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• Britain's Queen honors Irish nationalists (Reuters)
• NATO denies Libya hit warship off coast near Misrata (Reuters)
• French left struggle to replace Strauss-Kahn (Reuters)
• Tanks storm south Syria city as U.S. piles on pressure (Reuters)
• Pakistani forces kill five suspected suicide bombers (Reuters)
• Square Roots: How Public Spaces Helped Mold the Arab Spring (Time.com)
• Rare pink diamond fetches $10.8 million at Swiss auction (AFP)
• Egypt to release Mubarak's wife from detention (AP)
• Mexico police find 513 US-bound migrants in trucks (AP)
• Libya's top oil official defects: Tunisian source (Reuters)
• Pakistan military protests after NATO incursion wounds soldiers (Reuters)
• Canada oil output cut as Alberta wildfires rage (Reuters)
• Australian beer hopes to boldly go into space (Reuters)
• If Strauss-Kahn is out, who might become IMF chief? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Schwarzenegger, Strauss-Kahn and Caligula: Why Powerful Men Compulsively Cheat (Time.com)
• Gains of True Finn party point to 'Euroskeptic' surge in Finland (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Child soldiers add questions for Pakistan (OneWorld.net)

Britain's Queen honors Irish nationalists (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 10:16 AM PDT Reuters - Queen Elizabeth honored Irish people killed fighting for independence from Britain on Tuesday in a powerful gesture of reconciliation few people would have believed possible even in recent times.

NATO denies Libya hit warship off coast near Misrata (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 02:08 PM PDT Reuters - A NATO official denied a report on Libyan state television on Tuesday that Libyan forces hit one of its warships off the coast near the rebel-held city of Misrata.

French left struggle to replace Strauss-Kahn (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 11:54 AM PDT Reuters - Political pressure increased on Socialist leader Martine Aubry Tuesday to run in the party's presidential primary after the favorite, IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was charged with sexual assault in New York.

Tanks storm south Syria city as U.S. piles on pressure (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 09:32 AM PDT Reuters - The West warned of more pressure on Syria on Tuesday if a crackdown against pro-democracy protests continues, hours after tanks stormed a city in the south, cradle of an uprising against Baathist rule.

Pakistani forces kill five suspected suicide bombers (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 10:02 AM PDT Reuters - Pakistani security forces shot dead five suspected al Qaeda-linked Chechen militants who had tried to carry out a suicide bombing in the southwestern city of Quetta on Tuesday, police and paramilitary officials said.

Square Roots: How Public Spaces Helped Mold the Arab Spring (Time.com) Posted: 17 May 2011 03:50 PM PDT Time.com - From Egypt's Tahrir Square to Tunisia's central Bourguiba Avenue to the plazas of Syria's ancient cities, public squares have been at the center of the Arab Spring

Rare pink diamond fetches $10.8 million at Swiss auction (AFP) Posted: 17 May 2011 04:21 PM PDT AFP - An extremely rare translucent pink diamond fetched a price of $10.8 million (7.6 million euros) at a Sotheby's auction on Tuesday, the third-highest price ever paid for one of the pink stones at auction.

Egypt to release Mubarak's wife from detention (AP) Posted: 17 May 2011 02:06 PM PDT AP - Egypt's Justice Ministry on Tuesday ordered the wife of deposed President Hosni Mubarak released from custody without bail, after she relinquished her disputed assets.

Mexico police find 513 US-bound migrants in trucks (AP) Posted: 17 May 2011 04:36 PM PDT AP - Police in Mexico's southern Chiapas state found 513 migrants on Tuesday inside two trailer trucks bound for the United States, and said they had been transported in dangerously crowded conditions.

Libya's top oil official defects: Tunisian source (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 04:28 PM PDT Reuters - The chairman of Libya's National Oil Corporation has defected from Muammar Gaddafi's administration and fled to neighboring Tunisia, a Tunisian security source said on Tuesday.

Pakistan military protests after NATO incursion wounds soldiers (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 03:28 PM PDT Reuters - NATO helicopters from Afghanistan intruded into northwest Pakistan Tuesday, wounding two soldiers, officials said, prompting a protest from the military already seething over the secret U.S. operation to kill Osama bin Laden.

Canada oil output cut as Alberta wildfires rage (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 12:45 PM PDT Reuters - Canadian oil production cuts could more than double by Wednesday as companies move to protect employees and property from wildfires raging through northern Alberta and cope with the shutdown of a key pipeline.

Australian beer hopes to boldly go into space (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 11:37 AM PDT Reuters - Wherever man has ventured, beer has followed. Now, two Australian entrepreneurs hope that will include space.

If Strauss-Kahn is out, who might become IMF chief? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 17 May 2011 01:47 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Dominique Strauss-Kahn may be sitting in a Rikers Island jail cell on charges of sexual assault, but officially, he's still managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

Schwarzenegger, Strauss-Kahn and Caligula: Why Powerful Men Compulsively Cheat (Time.com) Posted: 17 May 2011 03:50 PM PDT Time.com - Human males have never been thought of as models of sexual restraint -- and with good reason.

Gains of True Finn party point to 'Euroskeptic' surge in Finland (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 17 May 2011 01:19 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Some call it a political earthquake that, in a single election, reshaped the landscape of Finland and put the European Union on notice that its days may be numbered.

Child soldiers add questions for Pakistan (OneWorld.net) Posted: 17 May 2011 07:46 AM PDT OneWorld.net - May 17 (OneWorld.net) - A new focus on Pakistan in the UN Secretary-General's annual report on Children and Armed Conflict may complicate the task of rebuilding relations with the US in the aftermath of the killing of Osama bin Laden.

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