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• Venezuela severs ties with Colombia (AP)
• Tropical Storm Bonnie moving toward oil spill (AP)
• Some Internet porn sites in China now accessible (AP)
• Sister monument to Stonehenge may have been found (AP)
• Gaza tunnel smugglers cutting through Egypt's wall (AP)
• On North Korea and More, China Flexes Its Muscles (Time.com)
• US Senate panel denies asking Blair to testify (AFP)
• Israeli troops kill Palestinian at settlement (AP)
• Trinidad to probe coup attempt by Islamic group (AP)
• US apologizes to Russia in mysterious drug case (AP)
• Summary Box: World Cup lifts LG Display's profit (AP)
• New Zealander in Cambodia for Khmer Rouge verdict (AP)
• Climate and energy bill delayed as political support withers (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Tour de France Stage 17: Contador second by a hair, but likely to win overall (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Bali's Travel Boom: 'Eat, Pray, Love' Tourism (Time.com)
• Women Prepare to Set Sail Past Israel (OneWorld.net)

Venezuela severs ties with Colombia (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2010 05:30 PM PDT AP - President Hugo Chavez severed Venezuela's diplomatic relations with Colombia on Thursday over claims he harbors guerrillas, and he charged that his neighbor's leader could attempt to provoke a war.

Tropical Storm Bonnie moving toward oil spill (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2010 05:34 PM PDT AP - Tropical Storm Bonnie steamed into the central Bahamas on Thursday night while tracking a course that could take it over the site of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Some Internet porn sites in China now accessible (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2010 03:14 PM PDT AP - Word leaked out slowly, spread by Web-savvy folks on Twitter: Internet porn that once was blocked by Chinese government censors was now openly available.

Sister monument to Stonehenge may have been found (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2010 03:14 PM PDT AP - Scientists scouring the area around Stonehenge said Thursday they have uncovered a circular structure only a few hundred meters (yards) from the world famous monument.

Gaza tunnel smugglers cutting through Egypt's wall (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2010 01:12 PM PDT AP - A Palestinian tunnel smuggler with a blowtorch sliced through an underground steel wall early Thursday, the latest of what officials say are hundreds of holes cut into the Egyptian barrier meant to stop smuggling of goods, cash and weapons to the blockaded, Hamas-run Gaza Strip.

On North Korea and More, China Flexes Its Muscles (Time.com) Posted: 22 Jul 2010 05:15 PM PDT Time.com - As the U.S. and South Korea play war games near Chinese waters, Beijing makes bellicose sounds. Soon, it may threaten with more than noise

US Senate panel denies asking Blair to testify (AFP) Posted: 22 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT AFP - A US Senate panel categorically denied Thursday having asked former British prime minister Tony Blair to testify about whether BP lobbied for the release of the Lockerbie bomber.

Israeli troops kill Palestinian at settlement (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2010 12:45 PM PDT AP - Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian man entering a Jewish settlement in the West Bank on Thursday, drawing a Palestinian accusation that soldiers are too quick to open fire.

Trinidad to probe coup attempt by Islamic group (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2010 05:53 PM PDT AP - Trinidad and Tobago's new government announced Thursday it will name a commission to look into a bloody 1990 coup attempt by a radical Islamic group in the twin-island Caribbean nation.

US apologizes to Russia in mysterious drug case (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2010 03:23 PM PDT AP - The U.S. apologized to Russia on Thursday for what it called a diplomatic slip-up in the case of a Russian man arrested in Africa and then extradited to the U.S. for alleged drug smuggling.

Summary Box: World Cup lifts LG Display's profit (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2010 02:55 PM PDT AP - SHOOTS, SCORES: LG Display's second-quarter net income rose 51 percent on record sales and higher prices for its liquid crystal displays amid strong demand for flat-screen televisions spurred in part by football's World Cup.

New Zealander in Cambodia for Khmer Rouge verdict (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2010 08:49 AM PDT AP - The brother of one of a handful of Westerners killed by the Khmer Rouge returned to Cambodia for a landmark verdict in a war crimes tribunal, saying there can never be adequate justice for his family.

Climate and energy bill delayed as political support withers (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 22 Jul 2010 04:23 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Bowing a lack of support, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Thursday said there'd be no vote this summer on a bill that would put the nation's first limits on the carbon pollution responsible for global warming.

Tour de France Stage 17: Contador second by a hair, but likely to win overall (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 22 Jul 2010 11:57 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Andy Schleck won the Tour de France's Stage 17 today, but Alberto Contador â€" second by half a bike length â€" may have wrapped up the overall Tour title.

Bali's Travel Boom: 'Eat, Pray, Love' Tourism (Time.com) Posted: 22 Jul 2010 05:15 PM PDT Time.com - After selling millions of copies, Elizabeth Gilbert's 2006 book Eat, Pray, Love has inspired hordes of spiritual tourists to visit the island of Bali

Women Prepare to Set Sail Past Israel (OneWorld.net) Posted: 22 Jul 2010 04:20 AM PDT OneWorld.net - BEIRUT, Jul 22 (IPS) - The 'Maryam', an all-female Lebanese aid ship, currently docked in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli, is getting ready to set sail for Gaza in the next few days. The ship, which aims to break Israel's siege on the Palestinian territory, will carry about 50 aid workers, including some U.S. nuns keen to deliver aid to the long-suffering women and children of Gaza.

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