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• US, reversing course, backs Afghan peace effort (AP)
• Chile miners start new lives, adjust to freedom (AP)
• Mexico: Alleged chat between lawmaker, capo leaked (AP)
• UN envoy says gov't troops continue Congo rapes (AP)
• Ahmadinejad taunts Israel from border with Lebanon (AP)
• The Israeli Loyalty Oath: What is Netanyahu Up To? (Time.com)
• Austria accused of violating child rights (AP)
• Militants kill local Yemeni security chief (AP)
• Brazilian opposition candidate tightens race (AP)
• Sudan Abyei vote deadline "impossible": north (Reuters)
• Attacks kill 8 foreign troops in Afghanistan (Reuters)
• Canadian's Guantanamo trial delayed amid talks (Reuters)
• Australian accused of taking bribes in Afghanistan (AP)
• Top North Korea defector Hwang Jang-yop eulogized as a hero in South Korea (The Christian Science Monitor)
• The Rescued Miners: Winning Respect for Chile's Working Class (Time.com)
• Centuries-old ties anchor Ahmadinejad tour of south Lebanon (The Christian Science Monitor)
• New Global Plan Aims to Wipe Out TB (OneWorld.net)

US, reversing course, backs Afghan peace effort (AP) Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:21 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration on Thursday endorsed fragile Afghan efforts to negotiate peace with the Taliban, backing off its prior stance that talks with the Taliban were premature until the war is all but won.

Chile miners start new lives, adjust to freedom (AP) Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:41 PM PDT AP - The Chilean miners began their unfamiliar new lives as national heroes Thursday and got a taste of what awaits them outside the hospital doors — a deluge of TV producers, writers and even soccer teams all desperate for a piece of their story.

Mexico: Alleged chat between lawmaker, capo leaked (AP) Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:19 PM PDT AP - A radio station broadcast what it described as a telephone conversation in which a federal lawmaker and one of Mexico's biggest drug lords express support for each other.

UN envoy says gov't troops continue Congo rapes (AP) Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:13 PM PDT AP - Congolese government troops are raping, killing and looting civilians in the same area of eastern Congo where militias carried out mass rapes just weeks ago, a top U.N. envoy said Thursday.

Ahmadinejad taunts Israel from border with Lebanon (AP) Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:06 PM PDT AP - Iran's president taunted archenemy Israel on Thursday from just across the tense border in Lebanon, rallying tens of thousands of Hezbollah supporters as Israeli attack helicopters buzzed in the skies nearby.

The Israeli Loyalty Oath: What is Netanyahu Up To? (Time.com) Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:35 PM PDT Time.com - Israel's Prime Minister is backing a controversial loyalty oath. But what has it got to do with the peace talks?

Austria accused of violating child rights (AP) Posted: 14 Oct 2010 02:52 PM PDT AP - Austria should stop detaining children and halt the deportations of well-integrated foreign families that are denied asylum, Amnesty International and three other groups urged Thursday.

Militants kill local Yemeni security chief (AP) Posted: 14 Oct 2010 01:54 PM PDT AP - An attack by suspected al-Qaida militants early Thursday killed a security chief of a southern Yemeni town and triggered a series of clashes between soldiers and militants that killed eight people, mostly government troops, security officials said.

Brazilian opposition candidate tightens race (AP) Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:59 PM PDT AP - The opposition candidate in Brazil's presidential election is narrowing the gap with his once heavily favored rival thanks to growing confidence after surviving a first-round ballot and barbs over abortion, analysts said Thursday.

Sudan Abyei vote deadline "impossible": north (Reuters) Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:40 PM PDT Reuters - North Sudanese leaders said on Thursday it was impossible to hold a referendum on the future of the country's disputed, oil-rich Abyei region on time and that the poll could be delayed or settled without a vote.

Attacks kill 8 foreign troops in Afghanistan (Reuters) Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:45 PM PDT Reuters - Eight foreign troops from NATO-led forces were killed in five separate insurgent attacks in Afghanistan on Thursday, NATO said, bringing to 14 the number of troops killed in the last two days.

Canadian's Guantanamo trial delayed amid talks (Reuters) Posted: 14 Oct 2010 01:41 PM PDT Reuters - A U.S. military judge on Thursday postponed the Guantanamo war crimes trial of a Canadian prisoner captured in Afghanistan at age 15 while his lawyers tried to reach a deal for him to plead guilty in exchange for leniency.

Australian accused of taking bribes in Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 14 Oct 2010 03:20 AM PDT AP - An Australian construction manager has been detained in India for allegedly taking a $190,000 bribe to allow a subcontractor to build a hospital and college in Afghanistan.

Top North Korea defector Hwang Jang-yop eulogized as a hero in South Korea (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 14 Oct 2010 10:16 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The highest-ranking North Korean official ever to defect was eulogized Thursday as a hero by South Korean conservatives at his funeral here.

The Rescued Miners: Winning Respect for Chile's Working Class (Time.com) Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:35 PM PDT Time.com - Chile likes to celebrate its billionaires, but the San JosÉ rescue saga displayed the dignity and leadership of its underserved laborers

Centuries-old ties anchor Ahmadinejad tour of south Lebanon (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 14 Oct 2010 06:43 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tours Lebanon’s border with Israel today, he may pause a moment to consider that Iran owes its existence as a Shiite nation to the ancestors of those living in these rural hilltop villages.

New Global Plan Aims to Wipe Out TB (OneWorld.net) Posted: 14 Oct 2010 09:22 AM PDT OneWorld.net - JOHANNESBURG, Oct 14 (IRIN/PlusNews) - A new roadmap for curbing the global epidemic of tuberculosis aims to save five million lives between 2011 and 2015 and eliminate TB as a public health problem by 2050 but comes with a price tag of US$47 billion, nearly half of which must still be found.

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