Talks fail with Gaddafi loyalists in desert bastion (Reuters)

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• Talks fail with Gaddafi loyalists in desert bastion (Reuters)
• Chinese arms firms offered weapons to Gaddafi's forces: reports (Reuters)
• Analysis: Italy's Berlusconi pressured over austerity mess (Reuters)
• First witnesses in court for Mubarak trial (Reuters)
• Japan storm death toll rises to 25, more missing (Reuters)
• 'We Are Simply Muslim': Libyan Rebel Chief Denies Al-Qaeda Ties (Time.com)
• Europe faces week of challenges in debt crisis (Reuters)
• Mubarak due in court, 1st witnesses to testify (AP)
• Haiti leader condemns UN assault charge (AP)
• Sudan says south-aligned group must end operations (Reuters)
• AP-GfK Poll: Japanese support for US bases grows (AP)
• United Express plane skids off runway in Ottawa (Reuters)
• Australia's Howard a surprise 9-11 witness (Reuters)
• Post-Gaddafi Tripoli: How Libya's Civil Servants Are Holding It Together (Time.com)

Talks fail with Gaddafi loyalists in desert bastion (Reuters) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 11:56 PM PDT Reuters - Forces of Libya's interim ruling council are poised for an assault on the desert town of Bani Walid after negotiators failed to persuade Muammar Gaddafi loyalists to abandon one of their last remaining bastions.

Chinese arms firms offered weapons to Gaddafi's forces: reports (Reuters) Posted: 05 Sep 2011 12:41 AM PDT Reuters - Chinese arms firms offered to sell weapons worth about $200 million to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's beleaguered forces in July, two newspapers reported, compounding pressure on Beijing's brittle ties with the rebels who have ousted him.

Analysis: Italy's Berlusconi pressured over austerity mess (Reuters) Posted: 05 Sep 2011 12:04 AM PDT Reuters - Italy's chaotic efforts to pass a new austerity plan already included disputed figures, policy U-turns and cabinet rows even before Silvio Berlusconi's latest brush with scandal added prostitutes and wiretaps to the mix.

First witnesses in court for Mubarak trial (Reuters) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 03:22 PM PDT Reuters - A top police official and three other officers will testify on Monday in the trial of Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak, the first witnesses to take the stand in a case that has gripped Egypt and the Arab world.

Japan storm death toll rises to 25, more missing (Reuters) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 11:45 PM PDT Reuters - Japan's death toll from tropical depression Talas, earlier downgraded from a tropical storm, has risen to 25 with 52 missing, the government said Monday, as torrential rain pounded the west of the country at the weekend, triggering mudslides and bursting river banks.

'We Are Simply Muslim': Libyan Rebel Chief Denies Al-Qaeda Ties (Time.com) Posted: 05 Sep 2011 12:30 AM PDT Time.com - Though he fought along jihadists in Afghanistan, Abdel Hakim Belhadj, who leads the Libyan rebels in Tripoli, says he was never allied with Bin Laden, and only wants democracy for Libya.

Europe faces week of challenges in debt crisis (Reuters) Posted: 05 Sep 2011 12:11 AM PDT Reuters - Europe faces a string of political and legal tests this week that could hurt efforts to resolve its sovereign debt crisis and increase pressure for governments to try more radical solutions.

Mubarak due in court, 1st witnesses to testify (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2011 12:21 AM PDT AP - Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak is returning to court for a third hearing in his trial on charges of corruption and complicity in the killing of protesters during the 18-day-uprising that toppled him.

Haiti leader condemns UN assault charge (AP) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 10:52 PM PDT AP - Haitian President Michel Martelly "vigorously condemned" late Sunday the actions of the United Nations after allegations surfaced that its troops sexually assaulted an 18-year-old man.

Sudan says south-aligned group must end operations (Reuters) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 01:43 PM PDT Reuters - Sudan demanded Sunday that the southern-aligned Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) cease operations in the country, stoking tensions with the newly independent south after fighting flared in border areas.

AP-GfK Poll: Japanese support for US bases grows (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2011 01:08 AM PDT AP - Japanese have become more welcoming to the U.S. military presence in their country over the past six years as fears spread that neighboring China and North Korea are threats to peace, an Associated Press-GfK poll has found.

United Express plane skids off runway in Ottawa (Reuters) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 04:38 PM PDT Reuters - No one was injured when a United Express plane from Chicago carrying 44 passengers and three crew members skidded off the runway while landing in Ottawa Sunday afternoon.

Australia's Howard a surprise 9-11 witness (Reuters) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 07:22 PM PDT Reuters - Australia's former Prime Minister John Howard, a surprise witness to the September11, 2001, attacks on the United States, believes former President George W. Bush deserves more praise for his response and for stopping further attacks.

Post-Gaddafi Tripoli: How Libya's Civil Servants Are Holding It Together (Time.com) Posted: 05 Sep 2011 12:30 AM 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

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