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• Madrid's Puerta del Sol Protests Resume over ... the Pope? (Time.com)
• Group aims to dispel Mormon myths, explain beliefs (AP)
• What Will Norway Make of the Westboro Baptist Church? (The Atlantic Wire)
• Buddhists liberate lobsters, rerouting from boiling pot to sea (Reuters)
• Four Muslims shot dead in restive Thai south (Reuters)
• Jeffs regains leadership of FLDS church in Utah (AP)

Madrid's Puerta del Sol Protests Resume over ... the Pope? (Time.com) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 03:50 PM PDT Time.com - The massive outpourings that took over Madrid's central square had petered out until the government decided to forcibly take down the remnants. Then sympathy sent the people back into the streets

Group aims to dispel Mormon myths, explain beliefs (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 12:39 PM PDT AP - With the Mormon church increasingly in the national spotlight, including a hit Mormon-themed Broadway musical and two members seeking the White House, a nonprofit group is seeking to set the record straight about the faith's beliefs.

What Will Norway Make of the Westboro Baptist Church? (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 11:55 AM PDT The Atlantic Wire - The ever-infuriating Westboro Baptist Church, which made its reputation picketing the funerals of soldiers while holding signs saying "god hates fags" and "thank god for dead soldiers," says it is heading to Norway to lend its presence to the funerals of those killed in the July 22 massacre. The group posted a press release to its website announcing its plans to picket the funerals of those who lost their lives when Anders Breivik set off a bomb in Oslo that killed eight and then traveled to the island of Utoya to execute 69 at a youth camp. The Topeka-based church, run by former civil rights activist Fred Phelps, sees homosexuality as a deadly sin and has vocally interpreted slain soldiers as a message from god that the United States is "a sodomite nation of flag-worshiping idolaters." The Norway venture seems to be in the same vein:

Buddhists liberate lobsters, rerouting from boiling pot to sea (Reuters) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 09:36 AM PDT Reuters - Instead of plunging headfirst to their death in a pot of boiling water, 534 live lobsters escaped the dinner plate and belly flopped to freedom into the dark waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

Four Muslims shot dead in restive Thai south (Reuters) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:30 AM PDT Reuters - Four Muslims were shot dead in three separate attacks in Thailand's rebellious deep south Thursday, police said, the latest killings in a region plagued by seven years of separatist violence.

Jeffs regains leadership of FLDS church in Utah (AP) Posted: 03 Aug 2011 06:02 PM PDT AP - Warren Jeffs regained control of his polygamous church on Wednesday after a four-month internal struggle for the presidency of the corporations that comprise the entity.

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