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AUSTRIA

Iran talks extended

Diplomats say Iran and six powers have extended nuclear talks until Nov. 24 after realizing differences were too big to reach a deal by Sunday, the informal deadline.

The decision was expected, with much of Friday spent on debating, not obstacles standing in the way of an agreement, but how long the add-on talks should go on and other related details.

Two diplomats who divulged the development demanded anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly about the confidential negotiations.

The biggest obstacle is uranium enrichment, which can make both reactor fuel and a warhead core. - AP

SYRIA

Rebels slaughter 115

Islamic extremists killed at least 115 Syrian troops, guards, and workers as they captured a gas field after daylong clashes, activists said Friday. More than 20 militants also died in the fighting Thursday for the Shaer gas field.

- AP

NIGERIA

Mass killings in town

Boko Haram gunmen killed many villagers and set homes ablaze before dawn Friday in a northeastern Nigerian town just 53 miles from the strategic center of Maiduguri, according to survivors. Residents of Damboa told the Associated Press that they were "piling up corpses." - AP

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