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• Mexico nabs drug trafficker poised to replace capo (AP)
• Israel: Settlers brace for end of building freeze (AP)
• Abbas says settlements block Mideast peace deal (AP)
• At UN, climate ministers seek way out of stalemate (AP)
• Tensions Rise as Israel's Settlement Deadline Looms (Time.com)
• ETA ready for verifiable, permanent ceasefire: report (AFP)
• AP photographer wounded during West Bank protest (AP)
• First rescue capsule arrives at Chilean mine (AP)
• Nobel laureate launches political party in Nigeria (AFP)
• Wounded in Iraq, double-amputee returns to war (AP)
• Australia's first saint 'exposed paedophile priest' (AFP)
• South Sudan referendum plans seem shaky (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Trapped (Time.com)
• Mexican drug cartels: Can journalists escape their violence? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Mexico nabs drug trafficker poised to replace capo (AP) Posted: 25 Sep 2010 04:05 PM PDT AP - Mexican authorities have arrested an alleged trafficker known as "The Tiger" who they say shipped a half-ton of drugs to the U.S. each month and may have been poised to take over for a dead capo in the Sinaloa cartel.

Israel: Settlers brace for end of building freeze (AP) Posted: 25 Sep 2010 03:37 PM PDT AP - Israeli settlers have hauled construction equipment into a Jewish settlement deep inside the West Bank, officials said Saturday, preparing to break ground on a new housing project even as the U.S. raced to prevent peace talks from collapsing with the end of an Israeli moratorium on settlement building.

Abbas says settlements block Mideast peace deal (AP) Posted: 25 Sep 2010 03:49 PM PDT AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday there will be no peace deal with Israel unless the Jewish state stops settlement construction in areas the Palestinians claim for their future state.

At UN, climate ministers seek way out of stalemate (AP) Posted: 25 Sep 2010 02:09 PM PDT AP - Climate ministers and top negotiators from dozens of nations remain deadlocked over how to cut greenhouse gases less than three months before the next major international climate summit.

Tensions Rise as Israel's Settlement Deadline Looms (Time.com) Posted: 25 Sep 2010 07:00 AM PDT Time.com - The U.S. may have the leverage to keep Palestinians in the peace talks even if Israel resumes building in settlements, but the showdown underscores the bleak outlook for negotiations

ETA ready for verifiable, permanent ceasefire: report (AFP) Posted: 25 Sep 2010 04:00 PM PDT AFP - The armed Basque separatist group ETA is ready to observe a permanent and verifiable ceasefire, the website of Basque newspaper Gara reported Saturday, based on interviews with two ETA members.

AP photographer wounded during West Bank protest (AP) Posted: 25 Sep 2010 04:38 PM PDT AP - An Associated Press photographer suffered a broken rib on Saturday while being detained by Israeli security forces during a protest in the West Bank.

First rescue capsule arrives at Chilean mine (AP) Posted: 25 Sep 2010 04:10 PM PDT AP - The first of three rescue capsules specially built to lift out 33 miners trapped since early August arrived at the mine Saturday.

Nobel laureate launches political party in Nigeria (AFP) Posted: 25 Sep 2010 04:18 PM PDT AFP - Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka launched a new political party Saturday in Nigeria ahead of upcoming presidential elections, saying he wanted to take aim at corruption and give hope to young voters.

Wounded in Iraq, double-amputee returns to war (AP) Posted: 25 Sep 2010 03:13 PM PDT AP - When a bomb exploded under Dan Luckett's Army Humvee in Iraq two years ago — blowing off one of his legs and part of his foot — the first thing he thought was: "That's it. You're done. No more Army for you."

Australia's first saint 'exposed paedophile priest' (AFP) Posted: 24 Sep 2010 11:30 PM PDT AFP - The late nun who is soon to become Australia's first Catholic saint was briefly excommunicated by the church in part because she exposed a paedophile priest, a new documentary claims.

South Sudan referendum plans seem shaky (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 24 Sep 2010 01:12 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Matthew Majok seemed strangely unperturbed as he explained why the family has not returned to planting as many crops as it did prior to Sudan’s decades-long civil war, which ended five years ago.

Trapped (Time.com) Posted: 25 Sep 2010 07:00 AM PDT Time.com - How the Trapped Chilean Miners Are Surviving Underground

Mexican drug cartels: Can journalists escape their violence? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 24 Sep 2010 12:25 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The Mexican press has been subject to assault and attack at the hands of suspected drug traffickers â€" including grenades launched into high-tech broadcast stations and dingy newspaper offices â€" for years.

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