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• Syria violence kills over 40 (Reuters)

  Reuters - Security forces killed over 40 people in Syria on Friday, activists and residents said, as people in Homs mourned 14 members of a family they said were slain by militiamen in one of the worst sectarian attacks in a 10-month revolt.

  
  

• Libyan commander says will retake Bani Walid (Reuters)

  Reuters - A militia commander whose troops were driven out of the Libyan tribal stronghold of Bani Walid this week said on Friday that his forces were massing to recapture the town but were holding back at the government's request.

• Egypt plans to send delegation to U.S. as NGO furor mounts (Reuters)

  Reuters - A Egyptian military team plans to visit the United States next week as Cairo's crackdown on pro-democracy organizations has called into question the future of U.S. aid to Egypt, American officials said on Friday.

• Strong quake jolts eastern Japan, no tsunami warning (Reuters)

  Reuters - A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 jolted eastern Japan on Saturday morning, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage and no tsunami warning was issued.

• Protests sweep through Senegal after poll ruling (Reuters)

  Reuters - Street protests spread through towns across Senegal overnight on Saturday after a top legal body said President Abdoulaye Wade had the right to run for a third term in elections next month.

• The Oil Off Cuba: Washington and Havana Dance at Arms Length Over Spill Prevention (Time.com)

  Time.com - Despite the embargo and their cold war, the two countries appear to be in some synch over fear of potential drilling catastrophes

• Tweet lightly: How social media could someday affect your credit score, insurance, and more (Digital Trends)

  Digital Trends - Did you know January 28 is Data Privacy Day in the United States, Canada, and the European Union? The intention behind Data Privacy Day is to raise awareness of the importance of protecting the privacy of personal information—not just amongst individual users of things like social networking, but also amongst businesses, organizations, and corporations that collect, retain, and access information about their clients, customers, and users. Companies like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have been drawing the attention of privacy advocates and regulators in recent years, but the reality is that there are tens of thousands of companies out there collecting, processing, and distributing personal information about individuals all the time. Increasingly, those companies are looking to things like social networking for cues about individuals’ behaviors, lifestyle, interests, and activities.

• Islamists, protesters scuffle at at Egypt rally (AP)

  AP - Muslim Brotherhood supporters and secular protesters hurled bottles and rocks at each other and got into fistfights in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday as their political differences boiled over at a rally by tens of thousands marking an anniversary in the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

  
  

• Security chief during Mexico's 'dirty war' dies (AP)

  AP - Miguel Nazar Haro, who led Mexico's domestic spy agency and was accused of being behind the disappearances of alleged leftist guerrillas in the 1970s, has died at age 87.

  
  

• Senegal's president cleared to run for 3rd term (AP)

  AP - Senegal's highest court ruled Friday the country's increasingly frail, 85-year-old president could run for a third term in next month's election, a deep blow to the country's opposition, which has vowed to take to the streets if the aging leader does not step aside.

  
  

• Panetta cites key intelligence on bin Laden raid (AP)

  AP - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is acknowledging publicly for the first time that a Pakistani doctor provided key information to the U.S. in advance of the successful Navy SEAL assault on Osama bin Laden's compound last May.

• Saputo warns of cleaning solution in milk (Reuters)

  Reuters - Canadian dairy products producer Saputo Inc is warning customers not to consume one of its milk products because it could be tainted with a cleaning solution.

• Information from Australian PM's aide led to clash (AP)

  AP - A clash between protesters and Australian police that forced bodyguards to rush Prime Minister Julia Gillard out of an event appears to have been set off by information released by one of Gillard's own aides.

• Syria's opposition concerned about independent armed rebel groups (The Christian Science Monitor)

  The Christian Science Monitor - A leading Syrian opposition figure says that as rebels become increasingly militarized, it is critical that disparate armed groups be integrated with the political opposition so that they are working in concert. 

• U.S.-Backed Yemen Transition Plan Draws Fire From Democracy Activists (Time.com)

  Time.com - The overriding concern with maintaining a regime dedicated to the U.S. campaign against al-Qaeda has seen Washington work to keep much of the old order intact

• Anti-nuclear movement growing in Asia (The Christian Science Monitor)

  The Christian Science Monitor - Heonseok Lee has a simple way of describing how public sentiment toward nuclear power has changed in South Korea since the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant last March 11.