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• Study ties new al Qaeda chief to murder of journalist Pearl (Reuters)
• Netanyahu speech to Congress eyed for sign of U.S.-Israel rift (Reuters)
• EU imposes sanctions on Syria's Assad (Reuters)
• In China's Wild West, A 'Black Gold' Rush Takes Shape (Time.com)
• Obama starts UK visit, security issues paramount (Reuters)
• Palestinian UN bid enters unknown territory (AP)
• Mexico frees 62 in forced-prostitution case (AP)
• NATO airstrikes rattle Tripoli (AP)
• Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan (AP)
• Sea levels set to rise by up to a metre: report (AFP)
• In Yemen, Saleh's military forces showing signs of strain (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Details Emerge of Deadly Raid on Pakistani Base (Time.com)
• Is Georgia on the brink of a 'day of rage'? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• No place to hide for G8 leaders on foreign aid (OneWorld.net)

Study ties new al Qaeda chief to murder of journalist Pearl (Reuters) Posted: 23 May 2011 08:20 AM PDT Reuters - Saif al-Adel, an Egyptian militant recently appointed interim leader of al Qaeda operations, has been linked to the killing of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in 2002, U.S. investigators said in a report.

Netanyahu speech to Congress eyed for sign of U.S.-Israel rift (Reuters) Posted: 23 May 2011 03:25 PM PDT Reuters - When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress on Tuesday, many will be watching to see whether he escalates a war of words with the White House over how to make peace in the Middle East.

EU imposes sanctions on Syria's Assad (Reuters) Posted: 23 May 2011 12:45 PM PDT Reuters - The European Union imposed sanctions on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and other senior officials on Monday, raising pressure on his government to end weeks of violence against protesters.

In China's Wild West, A 'Black Gold' Rush Takes Shape (Time.com) Posted: 23 May 2011 03:10 PM PDT Time.com - Situated at the heart of the Xinjiang region, Karamay is rich in oil andincreasingly vital to China's energy strategy. The 'black gold' has fueledlocal development, and transformed this sleepy backwater. But ethnic splitscould create conflict

Obama starts UK visit, security issues paramount (Reuters) Posted: 23 May 2011 04:08 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama on Tuesday begins a visit to Britain where he and Prime Minister David Cameron will review NATO action to help end conflict in Libya and Western policy toward uprisings in the Arab world.

Palestinian UN bid enters unknown territory (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 04:29 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama threw down a gauntlet this weekend: no vote at the United Nations, he asserted, would ever create a Palestinian state.

Mexico frees 62 in forced-prostitution case (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 03:58 PM PDT AP - Police freed 62 female victims of a forced-prostitution ring in Mexico City, including a 13-year-old girl, prosecutors said.

NATO airstrikes rattle Tripoli (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 04:47 PM PDT AP - NATO warplanes are repeatedly hitting Tripoli early Tuesday in what appears to be the heaviest night of bombing of the Libyan capital since the start of the air campaign against Moammar Gadhafi's forces.

Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 04:34 PM PDT AP - An Australian soldier has been killed and two others injured in an explosion in southern Afghanistan.

Sea levels set to rise by up to a metre: report (AFP) Posted: 23 May 2011 12:56 AM PDT AFP - Sea levels are set to rise by up to a metre within a century due to global warming, a new Australian report said Monday as it warned this could make "once-a-century" coastal flooding much more common.

In Yemen, Saleh's military forces showing signs of strain (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 23 May 2011 11:54 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Hopes for a negotiated settlement to Yemen’s mounting political crisis sank yesterday when President Ali Abdullah Saleh turned down for a third time a deal that would have offered him immunity from prosecution in exchange for stepping down.

Details Emerge of Deadly Raid on Pakistani Base (Time.com) Posted: 23 May 2011 03:10 PM PDT Time.com - The attackers numbered only six, two of whom escaped. And suspicions are growing that they had inside information

Is Georgia on the brink of a 'day of rage'? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 23 May 2011 10:18 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - After three days of sometimes violent street demonstrations, Georgian opposition leaders on Monday promised a "day of rage" on May 25 that will sweep away President Mikhael Saakashvili â€" who has withstood similar protest waves against his controversial seven-year rule in the past.

No place to hide for G8 leaders on foreign aid (OneWorld.net) Posted: 23 May 2011 08:22 AM PDT OneWorld.net - May 23 (OneWorld.net) - International pressure to honor pledges of foreign aid contends with domestic imperatives to slash public spending. This is just one of the dilemmas facing leaders of the world's most powerful economies at their summit starting on Thursday in the French town of Deauville.

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