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• Strong earthquake hits Turkey, up to 1,000 feared killed (Reuters)
• Gaddafi unburied as Libya declares "liberation" (Reuters)
• Huge turnout in Tunisia's Arab Spring election (Reuters)
• Witness: The journey that took me to a Tunisian voting booth (Reuters)
• Argentine president strolls to re-election win (Reuters)
• Harvesting the Arab Spring: Tunisia Goes to the Polls (Time.com)
• 7.2 quake in Turkey kills 138, collapses buildings (AP)
• Tunisians turn out in force for first free vote (AP)
• Argentine president wins landslide re-election (AP)
• Moroccans protest polls, violence in the capital (Reuters)
• Aussie coast fears rogue shark may have killed 3 (AP)
• Canada warns EU on oil sands ranking plan (Reuters)
• Shark kills American off Australian coast: police (Reuters)
• Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Argentina's comeback president? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Tunisia Prepares to Vote: A Harbinger of More Spring or Stormy Weather? (Time.com)
• Saudi crown prince dies, leaving succession uncertain (The Christian Science Monitor)

Strong earthquake hits Turkey, up to 1,000 feared killed (Reuters) Posted: 23 Oct 2011 02:55 PM PDT Reuters - As many as 1,000 people were feared killed on Sunday when a powerful earthquake hit southeast Turkey, flattening buildings and leaving survivors crying for help from under the rubble.

Gaddafi unburied as Libya declares "liberation" (Reuters) Posted: 23 Oct 2011 02:20 PM PDT Reuters - Libya's new rulers declared the country freed from Muammar Gaddafi's 42 years of one-man rule Sunday, saying the "Pharaoh of the times" was in history's garbage bin and a future of democracy and reconciliation beckoned.

Huge turnout in Tunisia's Arab Spring election (Reuters) Posted: 23 Oct 2011 03:18 PM PDT Reuters - Tunisians turned out in huge numbers to vote in the country's first free election on Sunday, 10 months after Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in a protest that started the Arab Spring uprisings.

Witness: The journey that took me to a Tunisian voting booth (Reuters) Posted: 23 Oct 2011 08:48 AM PDT Reuters - The following account of the events leading up to Sunday's election in Tunisia, "The journey that took me to a Tunisian voting booth," was written by Tarek Amara, who has been a Reuters correspondent in Tunisia since 2004.

Argentine president strolls to re-election win (Reuters) Posted: 23 Oct 2011 03:32 PM PDT Reuters - Argentina's fiery center-leftist president, Cristina Fernandez, swept to a landslide re-election victory on Sunday, crowning a comeback that seemed unthinkable for much of her turbulent first term.

Harvesting the Arab Spring: Tunisia Goes to the Polls (Time.com) Posted: 22 Oct 2011 10:55 PM PDT Time.com - With an exuberant turnout, the country that set the Arab Spring going takes the important next step in guaranteeing the longevity of its hard-won democracy

7.2 quake in Turkey kills 138, collapses buildings (AP) Posted: 23 Oct 2011 04:08 PM PDT AP - Cries of panic and horror filled the air as a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey, killing at least 138 people as buildings pancaked and crumpled into rubble. The death toll was expected to rise as rescuers sifted through the rubble and reached outlying villages.

Tunisians turn out in force for first free vote (AP) Posted: 23 Oct 2011 04:09 PM PDT AP - The people who started the Arab Spring shared one of its earliest fruits on Sunday: a free election. Tunisians who brought down a dictator nine months ago waited for hours to select those who will help shape their fledgling democracy.

Argentine president wins landslide re-election (AP) Posted: 23 Oct 2011 04:09 PM PDT AP - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez was re-elected by a landslide Sunday, buoyed by popular government programs to spread the wealth of a booming economy.

Moroccans protest polls, violence in the capital (Reuters) Posted: 23 Oct 2011 04:03 PM PDT Reuters - Thousands of Moroccans demonstrated in cities across the country Sunday, calling for a boycott of early parliamentary polls next month whose outcome will be key to the future of reforms crafted by the royal palace.

Aussie coast fears rogue shark may have killed 3 (AP) Posted: 23 Oct 2011 02:51 PM PDT AP - The sudden death of an American diver in the jaws of a great white shark off Australia's southwest coast has raised the specter of a rogue man-eater preying on a renowned aquatic playground and killing three men in two months.

Canada warns EU on oil sands ranking plan (Reuters) Posted: 23 Oct 2011 01:24 PM PDT Reuters - Canada warned on Sunday it will "defend its interests" if the European Union (EU) goes through with a proposal to rank Canadian oil sands as a highly polluting fuel.

Shark kills American off Australian coast: police (Reuters) Posted: 23 Oct 2011 01:10 PM PDT Reuters - A shark killed an American out diving off a popular Australian tourist island on Saturday, in the third fatal shark attack off the country's west coast in two months, police said.

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Argentina's comeback president? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 22 Oct 2011 07:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Soon after taking office in 2007 in a first-round victory, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner began butting heads: first with grain exporters, then with the news media. Critics called her arrogant, stubborn, and a puppet of her husband.

Tunisia Prepares to Vote: A Harbinger of More Spring or Stormy Weather? (Time.com) Posted: 22 Oct 2011 10:55 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

Saudi crown prince dies, leaving succession uncertain (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 22 Oct 2011 06:20 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The heir to the Saudi throne, Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, died undergoing treatment for illness in New York. The death of the prince, who was in his 80s, opens questions about the succession in the critical, oil-rich U.S. ally.

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