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• Stocks shaky as oil slump, 'hard' Brexit fears dim mood
• Oil markets torn between Saudi led supply cuts, rising output elsewhere
• Some of the famous political acceptance speeches, pre-Streep
• Shooting suspect's mental issues may explain little
• Airport shooting suspect gets public defender in court
• The Latest: Lawmaker to rehang art removed by colleague
• Florida lawmakers want more guns at airports
• Iraq special forces advance in east Mosul, close to linking with army
• Greitens takes over as Missouri governor, targets lobbyists
• Sons of the Iranian Revolution
• Oil down four percent on concerns over rising Iraqi exports, U.S. output
• U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots at Iranian vessels
• Florida airport gunman appears in court to hear charges
• US Russia row heads to Congress with Tillerson hearing
• US-led raid on IS leaders in Syria 'successful': Pentagon
• Ft. Lauderdale airport shooting suspect appears in court
• World reacts to death of former Iranian leader Rafsanjani
• What happens next in Florida airport shooting legal case?
• Analysis: After Rafsanjani, Iran at a political crossroads
• Pledged OPEC cuts encouraging: Kuwait
• Florida airport shooting suspect appears in federal court
• Rafsanjani: What the passing of Iran's 'pillar of pragmatism' means
• Anna Johnson named regional news director for US West
• Russia, WikiLeaks Push Back on US Report on Hacking
• Unclear whether truck attack in Israel inspired by Islamic State
• The Latest: Airport shooting suspect makes court appearance
• Iran mourns 'sheikh of moderation' Rafsanjani
• ISIS blamed for wave of Baghdad attacks that left 23 dead
• Inside LAX's New Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Unit
• Migrants battle freezing temperatures and cold shoulder at Hungarian border
• Obscure Palestinian group claims Jerusalem truck ramming attack
• Battling IS, Iraq troops reach bank of Tigris River in Mosul
• Turkish President sees better ties with U.S. under Trump
• Militants attack checkpoint in Egypt's Sinai, killing 8
• The World According to Donald Trump: The Beginning of the End of the Liberal World Order?
• Iraq eyes recapture of east Mosul within days
• In Mosul, Iraq forces face IS drones, mortars, car bombs
• Minister: Iraq's oil exports from south climb further
• Seven Egyptian police killed in Sinai bomb attack
• Pope slams jihadist attacks as 'homicidal madness'

Stocks shaky as oil slump, 'hard' Brexit fears dim mood Posted: 09 Jan 2017 05:02 PM PST By Nichola Saminather SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asian stock markets were on the back foot on Tuesday as risk appetite evaporated overnight after the year's strong start, with equities retreating, oil markets roiled by a supply surge and the pound sliding on renewed concerns about a "hard" Brexit. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was flat in early trade. Japan's Nikkei dropped 0.2 percent as investors took refuge in the safe-haven yen.

Oil markets torn between Saudi led supply cuts, rising output elsewhere Posted: 09 Jan 2017 04:47 PM PST Oil markets opened on Tuesday torn between production cuts by major exporters Saudi Arabia and Russia and reports showing that supplies from other regions including North America, Iraq, and Iran could offset any restraint aimed at curbing a global glut. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures were trading at $52.03 per barrel at 0028 GMT, up 7 cents from their last settlement but down 4 percent from this year's opening. Prices for Brent crude futures, the international benchmark for oil prices, were yet to trade.

Some of the famous political acceptance speeches, pre-Streep Posted: 09 Jan 2017 04:11 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — From Marlon Brando to Patricia Arquette, Hollywood stars have often used their moments on the stage to make political pleas. Some inspire change, some polite applause and some are simply mocked for trying to get serious about a personal cause at a ritzy gala.

Shooting suspect's mental issues may explain little Posted: 09 Jan 2017 02:40 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Esteban Santiago, the 26-year-old man held in the fatal shootings last week at Fort Lauderdale's airport, reportedly has a history of mental difficulties and it's tempting to assume they explain the crime. Experts say: Don't.

