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• Honduran factions agree on key point in talks (AP)
• Palestinians urge Israeli punishment over Gaza (AP)
• Leonardo fingerprint reveals $150 million artwork (AP)
• 85,000 Iraqis killed in almost 5 years of war (AP)
• Rev. Moon marries 45,000 in global mass wedding (AP)
• Capello tells Becks to start packing for SAfrica (AFP)
• Israel: Turkish TV paints troops as child-killers (AP)
• Woman details 'fling' with homicide suspect in BVI (AP)
• Ibrahimovic to miss World Cup as Swedes fail to qualify (AFP)
• US strike on suspected militant hideout in Pakistan (AFP)
• Canada court quashes case against terror suspect (Reuters)
• USGS reports 6.0 magnitude earthquake off tsunami-hit Samoa (AFP)
• Taliban strength in Afghanistan nears military proportion (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Britain's Brown considers 500 more soldiers in Afghanistan (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Unsafe Abortions Killing 70,000 a Year (OneWorld.net)

Honduran factions agree on key point in talks (AP) Posted: 14 Oct 2009 05:49 PM PDT AP - Negotiators reached a tentative agreement Wednesday on whether to return ousted President Manuel Zelaya to office, but both the deposed Honduran leader and the coup-installed president responded to the plan only by saying that talks would go on.

Palestinians urge Israeli punishment over Gaza (AP) Posted: 14 Oct 2009 04:06 PM PDT AP - The Palestinians called Wednesday for global action to punish Israel for alleged war crimes during its military assault on Gaza last winter, warning that the credibility of the United Nations and international human rights law was at stake.

Leonardo fingerprint reveals $150 million artwork (AP) Posted: 14 Oct 2009 04:19 PM PDT AP - Mona Lisa has something new to smile about.

85,000 Iraqis killed in almost 5 years of war (AP) Posted: 14 Oct 2009 05:59 PM PDT AP - Iraq's government said at least 85,000 people were killed from 2004 to 2008, officially answering one of the biggest questions of the conflict — how many perished in the sectarian violence that nearly led to a civil war.

Rev. Moon marries 45,000 in global mass wedding (AP) Posted: 14 Oct 2009 09:30 AM PDT AP - It was his wedding day, but Choi In-seok admitted to a twinge of nervousness Wednesday about spending the rest of his life with the woman hand-picked for him by the Unification Church.

Capello tells Becks to start packing for SAfrica (AFP) Posted: 14 Oct 2009 06:17 PM PDT AFP - Fabio Capello has dropped the strongest hint yet that David Beckham will be on the plane to South Africa for next year's World Cup finals.

Israel: Turkish TV paints troops as child-killers (AP) Posted: 14 Oct 2009 03:11 PM PDT AP - Israel's foreign minister has ordered ministry officials to summon Turkey's ambassador in Israel and protest to him over a Turkish TV series that reportedly portrays Israeli soldiers murdering children, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.

Woman details 'fling' with homicide suspect in BVI (AP) Posted: 14 Oct 2009 03:43 PM PDT AP - A U.S. man accused of killing his wife while scuba diving told another woman several months before the death that she was his soulmate and that he was ready to leave "for good," according to evidence presented in court Wednesday.

Ibrahimovic to miss World Cup as Swedes fail to qualify (AFP) Posted: 14 Oct 2009 02:28 PM PDT AFP - One of Europe's top stars, Barcelona striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, will not be taking part in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa after Sweden failed to qualify Wednesday.

US strike on suspected militant hideout in Pakistan (AFP) Posted: 14 Oct 2009 05:24 PM PDT AFP - A US drone missile attack on a suspected militant hideout in a remote tribal area in northwest Pakistan early Thursday killed at least four people, security officials said.

Canada court quashes case against terror suspect (Reuters) Posted: 14 Oct 2009 12:40 PM PDT Reuters - The Federal Court of Canada on Wednesday set aside the last of the tough restrictions against a Moroccan man the government wanted to deport because of alleged links to al Qaeda.

USGS reports 6.0 magnitude earthquake off tsunami-hit Samoa (AFP) Posted: 14 Oct 2009 12:06 PM PDT AFP - An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck off the South Pacific island nation of Samoa on Thursday, seismologists reported, two weeks after a violent quake caused a tsunami that devastated Tonga, Samoa and American Samoa.

Taliban strength in Afghanistan nears military proportion (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 14 Oct 2009 05:02 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON -- A recent U.S. intelligence assessment has raised the estimated number of full-time Taliban-led insurgents fighting in Afghanistan to at least 25,000, underscoring how the crisis has worsened even as the U.S. and its allies have beefed up their military forces, a U.S. official said Thursday.

Britain's Brown considers 500 more soldiers in Afghanistan (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 14 Oct 2009 02:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - British prime minister Gordon Brown's announcement Wednesday that he will likely send 500 more troops to Afghanistan is being viewed with some puzzlement in a Europe that, so far, has turned a deaf ear to President Barack Obama's entreaties for more NATO forces.

Unsafe Abortions Killing 70,000 a Year (OneWorld.net) Posted: 14 Oct 2009 11:36 AM PDT OneWorld.net - LONDON, Oct 14 (IPS) - Unsafe abortions kill about 70,000 women a year, says a report by the U.S.- based Guttmacher Institute. An additional five million women are treated annually for complications arising from unsafe abortion, adds the report, based on a global survey.

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