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• Libyan forces attack western town, rebel push in east (Reuters)
• New Egypt PM shows popular touch in Tahrir Square (Reuters)
• Ivory Coast pays government workers as AU mediators stall (Reuters)
• U.S. aid contractor Gross goes on trial in Cuba (Reuters)
• U.S. and Sweden to push U.N. rights body to act on Iran (Reuters)
• Ivory Coast: Massacre as Army Mows Down Women Protestors (Time.com)
• UK central banker warns of second financial crisis (AP)
• Hundreds march on State Security building in Egypt (AP)
• Arrest of top Bolivian drug cop riles president (AP)
• Rebels 'hold' key refinery town as many killed (AFP)
• Wen acknowledges China discontent over prices, other issues (AFP)
• Saskatchewan surplus shrinks as health costs rise (Reuters)
• No one killed by quake in New Zealand cathedral (AP)
• Egypt's new PM cheered in Tahrir Square (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Libya: Gaddafi Hometown May Be Key to His Destiny (Time.com)
• Libya preventing refugees from leaving as fighting escalates (The Christian Science Monitor)

Libyan forces attack western town, rebel push in east (Reuters) Posted: 04 Mar 2011 04:17 PM PST Reuters - Muammar Gaddafi's forces captured part of a town in western Libya on Friday, but rebels said they had taken the coastal oil town of Ras Lanuf, extending the territory they control in the east of the country.

New Egypt PM shows popular touch in Tahrir Square (Reuters) Posted: 04 Mar 2011 04:19 PM PST Reuters - Egypt's new prime minister told thousands of demonstrators in Tahrir Square on Friday he was committed to the goals of their revolution and promised to take to the streets in protest if he could not deliver.

Ivory Coast pays government workers as AU mediators stall (Reuters) Posted: 04 Mar 2011 02:59 PM PST Reuters - Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo has paid over 60 percent of civil servant salaries, his government said Friday, suggesting Western sanctions meant to starve him of funds and force him to leave have not had full effect.

U.S. aid contractor Gross goes on trial in Cuba (Reuters) Posted: 04 Mar 2011 04:12 PM PST Reuters - An American aid contractor who worked in a U.S. program aimed at undermining Cuba's communist government went on trial on Friday, accused of crimes against the state, but no verdict was reached and testimony will continue on Saturday, trial observers said.

U.S. and Sweden to push U.N. rights body to act on Iran (Reuters) Posted: 04 Mar 2011 02:37 PM PST Reuters - The United States will strongly support a Swedish effort to have the U.N. Human Rights Council appoint a special investigator into rights violations in Iran, U.S. ambassador Eileen Donahoe said on Friday.

Ivory Coast: Massacre as Army Mows Down Women Protestors (Time.com) Posted: 04 Mar 2011 03:50 PM PST Time.com - Ivory Coast is caught in a spiral of escalating violence as incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo gets desperate in his attempts to stay in power

UK central banker warns of second financial crisis (AP) Posted: 04 Mar 2011 04:31 PM PST AP - The Governor of the Bank of England has warned that Britain could face another financial crisis if the banking sector is not reformed.

Hundreds march on State Security building in Egypt (AP) Posted: 04 Mar 2011 03:01 PM PST AP - Hundreds of Egyptian protesters attempted to storm a building belonging to the internal security service in Alexandria on Friday in an outpouring of anger at the agency blamed for some of the worst human rights violations during ousted President Hosni Mubarak's rule.

Arrest of top Bolivian drug cop riles president (AP) Posted: 04 Mar 2011 04:03 PM PST AP - As Bolivia's top counternarcotics cop, Rene Sanabria's loyalties straddled two worlds: one of tight cooperation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the other dominated by an intensely nationalistic president who rose to power as a militant coca grower.

Rebels 'hold' key refinery town as many killed (AFP) Posted: 04 Mar 2011 04:32 PM PST AFP - Libyan rebels said on Friday they had seized a key oil refinery town in some of the heaviest fighting of the rebellion that left "many dead, a claim denied by a senior government official.

Wen acknowledges China discontent over prices, other issues (AFP) Posted: 04 Mar 2011 04:43 PM PST AFP - The Chinese government knows it has yet to solve a "number of issues" that have stoked public concern, including price rises, land grabs and corruption, Premier Wen Jiabao was to say Saturday.

Saskatchewan surplus shrinks as health costs rise (Reuters) Posted: 04 Mar 2011 09:58 AM PST Reuters - Saskatchewan said on Friday it expects to post a smaller budget surplus for the current fiscal year than it had forecast due to rising costs for health care and other services.

No one killed by quake in New Zealand cathedral (AP) Posted: 04 Mar 2011 03:19 PM PST AP - Searchers declared on Saturday that no one had died in the rubble of Christchurch's iconic cathedral _a rare piece of good news in the final days of a grim recovery operation following last week's earthquake that devastated New Zealand's second largest city and killed at least 165.

Egypt's new PM cheered in Tahrir Square (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 04 Mar 2011 11:26 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Egypt’s new prime minister joined the crowds at Tahrir Square Friday in his first public appearance, receiving a warm welcome as he acknowledged the work of the people in achieving a revolution in Egypt.

Libya: Gaddafi Hometown May Be Key to His Destiny (Time.com) Posted: 04 Mar 2011 03:50 PM PST Time.com - His hometown of Sert has reaped benefits ever since he came to power. Now, it stands between the rebels and Tripoli -- and may be key to Gaddafi's survival

Libya preventing refugees from leaving as fighting escalates (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 04 Mar 2011 09:31 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Satellite photographs indicate that Libya is slowing the exodus of migrant workers west to Tunisia, stopping them just shy of the border where the flow of more than 90,000 refugees over the past 10 days has suddenly begun to dry up.

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