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• Oman army tries to disperse protests, wounds one (Reuters)
• Iran forces fire teargas at protesters: pro-reform websites (Reuters)
• "Day of Rage" shakes Yemen, Saleh sacks governors (Reuters)
• Desperate refugees surge over Libya-Tunisia border (Reuters)
• China's Most Secret Weapon: The Messenger Pigeon (Time.com)
• PPL to acquire E.ON's UK power networks for $6.4B (AP)
• Yemeni president says US and Israel behind unrest (AP)
• 6 dead in attack on helicopter cash in Colombia (AP)
• U.S. presses Gaddafi to quit, flexes military muscle (Reuters)
• S. Korean shipbuilder wins $1 bln Norway order (AFP)
• Canada freezes C$2.3 billion in Gaddafi assets (Reuters)
• In Russia, accusations of corruption taint even Olympics mascot selection (The Christian Science Monitor)
• In Egypt, Democracy Makes Islamism Less Threatening (Time.com)
• In Oman, protests spur timid media to cover the news (The Christian Science Monitor)

Oman army tries to disperse protests, wounds one (Reuters) Posted: 01 Mar 2011 08:33 AM PST Reuters - Omani troops fired into the air near a port on Tuesday to clear a fourth day of protests by people demanding jobs and political reforms, wounding one person in the town of Sohar, witnesses said.

Iran forces fire teargas at protesters: pro-reform websites (Reuters) Posted: 01 Mar 2011 09:45 AM PST Reuters - Iranian security forces fired teargas and clashed with anti-government protesters demonstrating against the treatment of opposition leaders, pro-reform websites reported on Tuesday.

"Day of Rage" shakes Yemen, Saleh sacks governors (Reuters) Posted: 01 Mar 2011 12:59 PM PST Reuters - Tens of thousands of protesters flooded Yemen's streets on Tuesday in a "Day of Rage," demanding an end to the president's three-decade rule.

Desperate refugees surge over Libya-Tunisia border (Reuters) Posted: 01 Mar 2011 11:10 AM PST Reuters - Soldiers fired into the air in an effort to subdue a wave of Egyptian laborers desperate to escape Libya on Tuesday, as the refugee crisis created by the rebellion against Muammar Gaddafi escalated.

China's Most Secret Weapon: The Messenger Pigeon (Time.com) Posted: 01 Mar 2011 04:10 PM PST Time.com - Though the world's attention has recently been focused on the unveiling of China's first ever stealth fighter jet, the Chinese militaryhas been busy investing in another type of furtive flyer -- the humble messenger pigeon

PPL to acquire E.ON's UK power networks for $6.4B (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2011 05:27 PM PST AP - Moving to accelerate its growth in electricity operations, PPL Corp. says it will buy the Central Networks electrical networks distribution business of E.On AG in the United Kingdom in a deal worth $6.4 billion.

Yemeni president says US and Israel behind unrest (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:36 PM PST AP - Yemen's embattled president on Tuesday accused the U.S., his closest ally, of instigating the mounting protests against him, but the gambit failed to slow the momentum for his ouster.

6 dead in attack on helicopter cash in Colombia (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:41 PM PST AP - More than a dozen attackers firing assault rifles killed four police officers and two other people Tuesday in robbing a cash shipment that had just arrived by helicopter, officials said.

U.S. presses Gaddafi to quit, flexes military muscle (Reuters) Posted: 01 Mar 2011 04:44 PM PST Reuters - Flexing its military muscle, the United States sent warships toward Libya on Tuesday as it sought to keep pressure on Muammar Gaddafi to relinquish his four-decade grip on power.

S. Korean shipbuilder wins $1 bln Norway order (AFP) Posted: 01 Mar 2011 05:55 PM PST AFP - South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering said Wednesday it has won a 1.2 trillion won ($1.06 billion) order to build two drill ships for Norway's Aker Drilling.

Canada freezes C$2.3 billion in Gaddafi assets (Reuters) Posted: 01 Mar 2011 12:24 PM PST Reuters - Canada has frozen C$2.3 billion ($2.4 billion) worth of assets belonging to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, a government official told Reuters on Tuesday.

In Russia, accusations of corruption taint even Olympics mascot selection (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 01 Mar 2011 01:18 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The biggest controversy gripping Russia today isn't explicitly political, but something Russians appear to get more passionate about â€" the choice of a mascot for the upcoming 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

In Egypt, Democracy Makes Islamism Less Threatening (Time.com) Posted: 01 Mar 2011 04:10 PM PST Time.com - Hosni Mubarak styled himself as Egypt's only hope of resisting Islamic peril, but on the streets of Cairo, Egyptians neither fear the Islamists nor follow them slavishly

In Oman, protests spur timid media to cover the news (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 01 Mar 2011 12:26 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The fact that Oman's first civil unrest in 40 years left at least one person dead in a northern port city here was big news. But it was even bigger news that the English-language Muscat Daily declared “Black Sunday in Sohar” on its front page and carried a half-page photograph showing smoke filling the sky above a roundabout seized by protesters.

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