New surveillance images show the moment an attorney made a bogus call to police saying his PTA president rival had drugs on her - hours after he planted them her car to stitch her up.
Kent Easter is seen walking through the lobby of the Island Hotel in Newport Beach, California, on February 16, 2011, telling a 911 dispatcher he thought Kelli Peters was 'driving erratically' and under the influence of narcotics while looking after children at Plaza Vista Elementary School.
He used the name VJ Chandrasckhr and started using an Indian-American accent halfway through the call - arousing the suspicion of cops who were listening in.
It was the culmination of a yearlong retaliation against Peters. Easter and his wife Jill hoped putting the drugs in the vehicle would send her to jail - but it didn't take long for their story to unravel.
A month later he was arrested after cops found a bag of pills in his car - in the same containers he used to stash the drugs in Peters's car.
Kent Easter is seen walking through the lobby of the Island Hotel in Newport Beach, California, on February 16, 2011, telling a 911 dispatcher he thought Kelli Peters was 'driving erratically' and under the influence of narcotics while looking after children
He used the name VJ Chandrasckhr and started using an Indian-American accent halfway through the call - arousing the suspicion of cops who were listening in. Officers would eventually find out that he placed the drugs in Peters's car earlier that morning
Peters said Kent Easter always wanted her job as head of the PTA. She had also clashed with the couple a year earlier when they felt their son had been unfairly treated in an after-school tennis session.
As soon as Easter ended the fake 911 call, officers started investigating. They tracked down his call to the hotel, so went to review the security footage.
They were looking for an Indian man in his 40s, but they couldn't find him. Cops later showed the video to the school principal, who pointed out a man and said: 'It looks like Kent Easter'.
The new information was revealed in a six-part investigation by the Los Angeles Times about the revenge plot that landed Kent and Jill Easter in jail.
Det. Mark Andreozzi and his team started following Easter after they found the drugs - a stash of marijuana, a ceramic pipe and painkillers in baggies labeled EZY Dose Pill Pouch - in Kelli Peters's car.
It was the culmination of a yearlong retaliation against Peters (pictured) a volunteer at the school the Easter's son attended
Easter (left) and his wife Jill (right) hoped putting the drugs in the vehicle would send her to jail - but it didn't take long for their story to unravel. They were eventually arrested for their plot to set up Peters
Peters told police something she recalled Jill Easter saying during their original confrontation: 'I will get you.'
She was genuinely scared after police made the shocking discovery in her car. Cops also noted that she was extremely co-operative and said she was willing to be drug-tested.
They also listened to Kent Easter's call, and found that he was nervous and stuttering throughout.
On March 4, 2011, Andreozzi decided to move in on Easter and try and get him to talk.
They ambushed him in the garage of his Newport Beach law office by approaching him as he stepped out of his car.
At first, Easter seemed happy to talk, but as detectives carried on their questioning, he got suspicious.
Det. Wayne Brannon then asked him: 'You gotta ask yourself, as an educated man, why in the heck would I be following you around? ’Cause that’s all I do.
'I work in criminal investigations. All I do is follow people around. I learn their little habits.
Det. Mark Andreozzi and his team started following Easter after they found the drugs - a stash of marijuana, a ceramic pipe and painkillers in baggies labeled EZY Dose Pill Pouch (pictured) - in Kelli Peters's car
Cops then found this bag of diet pills, in the same pouch, when they questioned Easter a month later
'You gotta start asking yourself: "Why are we standing in front of you, talking to you?"'
Brannon then said: 'At some point during this conversation you’re going to have to make a big-boy decision, and that’s gonna be on you.'
He told Easter his cellphone had been pinging near Peters's apartment in the early hours of the morning, the day the drugs were found in her car.
'I would hope and pray for your sake that there’s a big light going off, big bells going off.
'Knowing what I just told you, is there anything that you would like to add to your statement to me, whether retracting or adding anything to your statement?'
'I would like to get a lawyer,' Easter said. 'That’s the big-boy answer,' Brannon responded.
The search warrant crackled as Andreozzi pulled it out of his back pocket. In the center console of Easter’s car were some diet pills.
Kent was handed a 180-day sentence in September 2014 for his role in the plan. He also had his legal licence suspended
They were in a miniature plastic baggie with the label reading EZY Dose Pill Pouch.
A few months later he was arrested and charged, alongside his wife Jill, with conspiring to prompt a false arrest, false imprisonment, and conspiracy to falsely report a crime.
The couple's conflict with Kelli appears to have begun in February 2010, when Jill came to pick up her son from school and found that he wasn't waiting for her.
Kelli told her the boy had been 'a little slow' - meaning he hadn't joined the lineup at the same time as the other students.
But Jill took it as a derogatory comment regarding her son's intelligence. Jill and her then-husband Kent tried to get Kelly fired - an attempt that culminated with planting drugs in her car.
'She just went after me full force,' Kelli said in a Dr Phil interview in May. 'The lies started there. She just started saying anything that she could – that I hurt her son, that I dragged him out back, that I bloodied his knuckles, that I punished him, that I called him names, berated him, just went on and on.'
Jill was sentenced to 120 days in prison in October 2013 and Kent was handed a 180-day sentence in September 2014, as shown in an ABC News timeline.
She spent about 60 days behind bars and he served 87 days. Jill and Kent, both former lawyers, were ordered to pay $5.7 million in damages to Kelli in January.

