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• Pakistan thanks world for opening wallets (AP)
• Australia votes on whether first woman PM survives (AP)
• Wyclef Jean brings sizzle to Haiti election (AP)
• Dutch sailor girl set to leave on solo world trip (AP)
• Police arrested in northern Mexico mayor's killing (AP)
• War Fears May be Overblown as Iran Brings its Nuclear Reactor Online (Time.com)
• Huang withdraws bid to buy Liverpool (AFP)
• Al-Qaida in Iraq claims army recruit bombing (AP)
• Mexico catches suspects with 3,756 sea turtle eggs (AP)
• Nigeria: Election pressure mounts for quiet leader (AP)
• Australians vote in cliffhanger elections (AFP)
• Canada talks tough in jockeying over Arctic (Reuters)
• Australians vote in cliffhanger election (Reuters)
• Skepticism widespread in Mideast over new peace talks (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Is Ground Zero mosque part of culture war or symbol of tolerance? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Why Kashmir is Burning Again (Time.com)

Pakistan thanks world for opening wallets (AP) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:13 PM PDT AP - Pakistan thanked the world Friday for opening its wallets and said more than 20 million flood victims now know that nations and people around the globe are standing with them during the worst disaster the country has ever faced.

Australia votes on whether first woman PM survives (AP) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:35 PM PDT AP - Australians choose Saturday whether they will cut down their first woman prime minister after only two months in power and return to conservative rule in a cliffhanger election that threatens the survival of a first-term center-left government.

Wyclef Jean brings sizzle to Haiti election (AP) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:23 PM PDT AP - An anxious public waited Friday to hear whether hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean would be allowed to run for president of Haiti, but one thing is already certain: The singer has brought sizzle to the election, attracting fresh attention to a country still devastated by the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Dutch sailor girl set to leave on solo world trip (AP) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:03 PM PDT AP - A 14-year-old Dutch girl will set off Saturday on a controversial attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world, her representatives said.

Police arrested in northern Mexico mayor's killing (AP) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:50 PM PDT AP - Six city police officers were arrested Friday in the killing of a mayor in northern Mexico, as the country's escalating drug violence targets more public officials.

War Fears May be Overblown as Iran Brings its Nuclear Reactor Online (Time.com) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:20 PM PDT Time.com - The Bushehr reactor built by Russia is not suspected of offering Tehran any weapons capability. And so, despite a furious war debate in parts of the media, the next phase of the standoff is likely to be a new round of talks

Huang withdraws bid to buy Liverpool (AFP) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:04 PM PDT AFP - Chinese businessman Kenny Huang on Friday ruled himself out of the running to buy English Premier League club Liverpool.

Al-Qaida in Iraq claims army recruit bombing (AP) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:09 PM PDT AP - An al-Qaida in Iraq front group on Friday claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing this week that killed 61 Iraqi army recruits in the deadliest single act of violence in Baghdad in months.

Mexico catches suspects with 3,756 sea turtle eggs (AP) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:04 PM PDT AP - Police in Mexico say six suspects have been detained on the southern Pacific coast with 3,756 illegally harvested eggs from protected sea turtles.

Nigeria: Election pressure mounts for quiet leader (AP) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:23 PM PDT AP - While Nigeria's president remains silent on whether he'll seek the oil-rich nation's highest office in upcoming elections, the campaign has all but begun on the Internet.

Australians vote in cliffhanger elections (AFP) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:27 PM PDT AFP - Australians voted in the closest national elections in decades on Saturday with the country's first woman prime minister Julia Gillard neck-and-neck with conservative challenger Tony Abbott.

Canada talks tough in jockeying over Arctic (Reuters) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 12:32 PM PDT Reuters - Canada will promote itself as an Arctic power in asserting its sovereignty over the resource-rich region, the government said on Friday in a paper laying out its foreign policy plans for the Far North.

Australians vote in cliffhanger election (Reuters) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:07 PM PDT Reuters - Australians voted on Saturday in the closest general election in decades with voters deeply divided on whether to give Labor a second term or opt for conservative rule, raising a real prospect of a minority government.

Skepticism widespread in Mideast over new peace talks (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:52 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - JERUSALEM — As the Obama administration heralded a new round of face-to-face talks on Mideast peace, the abiding reaction across the region Friday was skepticism, with many expressing doubt that conditions are ripe for much to come from negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

Is Ground Zero mosque part of culture war or symbol of tolerance? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 06:15 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Most of the opponents of the so-called Ground Zero mosque, scheduled for construction two blocks from the old World Trade Center in Manhattan, say their objections are largely out respect for the dead and concern for the families who have spent the past nine years trying to rebuild their lives.

Why Kashmir is Burning Again (Time.com) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:20 PM PDT Time.com - Why Kashmir is Burning Again

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