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• Bin Laden deputy Zawahri to lead al Qaeda (Reuters)
• Greek PM to name new cabinet, public seethes (Reuters)
• Rebels dismiss election offer, NATO pounds Tripoli (Reuters)
• Assad's tycoon cousin, target of protesters, quits (Reuters)
• Sudan border state foes agree to talks: Mbeki (Reuters)
• Vancouver Riots: Hockey Fans Stick It to Their Own City (Time.com)
• Seven French children hospitalised by E. coli outbreak (AFP)
• Al-Zawahri succeeds bin Laden as al-Qaida leader (AP)
• Panama: Nobody wants to buy Noriega's old mansion (AP)
• Clinton accuses Kadhafi of using rape as a tool (AFP)
• India upstaged by Bravo as West Indies win (AFP)
• Air Canada, CAW in pension compromise; strike over (Reuters)
• Aussie parliament condemns Malaysian refugee deal (AP)
• Nicaragua quake survivors get new homes - 40 years after disaster (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Greece's Government Faces Anger over Austerity Measures (Time.com)
• World's most dangerous locales for women: Why is India so high on the list? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• By Boat to Lampedusa and a New Life (OneWorld.net)

Bin Laden deputy Zawahri to lead al Qaeda (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 03:38 PM PDT Reuters - Al Qaeda's long-serving number two, Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahri, has taken over the leadership after the killing of Osama bin Laden, the group said on Islamist websites on Thursday.

Greek PM to name new cabinet, public seethes (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 03:45 PM PDT Reuters - Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou will name a new cabinet Friday to muster support for painful economic reforms, despite public unrest and a split in his party that could push the country closer to default.

Rebels dismiss election offer, NATO pounds Tripoli (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 03:34 PM PDT Reuters - NATO planes resumed bombardments of Tripoli after Muammar Gaddafi's son said the Libyan leader was willing to hold elections and step aside if he lost, an offer rejected by rebels and the United States.

Assad's tycoon cousin, target of protesters, quits (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 05:13 PM PDT Reuters - Syrian tycoon Rami Makhlouf, a cousin of President Bashar al-Assad and focus of anti-corruption protests, is quitting business, state media said, in a major concession to demonstrations against Assad's rule.

Sudan border state foes agree to talks: Mbeki (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 01:24 PM PDT Reuters - The warring parties in Sudan's Southern Kordofan border state have agreed hostilities should cease and that talks should start, former South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday.

Vancouver Riots: Hockey Fans Stick It to Their Own City (Time.com) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 04:40 PM PDT Time.com - Fueled by a combination of alcohol and anger over a defeat in the NHL finals, Vancouver fans raise hell in the Canadian city

Seven French children hospitalised by E. coli outbreak (AFP) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 02:30 PM PDT AFP - Seven children were hospitalised in France with E. coli infections after eating meat that may have been imported from Germany, but health authorities said there was no link to a similar bacteria outbreak there.

Al-Zawahri succeeds bin Laden as al-Qaida leader (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 05:19 PM PDT AP - Osama bin Laden's longtime second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, has taken control of al-Qaida, the group declared Thursday, marking the ascendancy of a man driven by hatred of the United States who helped plan the 9/11 attacks.

Panama: Nobody wants to buy Noriega's old mansion (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 04:26 PM PDT AP - Nobody wanted to buy former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega's old house — again.

Clinton accuses Kadhafi of using rape as a tool (AFP) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 03:35 PM PDT AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused the forces of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi on Thursday of using rape and violence against women as "tools of war."

India upstaged by Bravo as West Indies win (AFP) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 04:21 PM PDT AFP - World champions India were trumped by half-centuries from Darren Bravo and Ramnaresh Sarwan that guided West Indies to a second consolation victory in the final One-day International on Thursday.

Air Canada, CAW in pension compromise; strike over (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 02:45 PM PDT Reuters - Air Canada Inc and striking customer service workers reached a tentative contract agreement on Thursday, settling on a compromise on the biggest obstacle to a deal: the issue of pension benefits and who should pay for them.

Aussie parliament condemns Malaysian refugee deal (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 03:27 AM PDT AP - Prime Minister Julia Gillard said her government will forge ahead with a proposed referee swap deal with Malaysia despite the Australian parliament condemning the policy in a rare show of defiance Thursday.

Nicaragua quake survivors get new homes - 40 years after disaster (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:04 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - When Guillermo Martin Treminio's house crumbled in the 1972 earthquake that leveled Nicaragua's capital, killing 10,000 people and destroying 50,000 buildings and homes, he had nowhere to go. So he moved his family into a crumbling apartment building in downtown Managua that the wealthy had abandoned.

Greece's Government Faces Anger over Austerity Measures (Time.com) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 04:40 PM PDT Time.com - Prime Minister George Papandreou vows to stay in office, name a new Cabinet and lead Greece out of the debt crisis. But will it satisfy Greeks and the markets?

World's most dangerous locales for women: Why is India so high on the list? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 06:53 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - A study released this week named Afghanistan the most dangerous country for women, with Pakistan and India following closely behind. But while serious problems exist for women in these places, women’s rights activists say there is also an emerging public awareness in all three countries about problems that were previously seen as too taboo to address in public.

By Boat to Lampedusa and a New Life (OneWorld.net) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 01:49 PM PDT OneWorld.net - LAMPEDUSA, Jun 16 (IRIN) - When Sonny Johnson left Tripoli for the Italian island Lampedusa in a wooden fishing boat, he feared he might never set foot on dry land again. But for Johnson, from a small village in eastern Sierra Leone, it was worth the risk.

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