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• Special report: The bin Laden kill plan (Reuters)
• Libya rebels seek funds in White House meeting (Reuters)
• Qatar quits Gulf plan for Yemen, cites delays (Reuters)
• China "unhappy" with support for detained artist (Reuters)
• German court convicts then frees Nazi guard Demjanjuk (Reuters)
• Who's Behind Egypt's Sectarian Violence? (Time.com)
• Demjanjuk convicted over Nazi camp deaths (AP)
• Syrian soldiers take up positions before protests (AP)
• Autopsy, family say Cuban dissident wasn't beaten (AP)
• Egypt orders Mubarak detention in wealth probe (AFP)
• Australia ramps up sanctions against Syria (AP)
• Ottawa says has "no magic wand" to cut gas prices (Reuters)
• Australian arrested over refugee boat disaster (AFP)
• Arab refugee influx causes Europe to rethink its open borders (The Christian Science Monitor)
• How One Nazi War Criminal's Case Could Bring Others to Justice (Time.com)
• After bin Laden: India sees opportunity in Afghanistan (The Christian Science Monitor)

Special report: The bin Laden kill plan (Reuters) Posted: 12 May 2011 04:41 PM PDT Reuters - A pivotal moment in the long, tortuous quest to find Osama bin Laden came years before U.S. spy agencies discovered his hermetic compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Libya rebels seek funds in White House meeting (Reuters) Posted: 12 May 2011 03:41 PM PDT Reuters - Libyan rebels will meet senior White House officials in Washington Friday, seeking both cash and diplomatic legitimacy in their war to topple Muammar Gaddafi.

Qatar quits Gulf plan for Yemen, cites delays (Reuters) Posted: 12 May 2011 03:57 PM PDT Reuters - Qatar on Thursday pulled out of a Gulf-brokered plan to ease Yemen's president from power, leaving a deal to end months of violent protests against Ali Abdullah Saleh's rule close to collapse.

China "unhappy" with support for detained artist (Reuters) Posted: 12 May 2011 01:25 PM PDT Reuters - The Chinese government said on Tuesday it was "unhappy" with foreign support for detained artist and activist Ai Weiwei, after Ai's detention last week sparked an outcry from Washington and other Western governments.

German court convicts then frees Nazi guard Demjanjuk (Reuters) Posted: 12 May 2011 01:21 PM PDT Reuters - A German court convicted John Demjanjuk on Thursday for his role in the killing of 28,000 Jews in the Sobibor Nazi death camp, then set the 91-year-old free because of his age.

Who's Behind Egypt's Sectarian Violence? (Time.com) Posted: 12 May 2011 01:50 PM PDT Time.com - In the recent Muslim-Christian riots, some see pro-Mubarak forces trying to derail the revolution, while others see the hand of creeping Islamic fundamentalism. Either way, it's a reminder that Egypt's problems aren't going away by themselves

Demjanjuk convicted over Nazi camp deaths (AP) Posted: 12 May 2011 05:07 PM PDT AP - A German court convicted retired U.S. autoworker John Demjanjuk on Thursday of taking part in the murder of tens of thousands of Jews as a Nazi death camp guard, breaking legal ground that could pave the way for the prosecution of many low-level cogs in Hitler's machinery of destruction.

Syrian soldiers take up positions before protests (AP) Posted: 12 May 2011 04:53 PM PDT AP - Syrian soldiers rolled into flash point cities in tanks and set up sand barriers topped with machine guns Thursday, as President Bashar Assad's deadly crackdown on dissent pulled the country deeper into international isolation.

Autopsy, family say Cuban dissident wasn't beaten (AP) Posted: 12 May 2011 03:22 PM PDT AP - A medical examiner and relatives of a late Cuban dissident have concluded that he died of natural causes and showed no signs of being beaten, as some government opponents have claimed, Cuba's official news media said Thursday.

Egypt orders Mubarak detention in wealth probe (AFP) Posted: 12 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT AFP - Egypt on Friday ordered ousted president Hosni Mubarak to be held in detention for 15 days on charges he abused his position to illegally acquire wealth, the official MENA news agency said.

Australia ramps up sanctions against Syria (AP) Posted: 12 May 2011 04:37 PM PDT AP - Australia is ramping up sanctions against Syria in protest against the regime's violent suppression of demonstrators.

Ottawa says has "no magic wand" to cut gas prices (Reuters) Posted: 12 May 2011 08:52 AM PDT Reuters - The Canadian government will ask the energy industry to explain why gasoline prices are so high but doesn't have "a magic wand" to bring relief to consumers, Industry Minister Tony Clement said on Thursday.

Australian arrested over refugee boat disaster (AFP) Posted: 12 May 2011 12:58 AM PDT AFP - An Australian was deported from Indonesia Thursday and charged in Sydney with offences relating to the Christmas Island boatpeople disaster that left 48 asylum seekers dead.

Arab refugee influx causes Europe to rethink its open borders (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 12 May 2011 01:04 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - When Tunisians rebelled against a corrupt government and drove out President Zine Ben Ali earlier this year, they received the applause of Europe’s political class.

How One Nazi War Criminal's Case Could Bring Others to Justice (Time.com) Posted: 12 May 2011 01:50 PM PDT Time.com - The conviction of concentration-camp guard John Demjanjuk for being an accessory to the murder of thousands of Jews could make it easier to convict the few remaining Nazi war criminals still at large

After bin Laden: India sees opportunity in Afghanistan (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 12 May 2011 12:46 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - India is seeking to expand its role in Afghanistan in the wake of Osama bin Laden's killing â€" but only modestly, showing that even a chastened Pakistan still holds significant leverage over war and peace here.

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