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• UK streets calmer after nights of riots and chaos (Reuters)
• Syrian forces kill 15 as U.S. imposes sanctions (Reuters)
• Aid officials: not the time to cut U.S. food aid (Reuters)
• Ai Weiwei endured "immense pressure" in detention: source (Reuters)
• In Egypt's Bedouin Badlands: No Police Allowed (Time.com)
• Vietnam jails French-Vietnamese teacher over blogs (AP)
• Syria claims 'conspiracy' to justify crackdown (AP)
• Haiti mayor says he plans to clear huge quake camp (AP)
• UN: Hundreds of thousands face starvation (AP)
• NKorea disputes SKorea's artillery claim (AP)
• Flaherty pledges to cut budget gap, urges G20 to do same (Reuters)
• Australia takes more Chinese migrants than British (Reuters)
• Atwitter over a Tweeted call: Pray for London (The Christian Science Monitor)
• London Riots: Cameron Okays Water Cannons, Plastic Bullets (Time.com)
• London riots caught on CCTV camera: 'We will pursue you,' say police [VIDEO] (The Christian Science Monitor)

UK streets calmer after nights of riots and chaos (Reuters) Posted: 10 Aug 2011 02:32 PM PDT Reuters - Days of rioting and looting across Britain looked to be cooling Wednesday after Prime Minister David Cameron's promised a fightback and flooded city streets with police to try to restore order.

Syrian forces kill 15 as U.S. imposes sanctions (Reuters) Posted: 10 Aug 2011 01:19 PM PDT Reuters - Syrian forces killed 15 civilians in the city of Homs on Wednesday, an activists' group said, despite international calls for President Bashar al-Assad to end a bloody crackdown on protests against his rule.

Aid officials: not the time to cut U.S. food aid (Reuters) Posted: 10 Aug 2011 03:38 PM PDT Reuters - Aid officials warned on Wednesday that the famine in the Horn of Africa would escalate significantly if October rains fail to materialize, and cautioned U.S. lawmakers this was not the time to cut funding.

Ai Weiwei endured "immense pressure" in detention: source (Reuters) Posted: 10 Aug 2011 08:16 AM PDT Reuters - Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, whose disappearance in April caused an international outcry, endured intense psychological pressure during 81 days in secretive detention and still faces the threat of prison for alleged subversion, a source familiar with the events told Reuters.

In Egypt's Bedouin Badlands: No Police Allowed (Time.com) Posted: 10 Aug 2011 12:55 PM PDT Time.com - Egyptian police can no longer patrol the security zone that is Cairo's last bit of territory before Israel and the Gaza Strip begin

Vietnam jails French-Vietnamese teacher over blogs (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2011 04:32 PM PDT AP - A French-Vietnamese math professor was sentenced Wednesday to three years in a Vietnamese prison for belonging to a banned pro-democracy group and publishing an anti-Communist blog, his lawyer said.

Syria claims 'conspiracy' to justify crackdown (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2011 02:22 PM PDT AP - Residents of Hama told of indiscriminate shelling by the army, snipers aiming at civilians and corpses piling up in the streets in the wake of a weeklong military siege of the defiant city.

Haiti mayor says he plans to clear huge quake camp (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2011 04:53 PM PDT AP - Thousands of Haitians living in one of the biggest tent camps created after last year's earthquake could soon have a new home: the mountains north of Port-au-Prince.

UN: Hundreds of thousands face starvation (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2011 02:45 PM PDT AP - The United Nations warned Wednesday that the famine in East Africa hasn't peaked and hundreds of thousands of people face imminent starvation and death without a massive global response.

NKorea disputes SKorea's artillery claim (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2011 04:38 PM PDT AP - North Korea says South Korea mistook "normal blasting" from a construction project for artillery shelling when it accused Pyongyang of opening fire near the rivals' disputed maritime line in the Yellow Sea.

Flaherty pledges to cut budget gap, urges G20 to do same (Reuters) Posted: 10 Aug 2011 01:51 PM PDT Reuters - Finance Minister Jim Flaherty pledged on Wednesday to stick to his strict budget deficit reduction plans and urged other major countries to do the same, saying the current market turmoil was caused by excess debt.

Australia takes more Chinese migrants than British (Reuters) Posted: 09 Aug 2011 10:40 PM PDT Reuters - Australia welcomed more migrants from China than any other country in the year to June, passing the UK for the first time and underlining the increasing importance of the regional giant to its resource-rich economy.

Atwitter over a Tweeted call: Pray for London (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 09 Aug 2011 03:10 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Pray for London.

London Riots: Cameron Okays Water Cannons, Plastic Bullets (Time.com) Posted: 10 Aug 2011 12:55 PM PDT Time.com - With his leadership in question after the unrest, the British Prime Minister comes out talking tough ahead of a self-imposed deadline

London riots caught on CCTV camera: 'We will pursue you,' say police [VIDEO] (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 09 Aug 2011 10:26 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - One of the hallmark images of the TV footage of the London riot has been the scenes of gangs of youths roaming the streets but protecting their identities with scarves, bandannas, and hooded sweatshirts.

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