International

AP - The effort to save 33 men trapped deep in a Chilean mine is an unprecedented challenge, mining safety experts said Tuesday. It means months of drilling, then a harrowing three-hour trip in a cage up a narrow hole carved through solid rock.

AP - Palestinian gunmen opened fire Tuesday on an Israeli car in the West Bank and killed four passengers on the eve of a new round of Mideast peace talks in Washington. The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON mdash; After more than seven years of war, President Barack Obama declared the combat mission in Iraq over on Tuesday night, saying that's in the best interests of both Iraqis and Americans and that ending combat will help the United States focus on new priorities, especially restoring the economy.

The Christian Science Monitor - As Middle Eastern leaders gathered in Washington to inaugurate a new round of Israeli-Palestinian talks, Hamas gunmen killed four Israeli settlers in their car outside the West Bank city of Hebron.

Reuters - Canada's economic growth rate slowed more sharply than expected in the second quarter on weaker consumer spending and trade performance, fueling uncertainty about the pace of interest rate hikes by the Bank of Canada.

AFP - On top of construction chaos and corruption concerns, organisers of the Delhi Commonwealth Games are now grappling with a mosquito crisis at sporting venues and are even employing larvae-eating fish.

Time.com - For the past 40 years, Justo Gallego has dedicated his days to single-handedly building a full-size cathedral. But at 85, Gallego will never finish his project -- and an issue with building permits could force officials to tear down his life's work

Time.com - The horror of the Tamaulipas massacre has depressed the country even as it heads toward the bicentennial of its independence. Can it turn the tide in the drug war?

AP - NATO says four American troops have been killed in a roadside bomb explosion in eastern Afghanistan.

AP - Hurricane Earl, now a powerful Category 4 storm, barreled toward the U.S. coast early Tuesday after battering tiny islands across the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and winds that damaged homes and toppled power lines.

AFP - The Ministry of Defence (MoD) in London declined to discuss a report on Tuesday that Britain and France could share their aircraft carrier capability, calling it early speculation.

AP - It started with a dispute over a parking space and erupted into a four-hour street war between Hezbollah and a rival militia, with masked snipers running through alleyways and rocket-propelled grenades exploding in the middle of a Beirut neighborhood.

AP - Texas-born fugitive Edgar Valdez Villarreal, alias the Barbie, is the third major suspected drug lord to fall in Mexico in the past 10 months and a coup for President Felipe Calderon in his embattled war on powerful cartels.

AP - As Vice President Joe Biden presides over the formal end to U.S. combat operations in Iraq, few Iraqis are cheering the American exit.

AP - Thirty-three men stuck a half mile underground are now the longest-trapped miners in recent history as a huge drill is the early stages of digging a planned escape route.

AP - A Venezuelan farmer who staged repeated hunger strikes to protest a government-sanctioned takeover of his farm has died in a military hospital in Caracas.

AFP - Rwanda's new government must urgently review their vague 'genocide ideology' and 'sectarianism' laws, which are being used to suppress political dissent, Amnesty International said Tuesday.

AFP - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard Tuesday rejected a quick return to the polls and welcomed a new political landscape after inconclusive national elections prompted the biggest upheaval in decades.

McClatchy Newspapers - MEXICO CITY mdash; Mexican police Monday captured a Texas-born accused drug kingpin wanted by the United States and known for his unusual nickname mdash; La Barbie.

OneWorld.net - MANSA, Aug 30 (IRIN) - Mining prospectors in Luapula Province, northern Zambia, have forced small-scale farmers from their land at gun point, according to villagers in the region.