Airport shooting suspect gets public defender in court Posted: 09 Jan 2017 02:18 PM PST The Iraq war veteran held in the fatal shooting of five people inside Fort Lauderdale's airport was appointed a federal public defender on Monday after telling a judge that he has no job and only $5 or ...

The Latest: Lawmaker to rehang art removed by colleague Posted: 09 Jan 2017 02:03 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Congress (all times EST):

Florida lawmakers want more guns at airports Posted: 09 Jan 2017 01:45 PM PST Two Florida state legislators who recently championed bills expanding concealed carry rights say the Fort Lauderdale airport massacre vindicates their position. Florida state Sen. Greg Steube's Senate Bill 140 would affirm the right of concealed carry permit holders in schools as well as unsecured parts of courthouses and airports.

Iraq special forces advance in east Mosul, close to linking with army Posted: 09 Jan 2017 01:29 PM PST By Stephen Kalin and Isabel Coles MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi special forces made further advances against Islamic State in Mosul on Monday, pushing militants from another eastern district and edging closer to army units nearby, officers in the city said. The Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) said it was working to seize areas overlooking Mosul University in the city's northeast, after taking over a nearby district. Residents trickled out of the conflict zone but many also returned to their homes in areas retaken from Islamic State in recent days.

Greitens takes over as Missouri governor, targets lobbyists Posted: 09 Jan 2017 12:39 PM PST JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Former Navy SEAL officer Eric Greitens was sworn into office Monday as Missouri governor, pledging to bring an outsider's perspective to a state that for the first time will be overseen by a GOP governor paired with supermajorities of Republicans in the Legislature.

Sons of the Iranian Revolution Posted: 09 Jan 2017 12:36 PM PST In Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince, he describes a "general rule" of politics that "never or rarely fails." "He who is the cause of another becoming powerful," Machiavelli wrote, "is ruined. Because that predominancy has been brought about either by astuteness or else by force, and both are distrusted by him who has been raised to power." This is an apt political epitaph for former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who died Sunday at age 82. In 1989, nearly 500 years after The Prince was published, Rafsanjani helped anoint his longtime comrade Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as supreme leader of Iran. He would spend the next three decades of his life trying, unsuccessfully, to wrestle power back from the man he enthroned.

Oil down four percent on concerns over rising Iraqi exports, U.S. output Posted: 09 Jan 2017 12:24 PM PST Oil prices tumbled by 4 percent on Monday on concern that record Iraqi crude exports and rising U.S. output would undermine OPEC's efforts to curb global oversupply. In Iraq, OPEC's second-biggest producer, oil exports from the southern Basra ports reached a record high of 3.51 million barrels per day (bpd) in December, the oil ministry said. OPEC members agreed in November on the first deal to cut oil output since 2008, limiting supplies to 32.5 million bpd starting Jan. 1 for six months.

U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots at Iranian vessels Posted: 09 Jan 2017 11:59 AM PST By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy destroyer fired three warning shots at four Iranian fast-attack vessels near the Strait of Hormuz after they closed in at high speed and disregarded repeated requests to slow down, U.S. officials said on Monday. The incident, which occurred on Sunday and was first reported by Reuters, comes as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office on Jan. 20. In September, Trump vowed that any Iranian vessels that harassed the U.S. Navy in the Gulf would be "shot out of the water." "This was an unsafe and unprofessional interaction, and that is due to the fact that they were approaching at a high level of speed with weapons manned and disregarding repeated warnings," Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a briefing.

Florida airport gunman appears in court to hear charges Posted: 09 Jan 2017 11:37 AM PST An Iraq war vet accused of killing five people in a shooting spree at a Florida airport appeared in court Monday to face federal charges that carry the death penalty. Esteban Santiago, 26, who had told the FBI two months before the shooting that he was hearing voices, was brought before federal judge Alicia Valle in Fort Lauderdale in handcuffs and wearing a red prison jumpsuit. The FBI said it had not ruled out a terrorist link in the shooting spree at the Fort Lauderdale airport but that Santiago had approached them in November acting so erratically he was taken for a mental health evaluation.

