My topic of violence in different attacks between countries.

I chose the topic of violence and that is the most that is emerging worldwide that is affecting our society. Violence is always making people on the defensive and in war. I do not wish to talk about this but I think it is important to set the view to the situation. In my opinion I did not like anything to do my news on this issue as it bothers me to hear of the evil and the war in which we are surrounded.

Summary Rebels step up attacks on Colombia energy targets The port town of Tumaco on Colombia's Pacific coast went dark for more than a week in early August after guerrillas toppled three electricity towers in the remote area. Rebels-planted land mines did even more damage, delaying the restoration of power while killing at least five people, including two workers trying to repair the towers, local authorities said. These attacks have affected the electricity infrastructure, pipelines and trains carrying coal produced almost daily in the 1990s and in the 2000s, when rebel groups in Colombia led the energy sector either for funding or attack foreign companies that are considered the exploitation of the wealth of the nation. These attacks had ceased for a while since the band had fallen, but are now returning to resurface. No estimates exist on how much damage the sabotage causes annually, but if a peace agreement is signed, Colombia's gross domestic product could grow an additional one or two percentage points, helping the country reach annual economic growth of 5 to 6 percent, according to Treasury Minister Mauricio Cardenas, a former minister of energy and mining. The country's largest crude oil field, Puerto Gaitan, is guarded by at least 800 soldiers located inside the vast complex where 14,000 people work, said Federico Restrepo, vice president of corporate relations for the Toronto-based company Pacific Rubiales Energy. The firm holds a 35 percent stake in Puerto Gaitan, which produces about 20 percent of the country's daily production, set at an average of 918,000 barrels in August. Restrepo said none of the company's Colombia operations have suffered attacks. Pinzon announced Wednesday that the Defense Ministry is creating eight new battalions to shore up security of the nation's infrastructure. A high-ranking official speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly about national security issues said each battalion will be comprised of at least 1,200 troops, and three battalions are already operating.

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Police Contain Afghan Rage Over Film, as Protest Spread Elsewhere Facing Afghanistans first significant outbreak of violence over an anti-Islam film that has inflamed mobs elsewhere, the police moved swiftly on Monday to contain rampaging groups of young men who were burning tires and throwing stones along a thoroughfare leading east out of Kabul, keeping the protesters from advancing toward the city and dispersing them within hours. The relative calm in Afghanistan, despite Mondays outburst, has stood in stark contrast to events elsewhere in the Muslim world since last Tuesday when the American ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, was killed in an attack on the United States diplomatic mission in Benghazi as protests spread from neighboring Egypt. New outbreaks were reported Monday in Indonesia, Pakistan, Lebanon and Iran. In Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, police firing tear gas and water cannons moved against hundreds of demonstrators who had gathered outside the American Embassy to express opposition to the film. Some protesters set fire to an American flag, while others hurled rocks and gasoline bombs and burned tires, news reports said. Student protesters were also mobilized to denounce the film in Iran, where the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, blamed what he called the Wests Islamophobic policies of arrogance and Zionism and dismissed American government criticism of the film as meaningless. In a speech to police cadets, reported by Irans official news media, the ayatollah said Western countries should acquit themselves of such a heavy crime not in words but in deed. There were also unconfirmed reports, apparently originating in an account on Sunday by the Iranian Students News Agency, that a religious foundation had enriched its death bounty on Salman Rushdie, the British author whose novel The Satanic Verses was deemed a blasphemy punishable by death 23 years ago by Irans revolutionary icon, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The news agency said the bounty was increased to $3.3 million from $2.8 million for Mr. Rushdie, considered by Irans clerics to be the inspiration for insults to Islam.

Summary Syria says no dialogue before it crushes rebels The Syrian regime said Monday there will be no dialogue with the opposition before the army crushes the rebels, the latest sign that President Bashar Assad is determined to solve the crisis on the battlefield even if many more of his people have to pay with their lives. "There will be no dialogue with the opposition prior to the Syrian army's imposition of security and stability in all parts of the country," Information Minister Omran al-Zoebi told reporters at a news conference in Damascus. Activists on Sunday said some 5,000 people were killed in August, the highest toll in the 17-month-old uprising and more than three times the monthly average. At the same time, the U.N. children's fund, UNICEF, said 1,600 were killed last week alone, also the highest figure for the entire revolt. The civil war witnessed a major turning point in August when Assad's forces began widely using air power for the first time to try to put down the revolt. The fighting also reached Syria's largest city, Aleppo, which had been relatively quiet for most of the uprising. Syrian officials said a bomb attached to a taxi blew up in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana, killing five people and wounding 23. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media. The Assad regime made similar public statements when it signed on to Annan's peace plan, only to frequently ignore or outright violate its commitments by refusing to pull its troops out of cities and cease its shelling of opposition areas.

