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Taliban appoint military chief as the new leader settles in

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The Taliban have appointed a new military chief as the insurgents try to gain more ground in Afghanistan rather than talk peace under a new leadership, Taliban officials said in telephone interviews over the weekend. The provincial council head Kareem Atal earlier said roughly 80 percent of Helmand is already under Taliban control. So far this month, Taliban fighters have attacked Afghan security forces in northern Kunduz province, briefly taking control of a district headquarters. Pakistan has been bitterly criticized by the Afghan government for not doing more to arrest and expel Taliban fighters from its territory -- particularly the Haqqani network, which is blamed by Afghanistan for many of the most brutal attacks. Pakistan, meanwhile, has carried out military operations in its tribal regions that border Afghanistan, and accuses Afghanistan of harboring its own Taliban insurgents who have been carrying out attacks in Pakistan. ...

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Tunisia PM warns of economic austerity, job cuts

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AUAF attack hits at heart of Afghan learning

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At least two gunmen stormed classrooms Wednesday evening after a suspected car bomb was used to get into the walled complex, and killed seven students and a professor. As security forces patrolled the 5-acre campus Thursday and university staff visited the wounded in hospital, students weighed up the risks of returning to their education. Opened in 2006 and partly funded by U.S. aid, the not-for-profit American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) had grown to accommodate 1,700 students, offering some of the country's most respected degrees craved by young people restless for opportunities. Some 60 percent of professors are foreign and the wider academic staff are drawn from 16 countries including Afghanistan, said Shamroz Khan Masjidi, a university spokesman. Edrees Nawabi, another student at the university, said he feared that foreign teachers would be less willing to come to Kabul after the attack. ...

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Indonesian church attacker "obsessed" with ISIS leader: senior minister

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UAE to deposit $1B in Egypt central bank

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The United Arab Emirates agreed Monday to deposit $1 billion into Egypt's central bank in a new show of support for President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, state news agency WAM said. In April, it allocated $4 billion to support Egypt – $2 billion in investment and another $2 billion to be deposited at the central bank to support foreign exchange reserves. This month, the International Monetary Fund said that it had reached an initial agreement to lend $12 billion to Egypt, in a three-year deal which the government hopes will provide a lifeline to the North African nation. ...

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Horror soon forgotten

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Five-year-old Omran Daqneesh, with bloodied face, sits with his sister inside an ambulance after they were rescued following an airstrike in the rebel-held al-Qaterji neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria August 17, 2016. REUTERS/Mahmoud Rslan

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Yemen cross-border shelling kills Saudi child: civil defense

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Israeli to be extradited to US over Iran defence sales

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Israel's Supreme Court on Sunday ruled that a national charged with selling US defence equipment to Iran can be extradited to the United States, the justice ministry said. The charges were filed in the Federal District Court of Connecticut in 2013, and the United States made an extradition request the following year. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused arch-foe Iran of "preparing another Holocaust" and seeking to acquire nuclear arms with which to attack the Jewish state. He is implacably opposed to last year's nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers, which saw the lifting of international economic sanctions in return for Tehran ensuring that its nuclear programme remains purely for civilian use. ...

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UK house prices rise, consumers regain some confidence after Brexit hit

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British house price rises picked up speed in August and households recovered some confidence which had plunged after June's Brexit vote, according to surveys that added to signs of calm among consumers after the unexpected referendum result. Prices rose 5.6 percent compared with the same month last year, faster than July's 5.2 percent. Economists polled by Reuters had expected house prices to rise 4.8 percent. In monthly terms, house prices rose by 0.6 percent, from a rise of 0.5 percent in July. ...

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1 dead, several wounded in Zahle roadside bombing

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Zimbabwe police fire teargas to disperse opposition protesters

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Zimbabwean police Friday fired teargas to disperse anti-government supporters preparing to protest against electoral processes they say benefit President Robert Mugabe and the ruling ZANU-PF party. Opposition parties leading the protests say the electoral commission is biased in favour of the ruling ZANU-PF and is run by security agencies loyal to Mugabe, charges the commission denies. Zimbabwe's police used teargas and a water cannon Wednesday to break-up a march by MDC youth supporters who were protesting over economic mismanagement and what they say is brutality by security agencies. ...

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Turkey allows policewomen to wear Islamic headscarf

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France urges halt to EU-US trade negotiations

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Trade talks between the European Union and the United States should be halted and a new set started, France's trade minister said Tuesday, adding his voice to calls from within Germany for an end to the negotiations. Despite a weekend comment by German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel that the talks had "de facto failed," which found an echo Tuesday by French Trade Minister Matthias Fekl, the European Commission says negotiations are making steady progress and there is an outline of a future agreement. With national elections due in both France and Germany in 2017, experts were saying before the summer that this year – before the end of President Barack Obama's mandate in January – may be the best opportunity to strike a deal. ...

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Phelan urges Hull owners to strengthen squad

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Hull City's interim boss Mike Phelan has once again urged the club's hierarchy to get cracking on signing a few reinforcements with the end of the transfer window fast approaching. Phelan had only 13 first-team players available for Hull's first game against defending champions Leicester City, but the team managed to pull a rabbit out of the hat with a 2-1 win at home, before beating Swansea City away 2-0 a week later. The club's winning run ended with a 1-0 defeat by Manchester United Saturday, prompting Phelan to renew his calls for strengthening the squad before it was too late. ...

