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• French journalist missing after Colombia FARC battle
• Dissident case poses test for U.S.-China diplomacy
• U.N. chief visits "new" Myanmar to push more reforms
• Attack on Christians in Nigeria kills at least 15: witness
• Egypt's Brotherhood says army plans cabinet reshuffle
• Top U.N. truce monitor in Syria, lull in violence
• Israel court puts 60-day hold on settlement razings
• Greece opens detention camp for immigrants as election looms
• Saleh to leave Yemen temporarily: diplomatic source
• Libya's Gaddafi-era oil chief found floating dead in Danube
• 21 killed in north Nigeria church service attacks
• Support from locals seen as key to capturing Kony
• Captive British aid worker killed in Pakistan
• US special forces help in hunt for warlord Kony
• China activists lifted by blind lawyer's escape
• Head of UN mission in Syria urges halt to violence
• Colombia: missing journalist wounded in arm
• Israeli prime minister explores early elections
• Sudan declares emergency on border with south
• Gadhafi funding claim weighs on French campaign

French journalist missing after Colombia FARC battle Posted: BOGOTA (Reuters) - A French journalist reporting alongside Colombian security forces tracking drug-funded FARC rebels was injured and then disappeared after a gun battle that killed three soldiers and a police official, the Defense Ministry said on Sunday. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Romeo Langlois, a freelance reporter for French news channel France 24, was taken prisoner on Saturday by the Marxist guerrillas, but Colombia's Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon couldn't confirm his capture. ...

Dissident case poses test for U.S.-China diplomacy Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Hillary Clinton made her first trip abroad as secretary of state, she baldly said the United States could not let human rights disputes get in the way of working with China on global challenges. Now that the blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng is under U.S. protection in Beijing, according to a U.S.-based rights group, the United States will find out if China has made the same calculation. Chen's escape after 19 months of house arrest and apparent request for U.S. ...

U.N. chief visits "new" Myanmar to push more reforms Posted: NAYPITAW, Myanmar (Reuters) - U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon made a landmark visit to a fast-changing Myanmar on Sunday to encourage further reforms and push for a further easing of Western sanctions to help normalize United Nations operations in the long isolated country. Ban's trip was his first since a reformist, quasi-civilian government took office a year ago, ending five decades of authoritarian military rule and thawing Myanmar's relations with the international community. ...

Attack on Christians in Nigeria kills at least 15: witness Posted: KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen killed at least 15 people and wounded many more on Sunday in an attack on a university theatre being used by Christian worshippers in Kano, a northern Nigerian city where hundreds have died in Islamist attacks this year. Security sources said gunmen arrived on motorbikes and threw small homemade bombs into the theatre before shooting fleeing worshippers. There was sporadic gunfire in other parts of the city later on from attackers driven from the university by the army, the sources said. "I counted at least 15 dead bodies. ...

Egypt's Brotherhood says army plans cabinet reshuffle Posted: CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said on Sunday the ruling generals planned to reshuffle the government in an apparent attempt to defuse a political feud overshadowing a presidential election campaign that gets under way on Monday. The Brotherhood has pushed for more say in the government for months since sweeping to a dominant role in parliament in an election marathon that ended in February this year. Essam el-Erian, a senior Brotherhood lawmaker, told Reuters the generals would initiate talks over the reshuffle but army officials did not immediately confirm any plans to do so. ...

Top U.N. truce monitor in Syria, lull in violence Posted: BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Norwegian general charged with overseeing a shaky U.N.-brokered truce in Syria arrived in Damascus on Sunday, boosting a monitor mission that activists say has already helped ease the violence in the city of Homs, hotbed of a 13-month uprising. General Robert Mood acknowledged the huge task awaiting the planned 300-strong unarmed mission, which now has 30 people on the ground, but said he was confident it could make headway. "We will be only 300 but we can make a difference," Mood told reporters on his arrival in the Syrian capital. ...

