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• No end for Greek fuel protest, tourism slammed (AP)
• July the deadliest month of Afghan war for US (AP)
• Troops kill senior 'capo' of mighty Mexico cartel (AP)
• Floods ravage NW Pakistan, kill 430 people (AP)
• Saudi, Syrian leaders make rare visit to Lebanon (AP)
• Will Britain Give Up its Nuclear Submarines? (Time.com)
• IMF warns France on deficit (AFP)
• Roadside bomb in Iraq kills 5 members of family (AP)
• Argentine couples wed under new gay marriage law (AP)
• Thousands flee Congo clashes, security worsens (Reuters)
• Five Taliban taken off UN sanctions list: Austria (AFP)
• Economic growth ticks higher in May (Reuters)
• Former Australian PM Rudd hospitalised (AFP)
• Pentagon rethinking who can access secret information (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Black Eyed Peas join Mexico in protesting Arizona immigration law SB1070 [video] (The Christian Science Monitor)
• French Baby Killings: Was it Mental Illness or Murder? (Time.com)
• Kenya Divided by the Colours of a New Constitution (OneWorld.net)

No end for Greek fuel protest, tourism slammed (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 08:53 AM PDT AP - Defying an emergency government order, Greek truck drivers vowed Friday to press ahead with a strike that has halted fuel supplies across the country and is hurting tourism during the peak summer season.

July the deadliest month of Afghan war for US (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 09:56 AM PDT AP - NATO announced Friday that six more U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 66 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war.

Troops kill senior 'capo' of mighty Mexico cartel (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 09:43 AM PDT AP - Soldiers killed a top leader of the Sinaloa cartel in a raid on his posh hideout, dealing the biggest blow yet to Mexico's most powerful drug gang since President Felipe Calderon launched a military offensive against organized crime in 2006.

Floods ravage NW Pakistan, kill 430 people (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 09:20 AM PDT AP - Boats and helicopters struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by floods in northwest Pakistan on Friday as the government said 430 people had been killed in the deadliest such disaster to hit the region since 1929.

Saudi, Syrian leaders make rare visit to Lebanon (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 10:09 AM PDT AP - The leaders of Syria, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon have issued a joint statement pledging solidarity during a time of heightened tensions in Beirut.

Will Britain Give Up its Nuclear Submarines? (Time.com) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 09:10 AM PDT Time.com - With the Ministry of Defense facing budget cuts and the nation's nuclear-deterrent system seeming more and more like a relic of the Cold War, is it time for Britain to give up its Doomsday boats?

IMF warns France on deficit (AFP) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 10:04 AM PDT AFP - The IMF warned France on Friday that it would fail to meet its goal of reducing the public deficit to 3.0 percent of output in 2013 unless it made "further efforts" to curb spending.

Roadside bomb in Iraq kills 5 members of family (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 09:44 AM PDT AP - Iraqi police say a roadside bomb north of Baghdad has killed five members of a family, including a 4-year-old girl.

Argentine couples wed under new gay marriage law (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 07:41 AM PDT AP - An architect and a retired office worker are the first couple to wed under Argentina's historic law legalizing same-sex marriage.

Thousands flee Congo clashes, security worsens (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 10:13 AM PDT Reuters - Almost 90,000 people have fled fighting in eastern Congo in the past month, aid agencies said, underscoring a worsening security situation despite the official end of Congo's 1998-2003 war.

Five Taliban taken off UN sanctions list: Austria (AFP) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 10:10 AM PDT AFP - Five Taliban members, including a former Afghan ambassador to the United Nations, have been taken off a UN sanctions terrorism list, Austria's UN mission said Friday.

Economic growth ticks higher in May (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 07:58 AM PDT Reuters - Growth in Canada's economy edged up in May after stalling unexpectedly in April, helped by strength in the goods-producing sectors led by oil and gas extraction, while the service sector faltered for a second straight month.

Former Australian PM Rudd hospitalised (AFP) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 12:35 AM PDT AFP - Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd was Friday admitted to hospital for surgery to treat severe stomach pain -- one month after he was dramatically removed from office by his own party.

Pentagon rethinking who can access secret information (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 29 Jul 2010 06:11 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A low-ranking Army soldier suspected of leaking thousands of classified documents had access to the documents because U.S. officials have pressed to make sure secret information is available to combat units.

Black Eyed Peas join Mexico in protesting Arizona immigration law SB1070 [video] (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 29 Jul 2010 02:41 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Mexico staged a handful of protests today against the new immigration law in Arizona, where up to 530,000 undocumented workers live and 88.6 percent of the Hispanic population is Mexican.

French Baby Killings: Was it Mental Illness or Murder? (Time.com) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 09:10 AM PDT Time.com - Now that Dominique Cottrez has confessed to killing her eight newborn children, France waits to find out whether the awful act was driven by psychosis or premeditated murder

Kenya Divided by the Colours of a New Constitution (OneWorld.net) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 08:23 AM PDT OneWorld.net - NAIROBI, Jul 30 (IRIN) - Less than three years after a closely fought presidential election plunged Kenya into widespread violence and displaced thousands, the country is bracing itself for another crucial and equally divisive ballot, this time on a new constitution.

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