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• Torture rife in Afghan detention facilities: U.N. (Reuters)
• Libya forces corner Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte (Reuters)
• Clashes kill 31 in Syria, EU hails opposition body (Reuters)
• Liberia's Johnson-Sirleaf seeks new term in tight poll (Reuters)
• Yemen's Uprising: President Saleh vs. Peaceful Protesters (Time.com)
• Stocks soar on European pledge to help banks (AP)
• Al-Qaida confirms killing of US-born cleric (AP)
• Haiti group sees jump in cholera cases in capital (AP)
• US Copts supporting Christians in Egypt (AP)
• UN: Detainees tortured in Afghanistan (AP)
• Oil from stuck ship turns up on New Zealand beach (AP)
• Inside Cairo's Riots: The Egyptian Junta's True Colors (Time.com)

Torture rife in Afghan detention facilities: U.N. (Reuters) Posted: 10 Oct 2011 03:56 PM PDT Reuters - Afghanistan's intelligence agency and police force have been "systematically" torturing detainees including children at a number of jails, in breach of local and international laws, a United Nations report said on Monday.

Libya forces corner Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte (Reuters) Posted: 10 Oct 2011 12:37 PM PDT Reuters - Libyan transitional government forces said they had cornered Muammar Gaddafi loyalists in the center of the deposed leader's hometown on Monday, where desperate civilians were still trying to flee the fierce street fighting.

Clashes kill 31 in Syria, EU hails opposition body (Reuters) Posted: 10 Oct 2011 12:01 PM PDT Reuters - At least 31 people were killed across Syria in the latest wave of violence, notably clashes between gunmen believed to be army deserters and troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, a Syrian activist group said on Monday.

Liberia's Johnson-Sirleaf seeks new term in tight poll (Reuters) Posted: 10 Oct 2011 04:44 PM PDT Reuters - Liberians vote on Tuesday in the West African state's second presidential election since a civil war, with international appeals for rival supporters to stay peaceful during the hotly-contested poll.

Yemen's Uprising: President Saleh vs. Peaceful Protesters (Time.com) Posted: 10 Oct 2011 02:30 PM PDT Time.com - The troubles of the country can be told through three families: the President's, the al-Ahmar tribe and the day-to-day trials of a doctor and his sons

Stocks soar on European pledge to help banks (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2011 03:37 PM PDT AP - Just last week, a bear market seemed inevitable. Since then stocks have surged four out of the past five days, bringing the S&P 500 index up 8.7 percent.

Al-Qaida confirms killing of US-born cleric (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2011 02:54 PM PDT AP - Al-Qaida's Yemeni offshoot on Monday confirmed the killing of U.S.-born militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki late last month and vowed to avenge the prominent propagandist's death.

Haiti group sees jump in cholera cases in capital (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2011 04:30 PM PDT AP - The number of cholera cases seen in the Haitian capital has jumped about threefold in recent weeks, an official with a foreign aid group said Monday.

US Copts supporting Christians in Egypt (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2011 03:25 PM PDT AP - Egyptian Christians living in the U.S. said Monday that they are horrified by violence that has erupted against Copts back home, including a deadly assault on those trying to stage a peaceful protest in Cairo in response to an attack on a church.

UN: Detainees tortured in Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2011 01:13 PM PDT AP - Beatings, electric shocks and other forms of torture were administered to suspected Taliban fighters in some Afghan-run detention centers, the U.N. said Monday, even as the U.S. and others have spent billions of dollars training the police and security services.

Oil from stuck ship turns up on New Zealand beach (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2011 09:35 AM PDT AP - Forecasts of heavy ocean swells Monday thwarted marine crews trying to pull oil from a leaking ship stuck on a reef off New Zealand's coast, as fist-sized clumps of the fuel started turning up on a popular surfers' beach.

Inside Cairo's Riots: The Egyptian Junta's True Colors (Time.com) Posted: 10 Oct 2011 02:30 PM PDT Time.com - The military's response to a peaceful Christian protest -- and the rabid media depiction that followed -- is a bad omen for democracy and change in Egypt

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