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China's Xi tells Vietnam wants peace in South China Sea
Reuters - 7 hours agoBy Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping told his visiting Vietnamese counterpart of Wednesday that maintaining peace and stability in the contested South China Sea was vital for both countries, who should remember their traditional friendship. Beijing's assertion of sovereignty over a vast stretch of the South China Sea has set it directly against Vietnam and the Philippines, while Brunei, Taiwan and Malaysia also lay claim to other parts of the sea, making it Asia's biggest potential military troublespot. At stake are potentially massive offshore oil reserves. ... More »China's Xi tells Vietnam wants peace in South China Sea
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NSA Chief: Spying 'Foiled 50 Terror Plots'
Sky News - 14 hours agoThe US government's sweeping surveillance programmes have foiled some 50 terrorist plots worldwide, the director of the National Security Agency has said. More »NSA Chief: Spying 'Foiled 50 Terror Plots'
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Afghans must talk to each other for peace, Obama says
Reuters - 11 hours agoBy Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday Afghans must talk to each other to resolve the conflict in their country even though huge mistrust exists between the government and its Taliban foes. Obama was speaking in Berlin a day after the United States said it would begin talks with the Taliban on Thursday to try to seek a negotiated peace to 12 years of war - a move that has deeply upset President Hamid Karzai's U.S.-backed government. ... More »Afghans must talk to each other for peace, Obama says
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North Korea repeats offer for nuclear talks
Reuters - 9 hours agoBy Ben Blanchard and Michael Martina BEIJING (Reuters) - A top North Korean diplomat repeated an offer for international talks over his country's disputed nuclear program during a meeting in China on Wednesday, saying the denuclearization of the peninsula was the "dying wish" of North Korea's founder. The Beijing trip by First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan comes just days after North Korea offered talks with the United States to ease tension that spiked this year when the North threatened the United States and South Korea with nuclear war. ... More »North Korea repeats offer for nuclear talks
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U.S. talks with Taliban likely to take place within 'next few days': U.S. official
Reuters - 2 hours 30 minutes agoWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. talks with the Taliban are likely to be held within the "next few days" in Qatar, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday, after delays caused by tensions over the naming of a new Taliban office in the capital, Doha. A senior U.S. official told Reuters on Tuesday the talks would take place on Thursday. Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday his government would not join the peace talks with the Taliban, angered by a banner on the front of the new offices referring to the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the name the Taliban used during their rule. ... More »U.S. talks with Taliban likely to take place within 'next few days': U.S. official
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Indonesia To 'Make Rain' To End Sumatra Fires
Sky News - 6 hours agoIndonesia is to use weather changing technology to try to produce rain to put out raging fires on Sumatra island that have cloaked neighbouring Singapore in thick haze. More »Indonesia To 'Make Rain' To End Sumatra Fires
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Dreamliner Diverted In Latest Boeing Setback
Sky News - 11 hours agoA Boeing 787 Dreamliner has landed safely after being diverted when pilots were made aware of a potential oil filter problem. More »Dreamliner Diverted In Latest Boeing Setback
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Jimmy Hoffa: Detroit FBI Calls Off Field Dig
Sky News - 4 hours agoA search of a field north of Detroit has failed to turn up the remains of former union boss Jimmy Hoffa, the FBI has said. More »Jimmy Hoffa: Detroit FBI Calls Off Field Dig
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Singapore's air turns "hazardous" as Indonesian fires rage
Reuters - 5 hours agoBy Kevin Lim and Eveline Danubrata SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's air quality deteriorated to "hazardous" levels late on Wednesday as smoke from slash-and-burn land clearing in Indonesia enveloped the city-state, inflaming tensions between the Southeast Asian neighbours. Singapore, a major financial centre, will send a delegation to Jakarta on Thursday to discuss the smog that has turned its usually clear skies grey, Environment Minister Vivian Balakrishnan told a news conference. ... More »Singapore's air turns "hazardous" as Indonesian fires rage
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Afghanistan suspends security pact talks with U.S.
Reuters - 15 hours agoKABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has decided to suspend talks on a security pact with the United States, accusing Washington of mixed messages regarding peace talks with the Taliban, his spokesman said on Wednesday. "In a special meeting chaired by President Hamid Karzai, the president has decided to suspend talks about a security pact with the U.S. because of their inconsistent statements and actions in regard to the peace process," spokesman Aimal Faizi told Reuters. ... More »Afghanistan suspends security pact talks with U.S.