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Summer might be fading away, but Britney Spears is still bringing the sunshine.
The Make Me... singer, whose new album Glory went on sale Friday, was snapped at New York City's Z100 and SiriusXM radio studios that day following a banner appearance on James Corden's Carpool Karaoke segment.
It's no surprise that the-34-year-old couldn't stop smiling after her 10-minute segment was a viral hit and the talk of social media.
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Ready for her close-up: Britney Spears, 34, promoted her new album Glory in New York City Friday, as the Internet was abuzz over her segment on James Corden's Carpool Karaoke
Britney looked great as she posed on the red carpet in a silky pink top that showcased her fit upper body, teamed with ripped white jeans, brown sandals and diamond earrings.
The pop culture princess let her dirty blonde locks flow for the promotional outing.
The previous day, Britney had been spotted arriving at New Jersey's Newark airport with her father Jamie Spears and manager Larry Rudolph.
The Kentwood, Louisiana native brought the sexy as she dressed down, wearing her blonde locks up, a black choker and sunglasses with a black tank top, grey sweatpants and black sandals.
Ready to go: Britney released Glory's first single, Make Me..., last month to build anticipation for the record
Not doggin' it: Brit's latest work has garnered rave reviews from Rolling Stone, which called Glory 'a welcome comeback for a true pop visionary nobody expected to stick around long enough for a third album, much less a ninth'
Dirty dozen: The new album consists of 12 tracks, including 'Clumsy' and 'Private Show'
Radio days: The singer poses with radio personalities Elvis Duran (left) and Kid Kelly on her busy morning around the Big Apple
Britney held onto a large black leather purse with gold buttons, and a green flannel shirt, as she moved through the airport, with a busy day planned ahead.
The Till the World Ends singer was coming off her banner appearance on The Late Late Show with Corden, as she charmed and impressed both the host and fans with off-the-cuff renditions of her classic hits such as Superstar, Make Me and Toxic.
Corden, 38, wore a matching schoolgirl outfit during a rendition of Britney's 1998 breakout hit, Baby One More Time.
Gaining momentum: A dressed-down Britney looked good as she made her way through Newark airport Thursday
Father knows best: Britney was trailed by her dad Jaime Spears as she got ready to promote her new album Glory, which hit stores Friday
A face in the crowd: Britney's career looks to be on the upswing amid the pop culture splash she made during her ride with Corden
When he asked Spears about the true meaning behind her 2000 pop mega-hit Oops ... I Did It Again, Britney joked, 'I don't know ... I think it's just a song.'
Corden wisecracked, 'Because every time I order at Domino's I think, "Oops! I did it again!"'
The Pretty Girls crooner, a mother of two sons - Sean, aged 10 years and Jayden, aged nine years - also created a bit of buzz as she desires to have 'like, three' more kids, but first she has to 'find the right guy' before that happens.
Corden also quizzed the Circus hit-maker about how her growing sons reacted to seeing her perform in her Las Vegas residency at Planet Hollywood: 'What it's like for them if you're wearing a racy outfit?
Hard-hitting: Corden peppers the singer with questions about her career and kids in the viral segment
New king of late night?: Carpool Karaoke has launched Corden's career into the stratosphere, with A-list stars like Spears lining up for the chance to appear in the white-hot segment
'I saw my mum in her underwear once when I was like 11. I can't shake the image from my brain!'
The well-received segment was a popular topic online, as social media users took to comment how excited they were to see the Southern songbird back in her element, singing some of her signature hits as her new album Glory dropped Friday.
'This is the most personality we've seen from her in years, it's exhilarating,' @gunnarolla wrote.
'The #BritneyCarpool was absolutely amazing,' said @RedVacktor wrote, while @GregoryMHicks said: 'Britney only had to sing about 5 lines on her Carpool Karaoke, something Adele has yet to achieve #BritneyCarpool.'
Raise the roof: Fans clamoring for new Britney material got plenty of social media mileage out of her ride with Corden
Encore, encore!: Fans had a very positive reaction to Corden's ride with the Make Me... singer
Memes and GIFs came fast and furious in response to the segment, with one user adding a shot of America's Next Top Model beauty Ebony Haith's sobbing fake-out.
'When you thought Britney was just gonna lip sync then she puts on her school girl uniform,' @mrjavyrodriguez wrote.
'This era has just started and it's already awesome!!' @BenH_ward wrote, linking to a GIF of Britney grooving in Corden's car.
The bit had a custom-made emoji - featuring a blonde Britney wearing a black choker - which was a hit on social media.
Here they come: Reaction GIFs were a plenty as Brit's segment resonated with her fans
Ain't nothing like the real thing: Spears off-the-cuff singing was a hit with music lovers looking for an alternative to her usually slickly-produced stage show
Killing it: Corden's frequently-viral segments have made him the toast of late night
Pure excitement: Some users couldn't contain their elation over the segment
All good: A GIF featuring Britney during her stint on The X-Factor was used to praise Britney for turning things around since her infamous 2007 meltdown
Emoji excitement: Corden was one of many who got a kick out of the custom emoji Twitter produced to commemorate the Pretty Girls singer
'#BritneyCarpool has its own emoji so you know it's going to be epic @latelateshow,' @x3Stef said. Corden was impressed with it as well, as he noted: 'Woah. If you type #BritneyCarpool that face just comes up! Cool.'
Many of the Lucky singer's fans rejoiced in her popularity surge in the segment with Corden, one of 2016's biggest breakout stars. User @britneysgalaxy wrote: '#BritneyCarpool is trending World Wide!'
The Womanizer singer, speaking with BBC Radio 1 Wednesday, touted Glory as the 'best work' she's done in her career, throwing huge props to music industry professionals Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter, with whom she collaborated on four songs on the RCA album.
Something to clap about: Britney's passionate fan base was thrilled to see the singer back in the thick of pop culture in Corden's car
Must-see: Some users said they had to stop what they were doing to catch the exchange between Britney and Corden
Number one with a bullet: Britney's segment helped propel her to the top of Twitter's trending topics
'They were just really really great producers and songwriters and it was a gift, it was an amazing gift. It's a very creative thing to get in and to write with people and just see what you come up with,' she told host Scott Mills.
The Hold It Against Me beauty explained how her music-making process depends largely on trial and error, and she's not afraid of experimenting to get the perfect sound.
'You kind of have to dare to suck and be very humble at times and be like that was really really bad, but it's fun - the whole process is really fun,' she shared.

