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  AMERICAS

  Latin and Caribbean leaders forge new bloc

  Latin and Caribbean leaders form a new bloc that excludes the U.S. and Canada. Some hope the CELAC will replace the Organization of American States.
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  Egypt

  100,000 strong, protesters rally in ‘Last Chance’

  They came by the tens of thousands, swelling through neighborhoods, marching over bridges and pouring into Tahrir Square on Friday in the biggest protest yet against Egypt’s increasingly isolated military rulers.

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  Cuba unveils loan program

  Cuba announced a new credit system Thursday that will offer loans to small-business owners, independent farmers, and other citizens beginning next month, advancing promised reforms to the country’s state-planned economy.
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  MIAMI

  History of Cuban exile pilots who served in the Congo in the early 1960s being preserved

  Few realize that a unit of 100 Cuban exile pilots was sent to the Congo in the months after the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion to help fight leftist rebels.
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  Egypt Cabinet offers to resign but protests go on

  CAIRO (AP) – Egypt's civilian Cabinet offered to resign Monday after three days of violent clashes between demonstrators and security forces in Tahrir Square, but the action failed to satisfy protesters deeply frustrated with the new military rulers.
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  CUBA

  Cuba’s housing reform draws praise, doubts

  Impact of new law is hard to predict after so many years of illegal house sales

• Holocaust survivors seek to sue European firms

  In a congressional hearings, several survivors appealed for the right to sue companies such as German insurance giant Allianz AG in state courts.
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  Colombia Election

  Colombia sees peaceful vote, former rebel new Bogotá mayor

  Colombia elected more than 1,300 municipal officials in a largely peaceful vote Sunday. Gustavo Petro, a former M-19 rebel, appears to be the new mayor of the country’s capital.

• Mexico seen as unlikely launching pad for Iranian plot

  The alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States has cast Mexico into the news as a potential staging area for a terrorist operation. But experts say the likelihood of such a plot going undetected in Mexico by U.S. authorities is low and that Mexico's drug cartels would be unlikely to become involved.

• Israel, Hamas agree to huge prisoner exchange

  Israeli and the Palestinian group Hamas agreed Tuesday to a vast prisoner exchange that would free Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in return for the largest release ever of Palestinians held in Israeli jails.

• As U.S. marks war milestone, Taliban may be lying low

  Ten years after the Afghan war began, President Obama says his strategy has turned the tables on the Taliban and allowed U.S. combat forces to begin withdrawing. But many Afghans counter that the insurgents are merely waiting out the U.S. drawdown, and worry that U.S. policy is turning the clock back to Afghanistan's pre-2001 civil war.

• Awlaki's death deprives al Qaida of key recruiting voice

  The death of U.S.-born Muslim preacher Anwar al Awlaki in a barrage of missiles fired by U.S. drones over Yemen on Friday dealt a sharp blow to Al Qaida's recruiting efforts, but it's likely to do little to crimp the group's ability to carry out attacks.
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  Egypt declares emergency after attack on Israeli embassy

  Egypt declared a state of emergency Saturday after a mob stormed the Israeli embassy, forcing the evacuation of the ambassador and dealing what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a “severe injury to the fabric of peace” between the two increasingly uneasy allies.

• Explosions rip Iraq from north to south, killing at least 64

  Coordinated explosions ripped across seven Iraqi provinces on Monday, killing 64 and injuring 176 people in a sophisticated set of attacks that spread mayhem at security facilities from the Kurdish-dominated north to the Shiite south.

• Some in Egypt having second thoughts about trying Mubarak

  Millions of Egyptians agitated for Mubarak's speedy prosecution on charges he conspired to have protesters killed, stole public funds and profiteered during his 30 years in power.et now that Mubarak is in court, many Egyptians are voicing reservations. Some are uncomfortable with the death penalty the charges carry. Some wonder whether it's productive to spend so much energy and money on a high-profile trial with elections looming in just two months. Still others advocate amnesty in order to show that revolutionary ideals don't include vengeance.

• Helicopter Taliban downed was carrying Navy SEALs

  A U.S. official in Washington confirmed that most of the dead were Navy SEALs and the AP reported that they were members of SEAL Team Six, the unit that also provided the troops for the May 2 raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan. The deaths marked the highest single-incident toll of either the war in Afghanistan or Iraq. It was the worst catastrophe for the U.S. military since January 2005.

• Bin Laden's death could force Obama to change Afghan war plan

  Osama bin Laden's death could force President Barack Obama to change his strategy for ending the nearly decade-long Afghan war, including keeping tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Afghanistan at least until 2014, according to some Western experts and officials.

• State Department cables reveal U.S. thirst for all things Iranian

  Top Iranian security officials allegedly discussed staging a student takeover of the Saudi Arabian embassy in Tehran in 2009, much as students had seized the U.S. Embassy there three decades earlier, according to a State Department cable. The second-hand anecdote is one of hundreds about Iran contained in classified U.S. cables obtained by WikiLeaks and recently passed to McClatchy.

• Now that U.S., allies have attacked Libya, what are the goals?

  With U.S., British and French forces now fully engaged in attacking Moammar Gadhafi's military in Libya from the air and sea, and the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff declaring that a no-fly zone is now in effect, the question becomes: How does this end? Some military analysts worry that the West's urgent action over the weekend isn't backed by planning for what sort of Libya will be left behind when the aerial campaign stops.
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  ASTRONOMY

  'Extreme supermoon' coming Saturday, could raise tides

  It's called an "extreme supermoon" and when it rises in the eastern sky on Saturday, it won't just be full, it also will be making its closest approach to Earth in 18 years.

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