Moscow summons UK attache over claims RAF licensed to down Russian jets - The Guardian

Moscow summons UK attache over claims RAF licensed to down Russian jets - The Guardian

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UN Afghan Staff Member Killed In Kandahar

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An Afghan official says a female UN worker has been shot dead by gunmen in the city of Kandahar.

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Nobel Prize winners: Which country has the most Nobel laureates? 

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Nobel in Economics Is Given to Angus Deaton - New York Times

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Prof. Angus Deaton, a renowned microeconomist, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science on Monday for his studies of consumption, poverty and welfare. Professor Deaton, 69, of Princeton, is best known for his study of the choices of ... 
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Angus Deaton Wins Nobel Economics Prize

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Princeton University Professor Angus Deaton has the won the 2015 Nobel Economics Prize "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare". A statement issued by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said by linking detailed individual choices and aggregate outcomes, Deaton's "research has helped transform the fields of microeconomics, macroeconomics, and development economics." Deaton, a British and U.S. citizen born in Scotland, has been a Professor of...

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Angus Deaton Awarded Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

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The U.S.-based economist Angus Deaton won the 2015 Nobel Prize in economics for his analysis of consumption, poverty and welfare.

Egypt court frees Mubarak's sons

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A court in Egypt orders the release of the two sons of ousted former President Hosni Mubarak, five months after they are convicted of embezzlement.

Things to know about the report into cause of MH17 disaster

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The Dutch Safety Board is publishing its final report Tuesday into what caused Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to break up high over Eastern Ukraine last year, killing all 298 people on board.









Germany’s Merkel to visit Turkey on Sunday 

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The German government says Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Turkey on Sunday for talks with the country’s leaders on terrorism, Syria and the migrant crisis.









Amid Report of Jason Rezaian’s Conviction, Iran Hints at Prisoner Exchange 

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Tehran appeared to be trying to position the case of the Washington Post correspondent as part of a broader effort to get detained Iranians released.

Briton wins Nobel economics prize

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British academic Angus Deaton has been awarded the Nobel economics prize for 2015 for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.
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Scottish Economist Angus Deaton Wins Nobel Economics Prize

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STOCKHOLM — Scottish economist Angus Deaton has won the Nobel memorial prize in economic sciences for “his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Monday.
Deaton, who was born in Edinburgh in 1945, now works at Princeton University in the United States.
The academy said the work for which Deaton is now being honored revolves around three central questions: How do consumers distribute their spending among different goods; how much of society’s income is spent and how much is saved; and how do we best measure and analyze welfare and poverty?
Last year, French economist Jean Tirole won the 8 million Swedish kronor (about $975,000) award for his research on market power and regulation.
The economics award is not a Nobel Prize in the same sense as the others, which were created by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel in 1895.
Sweden’s central bank added the economics prize in 1968 as a memorial to Nobel.
The announcement concludes this year’s presentations of Nobel winners.
The medicine prize went to three scientists from Japan, the U.S. and China who discovered drugs to fight malaria and other tropical diseases. Japanese and Canadian scientists won the physics prize for discovering that tiny particles called neutrinos have mass and scientists from Sweden, the U.S. and Turkey won the chemistry prize for their research into the way cells repair damaged DNA.
Belarusian investigative journalist Svetlana Alexievich won the literature award while the peace prize went to The National Dialogue Quartet in Tunisia for its contribution to building democracy in Tunisia following the 2011 Jasmine Revolution.
The awards will be handed out on Dec. 10, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel’s death in 1896, at lavish ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo.

US Journalist Convicted In Iran Trial

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Tehran has not revealed details of Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian's conviction or his sentence.

Washington Post says Iran's conviction of its reporter is 'contemptible'

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Washington Post on Monday denounced the espionage conviction of the newspaper's American-born Tehran correspondent as an "outrageous injustice" and urged Iran's leaders to overturn it.
  

Princeton's Angus Deaton wins Nobel economics prize

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STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Princeton University's Angus Deaton has won the Nobel prize in economics for "his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Monday....

