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• Tunisia's Ben Ali sentenced in absentia to 35 years in jail (Reuters)
• Assad blames unrest on saboteurs, pledges reforms (Reuters)
• Fresh Libya civilian deaths pile pressure on NATO (Reuters)
• Forty dead in plane crash in northern Russia (Reuters)
• Egypt's ex-president Mubarak has cancer: lawyer (Reuters)
• Iceland's Face of Immigration Is Distinctly Polish (Time.com)
• Reports: 40 killed in Russian passenger jet crash (AP)
• Libya says NATO airstrike kills 15 west of capital (AP)
• Freed former Tijuana mayor says no hard feelings (AP)
• Nigerian Islamist kill 7 in police station, bank raid (AFP)
• Obama to reveal Afghan troop decision Wednesday (AFP)
• Government introduces bill to restore mail service (Reuters)
• Young Aboriginal prisoners are 'national crisis' (AP)
• Can fresh Morocco protests build momentum for reform? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• A Four-Legged Illegal Immigrant: The Sheep that Fled from Tunisia (Time.com)
• Karzai blasts US, NATO for 'using' Afghanistan, announces Taliban talks (The Christian Science Monitor)

Tunisia's Ben Ali sentenced in absentia to 35 years in jail (Reuters) Posted: 20 Jun 2011 04:07 PM PDT Reuters - A Tunisian court sentenced former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in absentia on Monday to 35 years in jail, six months after his overthrow in a revolution helped to inspire the "Arab Spring."

Assad blames unrest on saboteurs, pledges reforms (Reuters) Posted: 20 Jun 2011 12:04 PM PDT Reuters - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Monday pledged to introduce reforms within months to address a wave of protests against his rule, but blamed saboteurs for the unrest and warned that no deal could be reached with gunmen.

Fresh Libya civilian deaths pile pressure on NATO (Reuters) Posted: 20 Jun 2011 04:56 PM PDT Reuters - The Libyan government said on Monday 19 civilians were killed in a NATO air strike on the home of one of Muammar Gaddafi's top officials, a day after NATO admitted killing civilians in a separate aerial attack.

Forty dead in plane crash in northern Russia (Reuters) Posted: 20 Jun 2011 04:31 PM PDT Reuters - At least 40 people were killed when a Tupolev-134 plane broke up and caught fire on landing in northern Russia, an Emergency Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.

Egypt's ex-president Mubarak has cancer: lawyer (Reuters) Posted: 20 Jun 2011 09:33 AM PDT Reuters - Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak is suffering from cancer, his defense lawyer said on Monday, citing a medical report to assess whether the former leader is fit enough to face trial.

Iceland's Face of Immigration Is Distinctly Polish (Time.com) Posted: 20 Jun 2011 04:10 PM PDT Time.com - Although their numbers have been halved by the recent economic meltdown, Poles -- who now number an estimated 10,000 -- continue to be Iceland's largest ethnic minority.

Reports: 40 killed in Russian passenger jet crash (AP) Posted: 20 Jun 2011 04:49 PM PDT AP - Forty people were killed when a passenger jet crashed late Monday in northwestern Russia, news agencies said.

Libya says NATO airstrike kills 15 west of capital (AP) Posted: 20 Jun 2011 04:58 PM PDT AP - Libya's government said a NATO airstrike west of Tripoli early Monday destroyed a large family compound belonging to a close associate of Moammar Gadhafi, killing at least 15 people, including three children. It was the second claim of civilian deaths at a home in as many days.

Freed former Tijuana mayor says no hard feelings (AP) Posted: 20 Jun 2011 04:37 PM PDT AP - The eccentric former mayor of Tijuana says he has no hard feelings toward Mexican officials following his 10-day imprisonment after a military raid that yielded an arsenal of illegal weapons in his house.

Nigerian Islamist kill 7 in police station, bank raid (AFP) Posted: 20 Jun 2011 04:04 PM PDT AFP - Suspected members of the radical Boko Haram Islamist sect on Monday staged simultaneous bomb and gun attacks on a police station and a bank killing seven people, witnesses and local journalists said.

Obama to reveal Afghan troop decision Wednesday (AFP) Posted: 20 Jun 2011 04:39 PM PDT AFP - President Barack Obama will announce the size of his drawdown of US troops from Afghanistan on Wednesday, mapping out an endgame for a 10-year war that has exacted a fearsome human and financial toll.

Government introduces bill to restore mail service (Reuters) Posted: 20 Jun 2011 01:59 PM PDT Reuters - The government introduced legislation on Monday to force an end to a labor disruption at Canada Post and restore national mail service in a matter of days.

Young Aboriginal prisoners are 'national crisis' (AP) Posted: 20 Jun 2011 03:17 AM PDT AP - Australia's burgeoning population of young Aboriginal prisoners is a "national crisis" that needs urgent and wide-ranging government action, a parliamentary report warned Monday.

Can fresh Morocco protests build momentum for reform? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 19 Jun 2011 02:12 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Morocco's pro-democracy activists launched fresh protests Sunday, despite King Mohammed VI's Friday speech announcing a draft constitution that would limit the powers of his country’s centuries-old monarchy.

A Four-Legged Illegal Immigrant: The Sheep that Fled from Tunisia (Time.com) Posted: 20 Jun 2011 04:10 PM PDT Time.com - A sheep that crossed the sea from Tunisia adds a light twist to the daily human drama of immigrants landing on the Italian island of Lampedusa. But the warmth doesn't last.

Karzai blasts US, NATO for 'using' Afghanistan, announces Taliban talks (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 19 Jun 2011 09:22 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - In what’s become a familiar pattern, Afghan President Hamid Karzai delivered a speech on Saturday afternoon blasting the US and NATO for “using our country.”

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