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Military Tribunal sends alleged rape victim to prison for month

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Layal Kayaje's story began three years ago with a Facebook post. Two years following her detention, Kayaje's life was devastated again when her story surfaced in media reports. Though her name was not published, Kayaje was apprehended by Army Intelligence in Sidon, and transferred to the Defense Ministry in Yarze, Mount Lebanon. There, she claims she was interrogated, unable to contact a lawyer, and ultimately forced to sign a statement retracting her allegations. Military sources told The Daily Star that she lied about the allegations and stood by the sentence issued by the Military Tribunal. This past June, she was convicted by the Military Tribunal of lying about her allegations. Abdel-Badie Akkoum, Kayaje's lawyer, stressed how mentally taxing the trial was for his client. Akkoum, having expected the punishment to be much more severe, expressed relief regarding the sentence. ...

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Death in day care: Japan’s parents face nursery lottery

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The case caused national outrage and fears Japan's working parents face a child care lottery: Legal expert Toko Teramachi warned accidents are "30 times more frequent" for children at nonofficial centers. In 2015, 14 children died in childcare facilities nationwide – 65 percent of these incidents happened in unofficial nurseries. Experts warn Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's bid to tackle the nation's day care shortage by loosening requirements – such as those limiting class sizes – for even official nurseries, will simply make more facilities dangerous. The Labor Ministry estimated at least 23,000 children were unable to find an official day care place last year. In July, the supreme court upheld an earlier ruling that a 1-year-old girl died from suffocation after sleeping face down at an unapproved nursery in Fukushima. It said staff were insufficiently trained and ordering it to pay 57 million yen ($570,000) in compensation to her parents. Poor provision of child care is an issue that has festered for decades. It garnered 28,000 signatures and prompted government promises of better pay for nursery staff. ...

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Hostage video aimed at pressuring Afghan govt over militant case: Taliban source

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In this June 4, 2014, file photo, mother's Linda Boyle, left and Lyn Coleman hold photo of their married children, Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Coleman, who were kidnapped by the Taliban in late 2012 in Stewartstown, Pa. (AP Photo/Bill Gorman, File)

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Kerry in Saudi Arabia for talks on Yemen, Syria conflicts

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Saudi King Salman in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on Thursday ahead of wider talks mostly focusing on Yemen's 18-month-long war and the conflict in Syria. The flurry of meetings come as U.N.-mediated peace talks to bring an end to the war in Yemen were suspended earlier this month. They also fall on the same day that the U.N. human rights chief called for an international investigation of rights abuses and violence in Yemen's civil war, which has killed more than 9,000 people, including nearly 3,800 civilians, and displaced 3 million. On Thursday, Kerry announced nearly $189 million in additional humanitarian aid for Yemen, bringing the total amount of U.S. assistance to more than $327 million since October 2015 . It has to stop," Kerry told reporters in a press conference in Jeddah. He said he raised concerns about civilian casualties in Yemen during his meetings in Saudi Arabia. The war in Yemen pits a nine-country Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia against Shiite Houthi rebels and forces loyal to Yemen's former president. The night before, Kerry met for three hours with Crown Prince and Interior Minister Mohammed bin Nayef and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is also Saudi Arabia's defense minister. ...

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Hezbollah MP warns against sidelining FPM

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Hezbollah MP Hasan Fadlallah Saturday said no one should ignore the demands of the Free Patriotic Movement after its boycott of this week's Cabinet session to protest military extensions. It was unclear what Fadlallah was referring to, but Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc has recently criticized the Future Movement for rejecting an offer by Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah to former Prime Minister Saad Hariri over the premiership. Nasrallah signaled in a speech on Aug. 14 that Hezbollah is ready to accept Hariri as Lebanon's next prime minister if the Future bloc supports Aoun as president and relinquishes its support for Marada Movement leader Sleiman Frangieh. ...

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Gunmen kill seven in ambush in Pakistan's southwest

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Newly elected mayor of Karachi of the influential Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party, Waseem Akhtar sits in an armoured police vehicle as he leaves jail after winning the mayoral election in Karachi on August 24, 2016. / AFP / RIZWAN TABASSUM

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France meets Muslim leaders, experts after burkini row

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French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve (2ndL), the president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) Anouar Kbibech (3rdR), former French minister Jean-Pierre Chevenement (2ndR) and Paris' Mosque Rector Dalil Boubaker (R) attend a meeting with representatives of the Muslim community on August 29, 2016 in Paris. / AFP / MATTHIEU ALEXANDRE

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Yemen cross-border shelling kills 3 Saudi children

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Saudis wait next to wreckages at a market for vehicles on August 27, 2016 in the Saudi border city of Najran, a week after it was struck by a rocket fired from Yemen. Cross-border attacks into Saudi Arabia have intensified since the suspension in early August of UN-brokered peace talks between the Shiite Houthi rebels and their allies, and Yemen's internationally-recognized government which has the military support of a Saudi-led Arab coalition. / AFP / FAYEZ NURELDINE

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Switzerland to implement faster asylum processing laws

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Switzerland's executive branch on Wednesday announced plans to step up processing of asylum requests, building on a referendum result amid a growing backlog of African migrants trying to enter from Italy -- many hoping to pass through to reach Germany. In recent weeks, many would-be migrants into Switzerland were sent back to Italy for trying to enter without proper papers or not making formal asylum requests. Maurer's ministry said in a statement last week that arrests through Switzerland's "green border" -- small roads that are not monitored tightly by border guards -- have been rising, even as asylum applications in Switzerland have declined. ...

