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• Gunman kills two U.S. airmen at Frankfurt airport (Reuters)
• Gaddafi strikes town, rebels call for foreign help (Reuters)
• Afghans, Western backers in contact with Taliban: Karzai (Reuters)
• Witness: In fiery speech, Gaddafi says will not surrender (Reuters)
• Ivory Coast fighting spreads to southern Abidjan (Reuters)
• In Yemen, the Opposition Negotiates But Saleh Hedges (Time.com)
• Man City ease past second-string Villa in FA Cup (AFP)
• Mideast protests at a glance (AP)
• Venezuelan activists condemn union leader sentence (AP)
• Top U.S. officials cautious on Libya no-fly zone (Reuters)
• One of last 2 WWI veterans turns 110 in Australia (AP)
• Fate of federal budget in hands NDP (Reuters)
• Foreigners identified among NZ quake dead (AP)
• Motive unclear in killing of two US airmen at Frankfurt airport (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Fighting The Taliban: Afghan Army Faces Attrition Crisis (Time.com)
• Copy that: Plagiarism charges unseat Germany's 'superstar' Defense minister (The Christian Science Monitor)

Gunman kills two U.S. airmen at Frankfurt airport (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 12:06 PM PST Reuters - German police arrested a man on Wednesday after two U.S. airmen were shot dead and two wounded in an incident on a U.S. Army bus at Frankfurt airport, authorities said.

Gaddafi strikes town, rebels call for foreign help (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 03:43 PM PST Reuters - Libyan rebels repulsed a land and air offensive by Muammar Gaddafi's forces on Wednesday as the defiant leader warned foreign powers of "another Vietnam" if they intervened.

Afghans, Western backers in contact with Taliban: Karzai (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:41 PM PST Reuters - The Afghan government and its Western backers are in contact with Taliban insurgents but it could take one to three years to reach a resolution, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday.

Witness: In fiery speech, Gaddafi says will not surrender (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 10:06 AM PST Reuters - Basking in the adulation of hundreds of adoring supporters, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in a fiery speech Wednesday pledged to crush an escalating uprising against his rule.

Ivory Coast fighting spreads to southern Abidjan (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 01:08 PM PST Reuters - Explosions rocked a southern Abidjan suburb overnight and on Wednesday, as fighting between insurgents seeking to oust Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo and security forces spread to new areas of the main city.

In Yemen, the Opposition Negotiates But Saleh Hedges (Time.com) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 02:10 PM PST Time.com - In a move that is frustrating street protesters, the political opposition opens negotiations with the President that seem to give him broad leeway on deciding when to give up power

Man City ease past second-string Villa in FA Cup (AFP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 05:25 PM PST AFP - Roberto Mancini believes Manchester City are still to see the best from Mario Balotelli, despite seeing his striker go some way to answering his calls with an eye-catching performance in the 3-0 victory over Aston Villa on Wednesday in their FA Cup fifth round clash.

Mideast protests at a glance (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 01:37 PM PST AP - A look at anti-government protests, political unrest and key developments in five Arab countries on Wednesday.

Venezuelan activists condemn union leader sentence (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 02:45 PM PST AP - Leading human rights activists condemned Venezuelan authorities on Wednesday for sentencing a union leader to prison for launching a strike, saying more than 100 other unionists also face charges after participating in protests.

Top U.S. officials cautious on Libya no-fly zone (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 05:43 PM PST Reuters - Senior U.S. officials on Wednesday stressed the diplomatic and military risks of imposing a "no-fly" zone over Libya to help rebels fighting Muammar Gaddafi's forces, saying such a move was not imminent.

One of last 2 WWI veterans turns 110 in Australia (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:57 PM PST AP - One of the last two surviving veterans of World War I is celebrating his 110th birthday.

Fate of federal budget in hands NDP (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 12:05 PM PST Reuters - If the Conservative government wants to hang on to power when it presents its budget on March 22 it will need the support of a small opposition party with which it shares almost no common ground.

Foreigners identified among NZ quake dead (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 03:53 PM PST AP - Two Israeli men have been named as the first foreigners among the dead in New Zealand's devastating earthquake.

Motive unclear in killing of two US airmen at Frankfurt airport (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 03:09 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - German authorities charged a Kosovar man for today's killing of two US airmen at the Frankfurt airport, a major transit point for American forces in Europe.

Fighting The Taliban: Afghan Army Faces Attrition Crisis (Time.com) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 02:10 PM PST Time.com - The Coalition and Kabul may claim burgeoning sign-up rates for the country's critical security forces but the attrition rate, including desertion, is alarming as well

Copy that: Plagiarism charges unseat Germany's 'superstar' Defense minister (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 12:52 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - He was Germany’s favorite politician, a conservative star boosting his party’s standing in the polls, a doer who pushed through a historic reform of the German armed forces.

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