US Russia row heads to Congress with Tillerson hearing Posted: 09 Jan 2017 11:30 AM PST The Senate confirmation hearings for Donald Trump's cabinet will be a new arena for Washington's feud over Russia, none more so than that of his prospective secretary of state. Texas oilman Rex Tillerson, who was chief executive of oil giant ExxonMobil until the turn of year, will face a skeptical hearing on Wednesday despite his track record in business. For even though he embodies the president-elect's ideal of a globetrotting deal-maker, this holder of Russia's Order of Friendship has close ties to President Vladimir Putin.

US-led raid on IS leaders in Syria 'successful': Pentagon Posted: 09 Jan 2017 11:05 AM PST US special operations troops carried out a "successful" raid in Syria against leaders of the Islamic State group in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday. The operation was "focused on ISIL leadership" and was conducted by a US special operations unit tasked with tracking down top jihadist operatives, Navy Captain Jeff Davis said. According to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights and the Syrian Democratic Forces, a US-backed coalition of Arab and Kurdish forces, at least four helicopters, including Apache attack helicopters, were used in the operation.

Ft. Lauderdale airport shooting suspect appears in court Posted: 09 Jan 2017 10:59 AM PST The Iraq war veteran held in the fatal shooting of five people inside Fort Lauderdale's airport answered questions in a clear voice Monday.

World reacts to death of former Iranian leader Rafsanjani Posted: 09 Jan 2017 10:46 AM PST DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Reactions from around the world to the death of former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who suffered a heart attack Sunday at the age of 82.

What happens next in Florida airport shooting legal case? Posted: 09 Jan 2017 10:31 AM PST FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Esteban Santiago, the former Army soldier held in the mass killing inside the Fort Lauderdale airport, was told Monday that he could face a death sentence.

Analysis: After Rafsanjani, Iran at a political crossroads Posted: 09 Jan 2017 10:26 AM PST DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani will be buried in the shrine of the ayatollah who led Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, the same man who once proclaimed "the revolution is alive as long as Rafsanjani is alive."

Pledged OPEC cuts encouraging: Kuwait Posted: 09 Jan 2017 10:13 AM PST Kuwaiti Oil Minister Essam al-Marzouk, whose country heads a committee to monitor crude output cuts, on Monday described as encouraging production reductions announced so far. A group of 14 non-OPEC producers, led by the world's top crude producer Russia, agreed in December to lower their output by another 600,000 bpd, making the total pledged cuts at 1.8 million bpd. "So far, all Gulf producers, Iraq and Russia have announced their commitment to the cuts," Marzouk told a news conference after talks with OPEC secretary general Mohammad Barkindo.

Florida airport shooting suspect appears in federal court Posted: 09 Jan 2017 10:07 AM PST By Zachary Fagenson FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) - The 26-year-old Iraq war veteran accused of killing five people at a busy Florida airport in the latest U.S. gun rampage appeared in a federal court on Monday on charges that could bring him the death penalty. Esteban Santiago, who had a history of erratic behavior, was escorted into the courtroom near Fort Lauderdale for the brief hearing surrounded by U.S. marshals and wearing a red jail jumpsuit and shackles. In November, Santiago went to a Federal Bureau of Investigation office in Anchorage and told agents he believed U.S. spies were controlling his mind.

Rafsanjani: What the passing of Iran's 'pillar of pragmatism' means Posted: 09 Jan 2017 09:40 AM PST When Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani cast his ballot in 2005, the presidential finalist looked every inch an Old Guard Iranian revolutionary-turned-pragmatist. An architect and key power-broker of the 1979 Islamic revolution, the two-time president swept like a strutting monarch into the cramped north Tehran prayer hall where the father of that revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, once preached – and where Mr. Rafsanjani's casket has rested since his death on Sunday night. Recommended: How much do you know about Iran?

