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• Gaddafi family demands body; NATO ends Libya war (Reuters)
• U.N. council condemns Yemen violence, urges deal (Reuters)
• Clinton says U.S. officials have met with Haqqanis (Reuters)
• Tunisia rivals stake positions in election rallies (Reuters)
• Pakistan, three others elected to U.N. council (Reuters)
• Iraq's Government, Not Obama, Called Time on the U.S. Troop Presence (Time.com)
• NATO agrees to wind down in Libya over 10 days (AP)
• Brazil doctors found guilty of killing patients (AP)
• NATO plans to end Libya mission at end of October (Reuters)
• Chinese toddler ignored after hit-and-run dies (AP)
• Exclusive: Alberta: EU oil sands ranking threatens ties (Reuters)
• Australia to argue 1902 war crimes case was unfair (AP)
• NATO teargasses Kosovo Serbs in battle over barricades (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Turkey Sends Troops to Iraq to Fight PKK Kurdish Separatists (Time.com)
• Basque militant group ETA ends four decades of separatist violence (The Christian Science Monitor)

Gaddafi family demands body; NATO ends Libya war (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:11 PM PDT Reuters - NATO called an end to its air war in Libya, and the clan of Muammar Gaddafi demanded a chance to bury the body that lay on display in a meat locker after a death as brutal and chaotic as his 42-year rule.

U.N. council condemns Yemen violence, urges deal (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:53 PM PDT Reuters - The U.N. Security Council on Friday condemned the Yemeni government crackdown on protesters but urged the signing of an agreement that would require the president to step down in exchange for immunity.

Clinton says U.S. officials have met with Haqqanis (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 08:01 AM PDT Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday that the United States had held a preliminary meeting with representatives of the Haqqani network, a group of militants Washington has blamed for a series of attacks in Afghanistan.

Tunisia rivals stake positions in election rallies (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 02:26 PM PDT Reuters - The main contenders in Tunisia's first free election after the fall of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali held final campaign rallies on Friday, with both Islamists and their secular opponents claiming they would protect women and represent modernity.

Pakistan, three others elected to U.N. council (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 05:10 PM PDT Reuters - Pakistan, Morocco, Togo and Guatemala were elected on Friday to the 15-nation U.N. Security Council for 2012 and 2013, and Islamabad's envoy said he looked forward to working with fellow council member India.

Iraq's Government, Not Obama, Called Time on the U.S. Troop Presence (Time.com) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:45 PM PDT Time.com - President Barack Obama's announcement on Friday that all 40,000 U.S. troops still in Iraq will leave the country by New Year's Eve will, inevitably, draw howls of derision from GOP presidential hopefuls

NATO agrees to wind down in Libya over 10 days (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 02:51 PM PDT AP - NATO said Friday it plans to end its seven-month bombing campaign in Libya at the end of the month, leaving the battle-scarred country's new authorities on their own to ensure security after the death of Moammar Gadhafi and the ouster of his regime.

Brazil doctors found guilty of killing patients (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:57 PM PDT AP - A jury convicted three Brazilian doctors of killing four patients by removing their organs, which prosecutors said were used for transplants at an expensive private clinic.

NATO plans to end Libya mission at end of October (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:52 PM PDT Reuters - NATO plans to end its seven-month air and sea campaign in Libya at the end of October, Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Friday, the day after the death of Muammar Gaddafi.

Chinese toddler ignored after hit-and-run dies (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 02:33 PM PDT AP - A toddler who was twice run over by vans and then ignored by passers-by on a busy market street died Friday a week after the accident and after days of bitter soul-searching over declining morality in China.

Exclusive: Alberta: EU oil sands ranking threatens ties (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 12:51 PM PDT Reuters - The government of Alberta, home to the bulk of Canada's oil sands, has written to EU experts voicing "grave concerns" that the bloc's plans to rank unconventional oil as a highly polluting fuel are unfair and a potential threat to trade ties.

Australia to argue 1902 war crimes case was unfair (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:21 AM PDT AP - Australia's government said Friday that it would tell Britain that two Australian soldiers executed more than a century ago for war crimes in South Africa were likely denied fair trials under the British military justice system.

NATO teargasses Kosovo Serbs in battle over barricades (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 20 Oct 2011 01:24 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - In a surprising use of force, NATO peacekeepers in Kosovo early today used tear gas and pepper spray against local Serbs while dismantling a series of barricades erected in July by local hardliners.

Turkey Sends Troops to Iraq to Fight PKK Kurdish Separatists (Time.com) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:45 PM PDT Time.com - Regional dynamics, from Turkey's deteriorating ties with Iran and Syria to the plans for the pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq, have combined to fuel a new round of clashes

Basque militant group ETA ends four decades of separatist violence (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 20 Oct 2011 12:56 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The Spanish terrorist group ETA ended Thursday after almost half a century of separatist violence that has killed nearly 900. The announcement set off celebrations, even if it was long expected after years in which the group has been crippled militarily and cast aside politically.

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