Op-Ed Columnist: Germany Opens Its Doors to Refugeesby PATRICK CHAPPATTE
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And the rest of Europe looks on.
Emboldened by media coverage showing their countrymen and fellow Arabs fleeing the war in Syria, many who had resisted leaving during past crises now see a chance to go.
KIEV (Reuters) - International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde on Sunday voiced support for Ukraine's economic progress and urged its creditors to take full advantage of a deal to restructure $18 billion of sovereign and quasi-sovereign debt.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican government's account of the abduction and apparent massacre of 43 students last year does not add up, a team of international experts said on Sunday, citing deep flaws in the investigation and rejecting the claim that they were incinerated in a garbage dump.
ANKARA (Reuters) - The Kurdish militant group PKK said on Sunday it had killed 15 Turkish soldiers in an attack on a convoy of armored vehicles in southeast Turkey, in what could be the bloodiest assault since the collapse of a ceasefire in July.
VIENNA/MUNICH (Reuters) - Austria said on Sunday it planned to end emergency measures that have allowed thousands of refugees stranded in Hungary into Austria and Germany since Saturday morning.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's armed forces said on Monday its F-16 and F-14 jets had struck 13 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets, a day after the militants detonated explosives on a road in southeast Turkey in an attack that killed and wounded Turkish soldiers.
BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) - While the desperate flight of Syrians from their country's war was dominating news bulletins this summer, yet another diplomatic push to end the four-year-old conflict was quietly running into the sand.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A missile-firing Pakistani drone has killed at least three suspected militants in the first ever reported use of the indigenously developed aircraft in combat, the military said on Monday.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has never concealed the fact that it has been supplying military equipment to Syria aimed at fighting terrorism, RIA Novosti news agency cited a foreign ministry spokeswoman as saying on Monday.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Russian military experts who arrived in Syria weeks ago have been inspecting air bases and working to enlarge some runways, particularly in the north, though Moscow had yet to meet a Syrian request for attack helicopters, a Lebanese newspaper reported.
LONDON (Reuters) - The BBC plans to launch short-wave radio broadcasts to North Korea for the first time and start new TV or digital services in Russia to address "democratic deficits", the world's biggest public service broadcaster said on Monday.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO's secretary general will make his first visit to Ukraine this month, Ukraine's foreign minister said on Monday, dismissing the idea that this would provoke Moscow, which is backing the pro-Russian rebellion in eastern Ukraine.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi was unharmed after his convoy came under sniper fire near the town of Baiji, 190 kilometers (120 miles) north of Baghdad, during a field visit, a ministry spokesman said on Monday.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - At least seven Libyan soldiers were killed repelling an attack on their post by Islamist militants eight km (five miles) southwest of the eastern city of Benghazi on Monday, a military source told Reuters.
MOSCOW/ALMATY (Reuters) - Tajikistan said it had arrested 14 members of a criminal group loyal to the country's sacked deputy defense minister in a special operation on Monday, following bloody gun battles that have stoked fears of religious-related unrest.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is rethinking its strategy for battling the Islamic State in Syria, the New York Times reported on Monday, with the Pentagon looking into moving more fighters into safer zones, providing better intelligence and improving the skills of trained rebels.
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's top court threw out a conviction of American Amanda Knox for the 2007 murder of her British flatmate due to "glaring errors" in the case against her, a document showed on Monday.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission announced a 500 million euro ($557 million) package of measures on Monday to provide relief for farmers stung by slumping prices, triggered partly by the loss of exports to Russia due to EU sanctions against the country.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S.-led coalition conducted 11 air strikes against the Islamic State in Iraq on Sunday, as well as four strikes targeting the militant group in Syria, according to a statement released on Monday.
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron suffered an embarrassing defeat in parliament on Monday after Euroskeptic members of his Conservatives joined forces with opposition lawmakers to reject proposed rules for a European Union membership referendum.
