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Joyful Germans mark
the fall of Berlin Wall

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Fireworks exploded over the Brandenburg Gate (above) in Germany yesterday as thousands celebrated the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall. (By Craig Whitlock, Washington Post)

Groups pledge to take part in Iraq vote

While the deal Iraqi leaders reached over the weekend on a new election law may not be perfect, all major political groupings have said they will take part in the elections. (Associated Press)

Vatican says celibacy rule unchanged

The Vatican confirmed yesterday that opening the door to married Anglican priests does not mean that the Roman Catholic Church is easing the requirement of celibacy for its clergy. (Associated Press)

Liberia’s Taylor denies bloody role

Liberia’s former president ended 13 weeks on the witness stand yesterday by rejecting allegations that he commanded and controlled rebels who killed and mutilated thousands of civilians during Sierra Leone’s 1991-2002 civil war. (Associated Press)

AIDS called leading killer of women

In its first study of women’s health, the World Health Organization said yesterday that the AIDS virus is the leading cause of death and disease among women between the ages of 15 and 44. (Associated Press)

Suicide bomber kills three in Pakistan

A suicide bomber in a rickshaw detonated his explosives near a group of police officers in northwest Pakistan’s main city of Peshawar yesterday, killing three people, police said. (Associated Press)

Israeli prime minister calls for peace talks

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel called yesterday for an immediate resumption of peace talks with Palestinians and pledged more steps to improve economic conditions in Palestinian areas. (By Robert Burns, Associated Press)

China executes nine for
alleged roles in deadly July riots

China has executed nine men, including eight from the Muslim Uighur minority, for crimes committed during July riots that killed 200 people in far western Xinjiang region. The men are the first to be put to death for the country’s worst ethnic violence in decades. (By Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press)

3 Americans charged
with espionage in Iran

Three Americans who were arrested by Iranian border guards in late July after crossing into Iran from neighboring Iraq have been charged with espionage, a top Iranian prosecutor said yesterday. (By William Branigin, Washington Post)

Fighting in north
Afghanistan kills 130 insurgents

Afghan and international troops killed more than 130 insurgents in six days of fighting in a once-stable area of northern Afghanistan that has seen a recent spike in Taliban attacks, NATO said yesterday. It was some of the heaviest fighting in the north this year. (By Deb Riechmann, Associated Press)

Obama leaning toward bolstering US
force in Afghanistan, sources say

President Obama is nearing a decision to add tens of thousands more forces to Afghanistan, although probably not the 40,000 sought by his top general there, as Pentagon planners work to prepare bases and provide equipment the troops would need in a country with scant resources. (By Anne Gearan, Associated Press)

Somali pirates extend
range, target tanker

Somali pirates attacked an oil tanker and fired automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades yesterday farther out at sea than any previous assault, suggesting their capabilities are growing as they increase activity off East Africa. (By Jason Straziuso, Associated Press)

El Salvador town hit by
landslide buries its dead

Tears streamed down Elsy Portillo’s badly bruised face as she walked yesterday behind coffins carrying her mother and only child in this town buried by a massive landslide, one of a series that killed at least 130 people nationwide. (By Marcos Aleman, Associated Press)

LATEST WORLD NEWS FROM AP

Iraqi PM: no election alliance with Shiite rivals

Iraq's prime minister on Tuesday denied reports he will form an alliance with the nation's leading Shiite parties ahead of national polls in January. (Associated Press Writer, 10:31 a.m.)

Russia sends research module to space station

A new Russian research module is on its way to the International Space Station. Russia's space agency says a Soyuz rocket carrying a module called the Poisk (PAW'-isk) lifted off on schedule from the Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan on Tuesday. The launch was shown on Russian state television. (AP, 10:31 a.m.)

London working to finalize last 2 Olympic venues

London Olympic organizers are working to reduce the travel time for athletes in the two sports whose venue for the 2012 Games is being changed to save money. (AP Sports Writer, 10:29 a.m.)

Bomb kills 24, wounds over 100 in NW Pakistan

A car bomb exploded outside a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 24 people in the latest attack by suspected militants apparently aimed at avenging an army offensive along the Afghan border. (Associated Press Writer, 10:23 a.m.)

Adviser: Saudi navy blockades north Yemen coast

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday imposed a naval blockade on the Red Sea coast of northern Yemen to combat Shiite rebels along its border, an adviser to the government said, in the latest escalation of fighting in the southern Arabian peninsula. (Associated Press Writer, 10:12 a.m.)