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ANALYSIS - Putin basks in isolation over Syria as Obama's charm falls flat
Reuters - 3 hours agoBy Guy Faulconbridge and Timothy Heritage ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland/MOSCOW (Reuters) - At the end of a tense two-hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama - slumped over and serious - tried to lighten the mood with a joke about their favourite sports. "And finally, we compared notes on President Putin's expertise in judo and my declining skills in basketball," the U.S. president told reporters at the G8 summit, after the two men gave formal statements emphasising their common ground rather than their sharp differences on how to end the Syrian crisis. ... More »ANALYSIS - Putin basks in isolation over Syria as Obama's charm falls flat
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Alaska Baking In Unusually Strong Heatwave
Sky News - 9 hours agoPeople in Alaska are having a surprise heatwave, with temperatures climbing above 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26C). More »Alaska Baking In Unusually Strong Heatwave
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Afghan officials say U.S. broke promise on Taliban office
Reuters - 5 hours agoBy Hamid Shalizi and Dylan Welch KABUL (Reuters) - - Senior Afghan officials accused the United States on Wednesday of breaking written assurances to Kabul that a new Taliban office in Qatar would not be used as a de facto diplomatic mission. The accusation, by two senior Afghan officials speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, came hours after Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced the suspension of negotiations with the United States on a troop pact, and said his government would not join U.S. peace talks with the Taliban, announced on Tuesday, until such talks were led by Afghans. ... More »Afghan officials say U.S. broke promise on Taliban office
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Obama says reports US ready for war in Syria are exaggerated
Reuters - 11 hours agoBERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday reports that the United States was ready to go to war in Syria were exaggerated and he also reiterated his view that the Damascus government had used chemical weapons and could not regain legitimacy. "Some of the stories that have been out there publicly have gotten a little overcranked in terms of the idea that somehow the United States is preparing to go all in and participate in another war. What we want to do is end a war," Obama said. "We're confident that in fact the (Syrian) government has used chemical weapons. ... More »Obama says reports US ready for war in Syria are exaggerated
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United States to meet Taliban to seek Afghan peace
Reuters - 19 hours agoBy Mark Felsenthal, Warren Strobel and Hamid Shalizi WASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) - The United States and the Taliban raised hopes for a negotiated peace in Afghanistan with commitments to meet this week after 12 years of bloody and costly war between American-led forces and the insurgents. The Taliban opened an office in Doha, the Qatari capital, on Tuesday to help restart talks and said it wanted a political solution that would bring about a just government and end foreign occupation of Afghanistan. U.S. ... More »United States to meet Taliban to seek Afghan peace
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Taliban confirms talks with U.S. in Qatar on Thursday
Reuters - 7 hours agoDUBAI (Reuters) - The Taliban's spokesman in Qatar said representatives of the Afghan insurgency would meet U.S. officials for preliminary peace talks on Thursday but no time had been set. The spokesman, Mohammed Naeem, told Reuters by telephone that no Afghan government officials would be at the meeting. A team of U.S. negotiators arrived in Qatar earlier on Wednesday and held a meeting with Afghan diplomats in the Qatari capital. U.S. ... More »Taliban confirms talks with U.S. in Qatar on Thursday
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Friends of Syria to meet Saturday in Doha -France
Reuters - 6 hours agoPARIS (Reuters) - The main nations making up the Friends of Syria will meet on Saturday in Doha to discuss assistance for the Free Syrian Army following recent successes by government forces, a French foreign ministry official said. The meeting will be attended by foreign ministers from the 11 countries making up the core of the pro-rebel alliance, including France, the United States, Britain, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, the official added, speaking on condition of anonymity. ... More »Friends of Syria to meet Saturday in Doha -France
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Taliban in Qatar says no clear definition of terrorism
Reuters - 6 hours agoDUBAI (Reuters) - The Taliban's spokesman in Qatar, addressing a key issue in upcoming Afghan peace talks, said on Wednesday there was no clear definition of terrorism but suggested the Islamist group would one day clarify what it understood by the term. Speaking in brief remarks to Reuters, Mohammed Naeem, the group's spokesman in Qatar, was asked whether it would comply with a U.S. demand that it renounce al Qaeda during impending talks with U.S. negotiators in the Gulf Arab state. Naeem said: "There is no clear definition of what terrorism is ... ... More »Taliban in Qatar says no clear definition of terrorism
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Rajoy says to trim Spain's bureaucracy, but coy on jobs, savings
Reuters - 10 hours agoBy Blanca Rodríguez MADRID (Reuters) - Spain will cut red tape and shut down redundant institutions in an overhaul of state bureaucracy, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Wednesday, putting no figure on potential savings or job losses. Rajoy said the central state should close many of its 4,800 separate bank accounts while all levels of government could unify contracting of power, cleaning and telephone services and get rid of overlapping energy and competition watchdogs. ... More »Rajoy says to trim Spain's bureaucracy, but coy on jobs, savings
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