Exclusive: Algeria seizes missiles smuggled from Libya: source (Reuters)

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• Exclusive: Algeria seizes missiles smuggled from Libya: source (Reuters)
• Thousands rally for Putin before Russian election (Reuters)
• Libya sends army to stop clashes in southeast (Reuters)
• Clashes in Senegal ahead of presidential poll (Reuters)
• Nigeria's Abandoned Youth: Are They Potential Recruits for Militants? (Time.com)
• Stella's surreal dinner theater wows London fashionistas (Reuters)
• Prosecutor, judge killed in northwest Syria (AP)
• We kissed at Carnival: Brazil blog aids lost loves (AP)
• Zimbabwe's president says 2012 polls 'definite' (AP)
• AP Exclusive: al-Qaida links with SE Asia fraying (AP)
• Australia asks — again: Did a dingo kill the baby? (AP)
• Business in Burma: Show me the money, but only if it's crisp (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Will 2012 be the Year of the African Despot, again? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Exclusive: Algeria seizes missiles smuggled from Libya: source (Reuters) Posted: 18 Feb 2012 03:06 PM PST Reuters - Algerian security forces have found a large cache of weapons, including shoulder-fired missiles, which they believe were smuggled in from neighboring Libya, a security source briefed on the discovery told Reuters on Saturday.

Thousands rally for Putin before Russian election (Reuters) Posted: 18 Feb 2012 02:45 PM PST Reuters - Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in cities across Russia in support of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday in a show of force two weeks before a March 4 presidential election that is expected to return him to the Kremlin.

Libya sends army to stop clashes in southeast (Reuters) Posted: 18 Feb 2012 01:09 PM PST Reuters - Libya has sent military forces to stem clashes between rival tribes over control of territory in the far southeast of Libya, the armed forces chief said on Saturday, as more people were reported killed in the violence.

Clashes in Senegal ahead of presidential poll (Reuters) Posted: 18 Feb 2012 12:05 PM PST Reuters - Senegalese police fired tear gas and chased protesters from the center of the West African nation's capital Saturday in a fourth day of protest against the candidacy of incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade in the February 26 presidential poll.

Nigeria's Abandoned Youth: Are They Potential Recruits for Militants? (Time.com) Posted: 17 Feb 2012 09:35 PM PST Time.com - There are millions of boys sent off to ramshackle Islamic schools by impoverished parents. Now, the government is worried that Boko Haram may have them in its sights

Stella's surreal dinner theater wows London fashionistas (Reuters) Posted: 18 Feb 2012 06:54 PM PST Reuters - Fashion celebrities were enthralled with British designer Stella McCartney's mixture of magic and illusion, as she eschewed a formal catwalk show for a Matrix-style acrobatic display of models jumping from table to table and dancing on chairs.

Prosecutor, judge killed in northwest Syria (AP) Posted: 19 Feb 2012 01:14 AM PST AP - Gunmen assassinated a senior prosecutor and a judge in a restive province in northwest Syria on Sunday, the country's state news agency said, while activists reported that security forces shelled rebel-held areas in the besieged city of Homs.

We kissed at Carnival: Brazil blog aids lost loves (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2012 10:19 PM PST AP - It's the typical tale of doomed Carnival romance: Boy spots girl in the sweaty crush of a street party. Moments later, they're locked in a passionate embrace. Then the crowd surges, and the human tide wrenches them apart, forever.

Zimbabwe's president says 2012 polls 'definite' (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2012 11:21 PM PST AP - Zimbabwe's president says he will "definitely" call elections this year to end a fragile three-year coalition with the former opposition and describes as cowards politicians who say polls cannot be held until well into 2013.

AP Exclusive: al-Qaida links with SE Asia fraying (AP) Posted: 19 Feb 2012 01:24 AM PST AP - A top Indonesian terror suspect captured in the Pakistani town where Osama bin Laden was later killed insists he was unaware of the al-Qaida leader's presence there, according to the video of his interrogation obtained by The Associated Press.

Australia asks — again: Did a dingo kill the baby? (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2012 09:01 PM PST AP - The growl came first, low and throaty, piercing the darkness that had fallen across the remote Australian desert. A baby's cry followed, then abruptly went silent. Inside the tent, the infant girl had vanished. Outside, her mother was screaming: "The dingo's got my baby!"

Business in Burma: Show me the money, but only if it's crisp (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 17 Feb 2012 11:46 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - As Myanmar's reform-inclined government undertakes a political opening, Western businesses are watching to see if this leads to an end to Western sanctions imposed during the country's brutal military rule.

Will 2012 be the Year of the African Despot, again? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 17 Feb 2012 08:20 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Senegal’s Abdoulaye Wade is running for a third term, even though his country’s constitution specifically bans it. Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe has also indicated he will extend his 32 years in power, even as his parliament is attempting to ban the move. Congo’s President Joseph Kabila is trying to patch together a coalition to stay in power, even though his party lost more than 40 percent of its seats in parliament in last December’s elections.

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