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• Libyan rebels say commander killed by allied militia (Reuters)
• Air France pilots could have saved Rio-Paris plane: BEA (Reuters)
• U.S. military chief aims to reassure Afghans after attacks (Reuters)
• Norway mourns, buries dead, a week after massacre (Reuters)
• Cuba approves flights from 9 more American cities (Reuters)
• In Egypt, Islamists Outnumbering Liberals in Tahrir Square (Time.com)
• Yacht party on eve of second royal wedding (AFP)
• Tens of thousands protest in Yemen amid stalemate (AP)
• Haiti hunts for survivors after boat sinks; 12 die (AP)
• UN to consider unfreezing fund for Libyan aid (AP)
• Turkey's military chiefs quit ahead of key meeting (Reuters)
• Tobacco firms lose major Canada liability ruling (Reuters)
• Australia set to restart Indonesia cattle exports (AFP)
• A US soldier reunites with the Iraqi girl he saved (The Christian Science Monitor)
• A New Outrage: Was a Murdered Girl's Mom Another Victim of Phone-Hacking? (Time.com)
• Portrait of a North Korean propagandist turned protest artist (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Small-scale land speculators contribute to Amazon deforestation (OneWorld.net)

Libyan rebels say commander killed by allied militia (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 02:46 PM PDT Reuters - Libyan rebels said on Friday the gunmen who shot dead the rebel military chief were fighters of an allied militia, in apparent confirmation of deep rifts among the forces struggling to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.

Air France pilots could have saved Rio-Paris plane: BEA (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 01:05 PM PDT Reuters - The pilots at the helm of Air France flight AF447, which crashed into the Atlantic in 2009, could still have saved the situation after the jet lost its speed data, the head of France's BEA authority said on Friday.

U.S. military chief aims to reassure Afghans after attacks (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 01:02 PM PDT Reuters - The top U.S. military officer made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan on Friday, aiming to reassure a country rattled by a wave of high-profile attacks and assassinations.

Norway mourns, buries dead, a week after massacre (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 10:03 AM PDT Reuters - Norwegians united in mourning on Friday as the first funerals were held a week after anti-Islam extremist Anders Behring Breivik massacred at least 77 people in attacks that traumatized the nation.

Cuba approves flights from 9 more American cities (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 02:24 PM PDT Reuters - Air travel between the United States and Cuba will become easier with the opening of charter flights to the forbidden island from an additional nine U.S. cities announced by Cuba authorities on Friday.

In Egypt, Islamists Outnumbering Liberals in Tahrir Square (Time.com) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:35 PM PDT Time.com - Liberal youth groups found themselves dwarfed by Islamists at the July 29 Tahrir Square protest. That may be a portent of things to come

Yacht party on eve of second royal wedding (AFP) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:53 PM PDT AFP - Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips and her fiance Mike Tindall threw a party on a yacht Friday on the eve of their wedding, with Prince William and wife Catherine among the guests.

Tens of thousands protest in Yemen amid stalemate (AP) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 02:09 PM PDT AP - Tens of thousands of protesters turned out in cities across Yemen Friday to call for the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in a remarkable show of determination after six months of demonstrations and armed clashes that have failed to topple the embattled leader.

Haiti hunts for survivors after boat sinks; 12 die (AP) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 03:15 PM PDT AP - Authorities in Haiti say they are looking for survivors from a sailboat that sank off the country's northern coast, killing at least 12 people.

UN to consider unfreezing fund for Libyan aid (AP) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:59 PM PDT AP - The U.N. committee monitoring sanctions against Libya will consider requests from Moammar Gadhafi's government and the rebel government in Benghazi to unfreeze funds to pay for medicine and other urgent humanitarian needs for the Libyan people, the committee chairman said Friday.

Turkey's military chiefs quit ahead of key meeting (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 03:55 PM PDT Reuters - Turkey's top military brass resigned on Friday, in the latest and possibly decisive round of a long battle between the traditional secularist establishment embodied by the army and the Islam-rooted government of Tayyip Erdogan that has dominated Turkey for nearly a decade.

Tobacco firms lose major Canada liability ruling (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 11:10 AM PDT Reuters - Tobacco companies suffered a major defeat in Canada on Friday when the Supreme Court ruled the federal government is not liable for damages from health-related lawsuits, possibly amounting to many billions of dollars.

Australia set to restart Indonesia cattle exports (AFP) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 09:09 AM PDT AFP - The first shipment of Australian cattle to Indonesia following the lifting of a cruelty-linked ban will arrive in the second week of August, major exporter Elders said Friday.

A US soldier reunites with the Iraqi girl he saved (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 06:04 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Eight-year-old Sadeel giggles and holds up her curly black hair, revealing the faint scar from a bullet wound.

A New Outrage: Was a Murdered Girl's Mom Another Victim of Phone-Hacking? (Time.com) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:35 PM PDT Time.com - Britons have been left shocked and appalled at the news that Sara Payne, the mother of an 8-year-old girl murdered by a sex offender and a good friend of the News of the World, may have had her phone hacked

Portrait of a North Korean propagandist turned protest artist (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:30 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - For Song Byeok, as for many North Koreans, getting out of his homeland came at a steep price.

Small-scale land speculators contribute to Amazon deforestation (OneWorld.net) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 03:31 AM PDT OneWorld.net - Jul 28 (IPS) - Many migrants from southern Brazil who clear forests in Brazil’s state of Amazonas are making their living as small-scale land speculators and not as farmers or as cattle ranchers, new research has found.

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