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Sept 02 – A wave of encouraging economic data in both the housing and jobs markets helped lift stocks ahead of Friday’s payrolls report. Bobbi Rebell reports.

Sep 2 – The International Monetary Fund will give Pakistan $450 million in emergency flood aid. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

Sep 2 – Mideast envoy Mitchell says peace talks will be held every two weeks. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

Sept 2 – The Israeli settlers’ council announces an end to the contruction freeze, a move that could jeopordize peace talks with the Palestinian Authority in Washington.

Sept 2 – British Foreign Secretary William Hague denies he is gay, following reports that he shared a hotel room with a male aide.

Sep 2 – U.S. Secretary of State Clinton welcomes Israeli and Palestinian leaders to the State Department for new round of Middle East peace talks. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

Sept 2 – The capture and killings of drug gang leaders is part of the bloodshed in Mexico that has killed 28,000 people since crackdowns began in late 2006.

Sept 2 – A landslide in southwest China kills at least eight people, as workers race to rescue some 40 people still buried in the rubble.

Sept 2 – A thousand mourners in Pakistan attend a funeral for victims of Wednesday’s triple bomb attack on a Shi’ite religious procession in Lahore.

Sept 2 – Typhoon Kompasu causes damage and delays flights across South Korea.

Sept 2 – Thousands of residents in Mexico’s Oaxaca are affected, as torrential rains cause the River of Dogs to overflow its banks, flooding local villages.

Sep 1 – Police say an Asian man carrying a handgun is holding unknown number of hostages at the Discovery building in suburban Washington, DC. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

Sep 1 – U.S. President Obama condemned the attack on four Israeli settlers in the West Bank, saying that the killings must not be allowed to set back Middle East peace efforts. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

Sept 1 – At least six people have been killed in Mozambique during street protests over rising prices.

Sep 1. – New video of the trapped miners in Chile shows them in good health and appearance as they receive food supplies, listen to music and send messages to their relatives..

Sep 01 – U.S. Vice President Biden pledged that the American engagement in Iraq will continue as the combat mission ends. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

Sept 1 – Residents of flood-hit Sindh are heading back to their hometowns, some still a metre deep in water.

September 1 – Asylum seekers escape from their detention centre in the Australian city of Darwin, to beg for mercy.

Sept 1 – While digging to widen a drainage system, workers recover about 75 human skeletons in India’s southern Karnataka state.

Sept 1 – Tropical storm Lionrock batters Taiwan as China prepares for it with mass evacuations.

Aug. 31 – The semi-aquatic daily routine of residents of a small village in southern Pakistan – Dostabad in Sindh – is typical of the hardship faced across the South.

Aug. 31 – South Korea offers large scale aid to Pyongyang after massive flooding devastates areas along North Korea’s border with China.

Aug. 31 – When the Israelis and the Palestinians resume direct negotiations on September 2 it will be the latest of many forays into diplomatic peacemaking over the past decades.

Aug. 31 – Iraq’s prime minister said the country had won sovereignty and an equal footing with the United States after the U.S. formally ended military operations there.

Aug. 31 – A Catholic mass is held in the Polish city of Gdansk, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the influential Solidarity trade union.