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Asia's rice market reaches semblance of normality after Thai upheaval: Russell
By Clyde Russell
LAUNCESTON, Australia, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Asia's rice markets are showing signs of returning to what could be described as normal trade, even as the last acts of Thailand's ultimately disastrous subsidy scheme play out.
While Thailand's benchmark 5-percent broken rice has slumped 15 percent in the past month to $376.50 a tonne, it's likely that move is driven mainly by supply and demand factors, rather than political intervention and its aftermath.
The rice market has been characterised by distortion since former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra implemented a rice-buying system after winning elections in 2011.
Her government's plan was simplistic and deeply flawed, and while it may have delivered higher incomes to her rural supporters, it resulted in a massive surplus of rice entering government stockpiles - a blowout in Thailand's budget and ultimately leading to her ouster by the military in 2014.
Yingluck believed that Thailand could unilaterally raise the price of rice to overseas buyers given its status as the world's largest exporter of the grain that is the staple food for about two-thirds of the world's population.
All she succeeded in doing was encouraging India to start exporting its massive surplus, as well as delivering market share to regional rival Vietnam, with both those countries overtaking Thailand in the export stakes.
In the meantime, Thailand built up a stockpile of more than 20 million tonnes of rice, equivalent to about double its usual annual exports.
These inventories acted as a drag on the rice price, even after the new military government in Thailand ended the subsidy scheme and started selling down the stockpile.
This process still has way to go with Thailand planning to sell another 1 million tonnes of rice in August, which will reduce its stockpile to something closer to eight million tonnes.
This is a much more manageable figure, indicating that rice is more likely to trade on supply and demand fundamentals in the coming months, and that Yingluck's intervention and its aftermath will eventually fade into memory.
The question then becomes as to which direction are the fundamentals pointing, and is the sharp price decline of recent weeks the start of a new bear cycle.
It's still the case that rice markets appear well supplied, even though the now faded El Nino weather event brought drought and reduced crops in major producers India, Thailand and Vietnam.
There is some doubt among weather forecasters about the strength of the current La Nina event, where lower sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific tend to cause heavier rains across Southeast and South Asia, as well as in Australia.
It seems most likely that the 2016-17 rice season will be about normal, with top exporter India sowing 32.61 million hectares of rice for the season started in June, up from 30.47 million the prior year.
SHIFT IN MARKET DYNAMICS
The International Grains Council estimated on Aug. 25 that global rice production for 2016-17 would be 484 million tonnes, down on the prior month's forecast of 487 million but up on the previous season's 473 million.
Thailand expects to export about 9.5 million tonnes in 2016, and shipments in the first half of the year were up 12 percent on the same period last year, according to the Thai Rice Exporters Association.
The overall supply picture is one of comfortable volumes being available amid the ongoing selldown of high inventories in both Thailand and India.
On the demand side, top importer China hiked its purchases almost 23 percent from a year go to 2.141 million tonnes in the first seven months of 2016, according to customs data.
The main beneficiaries of the increase were Thailand, which boosted its exports to China in the January-July period by 31 percent to 555,993 tonnes, and Pakistan, whose sales rose almost 220 percent to 513,245 tonnes.
With China's early 2016 rice output down 2.7 percent to 32.8 million tonnes, it's likely that China will continue to see rising imports over the coming months.
The Philippines, another major importer, is also increasing purchases, with the government planning to buy 1 million tonnes to secure supplies until next year while prices are low.
The current price weakness is also likely to tempt buyers in the Middle East and Africa.
Putting supply and demand together and rice looks more like a market responding to shifts in those dynamics.
This is a marked change from the politics-driven market of the previous years, and more likely a more healthy situation.
Yingluck, however, has defended her rice-buying scheme in her trial on charges of criminal negligence over her management of the subsidy system, which the military government says cost the country around $8 billion.
"We found that the rice policy could increase people's income and the price of rice for farmers," Yingluck told the Supreme Court north of the capital, Bangkok, during her trial on Aug. 5.
"It did not distort the market," she said. "We saw that the benefits of the scheme outweighed the monetary losses."
The scheme may well have provided a temporary boost to farmers, but Yingluck remains deluded if she thinks it didn't distort the rice market.


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Once completed in January 2018 it will be bigger than the pitch at Wembley Stadium and the largest of any station in Britain.
Passengers will be able to access all platforms from one concourse at London Bridge for the first time.
Part of the new concourse at London Bridge railway station
Over the bank holiday weekend the project's construction site is being moved away from the Southern and future Thameslink platforms to focus on the north of the station, used by Southeastern.
Trains into Charing Cross will begin calling at London Bridge on Monday for the first time since January 2015, but Cannon Street trains stopped serving the station on Friday and will not resume until January 2018.
The south London station has suffered incidents of severe overcrowding since work began four years ago.
Reconfiguring the complex track layout around the station has exacerbated the impact of any delays.
Network Rail (NR), which owns and operates Britain's railway tracks, signals and busiest stations, including London Bridge, said the improvements will allow up to 24 Thameslink trains an hour to run through the capital - equivalent to one every two to three minutes - compared with just eight previously.
There will also be more connections to Gatwick and Luton airports, and beyond to Peterborough and Cambridge.
NR ch ief executive, Mark Carne, claimed the redevelopment will "transform north-south travel through London".
He said: "W e are rebuilding Britain's fourth busiest station - the tracks, the platforms and the infrastructure which enables trains to run - all the while keeping the station open and doing our best to keep passengers moving.
"I am extremely sorry that while doing this work there have been times when passengers have suffered frustrating delays.
"I know that the promises about tomorrow are of little consolation when performance isn't good enough today.


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A man has allegedly been caught in the act of filling a lubricant dispenser with hydrochloric acid at what is thought to be a gay club.
The 62-year-old was arrested on Saturday after he allegedly went to one of the rooms in the Rydalmere, north west Sydney, venue to carry out the twisted attack.
According to the ABC, the venue was the Aarows Club, which describes itself as 'Sydney's gay and bi social club' with 'three levels of adult adventure'.
A 62-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly swapping lubricant with hydrochloric acid at the north west Sydney venue (stock image)
Police said security detained the man after he set off an alarm.
The venue is located on Bridge Street, Rydalmere, in north west Sydney
It wasn't the first time the venue had been targeted, and items in the room had been alarmed to warn of tampering, according to police.
The man has been charged with administering a poison with intent to injure or cause distress or pain, entering a building with intent, malicious damage and driving while suspended.
He was granted conditional bail and is due to appear in the Parramatta Local Court on September 20.