Israel court puts 60-day hold on settlement razings Posted: JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Supreme Court postponed the razing of five unauthorized buildings in the West Bank on Sunday, a ruling that gave the government more time to argue against their demolition and placate pro-settler political partners. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government agreed last year to remove the apartment blocks on the edge of the Beit El settlement, after a court ruled they were built on private Palestinian land. ...

Greece opens detention camp for immigrants as election looms Posted: ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece opened its first purpose-built detention centre for illegal migrants on Sunday in Athens, a week before a national election where illegal immigration has emerged as a key issue. About 130,000 immigrants cross the country's porous sea and land borders every year, the vast majority via Turkey, and the authorities are forced to release those who are arrested because of a lack of permanent housing. With Greece in its fifth year of recession and worries over rising crime levels, illegal immigration has become a major issue in the run up of the May 6 election. ...

Saleh to leave Yemen temporarily: diplomatic source Posted: SANAA/ADEN (Reuters) - Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh will leave Yemen temporarily after Gulf states leaned on him to get out of the way of his successor in order to ease tensions complicating efforts to stabilize the country, a diplomatic source said on Sunday. The diplomat said he expected Saleh to travel next week, probably to the United Arab Emirates, to allow recently elected President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to rule unhindered by his predecessor. Russia has said it is willing to take in Saleh. ...

Libya's Gaddafi-era oil chief found floating dead in Danube Posted: VIENNA (Reuters) - Libya's former top oil industry official, Shokri Ghanem, has been found floating dead in the River Danube in Austria, police said on Sunday. Ghanem, 69, had been chairman of Libya's state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) before defecting last year several months after opponents of Muammar Gaddafi had risen up against the Libyan leader and begun a rebellion. As NOC chairman since 2006, Ghanem helped steer Libya's oil policy and held the high-profile job of representing Libya at OPEC meetings, often visiting Vienna for meetings in that role. ...

21 killed in north Nigeria church service attacks Posted: Gunmen attacked worship services at a university campus and a church Sunday in northern Nigeria, killing at least 21 people in coordinated assaults that saw panicked Christians gunned down as they tried to flee, witnesses and officials said.

Support from locals seen as key to capturing Kony Posted: Adye Sunday isn't sure about the calls to kill or capture Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony. Though the elusive warlord abducted her when she was 13 and forced her to be one of his dozens of "wives," the 25-year-old says he's also the father of her two children.

Captive British aid worker killed in Pakistan Posted: The body of a British Red Cross worker held captive in Pakistan since January was found in an orchard Sunday, his throat slit and a note attached to his body saying he was killed because no ransom was paid, police said.

US special forces help in hunt for warlord Kony Posted: Deep in the jungle, this small, remote Central African village is farther from the coast than any point on the continent. It's also where three international armies have zeroed in on Joseph Kony, one of the world's most wanted warlords.

China activists lifted by blind lawyer's escape Posted: The surprising escape of a blind legal activist from house arrest to the presumed custody of U.S. diplomats is buoying China's embattled dissident community even as the government lashes out, detaining those who helped him and squelching mention of his name on the Internet.

Head of UN mission in Syria urges halt to violence Posted: The head of the U.N. observer mission in Syria on Sunday called on President Bashar Assad and the country's opposition to stop fighting and allow a tenuous cease-fire to take hold.

Colombia: missing journalist wounded in arm Posted: A French journalist who went missing during combat between Colombian troops and leftist rebels suffered a bullet wound in the left arm during the firefight, Colombia's defense minister said Sunday.

Israeli prime minister explores early elections Posted: In a political development with global implications, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday signaled he soon might call early elections — a decision that could put Mideast peace efforts on hold for months and cast more uncertainty on Israel's deliberations over whether to attack Iran's nuclear program.

Sudan declares emergency on border with south Posted: Sudan declared a state of emergency Sunday in areas bordering South Sudan, giving authorities wide powers of arrest a day after they detained three foreigners in a flashpoint town along the frontier.

Gadhafi funding claim weighs on French campaign Posted: French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday fiercely denied that he was offered campaign funding from late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, as new challenges piled up against him a week ahead of the country's presidential runoff.

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