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NKorea to resume dismantling nuclear facilities (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2008 02:43 AM CDT AP - North Korea said Sunday it will resume dismantling its main nuclear facilities, hours after the United States removed the communist country from a list of states that sponsor terrorism.

Pakistan officials: Missile strike kills 5 (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2008 02:59 AM CDT AP - The latest in a barrage of suspected U.S. missile strikes in Pakistan's northwest killed five people, but none were believed to be foreign al-Qaida fighters, officials said Sunday.

NKorea off US blacklist after nuke inspection deal (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2008 01:47 AM CDT AP - After North Korea relented on nuclear inspection demands, the U.S. on Saturday erased from a terrorism blacklist the communist country President Bush once branded part of an "axis of evil."

More than 100 Taliban killed in Afghan clashes (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2008 01:44 AM CDT AP - Taliban militants launched a surprise attack on a key southern Afghan town, sparking a battle that killed some 60 insurgents, an Afghan official said Sunday. A second clash in the same region killed another 40 militants.

Euro-zone chiefs meet to coordinate on meltdown (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2008 02:05 AM CDT AP - European leaders meet Sunday in search of a common response to a spreading financial crisis that has ricocheted across the Atlantic to their shores and to try to preserve the bloc's unity.

European leaders seek bank plan as IMF warns of meltdown (AFP) Posted: 12 Oct 2008 02:29 AM CDT AFP - World powers vowed to keep a united front to solve the financial crisis as the IMF warned that the global system was on the brink of meltdown ahead of new European crisis talks in Paris on Sunday.

Official: 3,000 Christians flee Iraq's Mosul (AP) Posted: 11 Oct 2008 09:35 PM CDT AP - Hundreds of terrified Christian families have fled Mosul to escape extremist attacks that have increased despite months of U.S. and Iraqi military operations to secure the northern Iraqi city, political and religious officials said Saturday.

Hurricane Norbert crosses over Mexico mainland (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2008 02:03 AM CDT AP - Hurricane Norbert made landfall over mainland Mexico early Sunday morning but is weakening, weather officials said.

Mbeki to query Mugabe's ministry allocation in Harare: spokesman (AFP) Posted: 12 Oct 2008 02:44 AM CDT AFP - President Robert Mugabe's allocation of key ministries to his party will be discussed when former South African president Thabo Mbeki meets Monday with Zimbabwe's political leaders, Mbeki's spokesman said.

U.S. space tourist blasts off in Russian rocket (Reuters) Posted: 12 Oct 2008 02:46 AM CDT Reuters - U.S. business tycoon Richard Garriott blasted off into space aboard a Russian rocket Sunday watched by his father, a NASA astronaut who went into space at the height of the Cold War.

Fears of unrest swirl in troubled East Timor (AFP) Posted: 12 Oct 2008 01:05 AM CDT AFP - An opposition plan for a massive march on East Timor's capital and rumours of tension in the police force are raising concerns of a return to instability in the tiny Southeast Asian nation.

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