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• Senator meets Suu Kyi, wins American's release (AP)
• Insurgents target NATO HQ in Kabul as vote looms (AP)
• Hamas crushes challenge by al-Qaida-inspired group (AP)
• Missing ship: a foggy saga of rumors, few clues (AP)
• Mourners survey typhoon wreckage of Taiwan village (AP)
• Ezra Nawi: Jewish Pacifist Facing Jail for Aiding Arabs (Time.com)
• Britain's Brown trails badly in two opinion polls (Reuters)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,332 (AP)
• Protest in Peru over slow recovery from 2007 quake (AP)
• Correction: Yves Saint Laurent Morocco house story (AP)
• Britain suffers 200th Afghanistan death (AP)
• Canada to spend $75 million to shrink hog production (Reuters)
• How did a suicide bomber penetrate Kabul's NATO headquarters? (McClatchy Newspapers)
• U.S. Sen. Jim Webb Meets Burma Junta Leader (Time.com)

Senator meets Suu Kyi, wins American's release (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 11:26 AM PDT AP - Stung by international outrage over the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's ruling generals agreed Saturday to hand an American prisoner involved in her case to a visiting U.S. senator.

Insurgents target NATO HQ in Kabul as vote looms (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 03:14 PM PDT AP - A suicide car bomber struck near the front gate of NATO headquarters in Kabul on Saturday, killing seven people and wounding nearly 100 in a brazen daylight attack less than a week before Afghanistan's landmark presidential election.

Hamas crushes challenge by al-Qaida-inspired group (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 11:21 AM PDT AP - Hamas crushed an al-Qaida-inspired group in an hours-long standoff that came to a fiery end when a large explosion killed the radical Muslim group's leader inside his Gaza home on Saturday.

Missing ship: a foggy saga of rumors, few clues (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 01:23 PM PDT AP - The workaday cargo ship the Arctic Sea, which for decades plowed the world's waterways in obscurity, just had to disappear to be thrust into a swirling drama of rumors and intrigue. The plot thickened Saturday as a Russian maritime expert reported signals from the ship's tracking device and Finnish authorities said there was a ransom demand.

Mourners survey typhoon wreckage of Taiwan village (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 09:33 AM PDT AP - There is nothing left in Shiao Lin. Nothing except the knots of grieving relatives mourning their dead, the red-clad rescue workers searching the ground for human remains and the tons of mud and rubble where once the village lay.

Ezra Nawi: Jewish Pacifist Facing Jail for Aiding Arabs (Time.com) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 01:25 AM PDT Time.com - On the eve of a likely prison term, a gay Jewish peace activist who defends Palestinians from violent settlers warns his countrymen that they are spreading hatred

Britain's Brown trails badly in two opinion polls (Reuters) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 05:10 PM PDT Reuters - Britain's ruling Labour Party trails the opposition Conservatives by up to 17 points in the polls with a parliamentary election less than a year away, according to two surveys published on Sunday.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,332 (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 05:08 PM PDT AP - As of Saturday, Aug. 15, 2009, at least 4,332 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Protest in Peru over slow recovery from 2007 quake (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 04:46 PM PDT AP - Residents of a city destroyed by an earthquake in southern Peru two years ago protested Saturday over the slow pace of reconstruction, and police fired tear gas after the demonstrators blocked an important bridge.

Correction: Yves Saint Laurent Morocco house story (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 01:19 PM PDT AP - In an Aug. 13 story about the Morocco home of late fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent being for sale, The Associated Press, relying on information from Christie's Great Estates, erroneously identified the broker. The home is being offered by Majorelle Investissement SARL of Marrakech, not Residence Helvetia of Marrakech.

Britain suffers 200th Afghanistan death (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 04:16 PM PDT AP - A British soldier wounded in an explosion in Afghanistan died Saturday, the defense ministry said, bringing the country's military death toll there to 200.

Canada to spend $75 million to shrink hog production (Reuters) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 12:39 PM PDT Reuters - Canada will pay some farmers to stop raising hogs and offer loans to help others restructure, assistance that drew praise from Canadian hog farmers and concerns from a top U.S. farmer group.

How did a suicide bomber penetrate Kabul's NATO headquarters? (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 01:41 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan authorities are trying to determine how a suicide bomber breached tight security in Kabul's diplomatic quarter on Saturday and detonated an SUV packed with explosives in front of NATO headquarters five days before the presidential election.

U.S. Sen. Jim Webb Meets Burma Junta Leader (Time.com) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 01:25 AM PDT Time.com - On Aug. 15, U.S. Sen. Jim Webb became the first top-level American politician to meet with juntahead Senior General Than Shwe

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