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• Gaddafi threatens offensive and ignores diplomatic moves (Reuters)
• Saudi police fire in air to disperse protest (Reuters)
• Yemen president vows reform as protests continue (Reuters)
• Ivory Coast's Ouattara says AU panel confirms he won (Reuters)
• Somali Islamists could grab tankers for attacks: PM (Reuters)
• Reforming Morocco: Taking Apart the King's Speech (Time.com)
• French police hold suspected ETA chief: Spanish radio (AFP)
• Egypt rulers order 2 Sadat plotters freed (AP)
• Rights group: Hunger strikes increase in Venezuela (AP)
• British lawyer to plead guilty in bribery case (AP)
• 25 dead as quake topples homes in SW China (AP)
• Canada PM accepts reprimand, stresses "big issues" (Reuters)
• Powerful quake of Indonesia's island of Bali (AP)
• Can Morocco's King Mohammed VI outpace Morocco's 'winds of change'? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Will the Taliban Re-Take the Most Dangerous Place in Afghanistan? (Time.com)
• Both sides of Libya's conflict attempt to woo a divided Europe (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Cambodian Immigrants Seek Healing in Khmer Rouge Genocide Trial (OneWorld.net)

Gaddafi threatens offensive and ignores diplomatic moves (Reuters) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:03 PM PST Reuters - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son told rebels on Thursday they faced a full-scale assault to crush their three-week-old uprising as troops, tanks and warplanes punched into the rebel-held east of the country.

Saudi police fire in air to disperse protest (Reuters) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 03:08 PM PST Reuters - Saudi police fired in the air to disperse protesting Shi'ites on Thursday, and three people were injured in the melee on the eve of a day of protests called for on social media, witnesses and activists said.

Yemen president vows reform as protests continue (Reuters) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 03:17 AM PST Reuters - Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh, hoping to defuse increasingly violent protests against his 32-year rule, said Thursday he would draw up a new constitution to create a parliamentary system of government.

Ivory Coast's Ouattara says AU panel confirms he won (Reuters) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 03:14 PM PST Reuters - Ivory Coast presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara said on Thursday that a panel set up by the African Union to find a solution to the crisis in the West African nation has confirmed he won the disputed election.

Somali Islamists could grab tankers for attacks: PM (Reuters) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 12:53 PM PST Reuters - Somali pirates and Islamists are learning from each other and al Qaeda could hijack oil tankers to be used in September 11-style attacks, Somalia's prime minister said Thursday.

Reforming Morocco: Taking Apart the King's Speech (Time.com) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 01:50 PM PST Time.com - King Mohammed VI delivers an unexpected address to his nation, starting up a set of dramatic reforms. But is it only a tactic to take the steam out of a planned March 20 demonstration?

French police hold suspected ETA chief: Spanish radio (AFP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:47 PM PST AFP - Police in France late Thursday arrested the suspected military chief of the armed Basque separatist group ETA, Alejandro Zobaran Arriola, Spanish national radio reported.

Egypt rulers order 2 Sadat plotters freed (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:05 PM PST AP - Egypt's military rulers on Thursday ordered the release two cousins jailed for their role in the assassination of then-president Anwar Sadat in 1981.

Rights group: Hunger strikes increase in Venezuela (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:27 PM PST AP - Venezuelans are increasingly resorting to hunger strikes as a form of protest or a way to press grievances against President Hugo Chavez's government, the representative of a human rights group said Thursday.

British lawyer to plead guilty in bribery case (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:37 PM PST AP - A British lawyer who had been fighting extradition to the U.S. on charges he helped a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary bribe Nigerian officials will plead guilty in the case, his attorney said Thursday.

25 dead as quake topples homes in SW China (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:22 PM PST AP - An earthquake toppled more than 1,000 houses and apartment buildings in China's southwest near the border with Myanmar, killing at least 25 people and injuring 250, the government said Friday.

Canada PM accepts reprimand, stresses "big issues" (Reuters) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 12:56 PM PST Reuters - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Thursday that he accepted his government's formal reprimand from the speaker of the House of Commons, but urged his opponents to focus on what he called the "big issues" like the economy.

Powerful quake of Indonesia's island of Bali (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 11:11 AM PST AP - A powerful earthquake off Indonesia rattled the popular resort island of Bali early Friday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, officials said.

Can Morocco's King Mohammed VI outpace Morocco's 'winds of change'? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 01:23 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - In a turning point for Morocco amid winds of Arab regime change, King Mohammed VI now aims by June 30 to formalize a plan allowing the nation’s prime minister to be appointed by the party that gets the most votes in democratic elections.

Will the Taliban Re-Take the Most Dangerous Place in Afghanistan? (Time.com) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 01:50 PM PST Time.com - Courageous elders have managed to broker a deal to allow some fighters to come in from the cold. But will the Taliban negate those gains as the spring approaches?

Both sides of Libya's conflict attempt to woo a divided Europe (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 01:08 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Libya’s warring sides opened a new and critical front in the deepening conflict there. Muammar Qaddafi and rebels trying to oust him sent envoys to European capitals to sway the debate over potential international military involvement in Libya, a day ahead of a European Union summit that could well determine the future of the crisis.

Cambodian Immigrants Seek Healing in Khmer Rouge Genocide Trial (OneWorld.net) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 05:41 AM PST OneWorld.net - SAN JOSE, Mar 10 (New America Media) - Survivors of Cambodia's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime are finally hopeful about getting answers to the question they have carried for 30 years: Why?

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