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SUPER WAVES: People took pictures of tidal waves under the influence of Typhoon Usagi in Hangzhou, China’s Zhejiang province, Sunday.
SUPER WAVES: People took pictures of tidal waves under the influence of Typhoon Usagi in Hangzhou, China’s Zhejiang province, Sunday.
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TERROR IN THE MALL: Armed police officers searched through Westgate shopping mall after gunmen stormed the mall in the Kenyan capital on Saturday killing at least 68 people.
TERROR IN THE MALL: Armed police officers searched through Westgate shopping mall after gunmen stormed the mall in the Kenyan capital on Saturday killing at least 68 people.
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BLACK AND WHITE: A Grévy’s zebra at a zoo in Mulhouse, France, Monday.
BLACK AND WHITE: A Grévy’s zebra at a zoo in Mulhouse, France, Monday.
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GRABBING EVERYTHING: A man carried a Winnie the Pooh toy and an umbrella as he waded through floodwaters in Las Piñas, Philippines, south of Manila, Monday. At least 16 people have been killed as heavy rains battered the area amid Typhoon Usagi.
GRABBING EVERYTHING: A man carried a Winnie the Pooh toy and an umbrella as he waded through floodwaters in Las Piñas, Philippines, south of Manila, Monday. At least 16 people have been killed as heavy rains battered the area amid Typhoon Usagi.
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MOURNING A SON: Soldiers comforted the mother of Gabriel Kobi in Haifa, Israel, Monday. An unidentified gunman killed the 20-year-old Israel Defense Forces soldier on Sunday in Hebron, West Bank. The IDF is searching for the gunman.
MOURNING A SON: Soldiers comforted the mother of Gabriel Kobi in Haifa, Israel, Monday. An unidentified gunman killed the 20-year-old Israel Defense Forces soldier on Sunday in Hebron, West Bank. The IDF is searching for the gunman.
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STANDOFF: Soldiers took cover amid gunfire Monday at Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, where at least 62 people have been killed since attackers armed with rifles and grenades stormed the shopping center on Saturday. The Somali al-Shabaab group has claimed responsibility.
STANDOFF: Soldiers took cover amid gunfire Monday at Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, where at least 62 people have been killed since attackers armed with rifles and grenades stormed the shopping center on Saturday. The Somali al-Shabaab group has claimed responsibility.
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BABY PANDAS: Researchers took care of panda cubs inside a crib at Chengdu Panda Base in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China, Monday.
BABY PANDAS: Researchers took care of panda cubs inside a crib at Chengdu Panda Base in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China, Monday.
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FUNERAL SERVICE: People mourned three bombing victims in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday. Two suicide bombers targeted the city’s Christian All Saints Church on Sunday, killing dozens of people.
FUNERAL SERVICE: People mourned three bombing victims in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday. Two suicide bombers targeted the city’s Christian All Saints Church on Sunday, killing dozens of people.
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SUITED UP: Government workers carried a barrel of toxic waste amid cleanup efforts at a former Soviet military chemical plant in Horlivka, Ukraine, Tuesday.
SUITED UP: Government workers carried a barrel of toxic waste amid cleanup efforts at a former Soviet military chemical plant in Horlivka, Ukraine, Tuesday.
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RARE SIGHT: In this image, a golden eagle killed a sika deer in Russia. Researchers, who had set up the camera to track Siberian tigers, were puzzled before they saw the images. ‘There were no large carnivore tracks in the snow, and it looked like the deer had been running and then…
RARE SIGHT: In this image, a golden eagle killed a sika deer in Russia. Researchers, who had set up the camera to track Siberian tigers, were puzzled before they saw the images. ‘There were no large carnivore tracks in the snow, and it looked like the deer had been running and then just stopped and died’ said Dr. Linda Kerley of the Zoological Society of London.
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CLINGING: A toy lay over a bin in the Eastwood Village mobile park in Evans, Colo, Monday. Six people missing after massive flooding in Colorado have been found alive, leaving one person missing and presumed dead, authorities said Tuesday. Eight other deaths have been confirmed.
CLINGING: A toy lay over a bin in the Eastwood Village mobile park in Evans, Colo, Monday. Six people missing after massive flooding in Colorado have been found alive, leaving one person missing and presumed dead, authorities said Tuesday. Eight other deaths have been confirmed.
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FALLEN COMRADE: A Free Syrian Army fighter carried the body of a fellow fighter who was killed amid clashes with Syrian government forces in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday.
FALLEN COMRADE: A Free Syrian Army fighter carried the body of a fellow fighter who was killed amid clashes with Syrian government forces in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday.
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STRANDED: A car was partially submerged in floodwaters Wednesday in Sochi, Russia, as officials declared a state of emergency. About 1,800 personnel from the Ministry of Emergency Situations are involved in cleanup efforts in the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
STRANDED: A car was partially submerged in floodwaters Wednesday in Sochi, Russia, as officials declared a state of emergency. About 1,800 personnel from the Ministry of Emergency Situations are involved in cleanup efforts in the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
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FROM DESTRUCTION: A small island appeared in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Gwadar, Pakistan, after a powerful and deadly earthquake struck western Pakistan Tuesday. The island, which might be temporary, is about 60 feet high, 250 feet wide and 100 feet long.
FROM DESTRUCTION: A small island appeared in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Gwadar, Pakistan, after a powerful and deadly earthquake struck western Pakistan Tuesday. The island, which might be temporary, is about 60 feet high, 250 feet wide and 100 feet long.
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LOOKING INTO THE PAST: In this video still released Wednesday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an armed Aaron Alexis is seen at a Washington Navy Yard building. Authorities killed Mr. Alexis in a gunbattle after they say he shot and killed 12 people in the Sept. 16 shooting.
LOOKING INTO THE PAST: In this video still released Wednesday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an armed Aaron Alexis is seen at a Washington Navy Yard building. Authorities killed Mr. Alexis in a gunbattle after they say he shot and killed 12 people in the Sept. 16 shooting.
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NEARBY: Efren Rodriguez Gonzalez, 68, covered his granddaughter, 8-year-old Maria Isabel Ferrer Rodriguez, with a blanket as the family gathered outside Thursday near the Madrid apartment from which authorities had evicted them a day earlier.
NEARBY: Efren Rodriguez Gonzalez, 68, covered his granddaughter, 8-year-old Maria Isabel Ferrer Rodriguez, with a blanket as the family gathered outside Thursday near the Madrid apartment from which authorities had evicted them a day earlier.
