Rebels hit army headquarters in Damascus

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• Rebels hit army headquarters in Damascus
• Greek PM sings in tune, now must hit the hard notes
• Two American consulate employees wounded in Pakistan bomb attack
• Analysis: Germany's triangulated opposition
• Cambodia considers Swedish request on Pirate Bay co-founder
• Questioning Rio's boom - a contrarian in Brazil
• Netanyahu urges international "red lines" to stop Iran
• Massacre trial exposes inconvenient truth for India's BJP
• Australia, Kabul argue over deadly search for rogue Afghan killer
• Unification Church head Sun Myung Moon dies in South Korea
• Rev. Sun Myung Moon, known for mass weddings, dies
• Car bomb hits US vehicle, kills 2 Pakistanis
• Clinton to urge ASEAN unity on South China Sea
• Young Iraqis face religious fashion crackdown
• Activists say 5,000 killed in Syria in August
• Imam arrested in Pakistan Quran burning case
• US stops training some Afghan forces after attacks
• A first: Veiled woman reads news on Egypt state TV
• SAfrica to withdraw murder charges against miners
• Israeli leader calls for 'clear red line' on Iran

Rebels hit army headquarters in Damascus Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:19 PM PDT AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said they planted bombs inside the Syrian army's General Staff headquarters in central Damascus on Sunday as President Bashar al-Assad's forces bulldozed buildings to the ground in parts of the capital that have backed the uprising. Syrian state television said four people were wounded in what it called a terrorist attack on the General Staff compound in the highly guarded Abu Rummaneh district, where another bomb attack killed four of Assad's top lieutenants two months ago. ...

Greek PM sings in tune, now must hit the hard notes Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:04 PM PDT ATHENS (Reuters) - When Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the euro zone's finance ministers, arrived in Athens last week, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras ran down red-carpeted steps to envelope him in a warm embrace. In front of the man representing Greece's biggest creditor, the governments of the euro zone, Samaras was understandably eager to make an impression, and duly pledged to do his utmost to win back Europe's trust. The conservative leader was not always so keen. ...

Two American consulate employees wounded in Pakistan bomb attack Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:50 AM PDT PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Two Americans working for the U.S. consulate were wounded in a bomb attack on their vehicle in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday, the American embassy said. The blast also wounded two Pakistani employees of the consulate, the embassy in Islamabad said in a statement. Earlier, regional Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain told reporters at least four people, including two Americans, were killed in an attack by a suicide bomber in a vehicle. "We can confirm that a vehicle belonging to the U.S. ...

Analysis: Germany's triangulated opposition Posted: 02 Sep 2012 11:03 PM PDT BERLIN (Reuters) - Bill Clinton may have been the first to use a strategy of "triangulation" to win an election, co-opting policies of his Republican rivals to win a second term as president in 1996. But it is Germany's Angela Merkel who seems to have turned the tactic, coined by controversial Clinton campaign guru Dick Morris, into an art form. With a year to go until Germans go to the polls, the country's leftist opposition parties are searching desperately for issues to throw at the conservative chancellor and finding the cupboard alarmingly bare. ...

Cambodia considers Swedish request on Pirate Bay co-founder Posted: 02 Sep 2012 11:49 PM PDT PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian authorities have arrested a co-founder of Pirate Bay, one of the world's biggest free file-sharing websites, and are considering a request from Sweden to send him there where he faces a jail sentence for breaching copyright laws. The Swedish man, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 27, has been living in Cambodia for some time. An appeals court in Sweden sentenced three others behind the site to between four months and 10 months in prison plus fines in 2010. Warg failed to attend that hearing due to illness and his sentencing was deferred. ...

Questioning Rio's boom - a contrarian in Brazil Posted: 02 Sep 2012 02:38 PM PDT RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - To many in this coastal metropolis, Rio de Janeiro has never had it so good. After decades of decay, crippling crime rates, and a loss of big business to rival São Paulo, Rio is on the rise. A recent boom in Brazil's economy, the discovery of massive offshore oilfields nearby, and Rio's planned hosting of the World Cup and Olympics in the next four years have restored some of the splendor to the tropical city of 6.5 million people. But one local official is tired of the exuberance. ...

