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• Biden: Days into job, news of $1 trillion deficit
• Ryan sell to swing-state NH: Live free and prosper
• Obama calls on Congress to approve refinance plan
• Fox News blames live airing of suicide on "severe human error"
• Egypt's Copts to return to Sinai homes, says government
• As Obama and Romney prep for debates, VP candidates seek votes
• Ancient marketplace burns as fighting rages in Syria's Aleppo
• High debate stakes: Romney looks to gain momentum
• Israel PM tells coalition partners to back budget or face poll
• Libyans hand over their weapons in arms collection drive
• Spain debt rises on aid to banks, regions, finance cost
• Schwarzenegger: Shriver changed tune on recall run
• Northern Irish parade passes peacefully amid tight security
• Egypt's top military commander promises army overhaul
• Bradley and Mickelson become Ryder Cup rock stars
• Guantanamo's last Western detainee returned to Canada
• Biden Blames Bush Administration for Deficit
• Sudan tells United Nations its debts must be canceled
• Schwarzenegger Says Karl Rove Wanted Rice to Run for CA Governor, Not Him
• Slowdown galvanizes Polish opposition protesters
• Nuclear site ends security contract following nun's break-in
• Spain, Portugal hit with anti-austerity protests
• Omar Khadr: Guantanamo Detainee Transferred to Canada
• Biden: Days into job, news of $1 trillion deficit
• Billionaire Georgia opposition leader says vote win hours away
• Portuguese protest against austerity, await more measures
• U.N. chief urges careful handling of Myanmar Rohingyas issue
• Mexico's lower house gives final approval to labor reform
• Somalia's al Shabaab rebels pull out of Kismayu bastion
• North Ireland police mount major security operation for key parade
• Mid-East Protests and Twitter Confrontations: Is This Democracy?
• Questions linger about Rep. Jackson's Hill future
• Palestinian man dies of wounds after being shot by Israel troops

Biden: Days into job, news of $1 trillion deficit Posted: 29 Sep 2012 10:28 AM PDT Vice President Joe Biden says that he and President Barack Obama had been on the job less than a week when a top economic adviser told them the country was facing a trillion-dollar budget deficit.

Ryan sell to swing-state NH: Live free and prosper Posted: 29 Sep 2012 08:40 AM PDT Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan put his own spin on New Hampshire's "Live Free or Die" motto as he rallied supporters in the small but key battleground state.

Obama calls on Congress to approve refinance plan Posted: 29 Sep 2012 03:14 AM PDT Citing historically low mortgages, President Barack Obama is pressing Republicans to back housing policies the White House says would help struggling homeowners refinance their debts and prevent foreclosures.

Fox News blames live airing of suicide on "severe human error" Posted: 29 Sep 2012 03:33 PM PDT PHOENIX (Reuters) - Fox News apologized for a "severe human error" that resulted in viewers seeing a suspected carjacker fatally shoot himself after a police chase. The coverage of the Friday incident, which sparked outrage on social media and a quick on-air apology by anchor Shepard Smith, showed a man stumbling from an allegedly stolen car into the desert near Phoenix on Friday. As a camera in a helicopter provided live coverage, the man s topped a short distance away, pulled the trigger of a gun pointed to the right side of his head and crumpled face-forward into the ground. ...

Egypt's Copts to return to Sinai homes, says government Posted: 29 Sep 2012 03:31 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's presidency and prime minister said on Saturday security forces in North Sinai were working to return Coptic Christians living near Egypt's border with Israel to their homes after they fled in fear of attack from Islamist militants. Nine Christian families living in Rafah near Egypt's border with Israel left their homes on Friday after Islamist militants made death threats and gunmen attacked a Coptic-owned shop. ...

As Obama and Romney prep for debates, VP candidates seek votes Posted: 29 Sep 2012 03:27 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden and Republican rival Paul Ryan sought votes in political battleground states on Saturday while their running mates took a day off the campaign trail ahead of a potentially make-or-break debate next week. President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney face off on Wednesday in Denver, Colorado, for the first of three televised debates that could be crucial for the trajectory of the November 6 election. Obama, who holds a small lead in national and many statewide polls, spent the day at the White House with no public events. ...

