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Syrian forces may have used gas without Assad's permission: paper BERLIN | Sun Sep 8, 2013 8:17am EDT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces may have carried out a chemical weapons attack close to Damascus without the personal permission of President Bashar al-Assad, Germany's Bild am Sonntag...

Syrian President Assad says no evidence of chemical attack: CBS Journalists and security personnel stand in front of Yousef al-Azma military hospital during a visit by team of United Nations chemical weapons experts in Damascus August 30, 2013. REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri WASHINGTON | Sun Sep...

China probes top official in latest anti-graft push Chairman of PetroChina Jiang Jiemin releases the company's annual results at a news conference in Hong Kong March 19, 2008. REUTERS/Garrige Ho By Chen Aizhu and Ben Blanchard BEIJING | Sun Sep 1, 2013 3:52am EDT (Reuters) - China is...

Two governments continents apart face defeat despite booms Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gestures as he talks to parents at the Mascot Early Childhood Centre as part of his election campaign in Sydney August 26, 2013. REUTERS-Daniel Munoz By Balazs Koranyi and Rob Taylor OSLO/CANBERRA...

France will not attack Syria alone, PM to meet parliament leaders France's Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault delivers a speech at the end the Socialist Party's ''Universite d'ete'' summer meeting in La Rochelle, western France, August 25, 2013. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe PARIS | Sun Sep 1, 2013...

Allies concerned over UK opposition's Syria stance: minister Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague leaves 10 Downing Street in London August 29, 2013. Britain's parliament has been recalled to vote on how to respond to Syria's suspected use of chemical weapons. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett...

Egyptian authorities detain suspected 'spy' bird TONY G. GABRIEL 31.08.2013 CAIRO (AP) — In a case that ruffled feathers in Egypt, authorities have detained a migratory bird that a citizen suspected of being a spy. A man in Egypt's Qena governorate, some 450 kilometers (280 miles) southeast...

<iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ZtCMgVVgohM?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" width="480"></iframe> Aug. 22 - Egypt's former autocrat Hosni Mubarak was flown from jail in a symbolic victory for an army-dominated old order that has overthrown and imprisoned his freely...

<iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/RNjU8k_fnvM?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" width="480"></iframe> Japanese unions ban fishing off the coast of Fukushima following the latest contaminated water leak at the crippled nuclear plant. Lily Grimes reports.

Syria records its millionth child refugee <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Yj55pmfX0gI?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" width="480"></iframe> Aug. 23 - UN agencies say that one million children have been forced to flee the violence in Syria. Sarah Toms reports.

People, affected by what activists say was a gas attack, are treated at a medical center in the Damascus suburb of Saqba, August 21, 2013. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh A boy, affected by what activists say was a gas attack, is treated at a medical center in the Damascus suburbs of Saqba, August...

An activist wearing a gas mask is seen in the Zamalka area, where activists say chemical weapons were used by forces loyal to President Bashar Al-Assad in the eastern suburbs of Damascus August 22, 2013. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh Children, affected by what activists say was a gas attack...

Obama says won't rush into costly Syria entanglement Activists look for dead bodies to collect samples to check for chemical weapon use, in the Zamalka area, where activists say chemical weapons were used by forces loyal to President Bashar Al-Assad in the eastern suburbs of Damascus...

Journalists take pictures and videos of a screen displaying a court's microblog page showing a video of Gu Kailai, wife of ousted Chinese Communist Party Politburo member Bo Xilai at a media room near the court where Bo's trial is being held in Jinan, Shandong province August 23, 2013...

Gu Kailai, wife of Bo Xilai, former Chongqing Communist Party chief, speaks in this still image taken from an August 10, 2013 video provided by the Jinan Intermediate People's Court, recorded at an unknown location and screened on August 23, 2013 in court during Bo's trial in Jinan, Shandong...

China's Bo calls wife mad after she testifies against him Bo Xilai (L), former Communist Party chief of the southwestern city of Chongqing, speaks during his trial in Jinan, Shandong province, August 23, 2013, in this still image taken from China Central Television (CCTV). REUTERS-China...

Egypt's bruised Brotherhood fails to show street power Egyptian soldiers stand guard as they close one of the entrances to Tahrir Square in Cairo August 23, 2013. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed By Maggie Fick and Lin Noueihed CAIRO | Fri Aug 23, 2013 8:41am EDT (Reuters) - Mass protests called by...

Manning gets 35 years in WikiLeaks case Published August 21, 2013 FoxNews The Army soldier who leaked more than 700,000 Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports and diplomatic cables while working as an intelligence analyst was sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in prison. Army Pfc. Bradley...

Chen Yi, general manager of Shanghai Fanxin Insurance Agency. [File photo] Fanxin, founded in 2007, is primarily a life insurance broker. The company claims to have sold more than 480 million yuan of insurance policies in 2012 alone. Its partners include Sunshine Insurance Group, Kunlun Health...

China's runaway insurance boss seized in Fiji China Daily, August 21, 2013 The business of Shanghai's biggest insurance intermediary remained suspended on Tuesday after its runaway controller was captured in Fiji and escorted back to China. Chen Yi, general manager of Shanghai Fanxin...