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DESTRUCTION: A photo released by the Kenya presidency shows a collapsed parking deck at Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, where investigators—including from the Federal Bureau of Investigation—are searching for fingerprints and other evidence in an attack that left dozens dead at the…
DESTRUCTION: A photo released by the Kenya presidency shows a collapsed parking deck at Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, where investigators—including from the Federal Bureau of Investigation—are searching for fingerprints and other evidence in an attack that left dozens dead at the mall.
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ENGULFED: A dancer performed ‘Wolke,’ or ‘Cloud,’ by German choreographer Sasha Waltz, as part of an exhibition at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, Thursday.
ENGULFED: A dancer performed ‘Wolke,’ or ‘Cloud,’ by German choreographer Sasha Waltz, as part of an exhibition at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, Thursday.
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LOOKING IN: Hindu priests looked inside a building at the Pashupatinath Temple in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday.
LOOKING IN: Hindu priests looked inside a building at the Pashupatinath Temple in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday.
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RESCUED: A child was rescued from the rubble of a five-story residential building that collapsed in Mumbai, India, Friday. At least 13 people were killed. Mumbai Mayor Sunil Prabhu said 22 families had been staying in the dilapidated building, which had been undergoing repairs.
RESCUED: A child was rescued from the rubble of a five-story residential building that collapsed in Mumbai, India, Friday. At least 13 people were killed. Mumbai Mayor Sunil Prabhu said 22 families had been staying in the dilapidated building, which had been undergoing repairs.
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A FINAL GAME: New York Yankee Andy Pettitte hugged teammate Mariano Rivera as teammate Derek Jeter looked on during Rivera’s final game at Yankee Stadium Thursday. The retiring Rivera’s teammates removed him from the game with two outs in the ninth inning of a 4-0 loss to Tampa Bay.
A FINAL GAME: New York Yankee Andy Pettitte hugged teammate Mariano Rivera as teammate Derek Jeter looked on during Rivera’s final game at Yankee Stadium Thursday. The retiring Rivera’s teammates removed him from the game with two outs in the ninth inning of a 4-0 loss to Tampa Bay.
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FIGHTING FIRE: Firefighters hosed down hot spots on Front Street in Georgetown, S.C., Thursday, a day after a fire destroyed at least seven buildings in the coastal city. Gov. Nikki Haley (R., S.C.) visited the scene and encouraged people to visit unaffected businesses.
FIGHTING FIRE: Firefighters hosed down hot spots on Front Street in Georgetown, S.C., Thursday, a day after a fire destroyed at least seven buildings in the coastal city. Gov. Nikki Haley (R., S.C.) visited the scene and encouraged people to visit unaffected businesses.
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AERIAL VIEW: This satellite image released Friday shows a small, new island made of rocks and mud that emerged off the coast of Gwadar, Pakistan, after a deadly earthquake struck western Pakistan Tuesday.
AERIAL VIEW: This satellite image released Friday shows a small, new island made of rocks and mud that emerged off the coast of Gwadar, Pakistan, after a deadly earthquake struck western Pakistan Tuesday.
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LOOKING IN: Hindu priests looked inside a building at the Pashupatinath Temple in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday.
LOOKING IN: Hindu priests looked inside a building at the Pashupatinath Temple in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday.
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CLOSE INSPECTION: An employee inspected equipment at a new stamping-die manufacturing plant in a free-trade zone on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday.
CLOSE INSPECTION: An employee inspected equipment at a new stamping-die manufacturing plant in a free-trade zone on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday.
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RESCUED: A child was rescued from the rubble of a five-story residential building that collapsed in Mumbai, India, Friday. At least 13 people were killed. Mumbai Mayor Sunil Prabhu said 22 families had been staying in the dilapidated building, which had been undergoing repairs.
RESCUED: A child was rescued from the rubble of a five-story residential building that collapsed in Mumbai, India, Friday. At least 13 people were killed. Mumbai Mayor Sunil Prabhu said 22 families had been staying in the dilapidated building, which had been undergoing repairs.
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A FINAL GAME: New York Yankee Andy Pettitte hugged teammate Mariano Rivera as teammate Derek Jeter looked on during Rivera’s final game at Yankee Stadium Thursday. The retiring Rivera’s teammates removed him from the game with two outs in the ninth inning of a 4-0 loss to Tampa Bay.
A FINAL GAME: New York Yankee Andy Pettitte hugged teammate Mariano Rivera as teammate Derek Jeter looked on during Rivera’s final game at Yankee Stadium Thursday. The retiring Rivera’s teammates removed him from the game with two outs in the ninth inning of a 4-0 loss to Tampa Bay.
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WORKING UNDERCOVER: A Israeli police officer held up his weapon as others detained a Palestinian protester amid clashes Friday in East Jerusalem’s Shuafat, an Arab neighborhood.
WORKING UNDERCOVER: A Israeli police officer held up his weapon as others detained a Palestinian protester amid clashes Friday in East Jerusalem’s Shuafat, an Arab neighborhood.
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BOMBED OUT: Volunteers searched a bus after a bomb targeted the vehicle, which had been carrying government employees near Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday. At least 19 people were killed and 46 wounded, according to authorities. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
BOMBED OUT: Volunteers searched a bus after a bomb targeted the vehicle, which had been carrying government employees near Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday. At least 19 people were killed and 46 wounded, according to authorities. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
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CAPSIZED: Rescuers sat atop a capsized vessel after two cargo ships collided south of Tokyo early Friday, killing five people, according to Japan’s coast guard; one crew member was missing. The Japanese-registered Eifuku Maru No. 18 capsized after it crashed with the Sierra…
CAPSIZED: Rescuers sat atop a capsized vessel after two cargo ships collided south of Tokyo early Friday, killing five people, according to Japan’s coast guard; one crew member was missing. The Japanese-registered Eifuku Maru No. 18 capsized after it crashed with the Sierra Leone-registered Jia Hui.
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FIGHTING FIRE: Firefighters hosed down hot spots on Front Street in Georgetown, S.C., Thursday, a day after a fire destroyed at least seven buildings in the coastal city. Gov. Nikki Haley (R., S.C.) visited the scene and encouraged people to visit unaffected businesses.
FIGHTING FIRE: Firefighters hosed down hot spots on Front Street in Georgetown, S.C., Thursday, a day after a fire destroyed at least seven buildings in the coastal city. Gov. Nikki Haley (R., S.C.) visited the scene and encouraged people to visit unaffected businesses.
