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• NTC forces celebrate capture of Gaddafi bastion Bani Walid (Reuters)
• Fanfare masks doubts on U.S. anti-rebel push in Africa (Reuters)
• From a single hashtag, a protest circled the world (Reuters)
• Israel court gives green light to Shalit swap (Reuters)
• Iran says happy to examine U.S. plot allegations (Reuters)
• Should School of the Americas' 'Coup Academy' Be Closed? (Time.com)
• Putin lays out case for Kremlin return (Reuters)
• State media: Roadside bomb kills woman in Algeria (AP)
• Assange calls Wikileaks defection reports false (AP)
• Death of officer key to Egypt prison breaks (AP)
• U.S. welcomes Myanmar moves but unsure of real reform (Reuters)
• Europe nearly out of time to stop global crisis: Canada (Reuters)
• Crews again halt oil pumping from New Zealand ship (AP)
• On the road, Iran's Khamenei sets stage for a less democratic future (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Effects of global warming threaten island nation Maldives (Time.com)
• Gilad Shalit deal: West Bank prepares to welcome Palestinians home (The Christian Science Monitor)

NTC forces celebrate capture of Gaddafi bastion Bani Walid (Reuters) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:17 PM PDT Reuters - Fighters with Libya's interim government have captured the town of Bani Walid, firing their guns into the air and hoisting the country's new flag over the center of one of the final bastions of Muammar Gaddafi's loyalists.

Fanfare masks doubts on U.S. anti-rebel push in Africa (Reuters) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 02:51 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama's deployment of 100 military advisers to help defeat Uganda's notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) may yield him a popular foreign policy win but risks triggering more violence if it fails.

From a single hashtag, a protest circled the world (Reuters) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 01:54 PM PDT Reuters - It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.

Israel court gives green light to Shalit swap (Reuters) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 04:47 PM PDT Reuters - A deal between Israel and Hamas to exchange hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was on course for Tuesday after Israel's highest court rejected petitions to block it.

Iran says happy to examine U.S. plot allegations (Reuters) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:44 AM PDT Reuters - Iran said on Monday it would examine "seriously and patiently" U.S. allegations it planned to assassinate a Saudi ambassador and called on Washington to send evidence of the plot it has dismissed as baseless propaganda.

Should School of the Americas' 'Coup Academy' Be Closed? (Time.com) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 03:20 PM PDT Time.com - Its alumni include Manuel Noriega and a long list of other dictators and strongmen turned drug traffickers. The School of the Americas (SOA) has tried to change its image, but leaders in both North and South America are calling for its demise

Putin lays out case for Kremlin return (Reuters) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 04:54 PM PDT Reuters - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin laid out his case for a return to Russia's top office in a televised interview on Monday, casting himself as the best guarantor of a bright future in a country haunted by upheaval in the recent past.

State media: Roadside bomb kills woman in Algeria (AP) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 03:25 PM PDT AP - The Algerian state news agency says a woman was killed and two other people were wounded by a roadside bomb east of the capital.

Assange calls Wikileaks defection reports false (AP) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:05 PM PDT AP - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday described as nonsense reports of defections from his organization and said his group helped inspire the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Death of officer key to Egypt prison breaks (AP) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 02:54 PM PDT AP - A senior prison officer was killed by his subordinates as he tried to stop mass prison breaks during Egypt's popular uprising against President Hosni Mubarak, an Egyptian rights group said Monday.

U.S. welcomes Myanmar moves but unsure of real reform (Reuters) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 04:08 PM PDT Reuters - There are signs that Myanmar may be moving toward greater openness but it is unclear whether it has embarked on genuine, thorough-going political reform, a senior U.S. official said on Monday.

Europe nearly out of time to stop global crisis: Canada (Reuters) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 08:33 AM PDT Reuters - European leaders are running out of time to prevent euro zone debt problems turning into a full-blown global crisis, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Monday after Germany warned a breakthrough was unlikely at a summit this weekend.

Crews again halt oil pumping from New Zealand ship (AP) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 03:04 PM PDT AP - Crews have again halted attempts to pump oil from a stricken ship off the New Zealand coast as the weather worsens.

On the road, Iran's Khamenei sets stage for a less democratic future (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 01:59 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - It looked like business as usual when Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei began a nine-day tour of the western province of Kermanshah last week. But Ayatollah Khamenei appears to be setting the stage for political changes that will further shrivel the democratic aspect of the Islamic Republic.

Effects of global warming threaten island nation Maldives (Time.com) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 03:20 PM PDT Time.com - The effects of global warming are very real for this tropical haven, where ocean waters threaten a delicate ecosystem. A closer look two years after Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed pledged to reach carbon neutrality with solar and wind power

Gilad Shalit deal: West Bank prepares to welcome Palestinians home (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 01:04 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - While Israelis demonstrated outside the country's Supreme Court, demanding that it block the release tomorrow of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, some Palestinians excitedly prepared for the homecoming of family members they haven't seen in decades.

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