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• Marines launch new Afghan assault against Taliban (AP)
• Magnitude 6.5 quake hits off east coast of Japan (AP)
• UK health system hits back at US critics (AP)
• Government denies reports bomber to be freed (AP)
• Wounded AP journalists evacuated from Afghanistan (AP)
• Graffiti, Hip-Hop, Sk8s: Tehran's Young Rebels Battle the Crackdown (Time.com)
• As crisis deepens, Roma a powderkeg in Hungary (Reuters)
• Iran calls for ban on striking nuke facilities (AP)
• Mexico's Supreme Court overturns massacre verdicts (AP)
• Brace for 'Red Devil' Tosic as Serbia punish South Africa (AFP)
• 43 Philippine soldiers, militants killed in clash (AFP)
• Canadian government savaged over failure to aid citizen (Reuters)
• Boat with 77 people intercepted by Australia (AP)
• Police, protesters clash in Honduras for 2nd day (McClatchy Newspapers)
• After latest sentence, Germans eager for Nazi trials' end (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Pakistan Military Not Capitalizing on Taliban Disarray (Time.com)
• At 60, Geneva Conventions Still Lack Teeth (OneWorld.net)

Marines launch new Afghan assault against Taliban (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 05:13 PM PDT AP - U.S. Marines battled Taliban fighters Wednesday for control of a strategic southern town in a new operation to cut militant supply lines and allow Afghan residents to vote in next week's presidential election.

Magnitude 6.5 quake hits off east coast of Japan (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 05:06 PM PDT AP - A magnitude-6.5 earthquake hit off Japan's eastern coast early Thursday, the country's Meteorological Agency said.

UK health system hits back at US critics (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 05:28 PM PDT AP - Britain's health care service says it is sick of being lied about.

Government denies reports bomber to be freed (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 03:30 PM PDT AP - Sky News and BBC television reported Wednesday that Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was to be freed from his Scottish prison on compassionate grounds, but the minister in charge of deciding al-Megrahi's fate denied that any such decision had been made.

Wounded AP journalists evacuated from Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 02:12 PM PDT AP - Two Associated Press journalists wounded in a bomb blast while on assignment with the U.S. military in southern Afghanistan were evacuated to a medical center in Dubai on Wednesday after being treated at a military hospital.

Graffiti, Hip-Hop, Sk8s: Tehran's Young Rebels Battle the Crackdown (Time.com) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 04:15 PM PDT Time.com - Among the opposition to the regime is a street culture that borrows much from the West -- and longs for the liberties beyond Iran's borders

As crisis deepens, Roma a powderkeg in Hungary (Reuters) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 05:41 PM PDT Reuters - Maria Balogh and her 13-year old daughter Ketrin were asleep at home last week when attackers burst in and shot the mother dead with pellet guns. It was the latest in a string of murders of Roma in Hungary.

Iran calls for ban on striking nuke facilities (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 02:00 PM PDT AP - Iran, whose nuclear facilities are under threat of possible Israeli military strikes, proposed Wednesday that a 150-nation conference convening in the fall ban such attacks.

Mexico's Supreme Court overturns massacre verdicts (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 05:44 PM PDT AP - Mexico's Supreme Court ordered freedom for 20 men convicted in the 1997 massacre of 45 Indian villagers in southern Chiapas state and new trials for six more, ruling Wednesday that prosecutors used illegally obtained evidence.

Brace for 'Red Devil' Tosic as Serbia punish South Africa (AFP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 02:30 PM PDT AFP - Manchester United reserve Zoran Tosic scored twice for Serbia as hosts South Africa began their countdown to the 2010 World Cup with a 3-1 friendly international loss Wednesday.

43 Philippine soldiers, militants killed in clash (AFP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 05:44 PM PDT AFP - At least 23 government soldiers and more than 20 Muslim extremists were killed in a day-long clash in the southern Philippines, the commanding general said on Thursday.

Canadian government savaged over failure to aid citizen (Reuters) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 12:40 PM PDT Reuters - Canada's government was accused of racism and abandoning its citizens on Wednesday when it emerged that officials had falsely accused a Canadian woman in Kenya of being an impostor, an act that led to her arrest.

Boat with 77 people intercepted by Australia (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 05:04 PM PDT AP - A boat carrying 77 suspected asylum seekers was intercepted Thursday in the Indian Ocean, the latest in a string of such vessels caught in Australian waters this year.

Police, protesters clash in Honduras for 2nd day (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 03:54 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Thousands of protesters calling for the return of deposed President Manuel Zelaya clashed with police Wednesday for the second day in a row, but Honduras' de facto government showed no willingness to allow Zelaya to return.

After latest sentence, Germans eager for Nazi trials' end (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 11 Aug 2009 02:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - When Germany hosted and placed third in the World Cup three years ago, fans draped themselves in the German flag, waved the flag from cars, and unfurled it from living room windows. Sixty-four years after the end of World War II, it finally felt acceptable to be German again.

Pakistan Military Not Capitalizing on Taliban Disarray (Time.com) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 04:15 PM PDT Time.com - Rather than move to smash a leaderless local Taliban, the Pakistan military seems to be exploring another truce in which NATO is the big loser

At 60, Geneva Conventions Still Lack Teeth (OneWorld.net) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 03:53 PM PDT OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (OneWorld.net) - On the 60th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, humanitarian advocates are concerned about war's growing toll on civilians worldwide and calling for new mechanisms to ensure governments and armed groups conform to internationally agreed standards of human rights -- even in war.

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