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Uber, rival Careem suspend services in UAE capital Abu Dhabi

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Four years on, rebels begin Daraya exit

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Four years on, rebels begin Daraya exit Syrian rebels and their families began evacuating a long-besieged Damascus suburb Friday as part of an agreement reached with the government following four years of grueling airstrikes and siege that left the suburb in ruins. Daraya's rebels agreed to evacuate in a deal late Thursday. Under the terms of the deal, around 700 gunmen will be allowed safe exit to the opposition-held northern province of Idlib, while some 4,000 civilians will be taken temporarily to a shelter south of Daraya. In August 2012, around 400 people were killed over several days in a killing spree by troops and pro-government militiamen who stormed the suburb after heavy fighting and days of shelling, according to opposition activists. At least 48 green and white buses, eight ambulances and several Red Crescent and U.N. vehicles were lined up at the entrance of Daraya earlier Friday, waiting for the green light. Civilians will be taken to Kisweh, south of Daraya. The first major truce deal was struck in the Damascus suburb of Moadamieh, west of Daraya, in 2014 . ...

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British retail sales rebound sharply post Brexit vote

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Retail sales in Britain, a key driver of the economy, rebounded 1.4 percent in July from June's drop, official data showed Thursday, indicating no immediate fallout from Brexit but analysts warn of a tough year ahead. Experts are meanwhile expecting a tougher economic climate for Britain in the months ahead. Separate official data Wednesday revealed a surprise drop in British claims for unemployment benefits in July. Another set of official data this week showed that Britain's annual inflation rate edged higher to 0.6 percent last month, while it is set to climb further as the weak pound raises import prices. ...

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Nigeria would let Boko Haram pick NGO intermediary in talks to free Chibok girls

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Nigeria would let Boko Haram choose a non-profit organisation as an intermediary in any talks on the release of about 200 schoolgirls kidnapped from the northeastern village of Chibok in 2014, President Muhammadu Buhari said Sunday. Buhari first said last year that his government was ready to negotiate with Islamist militants Boko Haram over the girls, but the group has not commented on the proposal. Buhari said Boko Haram could begin negotiations on a prisoner swap if they could provide evidence to the NGO that they had the girls. Around 270 girls were taken from their school in the village of Chibok in northeastern Nigeria in April 2014 . On Tuesday, Nigeria's air force said it had killed some senior Boko Haram militants in raids. ...

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Obamas’ first date inspires romantic movie

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"Southside With You" dramatizes the Obamas' first date in the summer of 1989 and sees Michelle Robinson, a 25-year-old lawyer from Chicago, going out with Barack Obama, a summer associate at her law firm. Parker Sawyers, who plays Obama in the film, said he started off with a "strong impersonation" of the president, but then let the mannerisms and speech inflections of his character come naturally. Barack Obama, who turned 28 that summer, married Michelle in 1992, three years after their first date. The black community of Chicago's Southside serves as a backdrop to the story. ...

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World's largest indoor theme park to open in Dubai

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The world's largest indoor theme park is set to open in Dubai this month to lure back some of the tourists and residents who often flee abroad during the scorching desert summer. In a sandy suburb beyond Dubai's concrete jungle and pockets of artificially green spaces, IMG Worlds of Adventure's boxy exterior belies a 140,000-square meter (1.5 million-square foot) air-conditioned cathedral of entertainment teeming with animatronic dinosaurs, roller coasters, Marvel superheroes and Cartoon Network characters. As it stands now, stir-crazy families in Dubai -- a tourism and financial hub which already boasts the world's tallest building -- have few places to stretch their legs beyond expensive malls while temperatures outside can approach 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit). ...

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2 Chicago men charged in shooting of NBA star Wade's cousin

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Two brothers have been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of the cousin of NBA star Dwyane Wade as she was walking to register her children for school, Chicago police announced Sunday. Chicago has been in the throes of a major uptick in gun violence this year, largely centered in a few South and West Side neighborhoods, after years of seeing declines. Wade, whose charitable organization, Wade's World Foundation, does community outreach in the Chicago area, signed with the Chicago Bulls in July after 13 years with the Miami Heat. It is not the first time Dwyane Wade's family in Chicago has been affected by gun violence. ...

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Pope extends stamp on Church with new ministry for human development

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Berri: House renewal beyond impossible

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Speaker Nabih Berri again ruled out extending parliament's term, saying Sunday it was "beyond impossible," and urged the Cabinet to approve a state budget. Berri also called for the establishment of a seaborne Blue Line between Lebanon and Israel. Berri called on the Cabinet to formulate a budget. Berri said that after the proposal was deliberated and agreed upon in the Cabinet it would be passed on to Parliament for approval. A parliamentary session would be held to study the proposal, and if no accord could be reach between the MPs then the Parliament would agree to the budget proposal as it was suggested by the Cabinet. Berri also revealed that he was not happy with Parliament's last extension. Berri called on politicians to accept a package deal he hopes would end the political crisis. ...

