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Today in History

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 04:28 PM PST

Today is Saturday, March 5, the 65th day of 2016. There are 301 days left in the year.

Europe's crisis worsens: Migrants face razor wire, tear gas

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 04:01 PM PST

A man helps children to run away after Macedonian police fired tear gas at a group of the refugees and migrants who tried to push their way into Macedonia, breaking down a border gate near the northern Greek village of Idomeni on Monday, Feb. 29, 2016. No arrests or injuries were reported. About 6,500 migrants are stuck on the Greek-Macedonian border at Idomeni, waiting to travel north, but Macedonia is only admitting a trickle.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)IDOMENI, Greece (AP) — Pressed against coils of razor wire and shouting "Help us!," refugees and migrants at Greece's northern border were pushed back by Macedonian police using tear gas and stun grenades, as authorities here raced to build more camps to shield the escalating number of stranded people from winter.


Pentagon boosts cyber war against IS group

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 03:29 PM PST

US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter (R) testifies with Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford in Washington February 25, 2016The Pentagon is expanding its cyber war against Islamic State computer networks, senior defense officials said Monday as they claimed to have seized the momentum in the 18-month-old fight against the jihadists. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and the US military's top officer, General Joe Dunford, told reporters the United States was determined to "accelerate" the anti-IS campaign, and indicated cyber warfare is playing an increasingly important role in doing so. The US-led coalition is working to disrupt IS's command chain "to cause them to lose confidence in their networks," Carter said.


Why are migrants storming the Greece-Macedonia border?

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 02:58 PM PST

Iraqi and Syrian refugees, stuck for days at Greece's border with Macedonia, tore down a metal gate at a boundary fence on Monday in a frustrated attempt to break through, but were met by police who repelled the crowd. More than 22,000 migrants were trapped in Greece Monday, according to Reuters, with many forced to sleep in places like the Olympic venues from the 2004 Athens Games or makeshift refugee camps with few resources. The thousands continuing to pour in from North Africa and areas of conflict in the Middle East have made Greece a flash point for migration through Europe, as it is one of the closest ports on the Mediterranean Sea and a starting place for many asylum seekers hoping to travel north and west through the Balkans and other European nations.

IS executes eight Dutch jihadists in Syria: activists

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 01:57 PM PST

The Islamic State has executed eight Dutch members of the jihadist group, whom it accused of trying to desert, activists saidThe Islamic State has executed eight Dutch members of the jihadist group, whom it accused of trying to desert, activists said Monday. "Daesh (IS) executed eight Dutch fighters on Friday in Maadan, Raqa province, after accusing them of attempting desertion and mutiny," Abu Mohammad, a member of the citizen journalist group Raqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), said via Twitter. RBSS has been documenting since April 2014 IS' abuses in Raqa, the group's de facto capital in northern Syria.


Baghdad attacks signal Iraqi forces stretched thin against Islamic State

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 01:29 PM PST

By Ahmed Rasheed and Saif Hameed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State's deadliest attacks for months in and around Baghdad could be a sign that Iraqi forces are stretched thin after recent advances to reclaim territory from the group, according to some military commanders and a provincial official. Iraqi forces backed by air strikes from a U.S.-led coalition retook the northern city of Baiji in October and then Ramadi, 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad, at the end of last year.

The Latest: Rubio: Trump is a spray-tanned pants-wetter

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 01:28 PM PST

Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. arrives to speak during a campaign stop, Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, in Knoxville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on campaign 2016 on the eve of Super Tuesday (all times local):


The Latest: Hungary endorses referendum on EU migrant quotas

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 01:08 PM PST

Refugees walk past tents near the Greek-Macedonian border, in the northern Greek village of Idomeni, on Monday, Feb. 29, 2016. Some 7,000 migrants, including many from Syria and Iraq, are crammed into a tiny camp at the Greek border village of Idomeni, and hundreds more are arriving daily. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)IDOMENI, Greece (AP) — The Latest on Europe's migration crisis (all times local):


Syria truce task force meets as aid deliveries start

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 01:04 PM PST

Syrian pro-government forces walk on a road through the town of Khanasser, the sole link between government-held areas in and around Aleppo and those in the rest of the country, on February 29, 2016Aid workers on Monday made the first delivery of desperately needed assistance since the start of Syria's fragile ceasefire, as an international task force met to try to bolster the truce. The task force co-chaired by Moscow and Washington held talks in Geneva to evaluate allegations of a range of breaches, said the United Nations which mediated the three-day-old ceasefire. At the weekend, key regime backer Russia traded accusations with the main opposition grouping, the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), over truce violations.


