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• EXCLUSIVE-Saudi opens door to Black Sea grain with pest rule change as tightens Russian ties
• Damascus rejects Turkey-US buffer zone plan: state media
• Two bodies found in Canada, believed to be teen murder suspects

EXCLUSIVE-Saudi opens door to Black Sea grain with pest rule change as tightens Russian ties Posted: 08 Aug 2019 06:14 AM PDT CAIRO/MOSCOW, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia will relax its bug-damage specifications for wheat imports from its next tender onwards, it told Reuters on Thursday, opening the door to Black Sea imports and strengthening ties with Russia beyond energy cooperation. Russia has long sought access to Saudi Arabia's wheat market as Moscow tries to take further market share in Middle Eastern and North African wheat markets from the European Union and United States. Wheat from the Black Sea did not previously meet Saudi specifications for zero-pest damage, but the governor of state grain buyer SAGO, Ahmad al-Fares, told Reuters that the specifications will be relaxed to 0.5% from the next tender. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Damascus rejects Turkey-US buffer zone plan: state media Posted: 08 Aug 2019 03:08 AM PDT Damascus said Thursday it rejects a US-Turkish plan to establish a buffer zone in northern Syria, blaming Syria's Kurds for the proposal, state media said. "Syria categorically and blatantly rejects the agreement between the American and Turkish occupiers on the establishment of a so-called safe zone" in northern Syria, a foreign ministry source told state news agency SANA. "Syria's Kurds who have accepted to become a tool in this aggressive US-Turkish project bear a historical responsibility" the source added, urging Kurdish groups to return to the fold. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Two bodies found in Canada, believed to be teen murder suspects Posted: 07 Aug 2019 03:01 PM PDT Canadian police said Wednesday they had discovered the bodies of two men believed to be fugitive teens who allegedly murdered three people last month -- ending a nearly three-week nationwide manhunt. Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, were wanted over the murders of an Australian man and his American girlfriend in their 20s, as well as of a Canadian university professor. Initially, the pair were reported missing themselves after their car was found torched in British Columbia -- but police then discovered the third body, and the Vancouver teens were named as formal suspects. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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