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AP - The first video released of the 33 men trapped deep in a Chilean copper mine shows the men stripped to the waist and appearing slim but healthy, arm-in-arm, singing the national anthem and yelling "long live Chile, and long live the miners!"

Reuters - British Airways apologised to passengers after an emergency message warning they were about to crash into the sea was played by mistake. - [Read more]

AFP - North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il was reportedly Friday to meet the Chinese president in northeastern China as he seeks the backing of his sole ally for an expected handover of power to his son.

AP - A leaked U.N. draft report says the Rwandan army and its Congolese rebel allies now in power committed massacres in Congo in the 1990s that could be classified as genocide, using hoes and axes to kill people and burning others alive. - [Read more]

AP - They are different wars in different regions, with different challenges. But as the war in Iraq winds down, there is a lot the U.S. military can learn and apply to Afghanistan, from how to deal with contractors to when to draw down troops. - [Read more]

AP - Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis were fleeing a southern district Friday after the bloated Indus River crushed a levee and flooded new areas, officials said. The U.N. said as many as 1 million people have been displaced in the south since midweek.

AFP - Australias conservatives Friday agreed to a key demand from minority lawmakers central to determining who will take power, after the closest elections in decades left the nation in political deadlock.

AP - A smile flickered across Aijalon Gomes face as he hugged former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and boarded a plane for Boston on Friday, seven months after his arrest in North Korea.

Time.com - Malaysias New Journey - [Read more]

Time.com - With five weeks left before its start, a hugely expensive athletic competition is sodden with allegations of corruption and inefficiency. And then theres dengue fever. - [Read more]

AP - North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il was said to be traveling with his youngest son on a rare trip to China on Friday, re-igniting speculation the younger Kim will take over the reigns of the reclusive communist nation in coming years.

AP - Heavily guarded mortuary workers have begun identifying 72 migrants massacred near the U.S. border, while human rights advocates are demanding Mexico do more to stop the exploitation and abuse of migrants that they say led to the heinous crime.

AP - A Mexican judge has found the former state police director in the western state of Michoacan innocent of charges he helped a drug gang. - [Read more]

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The U.S. combat mission in Iraq officially comes to an end Tuesday, 2,722 days after American-led troops stormed across the border from Kuwait. The remaining 49,000 U.S. troops are supposed to depart by the end of next year.

Reuters - Three men arrested in Canada on terror-related charges -- one of whom was reported to have once auditioned for the "Canadian Idol" TV show -- were plotting bomb attacks and had connections to a group fighting coalition forces in Afghanistan, police said on Thursday. - [Read more]

The Christian Science Monitor - Iran seems to have found a new friend in the unlikeliest of places: Cambodia. Tehran hosted a high-level delegation from the Southeast Asian nation earlier this month to discuss bilateral trade and mutual dislike of American "interference." - [Read more]

The idea that the world needs to double its food production by 2050 in order to feed a growing population "is wrong". - [Read more]