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• Insurgents attack NATO's southern Afghan base (AP)
• India plane with 166 on board crashes; 8 survive (AP)
• Clinton courts Chinese people; tough mission nears (AP)
• Astronomer Copernicus reburied as hero in Poland (AP)
• Supporters want ex-dictator in next Haiti election (AP)
• An Eerie Silence Precedes Ethiopia's Election (Time.com)
• Gerrard determined to stay in World Cup moment (AFP)
• German FM: Nefertiti bust should stay in Berlin (AP)
• UN: Big questions on prisoner deaths at Haiti jail (AP)
• Three killed in fresh Nigerian sectarian attack: military (AFP)
• Pakistani suspect back in jail in Chile for explosives (AFP)
• Paris art heist: The alarm that didn't sound, the dog that didn't bark (The Christian Science Monitor)

Insurgents attack NATO's southern Afghan base (AP) Posted: 22 May 2010 02:07 PM PDT AP - Insurgents firing rockets, mortars and automatic weapons launched a ground assault Saturday against NATO's biggest base in southern Afghanistan, wounding several coalition troops and civilian employees in the second such attack on a major military installation this week, officials said.

India plane with 166 on board crashes; 8 survive (AP) Posted: 22 May 2010 09:30 AM PDT AP - Eight people escaped the crash of an Indian jetliner with 166 people on board that overshot a hilltop runway in southern India and plunged over a cliff, officials said. At least some of the survivors managed to jump from the wreckage just before it burst into flames.

Clinton courts Chinese people; tough mission nears (AP) Posted: 22 May 2010 05:22 PM PDT AP - Courting the Chinese people, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to make the case Saturday for greater cooperation and partnership between the two countries as a difficult diplomatic assignment approached: winning Beijing's support for punishing ally North Korea.

Astronomer Copernicus reburied as hero in Poland (AP) Posted: 22 May 2010 03:57 PM PDT AP - Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose findings were condemned by the Roman Catholic Church as heretical, was reburied by Polish priests as a hero on Saturday, nearly 500 years after he was laid to rest in an unmarked grave.

Supporters want ex-dictator in next Haiti election (AP) Posted: 22 May 2010 02:46 PM PDT AP - A small group of red-and-black clad supporters carried pictures of ex-Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier on Saturday, calling for the ousted ruler to return and participate in post-quake presidential elections.

An Eerie Silence Precedes Ethiopia's Election (Time.com) Posted: 22 May 2010 03:10 PM PDT Time.com - Five years of repression have shut-out members of the opposition from most public venues but they haven't stopped trying to be heard, even at huge personal risks

Gerrard determined to stay in World Cup moment (AFP) Posted: 22 May 2010 05:14 PM PDT AFP - The only thing Steven Gerrard knows about his future is that it is not going to interfere with his World Cup present.

German FM: Nefertiti bust should stay in Berlin (AP) Posted: 22 May 2010 01:36 PM PDT AP - Germany's foreign minister says the 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti that has been in a Berlin museum for decades is in Germany legally and could break if moved to Egypt.

UN: Big questions on prisoner deaths at Haiti jail (AP) Posted: 22 May 2010 05:22 PM PDT AP - The United Nations is investigating the shooting of dozens of prisoners during a jail riot in the chaotic days after Haiti's earthquake, a spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping mission confirmed Saturday.

Three killed in fresh Nigerian sectarian attack: military (AFP) Posted: 22 May 2010 04:34 PM PDT AFP - Three Fulani nomadic herdsmen were on Saturday killed in fresh sectarian attacks staged by suspected ethnic Beroms in a village close to Nigeria's flashpoint city of Jos, the military said.

Pakistani suspect back in jail in Chile for explosives (AFP) Posted: 22 May 2010 03:13 PM PDT AFP - A Chilean court ordered back to jail Saturday a Pakistani man who had been charged and briefly detained after traces of explosives were found on him as he visited the US embassy, officials said.

Paris art heist: The alarm that didn't sound, the dog that didn't bark (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 21 May 2010 03:08 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - A day after the stunning $123 million heist of art that Paris authorities now say was not insured, fresh revelations are beginning to echo loudly in efforts to reconstruct how five modernist masterpieces could have been stolen in early dawn hours Thursday.

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