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• Nobel honors African, Arab women for peace (Reuters)
• Libya forces in coordinated assault on Gaddafi hometown (Reuters)
• Ten years on, Taliban says "victory is with us" (Reuters)
• Syrian forces kill eight protesters: activists (Reuters)
• Rapping Chavez launches coalition year before vote (Reuters)
• Abbas Takes Palestinian Statehood on the Road (Time.com)
• Moody's warns Belgium it risks credit rating cut (Reuters)
• Arab uprisings' women celebrate Nobel recognition (AP)
• Puerto Rico governor officially seeks second term (AP)
• Liberian Nobel winners confronted thugs, killers (AP)
• Clapper: US, Pakistan spies rebuild ties (AP)
• Canada says law to end grain monopoly coming soon (Reuters)
• Australia wants boy drug suspect in Bali back home (AP)
• Israel celebrates Nobel Prize, but worries about declining prowess (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Libyan Rebels Push into Sirt, Muammar Gaddafi's Hometown (Time.com)
• European Central Bank offers lifeline to ailing eurozone lenders (The Christian Science Monitor)

Nobel honors African, Arab women for peace (Reuters) Posted: 07 Oct 2011 02:27 PM PDT Reuters - Declaring women's rights vital for world peace, the Nobel Committee awarded its annual Peace Prize Friday to three indomitable female campaigners against war and oppression -- a Yemeni and two Liberians, including that country's president.

Libya forces in coordinated assault on Gaddafi hometown (Reuters) Posted: 07 Oct 2011 12:55 PM PDT Reuters - Libyan transitional government forces launched their biggest assault yet on Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte on Friday, firing heavy artillery at the last major bastion of support for the deposed leader.

Ten years on, Taliban says "victory is with us" (Reuters) Posted: 07 Oct 2011 12:43 PM PDT Reuters - The Taliban vowed to keep fighting until all foreign forces left Afghanistan in a statement on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the U.S. military campaign in the country.

Syrian forces kill eight protesters: activists (Reuters) Posted: 07 Oct 2011 04:25 PM PDT Reuters - Syrian forces killed at least eight people when they opened fire to disperse protests against President Bashar al-Assad after Friday prayers in Damascus and Homs, activists said, and Russia's president urged him to undertake reforms or step down.

Rapping Chavez launches coalition year before vote (Reuters) Posted: 07 Oct 2011 12:45 PM PDT Reuters - Jiving to rap music and vowing a "thrashing" in Venezuela's vote exactly a year away, President Hugo Chavez resuscitated a left-wing political coalition on Friday that he hopes will propel him to re-election.

Abbas Takes Palestinian Statehood on the Road (Time.com) Posted: 07 Oct 2011 03:15 PM PDT Time.com - The President of the Palestinian Authority starts a tour to drum up support for U.N. membership among countries critical to the Security Council vote

Moody's warns Belgium it risks credit rating cut (Reuters) Posted: 07 Oct 2011 03:52 PM PDT Reuters - Moody's warned Belgium on Friday its credit rating could fall due to the burden of bailing out Dexia , the French-Belgian financial group, and the prospect of higher funding costs and weak economic growth.

Arab uprisings' women celebrate Nobel recognition (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2011 02:55 PM PDT AP - As demonstrations first swelled in Yemen, regime supporters distributed a photo showing Tawakkul Karman at a protest with a male colleague — cutting out others around them — to taint her for being alone with a man.

Puerto Rico governor officially seeks second term (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2011 04:25 PM PDT AP - Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuno has formally submitted his bid for a second term.

Liberian Nobel winners confronted thugs, killers (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2011 01:30 PM PDT AP - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee used different tactics to confront thugs and killers in war-ravaged Liberia, with one challenging a feared warlord for the presidency and the other taking to the streets to denounce armed rapists who were preying on women.

Clapper: US, Pakistan spies rebuild ties (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2011 01:29 PM PDT AP - After a troubled period in U.S.-Pakistani relations, Pakistani forces have arrested five key al-Qaida suspects at the CIA's request, including a senior operative whose name has not been made public, and also allowed U.S. intelligence officers to question those detainees, according to U.S. and Pakistani officials.

Canada says law to end grain monopoly coming soon (Reuters) Posted: 07 Oct 2011 01:52 PM PDT Reuters - Canada's Conservative government will pass legislation "very soon" to end the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly on milling and exports of western wheat and barley, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Friday, strongly warning the board to get out of the way.

Australia wants boy drug suspect in Bali back home (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2011 04:08 AM PDT AP - Australia's foreign minister said Friday that he will do everything possible to secure the return of a 14-year-old boy arrested for alleged marijuana possession while on a family vacation in Indonesia.

Israel celebrates Nobel Prize, but worries about declining prowess (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 06 Oct 2011 01:46 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Israel has celebrated this week's announcement of Israeli professor Dan Shechtman’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry as if he won Olympic Gold.

Libyan Rebels Push into Sirt, Muammar Gaddafi's Hometown (Time.com) Posted: 07 Oct 2011 03:15 PM PDT Time.com - As they promised, the rebels press hard against the last big town loyal to the dictator, suffering a large number of casualties but, at the end of the first real day, strangely optimistic

European Central Bank offers lifeline to ailing eurozone lenders (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 06 Oct 2011 12:13 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Jean-Claude Trichet, outgoing president of the European Central Bank (ECB), brought good news and bad news to Berlin.

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