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Two US servicemen shot dead at Frankfurt airport A US soldier and a military bus driver were killed and two further soldiers injured after a shooting yesterday in Frankfurt airport.
Taliban kills Pakistan's minorities minister SELF-DESCRIBED TALIBAN gunmen yesterday shot dead Pakistan’s minorities minister, Shahbaz Bhatti, an advocate of reform of the country’s blasphemy laws, just after he left his Islamabad home.
Doubts raised over reforms by Croatia on way to joining EU THE EUROPEAN Commission has urged Croatia to take further steps to reform its judiciary, prosecute war crimes and tackle corruption while delivering a critical assessment of the country’s effort to prepare for EU membership.
Merkel appoints former adviser as defence minister CHANCELLOR ANGELA Merkel moved swiftly to restore stability to her cabinet yesterday, appointing a capable deputy to head the defence ministry after Tuesday’s resignation of Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg.
Newspaper critical of Karzai closes down AFGHANISTAN’S SMALL band of independent-minded media outlets is a little smaller with the demise of Kabul Weekly , a lively newspaper that claims it has been put out of business after daring to criticise Hamid Karzai.
Tories tell police of looming pay cuts POLICE OFFICERS in England and Wales, who are already facing a two-year pay freeze, have been warned by British home secretary Theresa May that overtime pay rates and allowances will be cut, leaving open the prospect of major industrial trouble within the police as it faces into a summer of protests against spending cuts.
Gorbachev tells Putin he should not run for presidency MOSCOW – Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev has accused Russia’s leaders of rolling back democracy and advised Vladimir Putin to learn from the Arab experience and stay out of next year’s presidential vote.
Shamed designer Galliano in apology for racist slurs PARIS – Disgraced designer John Galliano apologised yesterday for behaviour that has cost him his job at luxury label Christian Dior and changed his fortunes overnight from fashion star to figure of ridicule.
There may be something out there, but it hasn't been found yet LONDON LETTER : British officials dealing with reports of UFOs required a great deal of patience, papers show
In Short A round-up of today's other stories in brief

Uprising in the Middle East

Barroso calls for immediate resignation of Gadafy EUROPEAN COMMISSION chief José Manuel Barroso said Libyan leader Muammar Gadafy should stand down immediately and described the wave of unrest in the Arab world as a “rendezvous with history”.
Three-hour harangue gives a sense of Libya's unique pure democracy COL MUAMMAR GADAFY comes to the Libyan People’s Congress in an electric golf cart. His entourage, who box him in, arrive in half a dozen four-wheel drives. As he is mobbed by journalists on entering the hall, it takes his security detail 10 minutes to clear the platform.
Benghazi women still seek their 'disappeared' EVERY SATURDAY for the past four years, the women have gathered outside Benghazi’s seafront courthouse to demand answers.
Twin attack spurs rebels' call for foreign air strikes BREGA, Libya – Col Muammar Gadafy launched a land and air offensive to retake territory in Libya’s east at dawn yesterday, sparking a rebel call for foreign air strikes on African mercenaries they said were helping him to stay in power.
Concern for future of food and medical supplies THERE IS plenty of bread to be found in the small grocery shop run by Osama Oteibi in central Benghazi. Amid well-stocked shelves of dry goods, customers queue for traditional flatbread or the soft white rolls that are a legacy of Italian colonial rule. “We haven’t experienced shortages, thank God,” says Oteibi. “A lot of food is getting through from the Egyptian side. It is not time to worry just yet.”
Tory MPs doubt wisdom of Cameron's call for no-fly zone BRITISH PRIME minister David Cameron, whose suggestion of a no-fly zone over Libya has received little backing from the United States and other allies, has ordered an airlift of Egyptian refugees stranded inside the Tunisian border.
Regime defector calls for air strikes A HIGH-RANKING Libyan defector has called on foreign forces to disable Muammar Gadafy’s air capability by destroying the country’s main landing strips, but warned against any full-scale intervention.

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