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• Analysis: 4-year progress query puts Obama in box
• Obama: Flag Romney for 'unnecessary roughness'
• Obama, Romney visits to Gulf highlight differences
• Iran could strike US bases if Israel attacks: Hezbollah
• Obama, Romney visits to Gulf highlight differences
• IRS warned, but did not act on tax strategy for private equity
• Sudan, South Sudan resume border talks with eye to oil
• Some Dems Want Betty White to Make Their Day
• Syrians fleeing war start to trickle into Europe
• Analysis: 4-year progress query puts Obama in box
• Obama's re-election road: Hope and a hard climb
• Argentine judge orders arrest of Credit Suisse executive
• Top California Democrat likens Ryan to Nazi propagandist
• Dutch Liberals widen lead over Socialists: polls
• Are You Better Off Than Your Were Four Years Ago?
• Another disaster brings candidates to Gulf Coast
• Algeria appoints new PM after months of delay
• Ryan says Jimmy Carter era was better than Obama's
• Canada's Mackenzie River needs aid as climate "refrigerator"
• Republicans try to counter Democrats' convention
• UK's Prince Harry happy to joke about naked Vegas pics
• For conventions, TV viewing down, social media up
• Obama: Flag Romney for 'unnecessary roughness'
• OSCE says Azeri soldier pardon sets back peace process
• For San Antonio mayor, reflections of American Dream in convention speech
• Colombian rebels welcome peace talks "without hatred"
• Pre-convention tussle: Are Americans better off?
• Paul Ryan Says Carter Years 'The Good Old Days'
• Obama says Romney would bring a 'losing season'
• Algeria appoints new PM, reshuffle expected
• Dutch Liberals widen lead over Socialists: poll
• "Sunshine" vitamin D found to speed tuberculosis recovery
• DR Congo Ebola outbreak death toll rises to 14: medics

Analysis: 4-year progress query puts Obama in box Posted: 03 Sep 2012 02:57 PM PDT It's a question that aides to any president seeking re-election should be ready to handle: Are Americans better off now than before he took office?

Obama: Flag Romney for 'unnecessary roughness' Posted: 03 Sep 2012 01:23 PM PDT On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, President Barack Obama declared that Republican rival Mitt Romney should be penalized for "unnecessary roughness" on the middle class and accused him in a ringing labor Day speech of backing higher taxes for millions after opposing the 2009 auto industry bailout.

Obama, Romney visits to Gulf highlight differences Posted: 03 Sep 2012 03:34 PM PDT President Barack Obama's trip to the hurricane zone three days after rival Mitt Romney looked over flooded homes and businesses underscores the differences in the way the presidential candidates see the role of government.

Iran could strike US bases if Israel attacks: Hezbollah Posted: 03 Sep 2012 03:35 PM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iran could hit U.S. bases in the Middle East in response to any Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities even if American forces played no role in the attack, the leader of Lebanon's Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah said on Monday. "A decision has been taken to respond and the response will be very great," Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in an interview with the Beirut-based Al Mayadeen television. ...

Obama, Romney visits to Gulf highlight differences Posted: 03 Sep 2012 03:34 PM PDT President Barack Obama's trip to the hurricane zone three days after rival Mitt Romney looked over flooded homes and businesses underscores the differences in the way the presidential candidates see the role of government.

IRS warned, but did not act on tax strategy for private equity Posted: 03 Sep 2012 03:27 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. tax authorities took no formal action after launching a probe five years ago of tax strategies used by private equity managers at firms such as Bain Capital LLC, leaving a legal gray area that is now being examined by New York's attorney general. In a move focusing more scrutiny on private equity at a politically turbulent time, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has subpoenaed documents from at least a dozen firms about how they reduce their managers' tax bills, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. ...

Sudan, South Sudan resume border talks with eye to oil Posted: 03 Sep 2012 03:23 PM PDT KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - Former civil war foes Sudan and South Sudan are to resume talks on Tuesday in Ethiopia that mediators hope will produce a deal to secure the volatile joint border and clear the way for the two countries to resume oil exports. The countries have been locked in a series of disputes since South Sudan split from its northern neighbor over a year ago under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of war. Fighting along the 1,800-km (1,200-mile) border threatened to boil over into a full-scale war in April when South Sudan seized an oil-producing region long held by Sudan. ...

Some Dems Want Betty White to Make Their Day Posted: 03 Sep 2012 03:08 PM PDT They've taken on big banks and workers' rights abuses, now the progressive activists at Change.org have their sights set on bringing comedienne Betty White, 90, to the Democratic National Convention. "Clint Eastwood, the Republican's 'mystery guest' at the RNC, gave a bad name to older...

Syrians fleeing war start to trickle into Europe Posted: 03 Sep 2012 03:03 PM PDT KOPINGEBRO, Sweden (Reuters) - Ali Jamal travelled thousands of miles on foot, by train and road to flee violence in Syria while Jomaah piled his family into a camper van to smuggle them north to Europe. They have now reached safety in Sweden, some of the growing thousands of Syrians who are evading the European Union's frontier controls to escape the turmoil of the past 18 months. That is raising calls for a more focused European response to a refugee crisis that has seen over 200,000 Syrians flee to Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and, especially, Turkey. ...

