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• North Korea says uranium enrichment in final stage (AP)
• Iran assembly approves most of hard-line Cabinet (AP)
• Brown says UK troops stay in Afghanistan for now (AP)
• UN peacekeeping chief in Darfur says war over (AP)
• Canada appealing controversial refugee case (AP)
• Afghanistan: Will the U.S. Settle for Karzai? (Time.com)
• Study: New treatment may combat drug-resistant flu (AP)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,339 (AP)
• Jimena weakens as it plows into Mexico, killing 1 (AP)
• Unrest as dictator's son declared winner in Gabon (AP)
• Clinton outraged by guards' sexual misconduct (AP)
• "Toronto 18" man gets 14 years for planned attacks (Reuters)
• Australia open to military exercises with China: PM (AFP)
• Military leaders: U.S. effort in Afghanistan just beginning (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Berlusconi's woes deepen with Vatican rift (The Christian Science Monitor)
• U.S. Conservatives Attack UNESCO's Sex-Ed Guidelines (Time.com)

North Korea says uranium enrichment in final stage (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2009 06:07 PM PDT AP - North Korea said Friday that it is in the final stages of enriching uranium, a process that could give the nation a second way to make nuclear bombs in addition to its known plutonium-based program.

Iran assembly approves most of hard-line Cabinet (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2009 05:19 PM PDT AP - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received a broad mandate Thursday as parliament backed his main Cabinet choices — naming the first woman minister since the 1979 Islamic Revolution but showing international defiance by supporting a suspected mastermind in the bombing of an Argentine Jewish center that killed 85 people.

Brown says UK troops stay in Afghanistan for now (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2009 04:02 PM PDT AP - Britain's military will stay in Afghanistan until it can look after its own security, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday, dismissing a call from one of his government's defense aides to begin planning a pullout from the country.

UN peacekeeping chief in Darfur says war over (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2009 03:09 PM PDT AP - The outgoing U.N. peacekeeping chief in Sudan's Darfur region said the world should no longer consider the long-running conflict a war after a sharp decline in violence and deaths over the past year.

Canada appealing controversial refugee case (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2009 04:21 PM PDT AP - Canada's federal government said Thursday it would challenge a contentious Canadian immigration board panel ruling that granted refugee status to a white man from South Africa who claimed persecution from blacks in his home country.

Afghanistan: Will the U.S. Settle for Karzai? (Time.com) Posted: 03 Sep 2009 03:05 PM PDT Time.com - The previous Administration had a love-affair with the Afghan President. But Obama sees Hamid Karzai as the equivalent of damaged goods

Study: New treatment may combat drug-resistant flu (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2009 04:01 PM PDT AP - A new and unlicensed treatment for swine flu could be used in patients who have Tamiflu-resistant viruses, doctors say.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,339 (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2009 05:39 PM PDT AP - As of Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009, at least 4,339 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Jimena weakens as it plows into Mexico, killing 1 (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2009 05:46 PM PDT AP - Hurricane Jimena unleashed flooding that killed at least one man and cut off hundreds of people in remote fishing villages on Mexico's Baja California peninsula before mellowing into a drifting tropical storm Thursday.

Unrest as dictator's son declared winner in Gabon (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2009 03:42 PM PDT AP - Gabon's government declared late dictator Omar Bongo's son the winner of presidential elections Thursday, triggering the worst violence in years in the oil-rich nation.

Clinton outraged by guards' sexual misconduct (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2009 05:58 PM PDT AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is "genuinely offended" by reports of misconduct by private guards working for the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan, a State Department spokesman said Thursday.

"Toronto 18" man gets 14 years for planned attacks (Reuters) Posted: 03 Sep 2009 02:18 PM PDT Reuters - A Canadian man who pleaded guilty to plotting to bomb major landmarks in Toronto was sentenced to 14 years in jail on Thursday, Canada's Public Prosecution Service said in a statement.

Australia open to military exercises with China: PM (AFP) Posted: 03 Sep 2009 09:09 AM PDT AFP - Australia said Thursday it was open to holding joint military exercises with China and the United States, amid growing concern about Beijing's military build-up.

Military leaders: U.S. effort in Afghanistan just beginning (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 03 Sep 2009 04:54 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Top Pentagon leaders Thursday insisted that despite an expected request for more American troops in Afghanistan, the U.S. isn't engaged in nation building there and that although violence is increasing, the military effort there is "only now beginning."

Berlusconi's woes deepen with Vatican rift (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 02:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is facing a major rift with the Vatican that could put his own government at risk in this predominantly Roman Catholic country.

U.S. Conservatives Attack UNESCO's Sex-Ed Guidelines (Time.com) Posted: 03 Sep 2009 03:05 PM PDT Time.com - UNESCO wants kids to learn the basics of sex ed at a younger age. But what the organization sees as a way to slow the spread of HIV and the rate of unwanted pregnancies, U.S. conservatives are attacking as a plot to promote masturbation and abortion

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