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• Gaddafi forces hang on in Sirte while he hides (Reuters)
• Eid protests across Syria defy tanks and troops (Reuters)
• Strauss-Kahn back in France within days: Socialist leader Aubry (Reuters)
• Eight killed in Chechnya suicide attack: report (Reuters)
• Sudan sends complaint against South to U.N. Council (Reuters)
• Libya's Road to Democracy: Expect a Bumpy Ride (Time.com)
• Russian oil teams up with Exxon Mobil (AP)
• Rebels brought sudden end to Gadhafi regime (AP)
• 14 of Chile's rescued miners get early retirement (AP)
• UN agrees to unfreeze Libyan funds held in UK (AP)
• This month America's deadliest in long Afghan war (AP)
• Liberal leadership rebuffs united left calls (Reuters)
• Former Gitmo detainee calls Sept. 11 'disgusting' (AP)
• Tripoli neighbors help frightened survivors after massacre (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Why India's Fight Against Corruption Is Just Beginning (Time.com)
• Libya rebel leaders say they're in charge. Not so fast, say some in Tripoli. (The Christian Science Monitor)

Gaddafi forces hang on in Sirte while he hides (Reuters) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 02:48 PM PDT Reuters - Forces loyal to deposed ruler Muammar Gaddafi held out in a few Libyan towns on Tuesday even though their leader has gone to ground and most of his family has fled the country.

Eid protests across Syria defy tanks and troops (Reuters) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:21 PM PDT Reuters - Security forces shot dead four demonstrators on Tuesday as people streamed out of mosques after prayers to mark the end of Ramadan and renewed protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, activists and residents said.

Strauss-Kahn back in France within days: Socialist leader Aubry (Reuters) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 01:12 PM PDT Reuters - Dominique Strauss-Kahn is expected to return to France within days, Socialist Party leader Martine Aubry said on Tuesday, after the end of a criminal case against the former IMF chief left him free to leave the United States.

Eight killed in Chechnya suicide attack: report (Reuters) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 02:32 PM PDT Reuters - Eight people, seven of them police, were killed in a suicide attack in Chechnya's capital Grozny on Tuesday during celebrations at the end of the Muslim festival of Ramadan, a police source told Interfax news agency.

Sudan sends complaint against South to U.N. Council (Reuters) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 02:36 PM PDT Reuters - Sudan said on Tuesday it had submitted an official complaint to the United Nations Security Council accusing South Sudan of causing instability in Southern Kordofan state, the latest sign of growing tension between the two nations.

Libya's Road to Democracy: Expect a Bumpy Ride (Time.com) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:15 PM PDT Time.com - The post-Gaddafi regime may be fastracking elections but eight months is a mighty short time to educate the population about democracy

Russian oil teams up with Exxon Mobil (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:06 PM PDT AP - Russia's state-owned Rosneft teamed up with U.S. company Exxon Mobil on Tuesday in a multibillion deal to develop offshore oil fields in the Russian Arctic — one of the last regions with immense and untapped hydrocarbon deposits — in return for access to resources in the Gulf of Mexico.

Rebels brought sudden end to Gadhafi regime (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 02:55 PM PDT AP - When the end came for Moammar Gadhafi's regime in Libya, it was stunningly sudden. One minute the rebels were in the mountains, the next they were sweeping through the coastal city of Zawiya to the gates of the capital.

14 of Chile's rescued miners get early retirement (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 04:32 PM PDT AP - Chile's government has granted the early retirement requested by nearly half of the 33 miners who survived more than two months trapped deep underground last year.

UN agrees to unfreeze Libyan funds held in UK (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:43 PM PDT AP - Libya's rebels got a boost Tuesday with the unfreezing of about $1.6 billion in Libyan currency held in Britain as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed for urgent international support and billions more for the incoming government.

This month America's deadliest in long Afghan war (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 02:35 PM PDT AP - August has become the deadliest month yet for U.S. forces in the nearly 10-year-old war in Afghanistan, increasing pressure on the Obama administration to bring troops home sooner rather than later.

Liberal leadership rebuffs united left calls (Reuters) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 01:10 PM PDT Reuters - The leader of the Liberals, a party reduced to also-ran status in the May federal election, on Tuesday rebuffed the idea of an alliance with their left-of-center rivals, even as a former party leader touted a merger as the only way the left would win back power.

Former Gitmo detainee calls Sept. 11 'disgusting' (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:19 AM PDT AP - The first Guantanamo Bay detainee to plead guilty to a terrorism offense said in a television interview broadcast Tuesday that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States were a "disgusting act."

Tripoli neighbors help frightened survivors after massacre (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:17 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - For four months, Nouri Massoud listened to the screams coming from the hangar across the street from his house at Khilit al-Ferjan in southeast Tripoli.

Why India's Fight Against Corruption Is Just Beginning (Time.com) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:15 PM PDT Time.com - Anna Hazare ended his hunger strike after the government agreed to a new anticorruption bill. But it will take more than a new law to cleanse India of corruption

Libya rebel leaders say they're in charge. Not so fast, say some in Tripoli. (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 01:27 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - As rebel fighters held back the sparse traffic, a Russian-made jet landed on an improvised airstrip on the Nalut to Jadu road in Libya’s western mountains.

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