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• UK spy chief warns of dissident Republican threat (AP)
• Guinea vote delays may stoke ethnic divisions (AP)
• 15 die in Somalia as parliament demands gov't vote (AP)
• Pope admits church failures in sex abuse scandal (AP)
• France defies EU criticism on Gypsy expulsions (AP)
• Cuba's Coming Layoffs: Even the Party Faithful Shudder (Time.com)
• Pakistani politician murdered outside London home: reports (AFP)
• Iran's president brings political baggage to NY (AP)
• PRico applauds guilty verdict in horse abuse case (AP)
• Nigerian agency vows to pursue graft cases despite threat (AFP)
• Japan PM set to reshuffle cabinet (AFP)
• Conservatives have narrow lead: poll (Reuters)
• Breakthrough for cancer-hit Tasmanian devils (AFP)
• Chinese fisherman on Yellow River reels in corpses (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Pope Benedict XVI extends hand to a wary Britain (The Christian Science Monitor)
• While France Deports Roma Gypsies, Spain Integrates Them (Time.com)

UK spy chief warns of dissident Republican threat (AP) Posted: 16 Sep 2010 04:01 PM PDT AP - The head of Britain's domestic spy agency warned Friday that the U.K. faces potent new threats from terrorism incubated in Northern Ireland, the Middle East and North Africa.

Guinea vote delays may stoke ethnic divisions (AP) Posted: 16 Sep 2010 02:42 PM PDT AP - Election officials on Thursday confirmed that a critical presidential runoff in Guinea has been postponed by at least two weeks as the warehouse storing voting materials for the upcoming ballot went up in flames, developments that may stoke ethnic divisions at the heart of the vote.

15 die in Somalia as parliament demands gov't vote (AP) Posted: 16 Sep 2010 02:35 PM PDT AP - Mortar rounds fired by suspected Islamist insurgents crashed into Somalia's government complex on Thursday, killing three government soldiers, wounding a member of parliament and triggering a counterattack that killed a dozen more people.

Pope admits church failures in sex abuse scandal (AP) Posted: 16 Sep 2010 05:02 PM PDT AP - Pope Benedict XVI waded into the hostile atmosphere Thursday of highly secular Britain, admitting the Catholic Church did not act decisively or quickly enough to remove priests who molested children in his strongest comments yet on the worldwide sex abuse crisis shaking his church.

France defies EU criticism on Gypsy expulsions (AP) Posted: 16 Sep 2010 01:51 PM PDT AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy upended a European Union summit to defend his own nation's honor, vowing Thursday to keep clearing out illegal immigrant camps despite accusations that France is being racist and unfairly targets Gypsies.

Cuba's Coming Layoffs: Even the Party Faithful Shudder (Time.com) Posted: 16 Sep 2010 12:00 PM PDT Time.com - The Castro regime's decision to lay-off 500,000 state workers is testing the faith of loyal Communists

Pakistani politician murdered outside London home: reports (AFP) Posted: 16 Sep 2010 04:56 PM PDT AFP - A leading Pakistani politician living in Britain has been murdered outside his London home, reports said.

Iran's president brings political baggage to NY (AP) Posted: 16 Sep 2010 12:26 PM PDT AP - Iran's president will likely swagger into New York next week in much the same style as past visits for the annual U.N. General Assembly: ready to take his jabs at America on its home turf.

PRico applauds guilty verdict in horse abuse case (AP) Posted: 16 Sep 2010 03:57 PM PDT AP - A man accused of dragging a stubborn horse alongside his truck has become the first person convicted by a Puerto Rico jury under an animal protection law enacted after dogs were thrown to their deaths from a bridge.

Nigerian agency vows to pursue graft cases despite threat (AFP) Posted: 16 Sep 2010 11:26 AM PDT AFP - The head of Nigerian anti-graft agency EFCC vowed Thursday to pursue ongoing graft investigation and cases against politicians despite threat of attacks and violence against its officials.

Japan PM set to reshuffle cabinet (AFP) Posted: 16 Sep 2010 04:40 PM PDT AFP - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan is set to reshuffle his three-month-old cabinet on Friday in a bid to boost public support, just days after being re-elected as party president.

Conservatives have narrow lead: poll (Reuters) Posted: 16 Sep 2010 07:47 AM PDT Reuters - The Conservatives, who suffered a series of political reverses over the summer, have recovered slightly but only enjoy a narrow lead in popular support over their main rivals, according to a poll released on Thursday.

Breakthrough for cancer-hit Tasmanian devils (AFP) Posted: 16 Sep 2010 02:52 AM PDT AFP - Australian scientists said on Thursday they had made a breakthrough in the fight to save the cancer-hit Tasmanian devil by mapping the species' genome for the first time.

Chinese fisherman on Yellow River reels in corpses (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 16 Sep 2010 12:29 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - NEAR CHANGPO VILLAGE, China — From his perch on an overhang above the Yellow River, Wei Jinpeng pointed to a fisherman's cove below and began counting his latest catch. He stopped after six, and guessed that perhaps a dozen human corpses were bobbing in the murky waters.

Pope Benedict XVI extends hand to a wary Britain (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 16 Sep 2010 07:44 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Pope Benedict XVI today made one of his frankest admissions of church failings in priestly sex abuse of children, telling reporters en route to a controversial papal visit to Britain that the Roman Catholic Church was not “sufficiently vigilant” and “not sufficiently swift and decisive.”

While France Deports Roma Gypsies, Spain Integrates Them (Time.com) Posted: 16 Sep 2010 12:00 PM PDT Time.com - As France, Italy and other European countries focus on expelling Gypsies, Spain has learned to embrace them. Is this an example the rest of the region should follow?

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