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Trump hovers over McCain, Rubio U.S. Senate re-election contests
By Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Republican voters in Arizona and Florida are expected to pick Senators John McCain and Marco Rubio as their respective U.S. Senate nominees when they go to the polls on Tuesday, but one name not on either ballot, Donald Trump, looms large.
The Republican presidential nominee has endorsed both McCain and Rubio in their re-election bids even though he has rocky relations with both senators.
Trump offended McCain and many other Republicans last year by suggesting that the maverick senator and party's 2008 presidential nominee was anything but a war hero because he was captured during the Vietnam War after his airplane was shot down during a bombing mission.
In March, Trump ended Rubio's presidential bid by trouncing him in the Florida primary to cap a race in which the New York businessman taunted the first-term senator as "little Marco," and Rubio insulted Trump on everything from his hair color and the size of his hands to misspelled words in tweets.
During their re-election efforts, both McCain and Rubio have offered support for Trump as the party's White House nominee. But they have tiptoed around him, mainly out of concern that his provocative comments on illegal immigration, Muslims and U.S. support for NATO could alienate moderate and independent voters in their states.
At the same time, they have steered clear of attacks on Trump that might antagonize his core supporters.
Adding to the intrigue is that the fates of the two senators will likely play a big role in whether Republicans can upset expectations and maintain majority control of the Senate after the Nov. 8 election.
But first, McCain will have to win Tuesday's Republican primary in Arizona and Rubio will have to prevail in Florida.
McCain, who is trying to extend a 30-year Senate career, faces a challenge from physician and former state Senator Kelli Ward, who is aligned with the conservative Tea Party movement.
McCain leads Ward by 55 percent to 29 percent, according to a CNN opinion poll released last week. But Ward is ratcheting up her attacks, arguing: "It's time to defeat the establishment and retire McCain."
In an interview last week with Politico, Ward called McCain, 80, "a pretty sour old guy." Citing her medical background, she questioned whether he would even live long enough to complete another six-year Senate term.
Ward has aligned herself with Trump, who will face Democrat Hillary Clinton in November's presidential election.
MIXING THE MORTAR
Echoing Trump's call for the building of a wall on the southern border with Mexico, Ward has boasted: "It's time to mix the mortar to fix the border."
Trying to neutralize Ward's appeal with conservatives, McCain has touted his support for gun rights, his vow to cut government waste and endorsements from anti-abortion leaders.
If McCain, who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, wins on Tuesday, he would face Democratic U.S. Representative Ann Kirkpatrick.
While McCain has said he is in the toughest re-election fight of his career, the CNN poll has him opening a 13-point lead over Kirkpatrick.
Rubio, who decided last year not to seek re-election to the Senate in order to pursue the Republican presidential nomination, jumped into the race in June after his failed White House bid.
His late decision to seek a second Senate term came at the urging of Republican Party leaders, who viewed him as their best hope for preventing Democrats from taking the seat.
That prompted the major Republican Senate candidates to quit, leaving Carlos Beruff, 58, a millionaire homebuilder and newcomer to politics, as Rubio's main primary challenger. Like Ward, Beruff has embraced Trump and has accused Rubio of "tap dancing" around the presidential nominee and only offering him lukewarm support.


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Terrorism probe police arrest five men
Five men have been arrested in the West Midlands on suspicion of terrorism offences.
The men were detained by counter-terrorism detectives on Friday in Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent on suspicion of commissioning, preparing or instigating acts of terrorism, said West Midlands Police.
Two men, aged 32 and 37, were held in Stoke, two others aged 18 and 24 were arrested at their homes in Birmingham and another man aged 28 was detained at a different area of the Birmingham.
Police arrested five men suspected of terrorism offences
The force said that following one of the arrests, an army bomb disposal team was called in to the Lee Bank area of Birmingham as a precaution.
A spokesman said: "Police are searching a number of properties in the Stoke and Birmingham areas as part of the investigation; these searches are on-going.
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She has bravely admitted how she suffered suicidal thoughts following relentless bullying from online trolls about her radio show.
But despite opening up about her battle, Sam Frost has revealed she is still harassed - and was even targeted by one of her partner's friends at a mental health event.
The former Bachelorette told her Rove and Sam radio show on Monday how one of Sasha Mielczarek's female friends 'trolled' her at the Batyr Being Herd event.
Upsetting: Sam Frost has told how she was 'trolled to her face' by Sasha Mielczarek's female friend at a mental health charity event over the weekend
Sam said: 'She came up to me and said "Oh hey I listen to your show". And I said "ah thanks".'
'But then she said: "No offence but I don't listen for you".'
Sam then added: 'Maybe I'm being a bit sensitive, but I found that really offensive.
Angry: The reality TV star also took to Twitter to vent her frustration about the uncomfortable moment
'You mean that show that I put my heart and soul into. It consumes my life.
'You're allowed to think it, but don't troll me to my face, jerk.'
She pointed out that she was at an event for a charity, which helps young people battle mental illness such as depression, anxiety, grief and eating disorders.
The reality TV star also took to Twitter to vent her frustration about the uncomfortable moment.
Battle: She has bravely admitted how she suffered suicidal thoughts following relentless bullying from online trolls about her radio show
'Just because you start a sentence with 'no offence but...' does not give you the right to be an a**hole! #getagriphumans,' she tweeted.
Sasha posted a picture of the pair at the charity event on Saturday.
He captioned the image, saying: 'At the Batyr Ball last night with my beautiful girl @fro01 to help support mental health in young people and to spread the message that 'It's ok to not be ok'.'
Shocking: Sam told her radio show on Monday how one of Sasha Mielczarek's female friends 'trolled' her at the Batyr Being Herd event
Brave: Last month, Sam spoke about her battle with depression following bullying from online trolls
Last month, Sam spoke about her battle with depression following bullying from online trolls.
The blonde beauty said she told her boyfriend that she 'didn't want to wake up every day anymore' when the online abuse escalated.

Sam Frost was 'trolled' by Sasha Mielczarek's friend


Sam Frost told her radio show how she was 'trolled' by one of her boyfriend Sasha Mielczarek's female friends at the Batyr Being Herd event.


San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the national anthem on Friday as part of a protest against 'the oppression of black people'.
Kaepernick, 28, sat on the team's bench during the anthem before the Niners played host to the Green Bay Packers in an exhibition game.
Explaining his decision, Kaepernick - whose father is African American - said he refuses to feel pride for a country that mistreats minorities.
San Francisco 49ers quarterbacks Colin Kaepernick, left, and Blaine Gabbert stand on the sideline during the second half of an NFL preseason football game against the Green Bay Packers on Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, in Santa Clara, Calif. Green Bay won 21-10. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
He told NFL Media: I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.
'To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way.
'There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.'
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said Saturday that 'players are encouraged but not required to stand during the playing of the national anthem.'
The 49ers issued a statement after Pro Football Talk initially reported on Kaepernick's stand, saying that Americans have the right to protest or support the anthem.
'The national anthem is and always will be a special part of the pregame ceremony,' the team said.
'It is an opportunity to honor our country and reflect on the great liberties we are afforded as its citizens.
'In respecting such American principles as freedom of religion and freedom of expression, we recognize the right of an individual to choose to participate, or not, in our celebration of the national anthem.'
Kaepernick, who was put up for adoption as a child after his father left before he was born, was raised by white parents alongside their own children.
He has been outspoken on his Twitter account on civil rights issues and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Kaepernick is not the first U.S.-based athlete to use the anthem for protest.
In 1996, NBA player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf refused to stand for the anthem, saying the United States had a history of tyranny and doing so would conflict with his Islamist beliefs.
The NBA initially suspended Abdul-Rauf for his stance before it was lifted when he said he would stand and pray silently during the song.
Kaepernick said he is not worried about any potential fallout from his protest.
'This is not something that I am going to run by anybody,' he told NFL Media. 'I am not looking for approval. I have to stand up for people that are oppressed.
'If they take football away, my endorsements from me, I know that I stood up for what is right.'
Kaepernick's agent did not immediately return a request for comment.
Kaepernick is in competition to win back the starting quarterback job in San Francisco that he lost to Blaine Gabbert last season.