Suicide bombings kill 40 in eastern Iraq, eight west of Baghdad

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 01:02 PM PST

At least 40 people were killed by a suicide bomber at a funeral in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala while a suicide blast at a security checkpoint in Baghdad's western outskirts killed eight members of the security forces, police said on Monday. The larger attack in Muqdadiya, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Baghdad, killed six local commanders of the Hashid Shaabi umbrella group of Shi'ite militias who were attending the funeral of a commander's relative, security officials and police in Diyala said.

The Latest: Secret Service, photographer, scuffle at rally

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 12:57 PM PST

Photojournalist Christopher Morris is escorted by police during the rally of Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, at Radford University in Radford, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on campaign 2016 on the eve of Super Tuesday (all times local):


Oil rise 3 percent as China moves to boost economy, crude output drops

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 12:55 PM PST

Worker checks valve of oil pipe at Lukoil company owned Imilorskoye oil field outside West Siberian city of KogalymOil prices jumped 3 percent on Monday after China moved to boost its slowing economy, a drop in crude output from OPEC and the U.S., and a pledge by Saudi Arabia to limit market volatility, suggesting a 20-month selloff could be hitting a bottom. China, the world's largest oil importer, cut its reserve requirement ratio, the amount of cash banks must hold as reserves, for a fifth time in a year. Saudi Arabia, working with Venezuela and Qatar and non-OPEC producer Russia on a plan to freeze oil output at January highs, pledged to "remain in contact with all main producers in attempt to limit volatility" in crude prices.


North Korea puts tearful detained American before cameras

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 12:41 PM PST

American student Otto Warmbier speaks as Warmbier is presented to reporters Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea announced late last month that it had arrested the 21-year-old University of Virginia undergraduate student. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon)PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea presented a detained American student before the media on Monday in Pyongyang, where he tearfully apologized for attempting to steal a political banner — at the behest, he said, of a member of a church back home who wanted it as a "trophy" — from a staff-only section of the hotel where he had been staying.


Clinton focuses on general, while Sanders sticks to script

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 12:07 PM PST

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., smiles during a campaign rally at the Cox Convention Center Arena in Oklahoma City, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)BOSTON (AP) — Preparing for the biggest delegate haul of the campaign, Hillary Clinton is trying to leave Bernie Sanders with little room to operate and douse the flames behind his once insurgent campaign.


Many Senate Republicans Are Ready to Drop Trump ‘Like a Hot Rock’

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 11:25 AM PST

Many Senate Republicans Are Ready to Drop Trump 'Like a Hot Rock'With the Republican Party threatening to implode amid billionaire Donald Trump's seemingly inexorable, foul-mouthed ascent to the presidential nomination, Senate Republicans struggling to retain their majority appear to be taking an every-man-for himself approach. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (KY) is alarmed that a Trump candidacy might well lead to the demise of the GOP's hold on Congress and the election of Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton as president.


IS-claimed blast kills at least 24 at Iraq Shiite funeral

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 11:18 AM PST

Iraqi soldiers patrol the site of an attack by Islamic State jihadists in the Abu Ghraib area west of Baghdad on February 29, 2016A suicide bomber struck a Shiite funeral northeast of Baghdad Monday, killing at least 24 people, including militia commanders, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group, officials said. The blast in Muqdadiyah, which also wounded dozens of people, threatens to spark another round of revenge attacks against Sunnis in the area, like those carried out after bombings in January. The latest attack targeted a funeral for a well-known Shiite member of the Beni Tamim, one of the main tribes in Diyala province, where Muqdadiyah is located.


US: Cyberattacks can expose Islamic State communications

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 11:16 AM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. cyberattacks to disrupt the Islamic State's communications and overload their networks could force the militant group to use older technologies that are easier for the U.S. to intercept, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday.

The Latest: UN to restore food aid to Syrian refugees

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 10:40 AM PST

Portraits of Syrian President Bashar Assad are displayed at a souvenir shop in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Feb. 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the conflict in Syria as a fragile cease-fire enters its third day (all times local):


U.S. waging cyber war on Islamic State, commandos active

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 10:27 AM PST

Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Joint Chiefs Chairman Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford arrive at a news conferenceBy Phil Stewart and David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is waging cyber attacks against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, and its newly deployed commandos are also carrying out secret missions on the ground, Pentagon leaders said on Monday, in the latest signs of quietly expanding U.S. activity. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the cyber attacks, particularly in Syria, were designed to prevent Islamic State from commanding its forces, and Washington was looking to accelerate the cyber war against the Sunni militant group.


