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• Sunni group claims Iran mosque blast killing 27 (AP)
• Car bomb signals new dimension to Mexican drug war (AP)
• George Clooney radiates cool on witness stand (AP)
• 28 killed in hotel fire in Iraq's Kurdish region (AP)
• Afghan soldier's motive for killing Brits unclear (AP)
• Transitional vs. Permanent Homes for Haiti's Displaced (Time.com)
• England eye homegrown coach after Capello era (AFP)
• Iran Guard firm pulls out of gas development deals (AP)
• Castro takes questions, warns of nuclear war (AP)
• Protests prompt Spain PM to skip meeting with Rwanda leader (AFP)
• Australian PM poised to set election date (AFP)
• Canada to buy 65 F-35 jet fighters in C$9 bln deal (Reuters)
• Australia PM all but confirms election to be called (AFP)
• Failed Pakistan-India talks could hurt Afghanistan efforts (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Vatican stirs storm on women priests in clarifying law on clergy abuse (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Burma: Soldiers Of Fortune (Time.com)

Sunni group claims Iran mosque blast killing 27 (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 03:59 PM PDT AP - A Sunni insurgent group said it carried out a double suicide bombing against a Shiite mosque in southeast Iran to avenge the execution of its leader, as Iranian authorities Friday said the death toll rose to 27 people, including members of the elite Revolutionary Guard.

Car bomb signals new dimension to Mexican drug war (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 04:47 PM PDT AP - A drug cartel has used a car bomb for the first time in Mexico's decades-long fight against traffickers, setting a deadly trap against federal police in a city across the border from Texas, the mayor of Ciudad Juarez said Friday.

George Clooney radiates cool on witness stand (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 10:37 AM PDT AP - It's no wonder the Italian businessmen claimed George Clooney was behind their fashion line — the actor knows how to wow an audience whether he's on the red carpet or the witness stand.

28 killed in hotel fire in Iraq's Kurdish region (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 03:04 PM PDT AP - A fierce blaze at a hotel without fire escapes sent some desperate guests plunging to their deaths in a northern Iraqi oil boomtown, killing 28 people.

Afghan soldier's motive for killing Brits unclear (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 12:18 PM PDT AP - Four days after three British troops were slain at their base in the middle of the night, it remains unclear what motivated a rogue Afghan soldier to commit the crime — one made all the more puzzling because it was carried out by a member of an ethnic group that has largely backed the international forces and opposed the Taliban.

Transitional vs. Permanent Homes for Haiti's Displaced (Time.com) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 04:40 PM PDT Time.com - With 1.5 million people still homeless after the quake, one U.N. agency is pushing a cheap, "transitional" solution. But why not just build permanent housing?

England eye homegrown coach after Capello era (AFP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 03:19 PM PDT AFP - England are poised to appoint a homegrown coach when the reign of Italy's Fabio Capello comes to an end.

Iran Guard firm pulls out of gas development deals (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 10:20 AM PDT AP - The engineering arm of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard, recently hit by U.N. sanctions, has partially withdrawn from developing the giant South Pars natural gas field, the Oil Ministry announced on Friday.

Castro takes questions, warns of nuclear war (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 04:47 PM PDT AP - Fidel Castro is taking questions from dozens of Cuban ambassadors at the Foreign Ministry and warning them of the threat of global nuclear war, in his most overtly political public act since re-emerging from four years of near total seclusion.

Protests prompt Spain PM to skip meeting with Rwanda leader (AFP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 12:56 PM PDT AFP - Spain's prime minister shunned Friday a UN-backed meeting with Rwandan leader Paul Kagame after protests that his regime was linked to the 1994 genocide as the UN chief called for a probe into recent deaths in the central African nation.

Australian PM poised to set election date (AFP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 04:19 PM PDT AFP - Australia's new Prime Minister Julia Gillard was Saturday expected to call a general election for late August that will be fought on the sensitive issues of boatpeople, the economy and global warming.

Canada to buy 65 F-35 jet fighters in C$9 bln deal (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 10:24 AM PDT Reuters - Canada will buy 65 new fighter jets from Lockheed Martin Corp for C$9 billion ($8.6 billion), one of the biggest arms deals in the nation's history, Defense Minister Peter MacKay said on Friday.

Australia PM all but confirms election to be called (AFP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 04:15 PM PDT AFP - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard will visit the governor-general Saturday morning, her office said, all but confirming widespread speculation that she would call an election.

Failed Pakistan-India talks could hurt Afghanistan efforts (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 01:30 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD — Recriminations flew between India and Pakistan on Friday, a day after failed peace talks that could have negative fallout for the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan.

Vatican stirs storm on women priests in clarifying law on clergy abuse (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 12:58 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Vatican officials today said the attempt to ordain women in the Roman Catholic church is not an equal crime to priestly pedophilia â€" even as critics point out that in practice, the ordination of women is dealt with more harshly inside the church than are charges of priests abusing children.

Burma: Soldiers Of Fortune (Time.com) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 04:40 PM PDT Time.com - How Burma's Junta Is Cementing Its Wealth and Power

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