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By Arno Schuetze and Jonathan Gould
FRANKFURT, Aug 31 (Reuters) - The head of Deutsche Bank made a rare public call on Wednesday for cross-border mergers in Europe, weeks after Germany's flagship lender scraped through regional stress tests.
John Cryan's remarks will likely spur further discussion about the future of the struggling bank, although he was quick to throw cold water on reports that Deutsche examined a merger with Commerzbank - which is partly owned by the German state.
Criticising what he called the "scattered regionalism among banks", Cryan said: "We need more mergers, at a national level, but even also across national borders."
Asked if he sees the time coming back when Deutsche will engage in large takeovers, he said "not any time soon".
Profits across Europe's banks have been generally sinking, as economic growth remains at a low ebb, interest rates stay at rock bottom and the task of sifting through billions of euros of risky loans continues.
German banks, in particular, have struggled as the European Central Bank prints ever more fresh money and makes it more expensive for lenders to hoard cash.
"If we look at Germany in particular, it hasn't gone through that wave of consolidation like Spain has, Italy seems to be moving in that direction and France has been through it," Cryan said.
"In Germany there are in my view just too many banks."
But he also singled out the ECB for criticism. "The side effects of these policies are now becoming more and more apparent."
"It's not only the banks that suffer. There are also disastrous consequences for savers and their pension investments."


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Briton who tried to save stabbed backpacker dies from injuries
A British man who was critically injured as he tried to save a fellow backpacker as she was stabbed in a knife attack in Australia has died, police said.
Thomas Jackson, 30, went to the aid of Mia Ayliffe-Chung, 21, as she was repeatedly knifed at Home Hill last week.
A spokesman for Queensland Police said: "Police can confirm 30-year-old British man Thomas Jackson, critically injured in an alleged knife attack at Home Hill on August 23, has today passed away in the Townsville Hospital."
The Home Hill backpackers hostel in Queensland, Australia (Google Street View/PA)
The spokesman said investigations are continuing, but detectives will upgrade a charge of attempted murder against a 29-year-old man when he next appears at Townsville Magistrates' Court on October 28.
He added: "The family of Thomas have told us that while they appreciate the support, they don't wish to speak to the media."
Smail Ayad, 29, is alleged to have stabbed Ms Ayliffe-Chung and to have caused the injuries which led to Mr Jackson's death at the Shelley's Backpackers accommodation in Home Hill, as well as harming 12 police officers.
Police previously said that they were investigating whether Ayad had an "obsession" with Ms Ayliffe-Chung.
Mr Jackson suffered critical head injuries as he went to her aid and police described his actions as "selfless".


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What do surging LME copper stocks say about China? Andy Home
By Andy Home
LONDON, Aug 26 (Reuters) - A wave of copper is currently washing up in London Metal Exchange (LME) warehouses.
Arrivals of metal have totalled 73,325 tonnes this week, lifting headline exchange inventory to 271,575 tonnes, the highest level since October last year.
There's no big mystery as to where this metal is coming from. Surging arrivals at LME sheds in Singapore and South Korea have broadly corresponded to export flows out of China.
And in part this is no more than a continuation of the stocks rebalancing that has been playing out for several months, a refilling of a depleted LME system from high inventories in China that accumulated earlier this year.
But unlike the mini surge of LME arrivals in early June, there is no obvious bull-bear battle being waged across the front part of the London copper curve.
If no-one is being forced to deliver metal against a short position, the alternative explanation would be that this is China pushing out surplus.
If so, it would mean that copper oversupply, already clear to see at the raw materials stage of the supply chain, is finally starting to take manifest form in the refined metal arena.
Graphic on Chinese exports 2016:
http://tmsnrt.rs/2bnKQDl
Chinese exports vs LME arrivals 2016:
http://tmsnrt.rs/2bU4N2u
LME ARRIVALS VS CHINESE EXPORTS
It's not unusual for LME copper stocks to trend higher during the dog-days of northern hemisphere summer as manufacturing activity drops a gear.
And, conforming with that pattern, warranting of metal has taken place at a wide variety of LME good delivery points, including Hull in Britain, Bilbao in Spain and several U.S. locations.
But the real stand-out has been the accelerated flows at Singapore, which has received almost 95,000 tonnes since the start of June, and South Korea, which has taken in 103,000 tonnes.
Both countries have also featured prominently in China's export profile over the same period of time.
Customs data shows exports of 89,000 tonnes to Singapore and 76,000 tonnes to South Korea since March, when China's exports first started accelerating. Between them Singapore and South Korea have accounted for almost 60 percent of all outbound flows.
The correspondence between Chinese exports and LME arrivals isn't perfect (see the chart above) but the broad picture is one of metal leaving China and turning up in the most easily shippable LME locations.
The question is whether this metal is being pushed or pulled.
PULL...?
A mini-surge of copper arrivals in the LME system in early June bore all the hallmarks of a distress delivery by a short position holder facing a cash-date squeeze.
What's noticeable about the current flood is that there is no similar tension in the LME spreads.
True, the LME's market positioning reports show a dominant long holding between 50-80 percent of non-cancelled stocks and 40-50 percent of cash positions as of the close of business Wednesday.
But ever since the bull-bear battle of early June the front part of the curve has been trading in benign contango. The cash-to-three months period traded as wide as $27 per tonne backwardation in late May. As of Thursday's close it was valued at $9 per tonne contango.
The very front part of the curve, between cash and the September prime prompt on the 21st of the month has tightened up a little over the last couple of days but is still only quoted at level.
Any pull on extra units to alleviate LME spread stress is currently weak, in other words.
That's not to say there is no gravitational pull at all, rather it has been coming in the form of incentives offered by LME warehouse operators in the Asian region.
That particular magnet, however, only really works if the incentives are competitive in terms of physical premiums, first and foremost in China itself.
...OR PUSH?
Which it seems they are.
Premiums for delivery to China are trading at a soggy $45-50 per tonne over LME cash prices, according to LME broker Triland Metals.
To put that figure into context, remember that Chilean producer Codelco's "benchmark" premium covering 2016 shipments to China was set at $98 per tonne.
Nor is there any obvious indication of tightness within the mainland market, Triland again noting that the domestic premium structure is largely flat against front-month Shanghai Futures Exchange contracts.
All of which tells us that the Chinese market right now seems very comfortably supplied, if not oversupplied, with physical refined copper units.
To the point that LME warehouse operators can probably match if not better Chinese premiums, stimulating a physical arbitrage.
So who is actually moving the material?
Some of it seems to be coming from Chinese smelters themselves, or at least the handful that have clearance to export without paying the export duty.
Modest exports to countries such as Thailand, Vietnam and Bangladesh have no obvious LME arbitrage significance since none of them host LME warehouses.
But there is almost certainly a second stream of exports being shipped by merchants from China's bonded warehouse zones.
Or maybe that should read "re-exports". Copper in bonded warehouses has not yet been subject to China's VAT and can turn around and head back out without any tax penalty, albeit showing up in the customs figures as bona fide "exports".
TOO MUCH COPPER?
So if China is pushing out surplus copper, or at least exerting a lesser magnetic pull than that offered by LME warehousers, what does it say about the health or otherwise of Chinese demand?
Not as much as you might think.
China's apparent consumption, a back-of-the-envelope calculation factoring in production, imports and visible stocks movements, jumped by 11 percent in the first half of this year.
Not even the most exuberant bull would argue that real consumption growth was anywhere near that level. The spectrum of estimates is a wide one but the middle ground would be around three percent.
The implication is that there has been significant stocks build, possibly on the mainland, possibly in bonded warehouses and most probably a combination of the two.
China, in other words, is full of copper.
And getting fuller, because the other dimension to this mass stocks relocation is China's own production of refined metal, up almost 10 percent in July and up by around eight percent over the year to date.
That of course is a reflection of the oversupply in the raw materials market and the subsequent flow of concentrates into what is the world's largest smelting and refining base. Imports of concentrate have surged by 35 percent so far this year with the pace accelerating steadily over the last few months.
The tension between this domestic production surge and the strength of import demand was ratcheted up over the first part of this year.
We're now seeing it resolved in the form of higher exports and rising LME inventories.
It is starting to look as if the copper surplus, so obvious in the concentrates market and yet so elusive in the refined market, is now finally taking concrete form in LME sheds in Singapore and South Korea.


