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UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – Clashes in South Sudan  have left at least 600 people dead and hundreds wounded, and  possibly displaced more than a quarter million people, the U.N. 

TRIPOLI,  (Reuters) – Jubilant rebel fighters streamed  into the heart of Tripoli as Muammar Gaddafi’s forces collapsed  and crowds took to the streets to celebrate, tearing down  posters of the Libyan leader.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – More than 2,000 corpses have  been found buried in several unmarked graves in Indian Kashmir,  believed to be victims of the divided region’s separatist  revolt, a government human rights commission said in a report.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A newly discovered deep,  cold current flowing off Iceland’s coast may reveal that the  North Atlantic is less sensitive to climate change than  previously thought, researchers reported yesterday.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – It takes a lot to start a mass  campaign with political overtones in Singapore, but there’s no  better catalyst than food.

RABAT (Reuters) – Libyan rebels control most of the Tajourah district in the east of the capital and have surrounded an airbase there, an opposition activist in Tripoli told a Reuters reporter outside of Libya.

 NEW DELHI (Reuters) – At least 20,000 people gathered yesterday to support an anti-corruption social activist who has galvanized much of India against the government with his hunger strike, amid signs from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of compromise to end the impasse.

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-il arrived in Russia yesterday for his first visit in nearly a decade as the isolated state sought economic aid after heavy flooding exacerbated its chronic food shortages.

AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian forces fired heavy machineguns at a residential district in the central city of Homs yesterday after protests against President Bashar al-Assad, who faces growing world isolation for his repression of five months of popular unrest.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Authorities in Mexico found the decapitated bodies of four men and a woman in Acapulco yesterday, the latest in a string of slayings in the popular Pacific resort this week.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The prosecutors in the case of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will meet tomorrow with the hotel maid accusing him of sexual assault, in a sign the case may be headed for dismissal, one of her lawyers said yesterday.

HARARE (Reuters) – The death of a top Zimbabwean army general in a bizarre fire has changed the dynamics in internal ZANU-PF battles over President Robert Mugabe’s succession, but analysts say the issue remains unsettled and could lead to some bruising battles ahead.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel was expecting a diplomatic tsunami to strike in September, but the problems have come sooner than expected, leaving it ever more isolated in the Middle East.

ZAWIYAH, Libya, (Reuters) – Libyan rebels fought  fierce battles in two coastal cities on either side of the  capital Tripoli yesterday in a drive to topple Muammar Gaddafi,  but met stiff resistance from forces loyal to the long-time  leader.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s ruling  African National Congress yesterday charged controversial youth  leader Julius Malema with “sowing divisions” in its ranks and  bringing the party into disrepute.

GAZA, (Reuters) – The Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip  announced last night they were no longer committed to a  more than two-year de facto truce with Israel since the end of a  war in early 2009.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Executives at Rupert  Murdoch’s UK-based News International are concerned that emails  discussing questionable payments made to police by the News of  the World may prove more problematic than those that discuss  phone hacking, sources familiar with investigations into the  shuttered tabloid’s reporting practices said.

KHYBER, Pakistan, (Reuters) – A teenage suicide  bomber blew himself up among worshippers offering Friday prayers  at a mosque in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 47 people  and wounding more than 70, a top government official said.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Wall Street ended a fourth  week of losses on a down note yesterday as most buyers left  the market before the weekend on growing fears of another U.S. 

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Lawyers for the woman who  accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual  assault have explored a deal in which they would scuttle the  criminal case in exchange for a monetary settlement in the  civil lawsuit, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.