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• Heavy casualties reported in Libya fighting (Reuters)
• Syrian opposition forms council to counter Assad (Reuters)
• Tunisian police fire in air to disperse rioters (Reuters)
• Israeli police clash with ultra-Orthodox protesters (Reuters)
• Afghan army soldier kills NATO service member (Reuters)
• As Ivory Coast Recovers, One Region is Stuck in a Cycle of Hate (Time.com)
• Oldest son of Austria's last emperor buried (AP)
• Late night explosions rock Tripoli (AP)
• Manager: Cancun mayor freed by judge, re-arrested (AP)
• Libya rebels continue offensive, Kadhafi defiant (AFP)
• Obama welcomes Dalai Lama to China's anger (AFP)
• Australia economy strong despite jitters: treasurer (AFP)
• Rupert Murdoch: His empire under attack, a media potentate stumbles (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Colombia's Guerrillas: The Rebellion That Would Not Die (Time.com)
• Germany's trouble with abandoning nuclear power (The Christian Science Monitor)

Heavy casualties reported in Libya fighting (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jul 2011 04:34 PM PDT Reuters - Ten Libyan rebels were reported killed and 172 wounded in an attack on the eastern oil port of Brega on Saturday, while insurgents drove back forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi in the west.

Syrian opposition forms council to counter Assad (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jul 2011 04:54 PM PDT Reuters - Syria's fractured opposition elected a National Salvation Council to present a united challenge to President Bashar al-Assad's rule as he intensified a military campaign to crush an uprising against his rule.

Tunisian police fire in air to disperse rioters (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jul 2011 05:10 PM PDT Reuters - Tunisian police fired in the air and used teargas early on Sunday to disperse a crowd of about 200 people who had set fire to a police station in a suburb of the capital.

Israeli police clash with ultra-Orthodox protesters (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jul 2011 10:28 AM PDT Reuters - Israeli police on horseback Saturday clashed with hundreds of ultra-Orthodox protesters hurling stones and garbage bins as part of a campaign to stop a public parking lot from opening on the Jewish sabbath.

Afghan army soldier kills NATO service member (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jul 2011 06:22 AM PDT Reuters - An Afghan army soldier killed at least one foreign soldier in southern Helmand province on Saturday, a senior police source said, underlining persistent insecurity as NATO prepares to hand over to Afghan troops.

As Ivory Coast Recovers, One Region is Stuck in a Cycle of Hate (Time.com) Posted: 15 Jul 2011 11:10 PM PDT Time.com - After months of fighting, things are returning to normal in most of Ivory Coast. But in the west of the country, the violence has reignited brutal ethnic rivalries and sparked a thirst for revenge

Oldest son of Austria's last emperor buried (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2011 05:12 PM PDT AP - Lederhosen-clad Tyrollean guardsmen hoisted the coffin of Otto Von Habsburg onto their shoulders, carrying the oldest son of Austria's last emperor to rest in a pomp-filled ceremony evocative of the country's past grandeur as a ruler of much of Europe.

Late night explosions rock Tripoli (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2011 04:56 PM PDT AP - Tripoli was rocked by a series of airstrikes by NATO forces in the early hours of the morning Sunday.

Manager: Cancun mayor freed by judge, re-arrested (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2011 04:50 PM PDT AP - The former campaign manager of a Cancun mayor arrested on drug charges says a judge has freed the politician on those charges but federal prosecutors have detained him again.

Libya rebels continue offensive, Kadhafi defiant (AFP) Posted: 16 Jul 2011 05:33 PM PDT AFP - Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi has said he would never leave the land of his ancestors after fresh international calls for him to go and as rebels pressed their campaign to overthrow him.

Obama welcomes Dalai Lama to China's anger (AFP) Posted: 16 Jul 2011 04:19 PM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama on Saturday defied warnings from China and welcomed the Dalai Lama to the White House, urging respect for human rights and cultural traditions in Tibet.

Australia economy strong despite jitters: treasurer (AFP) Posted: 16 Jul 2011 12:43 AM PDT AFP - Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan insisted the country's economy was strong Saturday following a slump in consumer confidence and retail spending which left some analysts predicting an interest rate cut.

Rupert Murdoch: His empire under attack, a media potentate stumbles (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 15 Jul 2011 01:54 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The New York Times was once described in worldly terms as "the kingdom and the power." But in recent decades the title applies more to the global empire of Rupert Murdoch, whose massive media octopus of $60 billion in assets spans Australia, China, Latin America, India, the United States, and Europe.

Colombia's Guerrillas: The Rebellion That Would Not Die (Time.com) Posted: 15 Jul 2011 11:10 PM PDT Time.com - FARC has suffered dramatic losses in the past few years but it has not gone away. In fact, it has just staged a six-point attack over the weekend and may have discovered new tactics to use against the government

Germany's trouble with abandoning nuclear power (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 15 Jul 2011 01:26 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Before Germany decided to shutter its 17 nuclear power plants by 2022, few had ever heard of Hotzenwald, a nature preserve at the southern tip of the Black Forest, in the prosperous state of Baden-Württemberg. Now, as the government retreats from nuclear energy in favor of renewables, many will watch this bucolic spot as the testing ground for Germany's ambitious green future.

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