Ancient marketplace burns as fighting rages in Syria's Aleppo Posted: 29 Sep 2012 03:22 PM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hundreds of shops were burning in the ancient covered market in Aleppo on Saturday as fighting between rebels and state forces in Syria's largest city threatened to destroy a UNESCO world heritage site. The uprising-turned-civil war that is now raging across Syria has killed more than 30,000 people, according to activist groups such as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. But beyond the dramatic human cost, many of Syria's historic treasures have also fallen victim to an 18-month-old conflict that has reduced parts of some cities to ruins. ...

High debate stakes: Romney looks to gain momentum Posted: 29 Sep 2012 01:58 PM PDT Barack Obama is cruising into the presidential debates with momentum on his side, yet he's still struggling to revive the passion and excitement that propelled him to the White House. Mitt Romney is grasping for his last, best chance to reboot his campaign after a disastrous September.

Israel PM tells coalition partners to back budget or face poll Posted: 29 Sep 2012 01:52 PM PDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told his coalition partners he will have to call an early election if they do not back a "responsible" budget he must present by the end of the year. Netanyahu said he would start meeting coalition partners after he returns home from New York on Sunday. Failure to pass the budget by December 31 would mean bringing forward a national ballot currently scheduled for October 2013. ...

Libyans hand over their weapons in arms collection drive Posted: 29 Sep 2012 01:37 PM PDT TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Hundreds of Libyans handed in weapons left over from last year's war on Saturday, part of a drive by the North African country to rid its streets of arms and crack down on rogue militia groups. As the day went on, a trickle of people turned into longer lines in Tripoli and in the eastern city of Benghazi, where tents were set up in squares for military officials to collect arms, explosives and even rocket propelled grenade launchers. ...

Spain debt rises on aid to banks, regions, finance cost Posted: 29 Sep 2012 01:24 PM PDT MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's debt levels are set to rise next year, piling pressure on the government to apply for aid as it pours funds in to cash-strapped regions, an ailing banking system and rising refinancing costs, its budget showed on Saturday. Spain's debt as a ratio of gross domestic product will reach 90.5 percent by end 2013, according to the document presented to parliament for approval, almost three times that registered before the property bubble burst in 2008. The budget aims to make savings of around 13 billion euros ($16. ...

Schwarzenegger: Shriver changed tune on recall run Posted: 29 Sep 2012 01:17 PM PDT Arnold Schwarzenegger says his wife, Maria Shriver, was told to "snap out of it" by her mother for her attempts to persuade him against running for California governor in 2003, a conversation that ultimately opened the door to his successful candidacy.

Northern Irish parade passes peacefully amid tight security Posted: 29 Sep 2012 01:06 PM PDT BELFAST (Reuters) - A major parade that Northern Irish politicians and security forces feared could spark fighting between Catholics and Protestant passed peacefully on Saturday after police mounted their biggest security operation in 20 years. Some 30,000 Protestants marked the centenary of one of the most historic events in a province scarred by decades of sectarian violence, the signing of a pact by half a million of their ancestors opposing the introduction of devolved government in Ireland. ...

Egypt's top military commander promises army overhaul Posted: 29 Sep 2012 01:04 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's most senior military commander has promised better training and more modern weaponry for the army in an apparent effort to satisfy officers' demands for change, which have multiplied after an uprising last year. Commander-in-Chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who is also the defense minister, was appointed by the country's first Islamist president Mohamed Mursi only last month and is under pressure to shake up a military which until recently had held the balance of power in Egypt for decades. ...

Bradley and Mickelson become Ryder Cup rock stars Posted: 29 Sep 2012 01:03 PM PDT MEDINAH, Illinois (Reuters) - The Ryder Cup has seen many great partnerships but never one quite like Phil Mickelson and Keegan Bradley, who have turned a May-September bromance into golf's dynamic duo. Bradley, a fiery rookie and Mickelson, the most experienced member of the American brigade making his ninth appearance at the biennial competition, have developed the type of chemistry rarely seen on a U.S. Ryder Cup team. ...

