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• Protesting police throw Ecuador into chaos (AP)
• Argentina gives asylum to alleged Chilean assassin (AP)
• Official: Germans, Brits behind Europe terror plot (AP)
• WikiLeaks chief lashes out at media during debate (AP)
• Problem at Hovensa refinery triggers oil burnoff (AP)
• An Indian Court Tries to Impose Peace on a Sacred but Bloody Space (Time.com)
• Whale snot, bat sex win 2010 IgNobel spoof prizes (Reuters)
• Hezbollah bars members from Hariri court interview (AP)
• PR police: 6 siblings raped, forced into orgies (AP)
• UN tones down Congo 'genocide' report (AP)
• Japan jobless rate falls to 5.1 percent in August (AP)
• Canada ruling Conservatives narrowly ahead: poll (Reuters)
• Alberto Contador, on the verge of tears, denies doping allegations (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Berlusconi Keeps Government Afloat -- for Now (Time.com)
• In shift, Kremlin reopens cases of Russian reporters' unsolved murders (The Christian Science Monitor)

Protesting police throw Ecuador into chaos (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 05:12 PM PDT AP - Hundreds of police angry over a law that would cut their benefits plunged this small South American nation into chaos Thursday, roughing up and tear-gassing the president, shutting down airports and blocking highways in a nationwide strike.

Argentina gives asylum to alleged Chilean assassin (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 05:25 PM PDT AP - Argentina granted asylum Thursday to a former leftist guerrilla charged in his native Chile with assassinating a senator and kidnapping a businessman, a decision sure to sour relations between the neighboring countries.

Official: Germans, Brits behind Europe terror plot (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 03:20 PM PDT AP - Eight Germans and two British brothers are at the heart of an al-Qaida-linked terror plot against European cities, but the plan is still in its early stages, with the suspects calling acquaintances in Europe to plan logistics, a Pakistani intelligence official said Thursday. One of the Britons died in a recent CIA missile strike, he said.

WikiLeaks chief lashes out at media during debate (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 03:10 PM PDT AP - WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange lashed out at the mainstream media during a debate at a London university Thursday, fighting back at a string of unfavorable stories that have appeared since his organization's publication of a cache of U.S. intelligence documents.

Problem at Hovensa refinery triggers oil burnoff (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 02:46 PM PDT AP - A problem at the Hovensa LLC oil refinery triggered a burnoff of heavy oil Thursday that sent up a plume of black smoke, a spokesman said.

An Indian Court Tries to Impose Peace on a Sacred but Bloody Space (Time.com) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 04:45 PM PDT Time.com - The site of the Babri mosque has been the focus of violent controversy for centuries. Now, a court has tried to impose an evenhanded solution. Will it hold?

Whale snot, bat sex win 2010 IgNobel spoof prizes (Reuters) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 04:36 PM PDT Reuters - Researchers who used a remote-controlled helicopter to collect whale snot, documented bats having oral sex and showed that swearing makes you feel better when you stub a toe were among the winners of spoof IgNobel prizes on Thursday.

Hezbollah bars members from Hariri court interview (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 02:04 PM PDT AP - Hezbollah has denied a request from the international tribunal investigating the 2005 assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister to interview some of its members, the group's deputy leader said Thursday.

PR police: 6 siblings raped, forced into orgies (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 04:45 PM PDT AP - Puerto Rico police have charged a couple with repeatedly raping their six children and forcing them to participate in drug-fueled orgies.

UN tones down Congo 'genocide' report (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 01:03 PM PDT AP - The United Nations has toned down a report detailing hundreds of gruesome attacks against civilians in Congo over a 10-year period but left intact the suggestion that Rwanda's army may have committed genocide there in the 1990s.

Japan jobless rate falls to 5.1 percent in August (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 05:30 PM PDT AP - Japan's jobless rate improved in August, but prices fell for the 18th straight month as deflation kept its hold on the country's economy.

Canada ruling Conservatives narrowly ahead: poll (Reuters) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 06:36 AM PDT Reuters - As speculation about a Canadian election grows, a new poll on Thursday showed the ruling Conservatives are only narrowly ahead of their main rivals and would lose seats if a vote were held now.

Alberto Contador, on the verge of tears, denies doping allegations (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 09:54 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The three-time winner of the Tour de France, Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador, is sure the minute traces of a performance-enhancing drug found in his urine came from a steak that a friend gave him during this year's race.

Berlusconi Keeps Government Afloat -- for Now (Time.com) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 04:45 PM PDT Time.com - Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi won a vote of confidence on Wednesday. But instead of proving his popularity as a leader, it showed that without the support of a group of rebels, he likely can't lead at all

In shift, Kremlin reopens cases of Russian reporters' unsolved murders (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 09:30 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The Kremlin said this week it is reopening several unsolved murders of journalists, showing a change in tone from years of official inactivity and stymied justice. But some human rights activists are skeptical that a genuine shift is under way, evidenced in part by the lack of progress in determining who killed internationally acclaimed reporter Anna Politkovskaya in 2006.

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