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• Afghans vote despite attacks, turnout appears low (AP)
• Pope meets with abuse victims as thousands protest (AP)
• Bermuda braces for Hurricane Igor; Karl dissipates (AP)
• American freed from Iran begins trip back to US (AP)
• Gunmen kidnap 9 Mexican state lawmen, 2 found dead (AP)
• Could Local Militias Shape the Afghan Elections? (Time.com)
• New rules to force German banks to raise 50 bln: report (AFP)
• How goes Iraq? View from a bookstore is revealing (AP)
• Trapped miners force Chileans to re-examine image (AP)
• Iranian, Algerian presidents meet for talks in Algiers (AFP)
• Aquino sells Philippine appeal to the US (AFP)
• Canadian convicted of lying in Air India bomb case (Reuters)
• In West Bank, corruption-busting teenagers shake up local government (The Christian Science Monitor)
• U.N.-Backed Tribunal Indicts Four of Khmer Rouge in Genocide (Time.com)
• Ballot-stuffing witnessed amid troubled Afghanistan vote (The Christian Science Monitor)

Afghans vote despite attacks, turnout appears low (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2010 02:33 PM PDT AP - Despite Taliban rocket strikes and bombings, Afghans voted for a new parliament Saturday, the first election since a fraud-marred presidential ballot last year cast doubt on the legitimacy of the embattled government.

Pope meets with abuse victims as thousands protest (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2010 01:23 PM PDT AP - Pope Benedict XVI apologized Saturday to five people who were molested by priests as children in his latest effort to defuse the sex abuse crisis shaking his church, as thousands of people angered at the Vatican's response marched in central London in the biggest protest of his 5-year papacy.

Bermuda braces for Hurricane Igor; Karl dissipates (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2010 04:49 PM PDT AP - Tourists lined up to catch the last flights off Bermuda and locals stocked up on emergency supplies Saturday preparing for approaching Hurricane Igor, while Mexicans mourned at least seven killed by Hurricane Karl.

American freed from Iran begins trip back to US (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2010 01:37 PM PDT AP - An American woman released from Iran after more than 13 months in custody began her journey back to the United States on Saturday after asking her supporters to "extend your prayers" to her fiance and another American man who remain in Tehran accused of spying.

Gunmen kidnap 9 Mexican state lawmen, 2 found dead (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2010 02:50 PM PDT AP - Gunmen kidnapped nine police officers investigating a death in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, and the bodies of two of the lawmen were found later, authorities said Saturday.

Could Local Militias Shape the Afghan Elections? (Time.com) Posted: 18 Sep 2010 08:40 AM PDT Time.com - A U.S.-backed strategy to counter the Taliban raises the danger of empowering warlords

New rules to force German banks to raise 50 bln: report (AFP) Posted: 18 Sep 2010 02:55 PM PDT AFP - Germany's top 10 banks will need to raise 50 billion euros in new capital to meet proposed new global banking rules due to go into effect in 2019, the weekly Der Spiegel reports in its Monday issue.

How goes Iraq? View from a bookstore is revealing (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2010 01:49 PM PDT AP - The Iqraa bookstore on Mutanabi street has more than tripled in size in the last two years. Business is up 50 percent since 2003.

Trapped miners force Chileans to re-examine image (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2010 04:34 PM PDT AP - The survival of 33 miners trapped a half-mile underground and the government's unblinking effort to pull them out alive gave Chileans reason to be proud as they celebrated their nation's bicentennial Saturday.

Iranian, Algerian presidents meet for talks in Algiers (AFP) Posted: 18 Sep 2010 12:17 PM PDT AFP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held two hours of talks with his Algerian counterpart Abdelaziz Bouteflika Saturday during a stopover in Algiers on route to New York for the UN General Assembly.

Aquino sells Philippine appeal to the US (AFP) Posted: 18 Sep 2010 03:00 PM PDT AFP - Philippine President Benigno Aquino flies to the United States on Monday seeking money and jobs for his country in the wake of a bloody hostage fiasco that has tainted his leadership.

Canadian convicted of lying in Air India bomb case (Reuters) Posted: 18 Sep 2010 02:55 PM PDT Reuters - A Canadian man who admitted helping make the bomb that destroyed Air India Flight 182 was found guilty of perjury on Saturday during the trial of two other men accused of history's deadliest airline bombing.

In West Bank, corruption-busting teenagers shake up local government (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 18 Sep 2010 10:26 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Fatmeh Abu Afifeh doesn't look like someone who could intimidate tough bureaucrats. Demure and only 17, she had never even spent a night away from her family until now.

U.N.-Backed Tribunal Indicts Four of Khmer Rouge in Genocide (Time.com) Posted: 18 Sep 2010 07:40 AM PDT Time.com - Thirty-one years after the darkest era in Cambodian history, the survivingleaders of the communist Khmer Rouge movement were indicted on Thursdayfor the deaths of nearly 2 million people

Ballot-stuffing witnessed amid troubled Afghanistan vote (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 18 Sep 2010 10:25 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - When campaign aide Qais showed up at a polling center in the troubled province of Wardak Saturday morning, he found that guards would not allow him to enter. When he tried to peer through the windows, he found that workers had erected huge cardboard sheets to block the view.

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