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• Republicans release three-day convention schedule
• Romney's convention: Big storm, rape controversy
• Paul says his backers will 'become the GOP tent'
• Assad's forces accused of massacre near Syrian capital
• Analysis: Akin row shows GOP's social-fiscal rift
• Venezuela struggles with refinery blaze after deadly blast
• Republicans release three-day convention schedule
• Paul says his backers will 'become the GOP tent'
• Jindal may skip GOP convention because of Isaac
• Romney's convention: Big storm, rape controversy
• Nigeria navy frees 28 kidnapped oil workers
• Romney hopes those in Florida storm path are fine
• GOP convention protesters: storms won't stop them
• Could Isaac overshadow Republicans' convention?
• Forecasters issue hurricane warning for northern Gulf of Mexico coast
• Romney faces balancing act with convention, storm
• Graffiti artists thrive in reform-era Myanmar
• Dutch Liberals, Socialists in close race ahead of vote
• Ex-South Carolina governor to marry former mistress
• Analysis: Politics the priority for China as economy slows
• Britain wants to restart Assange talks with Ecuador
• Venezuela will not restart refinery until fire is out: official
• Isaac Not Stopping the Show in Tampa
• Nigeria in talks with Islamists via "back channels"
• Romney assails Obama campaign on Akin, abortion
• Afghans say top Haqqani leader was killed in U.S. drone strike
• Storm Isaac hits Florida, threatens U.S. Gulf Coast
• Libya minister quits after criticism over attacks
• WH: Obama tells FEMA to closely monitor Isaac
• Fed may struggle to deliver expected growth boost
• Argentine leader's image falls as inflation soars
• Saudi Aramco says most damage from computer attack fixed
• Priebus: Akin stay risks GOP control of Senate

Republicans release three-day convention schedule Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:59 PM PDT Republican National Committee officials are releasing a three-day schedule for the party's national convention, shortened because of Tropical Storm Isaac.

Romney's convention: Big storm, rape controversy Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:42 PM PDT His Republican National Convention pushed back by a day, Mitt Romney conceded Sunday that fresh controversy over rape and abortion is harming his party and he accused Democrats of trying to exploit it for political gain.

Paul says his backers will 'become the GOP tent' Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:51 PM PDT Congressman Ron Paul is lashing out at Republican efforts to marginalize his supporters at the upcoming party convention, telling a counter rally to stand firm because, in his words, "we will become the tent eventually."

Assad's forces accused of massacre near Syrian capital Posted: 26 Aug 2012 03:14 PM PDT ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - Syrian opposition activists accused President Bashar al-Assad's army of massacring hundreds of people in a town close to the capital that government forces recaptured from rebels. About 320 bodies, including women and children, were found in houses and basements in the town of Daraya, southwest of Damascus, according to activists who said on Sunday most had been killed "execution-style" by troops. Activists uploaded several videos to the Internet showing rows of bloodied bodies wrapped in sheets. ...

Analysis: Akin row shows GOP's social-fiscal rift Posted: 26 Aug 2012 03:12 PM PDT Every now and then, an event awakens the ever-slumbering tensions between the Republican Party's two core wings: social conservatives and corporate interests.

Venezuela struggles with refinery blaze after deadly blast Posted: 26 Aug 2012 03:10 PM PDT PARAGUANA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan firefighters struggled on Sunday to put out a blaze at the country's biggest refinery sparked by an explosion that killed 41 people in one of the global oil industry's deadliest accidents. Officials at the 645,000 barrel-per-day Amuay refinery are trying to stop the fire still raging at two storage tanks from spreading to other nearby fuel storage facilities. That would delay Amuay's restart beyond the current estimate of two days. ...

Republicans release three-day convention schedule Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:59 PM PDT Republican National Committee officials are releasing a three-day schedule for the party's national convention, shortened because of Tropical Storm Isaac.

Paul says his backers will 'become the GOP tent' Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:51 PM PDT Congressman Ron Paul is lashing out at Republican efforts to marginalize his supporters at the upcoming party convention, telling a counter rally to stand firm because, in his words, "we will become the tent eventually."

Jindal may skip GOP convention because of Isaac Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:42 PM PDT Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says he's considering skipping his speaking engagement at Republican National Convention because of Tropical Storm Isaac.

Romney's convention: Big storm, rape controversy Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:42 PM PDT His Republican National Convention pushed back by a day, Mitt Romney conceded Sunday that fresh controversy over rape and abortion is harming his party and he accused Democrats of trying to exploit it for political gain.

