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• Syria demands guarantees, rebels say peace plan doomed
• North Korea readies longer range rocket; Japan, South Korea wary
• Mexico's ruling party closes ranks around candidate
• Exclusive: Aid taps expected to open for new Malawi president: minister
• Helicopter crash kills 6 foreigners in Niger desert
• Brazil complains to Obama about monetary policy
• Egypt presidential rivals share secretive past
• Iran rules out conditions to talks: Salehi
• Peru's Shining Path rebels take hostages, free most
• Home-made bomb injures seven Bahrain policemen
• Syria fires over borders with Lebanon, Turkey
• Iran proposal joins jockeying before nuclear talks
• South Korea says North preparing for nuclear test
• Titanic memorial cruise delayed by strong winds
• San Pedro Sula's violence mirrors Honduras' pain
• Egypt's presidential race: An unexpected lineup
• Dior names Raf Simons as new artistic director
• Libya: Gadhafi son to be tried inside country
• Yemen: 64 killed in clashes with al-Qaida fighters
• UAE detains 6 activists critical of rulers

Syria demands guarantees, rebels say peace plan doomed Posted: Syria on Sunday demanded written guarantees insurgents will stop fighting before it pulls back troops under the terms of a U.N. peace plan, and a rebel leader said the initiative was doomed. "The regime will not implement this plan. This plan will fail," Free Syrian Army (FSA) chief Riad al-Asaad told Reuters. Escalating violence has already raised questions over the ceasefire. Opposition activists said dozens of people were killed and wounded on Sunday when President Bashar al-Assad's loyalists shelled a rebellious area near the border with Turkey. U.N. ...

North Korea readies longer range rocket; Japan, South Korea wary Posted: CHOLSAN, North Korea/SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has readied a rocket for a launch from a forested valley in its remote northwest this week that will showcase the reclusive state's ability to fire a missile with the capacity to hit the continental United States. Pyongyang says the rocket, to be launched this week, will only carry a weather satellite, but South Korea and the United States say it is a test of a ballistic missile. And although the risk of it veering off course is low, guidance remains its weakest point. ...

Mexico's ruling party closes ranks around candidate Posted: MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's ruling party overhauled its candidate's struggling presidential campaign on Monday, unveiling a new team and promising a more aggressive strategy to woo undecided voters after a string of public missteps in the first official week of the race. Josefina Vazquez Mota, aspiring to become Mexico's first woman president in the July 1 election, said her conservative National Action Party, or PAN, had been bogged down by infighting following a drawn-out primary. ...

Exclusive: Aid taps expected to open for new Malawi president: minister Posted: LILONGWE (Reuters) - Malawi's finance minister expects suspended international aid to be restored under its new president, Joyce Banda, helping prop up a budget increasingly under strain after the previous president picked fights with overseas donors. Finance Minister Ken Lipenga also told Reuters on Monday that former President Bingu wa Mutharika, who died on Thursday of a heart attack, had blocked plans called for by the International Monetary Fund to devalue the currency because he was worried the move would hurt the poor. ...

Helicopter crash kills 6 foreigners in Niger desert Posted: NIAMEY (Reuters) - Four Chinese employees from state oil firm CNPC and two French crew members were killed in a helicopter crash in Niger's Tenere desert, two Nigerien security sources said on Monday. Cash-strapped Niger began producing oil last year from its remote Agadem oil block, some 1,500 km (930 miles) east of the capital, in a $5 billion deal with China's CNPC. "We found the remains of the private helicopter that went missing when it flew over the desert, and all the occupants - the four Chinese and the two French crew members - were killed," a military officer said. ...

Brazil complains to Obama about monetary policy Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff complained about U.S. monetary policy and failed to make major progress on trade in a White House meeting with President Barack Obama on Monday, highlighting strains between the Western Hemisphere's two biggest economies. Rousseff said that while expansionary monetary policies in wealthy nations were needed to keep global economic problems from becoming worse, she worried about the unintended consequences for developing countries such as Brazil. ...

