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• Egyptians demand Mubarak quit on "Departure Day" (Reuters)
• Witness: Egypt police keep firm grip in Cairo's slums (Reuters)
• Thai and Cambodian troops in deadly clash near temple (Reuters)
• Northern Mexico cold snap paralyzes Ciudad Juarez (Reuters)
• Jordan Islamists demand speedy political reform (Reuters)
• How a Stalemate on the Streets May Suit Egypt's Regime (Time.com)
• PM says multiculturalism has failed (AFP)
• Iraqi premier says he'll cut his salary by half (AP)
• Cuba seeks 20-year jail term for detained American (AP)
• Mubarak stays put on 'departure day' (AFP)
• Australia faces weather woes with southern storms (AP)
• Obama, Harper eye new security plan to ease trade (Reuters)
• Whales stranded in New Zealand refloat themselves (AP)
• How the Egyptian revolt will recast the Middle East (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Egypt: Police Crack Down on Foreign Journalists in Tahrir Square (Time.com)
• Defying violence, Egyptian protesters find unity – and pride – at peaceful mass rally (The Christian Science Monitor)

Egyptians demand Mubarak quit on "Departure Day" (Reuters) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 03:08 PM PST Reuters - Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians marched peacefully in Cairo on Friday to demand an immediate end to Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule, but there was no sign of the army or the president's U.S. allies forcing him out just yet.

Witness: Egypt police keep firm grip in Cairo's slums (Reuters) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 02:52 PM PST Reuters - Alexander Dziadosz has been a correspondent for Reuters in Egypt since October, 2009. In this piece he describes an encounter with Egyptian police and unidentified armed men, groups of whom control the streets in Cairo's poorer areas even as pro-democracy protesters occupy central areas of the capital.

Thai and Cambodian troops in deadly clash near temple (Reuters) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 05:01 PM PST Reuters - Thai and Cambodian soldiers exchanged fire in a two-hour border clash on Friday that killed two Cambodian soldiers and a Thai villager, the latest in an ancient feud over land surrounding a 900-year-old Hindu temple.

Northern Mexico cold snap paralyzes Ciudad Juarez (Reuters) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 04:37 PM PST Reuters - Freezing weather and snow paralyzed the border city of Ciudad Juarez on Friday, knocking out electricity and water in thousands of homes and closing roads and factories.

Jordan Islamists demand speedy political reform (Reuters) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 10:32 AM PST Reuters - Hundreds of Jordanians, inspired by demonstrations in Egypt, protested Friday against King Abdullah's government reshuffle saying it did not meet their calls for political reform.

How a Stalemate on the Streets May Suit Egypt's Regime (Time.com) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 03:25 PM PST Time.com - Massive demonstrations mark the "Day of Departure," but Mubarak remains in office. Could the regime hope to prevail through attrition?

PM says multiculturalism has failed (AFP) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 04:42 PM PST AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron will condemn Britain's long-standing policy of multiculturalism as a failure Saturday as he sets out his vision for how to combat home-grown Islamist extremism.

Iraqi premier says he'll cut his salary by half (AP) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 04:19 PM PST AP - Iraq's prime minister said Friday he'll return half of his annual salary to the public treasury in a symbolic gesture that appeared calculated to insulate himself from the anti-government unrest spreading across the Middle East.

Cuba seeks 20-year jail term for detained American (AP) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 04:20 PM PST AP - Prosecutors are charging a jailed American contractor with "acts against the integrity and independence" of Cuba and requesting a 20-year jail term, state news media reported Friday, dimming hopes the 60-year-old Maryland native would be allowed to go home soon.

Mubarak stays put on 'departure day' (AFP) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 04:51 PM PST AFP - The Egyptian opposition's "day of departure" for Hosni Mubarak ended at midnight Friday with the embattled president refusing to transfer power amid a rising tide of international calls for him to stand down.

Australia faces weather woes with southern storms (AP) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 05:05 PM PST AP - The tail end of one of Australia's largest-ever cyclones was felt at the other end of the country Saturday, as wild storms lashed Melbourne with destructive winds and flash flooding.

Obama, Harper eye new security plan to ease trade (Reuters) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 03:31 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper agreed on Friday to a new approach to U.S. and Canadian security that they said would help boost trade by reducing logjams at the border.

Whales stranded in New Zealand refloat themselves (AP) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 04:15 PM PST AP - Sixty-six survivors of a pod of 80 pilot whales that beached in New Zealand freed themselves and swam back to sea during a high tide, rescuers said on Saturday.

How the Egyptian revolt will recast the Middle East (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 12:50 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Iman Mosharafa points at the loose curls spilling over her red sweater. The gesture emphasizes that she isn't wearing an Islamic head scarf. "Look, I'm not from the Muslim Brotherhood," she says in an interview in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

Egypt: Police Crack Down on Foreign Journalists in Tahrir Square (Time.com) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 03:25 PM PST Time.com - The regime has pressed the antiforeigner propaganda so hard that it has become a virtual witch hunt on the streets of the capital -- as a TIME reporter discovered

Defying violence, Egyptian protesters find unity – and pride – at peaceful mass rally (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 04 Feb 2011 11:31 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - For the second Friday in a row, tens of thousands of Egyptian protesters calling for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak and the establishment of democracy here gathered in Tahrir Square in a largely peaceful and joyous scene.

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