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• Supplies reach Chilean miners; now, the long wait (AP)
• Mayhem in Manila: 9 killed on hijacked tourist bus (AP)
• Spanish hostages freed by al-Qaida-linked group (AP)
• Boats rescue 6 from plane that crashed off Bahamas (AP)
• UN to monitor free school meals in DomRep (AP)
• Interview: Pakistani President Zardari on Flood Recovery (Time.com)
• Tevez at the double as Manchester City beat Liverpool (AFP)
• Mideast passions quiet over NY mosque showdown (AP)
• Mexico police recover 7 bodies from mines (AP)
• Some 200 women gang-raped near Congo UN base (AP)
• Pakistani president defends gov't flood response (AP)
• Potash Corp puts pressure on BHP to raise bid (Reuters)
• Australia's Labor and conservatives jockey for government (Reuters)
• State Department details Blackwater violations of U.S. laws (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Iraq border concerns spur effort to integrate Kurdish and Iraqi Army forces (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Tiger Woods Video Propels Taiwan's Next Media Animation (Time.com)
• Jewish Leaders Join Support for Ground Zero Mosque (OneWorld.net)

Supplies reach Chilean miners; now, the long wait (AP) Posted: 23 Aug 2010 05:04 PM PDT AP - Trapped nearly half a mile inside the earth and facing perhaps four months before rescue, 33 Chilean miners began getting food, water and oxygen from above ground Monday as rescue teams worked to gauge their state of mind and brace them for the long wait ahead.

Mayhem in Manila: 9 killed on hijacked tourist bus (AP) Posted: 23 Aug 2010 05:42 PM PDT AP - It looked like a hostage rescue in slow motion: Police creeping up on the bus with sledgehammers and smashing first one window, then another, then trying and failing to rip open the door.

Spanish hostages freed by al-Qaida-linked group (AP) Posted: 23 Aug 2010 03:00 PM PDT AP - Two Spanish aid workers kidnapped almost nine months ago by an al-Qaida affiliate were freed Monday in Mali after a multi-million-dollar ransom was reportedly paid — a sign of the terrorist group's growing sophistication in bankrolling operations through kidnappings, experts said Monday.

Boats rescue 6 from plane that crashed off Bahamas (AP) Posted: 23 Aug 2010 02:59 PM PDT AP - Rescuers in boats saved six people, including two children and a pregnant woman, who were found clinging to the wreckage of a small plane that crash landed Monday in waters off the Bahamas.

UN to monitor free school meals in DomRep (AP) Posted: 23 Aug 2010 02:39 PM PDT AP - International health officials on Monday began monitoring free school breakfasts given to poor students in Dominican public schools after dozens of youngsters fell ill for unknown reasons.

Interview: Pakistani President Zardari on Flood Recovery (Time.com) Posted: 23 Aug 2010 03:55 PM PDT Time.com - In a rambling interview, veering from optimism to fatalism, President Zardari of Pakistan talks about the immense challenges of rising from the floods that have inundated his country

Tevez at the double as Manchester City beat Liverpool (AFP) Posted: 23 Aug 2010 03:00 PM PDT AFP - Carlos Tevez scored twice as Manchester City overpowered Liverpool 3-0 at Eastlands here on Monday.

Mideast passions quiet over NY mosque showdown (AP) Posted: 23 Aug 2010 02:48 PM PDT AP - On the streets of lower Manhattan, there's no mistaking how the passions flow: One side saying its their patriotic duty to block a planned Islamic center and the other insisting America cannot curtail freedoms as revenge for the Sept. 11 attacks.

Mexico police recover 7 bodies from mines (AP) Posted: 23 Aug 2010 03:44 PM PDT AP - Police have recovered seven bodies from two mines in central Mexico that authorities say were being used as a clandestine graveyard by drug gangs.

Some 200 women gang-raped near Congo UN base (AP) Posted: 23 Aug 2010 02:17 PM PDT AP - Rwandan and Congolese rebels gang-raped nearly 200 women and some baby boys over four days within miles of a U.N. peacekeepers' base in an eastern Congo mining district, an American aid worker and a Congolese doctor said Monday.

Pakistani president defends gov't flood response (AP) Posted: 23 Aug 2010 05:35 PM PDT AP - Pakistan's president defended the government's much-criticized response to the country's record-breaking flood crisis as emergency workers worked frantically to shore up a system of levees protecting two southern cities.

Potash Corp puts pressure on BHP to raise bid (Reuters) Posted: 23 Aug 2010 03:09 PM PDT Reuters - Potash Corp said on Monday it has held talks with other possible suitors as it ratcheted up pressure on BHP Billiton to raise its $39 billion offer for the world's largest fertilizer producer.

Australia's Labor and conservatives jockey for government (Reuters) Posted: 23 Aug 2010 04:45 PM PDT Reuters - Australia faces a week of political wrangling as votes were counted on Monday from an inconclusive election, with financial markets rowing back on early expectations of a minority conservative government.

State Department details Blackwater violations of U.S. laws (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 23 Aug 2010 04:01 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The company formerly known as Blackwater violated U.S. export control laws nearly 300 times, ranging from attempts to do business in Sudan while that country was under U.S. sanctions to training an Afghan border patrol official who was a native of Iran, the State Department said Monday.

Iraq border concerns spur effort to integrate Kurdish and Iraqi Army forces (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 23 Aug 2010 11:44 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - In this disputed city, Kurdish forces are being trained by Iraqi Army instructors in what officials call a breakthrough aimed at easing tensions between the two sides and securing Iraq’s vulnerable border with Iran.

Tiger Woods Video Propels Taiwan's Next Media Animation (Time.com) Posted: 23 Aug 2010 03:55 PM PDT Time.com - Next Media Animation, which produced the Tiger Woods video, churns out more than 30 computer-animated dramatizations of news events every day from its newsroom in Taiwan. How it could change the media landscape

Jewish Leaders Join Support for Ground Zero Mosque (OneWorld.net) Posted: 23 Aug 2010 05:05 AM PDT OneWorld.net - LOS ANGELES, Aug 22 (New America Media) - Religious leaders from a variety of faiths gathered Friday at the Islamic Center of Southern California in Los Angeles to express support for the building of an Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan, two blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center.

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