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• Italian appeal court clears Amanda Knox of murder (Reuters)
• Humanitarian fears grow over Libya Sirte battle (Reuters)
• Syrian forces raid town as Assad's foes unite (Reuters)
• Megrahi says his Lockerbie role exaggerated (Reuters)
• Russia's Putin says wants to build "Eurasian Union" (Reuters)
• Amanda Knox Is Free: But Italy Isn't Really Pleased (Time.com)
• Eurozone struggles to reassure markets (AP)
• Palestinians say freeze in US aid taking effect (AP)
• Mexican police arrest 2 in journalists killings (AP)
• Tripoli military chief says militias must pull out (Reuters)
• Senate takes first step on China yuan bill (Reuters)
• Canada says Greek crisis worse, sees reordered debt (Reuters)
• Egypt's military rulers back down on election law, but concerns persist (The Christian Science Monitor)
• "I Am Not Who They Say I Am": Amanda Knox Claims Innocence in a Final Plea to Appeals Court (Time.com)
• Karzai to end Taliban peace talks, focus on Pakistan ties (The Christian Science Monitor)

Italian appeal court clears Amanda Knox of murder (Reuters) Posted: 03 Oct 2011 04:33 PM PDT Reuters - Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend left prison after four years Monday when an Italian appeals court cleared them of the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

Humanitarian fears grow over Libya Sirte battle (Reuters) Posted: 03 Oct 2011 04:48 PM PDT Reuters - Libyan interim government forces have captured a district in Sirte after fierce battles that further raised concern about the dire humanitarian situation in Muammar Gaddafi's besieged hometown.

Syrian forces raid town as Assad's foes unite (Reuters) Posted: 03 Oct 2011 05:19 PM PDT Reuters - Syrian forces hunted insurgents in the central region of Homs as they sought to crush armed resistance that is emerging after six months of protests against President Bashar al-Assad's rule.

Megrahi says his Lockerbie role exaggerated (Reuters) Posted: 03 Oct 2011 11:59 AM PDT Reuters - Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people, said his role in the attack had been exaggerated and the truth about what really happened would emerge soon.

Russia's Putin says wants to build "Eurasian Union" (Reuters) Posted: 03 Oct 2011 03:21 PM PDT Reuters - Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he wants to bring ex-Soviet states into a "Eurasian Union" in an article which outlined his first foreign policy initiative as he prepares to return to the Kremlin as the country's next president.

Amanda Knox Is Free: But Italy Isn't Really Pleased (Time.com) Posted: 03 Oct 2011 02:15 PM PDT Time.com - The young American and her former boyfriend are released after their murder convictions are reversed. But Italy isn't happy with the treatment its justice system has received from the U.S. media

Eurozone struggles to reassure markets (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2011 05:18 PM PDT AP - The eurozone's finance chiefs indicated early Tuesday that Greece will get a loan installment it needs to keep paying its bills, even after Athens admitted that it would not be able cut its budget deficit as much as it had promised in return for help.

Palestinians say freeze in US aid taking effect (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2011 01:59 PM PDT AP - Palestinian officials said Monday that the U.S. has suspended West Bank development projects worth tens of millions of dollars after Congress froze funding to dissuade the Palestinians from seeking U.N. recognition of an independent state.

Mexican police arrest 2 in journalists killings (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2011 04:23 PM PDT AP - Police in Mexico City have arrested two people in connection with the killings of two female journalists whose bound, naked bodies were found last month in a park.

Tripoli military chief says militias must pull out (Reuters) Posted: 03 Oct 2011 01:21 PM PDT Reuters - The military commander of Tripoli, a key figure in the revolution that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi, called on other militias to pull their weapons out of Tripoli, accusing them of terrorizing the city's population.

Senate takes first step on China yuan bill (Reuters) Posted: 03 Oct 2011 05:11 PM PDT Reuters - The Senate on Monday took aim at one of China's core economic policies, voting to move forward with a bill designed to press Beijing to let its currency rise in value in the hope of creating U.S. jobs.

Canada says Greek crisis worse, sees reordered debt (Reuters) Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:50 PM PDT Reuters - The Greek debt crisis is getting worse rather than better, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Monday as he urged European leaders to take clear and decisive action to avoid a banking meltdown.

Egypt's military rulers back down on election law, but concerns persist (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 02 Oct 2011 01:12 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Under fierce pressure from a range of political parties, Egypt’s interim military rulers agreed to meet some demands for electoral reform and laid out a tentative timeline for transition to civilian rule on Saturday.

"I Am Not Who They Say I Am": Amanda Knox Claims Innocence in a Final Plea to Appeals Court (Time.com) Posted: 03 Oct 2011 02:15 PM PDT Time.com - In a final effort to overturn a conviction in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito appeared before an Italian appeals court Monday

Karzai to end Taliban peace talks, focus on Pakistan ties (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 02 Oct 2011 09:24 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - In a move that will likely bring a dramatic shift to the direction of peace talks in Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai has announced that he will stop talks with the Taliban and focus efforts on Pakistan.

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