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• Egyptian protesters pull down Israel embassy wall (Reuters)
• Fighters enter Bani Walid; battles erupt near Sirte (Reuters)
• Israel wary at "harsh" Turk naval challenge (Reuters)
• Iraq: Victim or beneficiary of September 11 attacks? (Reuters)
• U.S. expert: North Korea may need more atomic tests (Reuters)
• Mahmoud Abbas Hangs Tough on Palestinian Statehood (Time.com)
• Russian crash probe: Engines running til the end (AP)
• Egyptians break into Israel Embassy in Cairo (AP)
• Tropical Storm Maria threatens eastern Caribbean (AP)
• Spokesman: 3 more Libyan officers in Niger (AP)
• US tells Israel, Turkey to 'cool it' amid tensions (AP)
• Quake off Vancouver, no damage reported (Reuters)
• UN chief regrets lack of terrorism convention (AP)
• What Afghans think of the war: 'Why are you Americans here?' (The Christian Science Monitor)
• How a Tragic Plane Crash Reveals a Crack in Putin's Armor (Time.com)

Egyptian protesters pull down Israel embassy wall (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2011 02:27 PM PDT Reuters - Egyptian activists destroyed a wall around the Israeli embassy and set police cars on fire in Cairo on Friday after thousands demonstrated at Tahrir Square to push for a timetable for reforms and an end to military trials for civilians.

Fighters enter Bani Walid; battles erupt near Sirte (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2011 01:06 PM PDT Reuters - Fighters loyal to Libya's new rulers launched what appeared to be assaults on the final bastions of Muammar Gaddafi loyalists on Friday, with fighting reported inside the town of Bani Walid and near Gaddafi's home town of Sirte.

Israel wary at "harsh" Turk naval challenge (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2011 02:23 PM PDT Reuters - Israel will keep blockading Gaza in the face of Turkey's unprecedented naval challenge and is prepared for escalation though it wants to ease tensions with its former ally, officials said on Friday.

Iraq: Victim or beneficiary of September 11 attacks? (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:05 AM PDT Reuters - Ten years after the hijacked airliner attacks on the United States, Iraqis are swamped in the violent wake of a war launched on a tenuous premise and uncertain if they are headed to democracy or dictatorship.

U.S. expert: North Korea may need more atomic tests (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2011 10:58 AM PDT Reuters - North Korea has "good technical reasons" to carry out at least one more atomic test if it wants to develop a nuclear-armed missile, a prominent U.S. scientist who has often visited the reclusive Asian state said on Friday.

Mahmoud Abbas Hangs Tough on Palestinian Statehood (Time.com) Posted: 09 Sep 2011 02:25 AM PDT Time.com - In a meeting with the Western press, Mahmoud Abbas talks about how the Palestinian Authority is going to push forward at the U.N. in September

Russian crash probe: Engines running til the end (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2011 03:56 PM PDT AP - All three engines on a Russian jet that slammed into a riverbank were operating up until the moment of the crash and the plane's stabilizer and flaps were in a proper position for takeoff, Russian experts said Friday.

Egyptians break into Israel Embassy in Cairo (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2011 04:41 PM PDT AP - A group of about 30 protesters broke into the Israeli Embassy in Cairo Friday and dumped hundreds of documents out of the windows after a day of demonstrations outside the building in which crowds swinging sledge hammers and using their bare hands tore apart the embassy's security wall.

Tropical Storm Maria threatens eastern Caribbean (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2011 03:20 PM PDT AP - Tropical Storm Maria swirled toward the eastern Caribbean on Friday, threatening to unleash heavy rain and wind on islands still struggling to recover from a recent hurricane.

Spokesman: 3 more Libyan officers in Niger (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2011 03:54 PM PDT AP - More high-level defectors from the army of ex-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi continued to cross the desert border into Niger, with officials confirming late Friday the arrival of four more officers.

US tells Israel, Turkey to 'cool it' amid tensions (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2011 12:55 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration on Friday bluntly told U.S. allies Israel and Turkey to "cool it" as tensions between the two rose over aid flotillas to Gaza.

Quake off Vancouver, no damage reported (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2011 02:06 PM PDT Reuters - A magnitude 6.4 quake struck off Vancouver Island on Friday, some 175 miles northwest of Vancouver on Canada's Pacific coast, but no damage was reported in the city, eyewitnesses said.

UN chief regrets lack of terrorism convention (AP) Posted: 08 Sep 2011 07:59 PM PDT AP - United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon said Friday that he regrets that member nations have failed to agree on a comprehensive counterterrorism convention in the decade since the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.

What Afghans think of the war: 'Why are you Americans here?' (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 09 Sep 2011 05:02 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Stacks of folded carpets line every wall of Haji Mohammad Qul's rug shop on Chicken Street, Kabul's shopping destination for foreigners in search of Afghan souvenirs.

How a Tragic Plane Crash Reveals a Crack in Putin's Armor (Time.com) Posted: 09 Sep 2011 02:25 AM PDT Time.com - Anger and frustration over a series of transport tragedies may affect the way Russians choose to vote

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