UK's Labour backs down on vote on scrapping nuclear weapons
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Labour Party has decided to leave the country’s nuclear weapons alone.
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IS shuts playgrounds in east Syria city: monitor
The extremist Islamic State group has closed playgrounds in a Syrian city because they were being used as a meeting place for unrelated men and women, a monitor said Sunday. “IS has shut down playgrounds in the city of Mayadeen in the eastern Deir Ezzor province… under the pretext that there was mixing between men and women bringing their children to play,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The
After success with Iran, pope, next stop for Obama is UN
NEW YORK (AP) — Fresh from successes on Iran and with the pope, President Barack Obama still carried heavy burdens into critical meetings this week at the U.N. General Assembly.
Clashes rock Jerusalem mosque compound with holy week ahead
Palestinians and Israeli security forces clashed at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Sunday, with further trouble feared in the week ahead as Jews celebrate the Sukkot holiday. The Sukkot holiday which started at sunset is expected to lead to an increase in Jewish visitors to the Al-Aqsa compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount. In Sunday’s disturbances, young masked Palestinians “threw stones and fireworks at police and border
China vows billions of development dollars, debt forgiveness
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China’s president on Saturday pledged billions in aid and said Beijing will forgive debts due this year in an effort to help the world’s poorest nations, as world leaders begin to seek the trillions of dollars needed to help achieve sweeping new development goals.
Rooney on target as Manchester United beats Sunderland 3-0
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Memphis Depay scored his first ever Premier League goal and Wayne Rooney added his first of the season as Manchester United beat Sunderland 3-0 to go top of the standings on Saturday.
Former champions Simon and Tsonga in Open de Moselle final
METZ, France (AP) — Gilles Simon will face fellow Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in Sunday’s Open de Moselle final, with both men looking for a historic third victory in Metz.
Latest: South Africa leads Samoa 17-6 at halftime in RWC
LONDON (AP) — Latest developments at the Rugby World Cup. All times local:
Islamic State frees Kurdish photographer in prisoner swap: press watchdog
Islamic State militants have freed a Kurdish photographer they kidnapped last year in northeastern Syria as part of a prisoner swap with a Kurdish militia, the press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders said on Friday. The jihadists, who control large areas of Iraq and Syria, are still holding a Kurdish reporter they kidnapped at the same time, RSF said in a statement. Massoud Aqeel was released on Sep. 21 under
Egyptian police kill nine Muslim Brotherhood members in Cairo raid
Egyptian security forces killed nine armed members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood in a raid on a Cairo home on Friday, security officials said. “The Brotherhood members clashed with security forces,” said one of the officials, adding that they were meeting to plan what he called “terrorist attacks”. The Brotherhood, which was removed from power by the army in 2013, has accused authorities in the Arab world’s largest state of