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A SON WATCHES: Kaden Bowden, son of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Joshua J. Bowden, looked at his father’s casket at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Friday. Sgt. Bowden died Aug. 31 from injuries sustained while serving in Afghanistan.
A SON WATCHES: Kaden Bowden, son of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Joshua J. Bowden, looked at his father’s casket at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Friday. Sgt. Bowden died Aug. 31 from injuries sustained while serving in Afghanistan.
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GOODBYE: Mourners watched as the coffin of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta’s nephew, Mbugua Mwangi, was loaded into a hearse at a funeral in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday. Mr. Mwangi and his fiancée, Rosemary Wahito, were killed in the attacks at the city’s Westgate Mall.
GOODBYE: Mourners watched as the coffin of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta’s nephew, Mbugua Mwangi, was loaded into a hearse at a funeral in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday. Mr. Mwangi and his fiancée, Rosemary Wahito, were killed in the attacks at the city’s Westgate Mall.
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TRANSPORTING: A woman walked her motorbike loaded with eggs through floodwaters in a village along the Mekong River in Kandal province, Cambodia, Friday. Rainy-season flooding has killed at least 20 people and has affected thousands of families, according to Cambodian officials.
TRANSPORTING: A woman walked her motorbike loaded with eggs through floodwaters in a village along the Mekong River in Kandal province, Cambodia, Friday. Rainy-season flooding has killed at least 20 people and has affected thousands of families, according to Cambodian officials.
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AERIAL VIEW: This satellite image released Friday shows a small, new island made of rocks and mud that emerged off the coast of Gwadar, Pakistan, after a deadly earthquake struck western Pakistan Tuesday.
AERIAL VIEW: This satellite image released Friday shows a small, new island made of rocks and mud that emerged off the coast of Gwadar, Pakistan, after a deadly earthquake struck western Pakistan Tuesday.
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BAD CRASH: A diver is in stable condition after his car crashed, went airborne, flipped and came to rest upside-down in a fountain in Pittsburgh Thursday. Police are investigating whether the driver suffered a medical emergency before the crash.
BAD CRASH: A diver is in stable condition after his car crashed, went airborne, flipped and came to rest upside-down in a fountain in Pittsburgh Thursday. Police are investigating whether the driver suffered a medical emergency before the crash.
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NEKTARIA STAMOULI
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ALKMAN GRANITSAS
ATHENS—Greek police launched a dramatic crackdown on the country’s controversial far-right Golden Dawn party early Saturday, arresting the party’s chief and more than a dozen other party members on charges of belonging to a criminal organization following a high-profile murder allegedly connected to a party member.
The arrests of Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos and the others is the boldest step yet in the Greek government’s efforts to effectively outlaw the party, which has been connected to a series of violent incidents. Police allege that a left-wing rap artist, Pavlos Fyssas, was killed by a self-professed member of Golden Dawn, shifting public opinion against a group that had risen rapidly to prominence in Greece’s 2012 elections.
Police said Saturday they had arrested Mr. Michaloliakos; party spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris; Greek lawmakers Ilias Panagiotaros and Ioannis Lagos; and 11 others, including a policeman, after arrest warrants were issued by a senior prosecutor. Police indicated more arrests were on the way, with a police official saying that “many other arrest warrants have been issued for other party members and lawmakers.”
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Protesters earlier this week held a banner featuring a picture of anti-fascist musician Pavlos Fyssas, who was stabbed to death earlier this month.
Golden Dawn has repeatedly denied any role in the killing of and says it doesn’t condone violence. The party’s leader has said a “witch hunt” has been launched against it and, on Friday, Mr. Michaloliakos threatened to pull the party’s 18 lawmakers out of parliament, a move that could prompt by-elections in 15 regions around the country where it holds seats.
By doing so, he hoped to force national elections. But most analysts dismissed the move as an empty threat that signaled the party’s growing desperation of the party as the government stepped up its campaign against it.
On Saturday, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras ruled out the possibility of snap elections.
“Justice, stability, without elections,” Mr. Samaras told reporters after meeting with Greece’s justice and public reforms ministers to discuss the Golden Dawn case. “The case is now in the hands of the justice system.”
The killing of Mr. Fyssas and other revelations about Golden Dawn prompted demonstrations against the group this week, while fresh polls indicate support for the party is tanking.
The party first entered Parliament following national elections in June 2012 and, until recently, enjoyed a steady rise in support, buoyed by Greece’s protracted economic crisis and soaring unemployment. It was the third most popular party in the country, behind the governing New Democracy party and the left-wing opposition Syriza party.
But charging Golden Dawn as a criminal organization marks the most serious blow to the party since it rose to prominence. The arrests come after a Supreme Court deputy prosecutor completed a preliminary investigation against the group that included testimony from immigrant groups, journalists and unidentified former party members. By declaring it a crime gang—a felony under Greek law—prosecutors can now pursue criminal charges against any member of the group, including its entire leadership, regardless of whether they had any connection with specific violent acts.
Last week, Greece’s Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias presented prosecutors with a legal file based on more than 30 cases over the past year in which members or followers of the party have been charged with illegal acts. But it was the killing of Mr. Fyssas that gave the government the impetus to move against Golden Dawn.
Many Greeks identify Golden Dawn as neo-Nazi based on its rhetoric and swastika-like emblem—a label the party rejects. In the past week, public opinion polls have shown support for the party falling sharply—between 1.5 and 4 percentage points—with only 6% to 7% of voters saying they would vote for Golden Dawn, down from 8% to 12% before.
At the same time, an overwhelming majority of Greeks say they think Golden Dawn was behind the killing, and that the party represents a threat to the country’s democracy.
Mr. Dendias has also moved to overhaul the Greek police–which has been accused by immigrant and left-wing groups of turning a blind eye to Golden Dawn’s activities. Seven senior police officials have been replaced or transferred for what Mr. Dendias said was their failure to take a tough-enough line against the group.
Two of the officials handed in resignation letters saying they had resigned for personal reasons; the others have not commented publicly.
Separately, a police officer who had been assigned to protect a Golden Dawn parliamentarian was sentenced earlier this week to 13 months in prison for breach of duty for allegedly participating in a party-organized attack on immigrant merchants last year.
The officer in question hasn’t commented on the case and efforts to reach him were unsuccessful.
The government is also moving ahead with a law that could potentially strip the party of state funding, and has pledged to draft a new antiracism law to better address attacks against immigrants.
