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• UN says 800,000 cut off by Pakistan floods (AP)
• China's massive traffic jam could last for weeks (AP)
• Experts spot smallest planet outside solar system (AP)
• Jet misses runway and crashes in China, killing 43 (AP)
• Argentine president moves to control newsprint (AP)
• Are the French Taking Secularism Too Far? (Time.com)
• French synagogue receives death threats (AFP)
• Hezbollah, Sunni group clash in Beirut, killing 3 (AP)
• Parents demand justice for Finn killed in Mexico (AP)
• U.N.'s Ban sends top aide to Congo after mass rape (Reuters)
• China plane crashes after overshooting runway (Reuters)
• BHP profit jump could dampen rivals in Potash bid (Reuters)
• Australia's "kingmakers" meet to discuss next govt (Reuters)
• Task force: Military suicide prevention efforts inadequate (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Jimmy Carter's North Korea visit: Can he repeat Bill Clinton's success? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• The Chilean Miners: How They Survived the First 17 Days (Time.com)
• Explorer-Journalist Franz Schurmann Dies (OneWorld.net)

UN says 800,000 cut off by Pakistan floods (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:36 PM PDT AP - Floods have isolated about 800,000 people in Pakistan who are now only reachable by air and aid workers need at least 40 more helicopters to ferry lifesaving aid to the increasingly desperate people, the United Nations said.

China's massive traffic jam could last for weeks (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:37 PM PDT AP - China has just been declared the world's second biggest economy, and now it has a monster traffic jam to match.

Experts spot smallest planet outside solar system (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:37 PM PDT AP - Scientists say they've identified a sun-like star with as many as seven different planets — including one that might be the smallest ever found outside the solar system.

Jet misses runway and crashes in China, killing 43 (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:36 PM PDT AP - A Chinese passenger jet broke apart as it approached a fog-shrouded runway in the country's northeast and burst into flames as it hit the ground Tuesday, killing 43 people and injuring 53 others, state media said.

Argentine president moves to control newsprint (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:38 PM PDT AP - Argentina's president moved Tuesday to take over the nation's only newsprint maker, saying two leading newspapers illegally conspired with dictators to control the company three decades ago and then used it to drive competing media out of business.

Are the French Taking Secularism Too Far? (Time.com) Posted: 24 Aug 2010 03:30 PM PDT Time.com - France's secularists are passionate about the separation of church and state -- but is their defense of laÏcitÉ turning into a state-sanctioned form of anti-Islam?

French synagogue receives death threats (AFP) Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:37 PM PDT AFP - A letter containing bullets and death threats to Jews was sent to a synagogue in a northern Paris suburb, where an infamous transit camp for Jews was set up during World War II, sources said.

Hezbollah, Sunni group clash in Beirut, killing 3 (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2010 03:11 PM PDT AP - Lebanese Shiite and Sunni groups fought street battles using machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades for more than four hours Tuesday, killing three people and wounding several others just blocks from a busy downtown packed with summer tourists.

Parents demand justice for Finn killed in Mexico (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2010 04:32 PM PDT AP - The parents of a Finnish activist killed when a humanitarian caravan was ambushed in a remote Indian region of Mexico pleaded on Tuesday for justice in the case.

U.N.'s Ban sends top aide to Congo after mass rape (Reuters) Posted: 24 Aug 2010 02:02 PM PDT Reuters - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent a top official to Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday after a mass rape of women by rebels in the east that U.N. peacekeepers say they only heard about over a week later.

China plane crashes after overshooting runway (Reuters) Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:42 PM PDT Reuters - A passenger plane overshot a runway on landing at a new airport in northeast China late on Tuesday, bursting into flames and killing 43 people in the nation's worst air disaster in years.

BHP profit jump could dampen rivals in Potash bid (Reuters) Posted: 24 Aug 2010 02:48 PM PDT Reuters - BHP Billiton's monster earnings expected this week could strengthen its hand in its $39 billion bid for fertilizer group Potash Corp and intimidate any rival bidders.

Australia's "kingmakers" meet to discuss next govt (Reuters) Posted: 24 Aug 2010 02:55 AM PDT Reuters - Three independent MPs who will decide the shape of Australia's minority government met on Tuesday to forge a united front, but ruled out any quick fix to a political impasse that has unsettled financial markets.

Task force: Military suicide prevention efforts inadequate (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 24 Aug 2010 03:08 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A Defense Department task force devoted to preventing suicide in the military presented a grim picture of the trend Tuesday, with suicides rising at a near steady pace even as commanders apply various balms to soothe a stressed, exhausted fighting force.

Jimmy Carter's North Korea visit: Can he repeat Bill Clinton's success? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 24 Aug 2010 10:20 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly poised to fly to North Korea on a rescue mission this week that carries what analysts see as tremendous diplomatic significance amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula.

The Chilean Miners: How They Survived the First 17 Days (Time.com) Posted: 24 Aug 2010 03:30 PM PDT Time.com - Though the size of the shelter may have given the men a leg up, stretching emergency supplies that were intended to last just 48 to 96 hours is a feat credited entirely to the resourcefulness of the miners

Explorer-Journalist Franz Schurmann Dies (OneWorld.net) Posted: 24 Aug 2010 02:58 AM PDT OneWorld.net - SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 23 (New America Media) - Franz Schurmann, the foremost scholar of communist China during the Cold War, an early opponent of the U.S. war in Indochina, and the co-founder of Pacific News Service, died at his home in San Francisco on Aug. 20. The cause was advanced Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. He was 84.

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