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• European governments condemn Syria (Reuters)
• Yemen deal may be done within week: officials (Reuters)
• Deadlock in Libya exposes international rifts (Reuters)
• Venezuela oil tax to net billions before Chavez vote (Reuters)
• Moroccan unions win wage hikes as protests grow (Reuters)
• Facebook Tirade Against Kate Gets Soldier Banned from Wedding (Time.com)
• Major forest fire breaks out in Switzerland (AP)
• Government forces bombard Libyan port (AP)
• Gadhafi seeks Venezuela's help in ending conflict (AP)
• Nigerian vote sees bombs, ballot-box thefts (AFP)
• S. Korea's growth speeds up in first quarter (AFP)
• Toronto key to majority for Canada's Conservatives (Reuters)
• Australia's Gillard woos China and presses on human rights (Reuters)
• China's Tsinghua University aims for global clout of a Harvard or Oxford (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Scientists Discover 657 Islands Sitting Under Our Noses (Time.com)
• Kandahar Taliban escape bodes ill for Afghan fighting season (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Sri Lanka: UN Report Finds Both Sides Liable (OneWorld.net)

European governments condemn Syria (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2011 03:39 PM PDT Reuters - Security forces deployed in a suburb of the Syrian capital and in the city of Banias on Tuesday, witnesses said, even as President Bashar al-Assad drew international criticism for sending in tanks to crush a revolt.

Yemen deal may be done within week: officials (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2011 02:33 PM PDT Reuters - An agreement brokered by Gulf Arab states for Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to give up power could be finalized within a week, officials said on Tuesday, as Yemen struggles to avoid plunging deeper into chaos. An opposition official said the Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Abdullatif al-Zayani, was expected to visit the capital Sanaa on Wednesday with an invitation to a signing ceremony in Riyadh early next week.

Deadlock in Libya exposes international rifts (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2011 03:43 PM PDT Reuters - Military deadlock in Libya has exposed growing international rifts, with critics of NATO bombing calling it another case of the West trying to overthrow a regime by stretching the terms of a U.N. resolution.

Venezuela oil tax to net billions before Chavez vote (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2011 03:55 PM PDT Reuters - New Venezuelan taxes on windfall oil revenue will let socialist President Hugo Chavez boost spending on popular social programs by billions of dollars ahead of his re-election bid next year.

Moroccan unions win wage hikes as protests grow (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2011 04:05 PM PDT Reuters - Morocco has agreed to raise public sector salaries in a handout estimated at more than $5 billion over three years as demands for reform put pressure on the Arab world's longest-serving dynasty.

Facebook Tirade Against Kate Gets Soldier Banned from Wedding (Time.com) Posted: 26 Apr 2011 03:30 AM PDT Time.com - When your job description involves guarding the royal palace, maybe you shouldn't badmouth its potential residents -- i.e. the future queen

Major forest fire breaks out in Switzerland (AP) Posted: 26 Apr 2011 04:16 PM PDT AP - Police say almost 300 firefighters and the army are battling strong headwinds and dry conditions to extinguish a huge forest fire in southern Switzerland.

Government forces bombard Libyan port (AP) Posted: 26 Apr 2011 03:35 PM PDT AP - Libyan government forces on Tuesday bombarded the port of Misrata, in a virtually nonstop assault on the sole lifeline of a battered population that has been under siege for the past two months.

Gadhafi seeks Venezuela's help in ending conflict (AP) Posted: 26 Apr 2011 03:47 PM PDT AP - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has sent a delegation to Venezuela to seek peaceful solutions to the conflict in the North African nation, President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday.

Nigerian vote sees bombs, ballot-box thefts (AFP) Posted: 26 Apr 2011 04:07 PM PDT AFP - Nigeria voted on Tuesday in state governor polls marred by bombs and ballot-box thefts as it stumbled to the finish line of a landmark election season that set off deadly riots last week.

S. Korea's growth speeds up in first quarter (AFP) Posted: 26 Apr 2011 04:41 PM PDT AFP - South Korea's economic growth speeded up in the first quarter due to strong exports and improving domestic demand, fuelling inflationary pressure, central bank figures showed Wednesday.

Toronto key to majority for Canada's Conservatives (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2011 07:49 AM PDT Reuters - The Toronto region is where the 2011 federal election will probably be decided as the Conservatives hunt for the extra seats they need to turn their minority government into a safe majority one.

Australia's Gillard woos China and presses on human rights (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2011 05:13 AM PDT Reuters - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Tuesday pressed China on human rights and North Korea, while seeking to boost trade with her nation's biggest buyer of coal and iron ore.

China's Tsinghua University aims for global clout of a Harvard or Oxford (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 26 Apr 2011 08:45 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - When teachers from the YMCA opened the doors of an elite US-funded prep school in Beijing 100 years ago today, they could scarcely have foreseen that their creation would grow into China’s premier university, known as the “red cradle” for the country’s Communist ruling class.

Scientists Discover 657 Islands Sitting Under Our Noses (Time.com) Posted: 26 Apr 2011 03:30 AM PDT Time.com - Christopher Columbus, prepare to be blown away. Thanks to satellite imagery, scientists have discovered swaths of new islands scattered across the world

Kandahar Taliban escape bodes ill for Afghan fighting season (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 26 Apr 2011 08:35 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The escape of nearly 500 inmates, most of them Taliban members, from Kandahar’s Sarposa prison is likely to push the security of Kandahar and neighboring parts of Afghanistan in a perilous direction.

Sri Lanka: UN Report Finds Both Sides Liable (OneWorld.net) Posted: 26 Apr 2011 03:24 PM PDT OneWorld.net - COLOMBO, Apr 26 (IRIN) - The government of Sri Lanka has criticized the UN for releasing a report alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by both sides during the country's decades-long civil war.

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