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• ATF: New accord with Mexico will boost gun traces (AP)
• Uncertainty over US plans as war enters 10th year (AP)
• Surprise tiger born in Frankfurt zoo (AP)
• US apologizes for attack on Pakistani soldiers (AP)
• Iraq's Unformed Government: What Do the Kurds Want? (Time.com)
• Zimbabwean TV talent show star faces UK deportation (AFP)
• Israeli premier weighing new settlement curbs (AP)
• Castro: US ignored its offers on counterterrorism (AP)
• Egyptian dissident editor says sacked over policy (Reuters)
• S.Korea's Samsung tips 4.29 bn dollar Q3 operating profit (AFP)
• Scientists find 200 new species in Papua New Guinea (AFP)
• Why Russia's Medvedev is lashing out at Belarus's Lukashenko (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Will Britain's Conservatives Ever Escape Thatcher's Legacy? (Time.com)
• Why Mahmoud Abbas is so committed to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks (The Christian Science Monitor)

ATF: New accord with Mexico will boost gun traces (AP) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 04:38 PM PDT AP - U.S. and Mexican officials are just now fully employing a gun-tracing program touted as a key deterrent to weapons-smuggling, nearly three years after it was first announced in Mexico and weeks after an inspector general's preliminary report called it underused and unsuccessful.

Uncertainty over US plans as war enters 10th year (AP) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 04:38 PM PDT AP - It's make-or-break time in Afghanistan.

Surprise tiger born in Frankfurt zoo (AP) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 04:36 PM PDT AP - Surprise! A Sumatra tiger cub born to a mother previously thought to be infertile is in good health at the Frankfurt Zoo in Germany.

US apologizes for attack on Pakistani soldiers (AP) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 01:30 PM PDT AP - The U.S. apologized Wednesday for a recent helicopter attack that killed two Pakistani soldiers at an outpost near the Afghan border, saying American pilots mistook the soldiers for insurgents they were pursuing.

Iraq's Unformed Government: What Do the Kurds Want? (Time.com) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 05:35 PM PDT Time.com - The Kurds are key to Maliki's ability to form his ruling coalition. TIME asks the head of Iraq's Kurdish regional government for his assessment

Zimbabwean TV talent show star faces UK deportation (AFP) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 03:14 PM PDT AFP - A Zimbabwean singer who won the hearts of Britons with her performance on a TV talent show faces being deported from Scotland after her visa expired, immigration officials said Wednesday.

Israeli premier weighing new settlement curbs (AP) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 04:40 PM PDT AP - Israel's prime minister has been sounding out key Cabinet members on extending a freeze on new construction in West Bank settlements in hopes of keeping peace talks with the Palestinians alive, but he is encountering stiff resistance, Israeli officials said Wednesday.

Castro: US ignored its offers on counterterrorism (AP) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 03:12 PM PDT AP - Raul Castro says the U.S. has ignored Cuban overtures to cooperate on counterterrorism.

Egyptian dissident editor says sacked over policy (Reuters) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 04:13 PM PDT Reuters - The editor of an Egyptian opposition newspaper has said he was sacked for refusing to bring the paper more into line with government policy, prompting a small protest Wednesday at the offices of the party which owns the daily.

S.Korea's Samsung tips 4.29 bn dollar Q3 operating profit (AFP) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 04:54 PM PDT AFP - South Korea's Samsung Electronics on Thursday estimated its third-quarter operating profit at 4.8 trillion won (4.29 billion dollars), a rise of almost 14 percent from a year earlier.

Scientists find 200 new species in Papua New Guinea (AFP) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 02:33 AM PDT AFP - Scientists on Wednesday unveiled a spectacular array of more than 200 new species discovered in the Pacific islands of Papua New Guinea, including a white-tailed mouse and a tiny, long-snouted frog.

Why Russia's Medvedev is lashing out at Belarus's Lukashenko (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 08:59 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - A vitriolic and very public war of words between Belarus and Russia has observers wondering whether the Kremlin is finally preparing to abandon its long time support for Belarussian leader Alexander Lukashenko, who is usually remarked of in the East as "Russia's only ally" and in the West as "Europe's last dictator."

Will Britain's Conservatives Ever Escape Thatcher's Legacy? (Time.com) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 05:35 PM PDT Time.com - The Tories have worked hard to convince voters of their compassion but welfare cuts, announced at their annual conference, bring echoes of the party's bracing past

Why Mahmoud Abbas is so committed to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 08:21 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is now in political limbo after having staked his career on the questionable proposition that a viable Palestinian state can be achieved through negotiations with Israel.

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