Midday Saturday, several dozen party followers staged a protest outside the Greek police headquarters where the head of Golden Dawn and the other arrested members are being held.
Write to Nektaria Stamouli at nektaria.stamouli@dowjones.com and Alkman Granitsas at alkman.granitsas@dowjones.com
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Syria has declared fewer chemical-weapons sites than U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies believe it has, U.S. and other Western officials said on Friday, hours before the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution for the destruction of the arsenal.
The Syrian government declared a week ago to international inspectors that it had just over 30 chemical-weapons sites—including some that are mobile—though the U.S. and Israel believe it has 50-plus sites, the U.S. and other Western officials said.
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A boy runs for cover Friday after what activists said was shelling by Assad regime forces in Deir el-Zour.
Syria’s declaration to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the agency charged with overseeing the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons, hasn’t been made public.
U.S. officials said technical experts and intelligence analysts were comparing the data to U.S. intelligence collected from satellites and other sources.
“We were surprised the declaration was as complete as it was. But we do not believe [they] identified all the sites and that did not surprise us,” said a senior U.S. official briefed on Syria’s initial declaration.
The OPCW’s disarmament schedule, reached early Saturday in The Hague, calls for Syria to submit a more detailed inventory within seven days. It must file a still more comprehensive document within 30 days, including elements such as a specific plan for destroying its chemical arsenal.
The U.S. has asked the Syrians to explain the discrepancy between the sites they disclosed and the number that U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies believe the Syrians have.
One U.S. official said it wasn’t clear whether the Syrians were deliberately trying to conceal some of their chemical weapons or were defining weapons sites as places with sizable amounts of weapons.
“It is not clear if this is a deception or a difference of definition,” said the official.
Officials with the chemical weapons agency met in The Hague on Friday to put a process of inspection and disarmament into place. That plan was a necessary step to the Security Council’s adoption of the resolution to put the disarmament plan into effect.
The resolution was considered binding on Syria by Western officials, but contained no immediate threat of military force or sanctions for noncompliance.
A subsequent Security Council resolution would be required for enforcement action.
In a brief address Friday, President Barack Obama said U.N. action would mark “a major diplomatic breakthrough.”
The American and Western officials said the mobile sites listed in the declaration are pieces of equipment used to bring component chemicals to firing locations. The mobile sites are used to mix and prepare chemicals for use.
U.S. intelligence agencies believe that elite forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have scattered the chemical arsenal to roughly 50 locations around the country, but that most of the weaponry is held at perhaps two dozen major spots, according to officials briefed on the intelligence.
The U.S. estimates the regime has 1,000 metric tons of chemical and biological agents.
A U.S. assessment of Syria’s stockpile of nerve agents found that the majority of the stockpile is composed of precursor agents which haven’t been “weaponized,” making it easier for the agents to be handled and destroyed, experts briefed on the assessment said. Syria’s chemical-weapons sites include production sites for the precursor chemicals and military storage depots for the bulk chemicals and precursor chemicals, delivery systems, and mixing and filling equipment.
The regime traditionally kept most of its chemical and biological weapons at a few large sites in western Syria, U.S. officials said. But beginning about a year ago, the Syrians started dispersing the arsenal to nearly two dozen major sites, as well as to about two dozen smaller sites, U.S. officials have said.
The U.S. now believes Mr. Assad’s chemical arsenal has been scattered to as many as 50 locations in the west, north and south, as well as new sites in the east, officials said. U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies believe they know where most of the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons are located, but with less confidence than a year ago.
The U.S.-Russian timeline calls for Syria’s chemical-weapons production, mixing and filling facilities to be destroyed by November, and for the entire arsenal to be dismantled in the first half of 2014.
That schedule, set under international diplomatic and political pressure, would be much faster than the OPCW’s usual pace of work, and is considered particularly challenging as it would take place in a war zone.
The OPCW said it would begin inspecting Syrian sites by Tuesday, and would complete inspection within 30 days of all the sites on the list provided by Syria.
The OPCW schedule includes the destruction of production equipment by Nov. 1, as well as facilities used for mixing the chemicals.
Charles Duelfer, former deputy chairman of the U.N. Inspection Group in Iraq, said it would take about 75 inspectors to do the job in the allotted time.
Mr. Duelfer, a former senior Central Intelligence Agency official and author of a 2004 report that concluded that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, voiced confidence in the ability of the inspectors to deal with Syria’s program. “There’s easy stuff to destroy that will really hobble the Syrian program,” he said. “Getting the actual agents out and munitions loaded with agent may be more difficult.”
U.N. chemical-weapons inspectors in a report earlier this month confirmed that sarin gas was used in an Aug. 21 attack outside Damascus, killing hundreds.
Though the report didn’t assign blame, Western officials said that its analysis and testing point to Syrian forces as culpable. The U.S., France and others have blamed the Assad regime.
U.N. officials said Friday that inspectors would investigate three new sites of alleged gas attacks in Syria that occurred after the Aug. 21 attack.
In those attacks, the Syrian government claims that rebels struck at soldiers with chemical weapons on Aug. 22, Aug. 24 and Aug. 25.
Louay Safi, a member of the opposition political group the Syrian National Coalition, denied the government’s charges.
The Aug. 21 attack prompted threats of military retaliation by the U.S. and led to a deal between Washington and Moscow to eliminate the Syrian chemical arsenal.
The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council—the U.S., U.K., France, Russia and China—agreed on the wording of Council resolution during meetings this week as world leaders gathered for the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York.
—Naftali Bendavid,Joe Lauria and Sam Dagher contributed to this article.
Write to Jared A. Favole at jared.favole@dowjones.com
A version of this article appeared September 28, 2013, on page A6 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Syrian Disclosure Falls Short of U.S. Count.
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NEARBY: Efren Rodriguez Gonzalez, 68, covered his granddaughter, 8-year-old Maria Isabel Ferrer Rodriguez, with a blanket as the family gathered outside Thursday near the Madrid apartment from which authorities had evicted them a day earlier.
NEARBY: Efren Rodriguez Gonzalez, 68, covered his granddaughter, 8-year-old Maria Isabel Ferrer Rodriguez, with a blanket as the family gathered outside Thursday near the Madrid apartment from which authorities had evicted them a day earlier.
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STARTING OVER: Rehana, one of the survivors of the April Rana Plaza building collapse, tried to walk with artificial limbs at a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday. More than 1,000 people were killed in the building, which housed mostly garment factories.
