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• Wife gives 2nd statement on border lake shooting (AP)
• 2 miners found dead after Ecuador tunnel collapse (AP)
• Fuel supplies low as French protest pension reform (AP)
• Attacks hit Kandahar, killing 2 Afghan civilians (AP)
• With flawless rescue, Chile hopes to join the club (AP)
• Lessons from the Chile Mine Rescue: What Underdogs Can Teach Us (Time.com)
• Basque separatist says ETA should declare 'permanent truce' (AFP)
• Palestinians weighing alternatives to peace talks (AP)
• 1 dead, 39 hurt in Jamaica bus crash; driver flees (AP)
• Nigerian president vows to toughen anti-terorism law (AFP)
• Vatican to announce Australia's first saint (AFP)
• Australian says Guantanamo was 'six years of hell' (AFP)
• As media circus wanes, Chile miners' families turn spotlight on reporters' antics (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Nepal: The Man Who Would Be King, Again (Time.com)
• Why 13 percent of Germans would welcome a 'Führer' (The Christian Science Monitor)

Wife gives 2nd statement on border lake shooting (AP) Posted: 16 Oct 2010 04:54 PM PDT AP - The wife of an American tourist reported shot to death by pirates on a border lake has given helpful new details about the incident to Mexican authorities, Mexico's government said Saturday.

2 miners found dead after Ecuador tunnel collapse (AP) Posted: 16 Oct 2010 03:03 PM PDT AP - Search teams found the bodies of two miners Saturday and were still looking for two other men missing since a tunnel collapsed 490 feet (150 meters) underground the previous day.

Fuel supplies low as French protest pension reform (AP) Posted: 16 Oct 2010 12:58 PM PDT AP - Officials have taken the extraordinary step of warning some flights landing at France's main airport to come with enough fuel to get back home, bracing for a possible fuel shortage after a new round of protests Saturday against plans to raise the retirement age to 62.

Attacks hit Kandahar, killing 2 Afghan civilians (AP) Posted: 16 Oct 2010 11:53 AM PDT AP - A series of blasts killed at least two civilians and wounded several others Saturday in Afghanistan's main southern city, the scene of several recent deadly attacks on police.

With flawless rescue, Chile hopes to join the club (AP) Posted: 16 Oct 2010 11:09 AM PDT AP - As the capsule carried the first rescuer down to the 33 trapped miners, President Sebastian Pinera closed his eyes, made the sign of the cross and then smiled at Mining Minister Laurence Golborne.

Lessons from the Chile Mine Rescue: What Underdogs Can Teach Us (Time.com) Posted: 16 Oct 2010 11:25 AM PDT Time.com - As Camp Hope is dismantled, TIME's correspondent on the scene contemplates the "heroism" of the 33 -- and why it means so much to the rest of the world

Basque separatist says ETA should declare 'permanent truce' (AFP) Posted: 16 Oct 2010 05:33 PM PDT AFP - Arnaldo Otegi, the jailed top leader of the banned political wing of ETA, said the Basque separatist group should declare a permanent ceasefire, in an interview published by El Pais daily on Sunday.

Palestinians weighing alternatives to peace talks (AP) Posted: 16 Oct 2010 02:22 PM PDT AP - The Palestinians will study alternatives to peace talks with Israel in the coming days, a top PLO official said Saturday, after Israel gave the green light to build 238 new houses for Jews on war-won land Palestinians seek for their state.

1 dead, 39 hurt in Jamaica bus crash; driver flees (AP) Posted: 16 Oct 2010 02:31 PM PDT AP - Police in Jamaica say a bus has plunged over a cliff on the Caribbean island's north coast, killing a teenage girl and injuring 39 people.

Nigerian president vows to toughen anti-terorism law (AFP) Posted: 16 Oct 2010 03:31 PM PDT AFP - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan Saturday vowed to toughen anti-terrorism laws so that kidnappers and robbers had their property within and outside the country confiscated.

Vatican to announce Australia's first saint (AFP) Posted: 16 Oct 2010 02:14 PM PDT AFP - Pope Benedict XVI will formally recognise Australia's first saint, Mary MacKillop, at a ceremony in front of Saint Peter's basilica on Sunday.

Australian says Guantanamo was 'six years of hell' (AFP) Posted: 15 Oct 2010 10:53 PM PDT AFP - Australia's former long-serving Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks Saturday broke his silence on life inside the US-run prison, saying he endured deprivation and witnessed brutality in "six years of hell".

As media circus wanes, Chile miners' families turn spotlight on reporters' antics (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 15 Oct 2010 01:48 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - At 2 a.m. Thursday in Chile's Atacama Desert, family members of newly freed miners gathered around a campfire at Camp Hope. The ubiquitous flat-screen televisions that had aired the rescue of 33 trapped miners were off, and it was for once possible to hear the hiss and pop of charcoal.

Nepal: The Man Who Would Be King, Again (Time.com) Posted: 16 Oct 2010 10:25 AM PDT Time.com - While former king Gyanendra Shah and Nepal's fractured government jockey for power and influence, residents of the Himalayan nation are stuck in the middle

Why 13 percent of Germans would welcome a 'Führer' (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 15 Oct 2010 01:10 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - A new survey in Germany shows that 13 percent of its citizens would welcome a “Führer” â€" a German word for leader that is explicitly associated with Adolf Hitler â€" to run the country “with a firm hand.”

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