Oil to average just over $40 a barrel in 2016: Reuters poll

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 09:51 AM PST

Pump jacks are seen at Lukoil company owned Imilorskoye oil field outside West Siberian city of KogalymOil prices will average just over $40 a barrel this year due to subdued demand and the likelihood a tentative agreement by leading producers to freeze output will do little to drain a supply glut, a Reuters poll showed on Monday. The price, which has fallen by 45 percent in the last 12 months, is unlikely to recover much beyond its current levels around $34 a barrel until the second half of the year, when output from producers outside OPEC is expected to decline. The survey of 30 economists and analysts forecast benchmark Brent crude will average $40.10 a barrel, down $2.40 from last month's poll.


U.S. Air Force vet one of first to face trial for Islamic State support

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 09:45 AM PST

A U.S. Air Force veteran betrayed his country and tried to become a fighter for the militant group Islamic State, federal prosecutors told a New York jury on Monday at the start of his criminal trial. Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh traveled to Turkey in an effort to join Islamic State after he "immersed himself" in the group's violent propaganda, watching videos of beheadings and expressing approval on Facebook, Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Bini said in Brooklyn federal court. Earlier this month, Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, who is accused of plotting with others to attack a Prophet Mohammed cartoon contest in Texas, went on trial in Phoenix.

IS Suicide bombing at Iraqi funeral kills at least 25

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 09:07 AM PST

An injured victims of bombing attacks receives treatment at the Imam Ali Hospital in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Feb. 29, 2016. In Iraq, the death toll from devastating back-to-back market bombings carried out by the Islamic State group the previous day in eastern Baghdad climbed to at least 70 on Monday, officials said. Several of the critically wounded died overnight while over 100 people remain in hospital, two police officials said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber struck an Iraqi funeral on Monday, killing at least 25 people, including a local Shiite militia leader, in a town north of Baghdad that saw a wave of revenge attacks after a similar bombing in January.


Why Liberals Should Vote for Marco Rubio

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 08:55 AM PST

Marco Rubio would be a terrible president. His tax proposals make George W. Bush look fiscally prudent. He acts as if America can use sanctions, war, or the threat of war to bludgeon its adversaries into submission despite the devastating failure of that approach since 9/11. He has been dishonest and gutless on immigration. He has flirted with climate-change denial even though his hometown now regularly floods.

US will expand, improve support for Iraq's Mosul operation

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 08:39 AM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top defense officials say U.S. forces are likely to do more to help Iraq retake Mosul from the Islamic State militants than they did in the recapture of Ramadi in December.

Turkey 'shells Islamic State positions' in Syria

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 07:55 AM PST

Turkish tanks fire at targets across the border in Syria, on February 16, 2015Turkish armed forces shelled positions of the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria in coordination with the US-led international anti-jihadist coalition, local media reported on Monday. Turkish artillery fired 50 to 60 shells from howitzers positioned in its southern Kilis region against IS targets in the north of Syria's Aleppo province, the private Dogan news agency reported. A fragile ceasefire has taken effect in Syria, but jihadists are excluded from it.


Vets of '05 Senate truce don't see accord over court pick

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 07:49 AM PST

In this Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016 photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., center, smiles and speaks to reporters as he is joined by, from right to left, Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., following a closed-door policy meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. Before President Barack Obama has chosen a nominee, nearly all the Senate's majority Republicans seem dug in against even meeting that person. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — With ideological control of the Supreme Court at stake and senators trading insults, lawmakers who helped the Senate avert a meltdown over judges a decade ago say today's political climate is too toxic for a bipartisan pact to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.


UN food agency meets funding target for Syrian refugees

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 07:37 AM PST

Syrian children look out from behind a fence at a refugee camp in the southern Lebanese town of Zahrani on January 19, 2016The UN food agency said Monday an "unprecedented response" to its fundraising campaign meant it could fully reinstate its food assistance to Syrian refugees. The pledges, worth $675 million (620 million euros), will enable food assistance for refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt from March until the end of the year, the World Food Programme (WFP) said.


Iraq and US warn Mosul residents of possible dam collapse

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 06:58 AM PST

BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi government and the U.S. embassy in Baghdad are warning residents along the Tigris river of a possible collapse of the Mosul Dam. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi asked Mosul residents along the Tigris river to move at least six kilometers (3.7 miles) away from its banks in a statement released Sunday night.

U.S. warns citizens to be ready to leave Iraq if Mosul dam collapses

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 06:58 AM PST

Employees work at strengthening the Mosul DamThe United States warned its citizens to be ready to leave Iraq in the event of what it has said could be a catastrophic collapse of the country's largest hydro-electric dam near Mosul. Iraqi officials have sought to play down the risk but Washington urged its citizens to make contingency plans now. A U.S. security message cited estimates that Mosul, which is northern Iraq's largest city and under control of Islamic State insurgents, could be inundated by as much as 70 feet (21 meters) of water within hours of the breach.


