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• U.S. urges Gaddafi to go as rebels claim oil town (Reuters)
• Assad loyalists kill 10 in attacks in Homs (Reuters)
• Egyptian PM taken to hospital, new cabinet delayed (Reuters)
• Iraq eyes U.S. trainers, not troops, after 2011 (Reuters)
• Russia says militant attack foiled in Moscow (Reuters)
• Why The United Arab Emirates Did Not Have an Arab Spring (Time.com)
• Greek FM says European debt deal is 'attainable' (AP)
• Egypt military rulers name electoral council head (AP)
• No doubt Chavez will run in 2012 vote, aide says (AP)
• Secrets of Somali pirates revealed in new book (AP)
• Gen. Petraeus hands over command in Afghanistan (AP)
• Canada calls for aggressive European debt action (Reuters)
• 7,500 earthquakes shake resolve in NZealand city (AP)
• Rebekah Brooks' fall from grace (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Sex-Trade Advertising: Don't Ply for Me, Argentina (Time.com)
• With Hugo Chávez in Cuba for chemotherapy, who's running Venezuela? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Vandana Shiva calls for end to Indian seed poker (OneWorld.net)

U.S. urges Gaddafi to go as rebels claim oil town (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jul 2011 05:14 PM PDT Reuters - Libyan and U.S. officials met face-to-face, but while Tripoli said it was seeking talks with no preconditions, Washington said it delivered a clear message: Muammar Gaddafi must go.

Assad loyalists kill 10 in attacks in Homs (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jul 2011 03:46 PM PDT Reuters - Syrian forces and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad killed 10 people in attacks on residential districts in Homs on Monday, the Local Coordination Committees activist group said.

Egyptian PM taken to hospital, new cabinet delayed (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jul 2011 04:29 PM PDT Reuters - Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf was taken to hospital because of blood pressure problems on Monday, and the swearing in of a much-changed cabinet was delayed.

Iraq eyes U.S. trainers, not troops, after 2011 (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jul 2011 06:12 AM PDT Reuters - Iraq wants the United States to supply several thousand trainers for its military but is unlikely to ask Washington to extend its troop presence beyond a year-end deadline, Iraqi security and political sources say.

Russia says militant attack foiled in Moscow (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jul 2011 07:09 AM PDT Reuters - Russia's top security official said on Monday that authorities had averted a "large terrorist attack" in the Moscow area by militants armed with homemade bombs and other weapons.

Why The United Arab Emirates Did Not Have an Arab Spring (Time.com) Posted: 18 Jul 2011 04:15 PM PDT Time.com - A trial of five dissidents in Abu Dhabi is met with a demonstration heartily in favor of the Gulf states' rulers

Greek FM says European debt deal is 'attainable' (AP) Posted: 18 Jul 2011 04:42 PM PDT AP - A European debt deal is "attainable" at an emergency EU summit Thursday, Greece's finance minister said, signaling progress in talks between European governments and private bond holders in drawing up a new rescue deal for Greece.

Egypt military rulers name electoral council head (AP) Posted: 18 Jul 2011 02:46 PM PDT AP - Egypt's military rulers commissioned a top judge Monday to form an electoral commission, starting the process of organizing the country's first elections after the popular uprising that ousted authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak.

No doubt Chavez will run in 2012 vote, aide says (AP) Posted: 18 Jul 2011 04:27 PM PDT AP - An aide to Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez said Monday that there is no doubt the president will run for re-election next year despite his struggle with cancer.

Secrets of Somali pirates revealed in new book (AP) Posted: 18 Jul 2011 04:54 PM PDT AP - The pirates were nervous. A rookie author — a white man from Canada — had unexpectedly arrived in their cliff-top Somali village to ask about the captured ship anchored offshore.

Gen. Petraeus hands over command in Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 18 Jul 2011 05:02 PM PDT AP - Gen. David Petraeus handed over command of the Afghan war to Marine Gen. John Allen on Monday as the U.S. and its international partners prepare to withdraw over the next few years.

Canada calls for aggressive European debt action (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jul 2011 01:01 PM PDT Reuters - Europe's debt problem will get harder and more expensive to solve unless European leaders act aggressively to deal with it, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Monday.

7,500 earthquakes shake resolve in NZealand city (AP) Posted: 18 Jul 2011 09:12 AM PDT AP - It's been 10 months since the first big earthquake struck New Zealand's second-largest city. It's been nearly five months since a far more devastating one killed 181 people and crippled the downtown. And it's been just a few hours since yet another aftershock startled Christchurch residents during the night.

