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• Iraq: Ex-Saddam aide gets 7 years in Kurdish case (AP)
• Israelis rally after 2 murdered at gay center (AP)
• American with cold misses ill-fated hike into Iran (AP)
• Conservative seeks trials for Iran bloodshed (AP)
• 1 dead, 75 injured in Canada stage collapse (AP)
• Leaving Iran While Looking Over Your Shoulder: A Reporter's Diary (Time.com)
• Britain's historic criminal trials go online (AFP)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,329 (AP)
• Peruvian rebels suspected in attack that kills 5 (AP)
• Slain Nigerian sect members buried in mass graves (AFP)
• Windies rescue a little pride against Bangladesh (AFP)
• Ex-world champion Gatti committed suicide: police (Reuters)
• Brazil's growing middle class powers rebound (McClatchy Newspapers)
• New Taliban code: Don't kill civilians, don't take ransom (The Christian Science Monitor)
• The Death of Corazon Aquino, Saint of People Power, 1933-2009 (Time.com)

Iraq: Ex-Saddam aide gets 7 years in Kurdish case (AP) Posted: 02 Aug 2009 02:35 PM PDT AP - One of Saddam Hussein's best-known lieutenants was convicted Sunday of helping to plan the forced displacement of Kurds from northeastern Iraq and sentenced to seven years in jail.

Israelis rally after 2 murdered at gay center (AP) Posted: 02 Aug 2009 12:32 PM PDT AP - Reeling from the worst attack ever aimed at homosexuals in Israel, members of the country's gay community and their supporters rallied Sunday in the heart of Tel Aviv a day after a masked gunman killed two people at a center for gay youth and escaped.

American with cold misses ill-fated hike into Iran (AP) Posted: 02 Aug 2009 03:11 PM PDT AP - An American linguistics student traveling in northern Iraq didn't go on an ill-fated hiking trip because he had a cold — a twist of fate that prevented him from mistakenly wandering into Iran where his three friends were reportedly detained.

Conservative seeks trials for Iran bloodshed (AP) Posted: 02 Aug 2009 11:30 AM PDT AP - Criticism of Iran's mass prosecution of political activists widened Sunday with the main conservative challenger to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demanding authorities also seek punishment for those accused of killing protesters.

1 dead, 75 injured in Canada stage collapse (AP) Posted: 02 Aug 2009 02:00 PM PDT AP - Organizers on Sunday canceled the closing day of a country music festival in central Alberta a day after a fierce thunderstorm caused an outdoor stage to collapse, killing one person and injuring about 75 others.

Leaving Iran While Looking Over Your Shoulder: A Reporter's Diary (Time.com) Posted: 02 Aug 2009 02:15 PM PDT Time.com - Recently out of Iran, a reporter for TIME recounts what daily existence was like when the Islamic Republic seemed to be ever more intrusive and coercive

Britain's historic criminal trials go online (AFP) Posted: 02 Aug 2009 04:07 PM PDT AFP - Criminal trials in England dating back to the 18th century, including the infamous "Jack the Ripper" suspect, are to go online for the first time Monday, a British website said.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,329 (AP) Posted: 02 Aug 2009 04:27 PM PDT AP - As of Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009, at least 4,329 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Peruvian rebels suspected in attack that kills 5 (AP) Posted: 02 Aug 2009 02:34 PM PDT AP - Peruvian authorities say attackers believed to be Shining Path rebels killed three police officers and two women in an assault on a remote police post in a coca-growing region.

Slain Nigerian sect members buried in mass graves (AFP) Posted: 02 Aug 2009 03:30 PM PDT AFP - Nigerian authorities swept dozens of bodies into mass graves Sunday in the grisly aftermath of last week's Islamist uprising that killed hundreds of people, officials and residents said.

Windies rescue a little pride against Bangladesh (AFP) Posted: 02 Aug 2009 02:54 PM PDT AFP - Bangladesh suffered the only defeat on their trip to the Caribbean, when West Indies won their Twenty20 international by five wickets on Sunday.

Ex-world champion Gatti committed suicide: police (Reuters) Posted: 01 Aug 2009 08:52 PM PDT Reuters - Former world champion Arturo Gatti committed suicide and was not murdered as initially suspected, a Brazilian police spokesman said on Thursday.

Brazil's growing middle class powers rebound (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 02 Aug 2009 03:29 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil is beginning to pull out of an economic dive triggered by the global financial crisis, but it's not the country's vaunted soybean, meat and iron ore exports that are powering the turnaround of the world's ninth-largest economy.

New Taliban code: Don't kill civilians, don't take ransom (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 31 Jul 2009 02:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - US commanders in Afghanistan aren't the only ones worried that civilian deaths are costing them hearts and minds. The Taliban, which has planted bombs in schools and occasionally burned its opponents alive, has put out a new code of conduct for militants that appears to be an attempt to project a softer image to the Afghan people.

The Death of Corazon Aquino, Saint of People Power, 1933-2009 (Time.com) Posted: 02 Aug 2009 02:15 PM PDT Time.com - At a critical time in her country's history, the shy widow took up her charismatic husband's legacy and led it through a valley of the shadow of death

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