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Beersheba Attack: Eritrean Mistaken for Terrorist Is Shot, Beaten - NBC News - 0 views

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  • An Eritrean man was shot in a case of mistaken identity and then beaten by a mob as a terror attack unfolded in southern Israel, officials said Monday.
  • Zarhum later succumbed to his wounds, and police said an investigation is underway to bring those who beat him to justice.
  • Police identified the sole assailant as Mohand al-Okabi, a 21-year-old Bedouin from the village of Hura, and said SWAT teams arrested a member of his family on suspicion of aiding him in the attack.
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  • The Beersheba attack came amid heightened tensions over a wave of stabbings, shootings and clashes in Israel and the West Bank which has killed at least 42 Palestinians and eight Israelis.
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Migrant crisis: Thousands stranded at Balkan borders - BBC News - 0 views

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  • Migrant crisis: Thousands stranded at Balkan borders
  • Several hundred, including young children and babies, spent the night in the open at Croatia's border with Slovenia.
  • Hundreds of thousands of migrants, many from Syria, Africa and Afghanistan, have been making their way from Turkey to the Balkans in recent months, in a bid to reach Germany, Sweden and other EU states.
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  • On the Croatia-Slovenia border, 500 people spent the night in the open at Trnovec. A further 1,800-2,000 slept on a train held on the Croatian side of the border. Officials told them they could stay temporarily in Croatia or try to make their own way into Slovenia.
  • Authorities and aid agencies seemed completely unprepared. There were no tents or shelter of any kind for the migrants - who included a large number of young children and babies.
  • "The Republic of Croatia is not listening to any of our requests," he said. "This is totally unacceptable. We cannot by ourselves prevent the arrival of migrants."Croatia's Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic rejected the accusation and said the Slovenes kept changing the numbers of migrants they were willing to take in.
  • The International Migration Organization said on Monday that arrivals to Greece from Turkey were continuing at a rate of about 5,000 a day.
  • More than 600,000 people, most of them Syrians, have reached Europe so far this year compared with just over 200,000 for the whole of 2014Germany has said it expects 800,000 asylum seekers this year, but it is believed the number could be as high as 1.5 million.
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Syria conflict: Russia strikes 'will fuel extremism' - BBC News - 1 views

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  • Syria conflict: Russia strikes 'will fuel extremism'
  • Meanwhile, reports say IS fighters have attacked a government airbase in eastern Syria.
  • A senior Russian official says the air strikes could last for three to four months.Alexei Pushkov, the head of the foreign affairs committee in Russia's parliament, added that the US had only "pretended" to bomb IS and promised that Russia's campaign would be much more effective.
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  • The Russian air force began air strikes in Syria on Wednesday.
  • The Russian defence ministry said it had attacked the IS stronghold of Raqqa on Thursday.
  • The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a training camp and a camouflaged command post near Raqaa were hit, and 12 IS fighters were killed.
  • The warning from members of the US-led coalition came as the French and Russian presidents met in Paris. The meeting was called to discuss peace efforts in Ukraine, but these are expected to be overshadowed by Syria.
  • He said this position was the same as that of the US-led coalition, which has been carrying out air strikes in Iraq and Syria for the past year."We are not supporting anyone against their own people. We fight terrorism," he said.
  • The propaganda videos are doubtless already being prepared. The Russians are, after all, the same historic enemy fought by the Mujahideen in Afghanistan throughout the 1980s and eventually defeated (with US, Saudi and Pakistani help).
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Hillary Aides Knew of Private Email Risks - The Daily Beast - 0 views

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  • Hillary Aides Knew of Private Email Risks
  • In one June 2011 email, recently-departed Director of Policy Planning Anne-Marie Slaughter wrote that senior State Department officials, “routinely end up using their home email accounts” due to the antiquated nature of the State Department’s technology, and that someone inside or outside the department should issue a statement or op-ed on the “woeful state” of affairs.
  • On another email chain, in July 2011, Clinton joked about being hacked by the Chinese. After not being able to find the email of a State Department staffer, she wrote: “must be the Chinese!”
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  • More than 37 percent of the Clinton’s email collection held by State has now been released.
  • Clinton aide Jake Sullivan also expressed concerns, according to the email thread, leading Slaughter to back off from the idea. “Perhaps a better approach is to make the point more quietly to legislators through H[illary],” she concludes.
  • . If an attachment was opened, the AP noted, hackers would have been able to take control of Clinton’s computer.
  • Much of the attention on the Democratic presidential favorite’s personal email account has been drawn by the special committee expressly set up by House Republicans to investigate the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, which killed four Americans including the U.S. Ambassador.
  • Democrats pointed out that the committee has spent $4.5 million and has been around longer than the committee set up to investigate Watergate.
  • “Taxpayer dollars should be spent to improve the quality of life for the American people, not to fuel a naked political attack,” said the top Democrat on the committee, Rep. Adam Smith.
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Taliban widen offensive as Nato special forces join fight for Kunduz | World news | The... - 0 views

