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• Bomber kills 61 Iraqis in recruitment drive (AP)
• Palestinian who attacked Turkish Embassy captured (AP)
• Mexico City mayor demands cardinal apologize (AP)
• Flood victims mob relief trucks in Pakistan (AP)
• Kosovo Begins to Find an Independent National Identity (Time.com)
• British travel firm collapse ruins plans for holidaymakers (AFP)
• Some of the recent attacks in Iraq (AP)
• Venezuela bans violent photos in newspapers (AP)
• Oil discovered offshore in Mozambique (AFP)
• Bodies found after fishing boat sinks in Southern Ocean (AFP)
• Harper says will not call election in fall (Reuters)
• Mother renews plea to name dingo as baby's killer (AP)
• Pakistan flood aid inadequate, U.N. warns (McClatchy Newspapers)
• China's economy as No. 2: How it's playing in Japan (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Pakistan's Floods May Sink the Economy and Zardari (Time.com)
• Mexico Supreme Court Upholds Non-Discrimination Against Gays (OneWorld.net)

Bomber kills 61 Iraqis in recruitment drive (AP) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 02:08 PM PDT AP - Young men from some of Iraq's poorest areas waited all night outside an army recruitment center, only to become easy prey Tuesday for a suicide bomber who killed 61 in the crowd. Desperate for jobs, dazed survivors rushed to get back in line after the attack.

Palestinian who attacked Turkish Embassy captured (AP) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 04:28 PM PDT AP - A Palestinian who broke into the Turkish Embassy in Israel trying to take hostages and demanding asylum was turned over to Israeli authorities late Tuesday, ending a tense standoff.

Mexico City mayor demands cardinal apologize (AP) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:51 PM PDT AP - Mexico City's leftist mayor said Tuesday he will take legal action if a Roman Catholic cardinal doesn't apologize for suggesting he bribed the Supreme Court to uphold a city law allowing adoptions by same-sex couples.

Flood victims mob relief trucks in Pakistan (AP) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 03:34 PM PDT AP - Victims of Pakistan's deadly floods mobbed relief trucks carrying food Tuesday and authorities in the northwest warned of famine unless the region's farmers got immediate help with planting new crops.

Kosovo Begins to Find an Independent National Identity (Time.com) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 11:55 AM PDT Time.com - A World Court ruling last month gave a huge boost to the legitimacy of secession by the tiny former province of Serbia. Now that Kosovars are confident about independence, they find time to look ahead

British travel firm collapse ruins plans for holidaymakers (AFP) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 03:40 PM PDT AFP - Budget travel firm Kiss Flights became the latest British holiday company to collapse on Tuesday, leaving plans for tens of thousands of holidaymakers in tatters.

Some of the recent attacks in Iraq (AP) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:45 PM PDT AP - A look at recent major attacks in Iraq:

Venezuela bans violent photos in newspapers (AP) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 02:56 PM PDT AP - A court ordered Venezuela's newspapers on Tuesday to stop publishing photographs depicting blood, guns and other violent images and warned an opposition-aligned daily that it could face a hefty fine for publishing a photo of bodies in a morgue.

Oil discovered offshore in Mozambique (AFP) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 03:44 PM PDT AFP - American oil company Anadarko has discovered offshore oil deposits in northern Mozambique, but it is unclear if the find will prove commercially viable, a company spokesman said Tuesday.

Bodies found after fishing boat sinks in Southern Ocean (AFP) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 04:46 PM PDT AFP - Three people died and another three were missing after a New Zealand chartered fishing boat with a crew of 51 sank in icy waters in the Southern Ocean early Wednesday, rescuers said.

Harper says will not call election in fall (Reuters) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 11:14 AM PDT Reuters - Prime Minister Stephen Harper repeated on Tuesday that Canadians are not seeking a federal election this fall and said he will not be calling one.

Mother renews plea to name dingo as baby's killer (AP) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 04:28 PM PDT AP - The mother wrongly convicted of murdering her infant after the baby infamously disappeared in the Australian Outback 30 years ago has pleaded for her daughter's death certificate to state that a dingo was responsible.

Pakistan flood aid inadequate, U.N. warns (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 02:52 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD — Pakistan remains desperately short of the money it needs to cope with the huge floods that have devastated the country in the past two weeks, the United Nations warned Tuesday as the scale of the disaster continued to grow.

China's economy as No. 2: How it's playing in Japan (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:25 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - China finally overtook Japan and became the world’s second-biggest economy, according to data released this week in Tokyo, which showed minimal GDP growth in the land of the rising sun, while its huge neighbor continued its blistering rise.

Pakistan's Floods May Sink the Economy and Zardari (Time.com) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 11:55 AM PDT Time.com - The catastrophic floods have damaged Pakistan's agricultural center and set up an already unpopular President, Asif Ali Zardari, for more political attacks

Mexico Supreme Court Upholds Non-Discrimination Against Gays (OneWorld.net) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 02:36 AM PDT OneWorld.net - MEXICO CITY, Aug 16 (IPS) - In the last two weeks, Mexico's Supreme Court has taken two fundamental steps in recognising the rights of gays and lesbians. On Monday, it voted to uphold a Mexico City law that allows same-sex couples to adopt.

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