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• Lawlessness on Egypt streets, Mubarak clings on (Reuters)
• Tunis shopkeepers turn against protesters (Reuters)
• Suicide bomber kills Kandahar deputy governor (Reuters)
• Jordanians rally against corruption and poverty (Reuters)
• Belarus releases detainees as EU readies sanctions (Reuters)
• Scandals Shake Germany's Faith in its Military (Time.com)
• Train crash in Germany kills 10, injures 33 (AP)
• Chaos engulfs Cairo as Mubarak points to successor (AP)
• Mexican military finds drugs on commercial plane (AP)
• US: Egypt cannot 'stand pat' on reform (AFP)
• Aussie Open 'final frontier' for Djokovic, Murray (AFP)
• Egypt's crackdown on protesters evokes Iran's heavy hand in 2009 unrest (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Egypt's Turmoil: The Army's OK with the Protesters, for Now (Time.com)
• Egyptian army storms museum to protect from looters (The Christian Science Monitor)

Lawlessness on Egypt streets, Mubarak clings on (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jan 2011 05:45 PM PST Reuters - Looted stores, burned out cars and the stench of blazing tires filled the streets of Cairo early on Sunday as President Hosni Mubarak sought to bargain with angry crowds and security forces struggled to contain looters.

Tunis shopkeepers turn against protesters (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jan 2011 10:04 AM PST Reuters - Desperate to return to work after weeks of protests brought Tunis to a standstill, shopkeepers armed with sticks and knives guarded the entrance to the covered market on Saturday and pushed back a small gang of protesters.

Suicide bomber kills Kandahar deputy governor (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jan 2011 03:23 AM PST Reuters - A motorcycle suicide bomber killed the deputy governor of Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Saturday, a blow to U.S.-led forces trying to bolster governance and fight a robust insurgency in the Taliban's heartland.

Jordanians rally against corruption and poverty (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jan 2011 11:16 AM PST Reuters - Jordanian activists rallied outside government offices Saturday as they tried to step up their campaign to force Prime Minister Samir Rifai to step down.

Belarus releases detainees as EU readies sanctions (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jan 2011 11:54 AM PST Reuters - Belarus on Saturday released seven detainees, including a former candidate for the presidency, who were arrested in December during mass street protests over the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko.

Scandals Shake Germany's Faith in its Military (Time.com) Posted: 29 Jan 2011 01:40 PM PST Time.com - A series of scandals involving Germany's military has prompted aninquiry into leadership structures and training practices. But is theBundeswehr's reputation tarnished beyond repair?

Train crash in Germany kills 10, injures 33 (AP) Posted: 29 Jan 2011 06:10 PM PST AP - A head-on train crash in eastern Germany killed 10 people and injured at least 33 others, eight of them severely, local firefighters said Sunday, and police feared the death toll could rise.

Chaos engulfs Cairo as Mubarak points to successor (AP) Posted: 29 Jan 2011 06:00 PM PST AP - With protests raging, Egypt's president named his intelligence chief as his first-ever vice president on Saturday, setting the stage for a successor as chaos engulfed the capital. Soldiers stood by — a few even joining the demonstrators — and the death toll from five days of anti-government fury rose sharply to 74.

Mexican military finds drugs on commercial plane (AP) Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:43 PM PST AP - Mexican soldiers seized nearly 200 pounds (90 kilograms) of drugs from the cargo area of an Aeromexico commercial plane scheduled to fly to the northern border city of Tijuana, the military said Saturday.

US: Egypt cannot 'stand pat' on reform (AFP) Posted: 29 Jan 2011 05:33 PM PST AFP - The United States said that Egypt's Hosni Mubarak should carry out "real reform" beyond a government reshuffle, as the US president met top aides on the crisis and anti-Mubarak protests spread to US cities.

Aussie Open 'final frontier' for Djokovic, Murray (AFP) Posted: 29 Jan 2011 05:09 PM PST AFP - Andy Murray hopes to end Britain's 75-year Grand Slam drought against Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open on Sunday, the first major final without Rafael Nadal or Roger Federer for three years.

Egypt's crackdown on protesters evokes Iran's heavy hand in 2009 unrest (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 29 Jan 2011 07:12 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Egyptians say their growing protest against the 30-year-rule of President Hosni Mubarak was sparked by the Tunisia uprising that toppled another veteran authoritarian leader two weeks ago.

Egypt's Turmoil: The Army's OK with the Protesters, for Now (Time.com) Posted: 29 Jan 2011 01:40 PM PST Time.com - But the military can't quite do all the work of the despised and now dispersed police force -- and will the Army always refrain from firing on the people?

Egyptian army storms museum to protect from looters (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 08:13 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The Egyptian army secured Cairo's famed antiquities museum early Saturday, protecting thousands of priceless artifacts, including the gold mask of King Tutankhamun, from looters.

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