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Germany expects 300,000 asylum seekers this year: official

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Germany expects up to 300,000 asylum seekers to arrive this year, less than one-third of the total during 2015's record influx, the Federal Office for Migrants and Refugees (BAMF) said Sunday. BAMF chief Frank-Juergen Weise told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper that Germany's healthy economy and improvements to refugee services over the last year meant that the country was well-placed to absorb new arrivals, particularly as their numbers have dropped off. Nearly 1.1 million asylum seekers arrived in Germany, Europe's top economic power, last year, putting enormous strain on the country's bureaucracy to process claims and testing confidence in Chancellor Angela Merkel's right-left coalition government. ...

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EU should drop Russia sanctions, Slovak PM says after meeting Putin

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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico Friday renewed his call for the European Union to end sanctions against Russia after meeting President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, saying they had failed to influence the settlement of any key issues. He made his comments on Facebook as Slovakia, which holds the rotating EU presidency, prepared to host a meeting of the bloc's foreign ministers next week, with some central European countries expressing unease over the continuing sanctions on Russia. Fico, who was re-elected for a third time as prime minister in March, has, like some other central European powers, consistently questioned the use of sanctions on Russia. ...

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Three arrested in Malaysia over planned attacks on eve of independence day

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Malaysian police said Wednesday they had arrested three local supporters of the ISIS militant group who had allegedly been planning several attacks in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, ahead of independence day celebrations. Police arrested nine people believed to have ISIS links in the aftermath of the grenade attack. Earlier this month, Malaysia revoked the passports of 68 Malaysians who have been identified as leaving the country to join ISIS. Police intelligence reportedly said in March that 18 Malaysians had been killed while fighting with the group in Syria, and that seven others were killed carrying out suicide attacks for the group. ...

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McCain defeats Republican challengers to win Arizona primary

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Sen. John McCain beat back a primary challenge Tuesday from a Republican tea party activist to win the right to seek a sixth term in November in a race that has been inundated with questions about GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. The 2008 GOP presidential nominee easily defeated former state Sen. Kelli Ward and two other Republicans. The contest between Ward and McCain was often overshadowed by Trump and his outspoken comments. McCain has stuck by his support for Trump, at times seemingly through gritted teeth. He has repeatedly avoided calling Trump by name, instead saying he'll support his party's nominee. McCain is one of two longtime politicians in their 80s who easily won primaries Tuesday in Arizona. The Republican cast a vote against Arpaio, citing his litany of legal problems. But he said McCain continues to have his support. ...

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Amy Schumer is taking a break from her Comedy Central show

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Kurd advance angers Turkey, Washington’s impossible ally

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As Turkish troops ostensibly hunting Daesh (ISIS) fighters shelled a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia inside Syria Thursday, analysts warned that Ankara's alliance with the West is at stake. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden tried to patch up ties with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government this week, but the conflict in Syria has forced Washington into a delicate balancing act. On the ground, the U.S. strategy relies on using the Kurdish YPG militia backed by American special forces advisers and coalition air power to take the fight to Daesh. This week, Ankara sent troops and allied Syrian rebel fighters to seize the Syrian border town of Jarablus from Daesh fighters. But Erdogan also aimed to deny it to the Kurds, who have advanced across the Euphrates River into the region as the dominant faction in the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces. Now Turkey is demanding the Kurds retreat across the river, announcing Thursday that its military had begun shelling YPG positions north of the town of Manbij, which the Kurds seized this month. ...

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Two Ukrainian soldiers killed in separatist east

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Famed French photographer Marc Riboud dies aged 93

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This file photo taken on March 10, 2009 shows French photographer and reporter Marc Riboud, 85, posing at the Musee de la vie romantique/Musee Renan-Scheffer (Romantic Life Museum) for the inauguration of an exhibition entiltled "L'instinct de l'instant" (The momentum's instinct) celebrating his 50-year career. / AFP / JOEL SAGET

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Donnarumma, 17-year-old goalkeeper, called up to Italy squad

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Comfort food: All’amatriciana to help Italy quake victims

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Food lovers and chefs in Italy and beyond are urging restaurants to serve up more pasta all'amatriciana to support the quake-hit hometown of the hearty dish. Residents in the medieval hilltop town had been preparing to host a yearly food festival this weekend dedicated to the dish. British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver said on Facebook Thursday that he and 700 chefs at his Jamie's Italian U.K. restaurants, an international chain, will be serving up pasta all'amatriciana and donating 2 pounds ($2.65) per dish sold. The effort is also generating interest on social media under the hashtags #virtualsagra and the heart of the yearly pasta festival, called a sagra, was the local Hotel Roma, which had a restaurant that served up the dish. ...

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2 arrested in Kenya, accused of ISIS anthrax attack plot

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Brazil Senate braces for Rousseff impeachment vote

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Brazil's Senate was to vote Wednesday on stripping Dilma Rousseff of the presidency in a traumatic impeachment trial set to end 13 years of leftist rule over Latin America's biggest country. Senators loyal to Brazil's first female president debated into the night Tuesday in a final attempt to halt the apparently unstoppable momentum toward her dismissal. Two thirds of the Senate -- 54 of 81 senators -- must vote in favor of impeachment to convict her. A lead lawyer for the case against Rousseff, Senator Janaina Paschoal, wept as she asked forgiveness for causing the president "suffering," but insisted it was the right thing to do. Rousseff's counsel, veteran lawyer Jose Eduardo Cardozo, retorted that the charges were trumped up to punish the president's support for a huge corruption investigation that has snared many of Brazil's elite. ...

