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Typhoon pummels China, forcing nearly 1M to flee (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 06:18 PM PDT

A resident rides a motorcycle on a flooded road as typhoon Morakot approaches in Xiapu County of Ningde, Fujian province, August 9, 2009.   REUTERS/StringerAP - A typhoon pummeled China's eastern coast Sunday, toppling houses, flooding villages and forcing nearly a million people to flee to safety. Officials rode bicycles to distribute food to residents trapped by rising waters.


Briton in Iraqi custody after contractor killings (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 02:32 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 5, 2005 file photo, a private contractor gestures to their colleagues flying over in a helicopter as they secure the scene of a roadside bomb attack. Iraqi authorities arrested a British contractor on murder charges over the shooting deaths early Sunday Aug 9, 2009, of a British and an Australian contractor in Baghdad's protected Green Zone. The suspected gunman could be the first Westerner to face an Iraqi trial on murder charges since a new security pact took effect on Jan 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)AP - Iraqi authorities arrested a British contractor Sunday over the shooting deaths of two co-workers in Baghdad's protected Green Zone. The suspected gunman could be the first Westerner to face an Iraqi trial on murder charges since a security pact lifted the immunity that had been enjoyed by foreign contractors for most of the war.


Iran judiciary looks to calm prison abuse outrage (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 06:19 PM PDT

In this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency, French lecturer Clotilde Reiss, who was reportedly arrested at Tehran airport on July 1, and jailed on charges of spying linked to riots over last month's presidential election, seen at the court room in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009. Dozens of opposition activists and protesters stood trial in Tehran Saturday on charges of rioting and plotting to topple the ruling Islamic system following the disputed presidential election, Iran's state media reported.  (AP Photo/ILNA,Hanif Shoaee) EDITORS NOTE AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING SOME EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP WAS PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO THIS EVENTAP - Police and judiciary officials sought on Sunday to calm public outrage in Iran over the deaths of detained protesters in prison, acknowledging abuses and calling for those responsible to be punished.


Clinton presses Angola to sweeten trade ties (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 12:41 PM PDT

AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, bringing her democracy and development tour of Africa to oil-rich Angola on Sunday, encouraged the war-ravaged country to continue reforms and pledged to boost trade ties with a major energy producer.

US, Pakistan increasingly believe Mehsud dead (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 03:10 PM PDT

Supporters of a hardline Islamist party 'Jamaat-e-Islami' chant slogans during an anti-U.S. rally in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009. U.S. drone strikes sparked an anti-U.S. protest in the northwestern frontier town of Peshawar, with about thousands of supporters of a hardline Islamist party taking to the streets to denounce U.S. military interventions in Pakistan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - The U.S. and Pakistan are almost certain a U.S. missile strike killed the head of Pakistan's Taliban and that his death led to a fierce power struggle among his deputies, officials said Sunday, despite claims and counterclaims as to the fate of the country's most wanted man.


On Obama's Mexico Agenda: Stopping the Guns from El Norte (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 10:40 PM PDT

Time.com - The U.S. and Mexican Presidents will look at why efforts to stem the southbound gun trade are not bearing fruit

Leading retailers threaten Australian wool boycott (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 06:11 PM PDT

A PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) activist, dressed up as an injured sheep, protests outside the Australian High Commission building in Kuala Lumpur, in 2006. Animal rights activists have long campaigned against mulesing -- the Australian practice of cutting a slice of flesh from a sheep's rump to prevent the animal dying of flystrike.(AFP/File/Tengku Bahar)AFP - Leading fashion retailers are threatening to boycott Australian wool after farmers said they would continue sheep mulesing, cutting of the hide to prevent disease, a report said on Monday.


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,331 (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 04:51 PM PDT

AP - As of Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009, at least 4,331 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Chavez urges military to be prepared for conflict (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 06:19 PM PDT

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez points to a map of Venezuela and Colombia during a news conference in Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009. Chavez spoke Wednesday about allegations by Colombia that anti-tank rocket launchers sold to Venezuela by Sweden in the 1980s were obtained by Colombia's main rebel group, the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - President Hugo Chavez told his military on Sunday to be prepared for a possible confrontation with Colombia, warning that Bogota's plans to increase the U.S. military presence at its bases poses a threat to Venezuela.


Clinton nudges oil producer Angola on democracy (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 02:10 PM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton listens to Angolan Foreign Minister Assuncao dos Anjos during their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Luanda, Angola. Clinton on Sunday urged Angola's longtime leader to hold elections, standing firm on promoting democracy in the southwest African nation whose oil is coveted worldwide.(AFP/Louise Redvers)AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday urged Angola's longtime leader to hold elections, standing firm on promoting democracy in the southwest African nation whose oil is coveted worldwide.


Focus on Xie and Nehwal at badminton Worlds (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 06:32 PM PDT

China's Xie Xingfang (pictured in 2008) is aiming for a record third women's singles title at the world badminton championships starting on Monday but will share the limelight with India's Saina Nehwal.(AFP/File/Indranil Mukherjee)AFP - China's Xie Xingfang is aiming for a record third women's singles title at the world badminton championships starting on Monday but will share the limelight with India's Saina Nehwal.


Australia considers mass killings of camels (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 07:48 PM PDT

FILE -  In this undated file photo released by the Central Australian Camel Industry Association, ranchers in Alice Springs, central Australia use a truck to chase and catch a camel roaming wild on the property. Mere months after the Australian government ordered the shooting of thousands of kangaroos to help control their population, officials are now considering sending marksmen into the Outback in helicopters to take aim at another fast-growing group of pests: camels.  (AP Photo/Central Australian Camel Industry Association, File)AP - Thousands of camels in Australia's remote Outback could be killed by marksmen in helicopters under a government proposal aimed at cutting down the population of the havoc-wreaking creatures.


Effort to end Honduras crisis dodges a roadblock (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 05:59 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The de facto government of Honduras Sunday canceled and then rescheduled a trip by foreign envoys who're seeking to resolve a six-week-old political crisis caused by the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya.

China on offensive as US weighs tire import curb (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - China's tire producers are pushing back against a US threat to curb imports in the latest sign of China's increasing assertiveness on global trade.

A Visit to India's First Wal-Mart (a.k.a. Best Price) (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 10:40 PM PDT

Time.com - The American retailer from Arkansas opens a joint venture in the sacred Sikh city of Amritsar, a first step into what it hopes will be a lucrative adventure

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