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• Syria ceasefire deal rife with legal, liability questions
• Manning: Ending hunger strike after Army approves treatment
• Navy commander arrested on attempted rape charges
• HBO and Vice's nightly newscast delayed 2 weeks
• US says it destroyed Islamic State chemical threat in Iraq
• Coalition planes destroy IS chemical factory near Mosul
• Educate Europe's refugees for rebuilding at home: Dalai Lama
• Top German companies say refugees not ready for job market
• AP Interview: UN refugee chief says integration is crucial
• The Biggest Threat to the Economy? It Could Be the Election
• Islamic State behind Kenya's Mombasa attack by robed women: website
• Germany arrests three IS suspects with 'links' to Paris attackers
• Dalai Lama urges talks with Islamic State, help for refugees
• Rep. Fortenberry Introduces Congressional Resolution to Establish Safe Haven for Religious Minorities in Northern Iraq
• Iraqi child drowns when boat sinks in Bulgarian Danube
• Syria war death toll now more than 300,000: monitor
• French terror investigators grapple with Telegram app
• Turkish air strikes kill three suspected PKK militants in southeast
• 'G.I. Joe': The Story of the Cartoon That Sold Wartime Heroics to a Generation of Kids
• Ewan McGregor Selected to Receive Humanitarian Award at 2016 British Academy Britannia Awards
• Syria ceasefire takes effect with Assad emboldened, opposition wary
• 'I didn't think it was a big deal,' Clinton says of pneumonia bout

Syria ceasefire deal rife with legal, liability questions Posted: 13 Sep 2016 05:56 PM PDT The deal crafted by the U.S. and Russia to halt the Syrian civil war and focus efforts on rooting out extremists in the country is rife with legal and liability questions that are fueling Pentagon skepticism ...

Manning: Ending hunger strike after Army approves treatment Posted: 13 Sep 2016 05:54 PM PDT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A transgender soldier imprisoned in Kansas for leaking classified information to the WikiLeaks website will end a hunger strike after the Army agreed to allow her to receive medical treatment for her gender dysphoria, the American Civil Liberties Union announced Tuesday.

Navy commander arrested on attempted rape charges Posted: 13 Sep 2016 04:38 PM PDT SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Navy commander has been arrested on attempted rape charges in San Diego involving a woman also in the maritime branch, officials said Tuesday.

HBO and Vice's nightly newscast delayed 2 weeks Posted: 13 Sep 2016 12:45 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — HBO and Vice Media are delaying the launch of their evening newscast for two weeks until Oct. 10 to make sure all of its creative elements work, including an ability to dive deeper into a story though touch screen technology.

US says it destroyed Islamic State chemical threat in Iraq Posted: 13 Sep 2016 11:20 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — American warplanes eliminated a "significant chemical threat" to Iraqi civilians by bombing a complex of buildings near the northern city of Mosul that Islamic State militants had converted from pharmaceutical manufacturing to chemical weapons production, the three-star general in charge of U.S. air operations in the Middle East said Tuesday.

Coalition planes destroy IS chemical factory near Mosul Posted: 13 Sep 2016 11:16 AM PDT Washington (AFP) - US-led coalition warplanes destroyed a factory in Iraq used by the Islamic State group to make chemical weapons, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

Educate Europe's refugees for rebuilding at home: Dalai Lama Posted: 13 Sep 2016 10:06 AM PDT The Dalai Lama on Tuesday urged Europe to emphasise education for the hundreds of thousands of refugees that have arrived mainly from the war-torn Middle East as a means of rebuilding their home countries. The 81-year-old Buddhist monk appealed to "the real spirit of the European Union", urging the bloc to "consider the importance of the common interest" in dealing with the refugee crisis. More than one million refugees and migrants have entered Europe over the past year, largely fleeing conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Top German companies say refugees not ready for job market Posted: 13 Sep 2016 10:06 AM PDT By Georgina Prodhan FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's blue-chip companies will have to explain to Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday why they have managed to hire fewer than 100 refugees after around a million arrived in the country last year. Merkel, fighting for her political life over her open-door policy, has summoned the bosses of some of Germany's biggest companies to Berlin to account for their lack of action and exchange ideas about how they can do better. A survey by Reuters of the 30 companies in Germany's DAX stock market index found they could point to just 63 refugee hires in total.

AP Interview: UN refugee chief says integration is crucial Posted: 13 Sep 2016 09:59 AM PDT GENEVA (AP) — Europe should boost its efforts to integrate newcomers from places like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.N. refugee agency chief said Tuesday, calling it "one of the great challenges" of the future.

The Biggest Threat to the Economy? It Could Be the Election Posted: 13 Sep 2016 09:45 AM PDT What's the biggest threat to the U.S. economy? Terrorism? Another financial crisis? Jacked-up interest rates? A tanking stock market? Here's the surprising answer from a new Bankrate poll : the upcoming ...

Islamic State behind Kenya's Mombasa attack by robed women: website Posted: 13 Sep 2016 07:56 AM PDT Islamic State supporters carried out an attack on Kenya's port city of Mombasa in which three robed women tricked their way into a police station, stabbed an officer and set fire to the building, the group's Amaq news agency said on Tuesday. Militant attacks, mostly claimed by al Shabaab militants from neighboring Somalia, have increased in recent years in Kenya, which has a large Muslim population concentrated mostly along its Indian Ocean coast. "The perpetrators of the attack on the Kenyan police in the city of Mombasa were supporters of Islamic State.

