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• Egypt's Mubarak sends in army, resists demands to quit (Reuters)
• Police destroy protest camp at Tunisian PM's office (Reuters)
• WikiLeaks founder says enjoys making banks squirm (Reuters)
• Nigerian electoral candidate shot in northeast city (Reuters)
• Jordanian protesters demand political reforms (Reuters)
• Egypt: Mubarak's Defiance Makes Life Harder for Obama (Time.com)
• Irish to learn national election date next week (AP)
• Amid massive protests, Egypt leader fires Cabinet (AP)
• US missionary killed in Mexico drug no-man's land (AP)
• African Union in new move to end Ivory Coast crisis (Reuters)
• PayPal to restrict payments to India merchants (AP)
• Golds, oil shield TSX from Egypt-related selloff (Reuters)
• Australian doctor's surgery viewings cause stir (AFP)
• Why Palestine papers didn't spark outrage against Abbas's government (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Supermarket Attack: A Dangerous Turn in Kabul (Time.com)
• Facing sanction, Tour de France's Contador 'no longer believes' in doping system (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Darfur Returning 'To Past Patterns of Violence' (OneWorld.net)

Egypt's Mubarak sends in army, resists demands to quit (Reuters) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 06:09 PM PST Reuters - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refused on Saturday to bow to demands that he resign after ordering troops and tanks into cities in an attempt to quell an explosion of street protests against his 30-year rule.

Police destroy protest camp at Tunisian PM's office (Reuters) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 12:43 PM PST Reuters - Tunisian riot police broke up a protest camp in the capital on Friday, hoping to end days of demonstrations against a government that has undergone a major overhaul to meet some of the crowds' demands.

WikiLeaks founder says enjoys making banks squirm (Reuters) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 04:11 PM PST Reuters - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he enjoys making banks squirm thinking they might be the next targets of his website which has published U.S. diplomatic and military secrets.

Nigerian electoral candidate shot in northeast city (Reuters) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 06:16 PM PST Reuters - Gunmen thought to be from a radical Islamist sect shot dead a leading candidate for governor of Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno and six others on Friday, raising fears of more violence ahead of April polls.

Jordanian protesters demand political reforms (Reuters) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 08:03 AM PST Reuters - Islamists, leftists and trade unionists gathered in central Amman Friday for the latest protest to demand political change and wider freedoms.

Egypt: Mubarak's Defiance Makes Life Harder for Obama (Time.com) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 04:50 PM PST Time.com - The U.S. sees its interests in the region best preserved by encouraging reform and a gentler regime in Egypt, but its long-term client strongman may have other ideas

Irish to learn national election date next week (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 06:13 PM PST AP - Ireland's embattled prime minister said Friday he would dissolve Parliament Tuesday and announce a new date for early elections, as the upper house began debate on legislation to slash spending and raise taxes expected to be its last major act under his government.

Amid massive protests, Egypt leader fires Cabinet (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 05:36 PM PST AP - Facing a popular uprising, Egypt's president fired his Cabinet early Saturday after protesters engulfed his country in chaos — battling police with stones and firebombs, burning down the ruling party headquarters and defying a night curfew enforced by the army.

US missionary killed in Mexico drug no-man's land (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 05:19 PM PST AP - American missionaries Sam and Nancy Davis were crossing a drug-cartel battleground in northern Mexico when gunmen opened fire on their truck and mortally wounded Nancy.

African Union in new move to end Ivory Coast crisis (Reuters) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 06:19 PM PST Reuters - The African Union said on Friday it would form a panel of heads of state to solve the leadership crisis in Ivory Coast which would come up with a legally binding settlement within one month.

PayPal to restrict payments to India merchants (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 05:41 PM PST AP - PayPal is making more changes to its online payment service in India, saying it will begin restricting the size of payments to merchants in India because of new rules from the Reserve Bank of India.

Golds, oil shield TSX from Egypt-related selloff (Reuters) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 02:46 PM PST Reuters - Rising energy and materials shares, spurred by surging oil and gold prices, kept Toronto's main stock index in positive territory on Friday, fending off a selloff in other areas in the wake of unrest in Egypt.

Australian doctor's surgery viewings cause stir (AFP) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 11:52 PM PST AFP - A top Australian medical body warned a renowned brain surgeon on Friday he risked turning his work into a "spectator sport" by offering people a chance to watch him operate to raise money for charity.

Why Palestine papers didn't spark outrage against Abbas's government (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 01:41 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - With the winds of anti-government sentiment spreading across the Middle East, Al Jazeera's leak of the Palestine papers this week threatened to undermine the increasingly weak Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas.

Supermarket Attack: A Dangerous Turn in Kabul (Time.com) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 04:50 PM PST Time.com - The suicide assault on an upscale grocery patronized by foreign residents in the capital may be the beginning of a violent new phase in the war in Afghanistan

Facing sanction, Tour de France's Contador 'no longer believes' in doping system (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 01:18 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador, in his first reaction to a proposed one-year suspension for alleged doping, strongly defended his innocence in an emotional press conference today.

Darfur Returning 'To Past Patterns of Violence' (OneWorld.net) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 02:38 PM PST OneWorld.net - NAIROBI, Jan 28 (IRIN) - Fighting between government and rebel groups in North and South Darfur in western Sudan has displaced tens of thousands of people and hindered access by humanitarian workers to some affected areas, sources said.

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