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• 'Miracle' in Colombia crash: Woman dies, 130 live (AP)
• Mexico supreme court upholds gay adoptions (AP)
• Mexico: Hunting party of 8 killed in Oaxaca state (AP)
• Afghan gov't: 4 months to disband security firms (AP)
• On Facebook: Israeli soldier posed with bound Arab (AP)
• Private Planes Flying Illegally in China's Airspace (Time.com)
• Fergie wants United to keep pressure on Chelsea (AFP)
• Lightning kills 7 school children in Darfur (AP)
• Communists: 'Jackal' should return to Venezuela (AP)
• In ANC bill, South African media see threat to press freedom (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Death toll for China fireworks blast rises to 19 (AP)
• Corrected: Canada existing home sales fall (Reuters)
• China military gaining on Taiwan, aiming beyond: US (AFP)
• What's meeting of U.S. lawmakers, Karzai opponents mean? (McClatchy Newspapers)
• In Colombia plane crash, pilot skill praised for minimal injury (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Kashmir Chief Abdullah Becomes a Target of Public Anger (Time.com)

'Miracle' in Colombia crash: Woman dies, 130 live (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 06:28 PM PDT AP - A Boeing 737 jetliner filled with vacationers crashed in a thunderstorm and broke apart as it slid onto the runway on a Caribbean island Monday. Only one of the 131 people on board died, and the island's governor called it a miracle.

Mexico supreme court upholds gay adoptions (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 04:36 PM PDT AP - Mexico's Supreme Court voted Monday to uphold a Mexico City law allowing adoptions by same-sex couples, drawing jubilant cheers from gay advocacy groups and angry protests from Roman Catholic Church representatives.

Mexico: Hunting party of 8 killed in Oaxaca state (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 03:42 PM PDT AP - Attackers shot eight men to death and piled their bodies in a pickup truck in the southern state of Oaxaca, and gunmen kidnapped the mayor of a city on the outskirts of the northern industrial hub of Monterrey, Mexican authorities said Monday.

Afghan gov't: 4 months to disband security firms (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 11:35 AM PDT AP - Afghanistan's president is issuing an ultimatum to thousands of private security contractors he says are undermining his nation's army and police force: Cease operations in four months.

On Facebook: Israeli soldier posed with bound Arab (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 06:28 PM PDT AP - A former Israeli soldier posted photos on Facebook of herself in uniform smiling beside bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners, drawing sharp criticism Monday from the Israeli military and Palestinian officials.

Private Planes Flying Illegally in China's Airspace (Time.com) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 05:35 PM PDT Time.com - As planes and helicopters become the new playthings of China's wealthy elite, illegal flights are becoming a headache for the nation's air-traffic controllers

Fergie wants United to keep pressure on Chelsea (AFP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 06:01 PM PDT AFP - Sir Alex Ferguson insists keeping pace with Chelsea is Manchester United's main priority despite the Premier League season only being days old.

Lightning kills 7 school children in Darfur (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 02:05 PM PDT AP - Sudan's state news agency says lightning has struck a religious school in the country's western Darfur region, killing seven children.

Communists: 'Jackal' should return to Venezuela (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 06:03 PM PDT AP - Venezuela's Communist Party urged the government on Monday to seek the repatriation of convicted terrorist "Carlos the Jackal," who is serving a life sentence in France for murder.

In ANC bill, South African media see threat to press freedom (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 01:22 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - During the height (or depths) of South Africa’s racist apartheid era, draconian media laws restricted reporters from meeting with members of the then-illegal opposition movement, the African National Congress. Even mentioning the names of independence fighters like Nelson Mandela or Jacob Zuma in print was seen as a threat to national security.

Death toll for China fireworks blast rises to 19 (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 05:55 PM PDT AP - The death toll from a massive explosion at a fireworks factory in northeast China rose Tuesday to at least 19 workers, with five still missing.

Corrected: Canada existing home sales fall (Reuters) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 07:04 AM PDT Reuters - Corrects headline to "existing home sales" from "new home sales"

China military gaining on Taiwan, aiming beyond: US (AFP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 01:48 PM PDT AFP - China is extending its military advantage over Taiwan and increasingly looking beyond, building up a force with power to strike in Asia up to the US territory of Guam, the Pentagon said Monday.

What's meeting of U.S. lawmakers, Karzai opponents mean? (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 03:34 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Four members of the House of Representatives held talks last month in Europe with leaders of Afghanistan's ethnic minorities, including a former vice president, opposed to President Hamid Karzai and his U.S.-backed initiative to open political negotiations with the Taliban.

In Colombia plane crash, pilot skill praised for minimal injury (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 01:54 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Officials in Colombia called it a “miracle” that the plane crash on a Colombian island early Monday morning resulted in just one death.

Kashmir Chief Abdullah Becomes a Target of Public Anger (Time.com) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 05:35 PM PDT Time.com - During a flag-raising ceremony in Srinagar, a police sub-inspector threw his shoe at Omar Abdullah, the state's embattled chief minister. The shoe didn't come close, but the damage to Abdullah's battered reputation was done

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