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• UN inspectors visit once-secret Iranian site (AP)
• Ex-guerrilla, rival in Uruguay presidential runoff (AP)
• Bombings target government in Baghdad, 147 killed (AP)
• Violent clashes erupt at Jerusalem's holiest site (AP)
• Opposition activist killed in southern Russia (AP)
• Gaza's Perilous Coast Endangers Wildlife and People (Time.com)
• Italy opposition elects ex-minister as new leader (Reuters)
• Some of the deadliest attacks in Iraq (AP)
• Feds probe cause of PR fuel depot fire (AP)
• Libya's Gaddafi "sorry" for UK policewoman's death (Reuters)
• From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn (AP)
• Australia, China talks on detained Rio exec: Rudd (AFP)
• U.N. diplomats press Afghan commission for election changes (McClatchy Newspapers)
• NYT reporter David Rohde's kidnapping account: Lessons for Afghanistan policymakers? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Honduras' Tourism Minister: 'Don't Visit My Country!' (Time.com)

UN inspectors visit once-secret Iranian site (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2009 04:29 PM PDT AP - U.N. inspectors entered a once-secret uranium enrichment facility with bunker-like construction and heavy military protection that raised Western suspicions about the extent and intent of Iran's nuclear program.

Ex-guerrilla, rival in Uruguay presidential runoff (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2009 05:43 PM PDT AP - A blunt-talking former guerrilla seeking to maintain the left's hold on power in Uruguay easily got the most votes in presidential elections Sunday, but failed to win the majority needed to avoid a runoff.

Bombings target government in Baghdad, 147 killed (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2009 04:22 PM PDT AP - A pair of suicide car bombings Sunday devastated the heart of Iraq's capital, killing at least 147 people in the country's deadliest attack in more than two years. The bombs targeted two government buildings and called into question Iraq's ability to protect its people as U.S. forces withdraw.

Violent clashes erupt at Jerusalem's holiest site (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2009 04:24 PM PDT AP - Israeli police firing stun grenades faced off Sunday against masked Palestinian protesters hurling stones and plastic chairs outside the Holy Land's most volatile shrine, where past violence has escalated into prolonged conflict.

Opposition activist killed in southern Russia (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2009 12:25 PM PDT AP - A prominent opposition and rights activist in Russia's southern province of Ingushetia was shot dead Sunday in at least the third killing of a human rights defender in the volatile North Caucasus region in just over three months.

Gaza's Perilous Coast Endangers Wildlife and People (Time.com) Posted: 25 Oct 2009 09:30 AM PDT Time.com - Israel's limits on fishing off the Palestinian enclave have raised troubling concerns about ecology, pollution and nutrition

Italy opposition elects ex-minister as new leader (Reuters) Posted: 25 Oct 2009 06:09 PM PDT Reuters - Italy's opposition Democratic Party elected three-time former minister Pier Luigi Bersani as its new leader on Sunday, in a vote overshadowed by the resignation of a center-left regional governor amid a blackmail scandal.

Some of the deadliest attacks in Iraq (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2009 01:10 PM PDT AP - Some of the deadliest militant attacks in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003:

Feds probe cause of PR fuel depot fire (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2009 06:06 PM PDT AP - Federal investigators entered a smoldering fuel depot for the first time Sunday to investigate what may have caused an explosion that forced hundreds to evacuate and spewed thick, toxic smoke across the region.

Libya's Gaddafi "sorry" for UK policewoman's death (Reuters) Posted: 25 Oct 2009 05:17 PM PDT Reuters - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said "we are sorry" for the 1984 killing of a British policewoman outside the Libyan embassy in London which led Britain to suspend ties between the two countries for years.

From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2009 05:00 PM PDT AP - Standing on the shore under the relentless Central Asian sun, Badarkhan Prikeyev drew on a cigarette and squinted into the distance as one fishing boat after another returned with the day's catch.

Australia, China talks on detained Rio exec: Rudd (AFP) Posted: 24 Oct 2009 07:50 PM PDT AFP - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said he had raised the issue of detained mining executive Stern Hu during talks with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao because the case was a "matter of concern" to Australia.

U.N. diplomats press Afghan commission for election changes (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 25 Oct 2009 02:59 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan -- United Nations diplomats and the chairman of an Afghan election commission are sparring over efforts to curb fraud in the country's Nov. 7 presidential runoff election.

NYT reporter David Rohde's kidnapping account: Lessons for Afghanistan policymakers? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 23 Oct 2009 02:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - A New York Times series detailing reporter David Rohde's seven-month captivity with the Taliban does not hold many surprises for close followers of the movement. But it could impact the debate over the scope of the war in Afghanistan.

Honduras' Tourism Minister: 'Don't Visit My Country!' (Time.com) Posted: 25 Oct 2009 09:30 AM PDT Time.com - At a recent tourism convention in El Salvador, the exiled tourism chief provided graphic reasons for not spending your vacation in his country

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