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Al-Akhbar sentence attempt to silence media: Hezbollah MP

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The head of Parliament's Media and Telecommunications Committee Tuesday voiced solidarity with a newspaper and its editor fined 26,000 euros one day earlier by an international court investigating the killing of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. After deliberating for roughly two hours, Contempt Judge Nicola Lettieri announced the sentence and ordered that the fines be paid by Sept. 30 . Amin and the paper were found guilty on July 15 of charges stemming from their publication of a list of 32 allegedly secret tribunal witnesses in January 2013 . The sentence means Lebanese authorities are unlikely to be called upon to arrest Amin, a situation which could have proved embarrassing for the tribunal. ...

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1 Turkish soldier killed, 8 wounded in southeastern Turkey

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One Turkish soldier was killed and eight others wounded in two separate blasts Sunday in the country's Kurdish-dominated southeast, and Kurdish militants launched a rocket-propelled grenade at a civilian airport, officials and the state-run news agency said. The Anadolu Agency said one soldier was killed and three were wounded after a roadside bomb was triggered remotely by rebels linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in the Hakkari province. Since then, more than 600 Turkish security personnel and thousands of PKK militants have been killed, according to Anadolu. ...

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Colombia ceasefire ends half-century war with FARC

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Colombia Monday began its first day of peace with the country's largest insurgency after a ceasefire between the FARC and the government went into effect, ending 52 years of warfare. The full ceasefire ordered by President Juan Manuel Santos and the head of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Timoleon Jimenez, began at midnight Sunday (0500 GMT Monday). Santos ordered the Colombian armed forces Thursday to halt anti-FARC operations at midnight Sunday. Santos and Jimenez are due to sign a final, full peace agreement sometime between Sept. 20 and 26 . On October 2, Colombians will vote in a referendum that Santos hopes will endorse the peace agreement. With the FARC ordering a ceasefire the conflict appears to be reaching an end. ...

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Turkey says to target Syrian Kurdish militia if no Euphrates retreat

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Turkey Monday said it would continue targeting a Syrian Kurdish militia in Syria if it failed to fulfill promises to retreat east of the Euphrates River, accusing the group of ethnic cleansing. Ankara had said it had killed 25 Kurdish "terrorists" Sunday as it pressed on with a two-pronged operation inside Syria against ISIS and the YPG. The action against the YPG is hugely sensitive as the Kurdish group -- seen as a terror group by Ankara -- is an ally of Turkey's NATO ally, the United States, in the fight against ISIS in Syria. Cavusoglu also hailed the success of the lightning operation by Turkish-backed Syrian Arab fighters, who Wednesday captured the town of Jarablus from ISIS. ...

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Al Shabaab militants bomb Somali beach restaurant, gunfight ongoing

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Al Shabaab militants attacked a beach restaurant in the capital Mogadishu on Thursday, with gunmen raiding the building after setting off a car bomb, police and the insurgent group said. On Sunday, more than 20 people were killed when its suicide bombers detonated two car bombs at a local government headquarters in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region. On Thursday, Reuters witnesses near the scene of the beach attack said the restaurant had been sealed off by security officers and that the attackers had lobbed grenades at the officers and fired at them. ...

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The challenges of staging Cage

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Published in 2014, Joumana Haddad's tragicomic novel "Kafas" (Cage) suggests that the gender divide is a more complex thing than "haves" and "have nots," and that it is not only women who live in cages. Although the play is, like the source text, fictional, Haddad said she did imagine the characters to be part of the reality in which her audience lives. The first character is a spinster – a group looked down upon in a society where a women's destiny is seen to be marriage and motherhood. Though Haddad's original book was written as a play, with characters speaking in monologues, she said Abyad's stage adaptation focuses on aspects of the story that are more interactive and appropriate for the stage. Joumana Haddad's "Kafas" opens Sept. 4 at Masrah al-Madina and runs through Oct. 31, being staged every Sunday and Monday evening. ...

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Women’s rights, a job unfinished in Tunisia

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Tunisia's decision, 60 years ago this month, to grant women unparalleled rights is at the heart of this small country's leading role in ending despotism and struggling to build democratic institutions since 2011, in an increasingly chaotic and dangerous region. The promulgation on Aug. 13, 1956, of the Personal Status Code, which abolished polygamy, allowed the adoption of children and guaranteed greater protection of women's rights in marriage, divorce and society, led Tunisia to take unequaled steps toward gender equality in education, health and employment. In mid-August, nine Tunisian rights groups, including the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women and Beity, which have been playing a leading role particularly in campaigning against violence on women and for gender equality in inheritance, called for the abrogation of a 1973 ministerial circular on marriage of Tunisian Muslim women with non-Muslims. The protection of women's rights, without which no political regime can be called democratic, must go hand in hand in Tunisia with serious efforts to restore economic growth, redress social and regional inequalities and reverse the unemployment curve, which provoked Tunisia's 2010 uprising. ...

