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• Syria bans full Islamic face veils at universities (AP)
• Kabul meeting to lay ground for 2014 deadline (AP)
• Iraqi cleric meets with PM candidate in Syria (AP)
• 61 people killed as 2 trains crash in east India (AP)
• After Car Bomb, Mexico Braces for An Even More Deadly Drug War (Time.com)
• Moody's gives Motorola positive outlook after Nokia deal (AFP)
• Al-Qaida cleric: Yemen to be Obama's Afghanistan (AP)
• Suriname ex-dictator Bouterse elected president (AP)
• Cameron won't meet US senators on Lockerbie: embassy (AFP)
• Imran fears fast bowlers could become 'dinosaurs' (AFP)
• Canadian officer not guilty of Afghan murder charge (Reuters)
• Australia, Britain bury WWI soldier in France (AFP)
• Clinton unveils $500 million in aid projects for Pakistan (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Tour de France Stage 15: Schleck vows 'revenge' after Contador steals lead (The Christian Science Monitor)
• "Utterly Wrong": Cameron Criticizes the Lockerbie Bomber's Release (Time.com)

Syria bans full Islamic face veils at universities (AP) Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:53 PM PDT AP - Syria has forbidden the country's students and teachers from wearing the niqab — the full Islamic veil that reveals only a woman's eyes — taking aim at a garment many see as political.

Kabul meeting to lay ground for 2014 deadline (AP) Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:53 PM PDT AP - The strategy sits for now on a table in a locked-down Afghan capital: Hand over security in all 34 provinces to the government by the end of 2014 — more than three years after President Barack Obama's date for the start of an American troop drawdown.

Iraqi cleric meets with PM candidate in Syria (AP) Posted: 19 Jul 2010 02:13 PM PDT AP - Anti-American Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took a rare, public step into the political arena Monday, meeting in neighboring Syria with the man directly challenging Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for his office.

61 people killed as 2 trains crash in east India (AP) Posted: 19 Jul 2010 10:15 AM PDT AP - The 22-year-old was asleep on the overnight train, headed to his distant job at a call center, when an enormous jolt awakened him and his coach flipped. He lay with his leg broken for five hours, crushed under the dead bodies of other passengers as he waited for help.

After Car Bomb, Mexico Braces for An Even More Deadly Drug War (Time.com) Posted: 19 Jul 2010 04:15 PM PDT Time.com - Even as gunfights and massacres occur with depressing frequency, an incident in Ciudad JuÁrez -- and the fate of missing detonators -- has many Mexicans terrified

Moody's gives Motorola positive outlook after Nokia deal (AFP) Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:37 PM PDT AFP - US credit ratings agency Moody's lifted the outlook for Motorola from negative to positive on Monday after the US mobile phone maker sold most of its networks infrastructure division to Nokia Siemens Networks.

Al-Qaida cleric: Yemen to be Obama's Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:28 PM PDT AP - A U.S.-born, al-Qaida-linked cleric warned the American people that President Barack Obama will mire U.S. forces in Yemen just as Afghanistan, in a message appearing Monday on militant websites.

Suriname ex-dictator Bouterse elected president (AP) Posted: 19 Jul 2010 01:26 PM PDT AP - Former dictator Desi Bouterse was elected president by parliament Monday, following weeks of jostling by opponents who sought to stop a convicted drug trafficker and ex-strongman accused of killing political opponents from returning to power.

Cameron won't meet US senators on Lockerbie: embassy (AFP) Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:20 PM PDT AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron will not meet during his visit to Washington with four US senators angry over the Lockerbie bomber's release last year, Britain's embassy said Monday.

Imran fears fast bowlers could become 'dinosaurs' (AFP) Posted: 19 Jul 2010 02:38 PM PDT AFP - Pakistan great Imran Khan fears fast bowlers "could go the way of the dinosaurs" if the international calendar retains its current congested schedule.

Canadian officer not guilty of Afghan murder charge (Reuters) Posted: 19 Jul 2010 02:20 PM PDT Reuters - A Canadian army officer was found not guilty on Monday of allegations he murdered a wounded Afghan insurgent, in the first criminal case of its kind since Canada sent troops to Afghanistan in 2002.

Australia, Britain bury WWI soldier in France (AFP) Posted: 19 Jul 2010 12:21 PM PDT AFP - To the mournful strains of both the Last Post and the more upbeat Waltzing Matilda, Commonwealth servicemen honoured Monday the last body recovered from Australia's "forgotten battle".

Clinton unveils $500 million in aid projects for Pakistan (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 19 Jul 2010 02:36 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday unveiled $500 million worth of civilian aid projects for key ally Pakistan, in an attempt to counter rampant anti-Americanism in the country by reaching out to the population with tangible help.

Tour de France Stage 15: Schleck vows 'revenge' after Contador steals lead (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 19 Jul 2010 11:28 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Defending champion Alberto Contador moved into the overall lead of the Tour de France today, but it wasn’t without controversy.

"Utterly Wrong": Cameron Criticizes the Lockerbie Bomber's Release (Time.com) Posted: 19 Jul 2010 04:15 PM PDT Time.com - As accusations that BP lobbied for the release of the Lockerbie bomber continue to build, British Prime Minister David Cameron tries to stop the issue from overshadowing his first official trip to the White House

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