Syrian rebels hit back at Assad's air power

---

• Syrian rebels hit back at Assad's air power
• Iran to hold major air defense drill: commander
• Asian giants seek better ties; China's defense minister in India
• Migron settlers begin leaving homes: Israeli army
• Questioning Rio's boom - a contrarian in Brazil
• Austrian foreign minister takes hard line on Greek aid: paper
• EU worried over Hungary, Romania institutions: paper
• Spain's Rajoy says euro zone yields not sustainable: papers
• Sudan says repulses rebel attack in border area
• Angola's Dos Santos secures big election win
• Amsterdam false alarm revives hijacking memories
• Tokyo city officials survey disputed islands
• Iran, North Korea sign technology agreement
• New UN Syria envoy puts pressure on regime
• Pakistani police arrest Christian girl's accuser
• Moderate earthquake jolts eastern Iran
• Egypt: Top militant arrested in Sinai
• AP analysis: Iran may be pushing to nuke threshold
• Islamist rebels seize control of Douentza
• Double suicide attack kills 12 in Afghanistan

Syrian rebels hit back at Assad's air power Posted: 01 Sep 2012 01:03 PM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebels seized an air defense facility and attacked a military airport in eastern Syria on Saturday, a monitoring group said, hitting back at an air force which President Bashar al-Assad is increasingly relying on to crush his opponents. The attacks in eastern oil-producing Deir al-Zor province follow rebel strikes against military airports in the Aleppo and Idlib areas, close to the border with Turkey. ...

Iran to hold major air defense drill: commander Posted: 01 Sep 2012 08:05 AM PDT DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran will hold a large-scale military drill involving all its air defense systems next month, an Iranian commander was quoted as saying on Saturday, one of a number of military simulations it has carried out this year. The air defense drill will include fighter jets and simulate emergency situations, said Farzad Esmaili, commander of the Iranian army's air defense force, according to Iran's English-language Press TV. ...

Asian giants seek better ties; China's defense minister in India Posted: 01 Sep 2012 10:27 PM PDT NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A rare visit to India by China's defense minister should help avoid flare-ups along the border between the nuclear-armed Asian giants at a time when Beijing is grappling with a change of leadership and friction in the South China Sea. But General Liang Guanglie's trip -- the first by a Chinese defense minister in eight years -- also highlights growing competition between the two emerging powers as they jostle for influence and resources across Asia. ...

Migron settlers begin leaving homes: Israeli army Posted: 01 Sep 2012 10:24 PM PDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Jewish settlers began leaving the unauthorized outpost of Migron in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, the military said, obeying an Israeli supreme court order to vacate their homes by Tuesday. A number of families began moving out of their homes in the hilltop settlement of about 50 families in an orderly fashion, a spokeswoman said, although a few said they would remain and would not go voluntarily, an Israel Radio report added. A police spokesman said officers had started handing eviction orders to the families before dawn. ...

Questioning Rio's boom - a contrarian in Brazil Posted: 01 Sep 2012 10:06 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. ...

Austrian foreign minister takes hard line on Greek aid: paper Posted: 01 Sep 2012 07:23 AM PDT VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger opposes giving hard-pressed Greece more leeway to meet terms of an international bailout, he told a newspaper. "I favour (the stance) that the Greeks now have to respect adamantly the conditions negotiated with the EU, that the Troika reviews this, and that Greece gets more money only if it really sticks to the agreed path of reform, without extensions," he told the Oesterreich daily. ...

EU worried over Hungary, Romania institutions: paper Posted: 01 Sep 2012 10:07 AM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - A top European Union official praised court rulings in Hungary and Romania which rejected widely criticized attempts to entrench their ruling parties in power, but said she remained worried about both countries' institutions. Viviane Reding, the European Commission's vice president in charge of justice, told Le Monde newspaper that Hungary was one of the most worrying cases and cited the government's bid to lower the retirement age for judges - thrown out in July as unconstitutional. ...

