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• Aide: Karzai 'very angry' at Taliban boss' arrest (AP)
• Investigators seek motive in 3 slayings in Mexico (AP)
• Irish Catholic leader won't quit for abuse coverup (AP)
• German diocese suspends convicted sex abuser (AP)
• Iran bans leading pro-reform political party (AP)
• Pope's role in a German priest's sex-abuse scandal (Time.com)
• Swiss designer creates dinosaur dung watch (AP)
• US wants Israel to cancel Jerusalem building plan (AP)
• Chavez defends ETA suspects wanted in Spain (AP)
• Blasts rock Nigerian 'oil war' amnesty ceremony (AFP)
• Corrected: Lawmakers press for action on China currency (Reuters)
• Canada home resales cool for 2nd straight month (Reuters)
• Australian says Aborigine recognition is tokenism (AP)
• Netanyahu affirms settlement project that U.S. considers 'affront' (McClatchy Newspapers)
• In Egypt, rumors of President Hosni Mubarak demise fuel uncertainty. Who will lead next? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Polish Journalist Kapuscinski Mixed Fact with Fiction (Time.com)
• An Unlikely Mideast Collision Takes Place (OneWorld.net)

Aide: Karzai 'very angry' at Taliban boss' arrest (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2010 06:25 PM PDT AP - The Afghan government was holding secret talks with the Taliban's No. 2 when he was captured in Pakistan, and the arrest infuriated President Hamid Karzai, according to one of Karzai's advisers.

Investigators seek motive in 3 slayings in Mexico (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2010 06:25 PM PDT AP - The two families climbed into white SUVs and almost simultaneously left the children's birthday party put on by the U.S. consulate. One headed deeper into one of the world's most dangerous cities, the other toward a bridge to El Paso, one of America's safest.

Irish Catholic leader won't quit for abuse coverup (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2010 02:42 PM PDT AP - Ireland's senior Roman Catholic, Cardinal Sean Brady, said Monday he would not resign despite admitting he helped the church collect evidence against a child-molesting priest — and never told police about the crimes.

German diocese suspends convicted sex abuser (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2010 01:54 PM PDT AP - A German archdiocese that Pope Benedict XVI oversaw from 1977 to 1982 said Monday that a priest convicted in 1986 of sexually abusing children has been suspended for violating a condition that he have no contact with minors.

Iran bans leading pro-reform political party (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2010 12:30 PM PDT AP - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's hard-line government said Monday it has banned Iran's largest pro-reform political party in a new strike against an opposition movement that has largely been swept from the streets since last year's postelection turmoil.

Pope's role in a German priest's sex-abuse scandal (Time.com) Posted: 15 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PDT Time.com - German Catholics are stunned at the revelations in a decades-old case that occurred under the watch of the Archbishop of Munich -- now Pope Benedict XVI

Swiss designer creates dinosaur dung watch (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2010 06:09 PM PDT AP - A Swiss watchmaker is hoping to raise a stink with an expensive timepiece that eschews the trade's standard gold, diamond or titanium fittings for a more earthy substance — dinosaur dung. Vesenaz, Switzerland-based company Artya says the watch set in fossilized feces will sell for 12,000 ($11,290) and comes with a strap made with skin from an American cane toad.

US wants Israel to cancel Jerusalem building plan (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2010 04:05 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration is demanding that Israel call off a contentious building project in east Jerusalem and make a public gesture toward the Palestinians to help defuse one of the worst U.S.-Israeli feuds in memory, officials on both sides said Monday.

Chavez defends ETA suspects wanted in Spain (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2010 06:05 PM PDT AP - President Hugo Chavez on Monday defended a group of Basque separatists who arrived in Venezuela years ago, saying he is certain they aren't involved in terrorism.

Blasts rock Nigerian 'oil war' amnesty ceremony (AFP) Posted: 15 Mar 2010 01:07 PM PDT AFP - Two explosions on Monday rocked the Nigerian southern oil city of Warri during talks on an amnesty for former rebel fighters in an attack claimed by the main armed militant group, MEND.

Corrected: Lawmakers press for action on China currency (Reuters) Posted: 15 Mar 2010 06:45 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama faced growing congressional pressure on Monday to get tough with China over its currency practices, one day after Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao brushed off accusations that Beijing was undervaluing its currency for an unfair trade advantage.

Canada home resales cool for 2nd straight month (Reuters) Posted: 15 Mar 2010 12:20 PM PDT Reuters - Sales of existing homes in Canada dipped for a second straight month in February, but remained high on a year-over-year basis, as the market may be moving into more balanced conditions, data showed on Monday.

Australian says Aborigine recognition is tokenism (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2010 02:43 AM PDT AP - A government routine of acknowledging Australia's indigenous people was criticized as mere political correctness Monday by the federal opposition leader, offending some Aborigines and sparking a political debate.

Netanyahu affirms settlement project that U.S. considers 'affront' (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 15 Mar 2010 04:17 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - RAMAT SHLOMO, Israel — From the window of her home in East Jerusalem, Chana-Rivka Leviv can see the valley where the Israeli government says it will soon begin to build 1,600 new apartment units — one of which is destined for her family.

In Egypt, rumors of President Hosni Mubarak demise fuel uncertainty. Who will lead next? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 15 Mar 2010 02:00 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - More than a week after Egypt’s 81-year-old President Hosni Mubarak underwent surgery in Germany, the Arab world’s most populous country is churning again with speculation over his condition.

Polish Journalist Kapuscinski Mixed Fact with Fiction (Time.com) Posted: 15 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PDT Time.com - A new biography of Ryszard Kapuscinski has caused a firestorm in theacclaimed journalist's native Poland with claims that he injected hisreporting with healthy doses of fiction

An Unlikely Mideast Collision Takes Place (OneWorld.net) Posted: 15 Mar 2010 12:20 PM PDT OneWorld.net - JERUSALEM, Mar 15 (IPS) - In the middle of last week, it seemed that the old cliche about the light at the end of the dark Middle East tunnel was being confirmed: the U.S. had successfully cajoled both Israel and the Palestinian Authority into beginning to talk again.

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