STARTING OVER: Rehana, one of the survivors of the April Rana Plaza building collapse, tried to walk with artificial limbs at a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday. More than 1,000 people were killed in the building, which housed mostly garment factories.
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DESTRUCTION: A photo released by the Kenya presidency shows a collapsed parking deck at Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, where investigators—including from the Federal Bureau of Investigation—are searching for fingerprints and other evidence in an attack that left dozens dead at the…
DESTRUCTION: A photo released by the Kenya presidency shows a collapsed parking deck at Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, where investigators—including from the Federal Bureau of Investigation—are searching for fingerprints and other evidence in an attack that left dozens dead at the mall.
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TO THE WINNERS: Brad Web, of Oracle Team USA, hoisted the America’s Cup trophy as he celebrated with teammates in San Francisco Wednesday. Team USA defeated Emirates Team New Zealand in the sailing competition.
TO THE WINNERS: Brad Web, of Oracle Team USA, hoisted the America’s Cup trophy as he celebrated with teammates in San Francisco Wednesday. Team USA defeated Emirates Team New Zealand in the sailing competition.
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SPARKS: Yemeni boy scouts held fireworks during a ceremony Wednesday in San’a, Yemen, to mark the anniversary of North Yemen’s 1962 revolution against the leadership.
SPARKS: Yemeni boy scouts held fireworks during a ceremony Wednesday in San’a, Yemen, to mark the anniversary of North Yemen’s 1962 revolution against the leadership.
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UNDERWATER AGING: Winemaker Pierluigi Lugano, left, checked on a big bottle of wine that a scuba diver brought to the surface in Chiavari, Italy, Wednesday. Mr. Lugano is experimenting with storing his wine for three to four years underwater.
UNDERWATER AGING: Winemaker Pierluigi Lugano, left, checked on a big bottle of wine that a scuba diver brought to the surface in Chiavari, Italy, Wednesday. Mr. Lugano is experimenting with storing his wine for three to four years underwater.
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DUMPING OUT: Residents tried to remove water from their flooded homes Thursday in Ahmedabad, India, after heavy rains.
DUMPING OUT: Residents tried to remove water from their flooded homes Thursday in Ahmedabad, India, after heavy rains.
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COVERED UP: A man walked past pesticides as workers fumigated against mosquitoes to stop the spread of dengue in New Delhi Thursday.
COVERED UP: A man walked past pesticides as workers fumigated against mosquitoes to stop the spread of dengue in New Delhi Thursday.
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ENGULFED: A dancer performed ‘Wolke,’ or ‘Cloud,’ by German choreographer Sasha Waltz, as part of an exhibition at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, Thursday.
ENGULFED: A dancer performed ‘Wolke,’ or ‘Cloud,’ by German choreographer Sasha Waltz, as part of an exhibition at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, Thursday.
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OBSTRUCTED VIEW: A factory worker installed rivets inside a recreational vehicle travel trailer at the Airstream, Inc. plant in Jackson Center, Ohio, Wednesday.
OBSTRUCTED VIEW: A factory worker installed rivets inside a recreational vehicle travel trailer at the Airstream, Inc. plant in Jackson Center, Ohio, Wednesday.
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WOUNDED: A man received treatment at a hospital after twin bombings in San’a, Yemen, Thursday. At least 12 people were wounded when the two roadside bombs exploded in the capital, a security official said.
WOUNDED: A man received treatment at a hospital after twin bombings in San’a, Yemen, Thursday. At least 12 people were wounded when the two roadside bombs exploded in the capital, a security official said.
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POSITIVE OUTLOOK: Maria Alyokhina, a member of the punk band Pussy Riot, looked out from the defendant’s box at a court appearance in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Thursday. She is appealing to have her sentence for hooliganism, according to local media.
POSITIVE OUTLOOK: Maria Alyokhina, a member of the punk band Pussy Riot, looked out from the defendant’s box at a court appearance in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Thursday. She is appealing to have her sentence for hooliganism, according to local media.
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CASUALTIES: Bodies were laid next to blocks of ice at a hospital morgue Thursday in Hiranagar, India, in the Kashmir region, after separatists stormed a police station, killing several officers and civilians, according to authorities.
CASUALTIES: Bodies were laid next to blocks of ice at a hospital morgue Thursday in Hiranagar, India, in the Kashmir region, after separatists stormed a police station, killing several officers and civilians, according to authorities.
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PICTURESQUE: Mist hovered in a valley near Goathland, England, Thursday.
PICTURESQUE: Mist hovered in a valley near Goathland, England, Thursday.
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BURNED OUT: A man on a donkey rode past burned buses in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday. The Sudanese army deployed troops after days of rioting over gas-price hikes left at least 30 people dead.
BURNED OUT: A man on a donkey rode past burned buses in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday. The Sudanese army deployed troops after days of rioting over gas-price hikes left at least 30 people dead.
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A guest cottage at the Delhi Gymkhana Club, whose members are the bureaucratic and military elite of India
NEW DELHI—Dileep Rao is shocked at the lengths to which members of his club will go to sway voters in the battle for its presidency.
At the Delhi Gymkhana Club—long the starchy preserve of India’s bureaucratic and military elite—members usually conduct their affairs quietly over whiskeys or games of bridge.
But now there’s all this: public sniping at a member running for an unorthodox third term; allegations of misleading campaign statements; charges that candidates are buying votes with drinks.
And candidates and their supporters in the election, set for Friday evening, are mounting an unprecedented barrage of written appeals to voters.
“In all my years at the club, I haven’t seen anything like this,” says Mr. Rao, a retired tobacco-company executive who joined in 1968. “Text messages, emails, letters. It’s too much.”
The whole hullabaloo, the 69-year-old Mr. Rao says, has become “a bit of a tamasha.”
That is Hindi for, roughly, “spectacle,” and the politics have been spectacular, indeed, by Gymkhana standards.
Delhi Gymkhana Club emblem
The Gymkhana Club, founded a century ago during the era of British rule, still sits at the heart of Indian power. It is next to the official residence of the prime minister, who is a member, in the capital’s center.
Lining its library walls are leather-bound tomes like “Social Economy of the Himalayans,” “Singapore: The Japanese Invasion” and Rudyard Kipling’s “Kim” for members to read in wicker chairs.
Members fox trot on the ballroom’s sprung-wood floor and do laps in the Lady Willingdon Swimming Bath, where a sign by the entrance warns away domestic help: “Ayahs, Servants, Gunmen and Security Guards with Members Are Not Allowed at the Swimming Pool.”