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England boss Allardyce defends decision to omit Barkley

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England manager Sam Allardyce has defended the decision to leave Everton midfielder Ross Barkley out of his first squad for the 2018 World Cup qualifier in Slovakia at the weekend. However, Allardyce, who succeeded Roy Hodgson as manager after England's underwhelming Euro 2016 campaign, said there was still time for Barkley to feature in his future plans. Marcus Rashford also missed out, instead selected for the under-21 squad against Norway, even though the 18-year-old striker featured for England at Euro 2016 and scored Manchester United's injury-time winner against Hull City Saturday. Slovakia held England to a goalless draw in their last meeting little at Euro 2016, a game Allardyce expects will have little bearing Sunday's meeting in Trnava. ...

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Lebanon journalists union warns against hiring foreigners

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Libya's UN-backed govt seeks boosted US military backing

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Parliament committees debate administrative decentralization

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The Parliament's joint committees Tuesday took up the issue of administrative decentralization, a long-standing demand by the Kataeb Party. Parliament's Administration and Justice Committee chief MP Robert Ghanem, who headed the meeting said that they established a sub-committee to discuss principles that should be adopted as the government moves forward with a plan to decentralize state services. He said that the 19-member sub-committee will consider two proposals filed by MP Robert Ghanem and Kataeb Party leader MP Sami Gemayel. ...

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Storm Gaston expected to become hurricane again: US monitor

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Typhoon threatens to bring flooding to northern Japan

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Iranian system allows cash for kidney donors

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The whirling hum of a dialysis machine could have been the soundtrack to the rest of Zahra Hajikarimi's life, but for an unusual program in Iran that allows people to buy a kidney from a living donor. In addition, kidneys from a living donor have a significantly better long-term survival rate than those from a deceased donor. Iran allowed patients to travel abroad through much of the '80s for transplants – including to America. Today, more than 1,480 people receive a kidney transplant from a living donor in Iran each year, about 55 percent of the total of 2,700 transplants annually, according to government figures. In the U.S., about a third of kidney donations come from living donors. However, it's clear that some donors are motivated by the cash payout. Iran's system offers a different way to address the lack of kidneys for transplant around the world, said Sigrid Fry-Revere, an expert on the program whose book, "The Kidney Sellers: A Journey of Discovery in Iran," examines it in depth. ...

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Security agency busts Lebanese ring defrauding Syrians

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WhatsApp plan to share your phone number with parent company Facebook

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Global messaging service WhatsApp says it will start sharing the phone numbers of its users with Facebook, its parent company. That means WhatsApp users could soon start seeing more targeted ads and Facebook friend suggestions on Facebook based on WhatsApp information – although not on the messaging service itself. When it was acquired by Facebook for an eye-popping $21.8 billion two years ago, executives promised privacy would be safeguarded. It also says Facebook won't post phone numbers online or give them out to anyone. The company says Facebook will employ the phone number internally to better identify WhatsApp users on Facebook, so it can make friend suggestions or show targeted advertising. WhatsApp phone numbers are valuable to Facebook. ...

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Israel calls UN criticism of settlement building 'absurd'

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office on Tuesday called criticism of Israeli settlement building "absurd" after a UN envoy strongly hit out at his government over the issue. The report by the diplomatic Quartet -- the European Union, Russia, the UN and the United States -- said construction of settlements on land earmarked to be part of a future Palestinian state is killing off prospects for a peace deal based on a two-state solution. Since July 1, Israeli has advanced plans for more than 1,000 housing units in annexed east Jerusalem and 735 units in the occupied West Bank, Mladenov said. ...

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Slowly but surely Geneva Call inspires political synergy

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In a hotel off the northern highway, NGO Geneva Call planted the seeds of change. It concluded a five-day seminar Friday that brought together youth from conflicting political parties to preach the value of International Humanitarian Law. Geneva Call hopes to change things, albeit slowly. They engage mainly with non-state armed actors and encourage them to respect IHL. They also conduct outreach in other areas with precarious security conditions, such as Tripoli and the Bekaa Valley. Their latest exercise brought together youth representatives covering the entire spectrum of the Lebanese politics. A member of the Future Movement Youth Cadres, she insisted she would pass on what she had learned to other members of her party. The participants were split into two teams and sat on opposing tables, competing for points awarded for correct answers. ...

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Turkish Syria offensive to not stop until threats removed: PM

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'Missile practice' caused deadly Taiwan misfire: prosecutors

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An unsupervised Taiwanese naval officer who decided to experiment with a missile launcher and accidentally fired towards China was one of three people charged Monday over the fatal incident. One of the missiles traveled for about two minutes, automatically searching for a target before locking onto the fishing boat in the waters off Taiwan-administered Penghu island. According to Taiwan's defense ministry, there are 1,500 Chinese missiles aimed at the island. China launched some of the missiles into waters off Taiwan in 1995 and 1996 in an attempt to deter voters in the island's first democratic presidential elections. ...

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UK leader May, Cabinet to chart EU exit at Chequers retreat

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Spain counts down to possible third election

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The clock starts ticking Wednesday toward what could be Spain's third national election in a year when acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy faces a confidence vote in parliament for a second term in office. Spain has been without a functioning government since inconclusive elections in December and June failed to hand a convincing mandate to any political party. The acting government expects the economy to expand 2.9 percent this year – one of the fastest rates in the eurozone. If Rajoy's bid to become prime minister fails in the second vote, it will open a two-month window to try and form a government, after which a new election would automatically be called, possibly on Christmas Day. By the time of Wednesday's vote, Spain will have been 254 days without a government, the longest time in the country's democracy although falling short of Belgium's 589-day world record for a democracy to form a coalition government. ...

