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Libyan rebels push west as Gaddafi receives crimes warning (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:36 PM PST

A rebel soldier runs while holding a pistol and a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) in Brega, March 2, 2011. REUTERS/Goran TomasevicReuters - Libyan rebels pushed west on Thursday, extending their grip on a key coast road as Muammar Gaddafi received a warning he would be held to account at The Hague for suspected crimes by his security forces.

Ivorian forces kill 7, post-election toll hits 365 (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 11:26 AM PST

An anti-Gbagbo protester wields a knife near a roadblock and burning tyres in the Abobo area of Abidjan March 3, 2011. Ivorian security forces shot dead seven women protestors on Thursday and the United Nations said at least 365 people had died in violence since disputed elections that have taken the country to the brink of civil war. REUTERS/Luc GnagoReuters - Ivorian security forces shot dead seven women protestors on Thursday and the United Nations said at least 365 people had died in violence since disputed elections that have taken the country to the brink of civil war.

Egypt's PM quits as army seen responding to demands (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 08:16 AM PST

A street vendor selling food passes through a street with closed shops in the Khan al-Khalili area of Cairo February 28, 2011. REUTERS/Peter AndrewsReuters - Egypt's Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq resigned on Thursday and the military asked a former transport minister to form a new government which pro-democracy activists want to be purged of Hosni Mubarak's old guard.

Shi'ites stage protests in Saudi oil province (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:07 PM PST

Protesters hold a banner with the faces of prisoners during a demonstration in the Gulf coast town of Awwamiya March 3, 2011. REUTERS/Zaki GhawasReuters - Saudi Shi'ites staged protests in two towns in Saudi Arabia's oil-producing Eastern Province on Thursday, demanding the release of prisoners they say are being held without trial.

Women flee Sudan's contested Abyei, shots heard: U.N (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 02:37 PM PST

Reuters - More than 300 women and children fled Sudan's contested Abyei area Thursday, the United Nations said, after three days of fighting that left dozens dead.

Oman: Greetings from the Mideast's Relaxed Revolution (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:05 PM PST

Time.com - Blood has been shed and deaths recorded but turmoil still seems far away in the land of Sultan Qaboos, a despot no one seems to dislike too much

All eyes on catwalks with respite in Galliano saga (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:21 PM PST

A model presents a creation by French fashion house Balmain as part of its Fall-Winter ready-to-wear 2012 collection in Paris, Thursday March 3, 2011.(AP Photo/Francois Mori)AP - The City of Light shone especially bright on Thursday, with high-voltage, sequin and mirrorwork covered collections at Balmain and Manish Arora.

Growing refugee crisis at Tunisian border town (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:58 PM PST

Men who used to work in Libya but recently fled the unrest, are seen inside a bus in order to be taken further inland, at the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Thursday, March. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)AP - Bangladeshis washed themselves with bottles of drinking water and Egyptians fought over bread handed out by aid workers Thursday as thousands fleeing chaos in Libya took refuge in this border town that didn't have enough toilets, beds or food to meet the needs of a growing humanitarian crisis.

8 Mexican troops arrested for transporting cocaine (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:56 PM PST

A state police officer runs during a confrontation with members of a gang in the neighbourhood of Casa Blanca in Xalapa, State of Veracruz, Mexico, in January 2011. US President Barack Obama and his Mexican counterpart Felipe Calderon Thursday vowed to step up the fight against Mexico's violent drug cartels, and resolved a decades-old trucking dispute.(AFP/File/Antonio Palacios)AP - Eight Mexican soldiers have been arrested for transporting nearly a ton of cocaine near the border city of Tijuana.

Obama says Libya stalemate a danger (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:33 PM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Thursday he was concerned a bloody stalemate could develop between Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and rebel forces but gave no sign of a willingness to intervene militarily.

4 NKoreans to resettle in South, 27 to return home (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:37 PM PST

U.S. Army M1A1 tanks of 11th Armor Cavalry Regiment from the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, are loaded onto trains during joint exercises with South Korea, dubbed Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, at Camp Carroll, in Waegwan, South Korea, Thursday, March 3, 2011. South Korean and U.S. troops kicked off their annual drills Monday, while North Korea slammed the maneuvers as a rehearsal for invasion that could trigger a nuclear war on the divided peninsula.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - Four of the 31 North Koreans held after their boat strayed into South Korean waters have asked to stay in the South, officials said, a move likely to draw an angry response from Pyongyang.

Canadians' priority is economy, not election: PM (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:00 PM PST

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Haprer and Minister of Human Resources Diane Finely arrive before Harper announces funding for Reuters - The priority of Canadians is the state of the economy and not having an election, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Thursday, referring to a budget that could trigger the downfall of his government.

NZ rescuers give up search for quake survivors (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:45 AM PST

Grant Smith, 2nd left, is assisted as he walks behind the coffin of his 9-month-old son, Jayden Harris, In Christchurch, New Zealand, Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Jayden who was killed Tuesday Feb. 22, 2011 when a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch causing extensive damage and loss of life. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Mark Mitchell) AUSTRALIA OUT NEW ZEALAND OUTAP - Rescuers officially gave up hope of finding more survivors of New Zealand's devastating earthquake, saying Thursday that no one trapped in rubble when the disaster struck nine days earlier could still be alive.

US-Mexico ties: Tensions simmer beneath Calderón's visit to White House (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 08:31 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Smiles are likely to be all around when Mexican President Felipe Calderón meets with President Obama today at the White House. But simmering beneath the surface, the highest-profile US killing in Mexico in 25 years along with damaging cables released by WikiLeaks have pushed bilateral relations to one of their most tense points in Mr. Obama's presidency.

Friends and Foes: An Activist and a Policeman Debate Egypt's Revolution (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:05 PM PST

Time.com - Two old family friends come at the meaning of Egypt's 18-day uprising from different angles -- anti-regime activist and pro-Mubarak security officer

South Korea hosts war games as debate grows over North's nuclear arsenal (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 07:37 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Brig. Gen. Charles Taylor is sure of one thing as he stands beside the latest US Army reconnaissance vehicle for sniffing out evidence of the chemical, biological, nuclear, or radiological weapons that North Korea has developed since the Korean War.

Cote d'Ivoire: Gbagbo Cuts Power to North (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 09:06 AM PST

OneWorld.net - DAKAR, Mar 2 (IRIN) - In northern Côte d’Ivoire vaccines are going bad, taps are dry and the families of women in labour are ferrying buckets of water to hospital, three days after the government of Laurent Gbagbo ordered power cut in the region.

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