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• Tense final hours ahead for Chilean miners (AP)
• Hungarian factory sorry for those killed by sludge (AP)
• Serb police clash with anti-gay rioters (AP)
• North Korea's Kim and heir appear at lavish parade (AP)
• Pakistan reopens Afghan border crossing NATO uses (AP)
• Baghdad Walkabout: On the Other Side of the River (Time.com)
• J. K. Rowling most influential woman in Britain: survey (AFP)
• Palestinian dream city hits snag from Israel (AP)
• Mexico seeks 2 suspects in reported lake shooting (AP)
• Former All Blacks coach stabbed in South Africa (AFP)
• Karzai confirms holding talks with Taliban (AFP)
• Baghdad Walk-About: Touring the Tigris -- and the Streets (Time.com)
• Kazakhstan Prisoners Protest by Self-Mutilation (OneWorld.net)

Tense final hours ahead for Chilean miners (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 03:12 PM PDT AP - A smooth-walled path to daylight awaited 33 trapped miners Sunday as they entered the tense final hours of a two-month odyssey christened in the terror of collapsing rock deep under a Chilean mountain.

Hungarian factory sorry for those killed by sludge (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 03:46 PM PDT AP - The owners of the metals plant whose reservoir burst, flooding several towns in western Hungary with caustic red sludge, expressed their condolences Sunday to the families of the seven people killed, as well as to those injured — and said they were sorry for not having done so sooner.

Serb police clash with anti-gay rioters (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 02:11 PM PDT AP - Serbian riot police fought running battles Sunday with thousands of far-right supporters who hurled Molotov cocktails and stun grenades to try disrupt a gay pride march in downtown Belgrade. More than 140 people were hurt and more than 200 were arrested, officials said.

North Korea's Kim and heir appear at lavish parade (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 05:32 PM PDT AP - The next leader of North Korea from the only ruling family the isolated nation has ever known made his public debut Sunday, clapping and smiling as tanks and long-range missiles rolled past in what was said to be the largest military parade staged by the communist state.

Pakistan reopens Afghan border crossing NATO uses (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 09:55 AM PDT AP - Trucks bearing NATO supplies began flowing again Sunday across a critical border crossing into Afghanistan, opened a day earlier than expected by Pakistan and ending a blockade that had raised tensions between Washington and a key ally.

Baghdad Walkabout: On the Other Side of the River (Time.com) Posted: 09 Oct 2010 11:50 PM PDT Time.com - A former U.S. soldier takes a ride on the Tigris and stops for tea in a shop reconstructed after 2007 blast

J. K. Rowling most influential woman in Britain: survey (AFP) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 04:38 PM PDT AFP - Leading magazine editors on Monday named J. K. Rowling the most influential woman in Britain, judging the Harry Potter author more powerful than Queen Elizabeth II.

Palestinian dream city hits snag from Israel (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 01:30 PM PDT AP - It is billed as a symbol of the future Palestine: a modern, middle-class city of orderly streets, parks and shopping plazas rising in the hills of the West Bank, ready for independence, affluence and peace.

Mexico seeks 2 suspects in reported lake shooting (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 04:07 PM PDT AP - Authorities are searching for a pair of Mexican brothers they suspect in the reported border-lake shooting of a missing American, a police official in the border state of Tamaulipas said Sunday.

Former All Blacks coach stabbed in South Africa (AFP) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 05:21 PM PDT AFP - Former All Blacks coach John Mitchell was stabbed by intruders who broke into his apartment in South Africa, his club the Golden Lions said Monday.

Karzai confirms holding talks with Taliban (AFP) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 04:22 PM PDT AFP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai confirmed holding unofficial talks with the Taliban "for quite some time," in a bid to end the nine-year war, according to an interview transcript released Sunday.

Baghdad Walk-About: Touring the Tigris -- and the Streets (Time.com) Posted: 09 Oct 2010 11:50 PM PDT Time.com - TIME's former bureau chief takes a boat ride on the river, a rare experience for foreigners -- and then an unusual cab ride home.

Kazakhstan Prisoners Protest by Self-Mutilation (OneWorld.net) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 04:31 PM PDT OneWorld.net - ASTANA, Oct 10 (IPS) - Horrific protests that have seen hundreds of inmates slice their stomachs open over conditions in jails in Kazakhstan are set to continue as the UN accuses the Central Asian country of trying to mask the real state of its prison system.

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