Guantanamo's last Western detainee returned to Canada Posted: 29 Sep 2012 12:27 PM PDT WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - The youngest prisoner and last Westerner held in the Guantanamo military base, Omar Khadr, was sent to finish his sentence in his native Canada on Saturday, the Canadian government said. Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said that Khadr, who was a 15-year-old fighting in Afghanistan when captured in 2002, had been flown from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a military base in Trenton, Ontario and transferred to the province's Millhaven maximum-security prison. ...

Biden Blames Bush Administration for Deficit Posted: 29 Sep 2012 11:44 AM PDT FORT MYERS, Fla. — Vice President Joe Biden placed the blame for the ballooning deficit on the Bush administration today, arguing that the previous administration saddled the country with the burden of trillions of dollars in debt. "Let's get serious here! How did we get...

Sudan tells United Nations its debts must be canceled Posted: 29 Sep 2012 11:39 AM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sudan told the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday that its debts must be canceled and its economy supported as it struggles to recover from losing three-quarters of its critical oil revenue to South Sudan when it seceded a year ago. The International Monetary Fund this week urged Sudan to meet donors to discuss debt relief and some IMF board members called for "exceptional efforts" from the IMF and the global community to help Sudan reduce its debt of about $40 billion. ...

Schwarzenegger Says Karl Rove Wanted Rice to Run for CA Governor, Not Him Posted: 29 Sep 2012 11:01 AM PDT Karl Rove told Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003 that he would not succeed in recalling California Gov. Gray Davis,  instead pushing Condoleezza Rice to run against the Democrat in 2006 , according to excerpts of Schwarzenegger's new book "Total Recall" obtained by The Associated Press. Schwarzenegger,...

Slowdown galvanizes Polish opposition protesters Posted: 29 Sep 2012 10:55 AM PDT WARSAW (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters marched through the Polish capital on Saturday, the start of an opposition drive to capitalize on the spluttering economy and try to loosen Prime Minister Donald Tusk's grip on power. Poland's economy, the biggest in central Europe, has grown robustly even while its neighbors slipped into recession, handing Tusk high levels of support and leaving his opponents struggling to win credibility with voters. Economic growth is expected to slow to just above 2 percent next year. ...

Nuclear site ends security contract following nun's break-in Posted: 29 Sep 2012 10:47 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government's "Fort Knox" of weapons-grade uranium storage has ended a contract with a unit of an international security firm two months after an 82-year-old nun and other nuclear activists broke into the site. The managing contractor at the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, site, B&W Y-12, a unit of Babcock & Wilcox Co, said late on Friday it will terminate the contract with WSI Oak Ridge on October 1. WSI is owned by security firm G4S, which was at the center of a dispute over security at this year's London Olympic Games. ...

Spain, Portugal hit with anti-austerity protests Posted: 29 Sep 2012 10:39 AM PDT Tens of thousands of Spaniards and Portuguese rallied in the streets of their countries' capitals Saturday to protest enduring deep economic pain from austerity cuts.

Omar Khadr: Guantanamo Detainee Transferred to Canada Posted: 29 Sep 2012 10:30 AM PDT Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr has been transferred to Canada to serve out the remainder of an eight-year prison sentence for having killed an American soldier in a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan. A detainee for a decade, Khadr had been held at the U.S. detention facility...

Biden: Days into job, news of $1 trillion deficit Posted: 29 Sep 2012 10:28 AM PDT Vice President Joe Biden says that he and President Barack Obama had been on the job less than a week when a top economic adviser told them the country was facing a trillion-dollar budget deficit.

