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• Syrian tanks enter northern town, Homs pounded again
• North Korea meetings set to boost young leader's power
• Deadly clashes in Egypt after soccer club banned
• Bahrain police battle to control streets in flashpoint town
• EU names 17 Iranians sanctioned over human rights
• Chavez returning to Cuba for radiation therapy
• Palestinian PM says freed U.S. aid to help ease crisis
• U.N.-African delegation tells Mali junta to go
• Al Qaeda group claims German citizen kidnap
• Mexican parties don't meet women candidate quotas
• Egyptian parliament selects constitution panel
• Obama confronts nuke threat on N. Korea front line
• Amid war fears, some Israelis reach out to Iran
• Pope's arrival in Mexico sparks surprising emotion
• Syrian forces shell towns, clash with rebels
• Afghan father tries to cope with shooting rampage
• Egypt soccer fans, troops clash; 1 killed
• AP Interview: Mali coup head dismisses countercoup
• Wedding crasher: UK queen drops in on ceremony
• Egypt's Brotherhood to hold talks with government
• Police evict indigenous Easter Island protesters
• Cuban opposition leader urges end to hunger strike

Syrian tanks enter northern town, Homs pounded again Posted: Syrian forces pounded the central city of Homs with mortar fire while troops backed by heavy armor stormed rebellious towns across the country on Saturday, leaving six civilians and four soldiers dead, opposition activists said. Ignoring a U.N. Security Council call for an end to hostilities, President Bashar al-Assad's forces clashed with rebel fighters and bombarded several towns and cities, aiming to crush a year-long uprising against the government. ...

North Korea meetings set to boost young leader's power Posted: North Korea said on Saturday it will hold a special parliamentary session next month during which the reclusive country's new young leader, Kim Jong-un, is expected to be given a top title aimed at consolidating his grip on power. The North has planned a series of events next month to mark the centenary of the birth of the state's founder, Kim Il-sung, including a rare ruling party conference and the controversial launch of a ballistic rocket it says will carry a satellite. ...

Deadly clashes in Egypt after soccer club banned Posted: CAIRO (Reuters) - One person was shot dead and at least 65 injured when security forces clashed with angry soccer fans in Egypt's Port Said protesting against an order to suspend their club over the country's worst stadium disaster, a medical source said. The Egyptian Football Association (EFA) banned the club, al-Masry, for two seasons on Friday for a pitch invasion that killed 74 fans last month, the most deadly incident since the protests that toppled President Hosni Mubarak last year. ...

Bahrain police battle to control streets in flashpoint town Posted: SITRA, Bahrain (Reuters) - Bahraini police clashed with anti-government protesters on Saturday at a Shi'ite town where residents tried to demonstrate against the Gulf Arab state's holding of a Formula One race next month. Hundreds of riot police backed by dark blue armored vehicles and jeeps patrolled the streets of Sitra, a poor district southeast of Manama where youths threw petrol bombs and stones at security forces who responded with tear gas canisters, Reuters witnesses said. ...

EU names 17 Iranians sanctioned over human rights Posted: BRUSSELS/DUBAI (Reuters) - The European Union has imposed sanctions on 17 Iranian officials, including prominent members of the government and the judiciary it says play a key role in serious human rights violations. Agreed by EU foreign ministers on Friday, the new sanctions list, published on Saturday, includes the minister of information and communication, Reza Taqipour, and the head of Iran's state broadcasting network (IRIB), Ezzatollah Zarghami. ...

Chavez returning to Cuba for radiation therapy Posted: CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will return to Cuba to begin radiation treatment for cancer on Sunday, but said he was in good shape and would be back home in several days. Since returning to Caracas from Havana a week ago after a third operation in less than a year to remove a malignant tumor from his pelvis, the 57-year-old socialist leader had been saying he would begin radiation therapy soon. ...

Palestinian PM says freed U.S. aid to help ease crisis Posted: RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Saturday the release of $88.6 million in development funds by U.S. lawmakers would help ease a fiscal crisis in the aid-dependant Palestinian economy. "This is very important in order to help us deal with the economic crisis," Fayyad told reporters in Ramallah. In August Republican lawmakers put a hold on $147 million in U.S. assistance because they objected to a Palestinian push for recognition at the United Nations, arguing that Palestinian statehood should be achieved through peace talks with Israel. ...

