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• Gaddafi sons broadcast confusion as battle looms (Reuters)
• Gaddafi son Saif al-Islam vows continued resistance (Reuters)
• Syrian troops raid Hama homes, residents say (Reuters)
• India anti-graft activist Hazare recovers from fast (Reuters)
• Gaddafi foreign minister arrested: witness (Reuters)
• The Disinvited: The New Libya's New Racism (Time.com)
• Exxon-Russia oil deal unlikely to raise concerns (AP)
• A Gadhafi son vows no surrender to Libyan rebels (AP)
• Mexico gov opens corruption probe in deadly fire (AP)
• Guinea-Bissau president leaves for treatment (AP)
• U.S. nuclear regulator eyes to-do list after Fukushima (Reuters)
• NDP gains support after leader's death (Reuters)
• Court voids Australia's refugee deal with Malaysia (AP)
• Muslim insurgency in Thailand's restive south heats up (The Christian Science Monitor)
• New Zealand Cathedral to Be Rebuilt With Cardboard. Seriously. (Time.com)
• China to cut income tax for 60 million people (The Christian Science Monitor)

Gaddafi sons broadcast confusion as battle looms (Reuters) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 04:47 PM PDT Reuters - Muammar Gaddafi's sons clashed on the airwaves Wednesday, with one offering peace and another promising a 'war of attrition' as a final battle for control of Libya's coast loomed.

Gaddafi son Saif al-Islam vows continued resistance (Reuters) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:05 PM PDT Reuters - Muammar Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam, on Wednesday vowed continued resistance to Libyan forces which ousted his father from Tripoli and urged Libyans to wage a war of attrition against the National Transitional Council and its NATO backers.

Syrian troops raid Hama homes, residents say (Reuters) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:41 PM PDT Reuters - Syrian troops backed by tanks raided houses in the city of Hama on Wednesday, searching for activists behind five months of protest against President Bashar al-Assad, residents said.

India anti-graft activist Hazare recovers from fast (Reuters) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:34 AM PDT Reuters - An anti-corruption campaigner, whose near two-week hunger strike against graft made him a national hero in India, left hospital on Wednesday after recovering from his fast and headed home to a rousing welcome.

Gaddafi foreign minister arrested: witness (Reuters) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 01:30 PM PDT Reuters - Muammar Gaddafi's foreign minister, Abdelati Obeidi, was arrested Tuesday at his farm in Janzour, a suburb west of Tripoli, a Reuters correspondent said.

The Disinvited: The New Libya's New Racism (Time.com) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 08:55 AM PDT Time.com - For complicated reasons of his own, Gaddafi encouraged a kind of diversity under his dictatorship. Now as the country celebrates his fall, some longtime residents aren't welcome to the party

Exxon-Russia oil deal unlikely to raise concerns (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:47 PM PDT AP - An unprecedented deal that gives Russia's state-controlled oil company part-ownership of U.S. oil fields is unlikely to be scuttled by political or national security concerns for a simple reason: Russia doesn't need the oil.

A Gadhafi son vows no surrender to Libyan rebels (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:46 PM PDT AP - Two men claiming to be Moammar Gadhafi's sons made conflicting appeals from hiding Wednesday night, with one of them calling for talks with rebel leaders and the other urging the regime's loyalists to fight to the death.

Mexico gov opens corruption probe in deadly fire (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:29 PM PDT AP - A casino fire that killed 52 people in the northern city of Monterrey last week has put new pressure on the Mexican government to regulate a rapidly growing gambling industry that many believe is vulnerable to corruption, money laundering and extortion.

Guinea-Bissau president leaves for treatment (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 04:29 PM PDT AP - The president of Guinea-Bissau left the country for what the government said Wednesday was a medical checkup, heightening speculation about the leader's health.

U.S. nuclear regulator eyes to-do list after Fukushima (Reuters) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 12:35 PM PDT Reuters - The U.S. nuclear regulator is refining a plan to change its rules for power plants following Japan's Fukushima disaster, selecting half a dozen high-priority items to tackle first, senior staff said.

NDP gains support after leader's death (Reuters) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 09:38 AM PDT Reuters - Canada's left-leaning New Democratic Party has vaulted into a tie in public support with the governing Conservatives in the wake of the death of NDP leader Jack Layton, a poll released on Wednesday showed.

Court voids Australia's refugee deal with Malaysia (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 04:19 AM PDT AP - Australia's highest court Wednesday voided a transfer of asylum seekers to Malaysia, ruling the government's attempt to stem an influx of boat people from poor, war-torn countries could not assure their legal rights would be protected.

Muslim insurgency in Thailand's restive south heats up (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 06:38 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Here in southern Thailand, the Muslim insurgents seem to be committing more gruesome acts of violence, putting a spotlight on one of Asia’s most opaque conflicts.

New Zealand Cathedral to Be Rebuilt With Cardboard. Seriously. (Time.com) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 08:55 AM PDT Time.com - As an iconic piece symbolizing the destruction in Christchurch, New Zealand, following a February 2011 earthquake, the Christchurch Cathedral will make a comeback -- packed in cardboard

China to cut income tax for 60 million people (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 06:13 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Some 60 million Chinese will wake up newly exempt from income tax tomorrow morning, as the government tries to boost poorer peoples’ spending power and fuel sustainable economic growth.

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