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A growing number of Syria’s Middle Eastern neighbors, including its closest allies Iran and Hezbollah, are calling on the embattled and defiant Damascus regime to implement reforms.

The wife of fugitive Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, three of his children and some of his grandchildren arrived in Algeria on Monday morning, Algerian diplomats said.

Japan’s parliament elected Yoshihiko Noda as the country’s new prime minister Tuesday, making him the country’s sixth new leader in five years.

The United Nations warned Monday of a possible resurgence of the deadly avian flu virus, saying there are indications a mutant strain may be spreading in Asia.

Workers pulled to the surface 19 miners from a flooded mine in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province early Tuesday morning, bringing the total number of rescued miners to 22, state media said.

Five gang members have confessed to involvement in last week’s torching of a casino in Monterrey in which 52 people were killed, Nuevo Leon Gov. Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz told reporters Monday.

Syrian security forces killed at least one person and seized children and seniors amid a series of raids across the country on Monday, activists said.