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• Roadside bombs kill 5 NATO troops in Afghanistan (AP)
• Director Polanski attends Swiss jazz fest (AP)
• Storm hits sports festival stadium, injures 5 (AP)
• Car bomb in Mexican drug war changes ground rules (AP)
• Feds nab alleged PR drug lord after 10-year hunt (AP)
• Did Credit Suisse Help its German Customers Evade Taxes? (Time.com)
• Britain should not seek burqa ban: government (Reuters)
• Abbas says Israel must accept foreign border force (AP)
• Jobless in Cuba? Communism faces the unthinkable (AP)
• Va. man back in US after weeks on no-fly list (AP)
• Uzbek women accuse state of mass sterilizations (AP)
• Australian PM, 3 weeks on job, calls Aug elections (AP)
• Americans who spied for Cuba sentenced to prison (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Why Venezuela's Chavez Dug Up Bolivar's Bones (Time.com)

Roadside bombs kill 5 NATO troops in Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2010 01:52 PM PDT AP - Five NATO troops died in roadside bombs in Afghanistan, the alliance said Saturday, as international forces announced that they had foiled a terrorist attack on an upcoming conference in Kabul to be attended by leaders from more than 60 nations.

Director Polanski attends Swiss jazz fest (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2010 12:58 PM PDT AP - Roman Polanski has made his first public appearance since being released this week from house arrest, attending the Montreux Jazz Festival on Saturday to watch his wife perform on stage.

Storm hits sports festival stadium, injures 5 (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2010 02:10 PM PDT AP - A waterspout slammed into the stadium where thousands of people were expected to gather for the inauguration of the Central American and Caribbean Games on Saturday, injuring at least five people and forcing officials to delay the opening ceremony.

Car bomb in Mexican drug war changes ground rules (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2010 02:49 PM PDT AP - The first successful car bombing by a drug cartel brings a new dimension of terror to a Mexican border region already shocked by random street battles, bodies dangling from bridges and highway checkpoints mounted by heavily armed criminals.

Feds nab alleged PR drug lord after 10-year hunt (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2010 03:39 PM PDT AP - Federal authorities arrested a fugitive alleged drug kingpin Saturday after a decade-long chase through the Caribbean marked by his narrow escapes and public taunting that he paid off police to remain free.

Did Credit Suisse Help its German Customers Evade Taxes? (Time.com) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 11:45 PM PDT Time.com - As part of Germany's continuing crackdown on tax evasion, authorities raided the offices of Credit Suisse on Wednesday, with prosecutors claiming that employees of the Swiss bank were trained to help customers hide their money from the tax man.

Britain should not seek burqa ban: government (Reuters) Posted: 17 Jul 2010 03:18 PM PDT Reuters - Britain's parliament should not try to ban wearing full-length veils in public after France's lower house passed a bill which could see Muslim women fined for wearing the burqa, immigration minister Damian Green said.

Abbas says Israel must accept foreign border force (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2010 11:19 AM PDT AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he'll resume direct peace talks if Israel accepts its 1967 frontier as a baseline for the borders of a Palestinian state and agrees to the deployment of an international force to guard them.

Jobless in Cuba? Communism faces the unthinkable (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2010 11:53 AM PDT AP - At a state project to refurbish a decaying building in Old Havana, one worker paints a wall white while two others watch. A fourth sleeps in a wheelbarrow positioned in a sliver of shade nearby and two more smoke and chat on the curb.

Va. man back in US after weeks on no-fly list (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2010 04:23 PM PDT AP - Yahya Wehelie said Saturday he can't wait to eat his mom's lasagna now that he's back on U.S. soil after FBI scrutiny stranded him in the Middle East for nearly two months on a no-fly list.

Uzbek women accuse state of mass sterilizations (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT AP - Saodat Rakhimbayeva says she wishes she had died with her newborn baby.

Australian PM, 3 weeks on job, calls Aug elections (AP) Posted: 17 Jul 2010 09:27 AM PDT AP - Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who called elections Saturday just three weeks after taking power, was once considered too far left to win a national vote. But polls and analysts say she has as good a chance of wooing the Australian public as her opponent: He was long thought too conservative to appeal to the mainstream.

Americans who spied for Cuba sentenced to prison (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 05:57 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A confessed spy for Cuba was sentenced to life in prison and his wife to 81 months Friday after telling a judge that their "overriding objective" for 30 years of passing secrets to Cuba "was to help the Cuban people defend their revolution."

Why Venezuela's Chavez Dug Up Bolivar's Bones (Time.com) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 11:45 PM PDT Time.com - The leader of a self-styled 'Bolivarian' revolution hopes to prove that its namesake was poisoned -- in Colombia, his contemporary adversary

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