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• RBS close to selling off Asian assets: report (AFP)
• Sex Pistols frontman reforms PiL: report (AFP)
• Google gives ground to Europe over digital books deal: report (AFP)
• Brown vows support for IRA victims (AFP)
• Europe 'big three' call for Afghanistan conference (AFP)
• Britain to press Libya to compensate IRA victims (Reuters)
• Documents on UK-Libyan ties outrage IRA victims (AP)
• WTO raps European export aid for Airbus: sources (Reuters)
• Moore makes first Venice premiere (AP)
• Pixar wins lifetime award at Venice Film Festival (AP)
• Pope meets Berlusconi aide amid scandal fallout (AP)
• Germany's Merkel launches re-election campaign (AP)
• Sarkozy to Brazil with fighter jet bid looming (AP)
• Greek column capital stolen at Ancient Olympia (AP)
• Russia's one-factory towns struggle to survive (AP)
• Cypriot mixed wedding defies ethnic division (AP)
• Police: Skipper detained in Macedonia boat sinking (AP)
• Pope: religion should build peace, fight racism (AP)
• British police arrest 90 after Birmingham clashes (AP)

RBS close to selling off Asian assets: report (AFP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 06:08 PM PDT AFP - Bailed out lender Royal Bank of Scotland is close to sealing a deal to sell its assets in China, India and Malaysia to Standard Chartered, a report said Monday.

Sex Pistols frontman reforms PiL: report (AFP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 05:34 PM PDT AFP - Punk rocker John Lydon, formerly Johnny Rotten, is reforming his second most famous band, Public Image Ltd, after 17 years, a report said Monday.

Google gives ground to Europe over digital books deal: report (AFP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 04:08 PM PDT AFP - Google will make concessions to European publishers and authors in an attempt to stem rising anger over its move to digitise and sell millions of books online, a report said Monday.

Brown vows support for IRA victims (AFP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 01:59 PM PDT AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged Sunday to support compensation claims made against Libya by victims of IRA bombings, after reports he declined to press Libya's leader on the issue.

Europe 'big three' call for Afghanistan conference (AFP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 01:57 PM PDT AFP - Britain, France and Germany unveiled proposals on Sunday for an international conference on Afghanistan later this year in order to press Afghans to take more responsibility for their own country.

Britain to press Libya to compensate IRA victims (Reuters) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 01:54 PM PDT Reuters - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Sunday he would support compensation claims against Libya by families of IRA victims who say Tripoli helped to arm the guerrillas.

Documents on UK-Libyan ties outrage IRA victims (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 01:35 PM PDT AP - Britain made no demands that Libya offer compensation for Britons killed by Libyan explosives supplied to the Irish Republican Army for fear it could jeopardize ties with Tripoli, according to new documents released Sunday.

WTO raps European export aid for Airbus: sources (Reuters) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 12:52 PM PDT Reuters - The WTO has found that loans from European governments to Airbus were not only unfair subsidies but in some cases violated a tougher ban on export aid, according to sources familiar with a report that also rejected some U.S. complaints.

Moore makes first Venice premiere (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 12:32 PM PDT AP - Michael Moore says his film "Capitalism: A Love Story" is dedicated to "good people ... who've had their lives ruined" by the quest for profit.

Pixar wins lifetime award at Venice Film Festival (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 12:29 PM PDT AP - The Venice Film Festival's red carpet was festooned with balloons on Sunday to mark the lifetime achievement award for director and producer John Lasseter and his crew of Pixar directors.

Pope meets Berlusconi aide amid scandal fallout (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 12:13 PM PDT AP - Premier Silvio Berlusconi's top aide met with Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday amid continuing fallout over scandals that have strained ties between Italy's government and the Catholic Church.

Germany's Merkel launches re-election campaign (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 11:55 AM PDT AP - Chancellor Angela Merkel has kicked off her conservative party's campaign for the Sept. 27 German election by calling for a center-right coalition with the pro-business Free Democrats.

Sarkozy to Brazil with fighter jet bid looming (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 10:52 AM PDT AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy left Sunday for Brazil with hopes of persuading officials there to choose French-made fighter jets in a hot competition with U.S. and Swedish rivals.

Greek column capital stolen at Ancient Olympia (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 09:45 AM PDT AP - Greece's Culture Ministry says a column capital has been stolen from the archaeological site of Ancient Olympia, one of the country's most important.

Russia's one-factory towns struggle to survive (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 07:38 AM PDT AP - Three decades ago, the Yasnogorsk Machine-Building Factory stamped out thousands of pounds of steel and iron into parts for wagons, pumps and locomotives for Russia's mining industry.

Cypriot mixed wedding defies ethnic division (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 06:57 AM PDT AP - From opposite sides of their divided island, Georgia Chappa and Murat Kanatli made it their mission to break down the ethnic hatreds by bringing rivals together.

Police: Skipper detained in Macedonia boat sinking (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 04:53 AM PDT AP - The skipper of an overloaded sightseeing boat that sank in a western Macedonian lake was detained on suspicion of causing the deaths of 15 Bulgarian tourists, police said Sunday.

Pope: religion should build peace, fight racism (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 04:36 AM PDT AP - Pope Benedict XVI marked the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II on Sunday by saying religion should promote peace and fight racism and totalitarianism.

British police arrest 90 after Birmingham clashes (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 04:18 AM PDT AP - Authorities arrested 90 people after racially charged violence erupted between a group protesting Islamic extremism and counter-demonstrators in the central English city of Birmingham, police said Sunday.

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