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• Obama vies for health care edge in Florida
• Obama gets a rise out of a Fla. supporter
• Obama knocks Romney's 'bad math' on tax plan
• Joe Biden buddies up to Ohio bikers
• Italy's Monti warns EU debt crisis eroding common values
• Mexican opposition leader Lopez Obrador leaves coalition
• Al Qaeda in the Maghreb commander dies in Mali: Algerian official
• Mali Islamists say army killing of preachers declaration of war
• President Obama Gets Post-Convention 'Boost'
• Simultaneous bombs hit army compounds in Aleppo
• Obama vies for health care edge in Florida
• House chairman visits AF base reeling from scandal
• Obama Blasts Romney's Medicare Plan in Appeal to Florida Seniors
• France's Hollande vows to revive economy in two years
• Iraq blasts kill 100 as fugitive VP gets death sentence
• EU to propose steps to keep ECB from dominating regulator
• Hustler Magazine Offers Million Dollar Reward for Romney Tax Returns
• Obama maintains post-convention lead over Romney
• France's Hollande warns economy to stall in 2013
• Greece's lenders object to parts of its austerity plan
• Death toll rises to 51 in Baghdad blasts: sources
• Explosion hits Syrian city of Aleppo, kills 17: state media
• Russian Orthodox Church under attack: Patriarch
• Obama gets a rise out of a Fla. supporter
• RPT-WRAPUP 2-Asia-Pacific nations pledge growth, fret over economy
• Greek gov't fails to agree on spending cuts
• Factbox: Chicago teachers dispute is over school reform, money
• Obama courts Florida voters over Medicare, space policy
• Gaddafi son's Libya trial to be delayed by five months: official
• Joe Biden Calls GOP a 'Different Breed of Cat'
• Romney blasts debt-ceiling deal that Ryan backed
• Anniversary of 9/11 marked under cloud of health problems, funding fights
• France's Hollande says 75 percent tax to last around two years

Obama vies for health care edge in Florida Posted: 09 Sep 2012 02:13 PM PDT Mitt Romney said he would retain some popular parts of the new health care law he has pledged to repeal, while President Barack Obama focused attention in all-important Florida on the Republican ticket's stand on Medicare, an issue that's been more favorable to Democrats.

Obama gets a rise out of a Fla. supporter Posted: 09 Sep 2012 12:47 PM PDT If President Barack Obama was looking for a lift in Florida, he got one from Scott Van Duzer.

Obama knocks Romney's 'bad math' on tax plan Posted: 09 Sep 2012 09:58 AM PDT President Barack Obama says Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan get a failing grade on explaining how they'd pay for trillions of dollars in tax cuts.

Joe Biden buddies up to Ohio bikers Posted: 09 Sep 2012 03:10 PM PDT Vice President Joe Biden was looking to cozy up with voters as he toured Ohio this weekend, but he did not imagine that an Ohio woman would nearly end up in his lap.

Italy's Monti warns EU debt crisis eroding common values Posted: 09 Sep 2012 02:42 PM PDT SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Europe's debt crisis is undermining the common values that once united the continent and the single currency risks opening up new rifts across the European Union, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said on Sunday. Calling for the 27-nation bloc to reclaim the values of tolerance, solidarity and the common good upon which he said it was built, Monti said Europe was in the grip of a crisis that went far beyond its economic problems. ...

Mexican opposition leader Lopez Obrador leaves coalition Posted: 09 Sep 2012 02:39 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican opposition leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who twice contested second-place losses in presidential elections, said on Sunday he would leave his coalition, a move that threatens to create a rift among leftists in Congress. "I have separated from the parties that form the Progressive Movement," Lopez Obrador said. "This isn't a rupture, I leave in the best of terms." Lopez Obrador said he would dedicate all his efforts to change Mexico with a new organization called Morena that has yet to be legally incorporated as a party. ...

Al Qaeda in the Maghreb commander dies in Mali: Algerian official Posted: 09 Sep 2012 02:37 PM PDT ALGIERS (Reuters) - A senior commander of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb died in a car accident in northern Mali on Sunday, an Algerian security official said. Nabil Sahrawi, an Algerian national who is also known as Abu Olqoma, was a military commander of AQIM in the Sahara desert and the deputy of Abdelhamid Abu Zeid, one of AQIM's leading field commanders in the Sahara desert. Abu Zeid is believed by many security experts to have ordered the killing of two foreigners kidnapped by his group, Frenchman Michel Germaneau and Briton Edwin Dyer. ...

Mali Islamists say army killing of preachers declaration of war Posted: 09 Sep 2012 02:37 PM PDT BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali Islamic militant group MUJWA said on Sunday the killing of 16 Muslim preachers including eight Mauritanians and eight Malians by an army patrol in Mali was a declaration of war. The Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJWA) is one of the Islamic groups that has hijacked a Tuareg rebellion in northern Mali since April with the intention of imposing sharia law in the country. "With this barbaric act that was not warranted, I don't see any future for Malian army or the Malian government because we are going to continue our southward push to Bamako. ...