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Lybia Attack Brings Challenge for U.S Islamist militants armed with antiaircraft weapons and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a lightly defended United States diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya , late Tuesday, killing the American ambassador and three members of his staff and raising questions about the radicalization of countries swept up in the Arab Sprin The wave of unrest set off by the video, posted online in the United States two months ago and dubbed into Arabic for the first time eight days ago, has further underscored the instability of the countries that cast off their longtime dictators in the Arab Spring revolts. It also cast doubt on the adequacy of security preparations at American diplomatic outposts in the volatile region.

Benghazi, awash in guns, has recently witnessed a string of assassinations as well as attacks on international missions, including a bomb said to be planted by another Islamist group that exploded near the United States mission there as recently as June. But a Libyan politician who had breakfast with Mr. Stevens at the mission the morning before he was killed described security, mainly four video cameras and as few as four Libyan guards, as sorely inadequate for an American ambassador in such a tumultuous environment. This country is still in transition, and everybody knows the extremists are out there, said Fathi Baja, the Libyan politician.

Summary Turkey Fires Artillery at Syrian Targets in Retaliation for Civilian Deaths This atrocious attack was immediately responded to adequately by our armed forces in the border region, in accordance with rules of engagement, said a statement from the office of the Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, carried by the semiofficial Anatolian News Agency. Targets were shelled in locations identified by radar. And while suicide bombers killed dozens on Wednesday as violence surged in Syrias largest city, Aleppo, it was the cross-border strike that raised the stakes in a civil war that has left tens of thousands dead and forced more than a million people from their homes. The war has defied exhaustive diplomatic efforts by the global community. The events may increase pressure for the West to take military action, something Turkey has supported. The United States and its allies have balked at engaging in another armed conflict in the Muslim world that would be far riskier than NATOs intervention in Libya, which helped oust Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. But in the fog of war that has settled over Syria, where allegiances and motives are uncertain and a bloody stalemate has taken hold, some observers said they could not help wondering if the episode had been orchestrated by one side or another. The rebels have implored NATO to provide a no-fly zone or havens, and President Bashar al-Assad may feel he can rally his supporters against foreign invasion, experts said. Various parties are trying to pull Turkey into the conflict, Atilla Sandikli, the director of the Wise Men Center for Strategic Studies in Ankara, Turkey, said on the Turkish channel NTV.

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Activists: Syrian warplanes pound Homs The Syrian military opened a second urban front Friday, attacking the rebel stronghold of Homs with the most intense artillery barrage in months and putting opposition fighters there and in Syria's largest city, Aleppo, increasingly on the defensive. Syrias civil war has been locked in a bloody stalemate, and embattled President Bashar Assad could extend his hold on power if he retakes Aleppo and Homs. Amateur video from Homs, a symbol of resistance, showed black columns of smoke rising from the city, as loud explosions went off every few seconds. Turkey, along with other countries siding with the rebels, is averse to intervening militarily, while Assad has also tried to avoid provocations he believes would trigger a foreign intervention. Undeterred by its troubles with Turkey, the Syrian regime on Friday launched a new offensive against Homs, unleashing heavy shelling and air attacks. The attack is the worst Homs has seen in five months, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists on the ground. Syria's conflict began with a peaceful uprising against Assad, inspired by last year's Arab Spring rebellions against authoritarian rulers. Amid an escalating regime crackdown, the rebellion gradually turned into a civil war. The regime's troops are stretched thin, enabling rebels to control large stretches of countryside in Syria's most densely populated west. The rebels did not give any other evidence that would confirm the capture of a base, or identify the location of the video. If confirmed, the capture of a stock of working anti-aircraft missiles would be a boost to a lightly-armed rebel force that says it faces frequent attacks by low-flying helicopters and warplanes.