Nigeria navy frees 28 kidnapped oil workers Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:41 PM PDT LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's navy said it had freed 28 local oil workers who were being held hostage by a criminal gang in the oil-producing Niger Delta. The hostages were Nigerian employees of Chinese oil servicing firm Sinopec, navy spokesman Commodore Kabir Aliyu said. They were kidnapped on Thursday by a gang called the Lapto Marine Force operating around the Bakassi waterways in Cross Rivers state and freed in the naval operation late on Friday, he said. "The gang ... ...

Romney hopes those in Florida storm path are fine Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:40 PM PDT Mitt Romney says he hopes everyone in Florida and the path of Tropical Storm Isaac is fine.

GOP convention protesters: storms won't stop them Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:37 PM PDT The few hundred protesters gathered under wet skies in a park about a half-mile from the GOP convention on Sunday said an impending hurricane that is supposed to dump even heavier rains on Tampa won't stop them from trying to get out their message that America's middle class is in trouble and needs to be restored.

Could Isaac overshadow Republicans' convention? Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:33 PM PDT TAMPA (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac forced Republicans on Sunday to rewrite the script for their national convention in Tampa, as party officials scrambled to make sure candidate Mitt Romney's message to voters would not be blown off course. Isaac was expected to spare Tampa a direct hit and strike, with hurricane strength, farther north along the Gulf Coast this week. ...

Forecasters issue hurricane warning for northern Gulf of Mexico coast Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:27 PM PDT MIAMI (Reuters) - The U.S. National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane warning for the northern Gulf of Mexico coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle on Sunday. Isaac is still a tropical storm with 60 mph winds moving past the Florida Keys and headed into the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the NHC said in its 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) advisory. ...

Romney faces balancing act with convention, storm Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:24 PM PDT The political risk was slight for Mitt Romney in scrapping the first day of his Florida convention in the face of Tropical Storm Isaac: TV networks weren't planning to broadcast it live anyway.

Graffiti artists thrive in reform-era Myanmar Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:23 PM PDT (Note: strong language in paragraph 16) YANGON (Reuters) - A television set with wings hovers on a wall in a murky Yangon sidestreet. "This was my first one," says Aung, 33, pointing proudly to an image he spray-painted last year to protest media censorship and now duplicated across Myanmar's commercial capital. "Media freedom is a big issue for me." Aung, who requested that his full name be withheld, belongs to a new generation of Yangon street artists whose often politically charged graffiti was almost unthinkable before Myanmar's recent burst of reforms. ...

Dutch Liberals, Socialists in close race ahead of vote Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:21 PM PDT AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch Liberal Party, the pro-business movement led by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and the far-left Socialists are neck and neck ahead of a September 12 parliamentary election dominated by the euro zone crisis, two polls showed over the weekend. The fiscally conservative country is considered a core euro zone member, but the run-up to the ballot has highlighted growing discontent about Europe - in particular over the high cost of bailing out weaker euro zone states and the pressure for belt-tightening at home. ...

Ex-South Carolina governor to marry former mistress Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:21 PM PDT CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford said on Sunday he is engaged to marry his Argentine girlfriend, Maria Belen Chapur. "Yes, it's true and I stand by my statement," Sanford told Reuters by telephone. He referred to a statement given to CNN in which he said, "Yes, we are engaged, and I'm both happy and excited for what that means. I have long expressed my feelings for her, she's a wonderful person. My closest friends have met and love her, and I look forward to introducing her to still many more that have yet to do so. ...

Analysis: Politics the priority for China as economy slows Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:20 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China's policy chiefs have about two weeks left to decide about giving the economy a proper stimulative prod, or risk parading a new Communist Party leadership to the world just as growth falls below target for the first time in nearly four years. Factory activity is already at a nine-month low, according to the latest manufacturing sector survey from HSBC, signaling that the official August numbers for industrial production and trade published in a fortnight will foreshadow third quarter economic growth falling below the government's 7.5 percent goal. ...

Britain wants to restart Assange talks with Ecuador Posted: 26 Aug 2012 01:32 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Sunday it remained committed to reaching a diplomatic solution to the presence of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Ecuador's London embassy, after both countries took steps to defuse a row over his action in taking refuge there. Assange has been living in the embassy's cramped quarters for more than two months since fleeing there to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over rape and sexual assault allegations. ...

Venezuela will not restart refinery until fire is out: official Posted: 26 Aug 2012 12:52 PM PDT CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's Amuay refinery will not restart operations until it completely extinguishes a fire caused by an explosion on Saturday, a top refining official with state oil company PDVSA said on Sunday. (Reporting by Marianna Parraga, writing by Brian Ellsworth)

Isaac Not Stopping the Show in Tampa Posted: 26 Aug 2012 12:51 PM PDT TAMPA, Fla. — With Tropical Storm Isaac whipping the Florida Keys today with high winds and driving rain, Florida Gov. Rick Scott says that the state's focus moving forward is ensuring the safety of the Sunshine State's 19 million residents along with the crush of...