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By Seda Sezer
ISTANBUL, Aug 30 (Reuters) - With the summer holiday almost over, computer science student Hande Tekiner should be gearing up for a year of cram sessions and late-night homework. Instead, she may have nowhere to return to, as her university was shut after Turkey's failed coup.
Authorities have closed 15 universities and around 1,000 secondary schools linked to Fethullah Gulen, the U.S.-based Muslim cleric blamed for the July 15 attempted putsch. Gulen has denied involvement in the plot and condemned it.
The closures have left about 200,000 students in Turkey in academic limbo, wondering if they can continue their studies and worried about the black mark of a Gulen school on their college record. Tens of thousands of academics and school teachers have also been purged, deepening concern about curtailment of academic freedom and free speech.
"As students at universities that have been shut, we are being victimised, even though those schools were opened with state approval," said Tekiner.
The 23-year-old had been due to start her fourth and final year at Mevlana University in the central city of Konya before the coup. "I have doubts if I will be able to finish my studies," she said.
Tekiner said she and others were harassed on social media, labelled by anonymous accusers as supporters of the coup because they attended Gulen schools.
President Tayyip Erdogan and the government say the cleric's network used the schools to recruit followers who then infiltrated the military, civil service and judiciary. Gulen, who has lived in Pennsylvania since 1999, denies the charges.
Turkey has asked the United States to extradite him but Washington says only a federal court can make that decision. Since the coup, in which at least 240 people died, Turkey has detained about 40,000 people and formally arrested half of them.
Rights groups and some in the West fear Erdogan is using the purges to stifle dissent and tighten his grip on power.
PIOUS MASSES
Until a public falling-out in 2013, Erdogan and Gulen were allies. Erdogan initially saw the cleric as useful in taming the influence of the military and secular elite who had dominated Turkey since the founding of the modern republic.
For years Gulen's followers have run schools across Turkey and as far afield as Africa and the United States, blending Islam with an emphasis on science and interfaith dialogue.
The schools helped to open up higher education to Erdogan's voter base - the pious masses often from poorer regions who were traditionally shut out of elite universities in Istanbul and Ankara.
Erdogan, himself a graduate of a religious school, has fought to bring religious education into the mainstream of constitutionally secular Turkey and worked to overturn a ban on the headscarf in parliament and universities.
But the closure of Gulen schools is troubling for students in towns where there are no other universities. Those from modest backgrounds - and female students from pious families - cannot afford, or may not be allowed, to live away from home.
"The reason I chose my university is to be close to home," said another student from Konya's Mevlana University. "As a girl, my family would never allow me to study in another town."
The Council of Higher Education, known as "YOK" in Turkish, provoked widespread outrage when it said students would be placed at new universities based on exam scores, meaning they could end up at a school on the other side of the country.
It later relented following a number social media campaigns, including one under the hashtag "#YOKbizimagduretme" or "YOK, don't victimise us".
PURGES
Roughly 80,000 people in the military, civil service, and judiciary have been sacked or suspended in the purges. Around half of those have been in education, according to state media.
Teachers' unions and some opposition politicians say authorities are targeting educators based on evidence that is tenuous at best - such as having opened a savings account at Bank Asya, a now defunct lender founded by Gulen's followers.
The government has said the investigations and other measures are necessary to prevent another coup.
But Kamuran Karaca, who heads one of Turkey's biggest teachers' unions, said the wrong people were being targeted. Since the coup, 88 members of his Egitim-Sen union have been suspended.
"All of our members who have been suspended, rather than being supporters of Gulen, are on the contrary people who strive for secular education and a secular life," said Karaca.
"We believe they were blacklisted because they deposited their rent in Bank Asya, or took a loan from it, or a relative took a loan from it."
Gaye Usluer, a lawmaker from the opposition Republican People's Party, criticised what she said was a "sweeping" crackdown that has also harmed people who may be innocent.
Candan Badem, a Marxist historian, was briefly detained for possessing a book by Gulen in his home, his lawyer told Reuters. He was later released. Badem signed an "Academics for Peace" petition this year that criticised military action in the largely Kurdish southeast.
Erdogan denounced the more than 1,000 signatories, which also included U.S. linguist and activist Noam Chomsky, and some Turkish academics were detained over it.
DEFENDING THE PURGE
Several academics and teachers declined to talk to Reuters about the purge, saying they were afraid to go on the record.
"The freedom to communicate and the freedom to collaborate are essential to functioning good science," said Rush Holt of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, who wrote an open letter to Erdogan urging protection of the rights of the scientific community.
The European University Association has said that measures introduced in the wake of coup "go in the wrong direction".
Still, some academics defend the crackdown.
"Nobody knows where this illegal organisation starts and where it ends," said Sedat Gumus, an associate professor at Necmettin Erbakan University in central Konya.


