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• Gaddafi son offers to surrender to Hague: Libyans (Reuters)
• Twenty killed in Syria, Assad meets Arab ministers (Reuters)
• Mexican presidential hopeful vows drugs war shift (Reuters)
• Israel, Palestinians to offer peace proposals: Quartet (Reuters)
• The Multimillion-Dollar Question: Is Romney Ready to Gamble on Iowa? (Time.com)
• EU to force banks to raise $148 billion (AP)
• Mideast envoys make no breakthroughs (AP)
• Brazil's sports minister resigns in scandal (AP)
• Gbagbo's party will not be in legislative election (AP)
• Man loses mother, wife, 4 children in Turkey quake (AP)
• Murder rate drops to 44-year low (Reuters)
• Australian charged after child dies alone in car (AP)
• Palestinian statehood bid adds urgency for Israeli-Palestinian peace (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Why Libya's Leaders Are Keeping Gaddafi's Grave a Secret (Time.com)
• Egyptians unhappy with lenient sentence for Khaled Said's killers (The Christian Science Monitor)

Gaddafi son offers to surrender to Hague: Libyans (Reuters) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 02:05 PM PDT Reuters - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi wants to turn himself in to The Hague war crimes court, a senior Libyan official told Reuters on Wednesday.

Twenty killed in Syria, Assad meets Arab ministers (Reuters) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 03:33 PM PDT Reuters - At least 20 people died in clashes and strikes paralyzed parts of Syria on Wednesday as President Bashar al-Assad held an inconclusive meeting with Arab ministers seeking to end months of violence.

Mexican presidential hopeful vows drugs war shift (Reuters) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 04:13 PM PDT Reuters - A leading presidential candidate of Mexico's ruling party said on Wednesday he would break with government policy and withdraw the army from the fight against drug gangs if he wins the election in 2012.

Israel, Palestinians to offer peace proposals: Quartet (Reuters) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 03:40 PM PDT Reuters - Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to make proposals on issues of territory and security within three months, keeping peacemaking efforts alive, an official from the Quartet of Middle East peace mediators said on Wednesday.

The Multimillion-Dollar Question: Is Romney Ready to Gamble on Iowa? (Time.com) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 02:10 PM PDT Time.com - Last week, on his first visit to Iowa since August, Mitt Romney vowed to make up for lost time

EU to force banks to raise $148 billion (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 03:34 PM PDT AP - Big banks across Europe will have to raise euro106 billion ($148 billion) to better withstand the turmoil of the debt crisis, preliminary figures showed, while eurozone leaders neared a deal to boost their bailout fund to over euro1 trillion ($1.4 trillion), a senior official said Wednesday.

Mideast envoys make no breakthroughs (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 04:17 PM PDT AP - International mediators on Wednesday failed to make any breakthroughs in their quest to bring Israeli and Palestinian officials back to the negotiating table, but in a small sign of progress, they announced that both sides would present "comprehensive proposals" for resolving key aspects of their conflict within three months.

Brazil's sports minister resigns in scandal (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 03:46 PM PDT AP - Brazil's sports minister resigned Wednesday after fighting corruption allegations for more than a week, the sixth minister forced to leave office since June.

Gbagbo's party will not be in legislative election (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 03:45 PM PDT AP - A spokesman for the party of Ivory Coast's toppled ruler said it will not participate in the country's upcoming legislative elections scheduled for mid-December.

Man loses mother, wife, 4 children in Turkey quake (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 12:29 PM PDT AP - Murat Sonmez's mother, wife and four daughters were crushed to death in their home by Turkey's 7.2-magnitude earthquake, leaving him so distraught he found it difficult to speak.

Murder rate drops to 44-year low (Reuters) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 11:21 AM PDT Reuters - Canada's murder rate in 2010 fell to a 44-year low of just 1.62 per 100,000 people, official data showed on Wednesday, just a day after the government said it would ease the country's strict gun laws.

Australian charged after child dies alone in car (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2011 11:06 PM PDT AP - Police have charged an Australian mother with manslaughter after her young child died of dehydration after allegedly being left alone in a car.

Palestinian statehood bid adds urgency for Israeli-Palestinian peace (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 01:10 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Quartet envoy Tony Blair held talks in Jerusalem and Ramallah today to convince Israelis and Palestinians to resume negotiations, a mission given added urgency by a looming vote on Palestinian membership in the United Nations.

Why Libya's Leaders Are Keeping Gaddafi's Grave a Secret (Time.com) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 02:10 PM PDT Time.com - With photographs of the dead dictator becoming weird icons of humiliation, the government wants to keep his tomb from becoming a shrine for loyalists or a rallying point for those who hate him

Egyptians unhappy with lenient sentence for Khaled Said's killers (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 12:51 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - A lenient prison sentence for the killers of a man whose death helped spark Egypt’s revolution has outraged Egyptians, who had hoped their uprising would wipe out the corruption and injustice symbolized by the case.

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