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• Joy in Chile: 33 miners trapped 17 days are alive (AP)
• Wyclef Jean: I'm not giving up my bid for prez yet (AP)
• Faulty alarms blamed for van Gogh theft in Egypt (AP)
• 4 US troops killed in eastern Afghanistan (AP)
• Brazil: Venture Capital's New Hot Spot (Time.com)
• Most prefer French left to Sarkozy for 2012: poll (Reuters)
• Iraq acknowledges Briton's killer escaped (AP)
• Mexican Catholics, gay rights protesters face off (AP)
• Kigali -- from sleepy backwater to Africa's Singapore (AFP)
• Next US target: The birthplace of the Taliban (AP)
• Australian dollar falls 0.44 percent after unclear polls (AFP)
• As floodwaters recede, anger grows in northwest Pakistan (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Israel's Netanyahu scores big victory with direct peace talks – for now (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Israeli-Palestinian Talks Face a Big "So What?" (Time.com)

Joy in Chile: 33 miners trapped 17 days are alive (AP) Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:23 PM PDT AP - Chile's president euphorically waved the note, written deep inside a collapsed mine, that his country waited 17 agonizing days to see: "All 33 of us are fine in the shelter," one of the trapped miners wrote in red letters.

Wyclef Jean: I'm not giving up my bid for prez yet (AP) Posted: 22 Aug 2010 03:27 PM PDT AP - Hip-hop singer Wyclef Jean said Sunday he is not abandoning his presidential bid just yet and will try to get the courts to overturn a decision disqualifying him from the race.

Faulty alarms blamed for van Gogh theft in Egypt (AP) Posted: 22 Aug 2010 03:02 PM PDT AP - None of the alarms and only seven out of 43 surveillance cameras were working at a Cairo museum where a Vincent van Gogh painting was stolen, Egypt's top prosecutor said Sunday.

4 US troops killed in eastern Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 22 Aug 2010 01:43 PM PDT AP - Four U.S. troops were killed in fighting in eastern and southern Afghanistan on Sunday, and a former guerrilla leader who battled Soviet invaders decades ago was killed by a roadside bomb in the country's north.

Brazil: Venture Capital's New Hot Spot (Time.com) Posted: 22 Aug 2010 11:25 AM PDT Time.com - Brazil: Venture Capital's New Hot Spot

Most prefer French left to Sarkozy for 2012: poll (Reuters) Posted: 22 Aug 2010 12:19 PM PDT Reuters - More than half of France's voters would prefer a candidate from the political left to conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy for the 2012 election, a survey said on Sunday.

Iraq acknowledges Briton's killer escaped (AP) Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:09 PM PDT AP - Iraq's deputy justice minister acknowledged Sunday that a man convicted of killing a British aid worker in 2004 escaped from prison 11 months ago and that the government only learned of the breakout last month.

Mexican Catholics, gay rights protesters face off (AP) Posted: 22 Aug 2010 04:51 PM PDT AP - Gay rights activists and a group of Roman Catholics in Mexico have yelled insults at each other during dueling demonstrations over same-sex marriage.

Kigali -- from sleepy backwater to Africa's Singapore (AFP) Posted: 22 Aug 2010 03:42 PM PDT AFP - Rwanda's capital is changing from a sleepy backwater where most things closed at 9:00 pm to a future Singapore with gleaming office blocks and all-night shopping.

Next US target: The birthplace of the Taliban (AP) Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:09 PM PDT AP - As Lt. Col. Peter N. Benchoff prepares for an assault next month into the birthplace of the Taliban, he doesn't sugarcoat the hurdles his troops face in this crucial swath of southern Afghanistan.

Australian dollar falls 0.44 percent after unclear polls (AFP) Posted: 22 Aug 2010 04:15 PM PDT AFP - The Australian dollar fell 0.44 percent in early trade on Monday on political uncertainty after weekend elections failed to produce a clear winner.

As floodwaters recede, anger grows in northwest Pakistan (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 22 Aug 2010 12:29 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - CHARSADDA, Pakistan — In the village of Drab Korona in northwest Pakistan, Sirajuddin returned to where his house had stood to salvage what he could. What he found was just a shallow muddy pool.

Israel's Netanyahu scores big victory with direct peace talks – for now (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 22 Aug 2010 09:52 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Savoring the diplomatic victory of renewed direct peace talks announced last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet today that a peace treaty with the Palestinians would be "a difficult thing, but it is possible."

Israeli-Palestinian Talks Face a Big "So What?" (Time.com) Posted: 22 Aug 2010 10:20 AM PDT Time.com - Wide, long and not very satisfying was the yawn that greeted news that Israel and the Palestinian Authority will resume direct peace talks in Washington next month.

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