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BEIRUT, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Syrian rebels expect to receive
new types of heavy weapons from their foreign backers in
response to the collapse of a truce and a Russian-backed
government offensive, but nothing amounting to a major shift in
support, a rebel leader said on Saturday.

* Dozens killed in most fierce attack on Aleppo yet

(Adds comment from Iraqi commander)

LAGOS, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Nigerian militant group the Niger
Delta Avengers said on Saturday it had carried out its first
attack in the country's southern energy hub since it declared in
August it was halting hostilities to pursue talks with the
government.

BEIRUT, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Syrian government forces seized
ground from rebels north of Aleppo on Saturday, tightening their
siege on the city's opposition-held east as it came under fierce
air strikes in a major offensive by the Russian-backed army.

BEIRUT, Sept 24 (Reuters) - A Syrian government offensive on
rebel-held areas of eastern Aleppo killed at least 25 people on
Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

BEIRUT, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Syrian government forces
captured a rebel-held area north of Aleppo on Saturday, the
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a rebel official, and a
state-run TV station reported.

BEIRUT, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Warplanes mounted a new wave of
heavy air strikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo on Saturday,
rebel sources, a rescue worker and a war monitor reported,
pressing a major offensive by the Russian-backed Syrian military
to take back the whole city.

BEIRUT, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Warplanes mounted a new wave of
air strikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo on Saturday, rebel
sources, a rescue worker and a war monitor reported, pressing a
major offensive by the Russian-backed Syrian military.

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 23 (Reuters) - A political battle
should be waged to bring tax havens into the light and allow
governments to receive revenue currently lost in offshore
accounts, Ecuador's Foreign Minister Guillaume Long told the
United Nations General Assembly on Friday.

SAO PAULO, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court on
Friday approved a preliminary investigation into plea bargain
deal allegations from former Transpetro head Sergio Machado that
President Michel Temer had solicited campaign donations in 2012
that had illicit origin.

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