures

Posted: 31 Oct 2015 09:15 PM PDT

Turkish Prime Minister and Justice and Development (AK) party leader, Ahmet Davutoglu (R), and his wife Sare wave during an election campaign rally in Ankara on October 31, 2015Turkey holds a snap election on Sunday, a crucial new test for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party after it lost its majority in a June vote. With a Black Sea coastline facing Russia, it has been a NATO front-line state for more than 60 years. Covering about 784,000 square kilometres (300,000 square miles), Turkey is slightly smaller than Pakistan but larger than the US state of Texas.


Today in History

Posted: 31 Oct 2015 09:00 PM PDT

Today is Sunday, Nov. 1, the 305th day of 2015. There are 60 days left in the year. This is All Saints Day.

Warship honoring Marine christened at Maine shipyard

Posted: 31 Oct 2015 07:31 PM PDT

CORRECTS FROM RAPHAEL TO RAFAEL - Rosa Peralta smashes a bottle of champagne to christen the USS Rafael Peralta, the 35th Arleigh Burke Class Missile Destroyer to be built by Bath Iron Works, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015, in Bath, Maine. The warship is named for Rosa Peralta's son, Sgt. Rafael Peralta, who was killed in action on Nov. 15, 2004, while clearing houses in the city of Fallujah, Iraq, during Operation Al Fajr. Frederick J. Harris, president of General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, at left, and Rosa Peralta's daughter, Icela Peralta Donald, center, and son, Ricardo Peralta, join her on the platform.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)BATH, Maine (AP) — First in English, then in Spanish, the mother of a fallen Marine who shielded his comrades from an insurgent's grenade christened a new Navy destroyer in his honor.


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