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• Guatemala mudslides kill at least 38; 2 buses hit (AP)
• Congo: 70 dead, 200 missing in 2 boat capsizes (AP)
• 3 killed in suicide attack on Russian base (AP)
• Chile mine disaster exposes old family feuds (AP)
• Despite formal combat end, US joins Baghdad battle (AP)
• The Bettencourt Scandal Puts Sarkozy in Growing Peril (Time.com)
• Wawrinka beats Murray at US Open (AFP)
• Iran: Israeli attack would mean its own demise (AP)
• Police nab alleged smuggler of Ecuadorean migrant (AP)
• Fuel tankers, buses ablaze in Nigeria road crash (AFP)
• Emergency extended in New Zealand's quake-hit Christchurch (AFP)
• NZ cleans up after quake that tore new fault line (AP)
• How Pakistan's Floods Have Made Women Dangerously Visible (Time.com)
• New Two-Hour TB Test (OneWorld.net)

Guatemala mudslides kill at least 38; 2 buses hit (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 04:31 PM PDT AP - Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala — some of them rescuers trying to save people already buried under a wall of mud.

Congo: 70 dead, 200 missing in 2 boat capsizes (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 04:07 PM PDT AP - Two boats capsized over the weekend in separate incidents on Congo's vast rivers, leaving 70 people dead and 200 others feared dead, and both vessels were heavily loaded and operating with few safety measures, officials said Sunday.

3 killed in suicide attack on Russian base (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 03:14 PM PDT AP - A suicide car-bomber killed three soldiers and wounded 32 others in an attack on a military base in Russia's violence-plagued republic of Dagestan on Sunday, officials said.

Chile mine disaster exposes old family feuds (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 03:10 PM PDT AP - While a fire warms their campsite, the icy feeling between Cristina Nunez Macias and her mother-in-law is as palpable as the cold Atacama desert.

Despite formal combat end, US joins Baghdad battle (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 01:52 PM PDT AP - Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq's ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the center of Baghdad on Sunday. The fighting killed 12 people and wounded dozens.

The Bettencourt Scandal Puts Sarkozy in Growing Peril (Time.com) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 11:50 AM PDT Time.com - As the scandal surrounding the L'OrÉal billions further entwines Eric Woerth, French President Nicolas Sarkozy's support for his labor minister could cost him the next election

Wawrinka beats Murray at US Open (AFP) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 04:36 PM PDT AFP - Fourth seed Andy Murray crashed out of the US Open on Sunday, losing 6-7 (3/7), 7-6 (7/4), 6-3, 6-3 to Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland.

Iran: Israeli attack would mean its own demise (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 02:27 PM PDT AP - Iran's president said Sunday that any Israeli attack against his nation would mean the destruction of the Jewish state.

Police nab alleged smuggler of Ecuadorean migrant (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 11:23 AM PDT AP - Authorities have detained an alleged smuggler of an Ecuadorean man who told police he survived a massacre of 72 fellow migrants in Mexico, the justice minister confirmed Sunday.

Fuel tankers, buses ablaze in Nigeria road crash (AFP) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 03:08 PM PDT AFP - More than a dozen vehicles including three fuel tankers and two mini-buses caught fire Sunday in a pile-up on a Nigerian highway, site of a deadly multi-car crash three weeks ago, an AFP photographer reported.

Emergency extended in New Zealand's quake-hit Christchurch (AFP) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 04:29 PM PDT AFP - New Zealand authorities extended a state of emergency in earthquake-hit Christchurch Monday and said the centre of the country's second largest city remained a no-go zone.

NZ cleans up after quake that tore new fault line (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 03:09 AM PDT AP - The powerful earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines around the New Zealand city of Christchurch also ripped a new fault line in the Earth's surface, a geologist said Sunday.

How Pakistan's Floods Have Made Women Dangerously Visible (Time.com) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 11:50 AM PDT Time.com - The public mixing of the genders is leading to enormous tension and fear that violence may break out as men try to defend conservative ideas of honor

New Two-Hour TB Test (OneWorld.net) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 03:18 PM PDT OneWorld.net - JOHANNESBURG, Sep 3 (PlusNews) - A new, accurate, easy-to-use test can diagnose tuberculosis (TB) - including drug-resistant strains of the disease - in less than two hours. It has the potential to save thousands of lives in developing countries, where current tests are often unreliable, take weeks to process, or are simply unavailable.

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