Gymkhana members are a sort of administrative aristocracy. The club’s colonnaded and high-ceilinged rooms see some of India’s biggest decisions and deals done within—quietly, as is befitting, and out of public view.
But this year, an unusually sharp election battle for the club presidency has spilled into the open. Slugging it out are a former public broadcasting official, a retired spy-agency chief, the nation’s former top police officer and a senior Transport Ministry official.
“Things have been getting increasingly bitter,” says Urmila Gupta, the former broadcasting official. “There’s this undercurrent of dirty tricks.”
The campaign, by the staid measures of the Gymkhana Club, is the moral equivalent of a Chicago alderman’s race.
One subject of debate: whether cocktail parties thrown by supporters of the various contenders were too numerous or too lavish.
“The other candidates are trying to court supporters with glamorous drinks parties,” says candidate Bhushan Lal Vohra, former director general of the Indian Police Service. “It is almost like buying votes with liquor.”
Another focus of controversy has been adherence to tradition—or rather, the alleged lack of it.
In recent decades, it has become customary at the club for military officers to alternate in the presidency with civilians. Presidents were elected for a one-year term and re-elected, unopposed, to a second, before gracefully bowing out.
But A.S. Dulat, the former spy chief, who served two years as president, from 2005-2007, has drawn sharp criticism from his rivals for throwing his hat in the ring again.
Standing for a third term, “is not one of the done things,” says rival Vijay Chhibber, secretary of the Transport Ministry, who has pledged to improve transparency in the club’s finances and membership system.
Mr. Dulat says there is no rule against running again. “I did the job for two years and thoroughly enjoyed it,” he says. “I love the place.”
And then there are the emails, texts and letters that some members consider unseemly and too pushy to hew to Gymkhana tradition.
Tradition is powerful at the Gymkhana, founded in 1913 as the Imperial Delhi Gymkhana Club. Gymkhana is an Anglo-Indian word derived from the Hindi and Urdu jamat-khana, or gathering place. Gymkhana Clubs—gentlemen’s athletic clubs—appeared across South Asia and elsewhere in colonial times.
The Imperial Delhi Gymkhana was a place where India’s British rulers could unwind after a day of managing locals. European hunting scenes still hang over the fireplaces.
With independence, the “Imperial” was dropped, and India’s new ruling class, the bureaucrats and military men, stepped into places vacated by their former colonial masters.
During this campaign, Mr. Chhibber has also found himself on the receiving end of barbed commentary from former military officers at the club who allege he wasn’t as supportive of benefits for soldiers’ families as they would have liked.
People looking to tarnish his reputation, Mr. Chhibber says, will likely end up paying a price at the ballot box. “People aren’t amused,” he says. “That’s not the way club elections are fought.”
Ms. Gupta, who would be the first female president in club history if she wins, has been locked in her own war of words with opponents who accused her of making a “misleading claim” about helping win approval for a club project. She called the assertions “defamatory and libelous.”
On Monday, the Times of India published a story under the headline “Rivals allege ‘dirty tricks’ as Delhi Gymkhana polls turn ugly.”
By Tuesday, V.L. Tuli, a club official overseeing the elections, issued a notice chastising candidates for “leaking malicious information to the press,” saying it “impacts adversely on the club’s prestige.”
Members will vote at the end of the club’s annual general meeting on Friday, to be held under tents set up on the lawn outside the main building. The club’s 5,000-plus permanent members are eligible to cast ballots.
Scrutineers, who canvass votes, will count them while members head inside for cocktails and to watch the results come in on a screen set up in the ballroom. Everything should be wrapped up by 11 p.m., club members say.
“After the elections, all of this will settle down,” predicts Mr. Dulat, the former intelligence chief. “This excitement is only for a few days.”
A version of this article appeared September 27, 2013, on page A1 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Race to Lead Staid Delhi Club Turns Into ‘a Bit of a Tamasha’.
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STOCKHOLM—A much-anticipated United Nations report issued Friday reaffirmed growing belief that human activity is the dominant cause behind a rise in global temperatures, but presented a more moderate estimate on rising temperatures.
A summary of the report, the work of more than 800 scientists working for the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change over several years, said there is a 95% likelihood that humans are behind global warming, up from the 90% level reported in a similar 2007 report. The IPCC noted that air and oceans are getting warmer, ice and snow is less plentiful, and sea levels are rising.
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Rescue operations continued in the Indian city of Mumbai on Friday where a five-story building collapsed earlier in the day, killing at least eight people and sending rescuers racing to reach dozens of people trapped in the rubble.
MUMBAI—At least 13 people died and dozens were injured after a five-story residential building collapsed in Mumbai Friday morning.
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Indian Fire officials rescued a girl from debris of a collapsed building in Mumbai on Friday. At least nine people died and many others were injured after a five-story residential building collapsed in Mumbai Friday morning.
By evening, rescue workers had pulled 52 people from the rubble, including some dead, said Sitaram Kunte, head of the city government.
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Rescue workers search for survivors at the site of a five-story building that collapsed Friday in Mumbai.
Mumbai’s mayor, Sunil Prabhu, told news channels that 22 families had been staying in the building, which an official at the city’s fire department said collapsed at 6:10 a.m.
Mr. Kunte said he didn’t know how many people remain trapped and that rescue operations were continuing.
Mr. Prabhu said the building, in the dockyard area of south Mumbai, was dilapidated and undergoing repairs.
Building collapses are common in India, particularly during or soon after the heavy rains of the monsoon season. Collapses are often blamed on the use of substandard materials and poor workmanship, with buildings going up without adequate supervision or licenses.
In August, at least 11 people were killed when two apartment buildings collapsed in Vadodara, in the northwestern state of Gujarat. In July, 17 people died in a building collapse in Secunderabad in south India, a week after a building housing a garment factory in Bhiwandi, around 20 miles from Mumbai, collapsed, killing six people.
The deadliest case in India this year occurred in Thane, also near Mumbai, when 74 people, including 18 children, were killed after an illegally constructed residential building collapsed.
In April, more than 1,100 people died when a factory complex collapsed in neighboring Bangladesh. It was one of the world’s worst industrial accidents.
—Ashutosh Joshi contributed to this article.
Write to Shreya Shah at Shreya.shah@wsj.com
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NAIROBI, Kenya—Forensic experts from multiple countries continued to comb over the wreckage of Nairobi’s Westgate mall on Friday as Kenyans awaited answers about who the assailants were and how they were able to execute such a sophisticated, coordinated attack without intelligence officials discovering the plot.
