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• Obama says Gaddafi's departure from Libya inevitable (Reuters)
• Israel rejects total pullback to 1967 borders (Reuters)
• Yemen leadership may yet sign transition deal (Reuters)
• Obama says Syria's Assad must reform or go (Reuters)
• Bahrain wants to expand military bases (Reuters)
• 513 Migrants in Two Trucks: X-Ray View of Human Smuggling (Time.com)
• Spain's election commission says weekend protests illegal (AFP)
• Gadhafi forces rocket rebel fighters in mountains (AP)
• American pleads guilty in wife's murder in Peru (AP)
• Kadhafi wife, daughter have fled to Tunisia: Clinton (AFP)
• More than 1,700 Taliban give up their arms (AFP)
• Bank of Canada warns pension funds of risky buys (Reuters)
• "Planking" goes viral despite death, injury (Reuters)
• Why Estonia may be Europe's model country (The Christian Science Monitor)
• The Turning Point (Time.com)
• Africa is becoming a test lab for mobile phone development (The Christian Science Monitor)
• HIV/AIDS: Drug Price Cuts Secured Amid Growing Funding Fears (OneWorld.net)

Obama says Gaddafi's departure from Libya inevitable (Reuters) Posted: 19 May 2011 04:42 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Thursday it was inevitable Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi would have to leave power and only then could a democratic transition in the North African state proceed.

Israel rejects total pullback to 1967 borders (Reuters) Posted: 19 May 2011 02:28 PM PDT Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed for talks in Washington on Friday saying that U.S. President Barack Obama's vision of a Palestinian state on the borders of 1967 could leave Israel "indefensible."

Yemen leadership may yet sign transition deal (Reuters) Posted: 19 May 2011 01:17 PM PDT Reuters - Yemen's ruling party held open the possibility that President Ali Abdullah Saleh would sign a deal on Sunday that would soon ease him out of office as Washington heaped pressure on the entrenched leader to transfer power.

Obama says Syria's Assad must reform or go (Reuters) Posted: 19 May 2011 11:24 AM PDT Reuters - Syria deployed tanks in a border village on Thursday, witnesses said, ignoring growing pressure from Washington which called on President Bashar al-Assad to stop trying to crush popular unrest or step aside.

Bahrain wants to expand military bases (Reuters) Posted: 19 May 2011 12:25 PM PDT Reuters - Bahrain floated the idea of expanding military bases within a bloc of Sunni-led Gulf Arab allies that helped it quash Shi'ite protests in March, while U.S. President Barack Obama criticized Manama over its crackdown.

513 Migrants in Two Trucks: X-Ray View of Human Smuggling (Time.com) Posted: 19 May 2011 03:50 PM PDT Time.com - A huge bust produces two truckloads of migrants desperate to reach the U.S. They are lucky to be alive: gangsters have kidnapped and killed many others

Spain's election commission says weekend protests illegal (AFP) Posted: 19 May 2011 04:52 PM PDT AFP - Spain's electoral commission declared late Thursday that protests set for this weekend by thousands of people angry over the economic crisis are illegal.

Gadhafi forces rocket rebel fighters in mountains (AP) Posted: 19 May 2011 05:01 PM PDT AP - Moammar Gadhafi's forces rocketed rebel fighters Thursday in the formidable strongholds and training camps they have built up in the strategic mountain heights southwest of the Libyan capital, rebels said.

American pleads guilty in wife's murder in Peru (AP) Posted: 19 May 2011 03:59 PM PDT AP - A U.S. citizen has pleaded guilty in Peru to killing his Peruvian wife and dumping her body at sea inside a suitcase.

Kadhafi wife, daughter have fled to Tunisia: Clinton (AFP) Posted: 19 May 2011 04:28 PM PDT AFP - The wife and daughter of embattled Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi have fled the country into neighboring Tunisia, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday.

More than 1,700 Taliban give up their arms (AFP) Posted: 19 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT AFP - More than 1,700 former Taliban combatants have turned in their weapons to join a reintegration program started by the Afghan government nearly a year ago, the NATO general in charge of the program said Thursday.

Bank of Canada warns pension funds of risky buys (Reuters) Posted: 19 May 2011 02:40 PM PDT Reuters - The Bank of Canada warned on Thursday that Canadian pension funds and insurance companies could be tempted to invest in risky assets in order to fulfill expectations of obtaining decent returns.

"Planking" goes viral despite death, injury (Reuters) Posted: 19 May 2011 06:41 AM PDT Reuters - Planking, the Australian craze of lying face down stiff in often bizarre places for a photo op, claimed another victim when a man was critically injured after being thrown from the roof of a moving car when his planking went bad.

Why Estonia may be Europe's model country (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 18 May 2011 01:20 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - An 82-foot-high billboard wrapping Estonia's finance ministry building in its capital, Tallinn, boasts: "The euro, my money." It stands just blocks from the city's cobbled, winding medieval streets and baroque churches, in a downtown where skyscrapers have replaced Russian bunkers, as a symbol of Estonia's transformation from poor Soviet republic to the European Union's rising star.

The Turning Point (Time.com) Posted: 19 May 2011 03:50 PM PDT Time.com - Finally, French women start a conversation about inappropriate sexual conduct

Africa is becoming a test lab for mobile phone development (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 18 May 2011 12:29 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - In my course on technology, development and Africa, a fine undergraduate student, David Metoyer, wrote this about the activities in Africa of Vodaphone, one of the world’s most significant mobil-telephony companies and a sizeable force in the sub-Saharan mobil boom:

HIV/AIDS: Drug Price Cuts Secured Amid Growing Funding Fears (OneWorld.net) Posted: 19 May 2011 01:33 PM PDT OneWorld.net - JOHANNESBURG, May 19 (IRIN/PlusNews) - Three international organizations have negotiated reductions on key first- and second-line, and paediatric antiretrovirals (ARVs) that will help countries save at least US$600 million over the next three years.

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