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• NKorean leader's trip spurs succession speculation (AP)
• Cuba embraces 2 surprising free-market reforms (AP)
• PR police arrest runaway Russian in homicide case (AP)
• Chilean family survives quake, faces mine collapse (AP)
• Sudan leader defies arrest warrant, visits Kenya (AP)
• Lebanon's Hizballah Museum: A Theme Park for Martyrdom (Time.com)
• UN panel tells France to avoid mass Roma deportations (AFP)
• Moderate quake hits remote area in northeast Iran (AP)
• Kenya gets new American-style constitution (AP)
• Carter brings American home from North Korea (AFP)
• Ford recalls 575,000 Windstar vans in U.S., Canada (Reuters)
• Canadian teacher arrested in Facebook child porn case (AFP)
• What's behind Mexican migrant killings still unclear (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Iraq road map: the new US ambassador explains hurdles (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Secrets and Lies: Kim Jong Il's Shadowy Visit to China (Time.com)
• How U.S. Fears Over Flood Play Into Pakistan Army's Hands (OneWorld.net)

NKorean leader's trip spurs succession speculation (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2010 12:20 PM PDT AP - North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il reportedly met top Chinese leaders on Friday in an apparent bid for Beijing's diplomatic and financial support for a succession plan involving his third and youngest son, who is said to be traveling with him.

Cuba embraces 2 surprising free-market reforms (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2010 04:18 PM PDT AP - Cuba has issued a pair of surprising free-market decrees, allowing foreign investors to lease government land for up to 99 years — potentially touching off a golf-course building boom — and loosening state controls on commerce to let islanders grow and sell their own fruit and vegetables.

PR police arrest runaway Russian in homicide case (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2010 03:37 PM PDT AP - A Russian man who walked out of a Puerto Rico courtroom before a judge could consider a negligent homicide charge against him has been detained at the airport.

Chilean family survives quake, faces mine collapse (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2010 11:27 AM PDT AP - Carola Narvaez breathed in the Atacama Desert's cold dawn air and slowly began to exhale the story of how her family survived a devastating earthquake and worked to rebuild their lives — only for her husband to end up trapped deep inside a Chilean mine.

Sudan leader defies arrest warrant, visits Kenya (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2010 02:26 PM PDT AP - Sudan's president defied an international arrest warrant by visiting Kenya on Friday, causing an outcry from the International Criminal Court which fruitlessly pressured authorities here into arresting the man accused of masterminding the genocide in Darfur.

Lebanon's Hizballah Museum: A Theme Park for Martyrdom (Time.com) Posted: 27 Aug 2010 02:30 PM PDT Time.com - The Shi'ite political party and guerrilla movement has built a $20 million wonderland to commemorate its battles and ambitions.

UN panel tells France to avoid mass Roma deportations (AFP) Posted: 27 Aug 2010 01:13 PM PDT AFP - The UN anti-racism panel on Friday called on France to avoid the collective expulsion of Roma Gypsies, but Paris dismissed its concerns and insisted its policy of repatriation was legal.

Moderate quake hits remote area in northeast Iran (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2010 01:58 PM PDT AP - Iranian state TV says a magnitude 5.9 earthquake shook a remote area in northeastern Iran.

Kenya gets new American-style constitution (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2010 02:21 PM PDT AP - Kenya's president signed a new constitution into law Friday that institutes a U.S.-style system of checks and balances and has been hailed as the most significant political event since Kenya's independence nearly a half century ago.

Carter brings American home from North Korea (AFP) Posted: 27 Aug 2010 04:18 PM PDT AFP - Former US president Jimmy Carter returned Friday to a hero's welcome as he brought home safely an American national sentenced to eight years hard labor in North Korea.

Ford recalls 575,000 Windstar vans in U.S., Canada (Reuters) Posted: 27 Aug 2010 12:31 PM PDT Reuters - Ford Motor Co> is recalling about 575,000 Windstar vans in 21 cold-weather U.S. states and Canada from model years 1998 to 2003 because of the possibility that the rear axle may fracture due to corrosion, federal regulators reported on Friday.

Canadian teacher arrested in Facebook child porn case (AFP) Posted: 27 Aug 2010 02:59 PM PDT AFP - One of two Canadians arrested after police in Australia cracked an alleged pedophile porn ring operating on Facebook was a teacher at a prestigious school in Vancouver, police said Friday.

What's behind Mexican migrant killings still unclear (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 27 Aug 2010 03:40 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - MEXICO CITY — President Felipe Calderon on Friday accused the gunmen who killed 72 illegal migrants in northern Mexico this week of "incalculable savagery" as his government attempted to depict the major drug gang implicated in the slaughter as weakened and desperate.

Iraq road map: the new US ambassador explains hurdles (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 27 Aug 2010 11:46 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Despite progress, Iraq still faces extraordinary problems with continued risks to US strategic interests as the county grapples with forming a new government, the new US ambassador said in his first public remarks since arriving here.

Secrets and Lies: Kim Jong Il's Shadowy Visit to China (Time.com) Posted: 27 Aug 2010 02:30 PM PDT Time.com - The international man of mystery boarded the midnight train from Pyongyang, headed (for reasons known only to him and his unforthcoming hosts) to China

How U.S. Fears Over Flood Play Into Pakistan Army's Hands (OneWorld.net) Posted: 27 Aug 2010 03:09 PM PDT OneWorld.net - SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 27 (New America Media) - Nothing sums up the plight of Pakistan like what happenedâ€"or did not happenâ€"at the Shahbaz military base in Jacobabad.

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