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• Turkish quake survivors camp out, plead for tents (Reuters)
• Islamists claim win in Tunisia's Arab Spring vote (Reuters)
• Gaddafi to be buried in secret desert grave: NTC (Reuters)
• Strauss-Kahn immunity claim "meritless": accuser (Reuters)
• Bill Gates to urge G20 not turn backs on poor (Reuters)
• The U.S. is considering entering talks with the Pakistani group that attacked the American Embassy in Kabul (Time.com)
• UK lawmakers defy gov't over Europe (AP)
• Gadhafi's body taken from freezer, guard says (AP)
• Venezuela inmates free 25 hostages, hold 26 (AP)
• Gaddafi son preparing to flee Libya: NTC official (Reuters)
• U.S. says N. Korea talks positive, issues remain (Reuters)
• Canada Wheat Board bill moves closer to law (Reuters)
• Aussie coast fears rogue shark may have killed 3 (AP)
• On liberation day, Libyans flock to see Qaddafi – for proof, closure (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Syria's Kurds: Are They About to Join the Uprising Against Assad? (Time.com)
• Tunisia election: Smiles, pride as historic day goes smoothly (The Christian Science Monitor)

Turkish quake survivors camp out, plead for tents (Reuters) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 05:07 PM PDT Reuters - Tens of thousands of people spent a second night under canvas, in cars or huddled round small fires in towns rattled by aftershocks from a massive earthquake in eastern Turkey that killed hundreds.

Islamists claim win in Tunisia's Arab Spring vote (Reuters) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 01:19 PM PDT Reuters - Moderate Islamists claimed victory on Monday in Tunisia's first democratic election, sending a message to other states in the region that long-sidelined Islamists are challenging for power after the "Arab Spring."

Gaddafi to be buried in secret desert grave: NTC (Reuters) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 03:57 PM PDT Reuters - Ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will be buried on Tuesday in a secret desert grave, a National Transitional Council official said, ending a wrangle over his rotting corpse that led many to fear for Libya's governability.

Strauss-Kahn immunity claim "meritless": accuser (Reuters) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 03:30 PM PDT Reuters - Lawyers for the hotel maid who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of trying to rape her said on Monday that a bid to dismiss her civil suit by asserting he had diplomatic immunity was "utterly meritless."

Bill Gates to urge G20 not turn backs on poor (Reuters) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 05:00 PM PDT Reuters - Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said on Monday it was critical that rich donors continue to fund health and agriculture projects in developing countries despite budget cuts in the United States and Europe.

The U.S. is considering entering talks with the Pakistani group that attacked the American Embassy in Kabul (Time.com) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 02:10 PM PDT Time.com - Emerging from talks on Friday, the U.S. indicated it was willing to entertain talks with the notorious network that attacked its Kabul embassy. But that may just have been a cover to patch things up with Pakistan

UK lawmakers defy gov't over Europe (AP) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 03:18 PM PDT AP - British lawmakers on Monday overwhelmingly rejected a motion to hold a national referendum on leaving the European Union, but Prime Minister David Cameron suffered a bruising as several Conservative Party lawmakers rebelled against his orders and supported the bid.

Gadhafi's body taken from freezer, guard says (AP) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 03:54 PM PDT AP - The bodies of Moammar Gadhafi, his son Muatassim and a former aide have been moved from a commercial freezer in a warehouse area of Misrata in anticipation of burial, a security guard said.

Venezuela inmates free 25 hostages, hold 26 (AP) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 04:03 PM PDT AP - Prison inmates who took more than 50 guards and other prison workers hostage earlier this month have released more than two dozen captives after negotiations, Venezuelan authorities said.

Gaddafi son preparing to flee Libya: NTC official (Reuters) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 02:15 PM PDT Reuters - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, a fugitive son of the deposed Libyan leader, is near Libya's borders with Niger and Algeria and planning to flee the country using a forged passport, an official with the National Transitional Council said on Monday.

U.S. says N. Korea talks positive, issues remain (Reuters) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 02:39 PM PDT Reuters - The United States and North Korea have narrowed differences in a second set of talks since wider negotiations on nuclear disarmament collapsed in 2009, but issues remain, the top U.S. negotiator said on Monday.

Canada Wheat Board bill moves closer to law (Reuters) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 04:48 PM PDT Reuters - A government bill to end the Canadian Wheat Board's grain monopoly cleared another stage in the House of Commons on Monday, as Ottawa races to make the most important change to Western Canada's grain industry since World War 2.

Aussie coast fears rogue shark may have killed 3 (AP) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 09:08 AM PDT AP - The sudden death of an American diver in the jaws of a great white shark off Australia's southwest coast has raised the specter of a rogue man-eater preying on a renowned aquatic playground and killing three men in two months.

On liberation day, Libyans flock to see Qaddafi – for proof, closure (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 23 Oct 2011 02:43 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Widad El Weila came all the way from Libya's capital, Tripoli â€" a two-and-a-half-hour drive â€" with her teenage daughters to see the body of former Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi.

Syria's Kurds: Are They About to Join the Uprising Against Assad? (Time.com) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 02:10 PM PDT Time.com - There is popular anger at the regime but the various political organizations that represent the ethnic minority seem to be in the way

Tunisia election: Smiles, pride as historic day goes smoothly (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 23 Oct 2011 09:40 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Residents of Tunis awoke this morning to a city decorated in flags, the red and white national colors draped along every street large enough for two cars to pass.

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