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• Fighting erupts in Zlitan, Turkey offers Gaddafi exit (Reuters)
• Helicopters open fire to disperse Syrian protesters (Reuters)
• South Sudan accuses north of air attack, clashes flare (Reuters)
• Iraq government says Congress delegation "not welcome" (Reuters)
• Greek PM rebuffs austerity opponents, vows June vote (Reuters)
• Turkey's Election Offers a Last Chance to Integrate the Kurds (Time.com)
• Queen hails king: actor Colin Firth leads British honours (AFP)
• Syrian troops sweep through north; unrest kills 32 (AP)
• Mexican poet's peace caravan arrives in Juarez (AP)
• US warns Sudan on 'reprehensible' violence (AFP)
• Two withdraw as Europe fights to keep IMF job (AFP)
• Canada Post strike highlights mail's fading role (Reuters)
• 100 detainees riot at Australia immigration centre (AFP)
• Fleeing violence, Syrian refugees warn of potential massacre (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Sources: Panetta Confronts Pakistan Over Collusion With Militants (Time.com)
• UK, France build case for UN resolution against Syria (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Cote d'Ivoire: Free Health Care Window Highlights Challenges (OneWorld.net)

Fighting erupts in Zlitan, Turkey offers Gaddafi exit (Reuters) Posted: 10 Jun 2011 03:26 PM PDT Reuters - Heavy fighting between pro-Gaddafi troops and rebels broke out in a Libyan city just 160 kilometres east of Tripoli, potentially opening the coastal road to the capital, just as cracks appeared among NATO allies.

Helicopters open fire to disperse Syrian protesters (Reuters) Posted: 10 Jun 2011 05:46 PM PDT Reuters - Syrian helicopter gunships fired machineguns to disperse pro-democracy protests, witnesses said, in the first reported use of air power to quell unrest in Syria's increasingly bloody three-month-old uprising.

South Sudan accuses north of air attack, clashes flare (Reuters) Posted: 10 Jun 2011 05:11 PM PDT Reuters - South Sudan's army accused the north on Friday of bombing a southern border village and said southern forces were getting ready to defend against a possible ground attack.

Iraq government says Congress delegation "not welcome" (Reuters) Posted: 10 Jun 2011 02:03 PM PDT Reuters - Iraq said on Friday a visiting Congress delegation was "not welcome" in the country, citing reports its leader called on Baghdad to pay compensation to Washington for years of war since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

Greek PM rebuffs austerity opponents, vows June vote (Reuters) Posted: 10 Jun 2011 01:24 PM PDT Reuters - The Greek government defended its new austerity package from attacks in parliament on Friday, saying it was the only way to stave off bankruptcy, and made a new call for opposition parties to back the plan.

Turkey's Election Offers a Last Chance to Integrate the Kurds (Time.com) Posted: 10 Jun 2011 04:20 PM PDT Time.com - The status of Turkey's estimated 14 million ethnic Kurds remains a hotly contested issue, but Sunday's vote offers new hope for finding a political solution

Queen hails king: actor Colin Firth leads British honours (AFP) Posted: 10 Jun 2011 04:56 PM PDT AFP - Actor Colin Firth was rewarded in Queen Elizabeth II's birthday honours list on Saturday after he played her father in Oscar-winning film "The King's Speech".

Syrian troops sweep through north; unrest kills 32 (AP) Posted: 10 Jun 2011 05:14 PM PDT AP - Elite Syrian forces moved swiftly through the country's restive north on Friday, raining tank shells on rebellious towns, torching farmland and shooting protesters who tried to tear down a poster of President Bashar Assad, activists and refugees said.

Mexican poet's peace caravan arrives in Juarez (AP) Posted: 10 Jun 2011 04:37 PM PDT AP - A well-known Mexican poet who has turned his grief over a murdered son into a crusade for peace ended his weeklong "consolation caravan" Friday in the country's most violent city, saying he seeks to change public consciousness and the government's current strategy for fighting drug trafficking.

US warns Sudan on 'reprehensible' violence (AFP) Posted: 10 Jun 2011 04:54 PM PDT AFP - The White House urged Sudan on Friday to "immediately" halt the escalation of "reprehensible" violence on southern army positions less than a month before the south's independence.

Two withdraw as Europe fights to keep IMF job (AFP) Posted: 10 Jun 2011 03:24 PM PDT AFP - Two candidates to head the IMF backed out of the race Friday, denouncing Europe's bid to hold on to the job, but leaving French favorite Christine Lagarde facing just one challenger.

Canada Post strike highlights mail's fading role (Reuters) Posted: 10 Jun 2011 09:23 AM PDT Reuters - A rolling postal strike, followed by deep service cuts, has highlighted the fading role of Canada's mail service in the age of the Internet, with neither side likely to end up ahead.

100 detainees riot at Australia immigration centre (AFP) Posted: 09 Jun 2011 11:56 PM PDT AFP - Police used pepper spray and "bean bag" rounds Friday to quell up to 100 rioting asylum seekers at Australia's troubled Christmas Island detention centre.

Fleeing violence, Syrian refugees warn of potential massacre (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 09 Jun 2011 02:38 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Syrian refugees continued to stream into Turkey Thursday, fleeing an expected revenge attack from the regime against their town of Jisr al-Shughur.

Sources: Panetta Confronts Pakistan Over Collusion With Militants (Time.com) Posted: 10 Jun 2011 04:20 PM PDT Time.com - In a development certain to further strain relations between the U.S. and its nuclear-powered ally, the next Secretary of Defense flies in to confront Islamabad's military establishment

UK, France build case for UN resolution against Syria (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 09 Jun 2011 12:39 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - With thousands of Syrians fleeing to Turkey in fear of more attacks by government forces, Europe is intensifying diplomatic pressure on the regime of President Bashar al-Assad to stop using violence against civilians.

Cote d'Ivoire: Free Health Care Window Highlights Challenges (OneWorld.net) Posted: 10 Jun 2011 10:24 AM PDT OneWorld.net - DAKAR, Jun 10 (IRIN) - The Ivoirian government has extended a special period of free health care to help a population reeling from months of turmoil. But in a country where cost recovery for health services has long been the policy, an abrupt change to free care is posing challenges.

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