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• Talks fail with Gaddafi loyalists in desert bastion (Reuters)
• Strauss-Kahn returns home (Reuters)
• First witnesses in court for Mubarak trial (Reuters)
• French first lady says will keep baby out of view (Reuters)
• Historic rally buoys Israeli social protest movement (Reuters)
• 'We Are Simply Muslim': Libyan Rebel Chief Denies Al-Qaeda Ties (Time.com)
• Europe faces week of challenges in debt crisis (Reuters)
• Foreigners complain of harassment by Libya rebels (AP)
• Haiti aims to spread people, jobs across country (AP)
• Sudan says south-aligned group must end operations (Reuters)
• Kurdish legislators push for autonomy in Turkey (AP)
• United Express plane skids off runway in Ottawa (Reuters)
• Aussie bodyboarder dies after shark bites off legs (AP)
• Post-Gaddafi Tripoli: How Libya's Civil Servants Are Holding It Together (Time.com)

Talks fail with Gaddafi loyalists in desert bastion (Reuters) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 04:31 PM PDT Reuters - Forces of Libya's interim ruling council are poised for an assault on the desert town of Bani Walid after negotiators failed to persuade Muammar Gaddafi loyalists to abandon one of their last remaining bastions.

Strauss-Kahn returns home (Reuters) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 07:11 AM PDT Reuters - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, his presidential hopes shattered by a sex assault scandal that rocked his homeland, returned on Sunday to France facing a frosty public reception and unease among his political allies.

First witnesses in court for Mubarak trial (Reuters) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 03:22 PM PDT Reuters - A top police official and three other officers will testify on Monday in the trial of Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak, the first witnesses to take the stand in a case that has gripped Egypt and the Arab world.

French first lady says will keep baby out of view (Reuters) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 03:40 PM PDT Reuters - French first lady Carla Bruni said on Sunday she will keep the baby she is expecting with President Nicolas Sarkozy strictly out of view and not allow any photographs to be shown publicly.

Historic rally buoys Israeli social protest movement (Reuters) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 04:39 AM PDT Reuters - Organisers of Israel's biggest rally for economic reform said on Sunday they will begin to fold their tents but social change will move on, driven by weeks of protests that brought hundreds of thousands to the streets.

'We Are Simply Muslim': Libyan Rebel Chief Denies Al-Qaeda Ties (Time.com) Posted: 03 Sep 2011 10:30 PM PDT Time.com - Though he fought along jihadists in Afghanistan, Abdel Hakim Belhadj, who leads the Libyan rebels in Tripoli, says he was never allied with Bin Laden, and only wants democracy for Libya.

Europe faces week of challenges in debt crisis (Reuters) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 02:41 PM PDT Reuters - Europe faces a string of political and legal tests this week that could hurt efforts to resolve its sovereign debt crisis and increase pressure for governments to try more radical solutions.

Foreigners complain of harassment by Libya rebels (AP) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 02:02 PM PDT AP - A Ghanaian teacher cowers in his house, certain he will be grabbed at a checkpoint because of his dark skin. Armed rebels detain 19 Ukrainian cooks and oil workers for several days on unsupported claims that they are really snipers for Moammar Gadhafi.

Haiti aims to spread people, jobs across country (AP) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 08:42 AM PDT AP - When last year's earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, the school where Sansoir Boyer taught biology and math was reduced to rubble, along with the surrounding neighborhood.

Sudan says south-aligned group must end operations (Reuters) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 01:43 PM PDT Reuters - Sudan demanded Sunday that the southern-aligned Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) cease operations in the country, stoking tensions with the newly independent south after fighting flared in border areas.

Kurdish legislators push for autonomy in Turkey (AP) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 01:54 PM PDT AP - Kurdish legislators vowed Sunday to press on with a boycott of Turkey's parliament and backed a recent declaration of autonomy in the country's Kurd-dominated southeast. The defiant stances came as Kurdish rebels killed six people while military airstrikes targeted their hideouts.

United Express plane skids off runway in Ottawa (Reuters) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 04:38 PM PDT Reuters - No one was injured when a United Express plane from Chicago carrying 44 passengers and three crew members skidded off the runway while landing in Ottawa Sunday afternoon.

Aussie bodyboarder dies after shark bites off legs (AP) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 06:21 AM PDT AP - A shark bit the legs off a bodyboarder at a popular surfing spot in western Australia on Sunday, killing the man, police said. Authorities were searching for the shark as well as the man's missing limbs.

Post-Gaddafi Tripoli: How Libya's Civil Servants Are Holding It Together (Time.com) Posted: 03 Sep 2011 10:30 PM PDT Time.com - The interim government is still trying to get its act together but in the meantime the old civil service continues to function, even without pay

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