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• Syrian forces kill 5 civilians in clampdown (Reuters)
• Argentine leader picks Boudou as running mate (Reuters)
• Prominent China dissident Hu Jia freed from (Reuters)
• Ex-Ukraine PM to go on trial for abuse of power (Reuters)
• NATO says hit military targets in Libya's Brega (Reuters)
• Future of Air Travel: Airbus Predicts 'Transparent' Airplanes, 9 Billion Customers, By 2050 (Time.com)
• Sri Lanka's Kandamby glad of Jayasuriya input (AFP)
• Latest developments in Arab world's unrest (AP)
• Venezuela reports seizure of 5.5 tons of cocaine (AP)
• NATO denies Libya claim raids kill more civilians (AFP)
• China releases human rights activist Hu Jia: wife (AFP)
• Ill penguin stranded in NZ is offered a lift home (AP)
• Egyptian men explain their relentless catcalls (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Has the Revolution Left Egypt's Workers Behind? (Time.com)
• Libya war cuts financial lifeline for Ghana (The Christian Science Monitor)

Syrian forces kill 5 civilians in clampdown (Reuters) Posted: 25 Jun 2011 02:57 PM PDT Reuters - Syrian security forces shot dead five civilians during funerals which turned into protests against President Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Argentine leader picks Boudou as running mate (Reuters) Posted: 25 Jun 2011 05:21 PM PDT Reuters - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez picked her economy minister, Amado Boudou, to be her running mate as she seeks re-election in an October 23 election, praising his role in a long economic

Prominent China dissident Hu Jia freed from (Reuters) Posted: 25 Jun 2011 04:17 PM PDT Reuters - One of China's most prominent dissidents, Hu Jia, was reunited with his family in the early hours of Sunday after serving three-and-a-half-years in jail on subversion charges, but he was not ready to speak in public, his wife said.

Ex-Ukraine PM to go on trial for abuse of power (Reuters) Posted: 25 Jun 2011 02:40 PM PDT Reuters - Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko must stand trial next Wednesday on a charge of abuse of power, a judge ruled in a pre-trial hearing late on Saturday.

NATO says hit military targets in Libya's Brega (Reuters) Posted: 25 Jun 2011 03:45 PM PDT Reuters - NATO said on Saturday its missiles had hit a site in Libya used by Muammar Gaddafi's forces to stockpile military supplies and vehicles, while Gaddafi's state media said 15 civilians had been killed.

Future of Air Travel: Airbus Predicts 'Transparent' Airplanes, 9 Billion Customers, By 2050 (Time.com) Posted: 25 Jun 2011 07:05 AM 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

Sri Lanka's Kandamby glad of Jayasuriya input (AFP) Posted: 25 Jun 2011 05:11 PM PDT AFP - Sri Lanka stand-in skipper Thilina Kandamby insisted he had no problems with Sanath Jayasuriya's brief return to international cricket after the veteran took two wickets in the Twenty20 victory against England.

Latest developments in Arab world's unrest (AP) Posted: 25 Jun 2011 02:39 PM PDT AP - Hundreds of Syrians, some with gunshot wounds, cross into neighboring Lebanon in search of a refuge from the growing government crackdown in their homeland, a Lebanese security official says. Other Syrians march in a funeral for victims of the crackdown outside Damascus, demanding President Bashar Assad's ouster.

Venezuela reports seizure of 5.5 tons of cocaine (AP) Posted: 25 Jun 2011 03:58 PM PDT AP - Venezuela's top security official says authorities have seized more than 5.5 tons of cocaine.

NATO denies Libya claim raids kill more civilians (AFP) Posted: 25 Jun 2011 12:18 PM PDT AFP - NATO came under verbal fire again on Saturday from Moamer Kadhafi's regime, which accused it of killing 15 more people in strikes on civilian sites in the eastern town of Brega, a claim promptly denied by the alliance.

China releases human rights activist Hu Jia: wife (AFP) Posted: 25 Jun 2011 05:02 PM PDT AFP - China has released high-profile human rights activist Hu Jia after he completed a sentence of more than three years for subversion, his wife said in a Twitter posting early on Sunday.

Ill penguin stranded in NZ is offered a lift home (AP) Posted: 25 Jun 2011 03:57 AM PDT AP - A young emperor penguin stranded in New Zealand has survived two medical procedures and now has an offer of a lift home.

Egyptian men explain their relentless catcalls (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 24 Jun 2011 02:24 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Mohammad Anter hands out flyers to evening crowds on a packed Cairo street, trying to catch the attention of any passerby â€" until one catches his.

Has the Revolution Left Egypt's Workers Behind? (Time.com) Posted: 24 Jun 2011 10:50 PM PDT Time.com - A class divide pervades the country's politics, with the lower classes demanding social and economic reforms while the upper classes focus on the constitution

Libya war cuts financial lifeline for Ghana (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 24 Jun 2011 12:52 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Once an important financial lifeline to Ghana, more than 18,000 Ghanaian migrant workers are back in their home country and unemployed after having fled the violence of the Libyan civil war.

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