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• The Trump tightrope: Republicans weigh response with eye toward future
• How BuzzFeed and Twitter are teaming up to transform Election Day coverage
• Pentagon prepares for possible new strikes in Yemen
• US strikes in Yemen risk wider entanglement in civil war
• How Geography Explains Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
• Amid Saudi row, Egypt reasserts commitment to Gulf allies
• Syria activists say more than 65 killed in 3 days in Aleppo
• CAIR Muslim Voter Survey Indicates 86 Percent Turnout, Support for Hillary Clinton
• Turkey says botched assault on Iraq's Mosul would trigger refugee wave
• Exclusive: Obama, aides expected to weigh Syria military options on Friday
• Ex-French president Jacques Chirac leaves hospital
• Cash-strapped U.N. faces huge challenges in Mosul offensive
• Pope urges Lutherans to set aside doctrine to work together
• Knights' CEO Calls for US Aid and Equal Rights for Genocide Survivors in Middle East
• Iraq summons Turkish ambassador to protest troop presence
• Iran breaks up Islamic State bombing plot targeting Ashoura
• 'IS inspired' teens charged in Australia

The Trump tightrope: Republicans weigh response with eye toward future Posted: 13 Oct 2016 05:25 PM PDT By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With Donald Trump's U.S. election prospects dimming and controversy swirling around him, future Republican presidential hopefuls may be weighing whether standing by their man is the savvy move. Party strategists fear voters fleeing Trump will also fail to support Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, possibly costing the party control of Congress. If Trump loses the Nov. 8 presidential election to Democrat Hillary Clinton, his polarizing candidacy may reverberate well past 2016, tarring future Republican White House hopefuls, potentially including House Speaker Paul Ryan, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio and Indiana Governor Mike Pence, Trump's vice presidential running mate.

How BuzzFeed and Twitter are teaming up to transform Election Day coverage Posted: 13 Oct 2016 02:48 PM PDT In April, more real-time viewers watched BuzzFeed wrap rubber bands around a watermelon until it burst than any other Facebook Live video to date. Now, BuzzFeed is betting it can attract the same record-level audience to Twitter come Election Day. BuzzFeed and Twitter have signed a deal to live-stream an election special from BuzzFeed's offices in New York City on Nov. 8, its editor-in-chief, Ben Smith, told The Huffington Post. The agreement is BuzzFeed and Twitter's latest forays into the election, after Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms have already spurred unprecedented political engagement among younger Americans.

Pentagon prepares for possible new strikes in Yemen Posted: 13 Oct 2016 02:41 PM PDT The Pentagon was preparing for possible new strikes in Yemen on Thursday after US missiles hit Huthi rebel targets, but officials stressed America wants to avoid getting embroiled in yet another war. The US Navy earlier launched five Tomahawk cruise missiles at three mobile radar sites in Huthi-controlled territory on Yemen's Red Sea coast, after the Iran-backed rebels blasted rockets at the USS Mason destroyer twice in four days. Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said this was not a prelude to a new campaign in the region, where America is to varying degrees waging wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria.

US strikes in Yemen risk wider entanglement in civil war Posted: 13 Oct 2016 02:02 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The direct U.S. entry into Yemen's civil war, for now a limited response to rebel missile fire on a U.S. Navy ship, risks a wider entanglement that could leave the next American president embroiled in a yet another unwanted Middle East war with broad implications for the region and beyond.

How Geography Explains Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Posted: 13 Oct 2016 01:17 PM PDT One way to understand the difference between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is to distill the world to its essence: people, land, and ocean. The United States has a lot of people and a lot of land, good relations with the people in the lands to its north and south, and oceans to its east and west. As Anders Fogh Rasmussen puts it, America is bordered by "two friendly neighbors and fish." As a result of this geographic position, Rasmussen argues, Americans have the luxury of alternating between what you might call Trumpian and Clintonian views of the wider world.

Amid Saudi row, Egypt reasserts commitment to Gulf allies Posted: 13 Oct 2016 11:40 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — The Egyptian president said on Thursday that his country remains committed to close relations with Gulf Arab allies, but declared that Cairo would continue to independently pursue its own policies to safeguard Arab security.

Syria activists say more than 65 killed in 3 days in Aleppo Posted: 13 Oct 2016 11:31 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Overnight shelling and over a dozen airstrikes on rebel-held parts of the Syrian city of Aleppo killed at least 11 people, bringing the death toll over the last three days in the embattled city to at least 65, activists said Thursday.

CAIR Muslim Voter Survey Indicates 86 Percent Turnout, Support for Hillary Clinton Posted: 13 Oct 2016 10:01 AM PDT WASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today released the results of a nationwide survey of Muslim voters on the upcoming presidential election indicating a likely high turnout of Muslims at the polls on November 8 – more than 70 percent of whom say they will vote for Hillary Clinton - and concern about issues such as civil rights, education, the economy, bullying, a proposed ban on Muslims entering the U.S., and national security. ...

