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• Syrian tanks shell towns with at least 19 killed (Reuters)
• Yemen forces fire on protests in 3 cities; 9 dead (Reuters)
• More pressure on Pakistani military over bin Laden (Reuters)
• Earthquake rocks Spanish town killing 10 people (Reuters)
• Clashes in Greece as EU and IMF start key visit (Reuters)
• In Search of Energy, A Booming Chile Chooses to Dam Its Rivers (Time.com)
• Libyan rebel chief in London to discuss new office: govt (AFP)
• Rebels: Gadhafi forces pushed back from Misrata (AP)
• Honduran police kill 6 suspected drug traffickers (AP)
• Libyan TV shows footage of long-absent Gaddafi (Reuters)
• No 'meaningful change' in Myanmar: Suu Kyi (AFP)
• Flaherty urges governments to tackle fiscal woes (Reuters)
• US missile test deal offers hope to Marshalls slum (AFP)
• Venezuela-Colombia ties remain strong despite Chávez's reported links to FARC (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Have Foreigners Unwittingly Adopted Victims of Baby-Selling in China? (Time.com)
• Skype's journey from tiny Estonian start-up to $8.5 billion Microsoft buy (The Christian Science Monitor)

Syrian tanks shell towns with at least 19 killed (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2011 02:57 PM PDT Reuters - Syrian tanks shelled residential districts in two towns on Wednesday and at least 19 people were killed across the country, rights campaigners said, as President Bashar al-Assad's forces fought to crush a seven-week uprising.

Yemen forces fire on protests in 3 cities; 9 dead (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2011 12:38 PM PDT Reuters - Yemeni forces opened fire on demonstrators in three cities on Wednesday, killing at least nine and wounding scores in escalating bloodshed that could ramp up public fury at the president's refusal to step down.

More pressure on Pakistani military over bin Laden (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2011 03:52 PM PDT Reuters - Pakistan's opposition leader accused the powerful spy agency of negligence and incompetence on Wednesday as the country's former president said rogue members of the security establishment may have helped Osama bin Laden hide for years near Islamabad.

Earthquake rocks Spanish town killing 10 people (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2011 04:04 PM PDT Reuters - A rare earthquake rocked the ancient town of Lorca in southeastern Spain on Wednesday causing homes to collapse, damaging historic churches and killing at least 10 people.

Clashes in Greece as EU and IMF start key visit (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2011 03:08 PM PDT Reuters - A group of 150 hooded demonstrators attacked three policemen in an Athens hospital after a protester was seriously injured in an anti-austerity march on the first day of a visit by EU and IMF inspectors.

In Search of Energy, A Booming Chile Chooses to Dam Its Rivers (Time.com) Posted: 11 May 2011 01:30 PM PDT Time.com - Despite widespread opposition, fast-growing Chile is embarking on a decades-long infrastructure project that threatens ecological destruction in an effort to feed its hungry economy

Libyan rebel chief in London to discuss new office: govt (AFP) Posted: 11 May 2011 04:28 PM PDT AFP - The head of Libya's rebel council will meet Thursday with Prime Minister David Cameron to discuss the possibility of setting up a London office, the government confirmed.

Rebels: Gadhafi forces pushed back from Misrata (AP) Posted: 11 May 2011 04:40 PM PDT AP - Pressing to break a two-month siege, rebels in the port city of Misrata said Wednesday they had captured the local airport and pushed Moammar Gadhafi's forces ever further from the city's western outskirts.

Honduran police kill 6 suspected drug traffickers (AP) Posted: 11 May 2011 04:26 PM PDT AP - Police says six alleged drug traffickers were killed and two police officers and a teenager injured in a three-hour gunbattle in a rural province in eastern Honduras.

Libyan TV shows footage of long-absent Gaddafi (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2011 03:58 PM PDT Reuters - Libyan state TV showed footage of an apparently healthy Muammar Gaddafi meeting officials in a Tripoli hotel Wednesday, ending nearly two weeks of doubt over his fate since a NATO air strike killed his son.

No 'meaningful change' in Myanmar: Suu Kyi (AFP) Posted: 11 May 2011 03:32 PM PDT AFP - No "meaningful change" has taken place since Myanmar's first elections in 20 years in November, recently released opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said in comments due to be broadcast this week.

Flaherty urges governments to tackle fiscal woes (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2011 11:30 AM PDT Reuters - Canada's finance minister warned on Wednesday that countries need to get their fiscal houses in order, saying that markets would act if politicians failed to do so.

US missile test deal offers hope to Marshalls slum (AFP) Posted: 10 May 2011 10:26 PM PDT AFP - The United States has struck a deal with the Marshall Islands to continue using the key missile testing range at Kwajalein Atoll through to 2066, officials said on Wednesday.

Venezuela-Colombia ties remain strong despite Chávez's reported links to FARC (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 11 May 2011 02:31 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Hugo Chávez for years has offered the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) financial support and sanctuary inside Venezuela, motivated by the belief that Colombia, and its ally the United States, would be less of a threat if it were mired in a rebel conflict.

Have Foreigners Unwittingly Adopted Victims of Baby-Selling in China? (Time.com) Posted: 11 May 2011 01:30 PM PDT Time.com - An investigation by a respected Chinese magazine has uncovered evidence of Chinese family-planning officials taking children from local couples who had violated the country's one-child policy and selling them to orphanages

Skype's journey from tiny Estonian start-up to $8.5 billion Microsoft buy (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 11 May 2011 11:56 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - It was in a grim Soviet-era complex on the outskirts of Tallinn, Estonia, that a quiet high-tech revolution bubbled. In the research park where the USSR secretly assembled its first computer and designed its first space mission, a group of young Estonian computer buffs launched Skype and ushered in a communications revolution.

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