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• Three bombs kill at least 21 in India's Mumbai (Reuters)
• Afghan president weeps as slain brother is buried (Reuters)
• Bin Laden was in on 2005 and 2006 London plots (Reuters)
• Syrian military kills four in renewed assaults (Reuters)
• French writer denies pressured into DSK complaint (Reuters)
• Will the Karzai Clan Be Able to Hang On to Kandahar? (Time.com)
• Murdoch pulls BSkyB bid amid British scandal (AFP)
• 27 dead in a week of tribal fighting north Yemen (AP)
• Venezuela: prison uprising ends after 27 days (AP)
• Nigerian Islamists say no ceasefire until troops withdrawn (AFP)
• Triple 'terror' blasts kill 21 in Mumbai (AFP)
• Gap between Canada's rich and poor has grown: study (Reuters)
• News of the World scandal gives Miliband a chance to shine (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Is This the Beginning of the End of the House of Murdoch? (Time.com)
• Protesters broaden tactics as Belarus cracks down (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Eastern Africa: Too soon to blame climate change for drought (OneWorld.net)

Three bombs kill at least 21 in India's Mumbai (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jul 2011 03:08 PM PDT Reuters - Three bombs rocked crowded districts of Mumbai during rush hour on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people in the biggest militant attack on India's financial capital since 2008 assaults blamed on Pakistan-based militants.

Afghan president weeps as slain brother is buried (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jul 2011 10:21 AM PDT Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai wept and kissed his dead brother's face as thousands of mourners gathered on Wednesday for the burial of Ahmad Wali Karzai, whose assassination a day earlier has left a power vacuum in Afghanistan's volatile south.

Bin Laden was in on 2005 and 2006 London plots (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jul 2011 06:00 AM PDT Reuters - Osama bin Laden was aware of the plot in which al Qaeda militants bombed London transport facilities on July 7, 2005, but it was the last successful operation he played a role in, U.S. government experts have concluded.

Syrian military kills four in renewed assaults (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jul 2011 12:38 PM PDT Reuters - Syrian forces killed four villagers Wednesday in a northwestern region near Turkey, rights campaigners said, in an expansion of a military campaign to crush dissent against President Bashar al-Assad.

French writer denies pressured into DSK complaint (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jul 2011 03:24 PM PDT Reuters - A French writer who has accused former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempting to rape her in 2003 denied on Wednesday she had come under political pressure to go press charges.

Will the Karzai Clan Be Able to Hang On to Kandahar? (Time.com) Posted: 13 Jul 2011 11:20 AM PDT Time.com - After the President buried his half-brother, he appointed another sibling to lead their tribe. But will that prevent a rebalancing of power in the troubled province?

Murdoch pulls BSkyB bid amid British scandal (AFP) Posted: 13 Jul 2011 05:04 PM PDT AFP - Media mogul Rupert Murdoch dramatically dropped his bid for control of pay-TV giant BSkyB Wednesday, bowing to pressure from the British government over the phone-hacking firestorm at his newspaper empire.

27 dead in a week of tribal fighting north Yemen (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2011 01:42 PM PDT AP - Battles between supporters of rebels in northern Yemen and an Islamic group have killed 27 people over the past week, medical officials said Wednesday.

Venezuela: prison uprising ends after 27 days (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2011 05:08 PM PDT AP - A prison uprising that caused seven deaths ended peacefully on its 27th day Wednesday when hundreds of inmates emerged from the embattled Rodeo II prison after negotiations with officials, Venezuelan authorities said.

Nigerian Islamists say no ceasefire until troops withdrawn (AFP) Posted: 13 Jul 2011 03:15 PM PDT AFP - Nigerian Islamists blamed for a raft of bombings will not halt their attacks unless troops are withdrawn from the epicentre of the violence, a man claiming to be their spokesman said Wednesday.

Triple 'terror' blasts kill 21 in Mumbai (AFP) Posted: 13 Jul 2011 04:37 PM PDT AFP - Three bombs ripped through India's commercial capital Mumbai on Wednesday, killing 21 people and injuring more than 100 in the deadliest attack in the city since the 2008 assault by Islamist militants.

Gap between Canada's rich and poor has grown: study (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jul 2011 11:06 AM PDT Reuters - The gap between Canada's rich and poor widened over the past generation, with the incomes of the wealthiest outpacing gains made by lower- and middle-income earners, according to a study released on Wednesday.

News of the World scandal gives Miliband a chance to shine (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 12 Jul 2011 12:35 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The News of the World scandal continues to sweep through the British political landscape and Rupert Murdoch's media empire like a Biblical flood.

Is This the Beginning of the End of the House of Murdoch? (Time.com) Posted: 13 Jul 2011 11:20 AM PDT Time.com - His British assets and actions already under siege, the mogul must now answer before a judge for a tangled media scandal. And the consequences are reaching across the Atlantic

Protesters broaden tactics as Belarus cracks down (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 12 Jul 2011 12:25 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - When protesters gathered here last Wednesday to clap their hands to show frustration with the neo-Soviet regime that has plunged the country into its worst economic crisis, state enforcers were already waiting for them.

Eastern Africa: Too soon to blame climate change for drought (OneWorld.net) Posted: 13 Jul 2011 04:05 AM PDT OneWorld.net - ADDIS ABABA, 12 July (IRIN) - As parts of the Horn of Africa experience their driest periods in 60 years, pushing the numbers needing aid to beyond 10 million, some have been quick to blame climate change.

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