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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States was set to issue conditional sanctions waivers for Iran on Sunday, though it cautioned they will not take effect until Tehran has curbed its nuclear program as required under a historic nuclear deal reached in Vienna on July 14. Several senior U.S. officials, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity, said that despite Washington's move on Sunday, actual implementation of the deal was likely several months away. That means the sanctions relief Tehran... Читать дальше...

Two teenagers were arrested by police in the Indian capital of New Delhi late Saturday in connection with the rape of a two-and-a-half year old girl. The incident, which took place Friday and closely followed yet another rape of a child last week, was the latest instance of sexual violence in the city that has been dubbed the "rape capital" of India.

One person was killed and four others were wounded late Saturday in a shooting incident at a "ZombiCon" festival in Fort Myers, Florida. The suspect is still at large, according to media reports. The incident reportedly took place at 11:45 p.m. Saturday. The four surviving victims have been taken to a hospital and are being treated for non-life threatening injuries, Lt. Victor Medico of the Fort Myers Police Department reportedly said.

Egyptians began voting Sunday in the country's first parliamentary elections since the ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi by the military in 2013. The much-delayed polls for Egypt's 595-member parliament are expected to provide firm backing to President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who has been accused of crushing all opposition since he came to power.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel and the United States have resumed talks on future defense aid that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suspended in protest at the Iran nuclear deal, the Israeli ambassador to Washington said on Sunday. The allies had been looking to agree on a 10-year aid package to extend the current U.S. grants to Israel worth $3 billion annually, which are due to expire in 2017. But Netanyahu froze negotiations ahead of the July deal reached between Iran and world powers, which Israel deems insufficiently stringent.

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton hit out at Alabama Republicans, including Gov. Robert Bentley, for the state's decision to close 31 Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) offices. Many allege that the decision -- announced by the state's law enforcement authorities earlier this month -- would disproportionately curtail the voting rights of residents in poor, rural, mostly African-American communities.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is lobbying hard to stay off the U.S. Trade Representative's blacklist after coming under renewed pressure this year over suspected counterfeits sold on its shopping platforms.

UPDATE: 4 a.m. EDT -- Some areas of northern Philippines are flooded half a day after Typhoon Koppu made landfall, the country's weather agency said. A few more areas may flood as high water levels force authorities to open three dams. As of 4 p.m. local time, the typhoon's eye was over Santa Fe in Nueva Vizcaya province, more than 100 miles north of Manila. The rains have flooded some areas, while other areas may flood when high water in at least three dams force authorities to release water, the weather agency said.

(Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping heaped praise on Britain for what he called a "visionary and strategic choice" to strengthen commercial ties with China, as he prepared for a state visit to the United Kingdom that's expected to be richer in pomp and considerably warmer in tone than his recent trip to the United States. The trip comes at a time of global anxiety about China's slowing growth. Xi himself acknowledged "concerns about the Chinese economy", but sought to allay them in a written interview with Reuters.

Believe it or not, not everyone loves the idea of eating bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches all day. McDonald's franchise owners are frustrated with the company's Oct. 6 decision to make breakfast meal options an all day menu fixture.

HAVANA (Reuters) - The Cuban government on Saturday denied what it called an "irresponsible and unfounded" report that it had sent troops to Syria in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Foreign ministry official Gerardo Penalver "categorically denies and refutes the irresponsible and unfounded information regarding the supposed presence of Cuban troops in the Syrian Arab Republic," a government statement said.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey would not hesitate to shoot down planes violating its air space, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Saturday, a day after the NATO member shot down an unidentified drone near its border with Syria. Syrian, Russian and U.S. coalition aircraft are flying combat missions near Turkey's borders as part of the Syrian civil war. The drone incident highlights the danger that Turkey, with the second largest army in NATO, could be drawn into a military confrontation.

The blame for the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto lies with ex-military director and former President Pervez Musharraf, according to a four-page statement recently released by her friend and American journalist Mark Siegel, the Press Trust of India reported. Bhutto, who was in office from 1988-90 and 1993-96, was killed in 2007 after standing and hanging out of the sunroof of her bulletproof vehicle as she left a campaign rally.

Bernie Sanders has cornered at least one demographic of American voters, if social media is any indication. It's just a shame they're too young to actually cast a ballot.

President Barack Obama may have made a landmark statement Friday when he said the United States would engage North Korea should it express a desire to denuclearize, but nothing has changed for Pyongyang. The North Korean Foreign Ministry declined the opportunity to open negotiations Saturday, Reuters reported. Instead, it again demanded a peace treaty in place of the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War.

The FBI is investigating whether Russian hackers breached Dow Jones & Co. in an attempt to steal stock market information that could help them predict changes in U.S. markets, Bloomberg News reported. Outsiders first infiltrated the network more than a year ago and may have stolen information they hope to sell to stock traders, who stand to gain much from inside knowledge.

Europe's 2008 financial crisis may have resulted in some 50,000 horses to be sold and unwittingly eaten across the United Kingdom, the Telegraph reported Saturday. Food safety expert Chris Elliot gave a speech recently speculating families who couldn't afford to keep their horses likely turned them over to gangs running a black market for horsemeat.

A female German aid worker who was kidnapped in Afghanistan has been released in good condition, according to the humanitarian agency GIZ. The victim's name has not been released, and few details were immediately available other than the knowledge that the woman had been forced out of her car by two people carrying weapons.

Six percent of the officers in the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense police force were under investigation as of Sept. 30, according to statistics released concerning a recent public records request. Their suspected offenses ranged from speeding to domestic violence to drugs, and the sheer number of them -- 170 -- was a marked increase from the roughly 50 internal cases handled two years ago, the Guardian reported.

The Russian Air Force hit 49 Islamic State targets as part of 36 missions over Syria carried out in the last 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday. Hama, Idlib, Latakia, Damascus and Aleppo were among the regions hit, Reuters reported, amid U.S. criticism Russian jets were in Syria to prop up Syrian President Bashar Assad, not to attack the Islamic State.

Three al Qaeda-linked fighters, including one top commander, were killed in an airstrike in Syria, the Associated Press reported Saturday. However, it is still unconfirmed who carried out the attack. The leader killed was Abdul Mohsen Abdallah Ibrahim al-Charekh, better known as Sanafi al-Nasr.

UberRush, ride-hailing app Uber's delivery service that's been undergoing an experimental test run in New York City, recently announced an expansion to San Francisco and Chicago. The San Francisco-based company has also declared that it no longer considers UberRush an experiment. "UberRush is now a business for Uber,” said Jason Droege, who oversees UberRush, in an interview with Bloomberg. “It is no longer an experiment."