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Secular or Islamist? Egypt chooses a president 2012-05-20
Herald Tribune

CAIRO - Sixty years after their country came under military dictatorship, Egyptians are for the first time freely electing their president. The voting that begins Wednesday is the greatest prize won by the multitudes who took to the streets to overthrow unpopular Hosni Mubarak in the string of...

photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

Lockerbie: David Cameron criticises al-Megrahi release 2012-05-20
BBC News

David Cameron has reacted to the death of the only person convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing by saying he should not have been released. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, 60, has died at his home in Libya. His prostate cancer had led to his 2009...

photo: AP / Amr Nabil

Barack Obama warns eurozone to focus on jobs and growth 2012-05-20
The Daily Telegraph

US President Barack Obama, wrapping up the G8 summit hosted at Camp David, says the euro zone crisis is threatening the world economy, but welcomes Europe's new focus on jobs and growth as a potential remedy. 560 315 TelegraphPlayer_9277904...

photo: AP / Susan Walsh

AU Pushes for Sudan Talks 2012-05-20
Wall Street Journal

By NICHOLAS BARIYO KAMPALA, Uganda—The African Union has mounted pressure on oil-producing Sudan and South Sudan as it seeks to bring the two back to the negotiating table amid hostilities along their oil-rich border. Former South African President and African Union mediator Thabo Mbeki...

photo: UN / Sylvain Liechti

Sunday Papers: Cameron pushes for workplace rights shake-up 2012-05-20
Citywire

Top stories The Sunday Telegraph: Business leaders are set to welcome radical new plans to overhaul employment rights which the Government hopes will make it easier to hire new workers and spark a boost to employment and growth; proposals include reducing the length of consultations businesses have...

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NATO leaders seek common path out of Afghanistan 2012-05-20
Daily Press

CHICAGO (Reuters) - NATO leaders gather in Chicago on Sunday for a summit that will chart a path out of Afghanistan, as Western nations seek to fend off fissures in their alliance and ensure Afghanistan can hold a still-potent Taliban at bay when foreign troops withdraw. President Barack Obama hosts...

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How Obama's strategy on Afghanistan war evolved 2012-05-20
The Dallas Morning News

This article is adapted from “Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power,” to be published by Crown on June 5. It was just one brief exchange about Afghanistan with an aide late in 2009, but it suggests how President Barack Obama's thinking about what he once...

photo: USAF / Staff Sgt. Bradley Lail

Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg marries sweetheart Priscilla Chan 2012-05-20
The Times of India

SHARE AND DISCUSSTweetA file photo of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (R) and his girlfriend Priscilla Chan in Shanghai. PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to "married" on Saturday....

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On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin, By Marie Colvin 2012-05-20
The Independent

Spanning a quarter of a century of reporting, the book includes her dispatch from East Timor in 1999; horrifying descriptions of women and children so desperate to seek sanctuary in a UN compound that they fight through razor wire. Colvin was one of only three female journalists to remain when the...

US exit creates army ripe for recruitment 2012-05-20
Canberra Times

Illustration: Simon Letch Numbers coming out of Afghanistan often are scary but try wrapping your head around this one - 123,500. After a roller-coaster decade of training by the US-led coalition, that's the number of soldiers and policemen who will be turfed from Kabul's foreign-funded security...

photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod