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• DEA agents among 14 Americans dead in Afghanistan (AP)
• Iraq steps up security after blasts kill 155 (AP)
• Iran hints it could ship some uranium abroad (AP)
• Karadzic boycotts opening of his war crimes trial (AP)
• 11 Iranians arrested in Pakistan as tensions rise (AP)
• Bartering: Have Hotel, Need Haircut (Time.com)
• Norwegian accused of skin-crawling snake smuggling (AP)
• Amnesty: Israel withholds water from Palestinians (AP)
• Mexico's America Movil 3Q profits up 50.6 percent (AP)
• Gadhafi says sorry for UK policewoman's death (AP)
• Gurkhas in fresh court battle over British army pensions (AFP)
• Bank of Canada says must let banks go bankrupt (Reuters)
• Four tried over Australian army suicide plot (AFP)
• Large trucks used in Iraq bombings that killed 155 (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Karadzic boycotts own trial (The Christian Science Monitor)

DEA agents among 14 Americans dead in Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2009 05:08 PM PDT AP - A U.S. military helicopter crashed Monday while returning from the scene of a firefight with suspected Taliban drug traffickers in western Afghanistan, killing 10 Americans including three DEA agents in a not-so-noticed war within a war.

Iraq steps up security after blasts kill 155 (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2009 05:08 PM PDT AP - Iraq's government made progress on a new election law that could ease tensions and pledged tighter security Monday after suicide bombings claimed at least 155 lives, including as many as two dozen children trapped in a bus leaving a day care center.

Iran hints it could ship some uranium abroad (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2009 05:08 PM PDT AP - Iran hinted Monday it could agree to ship some low-enriched uranium abroad for processing as reactor fuel as the world awaited its reply on a U.N.-drafted nuclear plan aimed at easing tensions with the West.

Karadzic boycotts opening of his war crimes trial (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2009 11:49 AM PDT AP - His chair was empty, his headphones lay idle on the desk. In Courtroom One at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, outraged survivors of Bosnia's bloody war gasped in disbelief Monday as judges adjourned the opening day of Radovan Karadzic's trial after just 15 minutes.

11 Iranians arrested in Pakistan as tensions rise (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2009 12:01 PM PDT AP - Pakistan arrested 11 Iranians Monday near the countries' border amid tensions over a deadly suicide attack in Iran that Tehran alleges has links to Pakistani intelligence officials.

Bartering: Have Hotel, Need Haircut (Time.com) Posted: 26 Oct 2009 06:50 AM PDT Time.com - First Amex and Visa, Now Here's Bartercard

Norwegian accused of skin-crawling snake smuggling (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2009 06:24 PM PDT AP - A man has been arrested in Norway trying to smuggle two dozen snakes and geckos into the country by hiding them under his clothes. Customs agent Helge Breilid said Monday the 22-year-old Norwegian citizen was apprehended in the southern town of Kristiansand after getting off a ferry from Hirtshals, Denmark. He said the man had 14 royal pythons and 10 albino leopard geckos under his clothes.

Amnesty: Israel withholds water from Palestinians (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2009 04:01 PM PDT AP - Amnesty International is accusing Israel of pumping disproportionate amounts of drinking water from an aquifer it controls in the West Bank, depriving local Palestinians of their fair share.

Mexico's America Movil 3Q profits up 50.6 percent (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2009 05:31 PM PDT AP - America Movil SA, Latin America's largest phone service provider, reported a 50.6 percent increase in third quarter profits Monday, citing "incipient economic recovery" in several South American countries.

Gadhafi says sorry for UK policewoman's death (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2009 03:10 PM PDT AP - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has said he is sorry about the death of a British policewoman shot outside Tripoli's embassy in London 25 years ago, but does not know the identity of her killer.

Gurkhas in fresh court battle over British army pensions (AFP) Posted: 26 Oct 2009 05:56 PM PDT AFP - Veteran Gurkha soldiers from Nepal are launching another court battle against the British government Tuesday -- this time over pension rights.

Bank of Canada says must let banks go bankrupt (Reuters) Posted: 26 Oct 2009 05:20 PM PDT Reuters - The international financial system must be changed so that banks can go belly up without bringing the whole economy down, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said on Monday.

Four tried over Australian army suicide plot (AFP) Posted: 26 Oct 2009 03:20 AM PDT AFP - A man accused of plotting to kill Australian soldiers in an armed assault on a Sydney barracks expressed delight at devastating bushfires which killed 173 people here, a court heard Monday.

Large trucks used in Iraq bombings that killed 155 (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 26 Oct 2009 12:47 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD -- Iraqi authorities said Monday that suicide bombers had used two large trucks -- a water tanker and a refrigerated food truck -- in attacks Sunday that killed at least 155 people and wounded nearly 600, the deadliest bombings since 2007.

Karadzic boycotts own trial (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 26 Oct 2009 02:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - With Bosnian mothers from Srebrenica shouting from the steps outside, the opening day of Radovan Karadzic's much anticipated war crimes trial lasted just 25 minutes. The Bosnian Serb leader accused of genocide and war crimes did not appear, as he earlier warned, saying he needed more time to prepare. He was apprehended 15 months ago, on a Belgrade bus in July 2008, posing as a bearded new age healer named Dragan Dabic.

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