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• Europe tries to douse debt crisis (AP)
• Belgian bishops nix US sex norms but vow action (AP)
• APNewsBreak: Nuclear agency set to focus on Israel (AP)
• Bosnian Serb war criminal assaulted in UK prison (AP)
• A New Threat to Philippine Elections: Balky Machines (Time.com)
• Westwood leads by one at Players Championship (AFP)
• Gunmen kill 2 peacekeepers in Sudan's south Darfur (AP)
• Correction: Grenada-Beheadings story (AP)
• Former leaders press for 'credible' elections in Nigeria (AFP)
• DOT: New Tokyo routes to Delta, American, Hawaiian (AP)
• Canada posts record jobs gain in April (Reuters)
• Mining firms push against Australian "super tax" (AFP)
• Gulf spill reminds America: The era of 'easy oil' is over (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Horse-trading begins amid messy UK election results (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Election Over, Britain Faces Struggle to Form Government (Time.com)

Europe tries to douse debt crisis (AP) Posted: 07 May 2010 03:57 PM PDT AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel say EU leaders have agreed to a European intervention mechanism to calm markets that have been rattled by the Greek debt crisis.

Belgian bishops nix US sex norms but vow action (AP) Posted: 07 May 2010 02:41 PM PDT AP - Tough U.S. norms about dealing with clerical sex abuse that have been hailed as a model by the Vatican aren't appropriate for Belgium, even as it deals with dozens of new reports of priests molesting children, a leading archbishop said Friday.

APNewsBreak: Nuclear agency set to focus on Israel (AP) Posted: 07 May 2010 02:36 PM PDT AP - Israel's secretive nuclear activities may undergo unprecedented scrutiny next month, with a key meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency tentatively set to focus on the topic for the first time, according to documents shared Friday with The Associated Press.

Bosnian Serb war criminal assaulted in UK prison (AP) Posted: 07 May 2010 02:32 PM PDT AP - A Bosnian Serb war criminal serving time for his role in the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica was assaulted by fellow inmates Friday at a high-security prison in northern England, officials said.

A New Threat to Philippine Elections: Balky Machines (Time.com) Posted: 07 May 2010 03:30 PM PDT Time.com - Days away from the polls, the same machines designed to boost the Philippines' fledgling democracy are threatening to undermine it

Westwood leads by one at Players Championship (AFP) Posted: 07 May 2010 05:01 PM PDT AFP - Lee Westwood couldn't be bothered contesting last year's Players Championship, but he's sure glad he decided to play this time after taking the second-round lead on Friday.

Gunmen kill 2 peacekeepers in Sudan's south Darfur (AP) Posted: 07 May 2010 12:15 PM PDT AP - Gunmen killed two Egyptian peacekeepers and wounded three more in an ambush on their convoy in south Darfur on Friday, the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping mission said.

Correction: Grenada-Beheadings story (AP) Posted: 07 May 2010 01:13 PM PDT AP - In stories sent May 4 and May 6 about a man who walked into a police station with two severed heads, The Associated Press, relying on information from police, erroneously identified him as Steve Gory, 32. Police have since corrected the spelling to Gorrie and said he is 36.

Former leaders press for 'credible' elections in Nigeria (AFP) Posted: 07 May 2010 02:59 PM PDT AFP - Three former Nigerian heads of state urged President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday to "do the right thing" and ensure that credible elections take place next year in Africa's most populous nation.

DOT: New Tokyo routes to Delta, American, Hawaiian (AP) Posted: 07 May 2010 03:58 PM PDT AP - Delta Air Lines, American, and Hawaiian are on track to get four new routes to Tokyo Haneda airport under a preliminary Transportation Department decision on Friday.

Canada posts record jobs gain in April (Reuters) Posted: 07 May 2010 12:03 PM PDT Reuters - A record number of Canadians returned to work in April, stunning markets and adding pressure on the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates in June, ahead of other major industrialized countries.

Mining firms push against Australian "super tax" (AFP) Posted: 07 May 2010 12:03 AM PDT AFP - Major mining firms stepped up their fight against Australia's 40 percent tax on resources profits Friday with a coordinated campaign slamming it as a "real threat" to the country's prosperity.

Gulf spill reminds America: The era of 'easy oil' is over (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 07 May 2010 12:45 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — To meet the world's boundless thirst for oil, drillers are searching in the sand and mud of remote western Canada, the tough shale rock of North Dakota and more than a mile under the seas off the southern U.S. coast, where a drilling accident has sent hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude spewing into the Gulf of Mexico.

Horse-trading begins amid messy UK election results (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 07 May 2010 05:27 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Following a chaotic general election result, political horse-trading aimed at cobbling together Britain’s first coalition government for decades has begun.

Election Over, Britain Faces Struggle to Form Government (Time.com) Posted: 07 May 2010 03:30 PM PDT Time.com - With no party winning an overall majority in the House of Commons, the U.K. election has delivered a hung Parliament. Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown is still in Downing Street, but his Conservative challenger David Cameron is making plans to move in

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