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• Obama tries to derail Palestinian U.N. bid (Reuters)
• Two U.S. hikers convicted as spies leave Iran on bail (Reuters)
• Pakistan ISI urged attacks on U.S. targets: officials (Reuters)
• Snipers, shelling in Yemen break uneasy truce (Reuters)
• Libya rulers say they seize Gaddafi desert outposts (Reuters)
• Mexico's Gangsters Send a Grisly Message on Crime (Time.com)
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• Americans freed from Iran prison begin trek home (AP)
• Mexico drops terrorism charges in Twitter case (AP)
• AP Interview: Libyan royal offers to help homeland (AP)
• Typhoon buffets Tokyo, dumps rain in tsunami zone (AP)
• Harper says Bank of Canada can act on FX: report (Reuters)
• Australian PM won't watch sex-under-flag TV scene (AP)
• Tensions over Palestinian UN bid spur new patrols in West Bank (The Christian Science Monitor)
• American Hikers' Two-Year Iran Ordeal Is Over (Time.com)
• Mexican families struggle to find drug war's 'disappeared' (The Christian Science Monitor)

Obama tries to derail Palestinian U.N. bid (Reuters) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 04:53 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama told the United Nations on Wednesday there was no short cut to Middle East peace, but Palestinians said they would press on with a request for U.N. recognition of their nascent state.

Two U.S. hikers convicted as spies leave Iran on bail (Reuters) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 02:14 PM PDT Reuters - Two U.S. citizens sentenced in Iran to eight years' jail for spying flew out of the country on Wednesday after Oman paid bail of $1 million, diplomats said.

Pakistan ISI urged attacks on U.S. targets: officials (Reuters) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 04:37 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. officials say there is mounting evidence that Pakistan's chief intelligence agency has been encouraging a Pakistan-based militant network to attack U.S. targets.

Snipers, shelling in Yemen break uneasy truce (Reuters) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 12:11 PM PDT Reuters - Yemeni forces clashed with soldiers backing a mass protest movement in the capital Sanaa on Wednesday, breaching a short-lived truce on a day when six protesters were killed by snipers, shelling and gunfire.

Libya rulers say they seize Gaddafi desert outposts (Reuters) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 03:29 PM PDT Reuters - Libya's interim rulers said on Wednesday they had captured one of Muammar Gaddafi's last strongholds deep in the Sahara desert, finding chemical weapons, and largely taken control of another.

Mexico's Gangsters Send a Grisly Message on Crime (Time.com) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 09:55 AM PDT Time.com - The dumping of 35 bodies in rush hour traffic underscores the president's point that organized crime is killing more people than dictatorships

(AP) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 03:43 PM PDT AP - WikiLeaks chief Assange condemns publisher Canongate for issuing unauthorized autobiography.

Americans freed from Iran prison begin trek home (AP) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 04:24 PM PDT AP - After more than two years in Iranian custody, two Americans convicted as spies took their first steps toward home Wednesday as they bounded down from a private jet and into the arms of family for a joyful reunion in the Gulf state of Oman.

Mexico drops terrorism charges in Twitter case (AP) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 04:37 PM PDT AP - A Mexican man and woman who had been charged with terrorism for allegedly setting off a panic by tweeting rumors about nonexistent drug cartel attacks were freed Wednesday after prosecutors dropped the charges.

AP Interview: Libyan royal offers to help homeland (AP) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 01:50 PM PDT AP - The great-nephew of the Libyan king ousted by Moammar Gadhafi said Wednesday his countrymen should be allowed to decide if they want the return of the monarchy, offering his family as a "servant of the Libyan people."

Typhoon buffets Tokyo, dumps rain in tsunami zone (AP) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 03:24 PM PDT AP - A powerful typhoon slammed into Japan Wednesday, halting trains and leaving 13 people dead or missing in south-central regions before grazing a crippled nuclear plant and heaping rain on the tsunami-ravaged northeast.

Harper says Bank of Canada can act on FX: report (Reuters) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 02:46 PM PDT Reuters - The Bank of Canada could intervene to prevent a speculative appreciation of the Canadian dollar, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in an interview published on Wednesday.

Australian PM won't watch sex-under-flag TV scene (AP) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 12:06 AM PDT AP - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Wednesday that she did not plan to watch a TV program showing two comedians playing her and her partner blanketed by the national flag after having sex on her office floor.

Tensions over Palestinian UN bid spur new patrols in West Bank (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 12:19 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - As Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas defends his bid for statehood at the United Nations, his people are defending their land.

American Hikers' Two-Year Iran Ordeal Is Over (Time.com) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 09:55 AM PDT Time.com - The release of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal ends a 26-month hell for their families

Mexican families struggle to find drug war's 'disappeared' (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 11:17 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Veronica Coronilla said goodbye to her husband on March 21 as he set off from their home in rural Guanajuato in central Mexico with 22 other men to enter the United States illegally to find work. It was her husband's fifth trip, so Ms. Coronilla was not worried.

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