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Yemen: U.S. Strike Kills al-Qaeda Media Head

TIME - 
(SANAA, Yemen) - An American drone strike in southern Yemen has killed seven al-Qaeda-linked militants, including the media chief for the group's Yemeni branch and the son of a prominent US-born cleric slain ...

Egypt's military rulers criminalize discrimination

CBS News - 
Egyptian Mariam Hattour, 11, lights a candle during mourning at Talat Harb Square in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011, to mourn more than two dozen people who were killed when Christians, angered by a recent church attack, clashed Sunday night ...

Worldwide 'Occupy' protests held over financial crisis

BBC News - 
Protests against alleged corporate greed and government cutbacks have been held in cities around the world. Clashes erupted at the biggest rally, in Rome, when riot police intervened after a small group of masked militants attacked property.

Libyan forces search Tripoli for Gadhafi loyalists

CBS News - 
A revolutionary fighter reacts after fighting broke out with Gadhafi supporters in the Abu Salim neighborhood of Tripoli, Libya, Friday, Oct. 14, 2011.

Syria draft constitution 'ready in four months'

AFP - 
DAMASCUS - President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday announced the creation of an ad hoc committee tasked with preparing a new constitution for Syria within four months, the official SANA news agency said.

Labour calls for Fox inquiry to continue

The Guardian - 
Murphy has called on the government to widen the probe to include a broader investigation of rules governing ministerial conduct. Photograph: PA The inquiry into Liam Fox's relationship with Adam Werritty should continue, despite the defence ...

Kidnappings: Kenya to Pursue Militants in Somalia

Fox News - 
| AP July 11, 201: Somali parents care for their young children who are being treated for malnutrition at a Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres) hospital in Dagahaley Camp, Dadaab, Kenya.

Iran's supreme leader lambasts US over assassination allegations

CNN - 
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei casts his ballot in Iran's parliamentary election on March 14, 2008 in Tehran. (CNN) -- Iran's supreme leader took verbal jabs at the United States Saturday in his first public reaction since the United States ...

Profile: Joseph Kony

Aljazeera.net - 
The Lord's Resistance Army leader believes he is a prophet and has led a brutal insurgency for more than 20 years. Elusive and motivated by a purported belief that he is a prophet, Joseph Kony has waged a guerrilla insurgency against Uganda's ...

Yemeni Forces Kill 10 Protesters

Voice of America - 
October 15, 2011 Yemeni Forces Kill 10 Protesters VOA News At least 10 people were killed and dozens wounded when Yemeni security officials opened fire on protesters in Sana'a.

Russia's Medvedev rallies disappointed supporters

The Associated Press - 
MOSCOW (AP) - President Dmitry Medvedev called on his supporters Saturday to stick with him despite his decision not to seek re-election, while insisting Russia would eventually develop its own brand of democracy.

Liberia opposition 'boycott poll'

BBC News - 
Liberia's main opposition parties say are pulling out from the "fradudulent" presidential election vote-count. The parties, which include candidates in second and third place so far, said the National Election Commission has manipulated vote-counting ...

Militants assault US base in Afghanistan

CBS News - 
An Afghan security officer, center, collects evidence from the site of an attack by militants at the gate of an American base in Panjshir north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011.

Central & South Asia 'Helicopter attack kills nine' in Pakistan

Aljazeera.net - 
There is confusion about attacks that took place in the early hours of the morning near Pakistan's South Waziristan capital, Wana, killing nine people, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Pakistan said.

'Iran-backed plot' accused seen as shambolic

Aljazeera.net - 
Friends say Mansoor Arbabsiar is the most unlikely lynchpin of the alleged plot to murder Saudi envoy to US. Last week Mansoor Arbabsiar became known to the world as the man accused of playing a major role in an alleged Iran-backed plot to kill the ...

World news: Anger at film screening boils over into protests in Tunis

Scotsman - 
Police in Tunisia have fired tear gas at hundreds of Islamists demonstrating in the capital Tunis over the screening of a controversial film on television.

21 insurgents killed, 19 arrested in Afghanistan: official

Xinhua - 
KABUL, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Afghan and NATO-led Coalition forces during operations in different parts of the country have killed 21 insurgents and detained 19 others over the past 24 hours, Afghan Interior Ministry said on Saturday.

Japan earthquake: Radiation detected in Tokyo but not from Fukushima

Daily Mail - 
A radiation hotspot has been detected in Tokyo seven months into Japan's nuclear crisis - but it appears to be coming from mystery bottles stored under a house.

Aircraft crash leaves one pilot injured, one missing at China air show

Xinhua - 
The video grab shows an aircraft crash during an air show in Pucheng county, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Oct. 14, 2011.

Ukraine Needs to Do More Than Just Set Free Tymoshenko: View

BusinessWeek - 
By the Editors Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Ukraine's leader took a step in the right direction Thursday by announcing that he supports scrapping the Soviet-era law that led to a seven-year prison sentence for his chief political rival, former Prime Minister ...