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• Libyan convoys in Niger, may be Gaddafi deal (Reuters)
• Gaddafi last tracked in southern Libya (Reuters)
• UK hacking probe sharpens focus on James Murdoch (Reuters)
• Egypt's Mubarak back in court over protester deaths (Reuters)
• Exclusive: Gaddafi used torture squads in bid to preserve rule (Reuters)
• From Vietnam's Forced Labor Camps: 'Blood Cashews' (Time.com)
• Knox trial: Doubt reigns as experts fight over DNA (AP)
• Top Gadhafi loyalists flee to Niger in desert trek (AP)
• Panama police arrest 80 members of cocaine ring (AP)
• Niger: Only 1 major Libyan figure in Niger (AP)
• Man to face Australian court over bomb hoax siege (AP)
• Former media tycoon Conrad Black goes back to jail (Reuters)
• From Russia's rarely seen 'Yellowstone,' a plea for tourists (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Is Muammar Gaddafi Fleeing Libya to Burkina Faso? (Time.com)
• Afghan war: What some local officials are willing to do for peace (The Christian Science Monitor)

Libyan convoys in Niger, may be Gaddafi deal (Reuters) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 01:41 PM PDT Reuters - Scores of Libyan army vehicles crossed the desert frontier into Niger in what may be a bid by Muammar Gaddafi to seek refuge in a friendly African state, military sources from France and Niger told Reuters on Tuesday.

Gaddafi last tracked in southern Libya (Reuters) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 04:11 PM PDT Reuters - Muammar Gaddafi has probably left the Libyan desert town of Bani Walid and is heading further south, with the help of loyalist tribes, toward Chad or Niger, a senior military official in Libya's new leadership told Reuters.

UK hacking probe sharpens focus on James Murdoch (Reuters) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:27 AM PDT Reuters - James Murdoch knew more than three years ago that phone-hacking at News Corp's News of the World went beyond one "rogue" reporter, the newspaper's former legal chief said on Tuesday, contradicting repeated denials by Murdoch.

Egypt's Mubarak back in court over protester deaths (Reuters) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 04:16 PM PDT Reuters - An Egyptian court trying Hosni Mubarak over the killing of protesters who ousted him will hear more testimonies on Wednesday after police witnesses suggested this week that neither he nor his interior minister gave orders to shoot.

Exclusive: Gaddafi used torture squads in bid to preserve rule (Reuters) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 09:56 AM PDT Reuters - Libya's Muammar Gaddafi deployed special squads which held suspected opponents in shipping containers, tortured them for information about insurgent networks and disposed of their bodies in unmarked graves in a campaign to smash the revolt against his rule.

From Vietnam's Forced Labor Camps: 'Blood Cashews' (Time.com) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 04:40 PM PDT Time.com - A new report claims the country is exporting goods produced by drug addicts detained against their will

Knox trial: Doubt reigns as experts fight over DNA (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 04:58 PM PDT AP - Questions mounted Tuesday over crucial DNA evidence linking Amanda Knox and her co-defendant to the murder of her British roommate, with forensic experts giving detailed and conflicting views in court over genetic science.

Top Gadhafi loyalists flee to Niger in desert trek (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 04:57 PM PDT AP - Convoys of Moammar Gadhafi loyalists, including his security chief, fled across the Sahara into Niger on Tuesday in a move that Libya's former rebels hoped could help lead to the surrender of his last strongholds.

Panama police arrest 80 members of cocaine ring (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 04:49 PM PDT AP - Authorities in Panama say they have broken up a major cocaine trafficking organization that moved drugs from Colombia to Panama and then north to Mexico and the United States.

Niger: Only 1 major Libyan figure in Niger (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 04:11 PM PDT AP - A spokesman for the president of Niger debunked media reports that a convoy of over 200 military vehicles from Libya had entered his country, saying only three cars had crossed ferrying one senior member of Moammar Gadhafi's entourage.

Man to face Australian court over bomb hoax siege (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 04:01 PM PDT AP - A man will appear in a Sydney court on Wednesday charged with a range of crimes after he triggered a 12-hour standoff with police by marching into a law office with his daughter and claiming he had a bomb in his backpack.

Former media tycoon Conrad Black goes back to jail (Reuters) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 02:36 PM PDT Reuters - Former media mogul Conrad Black returned to prison on Tuesday in Florida to finish serving a sentence for fraud and obstruction of justice, a U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokesman said.

From Russia's rarely seen 'Yellowstone,' a plea for tourists (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:03 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Casting an envious eye toward Yellowstone National Park, Russia may finally be ready to let the world know it has big geysers, too.

Is Muammar Gaddafi Fleeing Libya to Burkina Faso? (Time.com) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 04:40 PM PDT Time.com - The impoverished, landlocked nation has been one of the rumored destinations of a supposedly fleeing Gaddafi. But few ordinary citizens there know who he is

Afghan war: What some local officials are willing to do for peace (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 06 Sep 2011 10:23 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - After spending most of his life as a fighter â€" first as a mujadhideen during the Soviet invasion and most recently as a general in the Afghan Army during the current war â€" Atiqullah Ludin is among a growing group of local leaders who say they no longer believe fighting will bring peace.

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