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• Haiti faces a question: Who is Wyclef Jean? (AP)
• 1997 South Africa dinner raises diamond questions (AP)
• Crises test leadership of US-allied Pakistan (AP)
• Fires lay ghostly shroud of smoke on Moscow (AP)
• American mom charged with murdering 3 children (AP)
• Rockets Fired from Sinai to Israel, Jordan: By Hamas or Bedouin? (Time.com)
• France names envoy to relaunch Syria-Israel talks (Reuters)
• Sudan denies aid agencies access to Darfur camp (AP)
• Fidel Castro to attend session of Cuba parliament (AP)
• Sudan denies aid to camp devastated by fighting: U.N. (Reuters)
• Kazakh bribe case fizzles; man pleads to tax count (AP)
• Canada economy sees first jobs loss of 2010 (Reuters)
• Poll shows Australian government heading for poll defeat (Reuters)
• Hiroshima memorial visit: unspoken apology or commitment to disarmament? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Afghanistan War: Petraeus Tightens Rules of Engagement (Time.com)
• In Colombia, A Cemetery Full of Questions (OneWorld.net)

Haiti faces a question: Who is Wyclef Jean? (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 04:07 PM PDT AP - Street star. Scandal-plagued aid director. Ex-Fugees hip hop frontman. The moment he filed his candidacy, Wyclef Jean became the most famous — and thus potentially most powerful — candidate in Haiti's critical post-earthquake presidential election.

1997 South Africa dinner raises diamond questions (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 03:32 PM PDT AP - The party to raise money for Nelson Mandela's children's charity started with an odd guest list: Dining among the celebrities was Liberian warlord Charles Taylor, also known as the "Butcher of Monrovia."

Crises test leadership of US-allied Pakistan (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 01:21 PM PDT AP - Not for the first time, Pakistan appears to be teetering on the edge with a government unable to cope.

Fires lay ghostly shroud of smoke on Moscow (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 12:11 PM PDT AP - A miasma of smoke from wildfires cloaked the sweltering Russian capital on Friday, turning the city's spires into ominous blurs and grounding flights while glum pedestrians trudged the streets with faces hidden by surgical masks and water-soaked bandanas.

American mom charged with murdering 3 children (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 02:47 PM PDT AP - Scottish police on Friday charged the American mother of three children who were found dead in an Edinburgh town house with their murder.

Rockets Fired from Sinai to Israel, Jordan: By Hamas or Bedouin? (Time.com) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 04:35 PM PDT Time.com - After cities in Israel and Jordan suffered attacks, suspicion fell on Egypt's Sinai as a launchpad. But who launched the rockets?

France names envoy to relaunch Syria-Israel talks (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:14 PM PDT Reuters - President Nicolas Sarkozy has named a former French ambassador to the Middle East as a mediator between Israel and Syria in an effort to kick-start stalled peace talks, the French foreign ministry said on Friday.

Sudan denies aid agencies access to Darfur camp (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 02:44 PM PDT AP - Sudanese authorities have denied the U.N.'s humanitarian arm access to a Darfur refugee camp after an outbreak of violence, a U.N. spokesman said Friday.

Fidel Castro to attend session of Cuba parliament (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:20 PM PDT AP - Cuban state television is reporting that Fidel Castro will attend a special session of parliament, his first appearance in front of lawmakers in four years.

Sudan denies aid to camp devastated by fighting: U.N. (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 12:15 PM PDT Reuters - Sudan has denied aid agencies access to Darfur's Kalma camp after five people were killed there and thousands fled when divisions over peace talks turned violent, humanitarian officials said on Friday.

Kazakh bribe case fizzles; man pleads to tax count (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:21 PM PDT AP - A businessman once accused of paying tens of millions of dollars in bribes to officials in Kazakhstan pleaded guilty Friday to a misdemeanor tax count.

Canada economy sees first jobs loss of 2010 (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 04:11 AM PDT Reuters - Canada's economy unexpectedly shed 9,300 jobs in July, the first month it failed to create any this year, suggesting the country's recovery from the recession is starting to cool.

Poll shows Australian government heading for poll defeat (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 04:16 PM PDT Reuters - A leading opinion poll shows Australia's Labor government heading for an election defeat in two weeks time, according to results published on Saturday.

Hiroshima memorial visit: unspoken apology or commitment to disarmament? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 01:07 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - For the first time since the A-bomb was dropped on Japan, ending World War II and killing more than 100,000 people, the United States sent a representative to the annual memorial at Hiroshima.

Afghanistan War: Petraeus Tightens Rules of Engagement (Time.com) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 04:35 PM PDT Time.com - The rank and file grumbled at McChrystal's directives to avoid civilian casualties. Now his successor has decided to tighten them even further

In Colombia, A Cemetery Full of Questions (OneWorld.net) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 07:12 AM PDT OneWorld.net - LA MACARENA, Aug 6 (IPS) - The most determined attempt by the far-right paramilitaries to establish a presence in this town in central Colombia ended in failure.

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