President Obama Gets Post-Convention 'Boost' Posted: 09 Sep 2012 02:28 PM PDT WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Obama is hoping to get a boost from Florida voters, but today he may have gotten more of a lift than he bargained for. Making a surprise stop at the Big Apple Pasta & Pizza Restaurant in Ft. Pierce,...

Simultaneous bombs hit army compounds in Aleppo Posted: 09 Sep 2012 02:15 PM PDT AMMAN (Reuters) - Two bombs exploded simultaneously on Sunday night next to Syrian army compounds in the northern city of Aleppo, killing and wounding scores of President Bashar al-Assad's forces, residents and opposition activists said. The bombs targeted makeshift barracks and the military police headquarters, situated in two adjacent sealed off districts in the centre of the city, said several residents and opposition campaigners from Aleppo. The state news agency said an explosion near a hospital and a school in the Municipal Stadium district killed 17 people and wounded at least 40. ...

Obama vies for health care edge in Florida Posted: 09 Sep 2012 02:13 PM PDT Mitt Romney said he would retain some popular parts of the new health care law he has pledged to repeal, while President Barack Obama focused attention in all-important Florida on the Republican ticket's stand on Medicare, an issue that's been more favorable to Democrats.

House chairman visits AF base reeling from scandal Posted: 09 Sep 2012 02:11 PM PDT The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee is assessing how the Air Force is responding to a widening sex scandal.

Obama Blasts Romney's Medicare Plan in Appeal to Florida Seniors Posted: 09 Sep 2012 02:11 PM PDT MELBOURNE, Fla. — Courting senior voters in the key swing state of Florida, President Obama today ramped up his attack against Mitt Romney's Medicare plan, saying the GOP presidential nominee would increase health care costs for retired Americans and bankrupt the popular entitlement program. "I...

France's Hollande vows to revive economy in two years Posted: 09 Sep 2012 01:59 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande on Sunday promised to turn the country's stagnant economy round by 2014 and set himself a year-end deadline to ready labor market reform. The pledge, made to the nation in a prime time television interview, comes four months into his presidency as tumbling ratings and talk of inertia have forced him to become more proactive on the economy. "I am in a battle and will not look back," he said. "I am setting up a calendar ... two years to create a policy for work and competitiveness. I am accelerating," he said. ...

Iraq blasts kill 100 as fugitive VP gets death sentence Posted: 09 Sep 2012 01:57 PM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Car bombs tore through mainly Shi'ite Baghdad districts on Sunday after Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi was sentenced to death, as more than 100 people were killed across the country in one of the bloodiest days this year. Hashemi's sentencing in absentia and the violence threatened to further stoke sectarian tensions in Iraq where a Shi'ite-led government is battling political deadlock and a Sunni Islamist insurgency nine months after U.S. troops left. ...

EU to propose steps to keep ECB from dominating regulator Posted: 09 Sep 2012 01:45 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union will propose a panel of experts to adjudicate banking rule breaches, as an extra layer of protection so that the European Central Bank cannot impose its will on the pan-EU banking regulator when the ECB takes over supervision of euro zone banks. Under a proposed banking union for the euro zone countries, the ECB is meant to take over primary supervisory power for the 6,000 banks in the 17 countries using the euro. ...

Hustler Magazine Offers Million Dollar Reward for Romney Tax Returns Posted: 09 Sep 2012 01:45 PM PDT One of the nation's top pornographers is offering a $1 million bounty for the publishing rights to a different kind of booty. Larry Flynt and his publication, Hustler Magazine, have taken out a full-page advertisement in today's Washington Post offering the reward for anyone who...

Obama maintains post-convention lead over Romney Posted: 09 Sep 2012 01:40 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama remained ahead of Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney in a Reuters/Ipsos released on Sunday, maintaining a boost in popularity that followed the Democratic National Convention. Of the 1,419 likely voters polled online over the previous four days, 47 percent said they would vote for Obama and 43 percent for Romney if the November 6 U.S. election were held today. ...

France's Hollande warns economy to stall in 2013 Posted: 09 Sep 2012 01:37 PM PDT French President Francois Hollande is blaming a worse-than-expected economic slowdown for new cuts in the government's growth forecast.

Greece's lenders object to parts of its austerity plan Posted: 09 Sep 2012 01:24 PM PDT ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's foreign lenders have rejected parts of a nearly 12-billion-euro austerity package prepared by the government, Greek officials said on Sunday as the two sides resumed talks after a month-long hiatus. The so-called "troika" of inspectors from the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund returned to Athens on Friday to conclude a report on Greece's progress in meeting the terms of its latest bailout. The inspectors, who held talks with Greece's finance minister on Sunday, must approve the plan to trim roughly 11. ...

