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INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Saturday 2 November 2013
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Largest camp for Syrian refugees becoming a city The manager of the re gion's largest camp for Syrian refugees arranges toy figures, trucks and houses on a map in his office trailer to illustrate his ambitious vision. In a year, he wants to turn the chaotic shantytown of more than 100,000 people into a temporary city with local councils, paved stre
ets, parks, an electricity grid and sewage pipes. Zaatari, a desert camp near Jordan's border with Syria, is far from that ideal. Life is tough here. The strong often take from the weak, women fear going to communal bathrooms after dark, sewage runs between pre-fab trailers and boys hustle for pennies carting
U.N. envoy says no preconditions for Syria peace talks The United Nations envoy to Syria said on Friday morning there would be no preconditions for longdelayed peace talks, an assertion likely to anger an opposition movement that says it will only attend if the goal is to remove President Bashar al-Assad.
The talks are meant to bring Syria's warring sides to the negotiating table, but have been repeatedly delayed because of disputes between world powers, divisions among the opposition and the irreconcilable positions of As sad and the rebels.
Chinese journalist tries to crowdfund his career From his temporary home on a friend's sofa, Yin Yus heng hopes to craft a new kind of journalism in China, where the industry is widely seen as state-controlled and corrupt. He wants to make his readers the boss - and that inclu des paying his salary. Yin,
who lost a reporting job at a magazine earlier this year when it changed from a weekly to a monthly, wants to be beholden only to the news-reading public, and is testing whether crowdfunding from online donations can give him a stable income.
Shi'ite rebels attack north Yemen town, death toll rises Shi'ite Muslim Houthi rebels backed by tanks launched a fresh attack on a town in north Yemen held by their Sunni Muslim Salafi rivals bringing the total death toll in three days of sectarian clashes to 40. Salafi spokesman Abu Ismail al-Hajouri told the
casualties were all Salafis and that at least 200 more people had been wounded during the Houthi offensive against the town of Damaj. Damaj lies near Saada, a Houthi-controlled city near the Saudi border 130 km north of the capital Sanaa.
S PORT S FORMULA 1 Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber returned Red Bull to the top in the second Friday practice session for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. After being shaded by Lotus and Mercedes in the afternoon session, Red Bull regained its habitual top spot as darkness fell over Yas Marina. Vettel had been fastest on the harder tyres in the opening quarter of an hour, and then left his switch to softs relatively late. Lotus's Kimi Raikkonen was first to make that move and found a big time gain to go fastest. He was eventually usurped by first Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes, then Mark
Webber's Red Bull. Vettel then came through with a 1m41.335s to head Webber in a Red Bull one-two that held until the finish. Hamilton and Raikkonen retained third and fourth places, followed by the former's team-mate Nico Rosberg. Practice one pacesetter Romain Grosjean was only 12th fastest, having been sidelined by a front brake failure. Several drivers had incidents and issues, with both Force India's Paul di Resta and McLaren's Jenson Button having to slow with punctures. Button was still seventh, one place behind teammate Sergio Perez, in a strong session for McLaren.
goods in wheelbarrows instead of going to school. But with Syria's civil war in its third year, the more than 2 million Syrians who fled their country need long-term solutions, said Kilian Kleinschmidt, who runs Zaatari for the U.N. refugee agency. “We are setting up ... a temporary city, as long as people have
to be here,” said Kleinsch midt. The veteran of conflict zones is getting help from urban planners in the Netherlands. Many in Za atari residents acknowledge, if reluctantly, that a quick return is unlikely. “At the beginning, we co unted in months, then ye ars, and now maybe de cades.”
Iraqi PM to ask Obama for more aid to stop attacks Iraqi Prime Minister alMaliki (NOO'-ree ahl-MA HL'-ih-kee) is expected to appeal to President Obama for more US assistance in beating back the bloody insurgency consuming his country. Violence started rising in Iraq within mont hs of the US troop depar-
ture at the end of 2011. The State Department says at least 6,000 Iraqis have been killed in attacks so far this year. The White House says Obama will raise concerns about the violence in Iraq and ways to reduce it during his me eting with al-Maliki.
Kerry to visit Egypt, tensions high before Mursi trial U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Egy pt a day before deposed Islamist President Moham ed Mursi goes on trial, the next likely flashpoint in the struggle between his Muslim Brotherhood and the army-backed interim government. In Alexan-
dria, seven people were wounded after residents clashed with Mursi suppor ters before security forces intervened, a security official said on Friday. The sta te news agency said Kerry's visit to Egypt, the first since Mursi's fall, would only last several hours.
Snowden seeks world's help against US charges NSA leaker Edward Snowden is calling for international help to persuade the U.S. to drop the charges against him, according to a letter that a German lawmaker released after meeting the American in Mos cow. Snowden said he wo uld like to testify before
the U.S. Congress about National Security Agency surveillance, and may be willing to help German of ficials investigate alleged U.S. spying in Germany too, Hans-Christian Stroebele, a lawmaker with Germany's opposition Greens, told a press conference.
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PRIME NEWS BEIRUT The United Nations envoy to Syria said on Friday there would be no preconditions for long-delayed peace talks, an assertion likely to anger an opposition movement that says it will only attend if the goal is to remove President Bashar al-Assad. BERLIN Fugitive U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has told Germany he is counting on international support to stop Washington's 'persecution' of him for revealing the scale of its worldwide phone and Internet surveillance. LONDON Andy Coulson, then editor of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, instructed a journalist working on a story about a celebrity to “do his phone”, a jury trying Coulson and others for phone-hacking was told on Friday. AMSTERDAM The Dutch government has agreed to contribute about 380 peacekeeping troops to a United Nationsled mission in Mali, a government spokesman said on Friday. Further details were due to be released shortly at the prime minister's weekly press conference. DAMASCUS, Syria The U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria warned on Friday in Damascus that there can be no peace talks without the opposition while making yet another plea for both sides in the civil war to come to the negotiating table in Geneva later this month. MAPUTO, Mozambique A wave of kidnappings and other violent crimes in Mozambique has alarmed its citizens, some of whom demonstrated against what they charge is negligence by authorities who are struggling to restore security. TORONTO Backers of embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford called Friday for police to release a video that appears to show him smoking a crack pipe, as outraged citizens of Canada's largest city called for the mayor's resignation. LUSAKA, Zambia On Lusaka's Great East Road, until recently, the image of a young Chinese woman beamed from a census billboard that showed smiling faces from Zambia's ethnic groups, a symbol of how much China has weaved its way into the nation as a donor, investor and partner. FRANKFURT, Germany On top of high unemployment and sluggish growth, the European Central Bank has a new headache: an unexpected drop in inflation. Most people think lower inflation is good news because it makes things easier to buy - and usually it is. TEHRAN, Iran Iran has launched its first submarine for tourists in the Persian Gulf waters, an all-Iranian-made undersea vehicle. State TV says the sub has been dubbed Morvarid, or Pearl in Farsi, and has the capacity to carry four people per voyage. THE HAGUE, Netherlands Experts say the ranks of missing people are swelling around the world, including Muslim men murdered and dumped into mass graves in Bosnia, victims of Asia's 2004 tsunami, people killed in Mexico's drug wars, and asylum seekers who drown as they flee conflicts in rickety boats. DAKAR, Senegal The man who led last year's coup in Mali, reversing two decades of democracy, has been summoned by the nation's judiciary to answer allegations that he and his men tortured and killed fellow soldiers who didn't back his rise to power, an official in the ministry of justice confirmed on Friday.