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  • Pastor cancels Quran-burning, then reconsiders (AP)

    Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center speaks to the media as Imam Muhammad Musri of the Islamic Society of Central Florida looks on at left, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010, in Gainesville, Fla. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)AP - An anti-Islamic preacher backed off and then threatened to reconsider burning the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, angrily accusing a Muslim leader of lying to him Thursday with a promise to move an Islamic center and mosque away from New York's ground zero. The imam planning the center denied there was ever such a deal.




  • Activist: Beached whale in Brazil can't be saved (AP)

    People splash water on a beached whale on Praia do Sol beach in Santa Catarina state, Brazil, Thursday Sept. 9, 2010. Marine biologists said Thursday an endangered right whale stranded on a beach in southern Brazil for the past two days is too weak to be rescued and returned safely to the sea. (AP Photo/Charles Guerra-Agencia RBS)AP - An animal-rights activist says an endangered right whale stranded on a beach in southern Brazil for two days is too weak to be rescued and returned safely to the sea.




  • U.S. troops charged with murder of Afghan civilians (Reuters)
    Reuters - Twelve U.S. soldiers have been charged with gruesome crimes in Afghanistan ranging from murdering civilians to keeping body parts as war trophies -- revelations that the Pentagon said on Thursday damaged America's image around the world.

  • US Marines take back pirate-held ship off Somalia (AP)

    In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, helicopters from the USS Dubuque provide aerial watch as U.S. Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit's Maritime Raid Force, embarked on Dubuque, center-right, boarded and seized control of the Antigua and Barbuda flagged and German-owned vessel Magellan Star, left, at sea off the coast of Somalia Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. The U.S. Navy says Marine commandos have reclaimed control of the pirate-held vessel Magellan Star off the Somalia coast, and taken nine prisoners. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Cryptologic Technician 2nd Class William Farmerie) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - U.S. Marine commandos stormed a pirate-held cargo ship off the Somalia coast Thursday, reclaiming control and taking nine prisoners without firing a shot in the first such boarding raid by the international anti-piracy flotilla, U.S. Navy officials said.




  • Quran burning canceled after Pentagon calls pastor (McClatchy Newspapers)
    McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Under tremendous pressure from U.S. officials all the way up to President Barack Obama, a Florida pastor on Thursday called off a Quran burning that he'd scheduled for Saturday, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, which had drawn international condemnation and posed a potential threat to national security.

  • Critics say Mexico needs to learn from Colombia (AP)

    A woman lies dead on the side of a road with a warning message next to her in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. The message was signed by a group called 'The resistance'. (AP Photo/Antonio Sierra)AP - With a blunt remark that grated on Mexicans, Washington's top diplomat was merely echoing a growing concern about the alarming violence and instability being caused by Mexico's war on drug cartels.




  • Serbia backs compromise U.N. resolution on Kosovo (Reuters)
    Reuters - In a concession to the European Union that it hopes to join, Serbia supported a compromise U.N. resolution on Kosovo on Thursday that dropped its earlier demands to reopen talks on the status of its former province.

  • Rachel Corrie v. Israel Trial: Contradictions Emerge (Time.com)
    Time.com - The family of American activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer, is fighting a civil suit in Israel's courts, forcing the authorities to reveal details of her death

  • Why Foreign Businesses in China Are Getting Mad (Time.com)
    Time.com - Foreign businesses in China are voicing growing frustration about the country's heavily regulated market -- a bureaucratic maze many say is deliberately designed to hamstring non-Chinese players to the advantage of their local competitors

  • Iran to free female American for holiday clemency (AP)

    FILE - In this May 20, 2010 file photo, American hikers Shane Bauer, left, Sarah Shourd, center, and Josh Fattal, sit at the Esteghlal Hotel in Tehran, Iran. Iran announced Thursday that one of the three Americans jailed for more than a year will be released Saturday to mark the end of Islamic holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Press TV, File)AP - Iran said Thursday it will free Sarah Shourd, one of three Americans jailed for more than 13 months, as an act of clemency to mark the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.




  • Sudan's Darfur rebels say attacked by Ugandan LRA (Reuters)
    Reuters - A Darfur rebel group said on Thursday it was attacked by Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army guerrillas in Sudan's west.

  • Suicide car bombing in southern Russia kills 17 (AP)

    In this image made from television, cars destroyed in a suicide car attack are seen in a square outside a market in Vladikavkaz, North Caucasus, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. A suicide car bomber hit the central market of Vladikavkaz on Thursday, killing more than a dozen and wounding more than 130 people in one of the worst terror attacks in the volatile region in years, officials said. (AP Photo/NTV Russian Channel) ** IMAGE FROM TV** TV OUT **AP - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin blamed extremists "without souls, without hearts" for a suicide car bombing that killed 17 people Thursday in the crowded central market of a city in the North Caucasus.




  • Air India bomb perjury trial starts in Canada (Reuters)
    Reuters - A Canadian man's own actions will prove he lied to a court about having no knowledge of the conspiracy that led to the deadly bombing of Air India Flight 182 in 1985, prosecutors said at the start of a perjury trial on Thursday.

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    AP - Iran says female American held for more than year will be released.

  • Australian regulators reject NAB bid for AXA Asia Pacific (AFP)

    A woman walks past a branch of National Australian bank (NAB) in Sydney. Australian regulators rejected NAB's 12.2 billion US dollar bid for financial services firm AXA Asia Pacific Thursday over concerns about competition in the industry.(AFP/File/Anoek de Groot)AFP - Australian regulators rejected National Australia Bank's 12.2 billion US dollar bid for financial firm AXA Asia Pacific on competition concerns Thursday, in a move welcomed by rival suitor AMP.




  • Germany considers scrapping the draft (The Christian Science Monitor)
    The Christian Science Monitor - The young man playing with kids at the Main Krokodile preschool here isn't your typical caregiver. He's among the tens of thousands of Germans who fulfill their military service by working with children, the elderly, or the disabled. The head of the school, Berndt Niedergesäss, is all for it: "The children love dealing with men," he says.

  • Banging a Drum for the MDG Summit (OneWorld.net)
    OneWorld.net - NEW YORK, Sep 7 (IRIN) - Activists are pulling out all the stops ahead of a development summit at UN headquarters on 20-22 September. Pro-aid and anti-poverty lobbyists are trying everything from giant letters to banging pans to raise awareness of the high-level event.