| Amazon says Australia launch imminent ahead of spending season Posted: 13 Nov 2017 06:25 AM PST  Amazon.com Inc is "really close" to opening in Australia, its country manager said on Monday, as the U.S. e-commerce juggernaut prepares to shake up an already-fragile brick-and-mortar retail sector in the world's No. 12 economy. While Amazon did not give an exact start date, the remarks from Rocco Braeuniger suggest the company will ship goods from its first Australian warehouse in time for the end-of-year holiday season, a moment seen by analysts as a tipping point for Australia's staid retailers. "Let me tell you we are getting really, really close," a jeans-wearing Braeuniger told about 600 prospective product merchants at an open day on the Sydney waterfront, held to encourage merchants to sell on its website.
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| Trump's ASEAN Summit Handshake May Be His Most Ridiculous Yet Posted: 13 Nov 2017 05:41 AM PST  President Donald Trump was thrown off by a handshake intended to kick off an international conference in the Philippines on Monday.
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| Microsoft founder Gates commits $100 million for fund, start-ups, to fight Alzheimer's Posted: 13 Nov 2017 03:55 AM PST  By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek treatments for the brain-wasting disease. The investment is not part of Gates' philanthropic Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and will be followed with another $50 million in a number of start-up ventures working in Alzheimer's research, Gates said. With rapidly rising numbers of people suffering from Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, the disease is taking a growing emotional and financial toll as people live longer, Gates told Reuters in an interview.
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| Southeast Asia not taking South China Sea thaw for granted: summit draft Posted: 13 Nov 2017 02:28 AM PST  By Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - Southeast Asian nations will not take a relative calm in the dispute over the South China Sea for granted, according to a draft of a statement to be issued during a summit meeting in Manila on Monday. The statement will be issued after a meeting between China and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the Philippines capital, a diplomatic source said. "Important that we cooperate to maintain peace, stability, freedom of navigation in and over-flight above the SCS (South China Sea), in accordance with international law.
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| Powerful earthquake on Iran-Iraq border kills more than 140 Posted: 13 Nov 2017 01:11 AM PST  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A powerful earthquake shook the Iran-Iraq border late Sunday, killing more than 140 people and injuring 860 in the mountainous region of Iran alone, state media there said.
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| Lebanon PM says free in Saudi and will return home 'soon' Posted: 12 Nov 2017 11:01 PM PST  Saad Hariri, whose resignation as Lebanon's prime minister a week ago sent shockwaves across the region, said Sunday he is "free" in Saudi Arabia and will return to Lebanon "very soon". In an interview from Riyadh with his party's Future TV, Hariri brushed aside rumours that he was under de facto house arrest in the kingdom, from which he announced his surprise departure. If I want to travel tomorrow, I will," Hariri said.
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| Texas Church Is Transformed Into Poignant Memorial For Mass Shooting Victims Posted: 12 Nov 2017 09:10 PM PST  SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas ― One week after it became the site of the deadliest mass shooting in modern Texas shooting, the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs reopened to the public on Sunday.
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| More than 130 dead as 7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near border of Iraq and Iran Posted: 12 Nov 2017 07:20 PM PST  Scores of people have been killed and hundreds injured after a strong earthquake shook the Iran-Iraq border region on Sunday. The US Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.3 temblor was centred 20 miles southwest of Halabja, near the northeastern border with Iran. At least 129 people were killed in Iran's Kermanshah province on the Iraqi border, the provincial deputy governor told state television. More than 300 were injured. "There are still people under the rubble. We hope the number of dead and injured won't rise too much, but it will rise," Mojtaba Nikkerdar said More than 60 of the victims were in the town of Sarpol-e Zahab, about 10 miles from the border. In Iraq, at least six people died. More than 50 people were injured in Iraq's Sulaymaniyah province and about 150 were hurt in Khanaquin city. Graphic: Iraq earthquake Many residents in the Iraqi capital Baghdad rushed out of houses and tall buildings in panic. "I was sitting with my kids having dinner and suddenly the building was just dancing in the air," said Majida Ameer, who ran out of her building in the capital's Salihiya district with her three children. "I thought at first that it was a huge bomb. But then I heard everyone around me screaming 'Earthquake!'" The electricity was cut off in several Iranian and Iraqi cities, and fears of aftershocks sent thousands of people in both countries out onto the streets and parks in cold weather. "The night has made it difficult for helicopters to fly to the affected areas and some roads are also cut off... we are worried about remote villages," Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said in an interview on state television. People stand in the street after feeling aftershocks in Baghdad Credit: AP There were similar scenes in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region, and across other cities in northern Iraq, close to the quake's epicentre. The quake struck the mountainous area of Sulaimaniyah province at 9:18 pm (1818 GMT) at a depth of 15 miles, the monitor said. Footage posted on Twitter showed panicked people fleeing a building in Sulaimaniyah, as windows shattered at the moment the quake struck, while images from the nearby town of Darbandikhan showed major walls and concrete structures had collapsed. It was reportedly felt for about 20 seconds in Baghdad, and sometimes for longer in other provinces of Iraq. Iranian social media was abuzz Sunday night with posts of people evacuating their homes, particularly in Kermanshah and Ghasr-e Shirin. The semi-official Iranian ILNA news agency said at least 14 provinces in Iran had been affected by the earthquake. A shake map of the region following the earthquake in Iraq Credit: US Geological Survey Officials announced that schools in Kermanshah and Ilam provinces would be closed Monday because of the tremor. In southeastern Turkey, the earthquake was felt "from Malatya to Van", an AFP correspondent said. In the town of Diyarbakir, residents also left their homes before returning. The quake took place along a 1,500 kilometre fault line between the Arabia and Eurasia tectonic plates, a belt extending through western Iran and into northeastern Iraq, the US Geological Survey said. A 5.7 magnitude earthquake near Iran's border with Turkmenistan in May killed two people, injured hundreds and caused widespread damage, state media reported. A woman with a wheelchair is seen at Sulaymaniyah Hospital after a 7.3 magnitude earthquake hit today Credit: Anadolu In June 1990, a magnitude 7.4 quake struck 400 km to the northeast of today's event, and caused between 40,000-50,000 fatalities, more than 60,000 injuries, and left more than 600,000 homeless in the in the Rasht-Qazvin-Zanjan area of Iran. The last major earthquake to strike Iran was a 2003 tremor in Bam, in the southeastern province of Kerman, which killed at least 31,000 people and flattened the city.
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| Raw: Iraqi Forces Find Mass Graves Posted: 12 Nov 2017 05:39 PM PST  Iraqi officials said Sunday up to 400 bodies of civilians and security forces had been found in an abandoned base near Hawija, a northern town retaken from the Islamic State group in early October. (Nov. 12)
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| 10-Year-Old Brings Doughnuts to Las Vegas Cops After Mass Shooting Posted: 12 Nov 2017 04:59 PM PST  He is on a mission to give a dougnut to every cop in America.
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