Germany arrests three IS suspects with 'links' to Paris attackers Posted: 13 Sep 2016 07:49 AM PDT German police Tuesday arrested three men with forged Syrian passports accused of being Islamic State (IS) militants and labelled a possible "sleeper cell" with links to the Paris attackers. More than 200 police commandos took part in the pre-dawn raids in northern Germany to detain the men, who were suspected of either plotting an attack or awaiting orders to commit one. The men were identified only as Mahir al-H., 17, Ibrahim M., 18, and Mohamed A., 26, in a statement issued by federal prosecutors.

Dalai Lama urges talks with Islamic State, help for refugees Posted: 13 Sep 2016 06:09 AM PDT PARIS (AP) — The Dalai Lama says there should be dialogue with Islamic State extremists to end bloodshed in Syria and Iraq, and argues that religion is never a justification for killing.

Rep. Fortenberry Introduces Congressional Resolution to Establish Safe Haven for Religious Minorities in Northern Iraq Posted: 13 Sep 2016 05:52 AM PDT WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Friday, Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) introduced a bipartisan Congressional Resolution that supports the establishment of a safe haven province for persecuted religious minorities in the Nineveh Plain region of Iraq.Drafted in collaboration between The Philos Project, In Defense of Christians, and the Institute for Global Engagement, H.Con.Res 152 is a response to declarations by Congress and the State Department last March that ISIL is responsible for genocide against religious minority groups in areas under its control. ...

Iraqi child drowns when boat sinks in Bulgarian Danube Posted: 13 Sep 2016 05:06 AM PDT A six-year-old Iraqi boy and a young man have drowned and three children and a man are missing after a boat carrying 10 migrants sank in the Bulgarian waters of the Danube River, a police official said on Tuesday. The bodies of the boy and a 26-year-old man were recovered on Sunday, two days after the police found four migrants who survived from a sunken boat on an island in the northwestern Bulgarian stretch of the Danube river, which borders Romania. The migrants, who did not have any documents, told police they were a family of 10 people fleeing Iraq and that the metal boat which was carrying them to the Romanian coast on their journey to western Europe had capsized.

Syria war death toll now more than 300,000: monitor Posted: 13 Sep 2016 04:05 AM PDT More than 300,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict since March 2011, a monitor said in a new toll Tuesday, the first full day of an internationally-brokered truce. More than 86,000 civilians were among the 301,781 people killed, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. A total of 59,006 Syrian soldiers have been killed, in addition to 48,048 other pro-government fighters from countries including Iraq, Iran and Lebanon as well as Syria.

French terror investigators grapple with Telegram app Posted: 13 Sep 2016 01:29 AM PDT Smartphone app Telegram, favoured by the Islamic State group thanks to the encrypted messaging it offers, is proving a headache for French anti-terror investigators. After IS gunmen and suicide bombers massacred 130 people in Paris in November, Telegram blocked dozens of public channels that were being used to spread extremist messages. In France, which has suffered a string of further jihadist assaults since the Paris carnage, investigators are still dealing with the fallout from the communications of an IS member suspected of using Telegram to direct people to carry out attacks.

Turkish air strikes kill three suspected PKK militants in southeast Posted: 12 Sep 2016 11:46 PM PDT DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish air strikes killed three suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group on Tuesday in the southeastern town of Semdinli near the borders with Iran and Iraq, Turkish security sources said. The air strikes came a day after suspected PKK militants detonated a car bomb near local government offices in the city of Van further north, wounding 50 people including four police officers and four Iranian citizens. ...

'G.I. Joe': The Story of the Cartoon That Sold Wartime Heroics to a Generation of Kids Posted: 12 Sep 2016 09:00 PM PDT The cast looks back at the series that changed the toy business forever and left a complicated political legacy: "I'm a liberal and always have been," says creator Ron Friedman. "I felt that the Joes would be liberal and the Cobra people should not be."

Ewan McGregor Selected to Receive Humanitarian Award at 2016 British Academy Britannia Awards Posted: 12 Sep 2016 09:00 PM PDT "Ewan McGregor is not only a multitalented individual, but has led by example in showing that even one person can make a huge difference in the life of a child," said Kieran Breen, chairman of BAFTA Los Angeles.

Syria ceasefire takes effect with Assad emboldened, opposition wary Posted: 12 Sep 2016 08:01 PM PDT By Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - A nationwide ceasefire in Syria brokered by the United States and Russia went into effect on Monday evening, the second attempt this year by Washington and Moscow to halt the five-year-old civil war. The Syrian army announced the truce at 7 p.m. (11.00 a.m. ET), the moment it took effect, saying the seven-day "regime of calm" would be applied across Syria. Rebel groups fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad issued a joint statement listing deep reservations with the agreement they described as unjust, echoing concerns outlined in a letter to the United States on Sunday.

'I didn't think it was a big deal,' Clinton says of pneumonia bout Posted: 12 Sep 2016 06:57 PM PDT By Alana Wise and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Hillary Clinton said on Monday she could resume presidential campaigning in a couple of days after a bout of pneumonia that she initially had not believed was "that big a deal." Clinton's health scare after she almost collapsed at an event on Sunday, causing her to cancel some campaign trips, revived concerns about a tendency toward secrecy that has dogged her campaign, and underscored perennial worries about the medical fitness of candidates for one of the world's most demanding jobs. "I just didn't think it was going to be that big a deal." Her campaign acknowledged on Monday it may have been too slow disclosing her pneumonia diagnosis after she nearly fainted at a New York memorial ceremony for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

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