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• AP EXCLUSIVE: Future pope stalled pedophile case (AP)
• Russia furious over adopted boy sent back from US (AP)
• Rio flood death toll hits 205, expected to rise (AP)
• Canadian PM says police to investigate minister (AP)
• Kyrgyz victims mourned, US base fate on hold (AP)
• Japan's Change Agent (Time.com)
• EU leaders back Greece, markets bet on bailout (AFP)
• South Sudan votes for first time in a generation (AP)
• Uruguayan ex-priest avoids justice on rape charges (AP)
• US maintains call for free expression in Egypt (AFP)
• Security clampdown in protest-hit Bangkok (AFP)
• Canadian PM forces out minister, calls in police (Reuters)
• Crews begin moving oil from ship stuck on reef (AP)
• Securing nuclear materials is Obama summit goal (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Bashir: The only choice left in Sudan elections (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Israel: The Troublesome Legal Saga of Ehud Olmert (Time.com)

AP EXCLUSIVE: Future pope stalled pedophile case (AP) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:48 PM PDT AP - The future Pope Benedict XVI resisted pleas to defrock a California priest with a record of sexually molesting children, citing concerns including "the good of the universal church," according to a 1985 letter bearing his signature.

Russia furious over adopted boy sent back from US (AP) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:36 PM PDT AP - Russia threatened to suspend all child adoptions by U.S. families Friday after a 7-year-old boy adopted by a woman from Tennessee was sent alone on a one-way flight back to Moscow with a note saying he was violent and had severe psychological problems.

Rio flood death toll hits 205, expected to rise (AP) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:16 PM PDT AP - The death toll from landslides and floods in and around Rio de Janeiro this week reached 205 on Friday and was expected to rise as searchers continued looking for bodies in an operation expected to last through the weekend, authorities said.

Canadian PM says police to investigate minister (AP) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:10 PM PDT AP - Canada's prime minister has asked the national police force to investigate what he called "serious allegations" against one of his cabinet ministers.

Kyrgyz victims mourned, US base fate on hold (AP) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 02:48 PM PDT AP - As a crowd of thousands mourned the Kyrgyz protesters shot dead by police, many expressed hope Friday that the bloody revolt would bring a better government to the impoverished Central Asian nation. Some said they were counting on Russia's help.

Japan's Change Agent (Time.com) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:20 PM PDT Time.com - Can Hatoyama Be Japan's Change Agent -- At Home and Abroad?

EU leaders back Greece, markets bet on bailout (AFP) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:06 PM PDT AFP - European Union leaders backed Greece Friday as Brussels agreed to levy lower than market interest rates if Athens is forced by its debt crisis to seek emergency EU-IMF action to prevent default.

South Sudan votes for first time in a generation (AP) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 01:12 PM PDT AP - The election posters and slogan-filled T-shirts blanketing this town underscore a new excitement in southern Sudan, which will cast ballots in a national election for the first time in more than two decades, when a three-day vote begins Sunday.

Uruguayan ex-priest avoids justice on rape charges (AP) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:16 PM PDT AP - A Catholic priest who fled home to Uruguay and was defrocked after a nun accused him of raping three children in Bolivia has been living with his family for more than a year — with the full knowledge of Uruguayan church officials — despite an Interpol warrant for his arrest.

US maintains call for free expression in Egypt (AFP) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:54 PM PDT AFP - The United States reiterated its call Friday for freedom of expression in Egypt following the arrests of reformists, ignoring calls from Cairo denouncing such statements as interfering in its internal affairs.

Security clampdown in protest-hit Bangkok (AFP) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 01:54 PM PDT AFP - Thailand's security forces maintained a heavy presence in Bangkok Saturday as mass anti-government protests approach the one-month mark with no end in sight to the turmoil.

Canadian PM forces out minister, calls in police (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 11:47 AM PDT Reuters - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper forced junior minister Helena Guergis out of his government on Friday and called in the police to investigate what he said were serious allegations against her.

Crews begin moving oil from ship stuck on reef (AP) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 05:20 AM PDT AP - Salvage crews at a damaged coal carrier stuck on Australia's Great Barrier Reef began pumping fuel oil Friday from the stricken vessel onto another barge to carry it away and prevent it from leaking onto the delicate reef.

Securing nuclear materials is Obama summit goal (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:20 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Early on Nov. 8, 2007, armed men penetrated a 10,000-volt security fence, disabled intrusion detectors and scaled a ladder into the emergency control center of the Pelindaba nuclear facility, the repository of highly enriched uranium removed from the six bombs of South Africa's defunct nuclear arsenal.

Bashir: The only choice left in Sudan elections (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 12:25 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - This small city of tree-lined streets is so quiet that you wouldn’t even know that the town is about to take part in the first free Sudan election in 24 years.

Israel: The Troublesome Legal Saga of Ehud Olmert (Time.com) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:20 PM PDT Time.com - The case against the former Israeli Prime Minister remains unresolved even as an investigation of an associate is disclosed

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