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The proliferation of cellphone cams and social media have produced, via the instant upload, a new phenomenon: the first YouTube war. Melik Kaylan explains the impact of online videos in the Syrian conflict.
In one video, two men in jeans and hoodies take a rocket tube to a rooftop and fire it. From another angle, we see three Syrian tanks in a row. The middle one takes a huge hit, emits a sheet of orange flame and burns away; a smoldering figure jumps from the tank and runs off as bullets smack the ground around him.
Another video opens with a long take of a busy traffic area, full of buses and pedestrians, some of whom seem to be soldiers. One bus suddenly erupts from within, and dozens of people collapse. The videotaker repeatedly cries “Allahu akbar” and claims to be from the Al Nusra Front, a radical Islamist group.
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A screengrab from a YouTube video from September
The unprecedented confluence of two technologies—cellphone cams and social media—has produced, via the instant upload, a new phenomenon: the YouTube war. For the first time in history, the extended war in Syria has furnished global audiences with a sofa-side view of what it feels like to be there, almost in real time.
Since January 2012, according to official YouTube figures, over a million videos have been uploaded, with hundreds of millions of views to date. The company doesn’t, as a matter of policy, delete even very graphic videos that are news-oriented, but it does sometimes append warnings. Bus bombs, firefights, raw scenes of bloodshed and tragedy, interrogations and executions, tank kills, deaths by sniper—the full brutal spectrum of real-life combat drama is thus now on display at the click of a finger.
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A screengrab from a YouTube video from July
Videos have poured in from all sides of the war in Syria, part of a social-media struggle to document events and ultimately to influence them. According to Hassan, a young Syrian documentary filmmaker who moved last month to the U.S. to join family and to avoid the draft (his name is changed here to prevent identification), “virtually every neighborhood, for or against Assad, has a media center that documents and processes what happens. Many went abroad for training, with funds from outside or state subsidy.”
On YouTube, even those who don’t know Arabic can detect the biases. Content against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad often gets captioned in English and trumpets the successes of the rebel Free Syrian Army. Wins for Mr. Assad’s forces are categorized under the heading Syrian Arab Army. Troops in uniform, including the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah, tend to be pro-Assad. Rebel groups like the al-Qaeda-linked Al Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and Al Sham have logos with stylized Islamic scripts (apparently they can afford to outsource for accomplished graphic design). According to Hassan and others, each fighting group now brings along its own more-or-less professional cameramen.
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A screengrab from a YouTube video from February
But despite all the expertise in propaganda, the products can often seem bafflingly alienating or repellent. A pro-Assad channel entitled SyriaTube likes to put out close-up scenes of rebels taking hits, collapsing and dying, presented with insouciant music from spaghetti westerns and “Bye Bye” in large letters. The producers don’t seem to sense anything discordant or sadistic in the juxtaposition.
One wonders also how they get hold of videos that had to be originally shot by rebels showing one of their own being hit. Hassan explains that they find them on prisoners or dead rebels: “The first thing both sides search for is cellphones or cameras.”
On the rebel side, the incessant cries of Allahu akbar come across, finally, as barbaric because they are uttered so indiscriminately: at the death of a comrade, the destruction of a tank, the execution of a prisoner, the killing of innocents or the launch of a rocket toward the enemy. The implicit suggestion is that God presides as much over their boastful cruelty as over their prayers for mercy for the souls of the dead.
An Al Jazeera editor who has worked in the region for some years (and wishes to remain anonymous) says that the early videos from the conflict didn’t feature such vehement religiosity. “At a certain point, fighters began to produce footage specifically to appeal to Gulf and Saudi sources of funding,” he said. It has now reached the point that groups “perform missions for the camera and go back to funders saying, ‘This is what $50,000 got you. For $500,000, we could knock out an entire base,’ or some such.”
This confluence between mercenary motives and killing for the faith isn’t news to Ali Soufan, the Lebanese-American former FBI agent who, after the attack on the USS Cole and 9/11, successfully interrogated numerous Al Qaeda operatives, including Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard. “Jihadi elements learned years ago to use video and social media for recruitment and funding,” he said. “They’re in the business of promoting themselves while the mainstream media isn’t promoting them. They know it’s a kind of theater.”
For Mr. Soufan and others who monitor online traffic for antiterror purposes, Syrian war videos have proved a vital resource. Charles Lister, a prominent analyst for the U.K.-based IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Center, has acknowledged his dependence on videos. In a report over the summer, he analyzed scores of videos to determine the quality and quantity of weapons reaching the rebels. This occurred at a moment of intense public debate about the purported shortfall of Western support for the insurgency.
The use and misuse of war videos—their secondary and tertiary life out in the ether—will surely become part of our future experience of wars. What clues does the Syria experience offer? According to Hazami Barmada, an Arab-American who works as a consultant to various states in the Middle East, “How the videos are shared, the social media commentary around them, is as important as the content. People in the region are fully engaged in that dimension. There are two conflicts, the war and the digital war, which globalizes it.”
What has this wider awareness added up to? “I don’t see any good effect,” says Marc Ginsberg, the former U.S. ambassador to Morocco. “Where are all the protests against Assad in Arab countries? Instead, it’s probably sucked more people into the war from outside.”
Videos showing the ghastly toll of the chemical weapons attack in late August proved to be a turning point of sorts, prompting a more focused debate about Western intervention. Up to then, though, Syrians had recorded any number of atrocities for global eyes, with no result. One might conclude that the age of YouTube war will bring the worst of possible outcomes: an ever-growing number of us witnessing horrors while at the same time growing fatalistic about them—just as war victims themselves do.
—Mr. Kaylan is a New York-based journalist who often reports from the Middle East.
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SYDNEY—Weakening job prospects in Australia’s mining industry are pressuring the new conservative government to find employment for thousands of workers recently made redundant as a long resources boom unwinds.
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Miners clad in high-visibility overalls walked past a maintenance shed at Sandfire Resources’ copper operations at DeGrussa, 559 miles (900 kilometers) north of Perth, Australia, on Aug. 4. Australia’s new government is faced with weakening job prospects in the domestic mining industry.
While government jobs data showed a slight gain in job vacancies in June through August from the previous three months, the figures also revealed sharp cuts in the mining industry over the past year.
The latest nationwide gain in available jobs follows three straight quarters of substantial declines, mostly owing to the mining slowdown.
