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• Syria sends tanks into Deraa where uprising began (Reuters)
• Heavy fighting in Misrata and Libyan mountains (Reuters)
• U.S. charges Pakistanis in 2008 Mumbai attack plot (Reuters)
• India arrests ex-games chief as telecoms case widens (Reuters)
• U.N. chief says can't order probe into Sri Lanka war (Reuters)
• Kate Middleton's Coat of Arms: What Do Those Acorns Actually Mean? (Time.com)
• Comeback king Ding reaches last eight at snooker Worlds (AFP)
• Thousands of Syrian troops raid rebellious city (AP)
• Royal wedding: Mexican hunger striker turned back (AP)
• Peace threatened by feuding Ivory Coast warlords (AP)
• Mass deaths in Sri Lanka may be 'war crimes': UN (AFP)
• NDP surges to strong second place in poll (Reuters)
• Australian support for republic slumps: poll (AFP)
• War veterans get help from Rick Iannucci's 'therapeutic riding' program (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Arab Spring: Syrian President Assad Sends Military into Dara'a (Time.com)
• Taliban tunnel frees Kandahar prisoners, in blow to NATO and Afghan forces (The Christian Science Monitor)

Syria sends tanks into Deraa where uprising began (Reuters) Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:45 PM PDT Reuters - Syrian troops and tanks poured into Deraa on Monday, seeking to crush resistance in the city where a month-long uprising against the autocratic 11-year rule of President Bashar al-Assad first erupted.

Heavy fighting in Misrata and Libyan mountains (Reuters) Posted: 25 Apr 2011 03:41 PM PDT Reuters - Libya's rebel-held city of Misrata won no respite from two months of bitter siege as Muammar Gaddafi's forces bombarded the city and battled rebel fighters, despite pulling out of the city center.

U.S. charges Pakistanis in 2008 Mumbai attack plot (Reuters) Posted: 25 Apr 2011 04:51 PM PDT Reuters - Four Pakistanis have been charged as co-conspirators in the 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people, including six Americans, U.S. prosecutors said on Monday.

India arrests ex-games chief as telecoms case widens (Reuters) Posted: 25 Apr 2011 10:52 AM PDT Reuters - Indian police arrested the former chief organizer of the Delhi Commonwealth Games on Monday as part of a crackdown on corruption, embarrassing the government as it fights major state polls.

U.N. chief says can't order probe into Sri Lanka war (Reuters) Posted: 25 Apr 2011 05:20 PM PDT Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he lacks the authority to personally order a probe into the mass killings of civilians in the final months of Sri Lanka's civil war, as a report recommended on Monday.

Kate Middleton's Coat of Arms: What Do Those Acorns Actually Mean? (Time.com) Posted: 25 Apr 2011 01:15 PM PDT Time.com - Michael and Carole Middleton, Kate's parents, commissioned a family crest to mark their daughter's April 29 nuptials

Comeback king Ding reaches last eight at snooker Worlds (AFP) Posted: 25 Apr 2011 05:33 PM PDT AFP - China's Ding Junhui staged a dramatic comeback from 9-12 down to defeat England's Stuart Bingham 13-12 and reach the world championship quarter-finals for the first time.

Thousands of Syrian troops raid rebellious city (AP) Posted: 25 Apr 2011 04:59 PM PDT AP - Thousands of soldiers backed by tanks and snipers moved in before dawn to the city where Syria's anti-government uprising began, causing panic in the streets when they opened fire indiscriminately on civilians and went house-to-house rounding up suspected protesters. At least 11 people were killed and 14 others lay in the streets — either dead or gravely wounded, witnesses said.

Royal wedding: Mexican hunger striker turned back (AP) Posted: 25 Apr 2011 05:33 PM PDT AP - British authorities have turned away a Mexican teenager who spent 16 days without eating while pleading for an invite to the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

Peace threatened by feuding Ivory Coast warlords (AP) Posted: 25 Apr 2011 05:19 PM PDT AP - Volleys of gunshots erupted again in Abidjan Monday as a years-old feud between rival warlords came to a head, threatening Ivory Coast's fragile peace.

Mass deaths in Sri Lanka may be 'war crimes': UN (AFP) Posted: 25 Apr 2011 04:19 PM PDT AFP - The Sri Lankan army killed most of the tens of thousands of civilian victims of a final offensive against Tamil separatists in 2009 but both sides may be guilty of war crimes, a UN panel said Monday.

NDP surges to strong second place in poll (Reuters) Posted: 25 Apr 2011 04:54 PM PDT Reuters - Support for Canada's leftist New Democratic Party surged to within 6 points of the ruling Conservatives in an opinion poll on Monday that showed Prime Minister Stephen Harper with a tenuous hold on power.

Australian support for republic slumps: poll (AFP) Posted: 25 Apr 2011 02:01 AM PDT AFP - Support for Australia becoming a republic has fallen to a 17-year low, according to a poll published on Monday, just days ahead of Britain's royal wedding.

War veterans get help from Rick Iannucci's 'therapeutic riding' program (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 25 Apr 2011 06:52 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Rick Iannucci, director of Cowboy Up!, a horse therapy program for combat veterans, keeps a little notebook with quotations in the back pocket of his jeans.

Arab Spring: Syrian President Assad Sends Military into Dara'a (Time.com) Posted: 25 Apr 2011 01:15 PM PDT Time.com - Tanks have rolled into the city where the Syrian uprising began five weeks ago. Is an even bigger bloodbath about to ensue?

Taliban tunnel frees Kandahar prisoners, in blow to NATO and Afghan forces (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 25 Apr 2011 06:07 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - In one of the most elaborate prison breaks in recent Afghan history, the Taliban managed to free hundreds of inmates from Kandahar’s central prison in the early hours of Monday morning through a 1,180-foot tunnel.

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