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• Pastor cancels Quran-burning, then reconsiders (AP)
• Iran to free female American for holiday clemency (AP)
• Activist: Beached whale in Brazil can't be saved (AP)
• Suicide car bombing in southern Russia kills 17 (AP)
• US Marines take back pirate-held ship off Somalia (AP)
• Why Foreign Businesses in China Are Getting Mad (Time.com)
• Serbia backs compromise U.N. resolution on Kosovo (Reuters)
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• Critics say Mexico needs to learn from Colombia (AP)
• Sudan's Darfur rebels say attacked by Ugandan LRA (Reuters)
• U.S. troops charged with murder of Afghan civilians (Reuters)
• Air India bomb perjury trial starts in Canada (Reuters)
• Australian regulators reject NAB bid for AXA Asia Pacific (AFP)
• Quran burning canceled after Pentagon calls pastor (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Germany considers scrapping the draft (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Rachel Corrie v. Israel Trial: Contradictions Emerge (Time.com)

Pastor cancels Quran-burning, then reconsiders (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 06:08 PM PDT AP - An anti-Islamic preacher backed off and then threatened to reconsider burning the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, angrily accusing a Muslim leader of lying to him Thursday with a promise to move an Islamic center and mosque away from New York's ground zero. The imam planning the center denied there was ever such a deal.

Iran to free female American for holiday clemency (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 03:22 PM PDT AP - Iran said Thursday it will free Sarah Shourd, one of three Americans jailed for more than 13 months, as an act of clemency to mark the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

Activist: Beached whale in Brazil can't be saved (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 06:05 PM PDT AP - An animal-rights activist says an endangered right whale stranded on a beach in southern Brazil for two days is too weak to be rescued and returned safely to the sea.

Suicide car bombing in southern Russia kills 17 (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 01:59 PM PDT AP - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin blamed extremists "without souls, without hearts" for a suicide car bombing that killed 17 people Thursday in the crowded central market of a city in the North Caucasus.

US Marines take back pirate-held ship off Somalia (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 05:35 PM PDT AP - U.S. Marine commandos stormed a pirate-held cargo ship off the Somalia coast Thursday, reclaiming control and taking nine prisoners without firing a shot in the first such boarding raid by the international anti-piracy flotilla, U.S. Navy officials said.

Why Foreign Businesses in China Are Getting Mad (Time.com) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 04:25 PM PDT Time.com - Foreign businesses in China are voicing growing frustration about the country's heavily regulated market -- a bureaucratic maze many say is deliberately designed to hamstring non-Chinese players to the advantage of their local competitors

Serbia backs compromise U.N. resolution on Kosovo (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 04:30 PM PDT Reuters - In a concession to the European Union that it hopes to join, Serbia supported a compromise U.N. resolution on Kosovo on Thursday that dropped its earlier demands to reopen talks on the status of its former province.

(AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 12:38 PM PDT AP - Iran says female American held for more than year will be released.

Critics say Mexico needs to learn from Colombia (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 04:50 PM PDT AP - With a blunt remark that grated on Mexicans, Washington's top diplomat was merely echoing a growing concern about the alarming violence and instability being caused by Mexico's war on drug cartels.

Sudan's Darfur rebels say attacked by Ugandan LRA (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 02:34 PM PDT Reuters - A Darfur rebel group said on Thursday it was attacked by Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army guerrillas in Sudan's west.

U.S. troops charged with murder of Afghan civilians (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 05:58 PM PDT Reuters - Twelve U.S. soldiers have been charged with gruesome crimes in Afghanistan ranging from murdering civilians to keeping body parts as war trophies -- revelations that the Pentagon said on Thursday damaged America's image around the world.

Air India bomb perjury trial starts in Canada (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 01:32 PM PDT Reuters - A Canadian man's own actions will prove he lied to a court about having no knowledge of the conspiracy that led to the deadly bombing of Air India Flight 182 in 1985, prosecutors said at the start of a perjury trial on Thursday.

Australian regulators reject NAB bid for AXA Asia Pacific (AFP) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 01:43 AM PDT AFP - Australian regulators rejected National Australia Bank's 12.2 billion US dollar bid for financial firm AXA Asia Pacific on competition concerns Thursday, in a move welcomed by rival suitor AMP.

Quran burning canceled after Pentagon calls pastor (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 05:33 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Under tremendous pressure from U.S. officials all the way up to President Barack Obama, a Florida pastor on Thursday called off a Quran burning that he'd scheduled for Saturday, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, which had drawn international condemnation and posed a potential threat to national security.

Germany considers scrapping the draft (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 08 Sep 2010 02:30 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The young man playing with kids at the Main Krokodile preschool here isn't your typical caregiver. He's among the tens of thousands of Germans who fulfill their military service by working with children, the elderly, or the disabled. The head of the school, Berndt Niedergesäss, is all for it: "The children love dealing with men," he says.

Rachel Corrie v. Israel Trial: Contradictions Emerge (Time.com) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 04:25 PM PDT Time.com - The family of American activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer, is fighting a civil suit in Israel's courts, forcing the authorities to reveal details of her death

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