The central bank has lowered interest rates to a record low 2.5% in a cycle of rate cuts over the past two years aimed at spurring nonmining activity to offset the resources slowdown. So far, it has met with little success outside of the housing market.
Australia’s unemployment rate, low by global standards, has been rising. It climbed to a four-year high of 5.8% in August from 5.7% a month earlier—with many of the job losses concentrated in mining-dominated states such as Western Australia and Queensland. The resources slowdown was also evident in nongovernment data that recently showed job ads nationwide fell 19% in August from a year earlier for the sixth consecutive monthly decline.
To compare, unemployment rates in the U.S. and U.K. are both above 7%.
“We’ve been expecting this slowdown in mining jobs for some time” as resources firms scale back extensive mine-building activity, said Diana Mousina, a Sydney-based economist at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, adding that the worst may be over as large gas exploration projects continue to require workers.
With Australia’s decelerating economy, the country’s newly elected prime minister faces a challenge in living up to his campaign promises: to cut taxes, improve the nation’s creaky infrastructure and support job creation without sinking further into debt.
Tony Abbott, who leads the ruling Liberal National coalition, may be forced to step up borrowing to fulfill his commitment to putting “bulldozers on the ground and cranes into our skies” to fuel growth outside the resources industry.
According to Thursday’s government data, the number of job vacancies climbed 3.1% in the three months to the end of August. However, that gain pales in comparison to drops of 7.3%, 10.1% and 6.9% in the immediately preceding three quarters. In the mining industry, job vacancies fell by almost 40% to 4,900 in the latest survey from a year earlier.
The number of job vacancies tends to fall in a worsening economic climate because companies cut costs by cutting back positions. Australian mining companies have shed thousands of jobs and closed mines in parallel with China’s slowdown, which over the past year has dented the price of commodities like coal and iron ore.
Companies that provide engineering and construction services to mining companies have been especially hard hit as investment in new mines has dried up. Thursday’s data showed the number of job vacancies in the construction sector fell nearly 25% from a year earlier to 12,800.
Other parts of the economy are also struggling, including the retail and manufacturing sectors, as the slowdown filters through to other industries and compounds the impact of a strong local currency.
Although Australia’s $1.5 trillion economy has expanded for more than two decades, the central bank recently lowered its growth forecast for this year and toned down its job outlook. The economy expanded by 2.6% in the second quarter compared with a year earlier, government data showed this month, much slower than quarterly growth rates as high as 4% last year.
—Ross Kelly contributed to this article.
Write to James Glynn at james.glynn@wsj.com and Shani Raja at shani.raja@wsj.com
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At least eight people were killed Thursday by suspected militants who disguised themselves as Indian soldiers and attacked a police station and an army camp in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Indian soldiers gathered behind a small wall Thursday during an attack by militants on an army camp at Mesar in Jammu and Kashmir state. Suspected separatist rebels attacked the camp after storming into a police station where they shot and killed four police and one civilian.
The attack came just days before Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to meet his Pakistani counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, on the sidelines of a United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York.
“Given our history and the timing of these attacks, it is clear that the aim of the terrorists is to derail the proposed dialogue between the prime ministers of India and Pakistan,” Omar Abdullah, the chief minister of the state, said at a news conference. “These are forces that want to keep the ongoing turmoil in the state alive.”
The Himalayan territory of Kashmir has long been a cause of dispute between India and Pakistan, which have fought two of their three wars since independence from Britain in 1947 over it. Both countries rule parts of it but claim it in its entirety.
India has long faced an insurgency in Kashmir where different militant groups have been fighting for separation from India. During the fiercest years of fighting in the 1990s, New Delhi accused Pakistan of training and financing thousands of militants to infiltrate Indian-held Kashmir. Pakistan denies the allegations.
While violence in the region has dropped considerably in recent years, thanks in part to a 2003 cease-fire agreement between India and Pakistan, tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors have been rising this year on the back of deadly border skirmishes between the armed forces of the two countries.
In India, the alleged beheading of an Indian soldier in January close to the Pakistan border stalled peace talks, and the killings of five Indian soldiers patrolling the border last month prevented plans to restart the discussions. India has in recent months reiterated long-held demands that Islamabad stop militants from training in Pakistan and launching attacks on India. Pakistan says it too has suffered terrorist violence and doesn’t shelter militants.
On Thursday, three men dressed in army uniforms attacked a police station, killing four police and one civilian. The attackers then hijacked a truck, killed one person in the truck and drove to a nearby army camp, said Ashok Prasad, the top police officer for the state. Using a back door to enter the camp’s cafeteria, the heavily armed men then exchanged fire with Indian troops, killing at least two soldiers. The suspected militants were killed in an operation that lasted several hours.
“We are now working to rule out similar plans by other militants,” Mr. Prasad said.
Mr. Sharif, who took office in June, has said he wants to open a new chapter in his country’s ties with India. New Delhi, however, is still concerned about the influence of Pakistan’s army on Islamabad’s foreign policy. India is waiting to see how Mr. Sharif’s relationship with the military evolves. The meeting in New York this weekend may hold some clues, analysts in New Delhi said.
“It might show us what the prospects for peace with Pakistan are under Nawaz Sharif,” said Radha Kumar, director-general of the Delhi Policy Group, which was appointed by the Indian government in 2010 to help draw a road map for peace in Jammu and Kashmir. “I don’t expect to see any concrete steps, but there is an expectation that he will at least make some commitments.”
Mr. Singh is also grappling with domestic politics, analysts say. On Thursday, he said the attack “will not succeed in derailing our efforts to find a resolution to all problems through a process of dialogue.” But elections in India are due by the end of May and opposition parties who have called for a boycott of all talks with Pakistan will criticize the Indian prime minister if he is seen as being soft on Pakistan.
“Kashmir and Pakistan are emotive issues in India,” said Sushant Sareen, a consultant at New Delhi’s Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses. “Manmohan Singh doesn’t have the political capital or the time to take any bold steps and nothing on the ground will change.”
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is set to meet President Barack Obama on Friday as the U.S. and India look to deepen military relations and increase cooperation on nuclear energy, hoping to invigorate their bond at a time when economic ties are strained.
The mood will be markedly different from the last time Mr. Singh visited the White House in 2009, analysts said. Back then, the Indian economy was roaring and India-U.S. relations were reaching new highs, in part because of a hard-fought civil nuclear agreement that paved the way for American companies to export nuclear equipment to India. The …
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