Netanyahu urges international "red lines" to stop Iran Posted: 02 Sep 2012 07:48 AM PDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged world powers on Sunday to set a "clear red line" for Tehran's atomic program that would convince Iran they were determined to prevent it from obtaining nuclear arms. Netanyahu's remarks suggested a growing impatience with Israel's main ally, the United States, and other countries that have been pressing him to give diplomacy and sanctions more time to work and hold off on any go-it-alone strike on Iran. Recent heightened Israeli rhetoric has stoked speculation that Israel might attack Iran before the U.S. ...

Massacre trial exposes inconvenient truth for India's BJP Posted: 02 Sep 2012 02:21 PM PDT AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Ten years on, Abdul Sheikh can still hardly believe that the doctor who had performed an ultrasound scan on his pregnant wife turned out to be a ringleader in the orgy of violence that killed both the mother and her unborn child. "I remember hearing the commotion and I rushed out to find Dr. Kodnani inciting a mob of thousands, screaming 'kill those bastards!'," said Sheikh, one of the witnesses whose testimony led last week to the jailing of 31 people for hunting down and slaughtering dozens of Muslims in 2002. ...

Australia, Kabul argue over deadly search for rogue Afghan killer Posted: 02 Sep 2012 11:47 PM PDT CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia contradicted Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday over a deadly weekend raid in Afghanistan in search of a "rogue" soldier who killed three Australian troops, adding new strains to an increasingly uneasy international coalition. Karzai's office condemned the raid by NATO-led and Afghan troops, during which a 70-year-old Afghan man and his son were killed, describing it as a "unilateral military operation" in breach of an agreement between Kabul and its foreign allies covering such actions. ...

Unification Church head Sun Myung Moon dies in South Korea Posted: 02 Sep 2012 02:42 PM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - Sun Myung Moon, the founder and head of the Unification Church which has millions of followers around the world, died at a retreat near the South Korean capital Seoul on Monday, church officials said. Moon was 92 and had suffered complications from pneumonia, the officials said. Moon had been hospitalized in Seoul in mid-August and was moved to the retreat last week when his family and church believed there was little chance of recovery. ...

Rev. Sun Myung Moon, known for mass weddings, dies Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:24 AM PDT The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, best known for conducting mass weddings involving thousands of couples, was a self-proclaimed messiah, but he was at least as good at attracting dollars as he was at drawing converts.

Car bomb hits US vehicle, kills 2 Pakistanis Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:07 AM PDT A car filled with explosives rammed into a U.S. government vehicle in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday, killing two Pakistanis and wounding 19 other people, police said.

Clinton to urge ASEAN unity on South China Sea Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:47 AM PDT U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling for Southeast Asian states to present a united front to the Chinese in dealing with territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

Young Iraqis face religious fashion crackdown Posted: 02 Sep 2012 11:30 PM PDT For much of Iraq's youth, sporting blingy makeup, slicked-up hair and skintight jeans is just part of living the teenage dream. But for their elders, it's a nightmare.

Activists say 5,000 killed in Syria in August Posted: 02 Sep 2012 01:02 PM PDT Activist groups said Sunday that about 5,000 people were killed in Syria's civil war in August, the highest figure ever reported in more than 17 months of fighting as President Bashar Assad's regime unleashed crushing air power against the revolt for the first time.

Imam arrested in Pakistan Quran burning case Posted: 02 Sep 2012 12:10 PM PDT A Muslim cleric is accused of stashing pages of a Quran in a Christian girl's bag to make it seem like she burned the Islamic holy book, a surprising twist in a case that caused an international outcry over the country's strict blasphemy laws.

US stops training some Afghan forces after attacks Posted: 02 Sep 2012 10:15 AM PDT The U.S. military has halted the training of some Afghan forces while it digs deeper into their background following a surge of attacks by soldiers and police on their international partners, officials said Sunday.

A first: Veiled woman reads news on Egypt state TV Posted: 02 Sep 2012 12:54 PM PDT A female Egyptian news presenter appeared on state television wearing a veil for the first time on Sunday after the Islamist-dominated government lifted an effective ban that had been in place for decades under secular-leaning regimes of the past.

SAfrica to withdraw murder charges against miners Posted: 02 Sep 2012 08:25 AM PDT South Africa's top prosecutor announced Sunday that she is withdrawing controversial murder charges against 270 miners for the killings of 34 striking co-workers shot dead by police.

Israeli leader calls for 'clear red line' on Iran Posted: 02 Sep 2012 11:49 AM PDT Israel's prime minister on Sunday urged the international community to get tougher against Iran, saying that without a "clear red line," Tehran will not halt its nuclear program.

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