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• Syrian forces kill 15 protesters, activists say (Reuters)
• Hezbollah says finds three spies within group (Reuters)
• Sarkozy defends Libya mission as House keeps funding (Reuters)
• Yemenis pray for end to deadlock as blast rocks Aden (Reuters)
• Pakistan army rejects report on bin Laden's cellphone (Reuters)
• Future of Air Travel: Airbus Predicts 'Transparent' Airplanes, 9 Billion Customers, By 2050 (Time.com)
• 'Tax dodge' protest at U2 Glastonbury show turns violent (AFP)
• Mubarak supporters clash with opponents in Cairo (AP)
• Chavez's odd silence raises questions in Venezuela (AP)
• Tea party reps split on war cash for US in Libya (AP)
• Knee injury could trip up Shah Rukh Khan at awards show (AFP)
• Ex-media mogul Conrad Black sent back to prison (Reuters)
• Stranded penguin moved to NZ zoo, set for surgery (AP)
• Peru set to surpass Colombia as world's top coca producer (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Japanese Scientists Build a Perfect (and Fake) Pop Star (Time.com)
• Afghanistan war: The limits of targeting Taliban leaders (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Human Barricade Stops India's Big Ticket Steel Project (OneWorld.net)

Syrian forces kill 15 protesters, activists say (Reuters) Posted: 24 Jun 2011 03:20 PM PDT Reuters - Syrian security forces shot dead at least 15 people on Friday after tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets demanding the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad, witnesses and activists said.

Hezbollah says finds three spies within group (Reuters) Posted: 24 Jun 2011 01:28 PM PDT Reuters - Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Friday the group had captured three spies among its members, two of whom were recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Sarkozy defends Libya mission as House keeps funding (Reuters) Posted: 24 Jun 2011 03:42 PM PDT Reuters - France rejected on Friday U.S. criticism of Europe's performance in the NATO operation against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi while the U.S. administration survived Congressional anger in a funding vote.

Yemenis pray for end to deadlock as blast rocks Aden (Reuters) Posted: 24 Jun 2011 04:07 PM PDT Reuters - Tens of thousands of Yemenis protested in Sanaa on a "Friday of the Revolutionary Will" to press for the overthrow of their wounded president.

Pakistan army rejects report on bin Laden's cellphone (Reuters) Posted: 24 Jun 2011 09:42 AM PDT Reuters - The Pakistan army condemned Friday a report in the New York Times that a cellphone found in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden contained contacts to a militant group with ties to Pakistan's intelligence agency.

Future of Air Travel: Airbus Predicts 'Transparent' Airplanes, 9 Billion Customers, By 2050 (Time.com) Posted: 24 Jun 2011 12:45 PM PDT Time.com - Airbus engineers are coming up with startling new ideas for how planes could look -- and operate -- 40 years from now. By 2050, commercial aircraft may have transparent cabins, fly in formations and shuttle some 9 billion passengers

'Tax dodge' protest at U2 Glastonbury show turns violent (AFP) Posted: 24 Jun 2011 05:00 PM PDT AFP - Violence erupted in the crowd watching U2's debut performance at Britain's Glastonbury festival Friday, as security guards foiled a protest against the Irish rockers' tax status.

Mubarak supporters clash with opponents in Cairo (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2011 05:19 PM PDT AP - Supporters of Hosni Mubarak are clashing in central Cairo with opponents of the ousted Egyptian leader.

Chavez's odd silence raises questions in Venezuela (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2011 05:18 PM PDT AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is one of the world's most talkative leaders and his prolonged silence and seclusion in Cuba following surgery there two weeks ago is fueling speculation about his health.

Tea party reps split on war cash for US in Libya (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2011 05:15 PM PDT AP - The House's tea party caucus split on a major foreign policy vote Friday — whether to cut off money for air attacks in Libya — revealing a divide on the philosophical question of how often and under what terms the U.S. should intervene in foreign conflicts.

Knee injury could trip up Shah Rukh Khan at awards show (AFP) Posted: 24 Jun 2011 04:20 PM PDT AFP - A knee injury may scrub the long awaited return of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan to the Indian International Film Awards, he said Friday.

Ex-media mogul Conrad Black sent back to prison (Reuters) Posted: 24 Jun 2011 04:37 PM PDT Reuters - A U.S. judge on Friday ordered former media baron Conrad Black back to prison for 13 more months, cutting his original 6 1/2-year sentence nearly in half for remaining fraud and obstruction of justice convictions.

Stranded penguin moved to NZ zoo, set for surgery (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2011 08:14 AM PDT AP - A stranded emperor penguin was moved to a zoo Friday and scheduled for surgery as the young bird's health worsened in the New Zealand winter that is much warmer than its species' Antarctic home.

Peru set to surpass Colombia as world's top coca producer (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 23 Jun 2011 02:11 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - In its darkest years, Colombia held some unfortunate titles: the kidnapping capital of the world, home to the most murderous city, the most deadly place to be a union member and, of course, the main world producer of coca, the raw material used in making cocaine.

Japanese Scientists Build a Perfect (and Fake) Pop Star (Time.com) Posted: 24 Jun 2011 12:45 PM PDT Time.com - Eguchi Aimi is your typical Japanese pop star: perfect skin, high-pitched girlish voice, lithe figure, and a team of computer designers, photographers, and other pop stars artificially constructing her every movement

Afghanistan war: The limits of targeting Taliban leaders (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 23 Jun 2011 01:51 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - In his Afghanistan drawdown speech last night, President Obama said the US would start withdrawing troops from a position of strength, with Al Qaeda under “enormous strain.”

Human Barricade Stops India's Big Ticket Steel Project (OneWorld.net) Posted: 24 Jun 2011 02:57 AM PDT OneWorld.net - BHUBANESWAR, Jun 24 (IPS) - Fourteen-year-old Satikanta Sahu loves going to school, but these days, he would rather spend his time manning the barricade and facing down policemen in the sandy coastal village of Govindpur in India’s eastern state of Orissa.

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