U.N.-African delegation tells Mali junta to go Posted: BAMAKO (Reuters) - A delegation of U.N. and African officials has told the military junta that seized power in Mali on Wednesday night to hand back power, saying its plan to fix Mali's problems and restore security before stepping down will not work. The message was delivered on Friday during a lightning visit by U.N. and African Union officials and the head of the regional ECOWAS Commission, the U.N. Secretary General's special representative for West Africa, Said Djinnit, told Reuters by phone on Saturday. ...

Al Qaeda group claims German citizen kidnap Posted: DUBAI (Reuters) - A group claiming to be al Qaeda's north African wing said it had kidnapped a German man and demanded the release of a Muslim woman imprisoned in Germany in exchange for his freedom. In a statement posted on Islamist Internet forums, the group, which called itself al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), named its German hostage as Edgar Fritz Raupach, without saying where he had been seized or where he was being held. ...

Mexican parties don't meet women candidate quotas Posted: Two of Mexico's three largest political parties have said they have not been able to comply with a legal requirement to reserve 40 percent of their congressional candidacies for women, electoral authorities said Saturday.

Egyptian parliament selects constitution panel Posted: Egypt's Islamists looked poised Saturday to dominate a key lever of power that will help determine the country's political future as parliament selected a panel to draw up the country's new constitution. Liberal lawmakers denounced the process as a "farce" and walked out in protest.

Obama confronts nuke threat on N. Korea front line Posted: President Barack Obama is opening his pitch for faster work to lock down nuclear material that could be used by terrorists with an up-close look at the nuclear front lines along the heavily militarized border with volatile North Korea.

Amid war fears, some Israelis reach out to Iran Posted: Ruthie Pliskin didn't want Israel's threats of a possible military strike to be the only message her country had for Iran. So the doctoral student from Tel Aviv posted a photo of herself and her cat on Facebook, with a sign in Farsi reading: "We love you, people of Iran."

Pope's arrival in Mexico sparks surprising emotion Posted: It had become tradition in Mexico. Before daybreak, youths would creep as close as security permitted and serenade their beloved Pope John Paul II with a song of greeting and celebration.

Syrian forces shell towns, clash with rebels Posted: Syrian troops shelled rebellious areas in central and northern Syria on Saturday in the latest push to quash the uprising against President Bashar Assad, but faced fierce resistance from army defectors, activists said.

Afghan father tries to cope with shooting rampage Posted: Mohammad Wazir can barely take a sip of water because it reminds him of his 7-year-old daughter, who brought him a glass three days before she was killed with 10 other loved ones in a shooting spree allegedly carried out by a U.S. soldier in southern Afghanistan.

Egypt soccer fans, troops clash; 1 killed Posted: Egyptian soldiers clashed with thousands of angry soccer fans in a Mediterranean coastal city over the suspension of their club following a deadly riot last month, witnesses said Saturday. A medical official said a teenager was killed and 68 people injured.

AP Interview: Mali coup head dismisses countercoup Posted: Mali's U.S.-trained coup leader said Saturday he is in control of the country, has no fears of a countercoup and wants peace talks with the rebels whose northern rebellion was the trigger that led him to oust a democratically elected president.

Wedding crasher: UK queen drops in on ceremony Posted: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has become a wedding crasher.

Egypt's Brotherhood to hold talks with government Posted: Egypt's largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, said it would begin talks Sunday with the government to try to end the country's political crisis but made clear it would insist on the immediate ouster of longtime authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak.

Police evict indigenous Easter Island protesters Posted: Relatives of activists occupying a posh Easter Island hotel say Chilean police have raided and removed the last of the indigenous protesters. They have been battling for ancestral lands and a share of profits from the thousands of tourists who come to see the Pacific Island's famed statues of giant heads.

Cuban opposition leader urges end to hunger strike Posted: A leader of the Ladies in White opposition group says she will urge a colleague to end a 10-day old hunger strike she launched to demand freedom for her jailed husband.

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