Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Syria's political opposition hopes Hillary Clinton wins the election and other top stories.

  • Syria's political opposition hopes Hillary Clinton wins the election

    Syria's political opposition hopes Hillary Clinton wins the election
    Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Thomson Reuters Syria's political opposition hopes Hillary Clinton wins the U.S. presidential election next week because she has a better understanding of the conflict than Donald Trump, according to members of a delegation holding talks at the United Nations. Khaled Khoja and Hind Kabawat, in Geneva on Monday to press for U.N.-led negotiations on the release of Syrian detainees, said they trusted Clinton, a former U.S..
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  • Mosul: Iraqi PM vows to 'chop the head off the snake'

    Mosul: Iraqi PM vows to 'chop the head off the snake'
    Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push toward key cityIraqi forces run for cover after a mortar shell struck near the village of Bazwaya, on the eastern edges of Mosul, Iraq, on Monday, October 31. An Iraqi-led offensive is underway to reclaim Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city and the last major stronghold for ISIS in the country. Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push toward key cityAn Iraqi soldier receives treatment after being injured during clashes with ISIS fighters near B..
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  • Pakistani opposition says two supporters killed by "expired" tear gas in c...

    Pakistani opposition says two supporters killed by
    ISLAMABAD Pakistan's second-largest opposition party said on Tuesday that two of its supporters have died from police use of tear gas to prevent hundreds of supporters from entering the capital, Islamabad, for a planned protest demanding the prime minister step down."Two of our workers have been killed due to excessive use of expired tear-gas shells," said Shah Mehmood Qureshi, a senior leader of opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) said on local Geo TV.Local authorities could not i..
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  • South Korea: President's confidante detained

    South Korea: President's confidante detained
    Prosecutors placed Choi Soon-sil, who has been described as a Rasputin-like character, under "emergency detention" late Monday, Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office tells CNN. Choi is South Korean President Park Geun-hye's friend and an informal adviser whose access to confidential government documents has led to noisy demands for Park's ouster, with thousands taking to the streets last weekend demanding that she step down.According to South Korean criminal law, an individual can be placed..
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  • Leaked memo shows North Korea's Kim Jong Il sought friendlier U.S. relations

    Leaked memo shows North Korea's Kim Jong Il sought friendlier U.S. relations
    SEOUL, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Former President Bill Clinton suggested to Kim Jong Il a return to the six-party talks in 2009, when Clinton went to North Korea to seek the release of two U.S. journalists who had been detained in the country. An archived message posted on the website WikiLeaks that was included in a batch of hacked email messages belonging to Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta includes an extensive 8-page memo on the historic meeting between Clinton and Kim. While the two never met..
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  • Investigating Donald Trump, FBI Sees No Clear Link to Russia

    Investigating Donald Trump, FBI Sees No Clear Link to Russia
    The F.B.I.’s inquiries into Russia’s possible role continue, as does the investigation into the emails involving Mrs. Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin, on a computer she shared with her estranged husband, Anthony D. Weiner. Mrs. Clinton’s supporters argue that voters have as much right to know what the F.B.I. has found in Mr. Trump’s case, even if the findings are not yet conclusive. “You do not hear the director talking about any other investigation he is involved in,” Representative Gregory W...
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  • Hezbollah Ally Elected as Lebanon's New Head of State

    Hezbollah Ally Elected as Lebanon's New Head of State
    BEIRUT — Lebanon's parliament elected former army commander Michel Aoun as president on Monday, filling a post that had been vacant for more than two years and injecting hope that the country's long-running political paralysis would come to an end.But the 81-year-old retired general who presided over the final bloody chapters of the Lebanese civil war and is a strong Hezbollah ally has an unenviable task ahead — forming a government out of the country's unruly political factions and dealing wi..
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  • On Duterte's heels, Malaysia is the next Asian country to embrace China

    On Duterte's heels, Malaysia is the next Asian country to embrace China
    BEIJING — Malaysia’s prime minister arrived in China on Monday with warm words for his hosts, a thirst for Chinese money and, for the first time, a promise of significantly closer defense ties with the purchase of Chinese naval ­coastal patrol ships. Najib Razak called himself a “true friend” of China, determined to take their relationship to “new heights” — echoing the pro-China outreach by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte two weeks ago when he proclaimed a “separation” from his country’s..
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  • SIMI activists' encounter: Their families approach high court, seek CBI probe

    SIMI activists' encounter: Their families approach high court, seek CBI probe
    Bhopal: A day after eight SIMI activists were killed in an alleged police encounter following a daring prison break in Bhopal, their families have decided to approach the Madhya Pradesh High Court seeking a CBI probe into what they dubbed as "cold-blooded murders"."The families of the deceased have come to me and are weeping inconsolably for justice. We are going to move the MP High Court for a CBI probe into the entire incident," lawyer Parvez Alam told PTI."It is surprising that the authoritie..
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  • Italian quake survivors resist relocation

    Italian quake survivors resist relocation
    NORCIA, Italy — Residents of a mountainous region of central Italy displaced by a series of powerful earthquakes resisted being relocated Monday and appealed for campers and tents so they could remain close to their homes and businesses.The latest quake, on Sunday morning — magnitude 6.6, the strongest to hit Italy in 36 years — caused no deaths or serious injuries, largely because vulnerable city centers were already closed and many homes were vacant due to previous quakes. Advertisement Bu..
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