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• Obama says Iran to face toughest possible sanctions (Reuters)
• Twenty killed in Syrian clashes, EU sanctions bank (Reuters)
• French Strauss-Kahn sex assault probe dropped (Reuters)
• Israel-Palestinian swap due in Sinai next week (Reuters)
• Gunmen kidnap two Spanish aid workers from Kenya camp (Reuters)
• Will the Washington Bomb Plot Force Obama Into War With Iran? (Time.com)
• Berlusconi faces confidence vote; seen surviving for now (Reuters)
• Twin explosions in Baghdad kill 17 people (AP)
• Brazil prosecutor wants to deport Battisti (AP)
• Report: 28 dead in Papua New Guinea plane crash (AP)
• White House dinner icing on SKorea charm offensive (AP)
• Move to avoid "full-blown global recession": PM Harper (Reuters)
• Weather gives boost to oil plans for stricken ship (AP)
• Egypt's military denies any responsibility in deaths of 17 Christians (The Christian Science Monitor)
• The Saudi-Iran Cold War: Will the Assassination Plot Heat It Up? (Time.com)
• A year after joyous miner rescue, Chile struggles with conflict (The Christian Science Monitor)

Obama says Iran to face toughest possible sanctions (Reuters) Posted: 13 Oct 2011 02:42 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama warned Iran on Thursday it would face the toughest possible sanctions for an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington, as Treasury officials eyed action against the Iranian central bank.

Twenty killed in Syrian clashes, EU sanctions bank (Reuters) Posted: 13 Oct 2011 01:52 PM PDT Reuters - At least 20 people were killed in renewed fighting in Syria on Thursday, an activist group said, and the European Union imposed sanctions on the country's biggest state bank which bankers say holds much of the country's foreign reserves.

French Strauss-Kahn sex assault probe dropped (Reuters) Posted: 13 Oct 2011 01:56 PM PDT Reuters - French public prosecutors dropped an investigation on Thursday into a writer's accusation of attempted rape against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn due to lack of evidence.

Israel-Palestinian swap due in Sinai next week (Reuters) Posted: 13 Oct 2011 12:00 PM PDT Reuters - Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit will be freed from five years of captivity in the Gaza Strip some time next week in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails.

Gunmen kidnap two Spanish aid workers from Kenya camp (Reuters) Posted: 13 Oct 2011 03:48 PM PDT Reuters - Gunmen were on the run with two Spanish aid workers kidnapped on Thursday from Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp, after the third abduction of Westerners in Kenya by attackers linked to Somalia in a month.

Will the Washington Bomb Plot Force Obama Into War With Iran? (Time.com) Posted: 13 Oct 2011 02:50 PM PDT Time.com - A warning of the perils arising from the two sides inability to communicate and understand each other's intentions seems especially prescient amid the fallout from the alleged plot to kill the Saudi Ambassador to Washington

Berlusconi faces confidence vote; seen surviving for now (Reuters) Posted: 13 Oct 2011 03:50 PM PDT Reuters - Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is expected to scrape through a vote of confidence on Friday, despite the scandals, economic stagnation and intense pressure from financial markets plaguing him and his administration.

Twin explosions in Baghdad kill 17 people (AP) Posted: 13 Oct 2011 01:04 PM PDT AP - Two explosions in a Shiite neighborhood of eastern Baghdad killed 17 people and wounded around 50 others Thursday night, Iraqi officials said.

Brazil prosecutor wants to deport Battisti (AP) Posted: 13 Oct 2011 02:52 PM PDT AP - A Brazilian federal prosecutor filed a petition Thursday seeking to annul the residency visa granted to a former leftist rebel from Italy convicted in his homeland of four murders carried out in the late 1970s.

Report: 28 dead in Papua New Guinea plane crash (AP) Posted: 13 Oct 2011 04:19 PM PDT AP - Twenty-eight people were killed and four others survived when their plane crashed into the remote forests of Papua New Guinea, Australian officials said Friday.

White House dinner icing on SKorea charm offensive (AP) Posted: 13 Oct 2011 04:25 PM PDT AP - First came an intimate dinner at a suburban Korean restaurant. Next, the all-out opulence of a White House state dinner in the East Room.

Move to avoid "full-blown global recession": PM Harper (Reuters) Posted: 13 Oct 2011 01:01 PM PDT Reuters - Europe and the G20 leading economies must act decisively and quickly to avoid another full-scale world recession, Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned on Thursday.

Weather gives boost to oil plans for stricken ship (AP) Posted: 13 Oct 2011 03:31 PM PDT AP - The calmest weather in days has given salvage crews hope they will be able on Friday to resume pumping the remaining fuel from a cargo ship stuck on a New Zealand reef.

Egypt's military denies any responsibility in deaths of 17 Christians (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 12 Oct 2011 01:41 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Egypt’s Army has denied shooting or running over mostly Christian protesters at a demonstration Sunday, laying the blame on protesters for the violence that killed as many as two dozen people.

The Saudi-Iran Cold War: Will the Assassination Plot Heat It Up? (Time.com) Posted: 13 Oct 2011 02:50 PM PDT Time.com - Riyadh flexed its muscles in Bahrain when it saw an alleged threat from Iran there. How will it respond to the alleged plot to kill its ambassador to the U.S.?

A year after joyous miner rescue, Chile struggles with conflict (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 12 Oct 2011 12:35 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - A year after Chile gained a boost of public confidence and national pride by rescuing 33 miners trapped a half-mile underground, the country is now wrought with political and social squabbles that are demolishing politicians' approval ratings.

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