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• Libyan forces mass outside stubborn town (Reuters)
• Large Libyan convoy arrives in Niger: sources (Reuters)
• Red Cross visits Syrian jail, raids near Turkey (Reuters)
• Scuffles disrupt Mubarak trial as police testify (Reuters)
• Man straps suspected bomb to himself outside Sydney court:report (Reuters)
• 'We Are Simply Muslim': Libyan Rebel Chief Denies Al-Qaeda Ties (Time.com)
• Libyans say China, Europe sent arms to Gaddafi (Reuters)
• Libyan spy files detail Gadhafi regime's collapse (AP)
• Haitians protest alleged attack by UN peacekeepers (AP)
• Gaddafi in "good health" in Libya: spokesman (Reuters)
• Strong quake hits west Indonesia; at least 1 dead (AP)
• Australian PM would face electoral wipeout: survey (Reuters)
• How US, British intelligence worked to bring Qaddafi's Libya in from the cold (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Post-Gaddafi Tripoli: How Libya's Civil Servants Are Holding It Together (Time.com)
• Can a fierce battle for Qaddafi's home town be avoided? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Libyan forces mass outside stubborn town (Reuters) Posted: 05 Sep 2011 04:34 PM PDT Reuters - Libyan forces have massed outside a pro-Gaddafi desert town that has refused to surrender, building a field hospital in preparation for a possible last stand.

Large Libyan convoy arrives in Niger: sources (Reuters) Posted: 05 Sep 2011 05:25 PM PDT Reuters - A large convoy of Libyan armored vehicles escorted by the Nigerian military arrived in the northern Niger desert town of Agadez late on Monday, a French military source and a Niger military source told Reuters.

Red Cross visits Syrian jail, raids near Turkey (Reuters) Posted: 05 Sep 2011 05:22 PM PDT Reuters - Syria has opened its main prison in Damascus to the Red Cross, the organization said, a move that could help reveal the fate of some of the thousands detained since the start of a five-month uprising.

Scuffles disrupt Mubarak trial as police testify (Reuters) Posted: 05 Sep 2011 01:25 PM PDT Reuters - Police officers testifying at the trial of Hosni Mubarak said on Monday they were not aware of orders to shoot at protesters, as scuffles erupted inside and outside the courtroom between supporters and opponents of the ousted Egyptian president.

Man straps suspected bomb to himself outside Sydney court:report (Reuters) Posted: 05 Sep 2011 05:33 PM PDT Reuters - A man strapped what appeared to be a bomb to himself outside a Sydney court building Tuesday and was holding a young girl, believed to be his daughter, Australian media reports said.

'We Are Simply Muslim': Libyan Rebel Chief Denies Al-Qaeda Ties (Time.com) Posted: 05 Sep 2011 04:15 AM 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.

Libyans say China, Europe sent arms to Gaddafi (Reuters) Posted: 05 Sep 2011 03:42 PM PDT Reuters - Libya's new leadership has evidence Muammar Gaddafi bought arms this year from sanctions-busting traders in China and Europe, many of them via Algeria, but are split over how far to retaliate against governments who failed to stop it.

Libyan spy files detail Gadhafi regime's collapse (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2011 02:03 PM PDT AP - As the uprising grew against Moammar Gadhafi, secret reports from his vaunted intelligence service flowed back to Tripoli. Some were mundane — how agents erased anti-regime graffiti. Others were more deadly — a spy volunteered to poison rebel leaders' food and drink.

Haitians protest alleged attack by UN peacekeepers (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2011 05:14 PM PDT AP - Several hundred Haitians demonstrated Monday in support of an 18-year-old man who says he was sexually assaulted by peacekeepers from Uruguay on a U.N. base along the southern coast of Haiti.

Gaddafi in "good health" in Libya: spokesman (Reuters) Posted: 05 Sep 2011 02:51 PM PDT Reuters - Muammar Gaddafi is in good health and in good spirits somewhere in Libya, his spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said in remarks broadcast on Monday.

Strong quake hits west Indonesia; at least 1 dead (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2011 05:12 PM PDT AP - A powerful earthquake jolted the western Indonesian island of Sumatra early Tuesday, killing a 12-year-old boy and sending people streaming from their houses and hotels in panic. There was no threat of a tsunami.

Australian PM would face electoral wipeout: survey (Reuters) Posted: 05 Sep 2011 03:39 PM PDT Reuters - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's sinking popularity has plumbed new depths and her Labor Party faces electoral oblivion, an opinion poll revealed on Tuesday, a week after she suffered a major setback on immigration policy.

How US, British intelligence worked to bring Qaddafi's Libya in from the cold (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 05 Sep 2011 06:51 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The toppling of Col. Muammar Qaddafi is yielding a trove of Libyan intelligence documents that provide rare insight into American and British spy agencies â€" and the rendition of terror suspects to a regime known for human rights abuses.

Post-Gaddafi Tripoli: How Libya's Civil Servants Are Holding It Together (Time.com) Posted: 05 Sep 2011 04:15 AM 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

Can a fierce battle for Qaddafi's home town be avoided? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 10:09 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Libyan revolutionaries have not yet conducted any negotiations with the leaders of Muammar Qaddafi's home city of Sirte, but hope to within several days, the leader of Libya’s anti-Qaddafi forces in the east said Saturday.

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