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• EU urged to secure borders from 'millions' of migrants
• Refugee crisis is personal for support group head David Miliband
• Freed Jazeera journalists conflict-hardened veterans
• Top German military officer dies in northern Iraq
• Racing against militant threat to document Syria's heritage
• Amid battle against IS, Iraqis face cholera outbreak
• Insurgent group pledges allegiance to al Qaeda's Syria wing
• How Three Huge U.S. Missteps in the Middle East Are Helping ISIS
• Cases in Iraq cholera outbreak rise to 121, but no new deaths: ministry
• Putin opens huge new mosque in Russian capital
• Islam's pilgrims pray for peace in Muslim countries wracked by war
• Obama’s Political Correctness Compromises Our Military Mission
• Albania extradites alleged Islamic State recruiter to Italy
• 'Dinner with Saddam': laughs and something to chew on
• Turkish jets pound Kurdish militant camp in northern Iraq: security sources
• Kerry says Russian support for Assad risks confrontation
• Trial begins in Vegas in 2010 slaying of US airman from Guam
• Iraqi Kurds reassert right to export oil to U.S. despite court ruling
• 10 Things to Know for Wednesday

EU urged to secure borders from 'millions' of migrants Posted: 23 Sep 2015 03:22 PM PDT The EU's president urged leaders gathering for an emergency summit Wednesday to stop fighting over a refugee quota deal and take urgent action to secure the bloc's borders in the face of "millions" of migrants. After ministers forced through a deal to relocate 120,000 refugees in the teeth of opposition from eastern states, Hungary's hardline prime minister angrily denounced Germany's "moral imperialism". Slovakia furiously vowed to dispute the quota deal in court, underscoring the deep divisions that have emerged over Europe's biggest migration crisis since World War II.

Refugee crisis is personal for support group head David Miliband Posted: 23 Sep 2015 02:53 PM PDT By Belinda Goldsmith NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ask David Miliband, former British foreign secretary and head of humanitarian relief group International Rescue Committee, about the "flood" of migrants and refugees in Europe and he bristles. Miliband, who is calling for greater global involvement to handle the crisis unfolding across Europe, recalls how his grandfather was refused entry to Britain in 1948 due to fears of "a flood" into the country.

Freed Jazeera journalists conflict-hardened veterans Posted: 23 Sep 2015 02:48 PM PDT The two journalists for Al-Jazeera television's English-language channel pardoned by Egypt's president Wednesday after being jailed for broadcasting false news are conflict-hardened veteran correspondents. Canadian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohamed were released from jail Wednesday after being convicted in a retrial last month and sentenced to three years, along with Australian reporter Peter Greste, who was already deported back in February. Fahmy had only been named head of Al-Jazeera's Cairo office in September 2013, three months before his arrest.

Top German military officer dies in northern Iraq Posted: 23 Sep 2015 12:34 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — The German Defense Ministy says the head of its training mission in Iraq's self-ruled Kurdish region has passed away.

Racing against militant threat to document Syria's heritage Posted: 23 Sep 2015 10:32 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Scientists are slipping 3-D cameras into Syria to local activists and residents to scan antiquities. A U.S.-funded project aims to provide local conservators with resources to help safeguard relics. Inside Syria, volunteers scramble to document damage to monuments and confirm what remains.

Amid battle against IS, Iraqis face cholera outbreak Posted: 23 Sep 2015 10:32 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq, which is already facing a prolonged battled against the Islamic State group and mass protests against government corruption and inefficiency, is now struggling with a new challenge: a growing cholera outbreak.

Insurgent group pledges allegiance to al Qaeda's Syria wing Posted: 23 Sep 2015 09:51 AM PDT An insurgent group fighting in Syria made up of around 1,500 Chechen, Uzbek and Tajik fighters has pledged allegiance to al Qaeda's Syria wing Nusra Front, a group monitoring the war said on Wednesday. Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar (Muhajireen Brigade) made the pledge in a statement distributed by supporters online, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The pledge is a boost for Nusra Front against its rival Islamic State, an ultra hardline jihadist group which has seized territory in Syria and Iraq.

How Three Huge U.S. Missteps in the Middle East Are Helping ISIS Posted: 23 Sep 2015 07:55 AM PDT The Taliban continues to hold sway in numerous districts in Afghanistan and seems destined to maintain a significant role in both Afghan and Pakistani politics. Further contributors to the Middle East disorder are Iran and Saudi Arabia, which are fighting a proxy war in Yemen and struggling for power throughout the region. In Yemen, Iran supports the Houthi rebels while Saudi Arabia pays allegiance to the country's president.

Cases in Iraq cholera outbreak rise to 121, but no new deaths: ministry Posted: 23 Sep 2015 05:24 AM PDT Iraq's first major cholera outbreak since 2012 has risen to at least 121 cases and spread to southern provinces along the Euphrates River, though no new deaths have been reported in days, the health ministry said on Wednesday. The illness was detected last week in the town of Abu Ghraib, about 25 km (15 miles) west of the capital, where at least four deaths were recorded. Cholera is spread mainly through contaminated water and food and, if untreated, can lead to death by dehydration and kidney failure within hours.