Death toll rises to 51 in Baghdad blasts: sources Posted: 09 Sep 2012 01:04 PM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The death toll from a series of car bombs in six mainly Shi'ite districts around Baghdad rose to 51 on Sunday, bringing the number of people killed in a bloody day of attacks across Iraq to at least 109, police and hospital officials said. (Reporting by Kareem Raheem; writing by Barry Malone)

Explosion hits Syrian city of Aleppo, kills 17: state media Posted: 09 Sep 2012 12:55 PM PDT AMMAN (Reuters) - An explosion ripped through the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday killing 17 people and wounding 40, the official Syrian state news agency said. The agency said the explosion occurred near a hospital and a school, which residents said were being used to house soldiers fighting an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. (Reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Amman newsroom, editing by Diana Abdallah)

Russian Orthodox Church under attack: Patriarch Posted: 09 Sep 2012 12:53 PM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - The head of the Russian Orthodox Church used a Sunday prayer service and a state TV interview to argue that the church he presides over is under attack from foes he said fear its post-Soviet revival and want to destroy its places of worship. Patriarch Kirill did not name punk music group Pussy Riot but was clearly referring to the collective, three of whose members were sentenced to jail for performing a "punk prayer" at the altar of a Moscow cathedral during which they criticized President Vladimir Putin. ...

Obama gets a rise out of a Fla. supporter Posted: 09 Sep 2012 12:47 PM PDT If President Barack Obama was looking for a lift in Florida, he got one from Scott Van Duzer.

RPT-WRAPUP 2-Asia-Pacific nations pledge growth, fret over economy Posted: 09 Sep 2012 12:40 PM PDT (Repeats with no changes) * APEC leaders promise growth, better food security * Summit promises trade liberalisation, free markets * Russia and US look to Asia for economic growth VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Asia-Pacific nationsincluding China, the United States and Japan promised measuresto boost growth on Sunday and rejected limits on food exports totry to revive the flagging global economy. ...

Greek gov't fails to agree on spending cuts Posted: 09 Sep 2012 12:32 PM PDT The leaders of the three parties in Greece's coalition government failed to agree Sunday on a package of spending cuts worth €11.5 billion ($14.7 billion), a raft of measures the prime minister had said is crucial to restoring the country's financial credibility and sustaining its bailout funding.

Factbox: Chicago teachers dispute is over school reform, money Posted: 09 Sep 2012 12:26 PM PDT (Reuters) - Chicago public school teachers are threatening to strike on Monday for the first time since 1987 in a clash with Mayor Rahm Emanuel that has national implications because many states and cities are grappling with similar tight budgets and underperforming schools. Here are some of the key issues, and the stakes, in the Chicago dispute. NATIONAL SCOPE: A walkout by Chicago teachers would be the largest private- or public-sector strike in the United States in a year. ...

Obama courts Florida voters over Medicare, space policy Posted: 09 Sep 2012 12:13 PM PDT MELBOURNE, Florida (Reuters) - President Barack Obama defended his policy on outer space and warned seniors that Republicans would raise their healthcare costs during a campaign stop on Sunday in Florida, where he is seeking to sway undecided voters to help him win the state. The Democratic incumbent is wrapping up a two-day bus tour of this political battleground state after making targeted appeals to specific voting blocs he needs: independents, Latinos and senior citizens. ...

Gaddafi son's Libya trial to be delayed by five months: official Posted: 09 Sep 2012 12:02 PM PDT TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The trial of Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam will be delayed by five months to include any relevant testimony obtained via the interrogation of Libya's former spy chief who was arrested last week, the prosecutor general office said on Sunday. Government officials said in August Saif al-Islam's trial on charges of war crimes - the most high-profile prosecution of a figure from his late father's entourage to date - was due to begin in September. ...

Joe Biden Calls GOP a 'Different Breed of Cat' Posted: 09 Sep 2012 11:56 AM PDT PORTSMOUTH, Ohio – Vice President Joe Biden often proclaims how different the Republican Party is from generations ago, but in Portsmouth, Ohio, today, he had a new way to describe them – a "different breed of cat." "They're not bad guys. It's just a different,...

Romney blasts debt-ceiling deal that Ryan backed Posted: 09 Sep 2012 11:54 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Sunday denounced last year's bipartisan debt-ceiling deal that helped avert an unprecedented U.S. government debt default even though one of its backers was his running mate, Paul Ryan. Without mentioning Ryan by name, Romney called the agreement between the White House and top congressional Republicans "a big mistake," citing potential big defense spending cuts that could come as part of the deal. ...

Anniversary of 9/11 marked under cloud of health problems, funding fights Posted: 09 Sep 2012 11:52 AM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eleven years after the September 11, 2001, attacks, New Yorkers will mark the anniversary on Tuesday against a backdrop of health concerns for emergency workers and a feud over financing that has stopped construction of the $1 billion Ground Zero museum. While notable progress on redevelopment of the World Trade Center has been made since early disputes over financial, design and security issues, the project remains hobbled by political battles and billions of dollars in cost overruns. ...

France's Hollande says 75 percent tax to last around two years Posted: 09 Sep 2012 11:47 AM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande said on Sunday that a planned 75 percent upper tax rate to be imposed on annual income above 1 million euros ($1.28 million) could be dropped after around two years in place. "Once the economy has recovered it can be dropped," Hollande said in an interview with TF1 television, adding that his aim was for the recovery to take around two years. (Reporting By Catherine Bremer; Editing by John Irish)

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