Sudan: 2 newspapers strike against censorship (AP)

AP – Two Sudanese dailies will suspend publication for three days and their journalists will go on a 24-hour hunger strike to protest state censorship, managers of the papers said Tuesday.
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AP – Iran’s parliament dismissed a Cabinet minister Tuesday over his fake degree from Oxford University, a vote seen as a humiliating blow to hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who faces elections next summer.
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AP – Israeli troops and Palestinian militants clashed in a fierce gunbattle along the Israel-Gaza border Tuesday in the first armed confrontation between the sides since a truce took effect in June. One militant was killed, Palestinian officials said.
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AFP – Around 20 people were feared killed on Tuesday in a fire on a bus on a motorway near Hanover in northern Germany, a police spokesman said.
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Reuters – At least 12 lawmakers allied to India’s ruling coalition sent resignation letters Tuesday in protest against anti-migrant violence, their party said.
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AP – U.S. soldiers on the front lines tuned in Tuesday to CNN and the Internet to track the presidential election that will decide the future of their mission. But for many, the day was spent like so many others on patrols, repairing equipment and other mundane tasks of war.
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AFP – Surrey great Graham Thorpe will be returning to The Oval as a batting coach, the English county announced Tuesday.
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AFP – The economy of South Africa, Africa’s economic powerhouse, cannot be immune from the effects of the global financial financial market crisis, the central bank’s monetary policy review committee said Tuesday.
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AP – Bombs exploded at a bus station and a small market in Baghdad, killing 15 people Tuesday in an increase in bloodshed in the Iraqi capital after a week of relative calm, police and hospital officials said.
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AFP – Indian Premier Manmohan Singh Tuesday set up a high-level panel to monitor the impact of the global financial crisis on domestic industry, a government statement said.
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