BERLIN/MUNICH (Reuters) - Struggling to cope with record numbers of asylum seekers, Germany told its European partners on Monday they too must take in more refugees, as police in Hungary used pepper spray on desperate migrants who broke out of a reception center at the border.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Dozens of Turkish warplanes struck militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq overnight, killing tens of the group's fighters, a security source told Reuters on Tuesday.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government officials have denied that Islamic State fighters captured an oil field which a monitoring group reported had been seized from government forces.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Ten Turkish police officers were killed in a bomb attack on a minibus in the eastern Turkish province of Igdir on Tuesday, a government official told Reuters.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Austria's bilateral trade with Iran will grow to 300 million euros this year, and continue to increase in the coming years, President Heinz Fischer said on Tuesday during a state visit to Tehran.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will not hesitate to carry out more deadly drone strikes against militants in Syria planning attacks on the United Kingdom, defense minister Michael Fallon said on Tuesday, as he defended the killing of a British Islamic State fighter.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia expects to grant military assistance to Afghanistan that could include helicopters, Interfax news agency quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin's envoy as saying on Tuesday.
DUBAI (Reuters) - A Saudi-led alliance has deployed 10,000 troops to Yemen, Qatari news channel Al Jazeera said on Tuesday, in an apparent sign of determination to rout Iran-allied Houthi forces after they killed at least 60 Gulf Arab soldiers on Friday.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday fighting has died down in east Ukraine since a new truce was put in place on Sept. 1 but blamed Kiev for not moving forward on other provisions of a peace plan brokered by Germany and France.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Russia plans to use an air route to the east of Greece to transport aid into Syria, meaning the use of Greek airspace for such flights is no longer an issue, a Greek government spokesman said on Tuesday.
GENEVA (Reuters) - At least 7,962 people have been killed and 17,811 wounded in violence in eastern Ukraine since mid-April 2014, the U.N. Human Rights Office said on Tuesday, as it published a regular report by U.N. monitors in the country.
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine still faces the threat of a full-scale Russian military attack despite several days of relative calm on the front-lines of the east where government forces confront Russian-backed separatists, President Petro Poroshenko said on Tuesday.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Authorities in Tajikistan on Tuesday charged the country's renegade ex-deputy defense minister with high treason following bloody gun battles that killed 22 and stoked fears of religious-related unrest, Russian and Tajik news agencies reported.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The United States and the European Union project themselves as models for the world when it comes to democracy and human rights. Yet a common issue - migration - is bitterly dividing each of them, testing whether they can maintain solidarity amid virulent debate over border controls, deportations and national values....
Independent group rejects Mexican gov't case on 43 missingby By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and KATHERINE CORCORAN
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- An independent report released Sunday dismantles the Mexican government's investigation into last year's disappearance of 43 teachers' college students, starting with the assertion that the giant funeral pyre in which the attorney general said they were burned to ash beyond identification simply never happened....
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Migrants in the Balkans: Everyone wants to be Syrianby By DUSAN STOJANOVIC
HAJDUKOVO, Serbia (AP) -- A Pakistani identity card in the bushes, a Bangladeshi one in a cornfield. A torn Iraqi driver's license bearing the photo of a man with a Saddam-style mustache, another one with a scarfed woman displaying a shy smile....
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- The main points of a comprehensive report about the disappearance in Mexico of 43 college students released Sunday by an independent group of experts from the Inter-American Court on Human Rights:...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional proceedings are routinely convoluted, often inscrutable and sometimes bizarre. Even by those standards, the upcoming vote on the Iran nuclear deal stands out as particularly bewildering....
NEW YORK (AP) -- It is an irony that troubles health care providers and policymakers nationwide: Even as public awareness of mental illness increases, a shortage of psychiatrists worsens....
ROME (AP) -- Italy's top criminal court has scathingly faulted prosecutors for presenting a flawed and hastily constructed case against Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend, saying Monday it threw out their convictions for the 2007 murder of her British roommate in part because there was no proof they were in the bedroom where the woman was fatally stabbed....
US-Israel spat over Iran deal may sideline Palestiniansby By DAN PERRY and JOSEF FEDERMAN
JERUSALEM (AP) -- In recent months, many in the Middle East had assumed - some in hope, others with concern - that once the Iranian nuclear issue was resolved, the United States would make another push for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. But the opposite seems more likely....