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By Svea Herbst-Bayliss
BOSTON, Aug 28 (Reuters) - After U.S. multi-level marketing company Herbalife settled a probe of its sales practices with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission last month, top executives assured investors that the company would be able to thrive under the new rules.
The consumer protection agency had questioned the company's sales methods.
Billionaire investor William Ackman in 2012 claimed the company was running a pyramid scheme, recruiting members with a promise of payment for enrolling others in distribution, rather than depending on the actual sale of its nutritional supplements and weight management products.
In its July 15 settlement Herbalife agreed to restructure its U.S. business so distributors are rewarded for sales rather than for recruitment of sales agents and it agreed to pay a $200 million fine.
But Herbalife's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission painted a much less optimistic picture than its presentation to analysts and investors, according to a private investor who flagged the differences to the SEC this month.
Matthew Handley, an investor based in Lakewood Ranch, Florida alleged Herbalife made "purposefully deceptive statements" in its Aug. 3 quarterly earnings conference call and regulatory filings.
Handley, who is betting Herbalife's stock price will fall, told Reuters about his outreach to the SEC and provided a copy of his letter to its whistleblower office.
"The transcript of the conference call, when compared directly against the actual language the company issued in their 10Q, depict a clear pattern of purposeful intent to deceive investors and the market," Handley wrote in the Aug. 16 letter.
"The things you say on the call and write in the filing have to match up, and I thought they just didn't," he later said in an interview with Reuters.
Because Herbalife's conference call transcript and its SEC filings are publicly available, securities law experts said the company probably did not violate the SEC's disclosure rules such as Regulation FD.
Corporate filings are often more legalistic and technical than what executives say during presentations to analysts and investors, when they may sound optimistic about the company's outlook, law professors and private lawyers noted.
But such presentations are usually highly scripted, with companies trying to ensure oral statements are not inconsistent with their filings, and the difference in tone and substance in Herbalife's case is noteworthy, securities lawyers said.
"Securities laws say that you cannot lie," said Yale law professor Jonathan Macey. "Reading these two documents (the filing and transcript of the conference call), would suggest they've changed their point of view," he added.
Herbalife spokesman Alan Hoffman declined repeated requests from Reuters for comment. Brian Lane, a partner at law firm Gibson Dunn, which vets Herbalife's disclosures, did not respond to a call or email seeking comment. Herbalife has disclosed inquiries from the SEC and other government authorities in the past.
SEC spokesman John Nester also declined to comment.
COMPLYING WITH THE FTC
Herbalife hailed the FTC settlement as a victory for its business model as the FTC said the company may have deceived hundreds of thousands of people but stopped short of calling it a pyramid scheme.
In August executives assured analysts and investors on a conference call that Herbalife would suffer little financial damage from the settlement.
Chief Executive Michael Johnson said, "We have the greatest confidence in our ability to comply with the agreement and continue to grow our business in the U.S. and around the world."
Chief Financial Officer John DeSimone saw "minimal disruption to the business" and President Desmond Walsh also struck an optimistic tone, saying, "The most important thing is that we don't see any long-term impact in our business."
Herbalife's SEC filing was more circumspect though, saying the company does not currently expect the settlement to have a "long-term and materially adverse impact."
However, the filing also noted "there is no guarantee that we will be able to fully comply with the consent order" and that "the company's business and its member base, particularly in the United States, may be negatively impacted."
If Herbalife cannot comply with the consent order, "this could result in a material and adverse impact to the company's results of operations and financial condition," the filing said.
Herbalife also noted the settlement's effect "could be significant."
BILLIONAIRES' TARGET
Herbalife has until next year to comply with the July 15 order from the Federal Trade Commission to restructure its U.S. business.
It is not clear whether other short sellers and investors will respond to Handley's accusations on inconsistency between the company's verbal optimism and its more cautious SEC filings, some experts said.
"If you invest in this company, you will want to know what the odds are of this FTC ruling screwing up their business," Yale Law School professor Macey added.
Herbalife's stock price has gone on a wild ride over the last four years when two billionaires began squaring off over its future. After seeing a high around $81.00 in January 2014, the stock fell to a low around $30.26 in January 2015 before recovering to close at $60.50 on Friday.
Hedge fund manager William Ackman, who called Herbalife a pyramid scheme, placed a $1 billion short bet but so far has suffered some losses as the stock climbed.
On Friday in a letter to investors, Ackman also noted differences between presentations to investors by Herbalife executives and the company's official quarterly filing. In his letter, Ackman wrote "management's latest commentary is a continuation of prior misrepresentations."
Ackman and Handley, who registered his complaints about Herbalife's communications with the SEC, both said they have never spoken to each other and reached their conclusions independently.
By contrast, in 2013 billionaire Carl Icahn expressed confidence in Herbalife, becoming its biggest shareholder and named directors to the board.
This week, Ackman and Icahn tangled anew when Ackman said an investment bank approached him to try and sell some of Icahn's shares, but on Friday, Icahn said he was buying shares, not selling.
A key institutional owner, Fidelity, sold some of Herbalife's shares in August, it said in a filing. Fidelity declined to make the fund manager available for an interview.


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U.S. to urge G20 to boost economies, pay attention to angry citizens
WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will call on leaders from the Group of 20 to use fiscal policy and other tools to boost economic growth while reducing excess capacity at steel factories, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said on Wednesday.
The United States will also urge the G20 group to pay more attention to angry and anxious citizens who feel left behind by the global economic recovery, Lew said in a preview of America's message to the Sept 4-5 summit in Hangzhou, China.
"There are very real concerns about globalization and technology, but the answer cannot be to close ourselves off," Lew said in prepared remarks at the Brookings Institution.
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Two pilots are expected to appear in court after being arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of alcohol as they prepared to fly a passenger jet from Scotland to the US.
The men, aged 35 and 45, are expected to appear at Paisley Sheriff Court after the alleged incident at Glasgow Airport on Saturday.
Concerns were reportedly raised before the 9am United Airlines UA162 flight to Newark, New Jersey, was due to depart at 9am.
A United Airlines plane, as two pilots were arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of alcohol
The flight, carrying 141 passengers, eventually took off on Saturday evening with a new crew on board.
Police said the two men were arrested and detained in connection with alleged offences under the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003, section 93.
The section relates to carrying out pilot function or activity while exceeding the prescribed limit of alcohol.
United Airlines said the pilots had been removed from service pending an investigation.
The incident follows the appearance in court last month of two Canadian pilots charged with being drunk as they prepared to fly a passenger jet from Scotland to Toronto.
Jean-Francois Perreault, 39, and Imran Zafar Syed, 37, were arrested on Monday July 18 before they were due to take off on the Air Transat flight from Glasgow Airport.
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Twisted Al Qaeda terrorists are picking the mobile phones of fallen enemies and calling their families to boast about the killings.
One Al Qaeda killer in Aleppo rang one mother on her son's mobile phone to describe how he had beheaded the soldier.
At the start of the call, the terrorist tried to ingratiate himself with the woman on the other end, by claiming he had picked up the handset and wanted to find its owner.
A member of Al Qaeda's Syrian group Jabhat al-Nusra, file photograph, called the mother of a Syrian soldier in Aleppo on the dead man's mobile phone to gloat over the man's death
The victim was a member of Bashar Al-Assad's Syrian Arab Army fighting in Aleppo
Aleppo is being destroyed by constant bombardment by rebel and government forces
But once the woman identified herself as the soldier's mother, the killer announced his true identity.
The killer claimed he was Saqr Rahman Al-Ansari, of Jabhat Al-Nusra, which is a Syrian affiliate of Al Qaeda.
Al-Ansari then told the woman that he had chopped her son's head off.
The woman asked again who was calling, to which the killer replied: 'I beheaded your son today and this is his mobile, and I wanted to call and let you know, and we're coming to get you, God willing, you dogs of Aleppo. You who betrayed the Syrian people.
'I severed your son's head, you traitorous b****. You're supporting the Syrian Army while it bobards the territories, huh?
'They're killing the children in Idlib.'