Nigeria in talks with Islamists via "back channels" Posted: 26 Aug 2012 12:43 PM PDT ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's government is reaching out to radical Islamist sect Boko Haram, talking with some of its members via "back room channels" as it seeks a peaceful way out of the north's conflict, the president's spokesman said on Sunday. The militants ruled out peace talks in a statement on Thursday, unless the government accepts their demand to turn the roughly evenly mixed Muslim-Christian country of 160 million people into an Islamic state. But Reuben Abati, spokesman for President Goodluck Jonathan, told journalists talks were going on with some members. ...

Romney assails Obama campaign on Akin, abortion Posted: 26 Aug 2012 12:39 PM PDT Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama's campaign of trying to link him to Rep. Todd Akin's statements about rape and abortion, calling that a sad new low in the bitter election race while conceding that controversy over the remarks is hurting the Republican Party.

Afghans say top Haqqani leader was killed in U.S. drone strike Posted: 26 Aug 2012 12:30 PM PDT KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan said on Sunday it believed that a top commander of the militant Haqqani insurgent network had been killed in a U.S. drone strike, citing intelligence reports that it said countered Afghan Taliban claims that Badruddin Haqqani was still alive. Haqqani, who was head of operations and ran the network's vital business interests, was thought to have been killed during the strike this week in Pakistan's tribal North Waziristan, both Afghanistan's Interior Ministry and national spy agency said. ...

Storm Isaac hits Florida, threatens U.S. Gulf Coast Posted: 26 Aug 2012 12:25 PM PDT KEY WEST, Florida (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac lashed south Florida with winds and heavy rain on Sunday after battering the Caribbean, disrupting plans for the Republican National Convention in Tampa and threatening to interrupt about half of U.S. offshore oil output. Isaac is expected to strengthen to a Category 2 hurricane and hit the Gulf Coast somewhere between Florida and Louisiana at midweek - on or near the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina - the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in an advisory. ...

Libya minister quits after criticism over attacks Posted: 26 Aug 2012 12:14 PM PDT TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's interior minister resigned on Sunday, officials said, after he was criticized for failing to halt a surge of attacks on Sufi Muslim shrines that have raised fears of the spread of sectarian violence following the fall of Muammar Gaddafi. Attackers, described as ultra-conservative Islamists by some officials, bulldozed sites sacred to Sufi Muslims in the western city of Zlitan on Friday and the capital Tripoli on Saturday. ...

WH: Obama tells FEMA to closely monitor Isaac Posted: 26 Aug 2012 12:10 PM PDT The White House says President Barack Obama has told the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate closely with officials in states and localities in the path of tropical storm Isaac.

Fed may struggle to deliver expected growth boost Posted: 26 Aug 2012 12:05 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - It's the end of August, so all eyes will again be on the small Wyoming resort town of Jackson -- population 9,577 -- to see whether Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke fuels or dampens hopes of fresh monetary easing to lift the U.S. economy. The annual Jackson Hole summer retreat hosted by the Kansas City Fed has become a highlight of the global central banking calendar. Expectations this year have not soared to the heights of 2010 or 2011, but equity and commodity prices have been rising and could react badly if the U.S. central bank chief pulls his punches. ...

Argentine leader's image falls as inflation soars Posted: 26 Aug 2012 12:01 PM PDT BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez's popularity sank to 30 percent in August, less than half of what it was a year earlier, according to a poll published on Sunday that portrayed a country worried about crime and high inflation. The telephone survey of 2,259 voting-age Argentines by polling company Management & Fit showed dissatisfaction with the interventionist policies that won Fernandez a landslide re-election 10 months ago. ...

Saudi Aramco says most damage from computer attack fixed Posted: 26 Aug 2012 11:49 AM PDT DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil producer, has resumed operating its main internal computer networks after a virus infected about 30,000 of its workstations in mid-August, the company said on Sunday. Immediately after the August 15 cyber attack, the company announced it had cut off its electronic systems off from the outside world to prevent further attacks. On Sunday, Saudi Aramco said the workstations had now been cleansed of the virus and restored to service. Oil exploration and production were not affected because they operate on isolated systems, it said. ...

Priebus: Akin stay risks GOP control of Senate Posted: 26 Aug 2012 11:44 AM PDT Republican National Party chair Reince Priebus says that Todd Akin's insistence on staying in the Missouri Senate race could cost the party its chance to win control of the Senate.

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