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Libyan rebels head for Tripoli

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 05:17 PM PDT


MISRATA, Libya -- Libyan rebels Monday broke out toward Tripoli from the opposition-held port of Misrata 140 miles to the east, cracking a government siege as fighters across the country mounted a resurgence in their four-month-old revolt against M ...

Town doesn't give Jordan king a pass

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 05:19 PM PDT


AMMAN, Jordan -- Stone-throwing youths in a poor southern town exploded in anger at rough handling by police during a visit by King Abdullah II on Monday, a symptom of simmering popular frustrations in Jordan even as the monarch moves toward democr ...

Hoax has readers shocked by blogger's identity

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 05:14 PM PDT


LONDON -- A 40-year-old American man living in Scotland said Monday he's sorry for posing as a Syrian lesbian blogger who offered vivid accounts of life amid revolt and repression in Damascus, a hoax that has exposed the difficulty of sifting trut ...

Italy president gets message in election

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 05:15 PM PDT

MILAN -- Italian voters turned out in large numbers to deal Premier Silvio Berlusconi his latest blow at the ballot box Monday, overturning laws passed by his government to revive nuclear energy, privatize the water supply -- and help him avoid prose ...

Germany reviews mistakes, issues as E. coli cases wane

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 05:14 PM PDT

BERLIN -- The battle against Europe's deadly E. coli outbreak descended into cacophony and confusion. Now that the crisis is stabilizing, German officials acknowledge lessons to be learned.Among the problems: a tangle of federal and regional authorit ...

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