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• Incensed Spain threatens Argentina after YPF seizure
• U.N. sees need for more Syria observers, aircraft
• Stirring Mexican volcano closes schools, raises alert
• Fiery Argentine leader guided by husband's legacy
• Mexican poll points to big win for PRI's Pena Nieto
• Palestinian prisoners launch "battle of empty stomachs"
• AU suspends Guinea-Bissau for coup, talks under way
• Egypt vote chaos boosts Moussa, Abol Fotouh
• Exclusive: Italy puts back balanced budget goal by a year: draft
• Sudan says cost no bar to recapture of oil region
• Norway killer expounds on fanatical views at trial
• World powers cling to Syria truce despite violence
• Italian freed after 2011 abduction in N. Africa
• Gulf bloc united over island dispute with Iran
• UK: 2 held in protest vigil at Bahrain embassy
• US stocks jump after strong profits; Spain soothes
• Egypt panel definitively bars 3 president hopefuls
• IKEA to sell TV's integrated into its furniture
• Bid Laden's family to leave Pakistan overnight
• Swedish museum evacuated after bomb threat

Incensed Spain threatens Argentina after YPF seizure Posted: MADRID (Reuters) - An incensed Spain threatened swift economic retaliation against Argentina on Tuesday after it unveiled plans to seize YPF, the South American nation's biggest oil company which is controlled by Spanish energy group Repsol. Madrid called in Argentina's ambassador over the nationalization order on Monday by Argentina's combative president, Cristina Fernandez, a move that sent Repsol shares tumbling but delighted many ordinary Argentines. "I must express my profound unease. It's a negative decision for everyone," Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said. ...

U.N. sees need for more Syria observers, aircraft Posted: BEIRUT (Reuters) - A United Nations mission to oversee an end to violence in Syria may need to bring in its own aircraft and deploy more troops to ensure that a firm ceasefire takes hold throughout the country, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday. A six-day-old truce has held in some parts of Syria since President Bashar al-Assad pledged to enforce it last week. But in strong opposition areas such as Homs, Hama, Idlib and Deraa the army continues to attack and battle rebels, using heavy weapons in violation of the pledge by Damascus to pull back. ...

Stirring Mexican volcano closes schools, raises alert Posted: SAN PEDRO BENITO JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - A powerful plume of steam and ash rose from the Popocatepetl volcano in central Mexico on Tuesday, prompting local schools to cancel classes and emergency teams to prepare for evacuations. The volcano's lava dome started to expand on Friday, suggesting fresh magma may be pushing upwards. It spewed red-hot fragments and lightly dusted cars and streets in some small towns in the state of Puebla, television images showed. ...

Fiery Argentine leader guided by husband's legacy Posted: BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez is a sharp-tongued widow bent on honoring her late husband's political legacy by boosting state control over the economy - even if that means making enemies along the way. Defying warnings from Spain and the European Union, the center-left leader unveiled a plan on Monday to take control of energy company YPF from Spain's Repsol. Argentina already has a reputation as a global rule-breaker after staging the biggest sovereign debt default in history in 2002. ...

Mexican poll points to big win for PRI's Pena Nieto Posted: MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's presidential front-runner, Enrique Pena Nieto, has extended his lead and the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) he represents could gain an absolute majority in the lower house of congress, a survey showed. Consulta Mitofsky said on Tuesday its latest opinion poll for the July 1 presidential vote showed Pena Nieto extending his big lead with 40.2 percent support, up 1.1 percentage point from the polling firm's survey published on March 13. He was followed by Josefina Vazquez Mota, of the ruling National Action Party (PAN), at 22.6 percent. ...

Palestinian prisoners launch "battle of empty stomachs" Posted: RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - At least 1,200 Palestinians in Israeli jails launched an open-ended hunger strike on Tuesday, raising the stakes in a protest about jail conditions and justice that has put the Jewish state under heightened scrutiny. The start of their action coincided with the release of Khader Adnan, a prisoner who refused food for 66 days before agreeing to a deal under which he was released late on Tuesday and greeted by hundreds of supporters when he reached his home town in the West Bank. Adnan, 33, is a member of Islamic Jihad, which has vowed to destroy Israel. ...