Taliban threaten second Afghan provincial capital as insurgency spreads

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KABUL (Reuters) - Fighting intensified around the Afghan city of Ghazni on Monday, as Taliban militants threatened to seize a second provincial capital after briefly occupying Kunduz in the north last month.
  

Turkey's Political Parties Trade Blame After Bombings

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The deadliest terror attack in Turkey’s history has left the country in shock, but appeals for unity are being ignored, poisoning Turkish politics just weeks ahead of elections that are unlikely to end a parliamentary deadlock. Within hours of the blasts that left at least 97 people dead and 246 injured Saturday in Ankara, Turkey’s politicians were trading ugly barbs. Kurdish separatists and a pro-Kurdish centrist party accuse the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan or the intelligence...

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Ford to invest $1.8 billion in China research 

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Ford Motor Co. is investing $1.8 billion to develop technologies aimed at attracting Chinese car buyers, underlining China’s importance to automakers despite slowing sales growth.









N.Korea’s Restraint Could Signal Improving Relations with China 

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North Korea’s massive military parade on Saturday was marked by bellicose rhetoric against the United States, but with a senior Chinese delegation in attendance, Kim Jong Un dialed back other potentially provocative acts and language. On Monday South Korea’s Unification Ministry Spokesman Jeong Joon-hee said Pyongyang showed some restraint during the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of North Korea’s ruling party. "It seems like North Korea promoted internal...

Russian airstrikes support Syrian troops to push back rebels in strategic town 

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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports fierce clashes in Kafr Nabuda with pro-Assad troops, including Hezbollah, capturing parts of the town
Syrian army and allied forces supported by Russian warplanes have made further advances in their offensive against insurgents with the fiercest clashes for nearly a week, a monitoring group said.
Russian jets carried out at least 30 airstrikes on the town of Kafr Nabuda, Hama province, in western Syria, and hundreds of shells hit the area as the Syrian army and Hezbollah fighters seized part of it, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday.
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В ходе осеннего призыва в войска ЗВО прибудет около 10 тысяч новобранцев, имеющих высшее образование

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Помимо них, в воинские части и соединения направят более 6 тыс. специалистов, прошедших подготовку по военно-учетным специальностям в учебных учреждениях ДОСААФ России.

Islamic State Top Suspect in Turkey Bombing

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Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Monday the Islamic State group is the top suspect of investigators working to determine who was responsible for Saturday's double suicide bombing in Ankara that killed 97 people. Davutoglu said authorities are close to identifying one of the bombers, and that evidence points to "a certain group." The blasts that hit a peace rally also wounded 160 people in what was the worst attack of its kind in Turkey's history. Elections Davutoglu said the bombings were aimed at influencing parliamentary elections set for November 1 in Turkey, but that the vote will go on as scheduled. The prime minister had earlier called for the nation to unite against terrorism, but with no claim of responsibility for Saturday's attack, competing groups in Turkey turned to blaming each other. Lawmakers from the ruling AKP party claimed the blasts were a conspiratorial effort by Kurdish separatists to try to make the government look bad, while others accused the pro-Kurdish HDP party of bombing its own supporters at the rally in order to boost its appeal before the elections.

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Police called to meeting of beard fans in Sweden after passer-by confuses them with Isis terrorists 

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The group was waving a black flag which, a member has admitted, looks a bit like the Isis emblem

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Lukashenka Prolongs Rule In Belarus; EU Considers Suspending Sanctions 

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Election officials in Belarus say authoritarian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, in power since 1994, has won a new five-year term with more than 83 percent of the votes cast in an election dismissed by opponents as a farce.

Angus Deaton wins Nobel economics prize

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British economist at Princeton University is a pioneer of study on consumption decisions

Russian 'Patriot' Rally Falls A Few Letters Short, Despite Claims To Contrary 

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Bloggers debunk a Russian state TV claim that "thousands" of people turned out for a patriotic flash mob in the capital.

A Third of Russians Outside Major Cities ‘Invisible’ to State Statisticians, Sociologists Say

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            Staunton, October 12 – The imposition of new rules prohibiting the sharing of statistical information among various levels of Russian government and the continuing impact of Soviet assumptions that individuals only work where they live mean that 33 to 37 percent of the population of Russian regions is “invisible” as far as state statistics are concerned.

            That conclusion, offered by Simon Kordonsky of the Khamovniki Foundation and three other sociologists, means that Moscow “does not see the real life of the provinces” and continues to make decisions and allocate funds on the basis of what appears to be increasingly inaccurate information (tvrain.ru/articles/hamovniki-396045/).

            In the 1990s, they report, municipalities gathered most economic and demographic statistics. Then after 2000, three things happened: Federal agencies began to take over, statistical staffs were cut, and by 2005, Moscow prohibited the sharing of information among local governments, the tax service and Rosstat.

            Such sharing helped to correct mistakes by one agency or another, but now that safety value has been shut down. Indeed, the only administrations that have more or less reliable information are those who ignore this administrative measure and openly violate the law, the sociologists say.

            As a result, the authorities “look at real life” only on the basis of the data they are given without much regard to how accurate it is. And as a result, they make decisions which they might not make if they had accurate data about realities. Moreover, this approach leads to significant undercounts on many indices.

            In Russia’s provinces, the sociologists say, “approximately 33 to 37 percent of the active population is invisible for state statistics” and hence for government officials. The reason, they say, is that many mid-sized Russian cities now live in “the so-called ‘garage economy,’” in which people live in one district but work in another or in the shadow economy.

            In the garages of some cities, “sometimes more people work” in these spheres, including in sectors that should be classified as industrial production, than do in the official local economy.  In Toliatti, the sociologists point out, there are more people involved in “the garage economy” than in the city’s major official employer, AvtoVAZ.

            To a certain extent, they say, “the percent of such enterprises has remained practically unchanged from tsarist times,” but the measurement of them has. “Consumer cooperatives did not disappear after they were banned in 1956, and from that moment began the growth of the shadow sector.”

            “If the traditional economy exists in a system of institutions,” Kordonsky and his colleagues say, “the garage economy does not fit into this system. Registration is necessary only if it is required to avoid interference” with the economic activity of these “firms,” and that is hardly always the case.

            The sociologists give another example of this kind of economic activity which is now uncounted by the state. “Almost 40 percent of the population of Russia uses the resources of the forests in a way uncontrolled by the state.” Most people think this is about mushroom hunting or gathering of firewood, but it often involves far larger and more lucrative activities which are not being counted.

            People at the local level know what is going on, but they no longer have to report it. Most people don’t want to share the information with those higher up because they may be involved as well.  But what this signifies, the sociologists say, is “the formation of a corporative state” in which many people are active at one level without officials at another knowing about it.



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EU Aviation Agency Issues Warning Over Russian Missiles

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The EU's aviation regulator has warned airlines of the potential danger of flying over Iran, Iraq, and the Caspian Sea after Russia fired cruise missiles at Syrian targets.

What lies behind Turkey bombings?

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Twin bomb blasts in the capital of Ankara have stoked instability ahead of elections next month
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New Book on CIA Master-Plotter Dulles, Sneak Peek: Part 1 - WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)

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New Book on CIA Master-Plotter Dulles, Sneak Peek: Part 1
WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
Although Kennedy had fired him in 1961, Dulles basically kept, de facto, running the CIAanyway, as Talbot notes. And, even more ominously, after Kennedy was killed in Dallas on Friday November 22, Dulles moved into The Farm, a secret CIA facility in ...