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Fight for Syria's Aleppo exposes limits of Russian air power
By Maria Tsvetkova and Christian Lowe
MOSCOW, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Russia's politically-sensitive and ultimately fruitless decision to launch bombing missions on Syria from Iranian soil has exposed the limits to its air power, leaving Moscow in need of a new strategy to advance its aims.
People familiar with Russia's military said Moscow opted for the sorties from Iran - and Tehran agreed to allow them - because they were struggling to achieve their aim of crushing rebels in the city of Aleppo.
The gamble failed and rebels fighting their ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Aasad, remain ensconced in parts of Aleppo.
Russia began air strikes on Syria in support of Assad on Sept. 30 last year, launched from bases in government-held territory and from warships. Then this month, facing logistical problems in mounting an expensive campaign at a time of tight state finances, it intensified the bombing of Aleppo in what turned out to be a brief series of raids from Iran.
The strikes on the Aleppo rebels seem to have achieved little beyond stirring a political row in Iran, whose constitution forbids the establishment of any kind of foreign military base.
The fact that Russia went to such lengths to achieve its aims in Aleppo and still failed could strengthen the hand of those in Moscow who believe the operation in Syria has reached a watershed, and that it is time to seek a negotiated solution.
"I get the feeling we're like a horse at the circus, running around in a circle since Sept. 30 when we first deployed our aircraft there," said a person close to the Russian defence ministry who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"Our forces are insufficient, our coordination with the Iranians is not at the required level. We need to change something. What, I don't know."
IRANIAN SENSITIVITIES
Russia's defence ministry announced on Aug. 16 that it had for the first time used an air base in Iran from which to launch air attacks on Syria.
On subsequent days, long-range Russian Tupolev 22M3 bombers, escorted by Sukhoi fighters, took off on sorties from the Nojeh air base, near the Iranian city of Hamadan.
Letting Russia base aircraft there was politically sensitive for Iran: the last time a foreign power had used an Iranian air base was in World War Two.
Some Iranian lawmakers called it a breach of the constitution while Defence Minister Hossein Dehghan said that, by publicly revealing the arrangement, Moscow had committed a "betrayal of trust".
By Aug. 22, Iran's foreign ministry announced that Russia's use of the base had ended. In Moscow, the defence ministry said aircraft operating from the bases had completed their tasks.
A spokesmen for Russia's defence ministry and spokeswoman for the foreign ministry did not respond to Reuters questions about its objectives in Aleppo and its use of the Iranian base.
But Andrei Klimov, a pro-Kremlin member of the foreign affairs committee in the upper house of Russia's parliament, said the cost of the Syrian operation may have been a factor.
"We are trying to conduct the operation in Syria within certain sums," he told Reuters. "The defence ministry has other expenditures. Therefore to optimise costs, more economical routes are sought. Any sensible country does the same thing."
ALEPPO ESCALATION
Russia's desire to use the base was "linked to the increase in intensity of military activity in the Aleppo area", said Vasily Kashin, an analyst with the Center for Analysis and Technologies in Moscow, which advises Russia's defence sector.
"It seemed that, in the opinion of the Syrian, Russian and Iranian commands, a watershed moment is coming."
That chimed in with other evidence that Russia and its allies were ramping up their efforts to take control of Aleppo over the last two months. The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah, which is allied to Iran, said on June 24 that the movement would send more fighters to the Aleppo area. The battle for the city was of strategic importance, he said.
Since then, residents and opposition activists have reported an increase in the intensity of raids on Aleppo, including the high-altitude operations which distinguish Russian bombing from that by low-flying Syrian aircraft.
That was matched on the ground by an offensive from Syrian government forces which left rebel-held areas besieged. Aid organisations reported a jump in civilian casualties and warned of a humanitarian disaster because of a shortage of supplies.
The Iranian base was a crucial logistical cog in this escalation in Aleppo because without it, Russia's Tupolev jets have to fly the greater distance to Syria from Russia, and back.
That means carrying more fuel, which reduces the bomb payload they can carry, and also - because of the longer flight time - cuts into the number of sorties they can fly.
Air bases inside government-controlled parts of Syria were not suitable for the Tupolev aircraft, and adapting them would be expensive, according to Kashin.
The person close to the defence ministry said of the logistical challenges facing Russia's air operation: "We don't have all that many planes."
PEACE OVERTURES
During the intensified bombing, the rebel forces in Aleppo even counter-attacked in the middle of this month, breaking the siege and restoring access to supply routes.
According to defence experts, Russia does have the military capacity to intensify its bombing in Syria further, whether or not it has access to the Iranian base.
But that would mean more expense for Russia, which is struggling to fill gaps in its budget, faces a parliamentary election next month, and has seen the Syrian operation drag on far past the Kremlin's original timetable.
In May, President Vladimir Putin announced that "the main part" of Russian armed forces in Syria would start to withdraw, saying that their work had "on the whole, been fulfilled". But still the bombing went on.
The difficulty of making progress militarily will make a negotiated solution more attractive to the Kremlin.
Russia agreed on Thursday to a 48-hour humanitarian ceasefire in Aleppo to allow aid deliveries to get through, U.N. officials said. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met in Geneva on Friday to talk about a possible truce in Syria.


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