Spain's Rajoy says euro zone yields not sustainable: papers Posted: 01 Sep 2012 02:05 PM PDT PARIS/BERLIN (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy called for decisive action to resolve the financial crisis in the euro zone and dispel any doubts over the future of the euro. Rajoy said in an interview with European newspapers published on Saturday night that the current situation in which some European countries financed themselves at negative rates and others paid "unsustainably high rates" had to end. "The current situation cannot be sustained over a longer period of time," he was quoted as saying in German daily Bild. ...

Sudan says repulses rebel attack in border area Posted: 01 Sep 2012 03:31 PM PDT KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's army repulsed a rebel attack in the oil-producing border state of South Kordofan, state news agency SUNA said on Saturday, in clashes just days before Sudan and South Sudan are set to resume talks on securing their disputed border. South Sudan split away from Sudan last year under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war, but the two have remained at odds over a range of issues and conflict has continued to plague their borderlands. ...

Angola's Dos Santos secures big election win Posted: 01 Sep 2012 02:31 PM PDT LUANDA (Reuters) - Angola's long-serving President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and his MPLA party scored a landslide win on Saturday in an election criticized as one-sided and not credible by opponents and civil society activists, according to provisional results. The results from Friday's voting announced by the National Elections Commission showed the governing party with 74 percent of the vote - far ahead of its nearest rivals with votes counted from over 70 percent of polling stations. ...

Amsterdam false alarm revives hijacking memories Posted: 02 Sep 2012 12:14 AM PDT It was once the nightmare of air travelers the world over: a passenger jet parked in a remote corner of an airport surrounded by armed police and ambulances.

Tokyo city officials survey disputed islands Posted: 01 Sep 2012 10:27 PM PDT Tokyo city officials planning to buy tiny islands at the center of a longtime territorial dispute with China surveyed the area and took water samples Sunday in a showcase meant to send a message of ownership.

Iran, North Korea sign technology agreement Posted: 01 Sep 2012 09:35 PM PDT Iran and North Korea signed a scientific and technological cooperation agreement Saturday, bringing the two nations deeply at odds with the U.S. closer together.

New UN Syria envoy puts pressure on regime Posted: 01 Sep 2012 02:42 PM PDT The U.N.'s new envoy to Syria told President Bashar Assad's regime on Saturday that change is both "urgent" and "necessary" and that it must meet the "legitimate" demands of the Syrian people, words that will not win the seasoned Algerian diplomat and international trouble shooter any friends in Damascus.

Pakistani police arrest Christian girl's accuser Posted: 01 Sep 2012 11:36 PM PDT Pakistani police have arrested a Muslim cleric who accused a Christian girl of blasphemy on suspicion that he planted evidence, a police officer said Sunday, the latest twist in a religiously charged case that has focused attention on Pakistan's harsh blasphemy laws.

Moderate earthquake jolts eastern Iran Posted: 01 Sep 2012 10:27 PM PDT Iran's state news agency says a 5.2 magnitude earthquake has jolted a sparsely populated district in the country's east.

Egypt: Top militant arrested in Sinai Posted: 01 Sep 2012 01:23 PM PDT Egypt said Saturday that it had arrested a high-level Islamist militant convicted of killing troops in the Sinai Peninsula, vowing to keep up military operations to "cleanse" the volatile desert region.

AP analysis: Iran may be pushing to nuke threshold Posted: 01 Sep 2012 12:41 PM PDT A "big and unforgivable" sin. A Western falsehood. An attempt to deprive developing nations of peaceful nuclear technology.

Islamist rebels seize control of Douentza Posted: 01 Sep 2012 02:46 PM PDT Islamic extremists seized control of the strategic town of Douentza on Saturday, moving much closer to government-held territory in central Mali, according to witnesses in the town and a rebel spokesman.

Double suicide attack kills 12 in Afghanistan Posted: 01 Sep 2012 02:16 AM PDT Two suicide attackers, one driving a fuel tanker, blew themselves up near a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least 12 people, officials said.

You are subscribed to email updates from World News Headlines - Yahoo! News To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610