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• Auschwitz memorial launches Facebook page (AP)
• Militants assault police compounds in Pakistan (AP)
• Little-known Egyptian is key al-Qaida figure (AP)
• Honduras, already poor, sinks further after coup (AP)
• Twitter launches Japanese mobile site (AP)
• Asia's Millionaires Could Be Richer Than America's By 2013 (Time.com)
• Japan's Uchimura takes world gymnastics title (AFP)
• Israel blasts Turkey over TV series' 'incitement' (AP)
• World Cup bid unites Hondurans divided by coup (AP)
• Nigerian militants end ceasefire, threaten attacks (Reuters)
• Without fanfare, Obama signs Pakistan aid bill (Reuters)
• Canada Liberals file ethics complaint against government (Reuters)
• ETimor vote, fishing contest prove stability: president (AFP)
• U.S. lacks enough troops for 'low-risk' Afghan option (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Iraqi-Syrian crisis deepens; Baghdad looks to UN for help (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Turkey-Israel Relations Sour Further After War-Games Snub (Time.com)
• Strange Bedfellows Joining Climate Camp (OneWorld.net)

Auschwitz memorial launches Facebook page (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2009 01:24 PM PDT AP - To try to reach young people around the world, the memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a page on Facebook, the social networking site usually home to news and photos about friends, funny videos and the minutiae of modern life.

Militants assault police compounds in Pakistan (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2009 04:30 PM PDT AP - Islamist militants launched coordinated assaults on three police compounds in Pakistan's second largest city Thursday, the latest in a wave of attacks by insurgents bringing the war to the country's heartland ahead of an expected offensive against their Afghan border sanctuary.

Little-known Egyptian is key al-Qaida figure (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2009 09:20 AM PDT AP - He's a heavyweight in al-Qaida but little known outside jihadi and intelligence circles even though he runs the terrorist movement's operations in a key front — Afghanistan — and may be linked to a plot in New York.

Honduras, already poor, sinks further after coup (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2009 02:03 PM PDT AP - A woman caring for six grandchildren can no longer afford milk. A bricklayer who used to work six days a week now is lucky to get two. A shop manager has seen his earnings evaporate.

Twitter launches Japanese mobile site (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2009 10:50 AM PDT AP - Twitter Inc. now speaks Japanese — and it plans to be multilingual within months.

Asia's Millionaires Could Be Richer Than America's By 2013 (Time.com) Posted: 15 Oct 2009 08:10 AM PDT Time.com - The East's strong recovery from economic recession is powering Asian investment portfolios to new heights while North Americans are still counting their losses

Japan's Uchimura takes world gymnastics title (AFP) Posted: 15 Oct 2009 03:17 PM PDT AFP - Japan's Olympic silver medallist Kohei Uchimura produced a performance of ruthless consistency to win the men's all-around title at the world gymnastics championships on Thursday.

Israel blasts Turkey over TV series' 'incitement' (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2009 01:01 PM PDT AP - An Israeli Foreign Ministry official rebuked Turkey's acting ambassador Thursday over a TV series Israel says depicts Israeli soldiers murdering children.

World Cup bid unites Hondurans divided by coup (AP) Posted: 15 Oct 2009 04:07 PM PDT AP - A soccer victory that clinched Honduras' first trip to the World Cup in almost 30 years is giving its people an exhilarating distraction from the divisive political crisis that has gripped the country for the last 3 1/2 months.

Nigerian militants end ceasefire, threaten attacks (Reuters) Posted: 15 Oct 2009 05:05 PM PDT Reuters - Nigeria's main militant group ended its three-month old ceasefire on Friday and threatened to resume attacks against Africa's biggest oil and gas industry.

Without fanfare, Obama signs Pakistan aid bill (Reuters) Posted: 15 Oct 2009 04:48 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama quietly signed a $7.5 billion aid bill for Pakistan on Thursday that drew criticism in the nuclear-armed South Asian country because of conditions linked to the assistance.

Canada Liberals file ethics complaint against government (Reuters) Posted: 15 Oct 2009 01:13 PM PDT Reuters - Canada's Liberal Party said on Thursday it was launching an ethics complaint against the Conservative government, charging it was playing partisan politics with stimulus programs.

ETimor vote, fishing contest prove stability: president (AFP) Posted: 15 Oct 2009 09:11 AM PDT AFP - Trouble-free local elections and an impending international sports fishing competition are proof of the stability of post-independence East Timor, President Jose Ramos-Horta said Thursday.

U.S. lacks enough troops for 'low-risk' Afghan option (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 15 Oct 2009 04:33 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military can send only about 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan in the next three months without putting excessive strains on the Army and Marine Corps, but the top Afghanistan commander has said he needs more than twice that number to have the best chance of success, military and administration officials told McClatchy.

Iraqi-Syrian crisis deepens; Baghdad looks to UN for help (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 14 Oct 2009 02:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The crisis between two of the Middle East's most powerful countries deepened Wednesday as Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said talks with Syria over suicide truck bomb attacks had failed and the United Nations would appoint a special envoy to investigate the violence.

Turkey-Israel Relations Sour Further After War-Games Snub (Time.com) Posted: 15 Oct 2009 07:10 AM PDT Time.com - For more than a decade, Turkey and Israel enjoyed an alliance that defiedArab anger and thorny Middle East politics. So what happened to put therelationship on ice?

Strange Bedfellows Joining Climate Camp (OneWorld.net) Posted: 15 Oct 2009 03:14 PM PDT OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (OneWorld.net) - As the much-anticipated Copenhagen summit draws near, a surprisingly broad array of groups and individuals have become climate activists, says blogger Richard Graves, noting that climate change is now being understood as a wide-ranging threat to humanity -- not just "coral reefs and rainforests."

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