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• Egyptian cabinet to meet over violence that kills 24 (Reuters)
• Libyan government forces attack Gaddafi security HQ in Sirte (Reuters)
• Yemeni opposition doubts Saleh pledge to quit soon (Reuters)
• Syria warns against recognition of opposition council (Reuters)
• Polish PM scores historic election win (Reuters)
• Sympathy for an Assassin: The Worrisome Protests in Pakistan (Time.com)
• Greece: crisis takes toll on health (AP)
• 24 dead in worst Cairo riots since Mubarak ouster (AP)
• Guyana president sets national vote for Nov. 28 (AP)
• Relatives: US man joins rebel fighters in Libya (AP)
• Special report: China's debt pileup raises risk of hard landing (Reuters)
• Flight attendants reject Air Canada labor pact (Reuters)
• Oil to be pumped from stricken ship in New Zealand (AP)
• Abbas Takes Palestinian Statehood on the Road (Time.com)

Egyptian cabinet to meet over violence that kills 24 (Reuters) Posted: 09 Oct 2011 05:28 PM PDT Reuters - Christians clashed with military police, leaving at least 24 people dead in Cairo, and the cabinet called an emergency meeting for Monday, vowing the violence would not derail Egypt's first election since Hosni Mubarak was toppled.

Libyan government forces attack Gaddafi security HQ in Sirte (Reuters) Posted: 09 Oct 2011 03:17 PM PDT Reuters - Libyan transitional government forces attacked deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi's security headquarters in the center of his hometown of Sirte, hoping that once the buildings had been captured the fight for the city would be won.

Yemeni opposition doubts Saleh pledge to quit soon (Reuters) Posted: 09 Oct 2011 10:59 AM PDT Reuters - Yemeni officials rowed back from President Ali Abdullah Saleh's statement that he would step down within "the coming days", and opponents dismissed the offer on Sunday as yet another delaying tactic to try and stay in power.

Syria warns against recognition of opposition council (Reuters) Posted: 09 Oct 2011 02:10 PM PDT Reuters - Syria threatened Sunday to retaliate against any country that formally recognizes a recently established opposition National Council which is seeking international support for the six-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.

Polish PM scores historic election win (Reuters) Posted: 09 Oct 2011 04:39 PM PDT Reuters - Donald Tusk will be the first Polish prime minister since the fall of communism in 1989 to rule for two successive terms after his center-right Civic Platform trounced its rivals in a parliamentary election.

Sympathy for an Assassin: The Worrisome Protests in Pakistan (Time.com) Posted: 08 Oct 2011 10:25 PM PDT Time.com - Judges quake as hundreds of people pour into the streets to protest a possible death sentence for the murderer of the governor of Punjab

Greece: crisis takes toll on health (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2011 04:01 PM PDT AP - The Greek financial crisis has become a health hazard.

24 dead in worst Cairo riots since Mubarak ouster (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2011 06:10 PM PDT AP - Flames lit up downtown Cairo, where massive clashes raged Sunday, drawing Christians angry over a recent church attack, Muslims and Egyptian security forces. At least 24 people were killed and more than 200 injured in the worst sectarian violence since the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak in February.

Guyana president sets national vote for Nov. 28 (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2011 05:19 PM PDT AP - Guyana's president has set Nov. 28 for national elections in the South American country.

Relatives: US man joins rebel fighters in Libya (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2011 01:12 PM PDT AP - Relatives and government officials say they are concerned about an American who spent nearly six months in a Libyan prison and now has joined the rebels fighting against forces loyal to longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi.

Special report: China's debt pileup raises risk of hard landing (Reuters) Posted: 09 Oct 2011 05:38 PM PDT Reuters - When China announced a nearly $600 billion package to ward off the 2008 global financial crisis, city planners across the country happily embarked on a frenzy of infrastructure projects, some of them of arguable need.

Flight attendants reject Air Canada labor pact (Reuters) Posted: 09 Oct 2011 05:43 PM PDT Reuters - Flight attendants at Air Canada have rejected a tentative labor contract with the country's biggest airline, and also served notice of their intension to strike on October 13.

Oil to be pumped from stricken ship in New Zealand (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2011 06:05 AM PDT AP - Marine crews were preparing Sunday for an operation to extract oil from a container ship that is stranded on a reef near New Zealand.

Abbas Takes Palestinian Statehood on the Road (Time.com) Posted: 08 Oct 2011 10:25 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

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