Analysis: 4-year progress query puts Obama in box Posted: 03 Sep 2012 02:57 PM PDT It's a question that aides to any president seeking re-election should be ready to handle: Are Americans better off now than before he took office?

Obama's re-election road: Hope and a hard climb Posted: 03 Sep 2012 02:50 PM PDT People remember the hope and the history. For him or against him, they picture candidate Barack Obama as the one who stood on stage in a football stadium in Denver and accepted the Democratic presidential nomination by declaring "It's time for us to change America."

Argentine judge orders arrest of Credit Suisse executive Posted: 03 Sep 2012 02:43 PM PDT BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - A judge in Argentina has ordered the arrest of Credit Suisse executive and former U.S. Treasury Undersecretary David Mulford because he failed to testify over a 2001 Argentine debt swap, the state news agency reported on Monday. Federal Judge Marcelo Martinez de Giorgi will ask Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant seeking Mulford's extradition for questioning over the bond exchange carried out by the government in an unsuccessful bid to avoid default. ...

Top California Democrat likens Ryan to Nazi propagandist Posted: 03 Sep 2012 02:42 PM PDT CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - A top California Democratic Party official on Monday compared Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan to Nazi Germany's infamous propagandist Joseph Goebbels, drawing rebukes from both parties the day before the Democratic Party's nominating convention formally begins. In a story reported Monday by the San Francisco Chronicle, California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton was quoted as comparing distortions Ryan made in campaign speeches to lies used by Goebbels, a fierce anti-Semite and one of Adolf Hitler's closest cohorts. ...

Dutch Liberals widen lead over Socialists: polls Posted: 03 Sep 2012 02:37 PM PDT AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Liberal Party has widened his lead over Socialist Party leader Emile Roemer in the run up to an election on September 12 that has been dominated by the euro zone crisis, two surveys showed on Monday. However, with no single party set to win more than about a quarter of the seats in parliament, the Netherlands still faces the prospect of months of coalition talks and political uncertainty. The fiscally conservative country is considered a core euro zone member and is one of the few that still has a triple-A credit rating. ...

Are You Better Off Than Your Were Four Years Ago? Posted: 03 Sep 2012 02:37 PM PDT Over the weekend, President Obama's top aides had trouble answering the political litmus test Ronald Reagan put forth to the country in 1980, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" Today, top Obama officials said the answer was a resounding yes. Are you...

Another disaster brings candidates to Gulf Coast Posted: 03 Sep 2012 02:17 PM PDT Mitt Romney wasted no time after accepting the GOP presidential nomination in heading to Louisiana to see the damage from Hurricane Isaac, changing his schedule on the fly to get there the very next day. President Barack Obama also tweaked his travel plans to make sure he gets there Monday, ahead of his own nominating convention.

Algeria appoints new PM after months of delay Posted: 03 Sep 2012 02:16 PM PDT ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's president named Abdelmalek Sellal as the country's new prime minister on Monday, ending some political uncertainty almost four months after parliamentary elections. A new government was expected to be appointed immediately after the May 10 poll but a clash among decision makers delayed the decision. According to convention, Ahmed Ouyahia should have stepped down as prime minister following the poll, after which President Abdelaziz Bouteflika should have either invited Ouyahia back or named a new person for the job. ...

Ryan says Jimmy Carter era was better than Obama's Posted: 03 Sep 2012 02:12 PM PDT Paul Ryan delivered a scathing criticism of President Barack Obama's stewardship of the nation's economy Monday, arguing that even conservative punching bag Jimmy Carter's presidency was better as Democrats streamed to North Carolina to nominate Obama for a second term.

Canada's Mackenzie River needs aid as climate "refrigerator" Posted: 03 Sep 2012 02:01 PM PDT OSLO (Reuters) - Canada's Mackenzie River basin needs better protection as a vast northern "refrigerator" slowing global climate change, experts said on Monday. Canada's longest river also needs a unifying plan to oversee water quality, wildlife and oil pollution that would be similar to European Union directives governing rivers such as the Rhine or Danube, they said. There is now a patchwork of government and local rules for the 1,800-km-long (1,100-mile) river that flows into the Arctic Ocean through a basin of forests and tundra covering 20 percent of Canada. ...

Republicans try to counter Democrats' convention Posted: 03 Sep 2012 01:54 PM PDT WOLFEBORO, New Hampshire (Reuters) - U.S. Republicans prepared a counterpunch to the Democratic National Convention this week by introducing their new line of attack with a not-so-new question: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" While Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney spent time on his boat in New Hampshire on Monday, his running mate, Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan, and other Republican officials converged on Charlotte, North Carolina, where President Barack Obama will accept his party's nomination and enter the home stretch of the 2012 race for the White House. ...