Anna Johnson named regional news director for US West Posted: 09 Jan 2017 09:34 AM PST PHOENIX (AP) — The Associated Press has named Anna Johnson as regional news director for the U.S. West, a new position overseeing AP's journalism and news operations across formats in 13 western states.

Russia, WikiLeaks Push Back on US Report on Hacking Posted: 09 Jan 2017 09:30 AM PST "From our point of view, absolutely unfounded accusations continue to be made on a rather amateur, emotional level, which is hardly applicable to the highly professional work of truly top-notch security services," Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "It does not have the structure of an intelligence report," he said.

Unclear whether truck attack in Israel inspired by Islamic State Posted: 09 Jan 2017 09:04 AM PST By Luke Baker JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's government has been quick to suggest a Palestinian who rammed a truck into a group of Israeli soldiers at the weekend was inspired by Islamic State, raising questions over how it came to that conclusion. Hours after the attack on Sunday, which killed four soldiers and wounded 17, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the assailant showed all the signs of being a supporter of the ultra-hardline Sunni movement. Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman had also pointed to Islamic State, citing parallels with Islamic State-inspired attacks on crowds using trucks in Germany and France last year.

The Latest: Airport shooting suspect makes court appearance Posted: 09 Jan 2017 09:03 AM PST FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on the suspect in the Florida airport shooting appearing in court (all times local):

Iran mourns 'sheikh of moderation' Rafsanjani Posted: 09 Jan 2017 08:13 AM PST Iran began three days of mourning Monday after the death of ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a pillar of the Islamic revolution who became a leading counterweight to hardliners. Tributes poured in for the moderate cleric, including from President Hassan Rouhani, who was reportedly at Rafsanjani's bedside before he died of a heart attack aged 82. "Islam lost a valuable treasure, Iran an outstanding general, the Islamic revolution a courageous flag-bearer and the Islamic system a rare sage," Rouhani said.

ISIS blamed for wave of Baghdad attacks that left 23 dead Posted: 09 Jan 2017 08:02 AM PST At least 23 people were killed in a wave of attacks around Baghdad on Sunday, two of which have been claimed by the so-called Islamic State. Suicide bombings at two markets in mainly Shiite neighborhoods left at least sixteen shoppers dead and dozens more injured, said Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Saad Maan, with three additional bombings in and around the city killing seven and wounding 24 others. The bombings were the latest in a string of attacks across Baghdad and other Iraqi cities that have killed more than 80 people in just over a week.

Inside LAX's New Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Unit Posted: 09 Jan 2017 07:44 AM PST No one paid the car any attention as it crept forward through morning traffic at LAX. Travelers wandering the arrivals area with their smartphones out, hands held up to block the sun, never even gave it a second thought.

Migrants battle freezing temperatures and cold shoulder at Hungarian border Posted: 09 Jan 2017 07:42 AM PST By Marton Dunai HORGOS, Serbia (Reuters) - Dozens of Asian, Afghan and Pakistani migrants, some with children, are camping out in makeshift tents in temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 Fahrenheit) on Serbia's northern border, waiting their turn to try to enter Hungary. Refugee camps are packed and only women and children are likely to be let into them, leaving the men to seek shelter where they can - in abandoned warehouses in central Belgrade, or the fields just south of the border. By one reckoning, those in the tents are the lucky ones - those who are near the front of an unofficial refugee-administered queue to submit an asylum application at one of only two recognized crossing points - Horgos and Tompa.

Obscure Palestinian group claims Jerusalem truck ramming attack Posted: 09 Jan 2017 07:33 AM PST An obscure Palestinian group claimed responsibility on Monday for a truck ramming in Jerusalem that killed four Israeli soldiers, an attack that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier was likely inspired by Islamic State. Seventeen other people were injured when the truck barreled into a group of Israeli soldiers. According to all the signs he is a supporter of Islamic State," Netanyahu said.

Battling IS, Iraq troops reach bank of Tigris River in Mosul Posted: 09 Jan 2017 06:25 AM PST BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi troops in Mosul have battled their way to the Tigris River running through the center of town, marking a milestone in the nearly three-month-old offensive aimed at reclaiming the northern city from Islamic State militants.

