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敘利亞總統巴沙爾·阿薩德否認上月在大馬士革實施化武襲擊，他在接受美國電視網路CBS的採訪中如是說。凱蒂·沃森為你播報。
“總統阿薩德這次接受採訪的時機不錯，國會議員們週一剛結束夏季休會，開始就支持對敘利亞採取行動進行辯論。阿薩德政府正密切關注華盛頓方面，接受美國電視網路的獨家專訪可以讓他講述自己對事件的陳述，並影響美國的公眾輿論。阿薩德總統說，奧巴馬政府需要出示顯示其政府實施襲擊的證據，他不會證實或否認自己擁有化武，但表示如果政府確實擁有，那會處於集中控制下，任何人都無法得到它。他說叛軍與此有些關係，一旦敘利亞遭受襲擊，其盟友就會進行報復。”
根據德國明鏡週刊的報導，美國國家安全局(NSA)和英國國家通信情報局(GCHQ)聯合破解了保護手機資訊的安全密碼。史提芬·埃文斯報導。
“明鏡週刊稱，美國國家安全局和英國國家通信情報局就每種類型的手機都設立團隊，破解保護隱私的密碼。一旦破解成功，這些機構就能讀出用戶的連絡人名單和呼叫人名單。明鏡的報導並未支援這是否是大規模的手機監控行動，但似乎表明英國和美國安全機構有能力破解隱私通訊。”
早些時候，莫斯科市長選舉表明，目前已經點票20%，據悉得到克里姆林宮支持的現任市長塞奇·塞博寧有可能再度當選，他顯然贏得了50%以上的支持率。但是他的主要對手，抵抗運動領袖阿列格希·納瓦林說不接受目前宣佈的結果。在莫斯科的記者丹尼爾·桑福德說這次選舉意義重大。
“過去十年民主黨派在俄羅斯已經死亡，州長和市長選舉表明，所有其他希望執政該國的人都加入了弗拉基米爾·普京的統一俄羅斯黨，這就是進入政界的方式，不需要挑戰體制，加入就行了。所有這一切在去年都改變了，莫斯科舉行街頭抗議，一小群人聲稱想改變這種虛假政治下弄虛作假的選舉。”
基地在西奈半島的軍事組織稱週四在開羅發動炸彈襲擊，襲擊對象是埃及內政部長穆罕默德·易蔔拉欣，這位部長沒有在襲擊中受傷。
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在瓜地馬拉偏遠城鎮San Jose Nacahuil一家酒吧裡，一群武裝分子殺死11人，傷及另外15人。藏在酒店的浴室和附近小巷裡的其他受害者也已死亡，襲擊動機尚不明確。但瓜地馬拉警方正在調查該國臭名昭著的團夥是否涉入其中。Leonardo Rocha報導。
“瓜地馬拉是拉美暴力最猖獗的國家之一，但小鎮SanJose Nacahuil的居民說從未見過這樣的襲擊。許多人趕來在酒吧外哭泣，週六晚一群武裝歹徒開槍殺死11人，然後乘一輛偷來的汽車逃走。有報導稱稱襲擊發生前幾分鐘，該團夥還在酒吧停留，這些人被店主趕走，但很快就返回，然後就對店裡的客人進行肆意襲擊。”
美國阿肯色州警方開槍打死一名107歲的老人。在派恩布拉夫市一處房屋，門羅·伊薩多開槍對著兩個人，然後向趕來現場的員警開槍。更多員警被部署來，他們對房間釋放毒氣。伊薩多再次向員警開槍，員警回擊打死了他。
國際奧會在布宜諾賽勒斯召開會議，投票決定將摔跤恢復為奧運運動。2020年奧運會將在東京舉辦，今年年初，因為摔跤未能擊敗來自對手壁球、棒球和壘球的競爭，因此被擠出奧運會。國際摔跤聯合會主席Nenad Lalovic說，摔跤重返奧運俱樂部的價值是不可估量的。“這次危機給了我們改變的力量，我們最終發現自己是可以改變的，這是我們經歷的最有價值的體驗，讓我們這樣去經歷吧！”
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The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has denied he was behind a chemical weapons attack in Damascus last month. He made the comments in an interview with the US television network CBS, as Katy Watson reports.
