Monitor Daily News Briefing - September 10, 2013

September 10, 2013 - Daily News Briefing

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Egyptian troops and tanks backed by helicopter gun-ships swept through villages in the northern Sinai Peninsula near the border with the Palestinian Gaza Strip on Monday, the third day of a major offensive against Islamic extremists, a military official said. So far, some 20 suspected militants have been killed and 20 captured in the operation, he added.

America’s National Security Agency may hold crucial evidence about the cause of the 1961 plane crash which killed UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the cold war, a commission which reviewed the case said Monday. Widely considered the UN’s most effective chief, Hammarskjold died as he was attempting to broker a cease-fire in the newly independent Congo.

The Van Gogh Museum says it has identified a long-lost Vincent Van Gogh painting that spent years in a Norwegian attic because it was thought not to be authentic. It is the first full-size canvas by the Dutch master discovered since 1928. “Sunset at Montmajour” depicts a dry landscape of oak trees, bushes, and sky painted in 1888.

Only 1 in 5 Americans believe that failing to respond to chemical weapons attacks in Syria would embolden other rogue governments, rejecting the heart of a weeks-long White House campaign for US military strikes, an Associated Press poll concluded Monday.

Business forecasters maintained their rosy view of the US economy in 2014, predicting 3 percent growth by the second quarter of next year, low inflation, and improving employment. The top economists surveyed by the National Association of Business Economics also said there’s an 80 percent likelihood that the pickup in growth will prompt the Federal Reserve to trim its monthly $85 billion purchases of mortgage bonds and Treasury bills in 2014.

Documents leaked by Edward Snowden indicate the US National Security Agency spied on Brazil’s state-run oil company, the private computer networks of Google, and a company that facilitates most of the world’s international bank transfers, a Brazilian TV report says. Globo TV, however, gave no information about what the NSA may have obtained from Petrobras, Google, and the Belgium-based Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication.

George Zimmerman’s estranged wife called police officers to her father’s house in Florida on Monday, saying the former neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted of murder threatened her with a gun. Shellie Zimmerman called Monday afternoon, said Lake Mary Police Chief Steve Bracknell. Zimmerman hadn’t been arrested and officers were at the house trying to determine what happened, Bracknell said.

Pakistani political leaders Monday endorsed government efforts to negotiate with militants in the tribal regions while distancing themselves from a war that they portrayed as being foisted on them by the US invasion of Afghanistan.

Compiled from wire service reports

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