France defends arms airlift to Libyan rebels (Reuters)

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• France defends arms airlift to Libyan rebels (Reuters)
• Egypt police clash with youths; over 1,000 hurt (Reuters)
• Exclusive: U.S. to resume formal Muslim Brotherhood contacts (Reuters)
• Newsmaker: South Sudan president steers nation to independence (Reuters)
• Greek parliament expected to endorse second bill (Reuters)
• Why Cairo's Tahrir Square is Heating Up Again (Time.com)
• Berlin's Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky dies at 75 (AP)
• Rocket attack kills 3 American soldiers in Iraq (AP)
• Study suggests UN force brought cholera to Haiti (AP)
• Verdict in Egypt police brutality case delayed (AFP)
• World cricket body bans government meddling (AFP)
• LSE, TMX abort their merger, leaving both in play (Reuters)
• Lifeline for Australia farmers over Indonesia ban (AFP)
• The aftermath of another clash at Egypt's Tahrir Square (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Greece Passes Austerity Bill -- Now Comes the Hard Part (Time.com)
• Next for Greece: buying enough time to pay off debts (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Mauritania Could Lose Its Capital City to the Sea (OneWorld.net)

France defends arms airlift to Libyan rebels (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 01:16 AM PDT Reuters - France has defended its move to airlift weapons to Libya's rebels, saying it did not break a U.N. arms embargo because they were needed to defend civilians under threat.

Egypt police clash with youths; over 1,000 hurt (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jun 2011 02:57 PM PDT Reuters - Police in Cairo fired tear gas on Wednesday at hundreds of stone-throwing Egyptian youths after a night of clashes that injured more than 1,000 people, the worst violence in the capital in several weeks.

Exclusive: U.S. to resume formal Muslim Brotherhood contacts (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:53 PM PDT Reuters - The United States has decided to resume formal contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday, in a step that reflects the Islamist group's growing political weight but that is almost certain to upset Israel and its U.S. backers.

Newsmaker: South Sudan president steers nation to independence (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jun 2011 11:33 PM PDT Reuters - Salva Kiir's reputation as the quiet man of Sudanese politics, with an eccentric taste in cowboy hats, masks a wily operator who is about to steer his impoverished region into full statehood on July 9.

Greek parliament expected to endorse second bill (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 01:10 AM PDT Reuters - The streets of the Greek capital were calm on Thursday ahead of a vote expected to approve a final austerity bill that is needed to avert default.

Why Cairo's Tahrir Square is Heating Up Again (Time.com) Posted: 29 Jun 2011 11:35 PM PDT Time.com - Demonstrators and police clash amid mounting frustration over the slow pace of justice for those accused of violence against protests

Berlin's Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky dies at 75 (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 01:24 AM PDT AP - Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky, who stepped down as the Berlin's archbishop earlier this year, has died. He was 75.

Rocket attack kills 3 American soldiers in Iraq (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 12:53 AM PDT AP - A rocket attack on a U.S. base near Iraq's border with Iran killed three American soldiers, an official said Thursday, blaming the strike on a Shiite militia linked to Tehran.

Study suggests UN force brought cholera to Haiti (AP) Posted: 29 Jun 2011 11:19 PM PDT AP - Evidence "strongly suggests" that a United Nations peacekeeping mission brought a cholera strain to Haiti that has killed thousands of people, a study by a team of epidemiologists and physicians says.

Verdict in Egypt police brutality case delayed (AFP) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 01:27 AM PDT AFP - An Egyptian court on Thursday postponed issuing a verdict in a high profile police brutality case until September, amid mounting frustration over the slow pace of reform since the ouster of president Hosni Mubarak.

World cricket body bans government meddling (AFP) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 01:23 AM PDT AFP - Cricket's governing body on Thursday banned countries from appointing politicians to national boards, vowing to free the sport from undue government influence.

LSE, TMX abort their merger, leaving both in play (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jun 2011 02:35 PM PDT Reuters - The London Stock Exchange's C$3.6 billion ($3.7 billion) plan to buy its Toronto counterpart collapsed on Wednesday in the face of a competing bid led by Canadian banks, leaving the UK exchange itself vulnerable to takeover.

Lifeline for Australia farmers over Indonesia ban (AFP) Posted: 29 Jun 2011 08:46 PM PDT AFP - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard offered the live cattle industry a Aus$30 million ($US32 million) lifeline Thursday as a ban on exports to Indonesia entered its fourth week.

The aftermath of another clash at Egypt's Tahrir Square (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 29 Jun 2011 02:27 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Dozens of wounded file into a makeshift hospital tucked between buildings on Tahrir Square, the symbolic heart of Egypt’s five-month old revolution.

Greece Passes Austerity Bill -- Now Comes the Hard Part (Time.com) Posted: 29 Jun 2011 11:35 PM PDT Time.com - Greece narrowly avoided default when its government voted to push through a new austerity package in return for a bailout. But now Greek leaders have to convince the public that the coming pain will be worth it

Next for Greece: buying enough time to pay off debts (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 29 Jun 2011 12:41 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The Greek parliament's approval Wednesday of an austerity package of spending cuts and tax hikes means the country will most likely receive the international loans it needs to pay off debts due July 15. But if agreement isn't reached on a debt restructuring, Greece and its international lenders will once again be at a standoff this fall.

Mauritania Could Lose Its Capital City to the Sea (OneWorld.net) Posted: 29 Jun 2011 02:35 AM PDT OneWorld.net - NOUAKCHOTT, June 28 (IPS) - For the past five years, water has been seeping out of the ground beneath parts of Nouakchott, undermining foundations and transforming some areas of the Mauritanian capital into uninhabitable marshes.

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