Netanyahu Orders Mobilization of Border Police Reservists

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JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday ordered the mobilization of close to 2,000 border police reservists in anticipation of a major surge of unrest.
The border police constitute the front line force in situations of quasi-terror and mass confrontations such as has prevailed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem for the past two weeks. A spokesman for the prime minister said the mobilization of 13 companies, in addition to three mobilized last week, was a “primary preventive and deterrent measure.” The need for increased security was demonstrated Sunday evening when a 20-year-old Israeli Arab stabbed four people at a bus stop in northern Israel, seriously injuring a young woman, before being seized by civilians and police.
Although Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called for a halt to violence,  support for the 80-year-old leader among Palestinians is rapidly waning. Palestinian security forces are still nominally loyal but they are increasingly evading their hitherto effective role as buffer between Palestinian “street” violence and Israelis. “The absence of Palestinian security forces has been conspicuous during the past few days in clashes in Bethlehem, Tulkarm and Ramallah,” wrote Avi Issacharoff, who monitors Palestinian affairs for the Times of Israel.
Although the Palestinians have largely refrained from using weapons in the current confrontation, gunmen from Ramallah did open fire at an Israeli command post near the Palestinian city three days ago. Palestinian security forces called on them to desist, which they did, but this level of influence is expected inIsrael to give way soon, opening the way for direct confrontation between Israeli troops and armed Palestinians.
Clashes have already spiraled between troops and masses of Palestinian demonstrators, throwing rocks and firebombs, and occasionally firing shots. The Palestinian Red Crescent on Sunday reported at least 70 Palestinian casualties in such clashes with troops throughout the West Bank, many of them from rubber bullets and even live fire.
The Gaza Strip’s border with Israel has seen some of the most intense confrontations in recent days even though there are no Israelis inside the Gaza Strip itself. Masses of Gaza residents, most of them youths, managed to cut through an Israeli border fence, with some 70 crossing into Israeli territory Saturdaynight. Paratroopers drove them back, except for five who were taken into custody. Nine Gazans have been killed and about 60 wounded in such border clashes in the past three days.
Following the firing of a rocket from Gaza into Israel Saturday, an Israeli military spokesman said that  the air force bombed two Hamas weapons manufacturing sites in the strip at 3 A.M. Sunday. A Gaza Health Ministry official said that a pregnant woman and her two-year-old daughter died when their house collapsed after the nearby explosions.
At an approach road to Jerusalem, a policeman Sunday morning flagged down a car driving in a bus lane. As he approached the vehicle on foot, the driver, a Palestinian woman from Jericho, shouted “Allah Akhbar” and detonated and explosive device. She survived in serious condition and the policeman suffered slight face burns.
There have been numerous reports of Jews beating up Palestinians inside Israel in revenge attacks. Police have arrested a number of Jews allegedly involved in these incidents. In the coastal city of Netanya, a resident, Maimon Haimi, told Channel 10 News that he had run towards a group shouting “terrorist” when he saw someone running towards him and tackled him. As he did so, he noticed that the young man was unarmed and bleeding and was being pursued by Jews. Haimi then lay across his prey to protect him from his pursuers. “I was there to catch a terrorist, or perhaps kill him. When I saw he wasn’t a terrorist, I changed my mind.” In shielding Abed al-Kader Jamal, said Haimi, he was not only protecting  the Palestinian but “protecting the Jews (pursuing him) from themselves.”
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Turkey investigators focus probe on Islamic State militants

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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish investigators were close to identifying one of the suicide bombers in Turkey's deadliest attacks in years, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Monday, adding that the Islamic State group was the "No. 1 priority" of the investigation.
However, in an interview with private NTV television, Davutoglu ...

