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World honors 9/11 heroes, but divided over war (AP)
Iran's supreme leader warns opposition in sermon (AP)
Sept. 11 galvanizes US troops in Afghanistan (AP)
Rioters set fires at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison (AP)
Runner reported to have internal male sex organs (AP)
Lebanon Unity Government Fails to Materialize (Time.com)
Riot police quell clashes at 9/11 demo in London (AFP)
Al-Qaida Web sites down ahead of 9/11 anniversary (AP)
Argentine president would decriminalize libel (AP)
South Africa Hits Out Against Semenya's Gender Test (Time.com)
Dem senator: Speed Afghan security force training (AP)
Liberals rule out unpopular coalition idea (Reuters)
Extinct New Zealand eagle may have eaten humans (AP)
Rockets fired from Lebanon into Israel (McClatchy Newspapers)
Behind the Afghan Embassy Scandal, a Cost-Cutting Security Firm (Time.com)
Nigeria-Italy Human Trafficking Rises Sharply (OneWorld.net)

World honors 9/11 heroes, but divided over war (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 02:44 PM PDT

AP - On the day to remember the terror of 9/11, the war it spawned in Afghanistan sowed fresh divisions. President Barack Obama, speaking under rainy skies after placing a wreath at the site of the attack on the Pentagon, called on the world to "renew our resolve against those who perpetrated this barbaric act and who plot against us still."

Iran's supreme leader warns opposition in sermon (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 04:02 PM PDT

AP - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned the country's reformist opposition on Friday it would face a "harsh response" for confronting the Islamic establishment.

Sept. 11 galvanizes US troops in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 03:06 PM PDT

AP - Many of the troops at this sprawling U.S. air base were in their mid-teens when they watched the planes hit the World Trade Center's twin towers on television and vowed to join the military.

Rioters set fires at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 11:37 AM PDT

AP - Abu Ghraib prison inmates rioted for a second straight day Friday to demand better conditions, setting fire to mattresses and seizing an assault rifle from a guard before authorities said the situation was brought under control.

Runner reported to have internal male sex organs (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 03:33 PM PDT

AP - Caster Semenya had heard the taunts and whispers that she was different from other girls. Now the most intimate details of her anatomy are headline news, and there is worry about how the 18-year-old runner from a poor South African village will handle it all.

Lebanon Unity Government Fails to Materialize (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 03:55 PM PDT

Time.com - Regional tensions could escalate the confrontation over the balance of power in Beirut's next government

Riot police quell clashes at 9/11 demo in London (AFP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 03:10 PM PDT

AFP - Eight people were arrested Friday as riot police intervened to quell clashes between Muslims and anti-Islamic protestors outside a London mosque on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Al-Qaida Web sites down ahead of 9/11 anniversary (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 01:36 PM PDT

AP - A U.S.-based group monitoring militant Web sites said Friday that jihadist forums have been experiencing technical problems on the eve of Sept. 11, finally going offline a day before the 8th anniversary of the al-Qaida attack on the U.S.

Argentine president would decriminalize libel (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 03:36 PM PDT

AP - President Cristina Fernandez on Friday proposed decriminalizing libel and slander as a way of "guaranteeing even more" freedom of expression in Argentina.

South Africa Hits Out Against Semenya's Gender Test (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 03:55 PM PDT

Time.com - As a newspaper reports that Caster Semenya's gender test reveals the athlete to have an intersex condition, South Africa's government announces it's looking into suing the IAAF, accusing it of possible human rights violations

Dem senator: Speed Afghan security force training (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 04:08 PM PDT

AP - The Senate Armed Services chairman Friday added to mounting pressure on the White House to avoid escalating the war in Afghanistan by calling for faster training of Afghan security forces instead of sending more U.S. troops into combat. A leading Senate Republican quickly countered that deploying more American troops to Iraq is what helped turn that war around.

Liberals rule out unpopular coalition idea (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 11:08 AM PDT

Reuters - Canada's Liberal Party moved to distance itself on Friday from the idea that it would still be willing to forge a coalition with the two other opposition parties to try to replace the Conservative government.

Extinct New Zealand eagle may have eaten humans (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 07:25 AM PDT

AP - Sophisticated computer scans of fossils have helped solve a mystery over the nature of a giant, ancient raptor known as the Haast's eagle which became extinct about 500 years ago, researchers said Friday.

Rockets fired from Lebanon into Israel (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 12:00 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - JERUSALEM Two Katyusha rockets fired from southern Lebanon struck northern Israel Friday, near the city of Nahariya. There were no injuries or damage, Israeli police said.

Behind the Afghan Embassy Scandal, a Cost-Cutting Security Firm (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 11:40 AM PDT

Time.com - To squeeze a profit out of the operation, the company in charge of security in Kabul allegedly had to cut corners

Nigeria-Italy Human Trafficking Rises Sharply (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 09:48 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - ROME, Sep 11 (IPS) - An alarming rise has been recorded in the number of Nigerian girls trafficked to Italy.