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• NATO likely to end Libya mission now Gaddafi dead (Reuters)
• Islamists head for win in Tunisia's Arab Spring vote (Reuters)
• Yemen calls truce as sporadic blasts heard (Reuters)
• Quake rescuers save baby, Turkey requests aid (Reuters)
• U.S. court revives human rights case versus Rio Tinto (Reuters)
• Mexico's Drug War: Confessions of a Narco-Killer (Time.com)
• Progress in US-NKorea talks but no deal (AP)
• Gadhafi buried in secret site in Libyan desert (AP)
• Uruguay senate votes to revoke amnesty law (AP)
• US government seeks $70M from African official (AP)
• Turkish court sentences general for insulting Erdogan (Reuters)
• Government cuts growth outlook, says not gloomy (Reuters)
• New Zealand economy expected to grow by 3 percent (AP)
• In Qaddafi's hometown, signs of trouble for Libya (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Blacklisted: U.S.-Russia Diplomacy's Latest Downturn (Time.com)
• Turkey earthquake: Digging out from quake, fears of more casualties (The Christian Science Monitor)

NATO likely to end Libya mission now Gaddafi dead (Reuters) Posted: 25 Oct 2011 04:41 PM PDT Reuters - NATO is to formally decide on Wednesday whether to end its mission over Libya now that Muammar Gaddafi is dead and buried and the country's new leaders have declared the nation "liberated".

Islamists head for win in Tunisia's Arab Spring vote (Reuters) Posted: 25 Oct 2011 03:57 PM PDT Reuters - Tunisia's moderate Islamist party on Tuesday claimed a thumping victory in the country's first election, sending a message to the region that once-banned Islamists are challenging for power after the "Arab Spring."

Yemen calls truce as sporadic blasts heard (Reuters) Posted: 25 Oct 2011 04:20 PM PDT Reuters - Yemen's government signed a ceasefire with a dissident general on Tuesday to try to end weeks of worsening bloodshed but sporadic explosions and gunfire were still heard in the north of the capital.

Quake rescuers save baby, Turkey requests aid (Reuters) Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:06 PM PDT Reuters - Rescuers pulled a two-week-old baby girl alive from a collapsed apartment block on Tuesday as they battled to find survivors of an earthquake in eastern Turkey that killed more than 400 people and made tens of thousands homeless.

U.S. court revives human rights case versus Rio Tinto (Reuters) Posted: 25 Oct 2011 01:48 PM PDT Reuters - A U.S. federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit seeking to hold Rio Tinto Plc responsible for human rights violations and thousands of deaths linked to a Papua New Guinea copper and gold mine it once ran.

Mexico's Drug War: Confessions of a Narco-Killer (Time.com) Posted: 25 Oct 2011 01:50 PM PDT Time.com - In an excerpt from his new book, El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency, Ioan Grillo profiles a former warrior -- and born-again convict -- in the gruesome conflict that is consuming the Americas

Progress in US-NKorea talks but no deal (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:10 PM PDT AP - An intensive round of talks between the United States and North Korea over Pyongyang's nuclear program has ended without a deal to resume formal negotiations, but top diplomats from both sides reported progress on the steps that will be needed to finally get there.

Gadhafi buried in secret site in Libyan desert (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2011 04:17 PM PDT AP - Flamboyant and grandiose in life, Moammar Gadhafi was buried in secrecy and anonymity, laid to rest in an unmarked grave before dawn in the Libyan desert that was home to his Bedouin tribal ancestors.

Uruguay senate votes to revoke amnesty law (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:06 PM PDT AP - Uruguay's senate voted Tuesday to revoke an amnesty law protecting scores of officials in the country's 1973-1985 dictatorship from human rights prosecutions.

US government seeks $70M from African official (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:10 PM PDT AP - The son of Equatorial Guinea's president plundered his country's natural resources through corruption, spending more than $70 million in looted profits on a Malibu mansion, a Gulfstream jet and Michael Jackson memorabilia, the U.S. government said Tuesday.

Turkish court sentences general for insulting Erdogan (Reuters) Posted: 25 Oct 2011 03:17 PM PDT Reuters - A retired general was given a suspended sentence of almost a year in jail on Tuesday for insulting Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, state run Anatolian news agency reported.

Government cuts growth outlook, says not gloomy (Reuters) Posted: 25 Oct 2011 11:33 AM PDT Reuters - The Canadian government cut its estimate of 2011 real economic growth on Tuesday to 2.2 percent from 2.9 percent, based on private-sector forecasts, but said the economic future was not doom and gloom.

New Zealand economy expected to grow by 3 percent (AP) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 07:50 PM PDT AP - New Zealand's government predicts the country's economy will grow by an average of about 3 percent over the next four years as earthquake rebuilding helps offset a global economic downturn.

In Qaddafi's hometown, signs of trouble for Libya (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:13 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The flatbed trucks are the first sign of trouble. They are empty going from Misrata to Sirte; in the opposite direction they are loaded with cars, stacked sideways to fit as many as possible.

Blacklisted: U.S.-Russia Diplomacy's Latest Downturn (Time.com) Posted: 25 Oct 2011 01:50 PM PDT Time.com - In Moscow, official paranoia over being on a U.S. visa blacklist leads to a blacklist of Russia's own. Is this mutually assured damnation?

Turkey earthquake: Digging out from quake, fears of more casualties (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 03:58 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - “No one has even touched this yet,” says Adem Yavuz Avci pointing at a two-storey building that has collapsed across the road entering his hometown of Ercis. “It was a hotel, we don't know how many people could be in there.”

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