U.S. leads 24 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq, Syria

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 05:39 AM PST

A F/A-18E/F Super Hornets of Strike Fighter Attack Squadron 211 (VFA-211) lands on the flight deck of the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) aircraft carrier in the GulfWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies conducted 24 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Sunday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement released on Monday. Twelve strikes in five Syrian cities destroyed 10 buildings, four fighting positions and a fuel tanker, among other targets, the Combined Joint Task Force statement said. In Iraq, 12 strikes in seven cities hit a rocket fire position and destroyed staging areas as well as a tunnel system, the statement said. (Reporting by Megan Cassella; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)


1.5 mn at risk if Iraq dam collapses: US study

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 03:51 AM PST

The Mosul Dam on the Tigris River, around 50 km north of the Iraqi city of MosulThe US embassy in Iraq has released evacuation recommendations it said could help save up to 1.5 million lives at risk from a catastrophic failure of the Mosul Dam. Concern has grown in recent months over a possible collapse of Iraq's largest dam, which would unleash a wave that would devastate second city Mosul and flood much of the capital Baghdad. The dam in northern Iraq was built on an unstable foundation that continuously erodes, and a lapse in required maintenance after the Islamic State jihadist group briefly seized it in 2014 weakened the already flawed structure.


How the US and Russia Can Make the Syria Ceasefire Deal Last

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 03:00 AM PST

How the US and Russia Can Make the Syria Ceasefire Deal LastTrue, all previous efforts to halt the violence in Syria and bring warring parties to the negotiating table have collapsed in ignominy—sometimes in a day. The Obama administration has long asserted that there is no military solution in Syria—only a political bargain.


For Iranian restaurants in Saudi, it's business as usual

Posted: 29 Feb 2016 12:52 AM PST

In this Jan. 27, 2016 photo, women order Iranian food from Shayah restaurant in Kingdom Center Mall in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Iran and Saudi Arabia's rivalry has played out in proxy wars across the region, and escalated further after the two severed diplomatic and trade ties in January. Yet in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, popular Iranian restaurants are outselling feverish calls for a boycott and stand as a reminder of when ties between the two countries held promise. (AP Photo/Aya Batrawy)RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Iran and Saudi Arabia's rivalry has played out in proxy wars across the region, and escalated further after the two severed diplomatic and trade ties last month. Yet in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, popular Iranian restaurants are outselling feverish calls for a boycott and stand as a reminder of when ties between the two countries held promise.


Iraq officials: Death toll from Islamic State's market bombings Sunday in Baghdad climbs to 73

Posted: 28 Feb 2016 11:01 PM PST

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq officials: Death toll from Islamic State's market bombings Sunday in Baghdad climbs to 73.

Factbox: Double hammer in a leap year: when will the oil slump end?

Posted: 28 Feb 2016 10:11 PM PST

SINGAPORE/NEW YORK (Reuters) - As oil traders have learned time and again, picking a bottom in today's glutted market can be a fool's game. 1) DOUBLE HAMMER: TRADERS CHANGE THEIR MIND Ringing in 2016's leap day, there are hints that sentiment in oil markets is getting more bullish. At the same time, traders have boosted bullish bets on oil, raising net-long positions by nearly 16 percent.

North Korea gives media a look at detained American

Posted: 28 Feb 2016 09:12 PM PST

American student Otto Warmbier, center, arrives at the People's Cultural House, as Warmbier is presented to reporters Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea announced late last month that it had arrested the 21-year-old University of Virginia undergraduate student. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon)PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea presented a detained American student before the media on Monday in Pyongyang, where he tearfully apologized for attempting to steal a political banner — at the behest, he said, of a member of a church back home who wanted it as a "trophy" — from a staff-only section of the hotel where he had been staying.


Syria's war liberates Kurdish women as it oppresses others

Posted: 28 Feb 2016 09:05 PM PST

By Benedetta Argentieri NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nubohar Mustafa is proud of what her leaders and fellow activists have done for Kurdish women in northern Syria. Coming from the self-proclaimed autonomous region of Rojava, wedged between the Turkish border and territory held by Islamic State, Mustafa enjoys freedoms that few women living under the militants' rule could dream of. Polygamy is no longer tolerated, underage marriage is outlawed and violence against women addressed with strict legislation in Rojava, which has been governed by a Kurdish party since Syrian state forces withdrew from most of the area in 2012 - a year after civil war erupted across Syria.

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