Rebels hunt Gaddafi, hometown targeted (Reuters)

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• Rebels hunt Gaddafi, hometown targeted (Reuters)
• Thousands march anew against Syria's Assad, 2 killed (Reuters)
• Four dead in Mexican coal mine collapse (Reuters)
• India parliament begins debate to end corruption (Reuters)
• Seven dead, five missing as ferry sinks in Indonesia (Reuters)
• Among the Loyalists: Despite Defeat, Admiration for Gaddafi (Time.com)
• Google TV to launch in Europe next year (Reuters)
• Iran launches production of banned carbon fiber (AP)
• Mexico reels from deadly arson attack on civilians (AP)
• UN headquarters car bombing in Nigeria kills 18 (AP)
• Militants from Afghanistan attack Pakistani posts (Reuters)
• Budget deficit narrows in April-June (Reuters)
• Libyan rebels send brigade to negotiate surrender of Sirte (The Christian Science Monitor)
• East Joins West: On a Rebel Ship to Tripoli (Time.com)
• Libya rebels, triumphant in Tripoli, now face a different kind of battle (The Christian Science Monitor)

Rebels hunt Gaddafi, hometown targeted (Reuters) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 10:31 PM PDT Reuters - Libyan rebels said they were closing in on fugitive strongman Muammar Gaddafi and would merge their disparate fighters in the capital under one command to streamline operations.

Thousands march anew against Syria's Assad, 2 killed (Reuters) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 03:56 PM PDT Reuters - Syrian forces killed at least two protesters on Saturday as tens of thousands of people marched again to demand the removal of President Bashar al-Assad, activists and residents said.

Four dead in Mexican coal mine collapse (Reuters) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 08:31 PM PDT Reuters - Four miners were killed when a coal mine collapsed in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila on Friday, a senior government official said.

India parliament begins debate to end corruption (Reuters) Posted: 27 Aug 2011 12:27 AM PDT Reuters - India's parliament began a fractious debate on an anti-corruption bill on Saturday as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's besieged government struggles to appease a social activist who is increasingly frail nearly two weeks into a hunger strike.

Seven dead, five missing as ferry sinks in Indonesia (Reuters) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 09:47 PM PDT Reuters - Seven people died and at least 95 were rescued after a ferry sank in bad weather off Indonesia's Sulawesi island on Saturday, an official said, an accident that comes as people rush to family gatherings to mark the end of the month-long Ramadan fast.

Among the Loyalists: Despite Defeat, Admiration for Gaddafi (Time.com) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 09:10 PM PDT Time.com - Loyalties are professed both loudly and in whispers in the capital of the fugitive despot, a sign perhaps that divisions have not ended.

Google TV to launch in Europe next year (Reuters) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 09:51 PM PDT Reuters - Google Inc will launch its TV service in Europe early next year, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said on Friday, despite teething problems that had led some observers to question how committed the company would remain to the project.

Iran launches production of banned carbon fiber (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2011 01:23 AM PDT AP - Iran has inaugurated its own production of carbon fiber, a material under U.N. embargo because of its potential use in the country's controversial nuclear program, the official IRNA news agency reported Saturday.

Mexico reels from deadly arson attack on civilians (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2011 12:25 AM PDT AP - Lorena Villareal Elizondo went to meet a friend at the Casino Royale, a popular low-cost lunch spot, when armed men burst through the door shouting: "Get out! Get out! We're going to burn everything!"

UN headquarters car bombing in Nigeria kills 18 (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 07:11 PM PDT AP - A car loaded with explosives crashed into the main United Nations' building in Nigeria's capital and exploded, killing at least 18 people in one of the deadliest assaults on the international body in a decade. A radical Muslim sect blamed for a series of attacks in the country claimed responsibility for the bombing, a major escalation of its sectarian fight against Nigeria's weak central government.

Militants from Afghanistan attack Pakistani posts (Reuters) Posted: 27 Aug 2011 01:19 AM PDT Reuters - Several hundred militants from Afghanistan launched a pre-dawn cross-border raid on Pakistani paramilitary posts and civilian settlements, killing up to 15 people, government and security officials said.

Budget deficit narrows in April-June (Reuters) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 08:16 AM PDT Reuters - Higher tax revenues helped Canada cut its budget deficit in the first three months of the year to C$5.49 billion from C$7.23 billion a year earlier, the Finance Department said on Friday.

Libyan rebels send brigade to negotiate surrender of Sirte (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 02:48 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - As Libyan rebels fight for the last remaining pockets of Tripoli still in the hands of Qaddafi loyalists, their eastern comrades are negotiating for a handover of Sirte â€" Qaddafi's hometown and one of the last cities held by his supporters.

East Joins West: On a Rebel Ship to Tripoli (Time.com) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 09:10 PM PDT Time.com - A tugboat full of fighters from Benghazi pulls into the capital of the fallen dictator to enlist in the battle to rid Libya of all remnants of his rule

Libya rebels, triumphant in Tripoli, now face a different kind of battle (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 01:25 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Libya’s rebels have lost one of their greatest assets, the common enemy that drove an untrained band of students, shopkeepers, and bureaucrats into a guerrilla army that â€" with NATO’s help â€" defeated a tyrant: Muammar Qaddafi.

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