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• Japan fights to avert nuclear meltdown after quake (Reuters)
• Gaddafi troops take oil town, France pushes no-fly zone (Reuters)
• Bahrain protesters block roads, royals push for talks (Reuters)
• Japanese inspired and angered; resigned to more quakes (Reuters)
• Two die, 14 wounded in Iraq prison riot: police (Reuters)
• Slaughter of the Fogels: After the West Bank Killings (Time.com)
• India world's biggest arms importer 2006-10: think tank (AFP)
• Yemen clashes and Bahrain chaos as protests deepen (AP)
• Outspoken Muslim cleric killed in northern Nigeria (AFP)
• 180K flee as Japan's nuke-plant crisis intensifies (AP)
• New Democrats pessimistic over budget (Reuters)
• Qaddafi rout of Libya rebels pulls morale to a new low (The Christian Science Monitor)
• A New Biofuel Shakes Germany's Eco Cred (Time.com)
• Once lauded, foreign journalists now threatened in eastern Libya (The Christian Science Monitor)

Japan fights to avert nuclear meltdown after quake (Reuters) Posted: 13 Mar 2011 05:21 PM PDT Reuters - Japan battled on Monday to prevent a nuclear catastrophe and to care for millions of people without power or water in its worst crisis since World War Two, after a massive earthquake and tsunami that are feared to have killed more than 10,000 people.

Gaddafi troops take oil town, France pushes no-fly zone (Reuters) Posted: 13 Mar 2011 05:02 PM PDT Reuters - Muammar Gaddafi's troops battled rebel fighters for control of the strategic Libyan oil town of Brega on Sunday, as France promised to push harder for a U.N.-backed no-fly zone over the country.

Bahrain protesters block roads, royals push for talks (Reuters) Posted: 13 Mar 2011 01:01 PM PDT Reuters - Police fired tear gas and water cannon Sunday at demonstrators protesting against Bahrain's royal family in one of the most violent confrontations since troops killed seven protesters last month.

Japanese inspired and angered; resigned to more quakes (Reuters) Posted: 13 Mar 2011 11:13 AM PDT Reuters - While images of brutal destruction wreaked by a devastating earthquake and tsunami have stunned the nation and the world, Japanese are finding both inspiration and reasons to vent in the aftermath of the disaster.

Two die, 14 wounded in Iraq prison riot: police (Reuters) Posted: 13 Mar 2011 02:26 PM PDT Reuters - Two inmates were killed and 14 people were wounded in a prison riot Sunday in Tikrit, the home city of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, a police source said.

Slaughter of the Fogels: After the West Bank Killings (Time.com) Posted: 13 Mar 2011 07:45 AM PDT Time.com - In the wake of a horrific multiple murder in an Israeli settlement on the West Bank, Netanyahu approves the construction of 500 new homes

India world's biggest arms importer 2006-10: think tank (AFP) Posted: 13 Mar 2011 04:08 PM PDT AFP - India over the last five years was the world's biggest importer of weapons, said a report published Monday, which also showed big arms suppliers had scrambled during the period to sell to Libya.

Yemen clashes and Bahrain chaos as protests deepen (AP) Posted: 13 Mar 2011 01:45 PM PDT AP - Yemeni police firing from rooftops wounded more than 100 in a protesters' camp Sunday and anti-government demonstrators paralyzed Bahrain's capital as unrest deepened in two of Washington's most critical allies in the region.

Outspoken Muslim cleric killed in northern Nigeria (AFP) Posted: 13 Mar 2011 05:02 PM PDT AFP - Gunmen shot and killed a Muslim cleric highly critical of a hardline Islamist sect, in an attack outside his home in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, witnesses said.

180K flee as Japan's nuke-plant crisis intensifies (AP) Posted: 13 Mar 2011 05:20 PM PDT AP - Japanese officials warned of a possible second explosion at a nuclear plant crippled by the earthquake and tsunami as they raced to stave off multiple reactor meltdowns, but they provided few details about whether they were making progress. More than 180,000 people have evacuated the area, and up to 160 may have been exposed to radiation.

New Democrats pessimistic over budget (Reuters) Posted: 13 Mar 2011 01:51 PM PDT Reuters - The head of Canada's opposition New Democrats expressed doubt on Sunday that the country will be able to avoid an election over a budget set to be unveiled by the Conservative government.

Qaddafi rout of Libya rebels pulls morale to a new low (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 13 Mar 2011 11:55 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The chaotic collapse of rebel positions in eastern Libya in the past week is sapping the morale out of the rag-tag rebel troops that had been rapidly driving west just days ago.

A New Biofuel Shakes Germany's Eco Cred (Time.com) Posted: 13 Mar 2011 07:45 AM PDT Time.com - The German government insists that a new biofuel called E10 could cut the nation's carbon emissions and reduce its dependency on foreign oil -- but it's got motorists fuming

Once lauded, foreign journalists now threatened in eastern Libya (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 13 Mar 2011 11:31 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The murder of an Al Jazeera cameraman outside of the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Saturday is sending a chill throughout the foreign press corps in this city, the de facto capital of the uprising against Col. Muammar Qaddafi.

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