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  • Taliban widen offensive as Nato special forces join fight for Kunduz
  • Nato special forces officially flown in to “advise and assist” Afghan commandos and ordinary troops joined combat in the early hours of the morning, spokesman Col Brian Tribus told Reuters news agency.
  • Kunduz is the first major city in Afghanistan to come under Taliban control since 2001.
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  • If the airport falls, the Taliban will control all access to the city, making any operation to claim it back much more challenging.
  • According to local people, Taliban fighters are walking the streets freely inside Kunduz assuring people they do not intend to harm civilians, in an apparent attempt to win local support.
  • The UN estimated that at least 100 civilians had already been killed in the fighting, and that up to 6,000 civilians had fled.
  • The fall of Kunduz is a powerful propaganda victory for the Taliban, a demonstration of unity and strength under Mansoor, after the group was roiled by news that founding leader Mullah Omar had been dead for several years.
  • Barack Obama is aiming for a withdrawal to a troop size small enough to be housed at the US embassy in Kabul by the end of 2016, but critics in Washington insist that is premature.
  • The top US commander in Afghanistan, Gen John Campbell, has previously advised against the planned withdrawal of American troops, arguing that it would put the country’s security forces at risk of losing more ground.
  • “Everybody knew this was a threat, but nobody took it seriously,” Ali said. “Kunduz fell into the hands of the Taliban because of lack of political leadership, and lack of military leadership in responding to the crisis.”
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Stampede kills hundreds at Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Stampede kills more than 700 at Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca
  • The stampede occurred Thursday morning during the ritual known as "stoning the devil" in a tent city in Mina, about two miles from the holy site in Mecca, Islam's holiest city.
  • The incident is the deadliest disaster at Mina since 1990, when 1,426 people died.
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  • In the ritual, crowds of pilgrims throw stones at three pillars in a re-enactment of when the Prophet Abraham stoned the devil and rejected his temptations, according to Muslim traditions.
  • "Regardless of the investigation results, the improvement of the methods and mechanisms of the Hajj season will not stop. We have instructed the concerned entities to re-evaluate the current policy and the distribution of responsibilities," he said.
  • On September 11, just days before this year's Hajj started, a construction crane crashed through the roof of another Hajj destination, the Grand Mosque in Mecca, killing 107 people. At least 238 others suffered injuries when a powerful storm toppled the crane.Losing one's life during the Hajj season is considered by many devout Muslims as an entry to heaven.
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Migrant crisis: EU ministers attempt to resolve quota row - BBC News - 0 views

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  • Migrant crisis: EU ministers attempt to resolve quota row
  • European Union ministers are meeting to try to resolve a dispute over how to relocate 120,000 asylum seekers who have recently arrived in Europe.
  • Who are the 120,000?
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  • Refugees and migrants have been walking over the border from Hungary. The young men come first, waving and asking: "Is this Austria?"
  • The UK, under an opt-out, would not be part of the relocation scheme but has already agreed to take 20,000 migrants directly from countries bordering Syria over the next five years.The Irish Republic and Denmark, with similar opt-outs, have agreed to take part in the EU scheme.
  • The relocation scheme would prioritise migrants recognised as "in need of international protection" - those from Syria, Eritrea and Iraq, according to EU data.
  • Some apply for asylum in Austria but most say they want to go on to Germany.
  • "A relocation programme alone, at this stage in the crisis, will not be enough to stabilise the situation," spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said.
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Putin's Pre-U.N. Charm Offensive: Fake or Breakthrough? - The Daily Beast - 0 views

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  • Putin’s Pre-U.N. Charm Offensive: Fake or Breakthrough?
  • Moscow think tanks believe the carefully planned and staged remarks were meant to send two important signals to the West before Putin’s meetings at the United Nations General Assembly later this month: First, he is ready to freeze the war in Eastern Ukraine, and secondly, he wants to join the West in the fight against ISIS, the so-called Islamic State, in Syria.
  • The man asked Putin when the leader would go ahead and turn Donbas, as eastern Ukraine is called, into a part of Russia, as happened with Crimea.
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  • Putin answered the man’s question in a long statement, insisting that the only path to regulating the crisis lay in the existing Minsk agreements between Moscow and Kiev.
  • Kashin said that ideally, for Russia, the disputed territory would gradually become a region on the Russian border similar to Transnistria in Moldova, which is under Moscow’s domination but not part of Russia.
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