Turkish President sees better ties with U.S. under Trump Posted: 09 Jan 2017 06:15 AM PST By Tulay Karadeniz and Daren Butler ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he believed relations with Washington would improve under President-elect Donald Trump and that the two NATO allies would reach an easier consensus on regional issues. Ties between the United States and Turkey - which has the second largest army in the NATO alliance and is key to the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq - have deteriorated sharply since a failed military coup in July. Erdogan and the government blame the abortive putsch on Fethullah Gulen, an Islamic cleric who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999, and want him extradited.

Militants attack checkpoint in Egypt's Sinai, killing 8 Posted: 09 Jan 2017 06:13 AM PST EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Militants attacked an Egyptian police checkpoint in the northern Sinai Peninsula on Monday using a stolen garbage truck packed with explosives, killing at least eight people and setting off clashes with security forces, officials said.

The World According to Donald Trump: The Beginning of the End of the Liberal World Order? Posted: 09 Jan 2017 06:00 AM PST There are known knowns and known unknowns for the U.S. on the global stage -- and some things we don't know we don't know -- as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld famously said in the run-up to the Iraq War 15 years ago. Now another Donald -- who got elected by pledging to rethink America's role in the world and keep friends and foes guessing -- is ushering in an era of unknown unknowns. "Unpredictability" is the buzzword of Donald Trump's foreign policy lexicon and, not surprisingly, there's a lot we don't know yet about what that means for America and the world in 2017.

Iraq eyes recapture of east Mosul within days Posted: 09 Jan 2017 05:30 AM PST Iraqi forces will retake east Mosul from the jihadists within days, a top commander said Monday, after his fighters in the city reached the Tigris River for the first time. Baghdad's forces have retaken a series of areas in eastern Mosul since launching an operation to recapture the city from the Islamic State group on October 17, but the west remains under IS control. East Mosul will be retaken within "a few days, God willing," Staff Lieutenant General Abdulghani al-Assadi, a top commander in Iraq's elite Counter-Terrorism Service, told AFP.

In Mosul, Iraq forces face IS drones, mortars, car bombs Posted: 09 Jan 2017 05:08 AM PST A small white drone hummed into sight and Thaker, a member of Iraq's special forces, grabbed his machinegun and started lighting up the blue sky above eastern Mosul. "I shot one down, this morning," Thaker said. The Counter-Terrorism Service Thaker serves in has been battling the Islamic State group in the streets of Mosul for weeks, dodging sniper and mortar fire, booby traps and suicide car bombs.

Minister: Iraq's oil exports from south climb further Posted: 09 Jan 2017 04:51 AM PST BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's crude exports from the country's southern ports inched up last month to 3.510 million barrels per day for the first time, the oil minister said Monday, lauding his ministry's plans and the work of a handful of international companies developing Iraq's prized southern fields.

Seven Egyptian police killed in Sinai bomb attack Posted: 09 Jan 2017 04:07 AM PST At least seven policemen and one civilian were killed in a bomb attack on a checkpoint in the northern Sinai city of al-Arish on Monday, and five of the attackers were also killed, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said. The attackers planted a bomb in a street cleaning vehicle they had stolen a few days earlier, security sources told Reuters. After the bomb exploded, attackers fired guns and rocket-propelled grenades at the checkpoint, the sources said.

Pope slams jihadist attacks as 'homicidal madness' Posted: 09 Jan 2017 03:47 AM PST Pope Francis on Monday described jihadist attacks around the world as "homicidal madness" and urged religious leaders to reassert that "one can never kill in God's name". The leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics also called on government leaders to combat the poverty that, he said, could allow fundamentalism to flourish. "These are vile acts that use children to kill, as in Nigeria, or target people at prayer, as in the Coptic Cathedral of Cairo, or travellers or workers, as in Brussels, or passers-by in the streets of cities like Nice and Berlin, or simply people celebrating the arrival of the new year, as in Istanbul," Francis said.

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