Aug 3, 6:54 AM EDT
Global stocks drop again on US economy fears
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/ ... 3-06-54-10

Gold...hit a new record of $1,661 on Wednesday.

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Aug 3, 7:17 AM EDT
Italian borrowing rates touch new record
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ ... 3-07-17-45

a global market sell-off reignited fears that the debt crisis will engulf the eurozone's third-largest economy.

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Aug 3, 6:13 AM EDT
Tajikistan bans minors from entering mosques
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/ ... 3-06-13-28

government seeks to minimize the rising influence of Islam in the Central Asian nation.

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Aug 3, 5:41 AM EDT
In Nordics, ethnic tensions beneath placid surface
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ ... 3-05-41-58

Far-right and anti-immigrant parties have made astonishing gains in Scandinavia in recent years.

THE SUPERPOWER WORLD

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Aug 3, 1:26 AM EDT
Rapid City police: 1 officer dead, 2 injured
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... 3-01-26-27

routine stop

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3 August 2011 Last updated at 07:23 ET
Judge Barney McElholm bemoans influence of Ninja Turtles
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-14388992

put a police officer in a headlock.

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3 August 2011 Last updated at 07:22 ET
Cleveland Police Chief Constable Sean Price arrested
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-14386361

[he] and his deputy Derek Bonnard are believed to be two of the three held as part of the probe involving the force.

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Aug 3, 3:26 AM EDT
Drought forces Texas, Okla. ranchers to cut herds
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... 3-03-26-30

nation's top two beef producers

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3 August 2011 Last updated at 06:57 ET
South Africa agrees to Swaziland financial bailout
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14388006

King Mswati is accused of living in luxury with his 13 wives, while most of his people languish in poverty

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Essar to invest up to $4 bln in Zimbabwe steel plant
KWEKWE, Zimbabwe | Wed Aug 3, 2011 5:03pm IST
http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/08/0 ... 9320110803

latest drive by investors from emerging market giant India into Africa.

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INSIGHT - When ratings agencies judge the world
WASHINGTON/LONDON | Wed Aug 3, 2011 6:15am IST
http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/08/0 ... 6120110803

You may have never heard of David Beers

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Biggest-ever series of cyber attacks uncovered, UN hit
BOSTON | Wed Aug 3, 2011 1:38pm IST
http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/08/0 ... 2520110803

In the case of the United Nations, the hackers broke into the computer system of its secretariat in Geneva in 2008, hid there for nearly two years, and quietly combed through reams of secret data

THERE ARE NO SECRETS

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U.S. government hankers for hackers
WASHINGTON | Tue Aug 2, 2011 4:51pm IST
http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/08/0 ... 4720110802

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Wednesday, August 03, 2011
The Role of Al-Jazeera in the Imperialist Bombing of Libya and Other Pro-Empire Intrigue
http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2011 ... alist.html

How did Al-Jazeera, once dubbed the 'terror network' by some and whose staff were martyred by US bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan, end up becoming the media war propagandist for yet another Western war against a small state of the Global South, Libya?