| Russian, Syrian missiles pound Aleppo, destroy hospital: rebels and aid workers Posted: 01 Oct 2016 04:01 PM PDT  By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Russian warplanes and their Syrian government allies battered rebel-held areas in and around Aleppo on Saturday, and rebels and aid workers accused them of destroying one of the city's main hospitals and killing at least two patients. M10, the city's main trauma hospital, in eastern Aleppo, was struck as the United States and its allies urged Russia, which is trying to crush resistance to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, to halt the bombing and reach a diplomatic resolution.
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| Six policemen killed in Sinai Posted: 01 Oct 2016 02:08 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Gunmen killed five policemen in the restive northern Sinai on Saturday, the Egyptian interior ministry said on Facebook. The assailants pulled the policemen out a vehicle in El Obour neighbourhood, south of El Arish city, and shot all five of them dead, security sources said. In another incident on Saturday morning, nine policemen were injured when an explosive device planted on the road was remotely detonated as the armoured vehicle carrying the conscripts passed in the city of Rafah, security sources said. One conscript later died of his wounds. ... |
| Syrians refuse attempted relocation along Jordan border Posted: 01 Oct 2016 01:14 PM PDT AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Syrians stranded on the border with Jordan protested Saturday over their refusal to move about six kilometers (3.7 miles) west to a soon-to-be opened aid distribution center. |
| Turkey extends mandate for troops in Iraq, Syria Posted: 01 Oct 2016 09:46 AM PDT  Turkey's parliament on Saturday overwhelmingly approved a one-year extension of an existing mandate to use Turkish troops abroad in Syria and Iraq. The mandate was first approved by parliament in October 2014 and was renewed for another year in September 2015. It allows military action in Turkey's two southern neighbours against Islamic State jihadists and other groups deemed by Ankara to be terror organisations.
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| Turkey renews OK for military operations in Syria, Iraq Posted: 01 Oct 2016 09:45 AM PDT  ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey's state-run news agency says parliament has extended by another year a motion allowing cross-border military operations into Syria and Iraq against Kurdish militants and the Islamic State group.
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| Police killing shakes diverse San Diego suburb Posted: 01 Oct 2016 05:15 AM PDT  EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — The family of an unarmed black man fatally shot by police is like thousands who have transformed the suburban San Diego city of El Cajon: Refugees from a strife-torn country.
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| Russia said to send more warplanes to Syria, diplomacy 'on life support' Posted: 01 Oct 2016 02:18 AM PDT  By Dmitry Solovyov and Ellen Francis MOSCOW/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Russia is sending more warplanes to Syria to ramp up its air campaign, a Russian newspaper reported on Friday, as the United States said diplomacy to halt the violence was "on life support" but not dead yet. Fighting continued to intensify a week into a new Russian-backed Syrian government offensive to capture rebel-held eastern Aleppo and crush the last urban stronghold of a revolt against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that began in 2011. Moscow and Assad spurned a U.S.-Russian brokered ceasefire agreed to this month and launched attacks on rebel-held areas in Aleppo in potentially the most decisive battle in the Syrian civil war.
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| Defense ministers discuss defusing South China Sea incidents Posted: 01 Oct 2016 02:09 AM PDT  PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — Countries need to look for practical ways to defuse incidents in the South China Sea, where China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, Singapore's defense minister said.
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| Key facts about El Cajon, California Posted: 30 Sep 2016 11:46 PM PDT The fatal shooting by police of Alfred Olango, an unarmed black man, has brought attention to El Cajon, a diverse suburb of San Diego that has seen a surge of refugees, many from Iraq and more recently ... |
| Trump's habit of fuming over slights comes at political cost Posted: 30 Sep 2016 11:19 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's five-day feud with a former beauty queen is only the latest example of his insistence on airing and re-airing his grievances no matter the political cost.
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| Analysis: Change isn't part of Trump's character - or appeal Posted: 30 Sep 2016 11:16 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump will not change.
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| WHY IT MATTERS: Issues at stake in election Posted: 30 Sep 2016 11:14 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A selection of issues at stake in the presidential election and their impact on Americans, in brief: |
| Threat from extremist groups to southeast Asia growing: Singapore defense chief Posted: 30 Sep 2016 10:59 PM PDT  By Yeganeh Torbati KO OLINA, Hawaii (Reuters) - The threat that violent extremist groups pose to Southeast Asia is growing each year as they become more organized and focused in their aims, Singapore Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen said on Friday. Ng was speaking to reporters following a meeting of Southeast Asia defense ministers with U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter in Hawaii, where the defense chiefs devoted a major chunk of time to discussing the threat from Islamic State and similar groups. Over 1,000 Southeast Asians have flocked to join Islamic State's self-declared "caliphate" in Iraq and Syria, Ng said.
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| Philippine leader's Hitler remarks 'troubling' for Pentagon chief Posted: 30 Sep 2016 10:31 PM PDT  Pentagon chief Ashton Carter on Friday criticized the "deeply troubling" remarks by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, in which he likened his deadly war on crime to Hitler's efforts to exterminate Jews. Carter's comments came during a regional security summit with Southeast Asian ally nations, where he sought to reassure counterparts that Washington's ongoing commitment to its Asia "rebalance" would continue into the next US administration. Earlier Friday, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte had made televised remarks drawing parallels between his campaign to wipe out his country's drug problem and Adolf Hitler's genocidal drive.
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| French attack threat: 15-year-old student charged Posted: 30 Sep 2016 08:35 PM PDT  A 15-year-old high school student was charged and held Friday on suspicion of wanting to commit a terror attack directed by a notorious Syria-based French jihadist, a judicial source said. The minor had been in contact using Telegram -- the encrypted messaging app popular among French radicals -- with Rachid Kassim, a French jihadist based in the areas of Syria and Iraq held by the Islamic State group. "There was a suspicion he was going to commit an act," said one source close to the investigation, adding that the minor had said while in custody that he had abandoned the plan.
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| Trump goes on offensive against former beauty queen, Clinton calls him 'unhinged' Posted: 30 Sep 2016 08:05 PM PDT  By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump increased his attacks on a former beauty queen with a vague and unsubstantiated allegation about a sex tape in predawn Twitter posts on Friday, and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton denounced him as "unhinged." Trump's refusal to drop his invective against Alicia Machado, the Miss Universe from Venezuela whom he criticized for gaining weight after she won the crown in 1996, threatened to damage his already weak standing among women and Hispanics. With less than six weeks to go until the Nov. 8 election, Trump made reference - without giving evidence - to a sex tape involving Machado, who had publicly denounced him all week as a humiliating bully. "Did Crooked Hillary help disgusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia M become a U.S. citizen so she could use her in the debate?" Trump said in his Twitter messages in the early hours of Friday.
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