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• Zelaya says he's met with gov't, begun dialogue (AP)
• Obama-led UN council backs broad nuclear agenda (AP)
• World leaders stress unity to fight crises (AP)
• G-8: Iran has 3 months to stop uranium enrichment (AP)
• At UN, Venezuela's Chavez smells hope, not sulfur (AP)
• On Iran Nukes, France and the U.S. Play Bad Cop/Good Cop (Time.com)
• France Telecom CFO blames email for staff stress (Reuters)
• Al-Qaida-linked inmates break out of Iraq prison (AP)
• Travolta recounts son's death at Bahamas trial (AP)
• New Drug Targets African Disease (OneWorld.net)
• Obama nominates envoy on North Korean human rights (AP)
• Canada court lifts restrictions on terror suspect (Reuters)
• Australia cleans up after dust storm (AP)
• At U.N., Chavez compliments Obama _ well, sort of (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Gold tops $1,000. But South African miners not benefitting. (The Christian Science Monitor)
• China: Serious About Climate Change? (Time.com)
• Burma Junta Up to Old Tricks, Say Observers (OneWorld.net)

Zelaya says he's met with gov't, begun dialogue (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 03:42 PM PDT AP - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Thursday he has met with an interim government official and begun dialogue aimed at ending the country's protracted political crisis.

Obama-led UN council backs broad nuclear agenda (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 02:55 PM PDT AP - With President Barack Obama presiding, the U.N. Security Council on Thursday unanimously endorsed a sweeping strategy aimed at halting the spread of nuclear weapons and ultimately eliminating them, to usher in a world with "undiminished security for all."

World leaders stress unity to fight crises (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:33 AM PDT AP - Global leaders on Thursday warned colleagues that coordinated international action to end the worldwide recession and reverse climate change must not fall victim to routine political divisions and pitfalls.

G-8: Iran has 3 months to stop uranium enrichment (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 01:47 PM PDT AP - Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said Thursday that the Group of Eight nations is giving Iran until the end of the year to commit to ending uranium enrichment and avoid new sanctions.

At UN, Venezuela's Chavez smells hope, not sulfur (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 03:41 PM PDT AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday that he smells hope not sulfur, a small compliment for Barack Obama given that he branded then President George W. Bush "the devil" when he last addressed the world body in 2006.

On Iran Nukes, France and the U.S. Play Bad Cop/Good Cop (Time.com) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 10:35 AM PDT Time.com - Although Tehran-bashing President Sarkozy often sounds as if he's chafing against President Obama's caution, they're playing different roles in the same script

France Telecom CFO blames email for staff stress (Reuters) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 04:37 PM PDT Reuters - A top executive at France's biggest telecommunications company, which is dealing with a spate of suicides, warned that the barrage of emails from smartphones and personal computers was stressing out employees.

Al-Qaida-linked inmates break out of Iraq prison (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 04:39 PM PDT AP - U.S. aircraft and Iraqi patrols combined in a massive manhunt Thursday after the escape of 16 prisoners — including five al-Qaida-linked inmates awaiting execution — who apparently crawled through a bathroom window in a makeshift jail on a former compound of Saddam Hussein.

Travolta recounts son's death at Bahamas trial (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 04:37 PM PDT AP - John Travolta said Wednesday he tried desperately to save the life of his seizure-prone son and made perhaps his first public description of the boy as autistic as he testified in the trial of two people accused of trying to blackmail him.

New Drug Targets African Disease (OneWorld.net) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 04:48 PM PDT OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Sep 24 (OneWorld.net) - A safer and cheaper drug is on its way to African countries where 60 million people are at risk from the deadly bite of the tsetse fly.

Obama nominates envoy on North Korean human rights (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 03:43 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is nominating a new special envoy on North Korean human rights issues.

Canada court lifts restrictions on terror suspect (Reuters) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 02:51 PM PDT Reuters - Canada's Federal Court lifted restrictions on Thursday on an immigrant from Morocco who had been accused of terrorism, imprisoned or under surveillance for six years, but never charged with a specific criminal offense.

Australia cleans up after dust storm (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 01:21 AM PDT AP - Millions of Australians were wiping a film of reddish Outback grit from nearly everything Thursday after the country's worst dust storm in seven decades played havoc with transport systems and sent asthmatics scurrying inside.

At U.N., Chavez compliments Obama _ well, sort of (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 04:20 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - UNITED NATIONS — "It doesn't smell of sulfur here anymore . . . It's gone. No, it smells of something else. It smells of hope."

Gold tops $1,000. But South African miners not benefitting. (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 02:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The gold miners gather in front of the old Crown Gold Mines and begin a peculiarly South African form of protest. They dance, hoot horns, wave knob-kerry sticks, and generally appear to be having a fabulous time.

China: Serious About Climate Change? (Time.com) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 10:35 AM PDT Time.com - China is still pursuing climate-change reform at its own pace. It is just managing the expectations of the rest of the world a little differently

Burma Junta Up to Old Tricks, Say Observers (OneWorld.net) Posted: 23 Sep 2009 06:33 PM PDT OneWorld.net - BANGKOK, Sep 23 (IPS) - Having released more than 7,000 prisoners in the last few days as part of the preparations for next year's planned polls, Burma's military rulers are up to their old tricks, according to Burmese activists and human rights groups.

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