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• In speech, Calderon acknowledges "central threat" of drug cartels to Mexico
  2 Sep 2010 at 10:46pm
  MEXICO CITY - President Felipe Calderon acknowledged Thursday that an increasingly bloody war with powerful drug trafficking organizations continues to pose "the central threat" to Mexico.
  
  
  Mexico - Drug cartel - Organized crime - Crime - Narcotrafficantes
  
• Abstinence program partners Chinese officials with U.S. evangelicals
  3 Sep 2010 at 9:03am
  BEIJING - If all goes according to plan, this fall a girl somewhere in China's Yunnan province will tell her boyfriend she can't have sex with him. And he'll have an abstinence program from the United States to thank.
  
  
  Sex education - Education - Abstinence-Only - Sexuality - Opposing Views
  
• Featured Advertiser
  3 Sep 2010 at 9:03am
  
• Chinese firms look to team up with Hollywood
  3 Sep 2010 at 11:41am
  BEIJING - When Scarlett Johansson strode across the screen in "Iron Man 2," she was wearing a form-fitting outfit made by Semir, a Chinese brand and an official sponsor of the blockbuster movie this spring.
  
  
  Business - Networks - Firms - Accounting - Hollywood Los Angeles California
  
• Clothes dryers given tepid welcome in China
  3 Sep 2010 at 11:24am
  As increasingly affluent Chinese embrace the trappings of modern, middle-class Western living - big-screen TVs, cars, washing machines, double-door refrigerators with automatic icemakers - one glaring exception stands out: the clothes dryer.
  
  
  
  Laundry - Home and Garden - China - Shopping - Business
  
• Scientists find evidence discrediting theory Amazon was virtually unlivable
  3 Sep 2010 at 11:10am
  Scientists now believe that the Indians who inhabited the Amazon centuries ago numbered as many as 20 million, far more people than live here today.
  
  
  Physics - Business - People - Alternative - Unified Theories
  
• Karzai calls aide's arrest reminiscent of Soviet times
  2 Sep 2010 at 11:38pm
  KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke out angrily Thursday against the arrest of one of his closest aides this summer on corruption charges, saying that the detention was conducted in a manner "exactly reminiscent of the Soviet presence in Afghanistan" and that the investigation was illega...
  
  
  Soviet Union - Hamid Karzai - United States - Political corruption - Civil and political rights
  
• Karzai urges Afghans not to panic as bank withdrawals accelerate
  2 Sep 2010 at 10:20pm
  As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan's biggest bank, Mahmoud Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a major shareholder in the beleaguered Kabul Bank, called Thursday for intervention by the United States to head off a financial meltdown.
  
  
  Afghanistan - Kabul Bank - Hamid Karzai - Asia - Kabul
  
• After Iraq war, uncertainty and seemingly mixed messages
  2 Sep 2010 at 4:26pm
  BAGHDAD - As President Obama declared Tuesday that it was "time to turn the page" in Iraq, Mahmoud Othman - tuning in to the Oval Office address here at 3 a.m. - listened in shock.
  
  
  
  Iraq - Iraq War - United States - Warfare and Conflict - Barack Obama
  
• A veteran rock-and-roll manager returns - in South America
  2 Sep 2010 at 11:07am
  BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - He was once one of London's best-known '60s-era rogues, dressed flamboyantly, spinning around town in a Mini Cooper and using a bodyguard known as "the butcher" to threaten his rivals.
  
  
  South America - Rock music - Maps and Views - Sweden - Painting
  
• Nervous Afghans pull money from Kabul Bank, raising fears
  2 Sep 2010 at 12:00am
  KABUL - With Afghans clamoring to pull their cash from their nation's biggest bank, the United States risks a politically perilous decision: whether to step in to help shore up a wobbly bank critical not only to Afghanistan's economy but also to the battle against the Taliban.
  
  
  Afghanistan - Asia - Kabul Bank - Kabul - Financial services
  
• Army supervisor was worried about leak suspect's mental health, attorney says
  1 Sep 2010 at 11:16pm
  The sergeant who supervised Bradley E. Manning, the Army private accused of leaking classified material to the online site WikiLeaks, was so concerned about the soldier's mental health that he disabled Manning's weapon late last year, the private's attorney said Wednesday.
  
  
  Mental health - Health - Oceania - Policy and Advocacy - Australia
  
• Japan's prime minister faces showdown with chief party rival
  1 Sep 2010 at 11:02pm
  Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, on the job for just 85 days, could soon be knocked from power by his chief rival, Ichiro Ozawa, who is seeking to regain political prestige that Kan had helped to undermine.
  
  
  
  Prime minister - Canada - History - Government - Democratic Party of Japan
  
• Worried Afghans withdraw Kabul Bank deposits
  2 Sep 2010 at 8:03am
  KABUL - With Afghans clamoring to pull their cash from their nation's biggest bank, the United States risks a politically perilous decision: whether to step in to help shore up a wobbly bank critical not only to Afghanistan's economy but also to the battle against the Taliban.
  
  
  Afghanistan - Asia - Business - Kabul Bank - Hamid Karzai
  
• As Mideast talks begin, Clinton urges Israelis, Palestinians to seek 'future ...
  2 Sep 2010 at 11:10pm
  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton officially inaugurated a new Middle East peace process Thursday urging patience and leadership from the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, who soon after agreed to meet in less than two weeks for a second round of talks.
  
  
  Middle East - Warfare and Conflict - Barack Obama - Israel-Palestine - Peace