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• CIA, MI6 helped Gaddafi on dissidents: rights group (Reuters)
• Libyans say closing in on Gaddafi bastions (Reuters)
• Government: Cuban defense minister dead at 75 (Reuters)
• EU targets Syrian oil firms, says may get tougher (Reuters)
• Crime and Punishment in Libya: Inside Gaddafi's Surveillance System (Time.com)
• Experts: Europe needs more perfect union (AP)
• Documents show ties between Libyan spy head, CIA (AP)
• Chile: Pinera, students decide to keep talking (AP)
• Cuba withdraws ambassador from Libya (AP)
• Magnitude-7.0 quake shakes Vanuatu (AP)
• Canadian authorities probing employees of SNC-Lavalin Group (Reuters)
• Witness to a decade that redefined Southeast Asia (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Mercy at Qaddafi's notorious Abu Salim prison (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Harvard's a Bargain -- If You're From the UK (Time.com)
• Rebels resent Sirte residents, but vow not to take revenge (The Christian Science Monitor)

CIA, MI6 helped Gaddafi on dissidents: rights group (Reuters) Posted: 03 Sep 2011 12:12 PM PDT Reuters - Documents found in the abandoned Tripoli office of Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence chief indicate the U.S. and British spy agencies helped the fallen strongman persecute Libyan dissidents, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday.

Libyans say closing in on Gaddafi bastions (Reuters) Posted: 03 Sep 2011 03:39 PM PDT Reuters - Libya's interim government said it was closing in on bastions of support for Muammar Gaddafi Saturday, although there were mixed signals of how quickly their forces were moving.

Government: Cuban defense minister dead at 75 (Reuters) Posted: 03 Sep 2011 02:10 PM PDT Reuters - General Julio Casas Reguerio, Cuba's defense minister and longtime aide to President Raul Castro, died Saturday of heart failure at the age of 75, the Cuban government said.

EU targets Syrian oil firms, says may get tougher (Reuters) Posted: 03 Sep 2011 08:23 AM PDT Reuters - The European Union imposed a ban on purchases of Syrian oil on Saturday and warned of further steps unless President Bashar al-Assad's government ends its five-month crackdown on dissent.

Crime and Punishment in Libya: Inside Gaddafi's Surveillance System (Time.com) Posted: 02 Sep 2011 10:40 PM PDT Time.com - As rebels sift through the archives of Gaddafi's internal security apparatus, Libyans are finding confirmation that they had every reason to be paranoid about the regime.

Experts: Europe needs more perfect union (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2011 03:45 PM PDT AP - Finance officials and experts gathered in Italy mostly agreed Saturday that Europe needs deeper political union to preserve the troubled euro — even though persistent national identities made the prospect politically unlikely in the near future.

Documents show ties between Libyan spy head, CIA (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2011 03:41 PM PDT AP - The CIA and other Western intelligence agencies worked closely with the ousted regime of Moammar Gadhafi, sharing tips and cooperating in handing over terror suspects for interrogation to a regime known to use torture, according to a trove of security documents discovered after the fall of Tripoli.

Chile: Pinera, students decide to keep talking (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2011 02:58 PM PDT AP - Chile's president met with student, university and teachers' union leaders for nearly four hours Saturday in the government palace, and all those involved decided to keep negotiating in search of a solution to the country's conflicts over education reform.

Cuba withdraws ambassador from Libya (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2011 01:38 PM PDT AP - Cuba has announced the withdrawal of its ambassador and diplomatic mission in Libya and reiterated that it does not recognize the rebels' transitional government.

Magnitude-7.0 quake shakes Vanuatu (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2011 04:27 PM PDT AP - A magnitude-7.0 earthquake shook the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu on Sunday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

Canadian authorities probing employees of SNC-Lavalin Group (Reuters) Posted: 02 Sep 2011 07:36 PM PDT Reuters - Canadian authorities are investigating employees of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc for possible corruption involving a $1.2 billion World Bank bridge project in Bangladesh, a bank spokesman said on Friday.

Witness to a decade that redefined Southeast Asia (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 03 Sep 2011 09:01 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - It was the summer of 2001. I was covering an election in East Timor, a newly minted nation at the end of the world. It was my first assignment for the Monitor, the start of a decade of reporting in Southeast Asia, filing hundreds of stories from across a diverse region of 600 million people.

Mercy at Qaddafi's notorious Abu Salim prison (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 02 Sep 2011 03:16 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Juma Mukhtar Sayeh never chose a career in Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s military intelligence service. It was chosen for him.

Harvard's a Bargain -- If You're From the UK (Time.com) Posted: 02 Sep 2011 10:40 PM PDT Time.com - How America's top colleges are luring British students to the U.S.

Rebels resent Sirte residents, but vow not to take revenge (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 02 Sep 2011 02:13 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - On the first Friday since Libya’s revolutionaries freed this small village from the control of forces loyal to former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, the mosque is full with village men and rebel fighters who have come from nearby checkpoints.

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