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• Hunted in Tripoli, Gaddafi hurls defiance (Reuters)
• U.N. to allow release of $1.5 billion frozen Libya funds (Reuters)
• El Salvador recognizes Palestine as independent state (Reuters)
• Looting, clashes as Chileans strike against Pinera (Reuters)
• Putin accuses opposition of selling MP seats (Reuters)
• Kim Jong Il Goes to Siberia: And He Likes It! (Time.com)
• UK spy files reveal details of 1950s Guyana coup (AP)
• Syrian gunmen break artist's hands as 'warning' (AP)
• Mexican state nabs 2 for tweeting violence rumors (AP)
• US says UN OKs deal to release Libyan funds (AP)
• Republicans seek new probe of NRC chairman Jaczko (AP)
• Quebecers fleeing separatists, Liberals, poll shows (Reuters)
• Aussie PM concerned by politics in police probe (AP)
• What's the deal with the new Libyan flag? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• The Hunt for the Gaddafis: Street to Street with the Rebel Fighters (Time.com)
• Mr. Blair goes to Africa (The Christian Science Monitor)

Hunted in Tripoli, Gaddafi hurls defiance (Reuters) Posted: 25 Aug 2011 03:31 PM PDT Reuters - Muammar Gaddafi taunted his Libyan enemies and their Western backers as rebel forces battled pockets of loyalists across Tripoli in an ever more urgent quest to find and silence the fugitive strongman.

U.N. to allow release of $1.5 billion frozen Libya funds (Reuters) Posted: 25 Aug 2011 05:28 PM PDT Reuters - The United States and South Africa struck a deal on Thursday to allow the release of $1.5 billion in frozen Libya funds for humanitarian aid and other civilian needs, U.N. diplomats said on Thursday.

El Salvador recognizes Palestine as independent state (Reuters) Posted: 25 Aug 2011 03:21 PM PDT Reuters - El Salvador on Thursday recognized Palestine as an independent state in the midst of a drive by the Arab League to upgrade it to full membership status in the United Nations.

Looting, clashes as Chileans strike against Pinera (Reuters) Posted: 25 Aug 2011 03:45 PM PDT Reuters - Protesters battled police in Chile's capital on Thursday, the second day of a two-day strike against unpopular President Sebastian Pinera that was marked by sporadic looting but had no impact on the vital mining sector.

Putin accuses opposition of selling MP seats (Reuters) Posted: 25 Aug 2011 01:18 PM PDT Reuters - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused opposition parties of selling seats in parliament, in the strongest attack yet on political opponents ahead of a December parliamentary election.

Kim Jong Il Goes to Siberia: And He Likes It! (Time.com) Posted: 25 Aug 2011 02:35 PM PDT Time.com - The North Korean despot takes a trip into Russian territory for the first time in almost a decade. And Moscow is claiming a diplomatic breakthrough

UK spy files reveal details of 1950s Guyana coup (AP) Posted: 25 Aug 2011 04:02 PM PDT AP - It was a very British coup. The warship slipped into the harbor, the soldiers landed in darkness — and the diplomatic wives made sandwiches for the hungry troops.

Syrian gunmen break artist's hands as 'warning' (AP) Posted: 25 Aug 2011 05:16 PM PDT AP - A renowned political cartoonist whose drawings expressed Syrians' frustrated hopes for change was grabbed after he left his studio early Thursday and beaten by masked gunmen who broke his hands and dumped him on a road outside Damascus.

Mexican state nabs 2 for tweeting violence rumors (AP) Posted: 25 Aug 2011 05:08 PM PDT AP - Two men were detained for allegedly tweeting rumors of purported shootouts and other drug violence Thursday, and authorities said they planned to file terrorism charges against the pair.

US says UN OKs deal to release Libyan funds (AP) Posted: 25 Aug 2011 03:52 PM PDT AP - The U.S. and South Africa reached a deal Thursday that will release $1.5 billion in frozen Libyan assets in American banks which the U.S. is earmarking for the cash-strapped rebels fighting to oust Moammar Gadhafi.

Republicans seek new probe of NRC chairman Jaczko (AP) Posted: 25 Aug 2011 02:31 PM PDT AP - Four Republican senators are asking the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's inspector general to investigate the agency's chairman for what they say is a continued pattern of withholding information from colleagues and acting unilaterally on the commission's behalf.

Quebecers fleeing separatists, Liberals, poll shows (Reuters) Posted: 25 Aug 2011 09:14 AM PDT Reuters - A political party that does not yet exist would win the next Quebec election handily, beating both the ruling Liberals and separatists who want independence for the Canadian province, a poll indicated on Thursday.

Aussie PM concerned by politics in police probe (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2011 11:16 PM PDT AP - Australia's embattled prime minister voiced concern Thursday that her political enemies could be interfering in a police investigation of a lawmaker accused of misappropriating money to pay prostitutes — a scandal that threatens to bring down her government.

What's the deal with the new Libyan flag? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 24 Aug 2011 02:00 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Until recently, the flag of Libya held a special place in the hearts of vexillophiles as The World's Most Boring Flag. That's because it was nothing but a green rectangle, with no markings of any kind.

The Hunt for the Gaddafis: Street to Street with the Rebel Fighters (Time.com) Posted: 25 Aug 2011 02:35 PM PDT Time.com - Two districts are being torn apart by heavy gunfire even as a massacre within the Gaddafi compound is uncovered

Mr. Blair goes to Africa (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 24 Aug 2011 01:01 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Four years after stepping down as Britain's premier, Tony Blair is taking lessons learned in office and applying them in Africa.

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