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• Gaddafi presses Libyan rebels, West says no troops (Reuters)
• Assad pledge fails to quell Syria anger; troops fire (Reuters)
• Nigeria's Jonathan sure of victory in election (Reuters)
• IMF cautions in Africa vote-heavy year (Reuters)
• Finnish populist party surge clouds EU bailout (Reuters)
• Essay: The Problem with Venerating Aung San Suu Kyi (Time.com)
• Stoke's Pulis targets City for Wembley revenge (AFP)
• Fierce fighting in key city in west Libya kills 17 (AP)
• Top cop replaced in violent Mexico border state (AP)
• Jonathan on course to win Nigerian presidential vote (AFP)
• Williams on form as Ding makes strong start (AFP)
• Conservatives widen opinion poll lead (Reuters)
• Australian military abuse could lead to payouts (AFP)
• Court order to dissolve Egypt's NDP deals body blow to old power structure (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Syria: Who Is the Real President Assad? (Time.com)
• UN calls for Iraqi probe of attack on Iranian opposition group (The Christian Science Monitor)

Gaddafi presses Libyan rebels, West says no troops (Reuters) Posted: 17 Apr 2011 05:37 PM PDT Reuters - Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi kept up an offensive on the rebels' eastern frontline outpost of Ajdabiyah, while the West again ruled out sending ground troops to help the rebel cause.

Assad pledge fails to quell Syria anger; troops fire (Reuters) Posted: 17 Apr 2011 12:32 PM PDT Reuters - Syrian security forces opened fire on protesters at a funeral on Sunday, witnesses said, and an announcement that President Bashar al-Assad would lift 48-years of emergency rule failed to quell fury on the streets.

Nigeria's Jonathan sure of victory in election (Reuters) Posted: 17 Apr 2011 03:57 PM PDT Reuters - President Goodluck Jonathan secured election victory on Sunday as votes were tallied from around Nigeria, fuelling anger in the mainly-Muslim strongholds of rival Muhammadu Buhari.

IMF cautions in Africa vote-heavy year (Reuters) Posted: 17 Apr 2011 04:53 PM PDT Reuters - The International Monetary Fund is cautioning African countries to watch their spending during a year packed with elections in the region where rising food and fuel prices already pose a big threat to the poor.

Finnish populist party surge clouds EU bailout (Reuters) Posted: 17 Apr 2011 05:44 PM PDT Reuters - Finnish voters threw sand in the gears of European Union plans to bail out Portugal by thrusting the anti-euro True Finns party into a crucial role in parliament and possibly into government.

Essay: The Problem with Venerating Aung San Suu Kyi (Time.com) Posted: 16 Apr 2011 10:30 PM PDT Time.com - Essay: The Problem with Venerating Aung San Suu Kyi

Stoke's Pulis targets City for Wembley revenge (AFP) Posted: 17 Apr 2011 05:22 PM PDT AFP - Stoke manager Tony Pulis has set his sights on a Wembley revenge mission against Manchester City after his side stormed into the FA Cup final with a 5-0 thrashing of Bolton.

Fierce fighting in key city in west Libya kills 17 (AP) Posted: 17 Apr 2011 05:46 PM PDT AP - Holding out under a rain of shelling and sniper fire, Libyan rebels fought Moammar Gadhafi's forces Sunday in close-quarters battles in the city center of Misrata, the last major rebel foothold in western Libya. Seventeen people were killed, an NGO worker and an opposition activist said.

Top cop replaced in violent Mexico border state (AP) Posted: 17 Apr 2011 03:45 PM PDT AP - The Tamaulipas state government in Mexico has replaced its public security chief after 145 bodies showed up in mass graves there in the last two weeks.

Jonathan on course to win Nigerian presidential vote (AFP) Posted: 17 Apr 2011 04:43 PM PDT AFP - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was on course to win the country's elections on Monday, as official results showed him with a huge lead, but sporadic riots broke out in the north over rigging fears.

Williams on form as Ding makes strong start (AFP) Posted: 17 Apr 2011 03:47 PM PDT AFP - Welshman Mark Williams is hell bent on landing a third snooker world championship title after setting up a second-round meeting with Jamie Cope on Sunday after seeing off fellow Welshman Ryan Day 10-5.

Conservatives widen opinion poll lead (Reuters) Posted: 17 Apr 2011 07:05 AM PDT Reuters - The Conservative Party slightly widened its lead over its Liberal rivals and are close to numbers that might win them a majority government, according to a poll released on Sunday.

Australian military abuse could lead to payouts (AFP) Posted: 16 Apr 2011 11:58 PM PDT AFP - A spiralling scandal involving alleged sexual and other abuse within the Australian military could force the government into making payouts to victims, the country's defence minister said Sunday.

Court order to dissolve Egypt's NDP deals body blow to old power structure (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 17 Apr 2011 11:30 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The gutted headquarters of Egypt's former ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) sits blackened and abandoned after having been torched during February's pro-democracy revolution. Many of the party’s leading figures are now in jail awaiting trial or charges.

Syria: Who Is the Real President Assad? (Time.com) Posted: 16 Apr 2011 10:30 PM PDT Time.com - The country's crisis has revealed a Jekyll-and-Hyde leader. Which one is authentic? And which one will prevail?

UN calls for Iraqi probe of attack on Iranian opposition group (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 17 Apr 2011 08:12 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The United Nations has called on Iraq to hold an independent investigation into the killings of 34 people at an Iranian opposition base after Iraqi authorities who authorized an April 8 raid on the camp suggested that the group might have executed its own members.

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