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| UK blames Assad regime after watchdog documents chlorine attacks |
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 By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The global chemical-weapons watchdog found evidence that chlorine gas was used "systematically and repeatedly" as a weapon in northern Syria, where witnesses described poison barrel bombs crashing into their villages from the sky, the agency said on Wednesday in a report obtained by Reuters. Reacting to the report, Britain and the United States blamed the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which they said was the only party in the civil war with helicopters. "The moderate opposition do not possess air capability power that could do this," U.S. ...
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| With World Trade site largely rebuilt, New York marks Sept.11 |
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 By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Until a few months ago, the part of New York City where crowds will gather on Thursday morning to mark the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States had been mostly fenced off to the public. This year, for perhaps the first time since the attacks, a sense of normalcy and openness has taken root in the city blocks where two airliners hijacked by militants from al Qaeda crashed into the World Trade Center's twin towers. Rebuilding efforts at the site, where 2,753 people died, are nearing completion. ...
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| Brazil confirms Amazon deforestation sped up in 2013 |
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| By Marcelo Teixeira SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The destruction of the world's largest rainforest accelerated last year with a 29 percent spike in deforestation, according to final figures released by the Brazilian government on Wednesday that confirmed a reversal in gains seen since 2009. Satellite data for the 12 months through the end of July 2013 showed that 5,891 square km (3,360 square miles) of forest were cleared in the Brazilian Amazon, an area half the size of Puerto Rico. ... |
| Cyber breaches rare among U.S. state-registered investment advisers - study |
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 By Suzanne Barlyn (Reuters) - Cyber security breaches are rare among investment advisory firms registered with U.S. states, but improvements to technology and procedures could still bolster protection of client information, state securities regulators said on Wednesday. Just 4 percent of advisers reported having a "cyber security incident" during the years in which they have been registered in their respective states, according to a study by the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA). ...
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| Islamists kidnap 25 Libyan soldiers, Army says; PM seeks support |
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| By Maha El Dahan and Stanley Carvalho ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Islamists militants in Libya have probably kidnapped up to 25 soldiers and killed five others in the eastern city of Benghazi, an army commander said on Wednesday, as the prime minister travelled to the United Arab Emirates to seek support for his embattled government. Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni has called for the international community to help fight terrorism in the oil- producing country, which has slid towards anarchy three years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi. ... |
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