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• Sniper fire holds up push into Gaddafi's hometown (Reuters)
• Special Report: Crisis grips North Korean rice bowl (Reuters)
• Israel holds suspects in settler deaths, mosque fire (Reuters)
• French left milks novelty of presidential primary (Reuters)
• Arab Spring, Nobel fall? (Reuters)
• Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney's father arrested in betting probe (Time.com)
• EU, Arab Spring favorites for Nobel Peace Prize (AP)
• Iraq offers advice to Libyan leader on democracy (AP)
• UN study: Homicides soar in Central America (AP)
• Sudan will leave Abyei when UN fully deploys (AP)
• Yahoo likely to shed Yahoo Japan stake: report (Reuters)
• Canada to limit caffeine in energy drinks (Reuters)
• Australia seeks world backing on tobacco legal fight (Reuters)
• Bolivian indigenous struggle to be heard – by indigenous President Morales (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Beating Butter: Denmark Imposes the World's First Fat Tax (Time.com)
• US soldiers feel new sense of urgency in Afghanistan war (The Christian Science Monitor)

Sniper fire holds up push into Gaddafi's hometown (Reuters) Posted: 06 Oct 2011 04:13 PM PDT Reuters - Snipers loyal to Muammar Gaddafi held back government forces trying to capture his hometown on Thursday and the deposed leader warned the heads of the developing world who have recognized Libya's new rulers that they would face a similar fate to his own.

Special Report: Crisis grips North Korean rice bowl (Reuters) Posted: 06 Oct 2011 12:43 PM PDT Reuters - In a pediatric hospital in North Korea's most productive farming province, children lay two to a bed. All showed signs of severe malnutrition: skin infections, patchy hair, listless apathy.

Israel holds suspects in settler deaths, mosque fire (Reuters) Posted: 06 Oct 2011 03:56 PM PDT Reuters - Israel said on Thursday it had arrested five Palestinians in the West Bank in connection with the stoning of a vehicle that overturned, killing a Jewish settler and his baby late last month.

French left milks novelty of presidential primary (Reuters) Posted: 06 Oct 2011 11:55 AM PDT Reuters - France's Socialists have the wind in their sails less than seven months from a presidential election, buoyed by the novelty of an American-style primary and the airtime access it is giving them.

Arab Spring, Nobel fall? (Reuters) Posted: 06 Oct 2011 04:29 PM PDT Reuters - The award of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday has autumnal Oslo turning thoughts back to the Arab Spring, but Africans, from Liberia, or perhaps Sudan, offer a strong challenge in perennial speculation on who will win the global accolade.

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney's father arrested in betting probe (Time.com) Posted: 06 Oct 2011 02:40 AM PDT Time.com - The father and uncle of Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney were arrested Thursday as part of an investigation into betting irregularities at a Scottish Premier League soccer match

EU, Arab Spring favorites for Nobel Peace Prize (AP) Posted: 06 Oct 2011 04:54 PM PDT AP - Arab Spring or European Union? Speculation ahead of the Nobel Peace Prize announcement on Friday is split after cryptic comments by the award committee's chairman.

Iraq offers advice to Libyan leader on democracy (AP) Posted: 06 Oct 2011 02:04 PM PDT AP - Iraq's prime minister offered to help Libya, a country with a shared history of dictatorship, build its fledgling democracy during a meeting Thursday with Libya's visiting prime minister, said an Iraqi spokesman.

UN study: Homicides soar in Central America (AP) Posted: 06 Oct 2011 04:44 PM PDT AP - Honduras and El Salvador have the highest homicide rates in the world as killings reach a crisis point in Central America, a United Nations report said Thursday.

Sudan will leave Abyei when UN fully deploys (AP) Posted: 06 Oct 2011 04:51 PM PDT AP - Sudan will withdraw all its troops from the disputed Abyei region at the same time that the United Nations fully deploys its 4,200-strong force, the country's U.N. ambassador said Thursday.

Yahoo likely to shed Yahoo Japan stake: report (Reuters) Posted: 06 Oct 2011 04:34 PM PDT Reuters - Yahoo Inc is likely to sell its 35 percent stake in Yahoo Japan ahead of the conclusion of its broader strategic review, possibly within weeks, the Financial Times reported.

Canada to limit caffeine in energy drinks (Reuters) Posted: 06 Oct 2011 11:42 AM PDT Reuters - Canada will restrict the amount of caffeine allowed in energy drinks such as Red Bull and Monster Energy but has pulled back from classifying them as stimulative drug products that can only be sold in pharmacies.

Australia seeks world backing on tobacco legal fight (Reuters) Posted: 05 Oct 2011 11:14 PM PDT Reuters - Australia is confident the world's toughest anti-tobacco laws will soon pass parliament, but the government warned on Thursday that the anti-smoking fight was not over and urged other nations to reject a possible WTO challenge backed by big tobacco.

Bolivian indigenous struggle to be heard – by indigenous President Morales (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 05 Oct 2011 12:53 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - When Evo Morales was elected Bolivia's first indigenous president in 2005, José Ortiz, a national indigenous leader, was hopeful.

Beating Butter: Denmark Imposes the World's First Fat Tax (Time.com) Posted: 06 Oct 2011 02:40 AM PDT Time.com - By taxing foods with more than 2.3% saturated fats, the Danish government says it will save lives. But critics say it's just fattening up the state coffers

US soldiers feel new sense of urgency in Afghanistan war (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 05 Oct 2011 12:34 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - If there’s one place in Afghanistan where America’s counterinsurgency doctrine appears to be working, it’s in a remote corner of Paktika province about 10 miles from the border with Pakistan.

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