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BERLIN (AP) -- The detention of three Vice News journalists in Turkey last month came with all-too-familiar charges of terror-related crimes. Similar allegations were leveled against three Al-Jazeera reporters convicted last year in Egypt of fabricating news to help the banned Muslim Brotherhood. So, too, against Eskinder Nega, an Ethiopian journalist found guilty of terrorism charges in 2012 after publishing a critical piece about the government....
ATLANTA (AP) -- As other Republican presidential candidates go after Donald Trump, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is getting cozy with him. The two men are in a so-far cordial competition for many of the same anti-establishment conservatives, and they're about to share a stage....
Below is a calendar of congressional hearings on national security matters for this week.
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
9:00am – House Homeland Security – Field Hearing: Beyond Bin Laden’s Caves and Couriers to A New Generation of Terrorists: Confronting the Challenges in a Post 9/11 World – Location: National September 11 Memorial & Museum, New York City (here)
3:00pm – Senate Intelligence – Briefing: Intelligence Matters – closed briefing (here)
5:00pm – House Rules – Meeting on HJ Res. 64: Disapproving of the agreement transmitted to Congress by the President on July 19, 2015, relating to the nuclear program of Iran (here)
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
10:00am – House Foreign Affairs – Implications of a Nuclear Agreement with Iran Part IV (here)
10:00am – Senate Intelligence – Briefing: Intelligence Matters – closed briefing (here)
2:00pm – House Armed Services – Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces – The Future of Air Force Long-Range Strike: Capabilities and Employment Concepts (here)
Thursday, September 10, 2015
8:00am – House Armed Services – Subcommittee on Readiness – Optimized Fleet Response Plan (here)
10:00am – House Homeland Security – Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications – Markup: Promoting Resilience and Efficiency in Preparing for Attacks and Responding to Emergencies (Prepare) Act (here)
10:00am – House Intelligence – World Wide Cyber Threats (here)
10:00am – House Science, Space, and Technology – Subcommittees on Energy & Oversight – Examining Vulnerabilities of America’s Power Supply (here)
3:00pm – Senate Intelligence – Briefing: Intelligence Matters – closed briefing (here)
Friday, September 11
9:00am – House Foreign Affairs – Implications of a Nuclear Agreement with Iran Part V (here)
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Iran is gearing up to begin construction this year on a second nuclear reactor that will be built with the help of the Russians, according to regional media reports.
The nuclear plant is currently being designed, and formal construction will begin in the next several months in Iran’s southern Bushehr province, the site of Iran’s existing and operational nuclear reactor.
A third nuclear plant will be constructed soon after the second is operations, according to Iranian officials.
While many critics of the recently inked Iran nuclear deal have expressed concern that these nuclear reactors could provide Iran with an additional pathway to a nuclear weapon, the Obama administration has said this type of construction is permissible under the parameters of the accord.
Ali Akbar Salhi, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI), announced the upcoming construction on Monday and said Russia will be assisting with much of the nuclear plant.
“The contract for building two (new) power plants has been inked with Russia and the preliminary steps and their designing have already started,” Salehi was quoted as telling Iranian reports on Monday, according to the state-controlled Fars News Agency.
Iran’s controversial first nuclear reactor also was built with the help of Russia, which provided much of the technology and know-how to construct the plant.
“Construction of the second nuclear power plant will begin by the end of this (Iranian) year,” according to Salehi.
“Construction of the third power plant will also start two years after the second power plant will be launched,” the official added.
The new nuclear plants will cost Iran more than $10 billion dollars, according to Salehi.
It is possible that the money used to fund the construction could come from the billions of dollars in sanctions relief promised to Iran as part of the nuclear deal.
Iran also will hire about “15,000 technicians” to complete the construction of operation of the plant, according to Salehi.
The Obama administration admitted to the Washington Free Beacon in January that the construction of the nuclear plants is acceptable.
“In general, the construction of light water nuclear reactors is not prohibited by U.N. Security Council resolutions, nor does it violate [past nuclear agreements],” a State Department official said at the time.
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Europeans are struggling to cope with refugees and migrants landing on their shores or having to be rescued from overcrowded unseaworthy craft amid the swells and troughs of the Mediterranean.
Arab media are reporting that the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has reactivated a 1980 “friendship” treaty between Damascus and Mosco
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