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Today's World News: Dozens of NATO oil tankers attacked in Pakistan Ecuador troops rescue president from rebel cops Japan PM concerned over China's maritime expansion India less tense after court verdict on holy site Koreas meet to discuss family reunions An Indian Court Tries to Impose Peace on a Sacred but Bloody Space IMF chief sees no need to help Ireland Hezbollah bars members from Hariri court interview Death toll in southern Mexico mudslides up to 32 UN tones down Congo 'genocide' report Militants set fire to NATO supply tankers in Pakistan Canada forms panel to probe oil sands pollution Aussie dollar's surge squeezes tourists Ecuador coup attempt? President Rafael Correa attacked in police revolt. Berlusconi Keeps Government Afloat -- for Now Was a Mumbai-style terror attack really 'foiled'? Colder Weather, Disease Threaten Pakistan's Displaced Dozens of NATO oil tankers attacked in Pakistan Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:40 pm PDT AP - Suspected militants in southern Pakistan set ablaze more than two dozen tankers carrying fuel for foreign troops in Afghanistan on Friday, highlighting the vulnerability of the U.S.-led mission a day after Pakistan closed a major border crossing. Full Story Top Ecuador troops rescue president from rebel cops Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:32 pm PDT AP - Ecuadorean soldiers firing automatic weapons and concussion grenades rescued President Rafael Correa late Thursday from a hospital where he was trapped most of the day by rebellious police who plunged the country into chaos in a protest over benefit cuts. Full Story Top Japan PM concerned over China's maritime expansion Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:37 pm PDT AP - Japan's prime minister expressed concern Friday over China's strengthening military power and expanding maritime activity in Asia, including waters near disputed islands where a ship collision ignited a bitter diplomatic feud. Full Story Top India less tense after court verdict on holy site Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:40 pm PDT AP - Schools, shops and businesses reopened Friday as fears of violence ebbed in northern India following a court order to divide a disputed holy site between the Hindu and Muslim communities. Full Story Top Koreas meet to discuss family reunions Thu, 30 Sep 2010 07:54 pm PDT AP - Red Cross officials from the two Koreas tried to narrow differences Friday on how to restart a stalled program to hold reunions for families separated by civil war 60 years ago, South Korea's Unification Ministry said. Full Story Top An Indian Court Tries to Impose Peace on a Sacred but Bloody Space Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:55 pm PDT Time.com - The site of the Babri mosque has been the focus of violent controversy for centuries. Now, a court has tried to impose an evenhanded solution. Will it hold? Full Story Top IMF chief sees no need to help Ireland Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:39 pm PDT AFP - IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said in a newspaper interview on Friday that he did not expect Ireland to call on a European rescue fund to help the country cope with its financial crisis. Full Story Top Hezbollah bars members from Hariri court interview Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:04 pm PDT AP - Hezbollah has denied a request from the international tribunal investigating the 2005 assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister to interview some of its members, the group's deputy leader said Thursday. Full Story Top Death toll in southern Mexico mudslides up to 32 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:23 pm PDT AP - A rain-soaked hillside crumbled and crushed an elderly couple in their home Thursday, and rescuers found more bodies buried by earlier landslides, raising the death toll from a series of slides in southern Mexico to at least 32. Full Story Top UN tones down Congo 'genocide' report Thu, 30 Sep 2010 01:03 pm PDT AP - The United Nations has toned down a report detailing hundreds of gruesome attacks against civilians in Congo over a 10-year period but left intact the suggestion that Rwanda's army may have committed genocide there in the 1990s. Full Story Top Militants set fire to NATO supply tankers in Pakistan Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:54 pm PDT Reuters - Suspected militants in Pakistan set fire to more than two dozen tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan on Friday, officials said, a day after three soldiers were killed in a cross-border NATO air strike. Full Story Top Canada forms panel to probe oil sands pollution Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:25 pm PDT Reuters - Canada's environment minster has formed a scientific panel to examine whether Alberta's oil sands projects are polluting the Athabasca River as charged by an influential water ecologist. Full Story Top Aussie dollar's surge squeezes tourists Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:00 am PDT AFP - German backpackers Christian Morbe and Kathrin Veith were prepared for their stay in Australia to be expensive, but the skyrocketing Australian dollar is catching tourists like them by surprise. Full Story Top Ecuador coup attempt? President Rafael Correa attacked in police revolt. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:30 pm PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Ecuador President Rafael Correa was holed up in Quito on Thursday afternoon after being attacked by police angered over changes to their job benefits. Full Story Top Berlusconi Keeps Government Afloat -- for Now Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:55 pm PDT Time.com - Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi won a vote of confidence on Wednesday. But instead of proving his popularity as a leader, it showed that without the support of a group of rebels, he likely can't lead at all Full Story Top Was a Mumbai-style terror attack really 'foiled'? Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:16 pm PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Breathless coverage in the past few days has written at length about a potential "Mumbai-style" terror attack planned for Britain – or perhaps Germany, or France – that was thwarted by the Obama administration's expanding aerial campaign against militant targets in Pakistan's lawless border provinces. Full Story Top Colder Weather, Disease Threaten Pakistan's Displaced Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:57 pm PDT OneWorld.net - QUETTA, Sep 27 (IRIN) - Inside their tent at a camp on the outskirts of Quetta, capital of the southwestern province of Balochistan, Meraj Sindhu helps his wife wrap their six-month-old son and two-year-old daughter in thin cloths widely used in Sindh Province as head scarves or turbans. Full Story Top

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