Summary The rubble of a Syrian airstrike

There were a few scattered reminders of whose room it had been before the bombs hit a framed picture of Barbie and another of a kitten with a pink bow still hanging on the cracked plaster wall, a doll and two teddy bears resting on a pile of rubble. The house was one of more than a dozen in the al Harah al Qibiliyah neighborhood in the town of Azaz, north of Aleppo, to be destroyed in an Aug. 15 airstrike. Survivors and rights groups say more than 40 people, including children and old people, were killed. On his first trip back to his brother's home, Mahmoud Makour sifted through the rubble of what remained. He collected the stuffed animals and a few Lego pieces that belonged to his 11-year-old niece, Sara, and his 1 -year-old nephew, Youssuf, and set them aside. Both children, along with their mother, were killed in the air raid, he said. With a bloody civil war engulfing the country, survival now takes precedence. On the day of the airstrike, Dannoun recalls being with his wife on the roof of their one-story house while he fixed their water barrel.

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In Lebanon, Pope Laments Strife in Syria, Where the War Rages On

Standing near what was once the dividing line of Lebanons bygone civil war, Pope Benedict XVI said a prayer on Sunday for the victims of the conflict in Syria, where the end is hard to see. Syria was a recurring theme in the popes three-day visit here. As he arrived, Benedict called for both the Syrian government and its opponents to stop importing arms. Before he left on Sunday, the pope lamented the cost. Sadly, the din of weapons continues to make itself heard. Violence and hatred invade peoples lives, and the first victims are women and children. That plea was quickly drowned out on Sunday by news of more killings in Syria. A factory owner in the Qadam neighborhood of Damascus, the capital, said several people, including the 18-year-old nephew of one of his employees, were taken from their homes and executed by soldiers in an apartment. And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group, said that five children and at least eight other people were killed by shelling in the northern province of Idlib. They linked their worries to those of Coptic Christians in Egypt, who have been discriminated against under decades of authoritarian governments, but are fearful that the rise to power of Islamists will make things worse. Listening to Benedict on Sunday, Essam Nasser, a Syrian who works in Lebanon, said he and his relatives still in Syria would stick with a government they opposed rather than risk the uncertainty of change. Were with the political opposition, said Mr. Nasser, distinguishing such opposition from the armed militias fighting the government. The Arab revolts are bringing extremist presidents. The Muslim Brotherhood doesnt suit us, he said, referring to the ruling party in Egypt.

Summary Wounded food hospitals in Syrias largest city It had been a calm day in Aleppo's Shifa Hospital, said Dr. Osman al-Haj Osman, his face etched with exhaustion from just three hours of sleep. Then, a man burst in bearing the shrieking bundle of a 6-year-old girl who'd had a machine-gun bullet rip through both her knees. Two months into the battle for Syria's largest city, civilians are still bearing the brunt of the daily assaults of helicopter gunships, roaring jets and troops fighting in the streets. Shoving aside the orderlies and armed rebels milling around the cramped lobby Tuesday afternoon, the man deposited Fatima Qassem onto a gurney as a nurse swooped in and began cutting away the blood-soaked bandages on her knees. A doctor reached in and pulled out an inch-long fragment of metal. There was a gush of blood. Large sections of bone and muscle were missing from the back of her knee. She cried out plaintively for "Baba," because the man who brought her was not her father just someone who had rushed her across town to the hospital. The family was hopefully on its way. The 30-year-old doctor estimated that 80 percent of the patients are civilians, wounded by falling buildings and exploding shells from the constant bombardment that government forces mete out to the parts of the city outside their control. On Tuesday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported shelling in several areas across Aleppo that killed more than a dozen and collapsed a three- story building in the nearby neighborhood of Haideriya. Forces loyal to President Bashar Assad have been increasingly relying on the government's artillery and air power to fight the tenacious rebels who so far refuse to be dislodged from Aleppo.

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Correspondent for Iranian TV killed After Blasts Rock Syrian Military Site Suicide bombers struck a military headquarters in a busy square in central Damascus on Wednesday morning, the second insurgent assault on a government military installation in two days and the largest attack in the capital since July, when explosions killed several key aides to President Bashar al-Assad. In gunfire after two explosions, a television correspondent Maya Naser of Press TV, Irans English-language satellite network was killed during a live broadcast, the network said. The warren of government buildings is in one of the capitals most guarded areas, near an office used by Mr. Assad. State television broadcast images of a small white minibus slowing to a stop on a busy road near the wall of the military compound and then exploding in a fireball. Other images showed what appeared to be another blast in the compound. Witnesses said it struck the air force command headquarters. The blasts were precursors to a fierce armed attack, two witnesses said. One said that dozens of insurgent fighters appeared almost immediately, attacking with grenades and gunfire while guards from the military complex ran around in a panic.