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• Gaddafi killed in hometown, Libya eyes future (Reuters)
• U.S. grand jury indicts two men in Saudi envoy plot (Reuters)
• Basque separatists ETA say end armed struggle (Reuters)
• Greece adopts austerity bill amid protests (Reuters)
• Tunisia vows no poll rigging, calls on people to vote (Reuters)
• In Quake-Hit Christchurch, All Eyes Are on the All Blacks (Time.com)
• Basque group ETA ends armed independence campaign (AP)
• Pulled from drain pipe, Gadhafi was shown no mercy (AP)
• Protesting students seize Chile's Senate building (AP)
• World looks warily to Libya's future post-Gadhafi (AP)
• U.S. seen struggling to win fight in Afghan east (Reuters)
• Canada's Libya mission to end in two weeks (Reuters)
• Australians cheer Queen Elizabeth during boat trip (AP)
• Clinton urges Pakistan to get tougher on terrorists (The Christian Science Monitor)
• How Gaddafi Died: The Interim Prime Minister's Version (Time.com)
• Syria's uprising creeps across Lebanese border (The Christian Science Monitor)

Gaddafi killed in hometown, Libya eyes future (Reuters) Posted: 20 Oct 2011 04:15 PM PDT Reuters - Muammar Gaddafi was killed after being captured by the Libyan fighters he once scorned as "rats," cornered and shot in the head after they overrun his last bastion of resistance in his hometown of Sirte.

U.S. grand jury indicts two men in Saudi envoy plot (Reuters) Posted: 20 Oct 2011 03:44 PM PDT Reuters - A U.S. grand jury on Thursday formally indicted two men suspected of being part of an Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington.

Basque separatists ETA say end armed struggle (Reuters) Posted: 20 Oct 2011 03:00 PM PDT Reuters - The Basque separatist group ETA said on Thursday it was ending four decades of armed struggle and called for talks with the Spanish and French authorities on ending Europe's last major guerrilla conflict.

Greece adopts austerity bill amid protests (Reuters) Posted: 20 Oct 2011 12:29 PM PDT Reuters - The Greek parliament approved a painful set of austerity measures on Thursday, defying violent protests in central Athens and a general strike which shut down much of the country.

Tunisia vows no poll rigging, calls on people to vote (Reuters) Posted: 20 Oct 2011 03:18 PM PDT Reuters - Tunisians should vote without fear of rigging or any violence in the first free election after an uprising earlier this year, the prime minister said on Thursday.

In Quake-Hit Christchurch, All Eyes Are on the All Blacks (Time.com) Posted: 20 Oct 2011 03:25 PM PDT Time.com - A win at this weekend's Rugby World Cup would be a much-needed morale boost for the residents of a city rocked by not one, but two, earthquakes in little over a year

Basque group ETA ends armed independence campaign (AP) Posted: 20 Oct 2011 04:14 PM PDT AP - After killing more than 800 people across Spain over the last four decades in its drive for an independent state, the Basque separatist group ETA on Thursday said it would lay down its arms — but stopped short of declaring it was defeated.

Pulled from drain pipe, Gadhafi was shown no mercy (AP) Posted: 20 Oct 2011 05:05 PM PDT AP - Dragged from hiding in a drainage pipe, a wounded Moammar Gadhafi raised his hands and begged revolutionary fighters: "Don't kill me, my sons." Within an hour, he was dead, but not before jubilant Libyans had vented decades of hatred by pulling the eccentric dictator's hair and parading his bloodied body on the hood of a truck.

Protesting students seize Chile's Senate building (AP) Posted: 20 Oct 2011 04:54 PM PDT AP - Dozens of students and other protesters interrupted a Senate committee meeting Thursday to demand a popular referendum on how to resolve Chile's social problems, especially education.

World looks warily to Libya's future post-Gadhafi (AP) Posted: 20 Oct 2011 04:15 PM PDT AP - European leaders hailed it as a victory, Libyan exiles celebrated in the streets and the mother of one of Moammar Gadhafi's many victims said she was treating herself to an expensive bottle of champagne.

U.S. seen struggling to win fight in Afghan east (Reuters) Posted: 20 Oct 2011 03:44 PM PDT Reuters - It's known in milspeak as RC-East, the vast, rugged and mountainous east of Afghanistan, where battle-hardened insurgents vow to wait out U.S. military might and the final phase of the decade-long war in Afghanistan is likely to be decided.

Canada's Libya mission to end in two weeks (Reuters) Posted: 20 Oct 2011 11:33 AM PDT Reuters - Canada will be contacting its allies in the next few days and arranging for the early end of its Libyan military mission, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Thursday.

Australians cheer Queen Elizabeth during boat trip (AP) Posted: 20 Oct 2011 08:00 AM PDT AP - Thousands of people cheered and waved from the banks of the Australian capital's central lake as Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, took a motor boat to a flower show Thursday in their first public appearance of a 10-day tour of Australia.

Clinton urges Pakistan to get tougher on terrorists (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 20 Oct 2011 07:53 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s visit to Pakistan on Thursday is being seen as a major push to smooth relations and urge Pakistan to be a constructive partner in Afghan peace talks in one of the worst periods for US-Pakistan ties since 9/11.

How Gaddafi Died: The Interim Prime Minister's Version (Time.com) Posted: 20 Oct 2011 03:25 PM PDT Time.com - Mahmoud Jibril provides details of Gaddafi's last moments and talks about the difficulties of the post-Gaddafi era, which has just begun

Syria's uprising creeps across Lebanese border (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 20 Oct 2011 07:52 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - A growing number of cross-border incursions by Syrian troops into Lebanese territory has aggravated political rivalries in Lebanon between those who oppose the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and those who support it.

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