World NewsTime.com - Panicking over the demonstrations, Assad has backtracked on economic liberalization -- a move that may seal his doom
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Medvedev's Improbable Mission: Mediating Peace with Gaddafi (Time.com)
Time.com - Moscow is suddenly the only real power with any influence in Tripoli. But can the Russian President convince the Colonel that it's time to go?
China confirms visit by NKorean leader Kim Jong Il (AP)
AP - Chinese state media are confirming a visit by North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Il in a sign that his trip is over.
28 dead, 700 flee as gang battles hit west Mexico (AP)
AP - Fierce fighting among apparent rival drug gangs in western Mexico bloodied one highway with 28 dead, while in a nearby state more than 700 people huddled in shelters after fleeing villages that had become battlegrounds.
A Dark Day for Brazil's Amazon Jungle (OneWorld.net)
OneWorld.net - RIO DE JANEIRO, May 25 (IPS) - The same day that the lower house of the Brazilian Congress approved a reform of the forestry code that would make it easier to clear land in the Amazon jungle for agriculture, a husband and wife team of activists who spent years fighting illegal deforestation in the rainforest were murdered.
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