UK's Prince Harry happy to joke about naked Vegas pics Posted: 03 Sep 2012 01:41 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Harry was happy to poke fun at himself on Monday when he made his first official public appearance since pictures of him cavorting naked while on holiday in Las Vegas were published. The 27-year-old prince, third-in-line to the British throne, made news around the world two weeks ago when the pictures of him naked with a young woman in his hotel suite were printed in newspapers and on websites. ...

For conventions, TV viewing down, social media up Posted: 03 Sep 2012 01:23 PM PDT When it comes to following political conventions, Twitter may soon trump television.

Obama: Flag Romney for 'unnecessary roughness' Posted: 03 Sep 2012 01:23 PM PDT On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, President Barack Obama declared that Republican rival Mitt Romney should be penalized for "unnecessary roughness" on the middle class and accused him in a ringing labor Day speech of backing higher taxes for millions after opposing the 2009 auto industry bailout.

OSCE says Azeri soldier pardon sets back peace process Posted: 03 Sep 2012 01:17 PM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - International mediators from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe said on Monday that Azerbaijan's decision to pardon an Azeri soldier who killed an Armenian officer had damaged the peace process in the region. Armenia and Azerbaijan have been at odds since the war between ethnic Azeris and Armenians that erupted in 1991 over the mainly Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh enclave. A ceasefire was signed in 1994 but new cross-border clashes this year have prompted worries of a resumption of fighting. ...

For San Antonio mayor, reflections of American Dream in convention speech Posted: 03 Sep 2012 01:12 PM PDT SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Civil rights activist Rosie Castro toted her painfully shy twin boys everywhere, and they weren't always thrilled about the outings: distributing political literature, attending farm worker rallies and visiting the voting booth. But the early introduction into political life made its mark on Julian and Joaquin Castro, who left their hardscrabble San Antonio neighborhood to attend Stanford and Harvard Law School before returning to their native city. ...

Colombian rebels welcome peace talks "without hatred" Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:48 PM PDT BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's FARC rebel leader said on Monday the group would join peace talks with the government "without hatred or arrogance" in its first response to President Juan Manuel Santos' announcement of imminent negotiations. The prospect of talks, likely to take place in Norway and Cuba, has raised Colombians' hopes of an end to five decades of bloodshed - though past governments' failures to end Latin America's longest-running insurgency show the path is not easy. ...

Pre-convention tussle: Are Americans better off? Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:47 PM PDT In a Labor Day warm-up to the Democratic National Convention, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney and their top allies engaged in a cross-country tussle over whether Americans are better off than they were four years ago.

Paul Ryan Says Carter Years 'The Good Old Days' Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:38 PM PDT GREENVILLE, N.C.–Paul Ryan today compared the president to Jimmy Carter, using a line Democrats have been asked over the past two days,  saying the country is not "better off" than four years ago and "simply put, the Jimmy Carter years look like the good old days...

Obama says Romney would bring a 'losing season' Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:35 PM PDT President Barack Obama warned union workers in football-crazy Ohio on Monday that Republican Mitt Romney would guide the nation to a "losing season," imploring voters in the battleground state to take his opponent's plan and "punt it away."

Algeria appoints new PM, reshuffle expected Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:18 PM PDT ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's president named Abdelmalek Sellal as the country's new prime minister on Monday, the first appointment in a cabinet reshuffle, and other ministers were due to be named later in the day, a senior government official said. "I confirm that Sellal is our new prime minster," he told Reuters. Sellal, a technocrat, has served for more than a decade as minister for various departments and was President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's campaign director for the 2004 presidential election. ...

Dutch Liberals widen lead over Socialists: poll Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:06 PM PDT AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Liberal Party has widened his lead over Socialist Party leader Emile Roemer in the run up to an election on September 12 that has been dominated by the euro zone crisis, a survey showed on Monday. However, with no single party set to win more than about a quarter of the seats in parliament, the Netherlands still faces the prospect of months of coalition talks and political uncertainty. The fiscally conservative country is considered a core euro zone member and is one of the few that still has a triple-A credit rating. ...

"Sunshine" vitamin D found to speed tuberculosis recovery Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:01 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have shown how and why the "sunshine" vitamin D can speed recovery in tuberculosis (TB) patients, helping explain why the so-called heliotherapy of a bygone, pre-antibiotic era may have done some good. From the late 1800s - well before the development of antibiotics in 1930s - TB patients were often sent to retreats where they were encouraged to soak up the sun's rays in what was known as heliotherapy or phototherapy. ...

DR Congo Ebola outbreak death toll rises to 14: medics Posted: 03 Sep 2012 11:54 AM PDT KINSHASA (Reuters) - The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 14 and the crisis is not yet under control, medical officials said on Monday. The epicenter of the outbreak, which killed its first victim last month, is in the busy town of Isiro in Orientale Province, but it has spread to the settlement of Viadana 75 km (45 miles) away, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a statement. WHO also called for aid of nearly $2 million to help Congo's weakened health sector cope with the disease. ...

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