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• Iran defies condemnation, expands opposition trial (AP)
• Taliban threatens polling stations in Afghanistan (AP)
• Myanmar release of US man could thaw relations (AP)
• Mexico replaces customs staff, revamps borders (AP)
• Kuwait wedding fire killed 41 people in 3 minutes (AP)
• How to Work Out While Muslim -- and Female (Time.com)
• Britain publishes more UFO files, but few answers (AP)
• Peres poems turned to song for his 86th birthday (AP)
• Prisoner allegedly kills Puerto Rico cop, wounds 1 (AP)
• Nigerian police raid Islamic sect compound (AFP)
• Yang stuns Woods to become first Asian major champion (AFP)
• Afghan government seeks Election Day truces with insurgents (McClatchy Newspapers)
• In Pakistan, Taliban tearing apart a culture (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Is Ramazan Bashardost the Don Quixote of Afghanistan? (Time.com)

Iran defies condemnation, expands opposition trial (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2009 03:02 PM PDT AP - Iran expanded a mass trial of opposition supporters on Sunday with the addition of 25 defendants — including a Jewish teenager — in defiance of international condemnation, as France said Iran agreed to release a French woman held on spying charges from prison.

Taliban threatens polling stations in Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2009 05:47 AM PDT AP - The Taliban are threatening to attack polling centers in the key southern province of Kandahar, a warning likely to have a chilling effect on potential voters in this week's presidential election.

Myanmar release of US man could thaw relations (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2009 01:00 PM PDT AP - Myanmar freed an ailing American whom it had sentenced to seven years of hard labor and handed him to an influential U.S senator on Sunday, a move that could help persuade Washington to soften its hardline policy against the military regime.

Mexico replaces customs staff, revamps borders (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2009 04:00 PM PDT AP - Mexico has replaced all 700 of its customs inspectors with agents newly trained to detect contraband, from guns and drugs to TVs and other big-ticket appliances smuggled to avoid import duties.

Kuwait wedding fire killed 41 people in 3 minutes (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2009 09:21 AM PDT AP - A fire that tore through a wedding tent outside Kuwait's capital killed 41 women and children in just three minutes, leaving behind shoes melted to the ground and bodies so blackened they were unrecognizable, the fire chief said Sunday.

How to Work Out While Muslim -- and Female (Time.com) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 11:50 PM PDT Time.com - The need to exercise and the requirements of faith don't have to conflict. But they can be a little sticky for the women of Islam

Britain publishes more UFO files, but few answers (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2009 04:02 PM PDT AP - The deputy commander of a U.S. Air Force base in England was baffled by what he'd seen: bright, pulsing lights in the night sky.

Peres poems turned to song for his 86th birthday (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2009 12:27 PM PDT AP - Israeli President Shimon Peres is celebrating his 86th birthday in style — with a celebrity concert featuring songs adapted from his poetry.

Prisoner allegedly kills Puerto Rico cop, wounds 1 (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2009 04:11 PM PDT AP - A 23-year-old prisoner being taken to jail to face car theft charges allegedly shot one police officer to death and gravely wounded a second, then escaped in their squad car, authorities said Sunday.

Nigerian police raid Islamic sect compound (AFP) Posted: 16 Aug 2009 08:48 AM PDT AFP - Police raided an Islamic sect's compound in central Nigeria, evacuating some 4,000 members, weeks after an uprising by another sect left 800 dead in five northern states, officials said Sunday.

Yang stuns Woods to become first Asian major champion (AFP) Posted: 16 Aug 2009 04:55 PM PDT AFP - Yang Yong-Eun became the the first Asian to capture a major championship, firing a two-under par 70 Sunday to record a shocking upset of Tiger Woods and win the 91st PGA Championship.

Afghan government seeks Election Day truces with insurgents (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 16 Aug 2009 02:06 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan — The government here, with the blessing of its foreign backers, is trying to arrange Election Day truces with local Taliban commanders to ensure that voting can take place in the war-torn south and east, senior Afghan officials said Sunday.

In Pakistan, Taliban tearing apart a culture (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 14 Aug 2009 02:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Pashtun literature used to be full of romance and praise for the beauty of nature. Now it reflects the death and explosions that have filled the lives of Pakistanis.

Is Ramazan Bashardost the Don Quixote of Afghanistan? (Time.com) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 11:50 PM PDT Time.com - Ramazan Bashardost's bare-bones campaign is unlikely to win him the presidency. But he is relentless in trying to make his impossible dream come true

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