News Roundup and Notes: October 12, 2015 

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Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news.
ANKARA BOMB ATTACK 
Two suspected suicide bombers attacked a peace rally protesting the conflict between the Turkish state and the PKK in the Turkish capital on Saturday. The death toll has reached 128, the deadliest terrorist attack in Turkey’s history. [Reuters’ Orhan Coskun and Ece Toksabay]
The Islamic State is the prime suspect in the investigation into the attack, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said today. [Reuters’ Daren Butler]
Thousands gathered to pay respects to those killed in the bombings yesterday, many denouncing Turkish authorities for perceived inaction since previous incidents and mishandling of Saturday’s attack. The incident has exposed “deep-seated anger” at the government, ahead of November elections. [The Guardian’s Kareem Shaheen; New York Times’ Tim Arango and Ceylan Yeginsu]
There will be no delay in the November elections despite the alarm caused by the attack, government officials have said. [Reuters]
Turkey conducted heavy airstrikes against PKK militants in the south east of the country and in northern Iraq yesterday. [BBC]
The Wall Street Journal editorial board comments on the attack, noting that the “Syrian vortex is increasingly drawing Turkey into its spin,” adding that it is likely more trouble lies ahead.
IRAQ and SYRIA 
An Iraqi airstrike hit a meeting of ISIS members on Sunday as well as a convoy carrying the group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraqi officials claimed. Eight senior figures are said to have been killed though Baghdadi is not thought to be among them. [Reuters’ Ahmed Rasheed]
Russian airstrikes targeted rebels unaffiliated with ISIS yesterday, helping the Syrian army along with Lebanese Hezbollah militia allies on the ground to reclaim territory in Idlib province. [Reuters]
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said his country’s goal in Syria is to stabilize the government of Bashar al-Assad, in an appearance on state TV yesterday. [CNN’s Melissa Gray]
French airstrikes targeting ISIS in Syria may have hit French jihadists fighting there, according to Prime Minister Manuel Valls today. [Reuters’ Elizabeth Pineau]
President Obama appeared on CBS’s “60 Minutes.” Obama committed to staying the course in Syria, but refused to “reinsert” the US into a military campaign inside of Syria, adding that it is for the main players to the conflict to realize that a political transition is necessary. On Russia’s intervention in Syria, the president said that he had “pretty good intelligence” suggesting Moscow planned to get involved militarily, adding that Russia’s campaign is “not an indication of strength.”
The Obama administration is concerned about entering a proxy war with Russia, a cause of US hesitance in becoming more involved in the Syrian conflict, report Carol E. Lee et al. [Wall Street Journal]
The White House has scrapped its program for training moderate Syrian rebels, a “candid admission that Washington had abjectly failed in its push to find capable allies” in the war-torn country. [Foreign Policy’s Paul McLeary]
The House Intelligence Committee is “looking at possible problems in the timely provision of information to Congress,” concerning the Russian military buildup in Syria. Shane Harris provides the details at the Daily Beast.
A Syrian rebel group, the Homs Liberation Movement, is planning suicide attacks against the Russians, in response to Russian airstrikes which have targeted the group. [The Daily Beast’s Austin Bodetti and David Axe]
Shi’ite Iraqis are praising Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intervention in Syria, many heartened by Russian relations with Iran and the Syrian government, reports Michael R. Gordon. [New York Times] 
UN Special Envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, will meet with Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrovon Tuesday, reports the RIA news agency. [Reuters] 
In order to save Iraq, the US “must help Kurdistan to organize, train and equip a non-political Kurdish army,” suggest Aliza Marcus and Andrew Apostolou at the New York Times.
America’s “special role” in the Middle East appears to be “melting away,” suggests Yaroslav Trofimov, adding that “the void created by US withdrawal is being filled by the very powers that American policy has long sought to contain,” at the Wall Street Journal. 
The New York Times editorial board opines that efforts to “squeeze” the Islamic State financially have so far been insufficient, arguing that now the Obama administration’s program to train opposition fighters has failed, “there is even more reason to double down on efforts to choke off the group’s ability to raise funds and buy supplies.”
AFGHANISTAN 
A NATO military helicopter crashed in a non-hostile incident yesterday while landing at the headquarters of the NATO Resolute Support mission that is training Afghan security forces. Five people were killed in the crash, including two members of the British Royal Air Force. [APThe Guardian’s Kevin Rawlinson]
