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• Taiwanese hauled to safety across raging river (AP)
• Shoot at the pirates? West weighs arming ships (AP)
• Observers see pattern of fraud before Afghan vote (AP)
• Double suicide bombing kills more than 20 in Iraq (AP)
• Israel vs. Hizballah: Drumbeats of War (Time.com)
• Reindeer herders battle alcohol on Russia's edge (Reuters)
• Sudan President dismisses powerful spy chief (AP)
• Chile's Mapuche Indians seize land, police kill 1 (AP)
• Sudanese president names new intelligence chief: state media (AFP)
• Gates: 'A few years' of combat in Afghanistan (AP)
• Canada seen moving up in economic rankings (Reuters)
• Australia PM says no intention to call snap poll (Reuters)
• Time running out for Arias mediation in Honduras? (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Honduran protestors target Dunkin Donuts, Burger King (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Did a TV Host Mastermind His Show's True Crimes? (Time.com)

Taiwanese hauled to safety across raging river (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2009 01:08 PM PDT AP - Barefoot and helmeted, the frightened survivors of deadly Typhoon Morakot dangled high over jagged rocks and a raging river Thursday as soldiers hauled them to safety one by one along a 100-foot-long cable.

Shoot at the pirates? West weighs arming ships (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2009 01:27 PM PDT AP - Challenging a global aversion to guns aboard ships, France has put troops on tuna boats in the Indian Ocean, and Belgium is offering military units to its merchant vessels off the Horn of Africa. Now, U.S. lawmakers are weighing similar action to fight piracy.

Observers see pattern of fraud before Afghan vote (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2009 03:23 PM PDT AP - Voting observers expect fraud during next week's Afghan presidential election and warn that cheating will most likely take place at polling stations in remote or dangerous areas where independent monitors won't be able to be present.

Double suicide bombing kills more than 20 in Iraq (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2009 12:47 PM PDT AP - A double suicide bombing devastated a cafe packed with young people in northwestern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 21 people, officials said, in the latest attack against a minority community.

Israel vs. Hizballah: Drumbeats of War (Time.com) Posted: 13 Aug 2009 12:30 PM PDT Time.com - Analysis: Both sides have an interest in avoiding a reprise of their 2006 war, but Israel-Iran conflict raises cross-border tension. But recent military actions have hurt rather than helped Israel's political position

Reindeer herders battle alcohol on Russia's edge (Reuters) Posted: 13 Aug 2009 05:09 PM PDT Reuters - * Russia's natives driven to drink by "perestroika"

Sudan President dismisses powerful spy chief (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2009 02:25 PM PDT AP - Sudan's official news agency says the president has dismissed the country's powerful head of national security and intelligence.

Chile's Mapuche Indians seize land, police kill 1 (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2009 05:02 PM PDT AP - Mapuche Indians vowed Thursday to keep seizing land in southern Chile despite the death of an activist who resisted an eviction by riot police.

Sudanese president names new intelligence chief: state media (AFP) Posted: 13 Aug 2009 04:16 PM PDT AFP - Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir has replaced influential intelligence chief Salah Gosh with his close aide in the agency, General Mohamed Atta al-Moula, under a decree issued early Friday.

Gates: 'A few years' of combat in Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2009 04:49 PM PDT AP - The Pentagon presented a grim portrait of the Afghanistan war Thursday, offering no assurances about how long Americans will be fighting there or how many U.S. combat troops it will take to win.

Canada seen moving up in economic rankings (Reuters) Posted: 13 Aug 2009 11:06 AM PDT Reuters - Canada is expected to move up in global economic rankings in 2009 and 2010 as the recession lingers in other countries, buoyed by a stable bank sector and lower unemployment, a study showed on Thursday.

Australia PM says no intention to call snap poll (Reuters) Posted: 13 Aug 2009 04:59 PM PDT Reuters - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Friday he had no intention of calling a snap election, despite parliament's rejection of his government's plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Time running out for Arias mediation in Honduras? (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 13 Aug 2009 04:04 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The month-old mediation effort by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias to resolve Honduras' political crisis is foundering under the near-universal opposition of Honduras' top leaders to permitting deposed President Manuel Zelaya to return to power.

Honduran protestors target Dunkin Donuts, Burger King (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 13 Aug 2009 02:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Thousands of protesters calling for the return of deposed President Manuel Zelaya clashed with police Wednesday for the second day in a row, but Honduras' de facto government showed no willingness to allow Zelaya to return.

Did a TV Host Mastermind His Show's True Crimes? (Time.com) Posted: 13 Aug 2009 12:30 PM PDT Time.com - Brazilian investigators charge that Wallace Souza ordered killings in order to boost his show's ratings and his own law-and-order political credentials

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