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• Saleh defiant, day after agreeing to handover plan (Reuters)
• Magnitude 6.2 quake hits Indonesia's Sulawesi (Reuters)
• Man overpowered trying to hijack Alitalia flight (Reuters)
• Security forces kill 9 Syrians in Sunni district (Reuters)
• Japan PM under pressure after party falters in local polls (Reuters)
• Syria's Assad: What Forces Can He Count on to Survive? (Time.com)
• Lockerbie shuns limelight as Libya unravels (AP)
• Gadhafi unleashes rocket barrage on rebel city (AP)
• Body parts found in upscale Mexico City district (AP)
• Misrata fighting rages on despite Tripoli vow (AFP)
• 6.2-magnitude quake hits Indonesia's Sulawesi (AFP)
• NDP rise shakes up Canadian vote (Reuters)
• Rio and Guinea reach final deal on Simandou (AFP)
• Iraqi Christians mark a restrained Easter (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Yemen in Crisis: Last Impasse Before the Storm? (Time.com)
• Yemen's president may step down (The Christian Science Monitor)

Saleh defiant, day after agreeing to handover plan (Reuters) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 04:22 PM PDT Reuters - Yemen's veteran president Ali Abdullah Saleh has struck a defiant tone in an interview, a day after his government said he had accepted a Gulf Arab plan to hand over power within weeks.

Magnitude 6.2 quake hits Indonesia's Sulawesi (Reuters) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 04:50 PM PDT Reuters - A 6.2 magnitude earthquake with a relatively shallow depth hit Sulawesi island in central Indonesia on Monday, officials in the region said.

Man overpowered trying to hijack Alitalia flight (Reuters) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 04:50 PM PDT Reuters - A man with a knife tried to hijack an Alitalia flight from Paris to Rome Sunday night, demanding it be flown to Libya, but was quickly overpowered and arrested when the plane landed, officials and witnesses said.

Security forces kill 9 Syrians in Sunni district (Reuters) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 04:16 PM PDT Reuters - Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad shot dead at least nine civilians on Sunday in a sweep on the coastal town on Jabla, the Syrian human rights organization Sawasiah said.

Japan PM under pressure after party falters in local polls (Reuters) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 05:05 PM PDT Reuters - Unpopular Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan is likely to face fresh pressure to quit after his ruling party's poor performance in local elections Sunday, weakening his clout as he struggles to contain a nuclear crisis and find ways to finance rebuilding from a massive earthquake and tsunami.

Syria's Assad: What Forces Can He Count on to Survive? (Time.com) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 02:45 PM PDT Time.com - Though if his own Alawite community may be thinking of a post-Assad Syria, the President is unlikely to be unseated as long as the military and the security force remain on his side

Lockerbie shuns limelight as Libya unravels (AP) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 05:00 PM PDT AP - One winter's night in 1988, dozens of bodies fell from the sky onto the green fields surrounding a small stone church a few miles outside this Scottish town.

Gadhafi unleashes rocket barrage on rebel city (AP) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 04:05 PM PDT AP - Moammar Gadhafi's forces unleashed a barrage of shells and rockets at Misrata on Sunday in an especially bloody weekend, countering Libyan government claims that the army was holding its fire into the western city.

Body parts found in upscale Mexico City district (AP) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 03:28 PM PDT AP - The dismembered body of a woman was found scattered in a leafy, upscale Mexico City district, while authorities investigated possible drug gang links in the deaths of five females whose throats were slashed in Acapulco.

Misrata fighting rages on despite Tripoli vow (AFP) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 04:15 PM PDT AFP - The most powerful explosions to hit the Libyan capital in weeks of fighting shook downtown Tripoli early Monday after a day of heavy violence in the besieged third city of Misrata.

6.2-magnitude quake hits Indonesia's Sulawesi (AFP) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 04:52 PM PDT AFP - A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Monday, the US Geological Survey said.

NDP rise shakes up Canadian vote (Reuters) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 03:40 PM PDT Reuters - Canada's election campaign entered its final stretch on Sunday with all sides trying to weigh the impact of growing support for the New Democratic Party, which has traditionally lagged its rivals.

Rio and Guinea reach final deal on Simandou (AFP) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 01:38 AM PDT AFP - Global miner Rio Tinto has settled a long-running dispute over Guinea's huge Simandou iron ore field, with the West African nation agreeing to take a stake of up to 35 percent.

Iraqi Christians mark a restrained Easter (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 06:35 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Iraqi Christians marked a restrained Easter weekend as fear of attacks kept many from openly celebrating their most sacred day of the year and church officials urged them not to give up on the country.

Yemen in Crisis: Last Impasse Before the Storm? (Time.com) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 02:45 PM PDT Time.com - After three months of protests and political deadlock, Saleh says he will leave under specific conditions -- and then just as quicikly reneges.

Yemen's president may step down (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 23 Apr 2011 02:40 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Yemen's embattled president agreed Saturday to a proposal by Gulf Arab mediators to step down within 30 days and hand power to his deputy in exchange for immunity from prosecution, a major about-face for the autocratic leader who has ruled for 32 years.

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