The Taliban’s reach in Afghanistan is at its widest since 2001, according to UN data. The UN Assistance Mission in the country has evacuated four of the 13 provincial offices over the past two weeks due to security concerns. [New York Times’ Rod Nordland and Joseph Goldstein]
“By evening, a hospital. By morning, a war zone.” Tim Craig et al provide an account of the events running up to the US bombing of the Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz on Oct. 3. [Washington Post]
ISRAEL and PALESTINE 
A Palestinian man has been killed after he attacked an Israeli police officer with a knife early today near a gate into Jerusalem’s Old City. At least 25 Palestinians and five Israelis have been killed in recent violence. [AP] 
An Israeli airstrike on Gaza killed a pregnant woman and her young child early on Sunday. The strike was said to be targeting two alleged Hamas weapons sites. Later in the day a 13-year old Palestinian boy was shot dead in the West Bank. [The Guardian’s Kate Shuttleworth]
An Arab Israeli carried out a stabbing attack in northern Israel yesterday, wounding four people. [Reuters’ Jeffrey Heller and Ori Lewis]
Check out Haaretz for live updates of the escalating violence throughout Israel and the West Bank.
“There can be no negotiations without a clear Israeli commitment to fully withdraw from the Palestinian territory it occupied in 1967,” writes Marwan Barghouti stating that “we have tried to be patient, but the international community has failed us.” [The Guardian]
“Make East Jerusalem the capital of Palestine,” suggests Amira Hass along with 20 other steps that could reverse the situation facing Israel and the Palestinians. [Haaretz]
HILLARY CLINTON EMAIL CONTROVERSY 
President Obama described former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as a “mistake,” during an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes.” The president added that her actions did not pose a threat to US national security. 
Clinton’s private email server has become the focus of the House select committee on the 2012 Benghazi attack. Eric Lipton et al provide the details at the New York Times.
Chairman of the committee, Trey Gowdy has hit out at a former staff member who has accused the panel of conducting a partisan investigation aimed at tarnishing the reputation of Hillary Clinton. [Reuters]
The Republicans must stop the “charade” that is the Benghazi committee and apologize to the families of those killed in the attack, opines Dean Obeidallah. [The Daily Beast]
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS 
Iran tested a new precision-guided ballistic missile yesterday, a move which may have violated the terms of the nuclear accord concluded with six powers in July. [New York Times’ Thomas Erdbrink]
The Pentagon is looking into a $3 million expansion of the war court compound at Camp Justice, Guantánamo Bay, reports Carol Rosenberg. [Miami Herald]
It has been recommended that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl serves no time for his actions in deserting his base in Afghanistan in 2009, according to the officer in charge of his Article 32 hearing. [Army Times]
The European court of justice’s “safe harbor” ruling facilitates the start of a conversation about the proper control of personal data, suggests John Naughton. [The Guardian]  And Evgeny Morozov writes that the decision has angered many American companies and trade officials, adding that one “can’t blame Americans for complaining about European hypocrisy,” at the Financial Times.
Relations between Moscow and Russian cyber gangs may be growing, a worrying development for the US, reports Cory Bennett. [The Hill]  And a “frantic and destabilizing digital arms race” has been kicked off by a series of recent computer attacks carried out by the US and others. [Wall Street Journal’s Damian Paletta et al]
“Those who know the Obama White House’s inner workings wonder why this president, who came into office with next to no experience of foreign policy, has made so little effort to hire strategic expertise.” Niall Ferguson explains the “real Obama doctrine,” at the Wall Street Journal.
Allegations of Saudi war crimes in Yemen are “tragically biased” and any accusation that the coalition has deliberately targeted civilians is a “false claim spread by those who support the rebels’ attempts to wreak havoc in Yemen,” according to a statement from the Saudi Embassy in London released last week.
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Israeli Police Kill Palestinian Man in Jerusalem's Old City

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Israeli police shot and killed a Palestinian man who allegedly attempted to stab an officer in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday, the latest such incident that has raised international concern over a widening armed conflict.

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