Yemen's Saleh refuses to sign deal to step down (Reuters)

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• Yemen's Saleh refuses to sign deal to step down (Reuters)
• Europe on alert for Icelandic volcano ash cloud (Reuters)
• Pakistan naval base siege close to an end (Reuters)
• Libya oil chief may have quit Gaddafi government: Tunisia (Reuters)
• Chile: Will Allende's Exhumation Put Death Debate to Rest? (Time.com)
• Danger of uneven Europe recovery has fallen: Nowotny (Reuters)
• Obama's 'Jewish state' reference jars Palestinians (AP)
• Amnesty: Jamaica must probe human rights abuses (AP)
• India PM eyes trade, catch-up with China in Africa visit (Reuters)
• Taliban: Mullah Omar alive and in Afghanistan (AP)
• Sea levels set to rise by up to a metre: report (AFP)
• Obama's AIPAC comments can't conceal mutual mistrust, say Israeli analysts (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Pakistan: Militants Attack Naval Base in Karachi (Time.com)
• Sudan's seizure of key border town reignites concerns of civil war (The Christian Science Monitor)

Yemen's Saleh refuses to sign deal to step down (Reuters) Posted: 22 May 2011 05:41 PM PDT Reuters - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh refused to sign an agreement on Sunday to step down, the third time such a deal has fallen through at the last minute, despite pressure from Gulf Arab and Western mediators.

Europe on alert for Icelandic volcano ash cloud (Reuters) Posted: 22 May 2011 11:45 PM PDT Reuters - An eruption by Iceland's most active volcano was set to keep the island's main airport shut on Monday, while other European nations watched for any impact on their air routes from a towering plume of smoke and ash.

Pakistan naval base siege close to an end (Reuters) Posted: 23 May 2011 12:38 AM PDT Reuters - Troops battled Taliban gunmen holed up in Pakistan's naval air force headquarters on Monday after the most audacious attack in the unstable, nuclear-armed country since the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Libya oil chief may have quit Gaddafi government: Tunisia (Reuters) Posted: 22 May 2011 10:42 PM PDT Reuters - Libya's top oil official is in neighboring Tunisia and believed to be no longer working for Muammar Gaddafi, Tunisia said on Monday, following rebel assertions that he defected in the country's civil war.

Chile: Will Allende's Exhumation Put Death Debate to Rest? (Time.com) Posted: 23 May 2011 01:00 AM PDT Time.com - Chile will try to lay historical ghosts to rest by using forensic science to determine if President Salvador Allende's death was suicide or murder

Danger of uneven Europe recovery has fallen: Nowotny (Reuters) Posted: 23 May 2011 01:20 AM PDT Reuters - The danger of an uneven economic recovery in Europe has fallen despite concerns about the patchy nature of the upturn, European Central Bank Governing Council member Ewald Nowotny said on Monday.

Obama's 'Jewish state' reference jars Palestinians (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 12:47 AM PDT AP - U.S.-Israel tension over Barack Obama's endorsement of Israel's pre-1967 borders is obscuring a flip side of the Middle East coin: The past days' speeches by the U.S. president contained difficult challenges for the Palestinians as well.

Amnesty: Jamaica must probe human rights abuses (AP) Posted: 22 May 2011 11:18 PM PDT AP - Amnesty International on Monday urged Jamaica's government to seriously investigate human rights abuses allegedly committed during last year's bloody operation to catch a reputed underworld boss.

India PM eyes trade, catch-up with China in Africa visit (Reuters) Posted: 23 May 2011 01:09 AM PDT Reuters - India's Prime Minister began a six-day trip to Africa on Monday, aiming to strike deeper economic ties with a continent rich in minerals and commodities, but where Asia's third-largest economy lags far behind rival China.

Taliban: Mullah Omar alive and in Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 01:23 AM PDT AP - The Taliban denied a report in the Afghan press that the insurgent group's leader had been killed in neighboring Pakistan, saying Monday that Mullah Mohammad Omar is alive and in Afghanistan.

Sea levels set to rise by up to a metre: report (AFP) Posted: 23 May 2011 12:56 AM PDT AFP - Sea levels are set to rise by up to a metre within a century due to global warming, a new Australian report said Monday as it warned this could make "once-a-century" coastal flooding much more common.

Obama's AIPAC comments can't conceal mutual mistrust, say Israeli analysts (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 22 May 2011 01:19 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday sought to tone down a fresh crisis after the two clashed in public at the White House two days earlier over Mr. Obama's call for a border between Israel and a Palestinian state to be based on the 1967 line demarcating the West Bank.

Pakistan: Militants Attack Naval Base in Karachi (Time.com) Posted: 23 May 2011 01:00 AM PDT Time.com - An attack by a group of suspected Islamist militants is bad news for a security establishment under pressure, but it reminds Pakistanis of the homegrown danger they face

Sudan's seizure of key border town reignites concerns of civil war (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 22 May 2011 12:30 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Late Saturday evening, news trickled out from Sudan's most contested and militarized North-South border hotspot: the northern Sudanese army had invaded the town of Abyei with tanks.

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