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Libyans urged to unite after death of Gaddafi (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 11:54 AM PDT

U.S. Gen. David H. Petraeus (R) explains security improvements in Sadr City while giving an aerial tour of Baghdad to U.S. Senator Barack Obama and others, in this July 21, 2008 file photo. President Obama on October 22, 2011 sought  to cast himself as a strong leader on foreign policy, highlighting a U.S. pullout from Iraq and the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as success stories. REUTERS/Lorie Jewell/Multi-National Forces Iraq Public Affairs/File Handout   (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTSReuters - Libya's interim prime minister said he was resigning on Saturday and urged new leaders to seize a "very limited opportunity" and resolve rivalries now surfacing after Muammar Gaddafi's death.


Saudi Crown Prince Sultan dies (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 11:37 AM PDT

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud (L) welcomes Saudi King Abdullah on his arrival early morning in Jeddah in this November 23, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Saudi Press Agency/Handout/FilesReuters - Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Sultan has died, the royal court said on Saturday, and Interior Minister and reputed conservative Prince Nayef was expected to become the new heir to the throne in the world's biggest oil exporter.


Libyan PM says wishes Gaddafi had not been killed (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 03:53 PM PDT

Reuters - Libya's Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said in an interview with the BBC on Saturday he wished former dictator Muammar Gaddafi had not been killed and instead had been put on trial for his crimes.

Iraq still seeking U.S. trainers: PM Maliki (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 11:38 AM PDT

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki speaks during an interview with Reuters in Baghdad October 9, 2011. REUTERS/Mohammed AmeenReuters - Iraq will continue talks with Washington on how U.S. trainers can work with Iraqi forces after a complete withdrawal of American troops at the end of the year, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Saturday.


Kenya says Somalia rebels on the run (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 10:25 AM PDT

Al Shabaab Islamist militants display weapons believed to be recovered from Burundian peacekeepers from the African Union suspected to have been killed during fighting in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, October 21, 2011. REUTERS/Feisal OmarReuters - Kenya said Somalia's al Shabaab militants were on the run after it deployed more troops and struck rebel targets by air to secure its border from rebels Nairobi accuses of kidnapping foreigners on its soil.


Tunisia Prepares to Vote: A Harbinger of More Spring or Stormy Weather? (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 11:45 PM PDT

Time.com - The first nation to throw off autocracy in the so called Arab Spring gets ready to elect an assembly to rewrite the nation's constitution. And the Islamists may have the upper hand

Pole who spirited Jewish woman from Auschwitz dies (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 04:40 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 11, 2010 photo Jerzy Bielecki is seen speaking to the AP, in his home in Nowy Targ, southern Poland. Bielecki, a Polish inmate who led his Jewish girlfriend out of Auschwitz in 1944,  died Thursday at age 90, it was announced Saturday Oct.  22 2011. From a fellow Polish inmate working at a uniform warehouse he secretly got a complete SS uniform and a pass. Pretending he was taking a Jewish inmate out of the camp for interrogation, he led Cybulska to a side gate, where a sleepy SS-man let them go through.(AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)AP - The young Catholic man spirited his Jewish girlfriend out of Auschwitz in 1944, saving her life. Yet it took 39 years for them to see each other again.


Clashes in Yemeni capital kill 20 (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 02:30 PM PDT

Smoke rises from a building during clashes between tribesmen loyal to Sheik Sadeq al-Ahmar, the head of the powerful Hashid tribe, and Yemeni security forces in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011.(AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)AP - Clashes between Yemeni government troops and a renegade army unit killed at least 20 people, including three civilians, in the capital Sanaa on Saturday, officials said.


Anti-Chavez TV channel says it will challenge fine (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 03:07 PM PDT

AP - An opposition-aligned television channel said Saturday that it will appeal a fine of more than $2 million imposed by Venezuela's broadcast regulator.

Nigerian sect shoots, kills state-run TV cameraman (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 02:27 PM PDT

An electoral officer counts ballot papers after the close of the local government election in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos October 22, 2011. Lagos state Independent Electoral Commission registered 6.2 million voters to elect leaders for 20 local government areas in Nigeria's commercial hub. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye (NIGERIA - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)AP - Authorities in Nigeria say members of a radical Muslim sect in the northeast have shot dead a cameraman for the state-run television network after making a threat against journalists in the oil-rich country.


Turkish military says kills 49 Kurdish militants (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 10:44 AM PDT

Reuters - The Turkish military said on Saturday its forces had killed 49 Kurdish militants in the southeast over the last two days, during an offensive to avenge the killing of 24 soldiers by Kurdish fighters earlier this week.

Shark kills American diver off western Australia (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 04:51 PM PDT

AP - A great white shark killed an American recreational diver on Saturday in a third fatality in recent weeks off southwest Australia that has shaken beach-loving residents and sparked fears of a rogue predator targeting humans.

How a daring band of anti-Qaddafi activists helped turn the tide in Tripoli (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:50 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The few anti-Qaddafi activists working secretly in Tripoli during the war knew they were racing against time â€" and to stay ahead of the intelligence agents hunting them.

Iraq's Government, Not Obama, Called Time on the U.S. Troop Presence (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 11:45 PM PDT

Time.com - President Barack Obama's announcement on Friday that all 40,000 U.S. troops still in Iraq will leave the country by New Year's Eve will, inevitably, draw howls of derision from GOP presidential hopefuls

Is Sunday's European debt crisis summit sunk before it even starts? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 12:32 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - “Disastrous” was the word Eurogroup chairman and Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker used to describe the possibility that Sunday's EU summit in Brussels would not, as expected, come up with a solution to the euro debt crisis.

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