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Israel shuts Palestinian radio station for 'incitement'

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General Security chief marks agency's 71st anniversary

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Ex-French star Henry named Belgium assistant coach

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Former France star Thierry Henry has been named as the new assistant coach of Belgium, the national coach Roberto Martinez announced Friday. Since hanging up his boots, he has been working as a pundit for British television station Sky and as an under-18 coach at Arsenal. He left the latter role in July because Gunners boss Arsene Wenger did not want Henry juggling his coaching with his punditry. Henry, who is joined as an assistant by Englishman Graeme Jones, was not present at the news conference as Martinez announced his first squad since becoming coach. ...

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The Kurdish dream lives

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Lebanon seeking mediator in case of captive soldiers: security official

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Goalkeeper Joe Hart joins Torino on loan from Man City

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Spyware discovery points to UAE ties to Israeli hack firm

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The suspicious text message that appeared on Ahmed Mansoor's iPhone promised to reveal details about torture in the United Arab Emirates' prisons. All Mansoor had to do was click the link. Mansoor, a human rights activist, didn't take the bait. Hidden behind the link in the text message was a highly targeted form of spyware crafted to take advantage of three previously undisclosed weaknesses in Apple's mobile operating system. Forensics expert Jonathan Zdziarski described the malicious program targeting Mansoor as a "serious piece of spyware". Citizen Lab and Lookout both fingered a secretive Israeli firm, NSO Group, as the author of the spyware. Citizen Lab said that past targeting of Mansoor by the United Arab Emirates' government suggested that it was likely behind the latest hacking attempt as well. Working over a two-week period, the researchers found that Mansoor had been targeted by an unusually sophisticated piece of software which some have valued at $1 million. ...

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Japan PM pledges to invest $30B in Africa by 2018

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Paraguay attack kills seven soldiers

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Los Angeles police say reports of gunfire at airport were false alarm

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Terminals at Los Angeles International Airport were evacuated briefly late Sunday before police determined that reports of gunfire in one of the terminals were only "loud noises", the latest false alarm at a busy U.S. airport. At least two terminals were "self-evacuated" and security personnel were checking them for anything suspicious, according to Officer Alicia Hernandez of the LAX police. The alert at LAX comes two months after police temporarily evacuated a terminal at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport while they investigated reports of gunfire in one of its terminals. ...

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Gabon leader and top rival both claim presidential victory, allege fraud

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The rival sides also traded accusations of fraud allegedly committed during Saturday's vote, raising the prospect of increased tension in the wake of an uncharacteristically bitter campaign. Bongo, 57, who first won election after his father Omar died in 2009 after 42 years in power, has benefited from the power of incumbency as well as a patronage system lubricated by oil largesse. Gabon's one-round electoral system means the winner simply requires more votes than any other candidate. In 2009, Bongo won with 41.73 percent of the vote. Hours before Ping's announcement, Bongo's spokesman Alain Claude Bilie By Nze made a similar declaration, claiming that the president was poised to win another term in office. ...

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Rosberg wins but Hamilton fights back

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Nico Rosberg rekindled his world championship ambitions with victory in Sunday's chaotic crash-hit Belgian Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton staged an astonishing fightback to finish third. As the debris settled, the severity of the damage to the barriers required repair and the red flag came out to halt the racing with, remarkably, back row starters Hamilton and Alonso – with a combined total of 120 grid-place penalties – in fifth and fourth respectively. The pause allowed the teams to pit their cars for a rolling restart behind the Safety Car, Rosberg taking medium tyres and most others, including Alonso and Hamilton, taking softs. By the end of lap 11, Rosberg led by 1.4 seconds and Hamilton was sizing up a pass on Alonso which he completed on lap 12, sweeping by for fourth. ...

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Palace chairman slams Spurs over Zaha pursuit

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Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish criticized Tottenham Hotspur over their pursuit of Wilfried Zaha Friday, branding their bid for the winger "ridiculous". Parish claims to have rejected an offer of 12 million pounds ($15.9 million, 14 million euros) for the 23-year-old, who returned to Palace from Manchester United in February 2015 . Ivory Coast-born Zaha, who has been capped twice by England, signed for United from Palace in January 2013 in a deal that reportedly could have been worth up to 15 million pounds. But he failed to settle at Old Trafford and returned to Palace last year. ...

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Three top Kenyan OIympic officials arrested

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Three top Kenyan Olympics officials have been arrested as investigators probe allegations of mismanagement and corruption at the Rio Games, police sources said. The Kenyan government on Aug. 18 ordered a probe into the charges, notably the alleged theft of sports uniforms destined for the athletes and the presence in the Kenyan delegation of officials who had no function related to the Games. Secretary-general Paul, who is now in custody, said that Wario did not have the legal competence to disband the NOCK, which is overseen by the International Olympic Committee, not the Kenyan government. Kenya's Olympics was in trouble before the Rio Games even began. ...