Rebekah Brooks' fall from grace (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 17 Jul 2011 12:29 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Rebekah Brooks dined with Britain's prime minister over Christmas and got a public show of support from her boss Rupert Murdoch before the cameras this month as allegations of phone hacking on her watch mounted.Now the 43-year-old U.K. media executive is a criminal suspect, her world of power and connections shattered by scandal.Brooks, who quit as head of Murdoch's British newspapers Friday, was arrested Sunday in a widening investigation into years of alleged phone hacking of hundreds of celebrities, politicians and even murder victims, as well as bribing police for information, at the now-shuttered tabloid News of the World.The arrest sealed Brooks' swift transformation from one of Britain's most powerful female executives to a figure of scorn and even parody.On Sunday, an Irish discount airline seized on perceptions of Brooks as an outlaw, placing an ad in The Observer newspaper that showed a photograph of the longtime Murdoch confidant, said to be so close to him that she was seen as family."Hacked Off with High Fares... I'm outta here with Ryanair!" the caption crowed.The implications of Brooks' arrest stretch far beyond her own circumstances, with questions about the extent to which the scandal rocking Britain's media establishment will dismantle the chain of command in Murdoch's business empire and erode the stature of Prime Minister David Cameron and other politicians who had once-cozy ties to the 80-year-old press baron.Another of Murdoch's chief executives, Wall Street Journal publisher Les Hinton, also had to resign Friday after more than 50 years with Murdoch. James Murdoch, head of European and Asian operations for his father's company, News Corp., is under increasing scrutiny. He and the senior Murdoch, along with Brooks, face questioning Tuesday by British lawmakers investigating the scandal.Brooks has been at the center of the storm since the scandal broke.Recognizable by a long shock of curly red hair, the 43-year-old Brooks was a loyal lieutenant of Murdoch and served as editor of the News of the World for part of the time when the tabloid's journalists allegedly hacked into telephone messages.Reports of illegal eavesdropping had percolated for years, but revelations that journalist had hacked into the voice mail of a 13-year-old murder victim, Milly Dowler, in 2002 caused a public uproar.The scandal was deemed toxic for the tabloid, and Murdoch shut down the 168-year-old newspaper. Brooks was vilified for initially clinging to her job while 200 other journalists lost theirs.Brooks' career with the News of the World began in 1989, after briefly working for Murdoch's group as a secretary. She started as a features writer, then became features editor, associate editor and ultimately deputy editor. She left the tabloid in 1998 to become deputy editor of Murdoch's other London tabloid, The Sun, where she stayed for two years.When Brooks returned to the News of the World as editor in 2000, she was only 31 years old â€" a feat for Britain's press establishment.She peppered the tabloid with celebrity scandals, and drew praise for using the newspaper as a platform to help get sex offender legislation, known as "Sarah's Law," passed in Britain. Brooks' controversial campaign to publicly identify pedophiles drew criticism from some police, who said it disrupted investigations and could lead to cases of mistaken identity, but she defended it on the grounds that the public had the right to know.In another stint at The Sun, another Murdoch tabloid, Brooks became its first female editor in 2003. She thumbed her nose at critics who expected her to end tabloid's daily topless model pictures on page 3, attaching a headline that said "Rebekah from Wapping" to the photo of a nude model of the same name on her first day on the job.Six years and a host of scoops later, Brooks was named chief executive of News International, joining the elite circle of Murdoch confidants.No longer drafting the headlines from her perch in the executive suite, Brooks has still made plenty of them â€" from her lunches and social calls with top politicians to one unusual brush with the law.In 2005, Brooks was arrested for allegedly attacking her husband, soap-opera star Ross Kemp. No charges were filed.Brooks's second marriage, to former racehorse trainer Charlie Brooks, came in 2009. The couple have been known to rub shoulders with some of Britain's most prominent politicians and appear at society events from Windsor Castle to Wimbledon.Brooks cultivated a close friendship not just with Cameron of the Conservative Party, but with the wives of ex-Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair of Labour.

Sex-Trade Advertising: Don't Ply for Me, Argentina (Time.com) Posted: 18 Jul 2011 04:15 PM PDT Time.com - Prostitution is legal in Argentina but illegal and exploitative brothel owners still exist. President Cristina FernÁndez's new edict aims to shut them down. Or does she have another target in mind?

With Hugo Chávez in Cuba for chemotherapy, who's running Venezuela? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 17 Jul 2011 11:13 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez touched down last night at Havana’s José Martí airport in another twist in the tale of his newly public battle with cancer.

Vandana Shiva calls for end to Indian seed poker (OneWorld.net) Posted: 18 Jul 2011 08:37 AM PDT OneWorld.net - July 18 (OneWorld.net) - The Indian scientist and environmental activist, Dr Vandana Shiva, has taunted the world's major biotechnology companies for adopting crop seed research methods which require no more skills than betting in a lottery.

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