“President Assad has timed this interview well, as members of Congress return from a summer break on Monday and start debating a resolution to support action in Syria. The Assad government is watching Washington closely. And giving an exclusive interview to a major US television network allows him to tell his version of events and sway public opinion in the US. President Assad said the Obama administration needed to show evidence that was his government behind the attack. He wouldn't confirm or denied that he had chemical weapons, but said that if the government did have them, there would be in centralized controls, so nobody would have access to them. He went on to suggest the rebels had something to do with it and there would be retaliation by allies for any attack on Syria.”
America's National Security agency, the NSA and Britain spy agency GCHQ are reported to have cracked the security codes which protect data on smart phones. According to the German magazine Der Spiegel. Here's Stephen Evans.
“Der Spiegel said its information was that the American NSA and the British GCHQ had set up teams for each type of smart phone to work out how to crack the codes meant to protect privacy. Having succeeded, the agencies could then read users' contact list and lists of who had been called. The document Spiegel seen do not show whether or not there has been mass surveillance of phone use. They do seem to indicate that the British and American security agencies have the ability to read private communications.”
Earlier results in Moscow's Mayor Elections suggest the current Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, who's backed by the Kremlin, is said to be re-elected with more than 20% of the votes counted, he appears to (have) won just over 50%. But his main challenger, the leader of the protest movement Alexei Navalny, said he didn't recognize the results currently being announced. Daniel Sandford in Moscow says the contest is very significant.
“Democratic politics have been pretty dead in Russia for the last ten years. Elections for governors and Mayors were just simply got read off and that everyone else who wanted to be involved in running the country just joined the Vladimir Putin's party, United Russia, and that was the way you got into politics, you didn't challenge the establishment, you joined it. That all started to change last year with the street protests in Moscow when people here, a small core people in Moscow, sort of saying if really got to stop this fiddling of elections in this as they were fake politics.”
A militant group based in the Sinai Peninsula has said it carried out a bomb attack in Cairo on Thursday that targeted the Egyptian Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim. The minister was not hurt in the attack.
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A group of armed men in Guatemala has killed 11 people and wounded another 15 in an attack at a bar in a remote town of San Jose Nacahuil. Some of the victims were found dead hiding in the liquor store's bathrooms and nearby alleys. The motive was not clear. But Guatemalan police are investigating the possible involvement of the country's notorious gangs or maras. More from Leonardo Rocha.
“Guatemala is one of the most violent countries in Latin America, but residents in this small town of San Jose Nacahuil said they never seen anything like it. Many gathered to weep outside the bar, while on Saturday night an armed gang shot dead 11 people before escaped in a stolen car. One report says the gang have been at the bar minutes before the attack, people have been thrown out by the owner only to return shortly afterwards to carry out a random attack against the customers inside.”
Police in the American state of Arkansas have shot dead a 107-year-old man. This is the man, Monroe Isadore, pointed a gun at two people at a house in Pine Bluff city and then shot at officers called to the scene. Police reinforcements were called and they released gas into the room. Isadore fired again at police returned fire killing him.
The International Olympic Committee meeting in Buenos Aires has voted to reinstate wrestling as a sport. In the program for the 2020 Olympic Games which will be held in Tokyo. Wrestling which was thrown out as a game as earlier this year for failing to modernize beat rival bids from squash, baseball and softball. Nenad Lalovic, the President of the International Wrestling Federation, said it was impossible to put a monetary value on wrestling's readmission to the Olympic club. “This crisis gave us the strength to change and we finally found out that we can change, and this is the most valuable experience of all this journey, let's go with like that.”
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