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Australian Greens back PM as coalition talks progress (AFP)

Posted: August 31st, 2010, 4:34am EDT

AFP - Australia's only Greens MP Wednesday declared his support for Prime Minister Julia Gillard as tortuous negotiations to form a minority government inched forward.
Farmer-turned-hunger striker dies in Venezuela (AP)

Posted: August 31st, 2010, 4:10am EDT

AP - A farmer who held repeated hunger strikes in a land dispute with Venezuela's government has died in a military hospital where he had been taken against his will.
Mexico captures reported drug lord 'the Barbie' (AP)

Posted: August 31st, 2010, 4:06am EDT

AP - A former Texas high school football player and petty street dealer who allegedly rose to become one of Mexico's most savage assassins became the third major drug lord brought down by Mexico in less than a year, and could provide intelligence on even bigger kingpins.
Australian PM wins Greens support in govt bid (Reuters)

Posted: August 31st, 2010, 3:52am EDT

Reuters - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard won backing from the influential Greens party on Wednesday, lifting her lawmaker tally by one as she tries to form a minority Labor government after inconclusive elections.
Exercise cuts genetic obesity risk by 40 percent: study (AFP)

Posted: August 31st, 2010, 3:44am EDT

AFP - Physical exercise can reduce a genetic predisposition to obesity by an average of 40 percent, a new study showed.
'Unprecedented' challenge to save Chilean miners (AP)

Posted: August 31st, 2010, 3:38am EDT

AP - The effort to save 33 men trapped deep in a Chilean mine is an unprecedented challenge, mining safety experts said Tuesday. It means months of drilling, then a harrowing three-hour trip in a cage up a narrow hole carved through solid rock.
Birthplace of the Taliban: the next battleground (AP)

Posted: August 31st, 2010, 3:27am EDT

AP - As some 400 U.S. and Afghan soldiers gather to honor their first fallen comrade, mournful Muslim prayers mingle with the stutter of machine gun fire and the thud of exploding grenades just beyond their heavily fortified camp.
Panel: India must secure elephant reserves (AP)

Posted: August 31st, 2010, 3:22am EDT

AP - India should protect its elephant population by securing its wildlife reserves, curbing poaching and restricting development in the corridors they use to travel between forested areas, a panel recommended.
New photos show Fidel Castro with US journalist (AP)

Posted: August 31st, 2010, 3:17am EDT

AP - Cuba on Tuesday released pictures of Fidel Castro with an American magazine correspondent and a Washington-based policy expert, while a Mexican newspaper published an interview in which the gray-bearded revolutionary expressed regret for past persecution of homosexuals.
Palestinian kills 4 Israelis on eve of peace talks (AP)

Posted: August 31st, 2010, 3:17am EDT

AP - Palestinian gunmen opened fire Tuesday on an Israeli car in the West Bank and killed four passengers on the eve of a new round of Mideast peace talks in Washington. The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility.
Ugandan Guerrillas in the Lord's Resistance Army Fight in Sudan (Time.com)

Posted: August 31st, 2010, 3:05am EDT

Time.com - Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army is supposed to be on the run and desperate. Why, then, has it spread its terror to even more countries?
Amsterdam Arrests: Terrorism Trial Run for Yemeni Men? (Time.com)

Posted: August 31st, 2010, 3:05am EDT

Time.com - Were al Soofi and al Murisi, the two U.S. residents of Yemeni origin who were apprehended in Amsterdam on Monday, performing a trial run for a terrorism attack?
Obama declares U.S. combat mission in Iraq over (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: August 31st, 2010, 1:17am EDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — After more than seven years of war, President Barack Obama declared the combat mission in Iraq over on Tuesday night, saying that's in the best interests of both Iraqis and Americans and that ending combat will help the United States focus on new priorities, especially restoring the economy.
Ex-Islamists walk free from Libyan jail (Reuters)

Posted: August 31st, 2010, 12:37am EDT

Reuters - Libya freed 37 prisoners late on Tuesday, including at least one former detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, who had been jailed for links to radical Islamist groups but have since renounced violence.
Hamas targets Israeli-Palestinian talks by killing four Israelis (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: August 31st, 2010, 11:08pm EDT

The Christian Science Monitor - As Middle Eastern leaders gathered in Washington to inaugurate a new round of Israeli-Palestinian talks, Hamas gunmen killed four Israeli settlers in their car outside the West Bank city of Hebron.
Canadian economy slows sharply in second quarter (Reuters)

Posted: August 31st, 2010, 3:43pm EDT

Reuters - Canada's economic growth rate slowed more sharply than expected in the second quarter on weaker consumer spending and trade performance, fueling uncertainty about the pace of interest rate hikes by the Bank of Canada.
Edgar Valdez Villarreal â suspected drug lord 'La Barbie' â arrested in Mexico (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: August 31st, 2010, 3:05pm EDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Mexico officials announced late Monday that they captured Edgar Valdez Villarreal, or âLa Barbie,â one of the country's most-wanted men. Authorities have described him as a powerful drug lord responsible for supplying the American market with cocaine.