Putin opens huge new mosque in Russian capital Posted: 23 Sep 2015 04:43 AM PDT Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday opened one of the biggest mosques in Europe, warning against the lure of jihadists as the government frets over its citizens fighting for the Islamic State group. Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas were the guests of honour at the unveiling of the 20,000-square metre mosque in the Russian capital. "This mosque will become an extremely important spiritual centre for Muslims in Moscow and the whole Russia," Putin said in a televised speech.

Islam's pilgrims pray for peace in Muslim countries wracked by war Posted: 23 Sep 2015 04:21 AM PDT By Nidal al-Mughrabi ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Millions of Muslim pilgrims congregated at Arafat outside Mecca on Wednesday, many of them praying for peace in the Middle East countries ravaged by war and chaos as the annual haj reached its climax. Iraq was the symbol of power and civilization. Look at Syria: the refugees are greater in number than the pilgrims here," said Egyptian Mohammed Rizq, 65.

Obama’s Political Correctness Compromises Our Military Mission Posted: 23 Sep 2015 03:15 AM PDT Is Obama's political correctness campaign distracting the U.S. military? While the Pentagon struggles to integrate women into Marine combat units, studies the participation of transgender persons and works to prevent discrimination against gay soldiers, it is visibly failing to get the job done in Syria. U.S. efforts to destroy ISIS have been so inept that senior intelligence officials have been doctoring field reports to buttress President Obama's claims of progress against the terrorist group.

Albania extradites alleged Islamic State recruiter to Italy Posted: 23 Sep 2015 03:08 AM PDT TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian authorities say they have extradited to Italy an Albanian accused of recruiting for the Islamic State group in Syria.

'Dinner with Saddam': laughs and something to chew on Posted: 23 Sep 2015 02:52 AM PDT By Nigel Stephenson LONDON (Reuters) - In the run-up to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, says British author and playwright Anthony Horowitz, Saddam Hussein would drop in on unsuspecting Baghdadi families and invite himself to dinner. In Horowitz's new comedy "Dinner with Saddam", it is the fictional Alawi family's turn to feed the dictator. Ahmed Alawi, played by Sanjeev Bhaskar, is a hapless construction supervisor on a mosque extension who, apparently alone in the city, refuses to believe a storm of cruise missiles is on its way.

Turkish jets pound Kurdish militant camp in northern Iraq: security sources Posted: 23 Sep 2015 02:33 AM PDT DIYARBAKIR (Reuters) - Turkish jets launched air strikes on a Kurdish militant camp in northern Iraq late on Tuesday, targeting a facility being used as an "education and logistics" hub, security sources said. The jets took off from an air base in Diyarbakir, southeast Turkey, the sources added. Turkish security forces have regularly targeted camps belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) since the collapse of a ceasefire in July. (Reporting by Seyhmus Cakan and Humeyra Pamuk; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

Kerry says Russian support for Assad risks confrontation Posted: 23 Sep 2015 12:43 AM PDT U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday Russia's military support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could raise the risk of confrontation with coalition forces fighting Islamic State there. In an interview with Italian newspaper La Stampa, Kerry said he had told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov the United States was worried by Moscow's military backing for Assad in Syria's civil war, now in its fifth year. "These actions could provoke a further escalation of the conflict and lead to the loss of more innocent lives, increasing the flow of refugees and risking a confrontation with the anti-ISIS (Islamic State) coalition operating in Syria," Kerry said.

Trial begins in Vegas in 2010 slaying of US airman from Guam Posted: 22 Sep 2015 08:23 PM PDT LAS VEGAS (AP) — A death penalty trial has begun in Las Vegas for a Nevada ex-convict accused of plotting with his girlfriend the ambush slaying of her husband, a U.S. Air Force service member and Iraq War veteran from Guam.

Iraqi Kurds reassert right to export oil to U.S. despite court ruling Posted: 22 Sep 2015 06:10 PM PDT Kurdistan reasserted its right to export oil independently to the United States and other countries on Tuesday despite a court ruling in favor of the Iraqi federal government, which has sought to block crude sales from the autonomous region. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans on Monday dismissed the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)'s bid to overturn an earlier ruling against a planned sale of oil to an unidentified buyer in the U.S. Iraq's federal government filed a lawsuit in a U.S. court last year to thwart the sale of the one million barrel cargo from the Kurdistan region in an ongoing dispute over the right to export oil. Kurdistan's Ministry of Natural Resources however said in a statement on Tuesday that the ruling would force the Iraqi oil ministry to drop its "baseless" lawsuit.

10 Things to Know for Wednesday Posted: 22 Sep 2015 06:00 PM PDT Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Wednesday:

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