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• Anger on streets as Egypt protests enter third day (Reuters)
• Tunisia seeks arrest of ousted president, family (Reuters)
• Colombia coal mine blast kills 20, regulator says (Reuters)
• Karzai opens Afghan parliament, taunts West (Reuters)
• Haiti ruling party pulls candidate from election (Reuters)
• Egypt's Protests Turn Ugly as the Regime Changes Tactics (Time.com)
• Davos expert says hiding less information is best (AP)
• Egypt's protests enter 2nd day, ominous for regime (AP)
• Venezuela, Colombia to boost anti-drug cooperation (AP)
• U.S. shifts tone, bluntly urges Mubarak to reform now (Reuters)
• Boston judge jails Chinese for export violations (AP)
• Australia warns of bomb attacks at Addis AU summit (Reuters)
• Egypt protesters brave crackdown to clash with police for second straight day (The Christian Science Monitor)
• BSkyB Bid Puts Murdoch Back in Political Spotlight (Time.com)
• The war over Ivory Coast's cocoa heats up (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Egypt: Mubarak Faces Historic Challenge (OneWorld.net)

Anger on streets as Egypt protests enter third day (Reuters) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 05:04 PM PST Reuters - Activists trying to oust Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak played cat-and-mouse with police on the streets into the early hours of Thursday, as unprecedented protests against his 30-year rule entered a third day.

Tunisia seeks arrest of ousted president, family (Reuters) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 01:42 PM PST Reuters - Tunisia has asked Interpol to help find and arrest ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and promised a reshuffle which is likely to remove some of his loyalists in an effort to end persistent protests.

Colombia coal mine blast kills 20, regulator says (Reuters) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 02:51 PM PST Reuters - An explosion at a small underground coal mine in northeast Colombia killed 20 workers on Wednesday, officials said, in the latest accident to hit Latin America's mining industry.

Karzai opens Afghan parliament, taunts West (Reuters) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:53 PM PST Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai inaugurated parliament on Wednesday, ending weeks of political infighting, but took a dig at the West saying "foreign interference" had been a serious problem.

Haiti ruling party pulls candidate from election (Reuters) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 03:40 PM PST Reuters - Haiti's ruling party, under intense international pressure, said on Wednesday it had agreed to pull its presidential candidate out of disputed elections, but the candidate himself had not yet formally withdrawn.

Egypt's Protests Turn Ugly as the Regime Changes Tactics (Time.com) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST Time.com - Meanwhile, the leaders of the largest opposition group seem to be waiting on the sidelines -- perhaps because they do not believe the demonstrations will succeed

Davos expert says hiding less information is best (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:13 PM PST AP - What are the lessons of WikiLeaks? The secret-spilling site has been the subject of debate at the World Economic Forum, and one respected historian on Wednesday urged businesses and governments to think hard about what information really needs to be protected, and then protect it better.

Egypt's protests enter 2nd day, ominous for regime (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:36 PM PST AP - Thousands of Egyptians vented their rage against President Hosni Mubarak's autocratic government in a second day of protests Wednesday that defied a ban on public gatherings. Baton-wielding police responded with tear gas and beatings in a crackdown that showed zero tolerance for dissent.

Venezuela, Colombia to boost anti-drug cooperation (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 02:05 PM PST AP - Venezuela's top security official and Colombia's defense minister signed an accord Wednesday to strengthen cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking along the extensive border separating the South American neighbors.

U.S. shifts tone, bluntly urges Mubarak to reform now (Reuters) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 03:25 PM PST Reuters - The United States bluntly urged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday to make political reforms in the face of protesters demanding his ouster, in a shift in tone toward an important Arab ally.

Boston judge jails Chinese for export violations (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:07 PM PST AP - A Chinese business executive has been sentenced in Massachusetts to more than eight years in federal prison for conspiring to export sensitive military products to military agencies in China.

Australia warns of bomb attacks at Addis AU summit (Reuters) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:46 AM PST Reuters - The Australian foreign ministry has warned that extremists are planning bomb attacks on Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa during an African Union summit there starting this week.

Egypt protesters brave crackdown to clash with police for second straight day (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 01:13 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Egyptians defied the Interior Ministry’s ban on protests Wednesday, with hundreds congregating in central Cairo in the afternoon, once again shouting “Down with Mubarak!”

BSkyB Bid Puts Murdoch Back in Political Spotlight (Time.com) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST Time.com - The media tycoon's controversial bid for TV station BSkyB has put the spotlight on his powerful hold over British politics

The war over Ivory Coast's cocoa heats up (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 12:50 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Some day or another, the tug-of-war for control of Ivory Coast had to come down to chocolate, or more specifically, cocoa: the cash crop that bankrolled forty years of economic boom, mass immigration, and eventually war across this tropical garden, West Africa’s lushest agricultural zone.

Egypt: Mubarak Faces Historic Challenge (OneWorld.net) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 06:34 AM PST OneWorld.net - CAIRO, Jan 26 (IPS) - Egyptians have demonstrated in protests rare in size and ferocity against the three-decade rule of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

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