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• Obama challenges the world: Time for Mideast peace (AP)
• Mexico journalists debate cartels, self-censorship (AP)
• Settlement freeze has barely slowed construction (AP)
• New strikes in France over retirement age (AP)
• Karaoke champs vie for fame, dumplings in Russia (AP)
• Greek Truckers Protest Law to Open Up Competition (Time.com)
• HSBC chief executive to step down in major shake-up: reports (AFP)
• Officials: Palestinians will consider compromise (AP)
• Chavez, opponents rally before Venezuela vote (AP)
• 21 killed in fighting in Somalia's capital city (AP)
• Obama tells Wen China must do more on currency (AFP)
• NDP under pressure after gun vote (Reuters)
• Australian PM Gillard's majority becomes slimmer (Reuters)
• Blockbuster fizzles in US, but renters overseas haven't switched to Netflix – yet (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Obama Makes U.N. Pitch for Arab Support on Mideast Peace (Time.com)
• Russia's Putin says he wants peaceful division of Arctic (The Christian Science Monitor)
• A Mother’s Agony Over Son Missing in Arizona Desert (OneWorld.net)

Obama challenges the world: Time for Mideast peace (AP) Posted: 23 Sep 2010 04:29 PM PDT AP - Grasping for peace, President Barack Obama on Thursday challenged a pessimistic world to overcome decades of shattered promises and help Israelis and Palestinians close a historic deal within a year. "This time will be different," he declared, offering a now-or-never choice between Mideast stability and perpetual bloodshed.

Mexico journalists debate cartels, self-censorship (AP) Posted: 23 Sep 2010 04:59 PM PDT AP - The threats, four or five of them, came to reporters at Imagen, a daily newspaper in the once-quiet state of Zacatecas where drug cartels have taken over in just the last few years. Then editor Patricia Mercado got a phone call ordering her to print a prepared article or she would be kidnapped.

Settlement freeze has barely slowed construction (AP) Posted: 23 Sep 2010 03:41 PM PDT AP - How much of a freeze has there actually been on West Bank Jewish settlement building by Israel?

New strikes in France over retirement age (AP) Posted: 23 Sep 2010 01:41 PM PDT AP - French authorities estimated nearly 1 million protesters filled the streets Thursday to try to force President Nicolas Sarkozy to drop his plan to raise the retirement age two years to 62, while strikes also disrupted airports, train stations and schools for the second time this month.

Karaoke champs vie for fame, dumplings in Russia (AP) Posted: 23 Sep 2010 04:00 PM PDT AP - The winner of the Karaoke World Championships may not achieve world fame, but at least he or she won't have to worry where the next meal is coming from — the top prize is 1 million Russian dumplings.

Greek Truckers Protest Law to Open Up Competition (Time.com) Posted: 23 Sep 2010 03:30 PM PDT Time.com - Truck drivers in Greece have been blocking highways to protest a new law that, after 40 years of monopoly, opens up their industry to competition

HSBC chief executive to step down in major shake-up: reports (AFP) Posted: 23 Sep 2010 04:50 PM PDT AFP - HSBC chief executive Michael Geoghegan is to step down at the end of the year as part of a major shake-up of the bank's top management, reports said Friday.

Officials: Palestinians will consider compromise (AP) Posted: 23 Sep 2010 01:32 PM PDT AP - Hopes of averting a breakdown in Middle East peace talks grew Thursday as senior Palestinian officials said their side would consider an expected U.S.-brokered compromise on Israeli settlement-building in the West Bank.

Chavez, opponents rally before Venezuela vote (AP) Posted: 23 Sep 2010 04:10 PM PDT AP - Opponents and supporters of President Hugo Chavez held their final rallies on Thursday ahead of legislative elections that both of Venezuela's political camps view as a critical test.

21 killed in fighting in Somalia's capital city (AP) Posted: 23 Sep 2010 02:41 PM PDT AP - Heavy fighting between Islamist militants and pro-government troops raged in several parts of Somalia's capital Thursday, killing at least 21 people and wounding nearly 78, an official said.

Obama tells Wen China must do more on currency (AFP) Posted: 23 Sep 2010 04:46 PM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama told Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Thursday China must do more to revalue its yuan currency, in a "candid" two-hour meeting, which did not appear to shift Beijing's position.

NDP under pressure after gun vote (Reuters) Posted: 23 Sep 2010 12:44 PM PDT Reuters - The left-leaning opposition New Democrats put on a show of unity on Thursday, a day after a parliamentary vote on gun control revealed splits that could hurt the party in the next election.

Australian PM Gillard's majority becomes slimmer (Reuters) Posted: 23 Sep 2010 02:32 AM PDT Reuters - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's wafer-thin ruling majority became even more fragile on Thursday after the conservative opposition backed out of a deal over the prized job of parliamentary speaker.

Blockbuster fizzles in US, but renters overseas haven't switched to Netflix – yet (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 23 Sep 2010 12:07 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Video rental giant Blockbuster says its international shops are conducting “business as usual,” despite the company filing for bankruptcy today in the United States.

Obama Makes U.N. Pitch for Arab Support on Mideast Peace (Time.com) Posted: 23 Sep 2010 03:30 PM PDT Time.com - The centerpiece of President Obama's U.N. General Assembly speech was a call for Arabs to do more to coax Israel into making concessions on peace. Can he overcome their skepticism?

Russia's Putin says he wants peaceful division of Arctic (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 23 Sep 2010 10:43 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Russia is staking its economic future on its controversial territorial claim to a huge slice of the fast-melting Arctic, which holds up to a quarter of the world's untapped energy resources, and is set to launch an unprecedented diplomatic campaign to achieve its goals.

A Mother’s Agony Over Son Missing in Arizona Desert (OneWorld.net) Posted: 23 Sep 2010 05:07 PM PDT OneWorld.net - PHOENIX, Sep 23 (New America Media) - Deep in her heart Fermina Lopez feels that her son is still alive. A mother knows that, she says. But it’s been more than two months since she last heard her son’s voice. Thirteen-year-old Nelson Omar Chilel Lopez talked to her from Altar, Sonora before attempting to cross over to the United States where she was living.

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