Libyans say closing in on Gaddafi bastions (Reuters)

---

• Libyans say closing in on Gaddafi bastions (Reuters)
• Biggest rally in Israel's history presses PM (Reuters)
• Strauss-Kahn back home, faces frosty welcome (Reuters)
• CIA, MI6 helped Gaddafi on dissidents: rights group (Reuters)
• Chile says no survivors from Pacific Ocean air crash (Reuters)
• Post-Gaddafi Tripoli: How Libya's Civil Servants Are Holding It Together (Time.com)
• Italy minister says no pressure on ECB over bonds (Reuters)
• Libya rebels poised to attack Gadhafi stronghold (AP)
• Cuban defense minister dies at 75 (AP)
• Renewed fighting, refugees in south of Sudan (Reuters)
• Chinese official held in deadly drunk driving case (AP)
• Wayward penguin released south of New Zealand (AP)
• Witness to a decade that redefined Southeast Asia (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Crime and Punishment in Libya: Inside Gaddafi's Surveillance System (Time.com)

Libyans say closing in on Gaddafi bastions (Reuters) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 12:14 AM PDT Reuters - Libya's interim government said it was closing in on bastions of support for Muammar Gaddafi Saturday, although there were mixed signals of how quickly their forces were moving.

Biggest rally in Israel's history presses PM (Reuters) Posted: 03 Sep 2011 11:55 PM PDT Reuters - Hundreds of thousands marched Saturday for lower living costs in the largest such rally in Israel's history, bolstering a social change movement and mounting pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take on economic reform.

Strauss-Kahn back home, faces frosty welcome (Reuters) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 12:35 AM PDT Reuters - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, his presidential hopes shattered by a sex assault scandal that rocked his homeland, returned on Sunday to France, where he faces a frosty reception from the public and unease among his political allies.

CIA, MI6 helped Gaddafi on dissidents: rights group (Reuters) Posted: 03 Sep 2011 12:12 PM PDT Reuters - Documents found in the abandoned Tripoli office of Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence chief indicate the U.S. and British spy agencies helped the fallen strongman persecute Libyan dissidents, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday.

Chile says no survivors from Pacific Ocean air crash (Reuters) Posted: 03 Sep 2011 06:14 PM PDT Reuters - All 21 people aboard a military aircraft that crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the remote Juan Fernandez islands perished, Chile's government said on Saturday, as rescuers and fishermen scoured for bodies.

Post-Gaddafi Tripoli: How Libya's Civil Servants Are Holding It Together (Time.com) Posted: 03 Sep 2011 09:10 PM PDT Time.com - The interim government is still trying to get its act together but in the meantime the old civil service continues to function, even without pay

Italy minister says no pressure on ECB over bonds (Reuters) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 12:02 AM PDT Reuters - Italy is not putting pressure on the European Central Bank (ECB) to continue buying Italian government bonds on the market, Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said on Sunday.

Libya rebels poised to attack Gadhafi stronghold (AP) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 12:48 AM PDT AP - Libyan rebels are poised to attack one of Moammar Gadhafi's remaining strongholds, saying Sunday that surrender talks have collapsed.

Cuban defense minister dies at 75 (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2011 10:55 PM PDT AP - Gen. Julio Casas Regueiro, an accountant who fought in Cuba's revolution, then used his training to run the military's lucrative economic enterprises for two decades before becoming defense minister, has died, state television reported. He was 75.

Renewed fighting, refugees in south of Sudan (Reuters) Posted: 03 Sep 2011 05:38 PM PDT Reuters - Seventeen people were killed in fighting between Sudan's army and rebels aligned to South Sudan in a Sudanese state on the border with the newly independent south, the official news agency SUNA said Saturday.

Chinese official held in deadly drunk driving case (AP) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 12:57 AM PDT AP - Chinese state media are reporting an official in eastern China has been detained on accusations he killed a woman while driving drunk.

Wayward penguin released south of New Zealand (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2011 11:38 PM PDT AP - He needed a little push before speeding backward down a makeshift slide. Once in the water, he popped his head up for one last look. And then he was gone. The wayward emperor penguin known as "Happy Feet" was back home in Antarctic waters after an extended sojourn spent capturing hearts in New Zealand.

Witness to a decade that redefined Southeast Asia (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 03 Sep 2011 09:01 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - It was the summer of 2001. I was covering an election in East Timor, a newly minted nation at the end of the world. It was my first assignment for the Monitor, the start of a decade of reporting in Southeast Asia, filing hundreds of stories from across a diverse region of 600 million people.

Crime and Punishment in Libya: Inside Gaddafi's Surveillance System (Time.com) Posted: 03 Sep 2011 09:10 PM PDT Time.com - As rebels sift through the archives of Gaddafi's internal security apparatus, Libyans are finding confirmation that they had every reason to be paranoid about the regime.

You are subscribed to email updates from Yahoo! News: World News To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610