AU suspends Guinea-Bissau for coup, talks under way Posted: (Reuters) - By Alberto Dabo BISSAU, April 17, Reuters - The African Union (AU) suspended Guinea-Bissau on Tuesday over last week's coup, adding to pressure on military chiefs who said they were ready to restore power to civilians after talks with regional mediators. "The (AU's) Peace and Security Council decides to suspend with immediate effect Guinea Bissau from all activities...until restoration of constitutional order," AU Commissioner for Peace and Security Ramtane Lamamra said in Addis Ababa. ...

Egypt vote chaos boosts Moussa, Abol Fotouh Posted: CAIRO (Reuters) - The race for the Egyptian presidency has been redefined by the disqualification of Hosni Mubarak's spy chief and prominent Islamists, including a Muslim Brotherhood candidate and a popular Salafi cleric. The developments add to the turbulence of a transition to democracy that has been punctuated by spasms of violence and political rivalries between once-banned Islamists, secular-minded reformists and remnants of the Mubarak order that was overthrown in last year's popular uprising. ...

Exclusive: Italy puts back balanced budget goal by a year: draft Posted: ROME (Reuters) - Italy will delay by a year its plan to balance the budget in 2013 due to a weakening economic outlook, according to a draft document due to be approved by the cabinet of Prime Minister Mario Monti on Wednesday. The draft Economic and Financial document (DEF), which has been obtained by Reuters, raises the budget deficit forecasts for 2012-2014 and slashes this year's economic growth outlook. Italy's budget deficit is already one of the lowest in the euro zone as a proportion of output and many economists say its chronically weak growth is more of a concern than fiscal ...

Sudan says cost no bar to recapture of oil region Posted: NAIROBI/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan said on Tuesday the cost of a full-blown conflict with South Sudan would not deter it from recapturing the disputed Heglig oilfield, and that newly tapped oilfields would help to sustain its struggling economy. South Sudan took control of the contested oil-producing Heglig region last week, prompting Sudan's parliament to brand its former civil war foe an "enemy" on Monday and to call for a swift recapture of the flat savanna region. Both countries' faltering economies are likely to be important factors in the conflict's outcome. ...

Norway killer expounds on fanatical views at trial Posted: In a scene unimaginable in many countries, Norway's worst mass killer got the chance to explain his fanatical views to the court and the world, unrepentant and dressed in a business suit. Prosecutors and lawyers for the families of his 77 victims even shook his hand.

World powers cling to Syria truce despite violence Posted: Artillery shatters homes in opposition areas. Regime tanks roll though city centers. Civilians dig graves for dozens of corpses, scrawling their names on headstones with black markers.

Italian freed after 2011 abduction in N. Africa Posted: An Italian tourist abducted in Algeria by al-Qaida's North African branch headed home Tuesday night after spending more than a year in captivity.

Gulf bloc united over island dispute with Iran Posted: Gulf Arab states warned Iran Tuesday that they stand united in an escalating dispute over strategic islands controlled by Tehran but also claimed by the United Arab Emirates.

UK: 2 held in protest vigil at Bahrain embassy Posted: British police on Tuesday arrested two activists who had occupied the rooftop of Bahrain's Embassy in a protest against the Gulf kingdom's Sunni rulers.

US stocks jump after strong profits; Spain soothes Posted: Stocks stormed higher Tuesday after promising signals about the profitability of U.S. companies and a strong debt auction by Spain. The Dow Jones industrial average rose for the fourth day in five and posted its biggest gain in a month.

Egypt panel definitively bars 3 president hopefuls Posted: Egypt's election commission rejected the appeals of three main contenders for president Tuesday, definitively removing the most polarizing candidates from the race to become the country's first elected leader since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.

IKEA to sell TV's integrated into its furniture Posted: Already the one-stop shop for smart and compact home furnishing, IKEA is venturing into the world of technology — with the IKEA TV.

Bid Laden's family to leave Pakistan overnight Posted: Osama bin Laden's three widows and their nine children were scheduled to be deported to Saudi Arabia overnight, almost a year after U.S. Navy SEALs killed the al-Qaida chief at a compound in northwest Pakistan, their lawyer said Tuesday.

Swedish museum evacuated after bomb threat Posted: A bomb threat closed Stockholm's modern art museum on Tuesday, two days after an exhibit about degrading stereotypes that black people have endured prompted one Swedish organization to demand that the nation's culture minister resign.

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