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• U.N. Council urged to act; Syria forces retake Damascus suburbs (Reuters)
• Greece must pledge tough reforms for debt swap deal (Reuters)
• Cargo ship sinks off Turkey, 8 crew missing (Reuters)
• Egypt sent back U.S. request to lift travel (Reuters)
• Italian authorities end search for cruise ship bodies (Reuters)
• Italy: Neo-Fascists Claim Ezra Pound, His Family Protests (Time.com)
• Assange to appeal extradition to UK's top court (Reuters)
• Israeli PM wins primary, offers settler grants (AP)
• Mexican general, 29 soldiers on trial for homicide (AP)
• 1 dead as Senegal protest turns violent (AP)
• US confirms possible release of Taliban from Gitmo (AP)
• Insight: Borrowing spree pushes Canadians to edge of debt cliff (Reuters)
• Aussie mom clueless about US murder victim's ashes (AP)
• African Union summit: disunity on display (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Afghanistan: The Taliban's Momentum Seems Not Broken (Time.com)
• As Tibetan New Year approaches, China tightens grip (The Christian Science Monitor)

U.N. Council urged to act; Syria forces retake Damascus suburbs (Reuters) Posted: 31 Jan 2012 03:19 PM PST Reuters - Arab and Western states urged the U.N. Security Council to act swiftly on a resolution calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step aside as his government's forces reasserted control of Damascus suburbs on Tuesday after beating back rebels at the gates of the capital.

Greece must pledge tough reforms for debt swap deal (Reuters) Posted: 31 Jan 2012 12:39 PM PST Reuters - Greece must make "difficult" decisions in the coming days to clinch a debt swap agreement and a 130 billion euro bailout package needed to avoid an unruly default, the government said on Tuesday.

Cargo ship sinks off Turkey, 8 crew missing (Reuters) Posted: 31 Jan 2012 01:03 PM PST Reuters - A dry cargo ship sank off the Black Sea coast of Turkey Tuesday and eight members of the 11-strong Polish crew were missing, Turkish media said.

Egypt sent back U.S. request to lift travel (Reuters) Posted: 31 Jan 2012 03:48 PM PST Reuters - Egypt's justice minister said on Tuesday he had sent back a letter from the U.S. ambassador that asked for an end to a travel ban on Americans being investigated for alleged illegal funding of pro-democracy groups.

Italian authorities end search for cruise ship bodies (Reuters) Posted: 31 Jan 2012 07:40 AM PST Reuters - Italian authorities have ended the search for bodies in the submerged sections of the capsized Costa Concordia, more than two weeks after the giant cruise liner capsized off the Tuscan coast, officials said on Tuesday.

Italy: Neo-Fascists Claim Ezra Pound, His Family Protests (Time.com) Posted: 31 Jan 2012 01:20 PM PST Time.com - In Italy, neo-fascists have seized on the American writer name and wartime activity to burnish their own ambitions. His survivors are suing to stop it

Assange to appeal extradition to UK's top court (Reuters) Posted: 31 Jan 2012 04:43 PM PST Reuters - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will appeal to Britain's Supreme Court Wednesday not to extradite him to Sweden over accusations of sex crimes, a move that could push his anti-secrecy website further toward oblivion.

Israeli PM wins primary, offers settler grants (AP) Posted: 31 Jan 2012 04:01 PM PST AP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won the leadership race of his Likud Party over his ultranationalist rival early Wednesday, hours after his government approved new incentives to entice people to move to West Bank settlements.

Mexican general, 29 soldiers on trial for homicide (AP) Posted: 31 Jan 2012 04:21 PM PST AP - A Mexican army general and 29 soldiers under his command in a town on the border with Texas are being tried on charges of torture, homicide, drug trafficking and other crimes, a top government official confirmed Tuesday.

1 dead as Senegal protest turns violent (AP) Posted: 31 Jan 2012 04:06 PM PST AP - Police opened fire with tear gas on demonstrators Tuesday, leaving at least one person dead in Senegal's capital where hundreds had gathered to protest a court ruling allowing the nation's elderly leader to run for another term.

US confirms possible release of Taliban from Gitmo (AP) Posted: 31 Jan 2012 04:04 PM PST AP - U.S. intelligence officials acknowledged Tuesday that the United States may release several Afghan Taliban prisoners from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as an incentive to bring the Taliban to peace talks.

Insight: Borrowing spree pushes Canadians to edge of debt cliff (Reuters) Posted: 31 Jan 2012 07:55 AM PST Reuters - The two giant jars on Randolph Taylor's windowsill are filled with shards of credit cards, chopped up by the clients whose staggering indebtedness drove them to the front line of Canada's household debt crisis.

Aussie mom clueless about US murder victim's ashes (AP) Posted: 31 Jan 2012 01:41 AM PST AP - The Australian mother of a 10-year-old disabled girl who was murdered by her American stepmother in North Carolina said Tuesday she has no idea what became of her daughter's ashes since the child's father brought them to Australia.

African Union summit: disunity on display (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 31 Jan 2012 07:46 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - For sheer murkiness, the African Union is in a world of its own.

Afghanistan: The Taliban's Momentum Seems Not Broken (Time.com) Posted: 31 Jan 2012 01:20 PM PST Time.com - A fighting unit's experiences in Kunar province poses doubts on President Obama's claim that the Afghan insurgency has been rocked back on its heels

As Tibetan New Year approaches, China tightens grip (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 31 Jan 2012 06:09 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The Chinese authorities in Tibet are stepping up security to contain a wave of ethnic unrest ahead of a sensitive few weeks in the Tibetan calendar that could test Beijing’s control of the region.

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