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• Settlements in West Bank Are Clouding Peace Talks
  3 Sep 2010 at 2:01am
  Middle East negotiators agreed to keep talking, but the issue of West Bank settlements threatens to derail the negotiations.
  
• Wiesenthal Worked for Israeli Spy Agency, Book Alleges
  3 Sep 2010 at 2:20am
  Simon Wiesenthal, who ran a one-man Nazi-hunting operation, worked for Israel?s spy agency, a new biography claims.
  
• In Fatal Taliban Attack, a Growing Bid to Destabilize Pakistan
  3 Sep 2010 at 12:20pm
  The explosion, two days after an other attack, led to further protests as grieving mourners went on rampage, clashing with the police and setting fire to vehicles and motorcycles parked nearby.
  
• Depositors Panic Over Bank Crisis in Afghanistan
  3 Sep 2010 at 10:50am
  A bank official tried to calm fears of a meltdown at Kabul Bank, while depositors were unable to withdraw money.
  
• North Korea Takes Steps to Extend Dynastic Rule
  3 Sep 2010 at 2:20am
  North Korea?s leader is to convene a ruling party meeting where it is expected that his son will be given an official post, a step on the road to leadership.
  
• Srinagar Journal: A Kashmir Hospital Is Witness to Conflict
  3 Sep 2010 at 2:20am
  Just getting to work is an ordeal for staff members, who have also had to face chanting protesters in their emergency room.
  
• Rape Victims in Congo Raid Now More Than 240
  3 Sep 2010 at 2:20am
  Aid officials expected that number to rise in the four-day attack by Congolese and Rwandan rebels.
  
• Turkish Action Film Depicts Israeli Raid
  3 Sep 2010 at 2:20am
  ?Valley of the Wolves: Palestine? is built around the unsuccessful attempt in May by a six-boat Turkish flotilla to breach Israel?s naval blockade of Gaza.
  
• Attackers Strike Home of Iranian Opposition Leader
  3 Sep 2010 at 2:20am
  Attackers smashed windows and damaged security cameras at the home of Mehdi Karroubi a day before a rally that the authorities worry might reignite antigovernment protests.
  
• Soldiers Kill 25 in Mexico Gun Battle
  3 Sep 2010 at 7:48am
  Mexico?s military says 25 suspects have been shot dead by soldiers in a gunbattle near the U.S. border.
  
• Book Sets Off Immigration Debate in Germany
  3 Sep 2010 at 10:23am
  Thilo Sarrazin, a former official who has been criticized as espousing racist views, has set off a discussion about Germany?s immigration policy.
  
• Defendants Convicted in Portugal Sex Abuse Trial
  3 Sep 2010 at 10:47am
  Six men and one woman were guilty of crimes relating to child sex abuse at a state-run children?s home in Lisbon during the 1990s.
  
• In Denying a Sex Scandal, a British Minister Focuses Attention on the Issue
  3 Sep 2010 at 2:20am
  The foreign secretary rejects speculation that he had a relationship with an aide, and focuses instead on his relationship with his wife.
  
• Attack in Tajikistan Highlights Fears of Militancy
  3 Sep 2010 at 12:01pm
  A car rigged with explosives rammed into a police station in northern Tajikistan, wounding at least 25 people in an apparent suicide attack, Tajik police officials said.
  
• Pakistan Gets I.M.F. Relief, Tightens Security
  2 Sep 2010 at 11:48pm
  The International Monetary Fund will give Pakistan $450 million in emergency flood aid, providing some relief for a government overwhelmed by the disaster and facing renewed militant violence.