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• Libya rebels battle for refineries in east and west (Reuters)
• Syria forces hold hundreds in Latakia sports stadium (Reuters)
• India protests swell as Anna Hazare fasts (Reuters)
• Britain's tough justice alarms campaigners (Reuters)
• Egypt's revived anti-graft law may net Mubarak (Reuters)
• Mennonite Serial Rape Trial in Bolivia Agonizes Community (Time.com)
• New letters bring scandal closer to Rupert Murdoch (AP)
• Turkey PM compares Syrian leader to Gadhafi (AP)
• Aruba probes insurance in missing tourist case (AP)
• US-Egypt military exercise canceled (AP)
• $360M lost to insurgents, criminals in Afghanistan (AP)
• Marshall Islands report blames behavior for BP spill (Reuters)
• Phone hacking letter spells more trouble for Murdoch and News Corp. (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Ukraine: Pro-Russian Cossack Groups Step Up Their Campaign (Time.com)
• Sarkozy and Merkel vow support for euro (video) (The Christian Science Monitor)

Libya rebels battle for refineries in east and west (Reuters) Posted: 17 Aug 2011 01:43 PM PDT Reuters - Rebels to the west and east of Libya's increasingly isolated capital fought forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi Wednesday for control of oil facilities vital to winning the six-month-old civil war.

Syria forces hold hundreds in Latakia sports stadium (Reuters) Posted: 17 Aug 2011 03:45 PM PDT Reuters - Syrian troops raided houses in a Sunni district of the besieged port of Latakia on Wednesday, arresting hundreds of people and taking them to a stadium after a four-day tank assault to crush protests against President Bashar al-Assad, residents said.

India protests swell as Anna Hazare fasts (Reuters) Posted: 17 Aug 2011 02:35 PM PDT Reuters - Protests swelled across India Wednesday in support of a self-styled Gandhian anti-corruption campaigner fasting to the death in jail, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's struggling government at a loss over how to end the standoff.

Britain's tough justice alarms campaigners (Reuters) Posted: 17 Aug 2011 12:00 PM PDT Reuters - Tough prison sentences such as four years for trying to organize a riot via Facebook have triggered alarm in Britain that the government's crackdown over last week's unrest may be too harsh.

Egypt's revived anti-graft law may net Mubarak (Reuters) Posted: 17 Aug 2011 02:22 PM PDT Reuters - Egypt's government revived an amended version of a 60-year-old anti-corruption law on Wednesday, the state news agency MENA said, in a move that could affect the trial of ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his aides.

Mennonite Serial Rape Trial in Bolivia Agonizes Community (Time.com) Posted: 17 Aug 2011 02:20 PM PDT Time.com - Cordoned off from Bolivian culture, Mennonite women allegedly fell victim to members of their own pacifist community in a shocking sex scandal

New letters bring scandal closer to Rupert Murdoch (AP) Posted: 17 Aug 2011 03:38 PM PDT AP - Rupert Murdoch is back on the hot seat of Britain's phone hacking scandal after new documents appeared to contradict the testimony of his son and his former right-hand man.

Turkey PM compares Syrian leader to Gadhafi (AP) Posted: 17 Aug 2011 04:08 PM PDT AP - Turkey's prime minister compared Syria's president to Libya's Moammar Gadhafi on Wednesday, as Damascus defied international calls to end the crackdown on a 5-month-old uprising.

Aruba probes insurance in missing tourist case (AP) Posted: 17 Aug 2011 04:43 PM PDT AP - A U.S. tourist detained in the presumed death of his travel companion had an insurance policy that covered the missing woman, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

US-Egypt military exercise canceled (AP) Posted: 17 Aug 2011 04:08 PM PDT AP - The State Department says this year's joint military exercises involving Egypt, the United States and other coalition nations have been canceled as Egypt moves away from the regime of ousted President Hosni Mubarak.

$360M lost to insurgents, criminals in Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 17 Aug 2011 03:06 PM PDT AP - After examining hundreds of combat support and reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan, the U.S military estimates $360 million in U.S. tax dollars has ended up in the hands of people the American-led coalition has spent nearly a decade battling: the Taliban, criminals and power brokers with ties to both.

Marshall Islands report blames behavior for BP spill (Reuters) Posted: 17 Aug 2011 03:07 PM PDT Reuters - Failure to react to repeated signs of problems with BP Plc's Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico and bypassing basic well control standards caused last year's deadly blowout, the flag state for the drilling rig that exploded and sank said on Wednesday.

Phone hacking letter spells more trouble for Murdoch and News Corp. (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 16 Aug 2011 03:04 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - A letter from a former News of the World reporter, who was jailed in 2007 for hacking the phones of British royalty, further calls into question the veracity of testimony from Rupert Murdoch and his son James at last month's sensational phone hacking hearing.

Ukraine: Pro-Russian Cossack Groups Step Up Their Campaign (Time.com) Posted: 17 Aug 2011 02:20 PM PDT Time.com - The idea of an official warrior clan in 21st century Russia may seem anachronistic, but the Cossacks and their ideologues are not being funny

Sarkozy and Merkel vow support for euro (video) (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 16 Aug 2011 02:40 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy said today that their countries' economic futures are dependent on a healthy euro and promised to work toward greater European economic integration to protect against a future crisis for the currency.

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