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Music and masters at Molaeb Museum

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Jamil Molaeb is among Lebanon's better-known modernist artists. A classically trained violist, the younger Molaeb has curated a two-day festival in Beirut and Baysour. Molaeb says his Lebanese upbringing and classical music background have largely informed the nature of the festival. The accompanying concert schedule will feature performances by eight musicians from Germany, Holland, England, Slovenia and Lebanon. Ranging from Mozart to the romantic melodies of Mendelssohn and Wolf and the distinctively modern strains of Shostakovich, Molaeb has curated a music program which is quite distinct from the fine arts side of the event. On Aug. 28, the exhibition "Lebanese Grand Artists" will open at Baysour's Jamil Molaeb Museum, while Molaeb and friends perform tunes from the classical repertoire. ...

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Nationality campaign lashes out at Bassil over citizenship policy

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Bassil, a strong supporter of encouraging the diaspora to claim Lebanese citizenship, highlighted once again last week that everyone of Lebanese origin should be given citizenship. "This isn't the first time that such racist statements are made by politicians, ministers and lawmakers in power, and in particular by Minister Bassil, who never misses any chance to exhibit his plan that refuses to give Lebanese women the right to grant citizenship to their families," the statement read. Lebanese women married to foreigners are currently not permitted to pass their citizenship on to their husbands and children, a right many have demanded for years. In May, Bassil said Lebanese diplomatic missions in countries with large diaspora communities would begin procedures for people of Lebanese origin to gain citizenship. ...

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Hurricane Madeline weakening as it heads toward Hawaii

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Hurricane Madeline showed power as it churned toward Hawaii Tuesday, peaking at a dangerous Category Four strength before slackening, U.S. weather officials said. At 0900 GMT Wednesday, Madeline was a Category One storm with maximum sustained winds around 90 miles (145 kilometers) per hour with higher gusts. Hurricane-force winds extended 25 miles from the center of the storm, while tropical storm-force winds extended out 125 miles. Madeline is expected to dump five to 10 inches (13 to 25 centimeters) of rain on Hawaii, with some areas receiving up to 15 inches. ...

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Anti-Islam activists stage protest atop Berlin monument

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Bahrain's al-Wefaq opposition appeals dissolution ruling - Wefaq official

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Khalil: Accountability at land offices

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Finance Minister Ali Hasan Khalil pledged to "clean" the ministry's real estate departments from corrupt officials who have abused their positions for personal gains and at the expense of the state. This is not the first time Khalil has openly criticized some of the illegal practices of real estate departments that usually appraise the value of lands and properties before proposing taxes on them. Khalil was discussing common allegations that public sector employees – primarily surveyors – accept bribes to speed up paperwork, falsify property value estimates and gobble up public land by redrawing property lines in favor of adjacent landowners. Khalil revealed in 2014 that over 50 state employees were under investigation for bribery and embezzlement in real estate matters. ...

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Ministry orders removal of trash near hospital

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The Health Ministry Tuesday ordered the removal of mounds of trash dumped near a hospital in Mount Lebanon, days after garbage collectors suspended work due to an ongoing protest outside a controversial landfill. The temporary solution is due to last four years, allowing the government to develop a long-term plan to tackle the country's waste issues. Gemayel appealed to other parties to support the Kataeb in an attempt to reach an alternative to the controversial plan. He denounced the government for failing to reach a long-term plan for the country's waste sector. Kataeb Party supporters have been holding protests against the government's trash plan at the landfill site since Aug. 16 . Agriculture Minister Akram Chehayeb has been calling on the Kataeb to cooperate to prevent the accumulation of waste in areas assigned to Burj Hammoud. Chehayeb, who heads a committee tasked with implementing the government's trash plan, said that "capable" municipalities can work outside of the centralized plan in treating their waste. He said such municipalities should, however, abide by the "health and environmental" conditions in the trash plan. ...

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More than 300 reindeer killed by lightning in Norway

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Second boycotter says will rejoin Libya's U.N.-backed government

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A member of the leadership of Libya's U.N.-backed government who is close to powerful rival factions in the east of the country has said he will end his boycott of the Tripoli-based body. The decision by Ali Gatrani could strengthen the Government of National Accord (GNA), coming days after a second boycotting member of the government's nine-member leadership, or Presidential Council, said he would resume his role. Eastern factions have blocked the parliament based in the east from approving the GNA, saying they believe the U.N.-backed government is dependent on militias and is undermining eastern forces led by General Khalifa Haftar. The GNA has largely displaced the former government in Tripoli, but has struggled to win popular support. ...

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Obama, Erdogan to meet Sunday in China on G20 sidelines: WHouse

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UN renews commitment to help implement Colombia cease-fire

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Maine governor leaves obscene tirade on lawmaker's voicemail

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Gattine has denied calling LePage a racist. House and Senate Democrats and the Maine Democratic Party on Friday questioned LePage's capacity to lead. After leaving the voicemail, LePage later invited reporters to the governor's mansion, where he confirmed that he had left the message and said he wished he and Gattine could face off in a duel. Gattine said he wasn't concerned about his safety, but he called the voicemail a distraction and the latest of LePage's personal vendettas against lawmakers. Gattine shared the voicemail's audio with the Press Herald. LePage has compared his style to that of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, whom he supports, though he recently said Trump was his third choice for president after Chris Christie and Jeb Bush. ...

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