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• Greek debt crisis shows Europe's clash of cultures (AP)
• Thai authorities, protesters clash; 1 soldier dies (AP)
• 2 dead in attack on rights caravan in south Mexico (AP)
• Spain downgraded as Europe debt crisis widens (AP)
• Hamas says Egypt kills 4 tunnel smugglers with gas (AP)
• What will it take to save Greece? (Time.com)
• UK campaign gaffe: Brown calls voter a bigot (AP)
• No fines now for Palestinian settlement workers (AP)
• Mexico acknowledges migrant abuse, pledges changes (AP)
• World Cup hosts S.Africa back on winning trail (AFP)
• South Korea bids final farewell to 46 navy sailors (AP)
• Pentagon issues downbeat assessment on Afghanistan (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Mexicans slam Arizona immigration law, but how do they treat their migrants? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Arizona Immigration Law Angers Mexico, Felipe Calderon (Time.com)

Greek debt crisis shows Europe's clash of cultures (AP) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 12:05 PM PDT AP - It's known as the cradle of Western civilization, but these days cash-starved Greece is viewed as more of a miscreant.

Thai authorities, protesters clash; 1 soldier dies (AP) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 12:10 PM PDT AP - Thai troops fired rifles and threw tear gas at a crowd of anti-government protesters riding motorbikes down a busy expressway Wednesday, blocking their effort to take the demonstrations that have paralyzed central Bangkok into the suburbs.

2 dead in attack on rights caravan in south Mexico (AP) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 05:56 PM PDT AP - Gunmen ambushed a caravan of rights observers and leftist political activists in a remote, restive area of southern Mexico, killing a Finnish man and a Mexican woman, and dozens from the group remained missing, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Spain downgraded as Europe debt crisis widens (AP) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 02:40 PM PDT AP - Europe's debt crisis spread its contagion to another country Wednesday when a major agency downgraded Spain's credit rating, even as Germany grudgingly moved closer to bailing out Greece from imminent collapse.

Hamas says Egypt kills 4 tunnel smugglers with gas (AP) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 06:27 PM PDT AP - Egyptian forces pumped gas into a cross-border tunnel used to smuggle goods into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians, Hamas officials said.

What will it take to save Greece? (Time.com) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 03:25 PM PDT Time.com - With Greece's debt crisis spreading to other parts of Europe, economists warn that the $60 billion rescue package already isn't enough

UK campaign gaffe: Brown calls voter a bigot (AP) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 06:27 PM PDT AP - Britain's Prime Minister blundered into the first major gaffe in his country's short campaign season Wednesday when an open microphone captured him slamming a voter he'd just been trying to win over.

No fines now for Palestinian settlement workers (AP) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 11:42 AM PDT AP - Palestinians who violate a ban by their government on working in Israeli settlements will be given time to find other employment before facing punishment, a senior official said Wednesday, reflecting the difficulty of enforcing the measure in the job-strapped West Bank.

Mexico acknowledges migrant abuse, pledges changes (AP) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 05:04 PM PDT AP - Amnesty International called the abuse of migrants in Mexico a major human rights crisis Wednesday, and accused some officials of turning a blind eye or even participating in the kidnapping, rape and murder of migrants.

World Cup hosts S.Africa back on winning trail (AFP) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 01:45 PM PDT AFP - World Cup hosts South Africa got back on the winning trail by defeating non-qualifers Jamaica 2-0 in a friendly at Kickers Offenbach Stadium Wednesday.

South Korea bids final farewell to 46 navy sailors (AP) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 06:21 PM PDT AP - South Korea honored 46 sailors Thursday with a solemn military funeral a month after their warship sank near waters disputed with rival North Korea.

Pentagon issues downbeat assessment on Afghanistan (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 04:28 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Pentagon Wednesday issued a downbeat assessment of the situation in Afghanistan, saying that only one in four Afghans in strategically important areas currently back President Hamid Karzai's government even as the Taliban expand their insurgency and install shadow local governments.

Mexicans slam Arizona immigration law, but how do they treat their migrants? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 03:50 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - As Mexicans decry the Arizona immigration law and launch boycotts of Arizona, Amnesty International released a scathing new report urging Mexicans to look in the mirror.

Arizona Immigration Law Angers Mexico, Felipe Calderon (Time.com) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 03:25 PM PDT Time.com - Most Mexicans agree that Arizona's tough new anti-immigration law will create an apartheid situation. But will the Mexican government do anything about it?

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