Turkey says botched assault on Iraq's Mosul would trigger refugee wave Posted: 13 Oct 2016 09:16 AM PDT By Tulay Karadeniz ANKARA (Reuters) - Any mistake in a planned U.S.-backed operation to drive Islamic State from the Iraqi city of Mosul could result in hundreds of thousands of refugees, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Thursday. Turkey is locked in an escalating row with Iraq over who should take part in the Mosul assault and Kalin voiced concern that Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants, viewed by Ankara and Western allies as terrorists, could be involved. "Reports that the PKK may take part in the Mosul operation greatly worry us," he told a news conference, saying Turkey had no "secret agenda" in Iraq and favored solving problems with Baghdad through dialogue.

Exclusive: Obama, aides expected to weigh Syria military options on Friday Posted: 13 Oct 2016 08:52 AM PDT By Arshad Mohammed and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and his top foreign policy advisers are expected to meet on Friday to consider their military and other options in Syria as Syrian and Russian aircraft continue to pummel Aleppo and other targets, U.S. officials said. Some top officials argue the United States must act more forcefully in Syria or risk losing what influence it still has over moderate rebels and its Arab, Kurdish and Turkish allies in the fight against Islamic State, the officials told Reuters.

Ex-French president Jacques Chirac leaves hospital Posted: 13 Oct 2016 08:12 AM PDT France's octogenarian former president Jacques Chirac left hospital on Thursday and will continue recovering from a lung infection at his Paris home, his family said. Chirac, 83, who led France from 1995 to 2007, was admitted to Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in the capital on September 18 after his doctors advised him to cut short a holiday in Morocco with his wife Bernadette. A public outpouring of concern for the popular former president "certainly helped give him... the strength and energy he needed" to be allowed to go home, his son-in-law Frederic Salat-Baroux told AFP.

Cash-strapped U.N. faces huge challenges in Mosul offensive Posted: 13 Oct 2016 07:41 AM PDT By Michael Georgy ERBIL (Reuters) - The United Nations says it bracing for the world's biggest and most complex humanitarian effort in the upcoming battle for the Iraqi city of Mosul, which could make up to 1 million people homeless and see civilians used as human shields or even gassed. U.S.-backed Iraqi forces are preparing for the long-anticipated assault on the last major Islamic State bastion in Iraq, potentially the biggest battle in the country since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003. The assault of Mosul could begin by the end of this month, according to Iraqi sources including a government security advisor, a provincial official and an army field commander.

Pope urges Lutherans to set aside doctrine to work together Posted: 13 Oct 2016 06:25 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis urged Lutherans to set aside doctrinal differences Thursday and work with Catholics to care for the poor, the sick and refugees as he laid out his vision for greater communion before his visit to Sweden later this month.

Knights' CEO Calls for US Aid and Equal Rights for Genocide Survivors in Middle East Posted: 13 Oct 2016 04:30 AM PDT NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Peace in the Middle East is helped by the presence of Christians within a pluralistic society in which they are full and equal citizens, said Knights of Columbus CEO Carl Anderson as he accepted the Path to Peace Award on Wednesday night in New York. The Path to Peace Award is sponsored by the Path to Peace Foundation, which was founded 25 years ago to support the work of the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations.

Iraq summons Turkish ambassador to protest troop presence Posted: 13 Oct 2016 03:51 AM PDT The Iraqi foreign ministry summoned the Turkish ambassador on Thursday to protest the continued presence of Turkish troops in northern Iraq without Baghdad's permission, a ministry spokesman said. Turkish troops are deployed in the Bashiqa area near the jihadist-held city of Mosul, and Turkey's prime minister has said that they will stay despite Baghdad's demands that they be withdrawn. The Turkish ambassador was given a "a strongly worded formal note of protest" regarding "the continued presence of Turkish forces near Bashiqa and recent abusive statements from their leadership," spokesman Ahmed Jamal told AFP.

Iran breaks up Islamic State bombing plot targeting Ashoura Posted: 13 Oct 2016 01:05 AM PDT TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran broke up an Islamic State plan to bomb commemorations marking the Shiite religious mourning period of Ashoura, state media reported, the latest alleged militant plot to target the country.

'IS inspired' teens charged in Australia Posted: 12 Oct 2016 07:18 PM PDT Two 16-year-old boys were charged Thursday with planning an imminent terror attack after being arrested with "bayonet-type" knives in Sydney, with police saying the pair were inspired by the so-called Islamic State group. The boys, who were not named, were seized in the city's southwest after buying the weapons in a shop, renewing fears about youth radicalisation. "We don't have any specific information of a particular target where we will allege that there was going to be an imminent attack," said New South Wales Deputy Police Commissioner Catherine Burn.

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