Egypt presidential rivals share secretive past Posted: CAIRO (Reuters) - They sit at opposite ends of Egypt's political spectrum and one of them was jailed by a government in which the other was chief of intelligence. Now they both want to be president. The Muslim Brotherhood's Khairat al-Shater and Hosni Mubarak's head spy Omar Suleiman have moved firmly into the public eye as last-minute contenders in the presidential election, redrawing the electoral map just weeks before voting. ...

Iran rules out conditions to talks: Salehi Posted: DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Iran would not agree to world powers imposing pre-conditions ahead of the resumption of nuclear talks later this week, Iranian media reported on Monday. "Setting conditions before the meeting means drawing conclusions, which is completely meaningless and none of the parties will accept conditions set before the talks," the Iranian parliamentary news agency quoted him as saying. U.S. ...

Peru's Shining Path rebels take hostages, free most Posted: LIMA (Reuters) - Shining Path rebels brazenly kidnapped dozens of workers in Peru's natural gas industry on Monday before letting most of them go hours later in a remote jungle, officials and local radio said. At least 23 of 30 hostages have been freed, RPP radio said. Most kidnap victims were employees of the Swedish firm Skanska, which services a natural gas pipeline in southeastern Peru, officials said. ...

Home-made bomb injures seven Bahrain policemen Posted: DUBAI (Reuters) - Seven Bahraini policemen were wounded, three of them seriously, when a home-made bomb exploded on Monday, an Interior Ministry spokesman said, during a protest near the capital calling for the release of an activist on a two-month hunger strike. Protesters threw petrol bombs at riot police to lure officers into Eker, a Shi'ite village outside the capital Manama, before the rare explosion was set off, the spokesman said. ...

Syria fires over borders with Lebanon, Turkey Posted: Syrian forces opened fire across two tense borders Monday, killing a TV journalist in Lebanon and wounding at least six people in a refugee camp in Turkey on the eve of a deadline for a cease-fire plan that seems all but certain to fail.

Iran proposal joins jockeying before nuclear talks Posted: Iran is signaling a possible compromise offer heading into critical talks with world powers deeply suspicious of its nuclear program: offering to scale back uranium enrichment but not abandon the ability to make nuclear fuel.

South Korea says North preparing for nuclear test Posted: Recent satellite images show North Korea is digging a new underground tunnel in what appears to be preparation for a third nuclear test, according to South Korean intelligence officials.

Titanic memorial cruise delayed by strong winds Posted: A memorial cruise retracing the route of the Titanic 100 years since it sank has been slightly delayed because of high winds, a spokeswoman for the cruise said Monday.

San Pedro Sula's violence mirrors Honduras' pain Posted: This is a city besieged by crime in all its forms: gang violence, drug cartel killings and rampant extortion compounded by a fear of authorities.

Egypt's presidential race: An unexpected lineup Posted: The race for Egypt's first president after ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak was not supposed to look like this.

Dior names Raf Simons as new artistic director Posted: Christian Dior has named Belgian designer Raf Simons as its new artistic director, seven months after its icon, John Galliano, was convicted by a Paris court for drunken anti-Semitic ravings.

Libya: Gadhafi son to be tried inside country Posted: Moammar Gadhafi's son and former heir apparent Seif al-Islam will be put on trial inside Libya and there will be a verdict before mid-June, a Libyan official said Monday.

Yemen: 64 killed in clashes with al-Qaida fighters Posted: An al-Qaida attack on a Yemeni army post in the south set off clashes that left 64 people dead on Monday and prompted local civilians to take up arms alongside the military to beat back the militants, said army officials and residents.

UAE detains 6 activists critical of rulers Posted: Six activists in the United Arab Emirates previously stripped of their citizenship for criticizing the country's rulers were detained on Monday and told they were illegally residing in the oil-rich union, one of their attorneys said.

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