Billionaire Georgia opposition leader says vote win hours away Posted: 29 Sep 2012 10:11 AM PDT TBILISI (Reuters) - The billionaire leader of the opposition in Georgia on Saturday told tens of thousands of his supporters that the current government loyal to President Mikheil Saakashvili had only hours left in power before it was voted out in an election on Monday. Addressing crowds in a central square in the capital Tbilisi after days of protests against prison brutality, Bidzina Ivanishvili was making his final pitch before the vote which his six-party "Georgian Dream" coalition hopes to win. "This regime cannot be the leadership of our country ... This system should collapse ... ...

Portuguese protest against austerity, await more measures Posted: 29 Sep 2012 10:03 AM PDT LISBON (Reuters) - Thousands of Portuguese protested on Saturday against austerity, stepping up their opposition to the country's 78-billion-euro bailout ahead of new spending cuts and tax hikes to be announced in the government's 2013 draft budget. The peaceful protest organized by the CGTP union came after the center-right government ignited widespread anger this month with a hike in social security taxes that threatened to end Portugal's so far high social acceptance for austerity. ...

U.N. chief urges careful handling of Myanmar Rohingyas issue Posted: 29 Sep 2012 09:56 AM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world's largest Islamic body on Saturday to "treat carefully" the issue of the stateless Muslim Rohingyas in Myanmar because it could affect the reform process underway in the country, also known as Burma. Over the past year, Myanmar has introduced the most sweeping reforms in the former British colony since a 1962 military coup. A semi-civilian government, stacked with former generals, has allowed elections, eased rules on protests and freed dissidents. ...

Mexico's lower house gives final approval to labor reform Posted: 29 Sep 2012 09:47 AM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's lower house of Congress gave final approval on Saturday to a bill that would mark the biggest shake-up of the country's labor market in 42 years. The final vote took place just before 4 a.m. following a raucous 14-hour debate that was led from a congressional balcony after leftist lawmakers stormed the chamber's rostrum and snatched the microphone from the speaker leading the session. The bill was approved on a vote of 346-60 with one abstention and now moves to the Mexican Senate, which will have 30 days to approve or reject it. ...

Somalia's al Shabaab rebels pull out of Kismayu bastion Posted: 29 Sep 2012 09:31 AM PDT MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's al Shabaab rebels retreated from the southern port of Kismayu overnight, abandoning the last major bastion of their five-year revolt to an offensive by African Union and Somali government troops. The loss of Kismayu a day after it was attacked by Kenyan and Somali soldiers backed by air strikes is a major blow to the al Qaeda-linked rebels, weakening morale and depriving them of revenue from taxing local businesses and shipping. "We moved out our fighters ... ...

North Ireland police mount major security operation for key parade Posted: 29 Sep 2012 09:29 AM PDT BELFAST (Reuters) - Police in Northern Ireland mounted their biggest security operation in 20 years on Saturday when 30,000 Protestants marked the centenary of one of the most historic events in a province scarred by decades of sectarian violence. Eight Protestant Unionist organizations, including members of the Orange Order, marched through Belfast to celebrate the signing of the Ulster Covenant by half a million of their ancestors, a pact opposing the introduction of devolved government in Ireland. ...

Mid-East Protests and Twitter Confrontations: Is This Democracy? Posted: 29 Sep 2012 09:27 AM PDT The Political Landscape is a weekly podcast where we discuss the news of the day with leading experts and analysts.

Questions linger about Rep. Jackson's Hill future Posted: 29 Sep 2012 09:17 AM PDT His home in Washington is for sale. His wife says he'll come back to work only when a doctor approves. He vowed to return to the campaign by Labor Day, and then didn't.

Palestinian man dies of wounds after being shot by Israel troops Posted: 29 Sep 2012 09:09 AM PDT GAZA (Reuters) - A Palestinian man died on Saturday after he was shot by Israeli troops while fishing on the beach in the Gaza Strip, said Hamas officials, while an Israeli military spokeswoman said the man was shot when he approached the border fence. Israeli army patrols deem the Gaza border area off limits because militants try to attack them by planting explosive devices or shooting at them. Officials from Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which rules the coastal enclave, said the 22-year-old man was fishing with his brother on Friday when he was shot. ...

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