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SAN JUAN (Reuters) – Puerto Rico’s top police official resigned yesterday as the US Caribbean territory battles a crime wave with killings on pace to set a record this year.

MADRID/TRIPOLI (Reuters) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stepped up Western calls on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to quit yesterday, brushing off his threat to attack Europeans in their homes and offices.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s revelation he is being treated for cancer has cast doubt on the left-wing populist’s capacity to sustain his self-styled revolution and raised the possibility of a power struggle among his allies.

VIENNA, (Reuters) – The technical sophistication of  cybercriminals is swamping the world’s ability to cope, a top  U.S.

RABAT,  (Reuters) – Morocco’s King Mohammed scored a  landslide victory in a referendum on a reformed constitution he  proposed to placate “Arab Spring” protests as voters defied  critics who said it did little to curb his powers.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Former IMF chief Dominique  Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest yesterday after  prosecutors said the hotel maid who accuses him of attempted  rape lied to a grand jury and made other false statements.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba will authorize limited  housing and car markets by 2012, the Communist party newspaper  Granma said yesterday, a move awaited by local residents since  the early 1960s when home and most auto sales were banned.

BIR-AYYAD, Libya,  (Reuters) – Libyan rebels who had  advanced to within 80 km (50 miles) of Muammar Gaddafi’s  stronghold in the capital were forced to retreat yesterday after  coming under a barrage of rocket fire from government forces.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s flamboyant  socialist leader Hugo Chavez said yesterday he had undergone  a successful operation in Cuba to remove cancerous cells from a  tumor and was on the road to full recovery.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The case against former  International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who  was charged with sexually assaulting a hotel housekeeper, is  near collapse, the New York Times reported yesterday.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – A U.N.-backed tribunal seeking  the killers of statesman Rafik al-Hariri handed indictments and  arrest warrants to Lebanon yesterday that officials said  accused members of the militant Hezbollah group of involvement.

NEAR BIR AL-GHANAM, Libya, (Reuters) – Libyan rebels  gathered on a ridge overlooking a strategic town only 80 km (50  miles) from Tripoli yesterday, preparing for a battle that  could allow them to march directly to the seat of Muammar  Gaddafi’s power.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Cable news channel MSNBC  suspended political analyst Mark Halperin on Thursday hours  after he used foul language to describe U.S.

MANAMA, (Reuters) – The international committee  investigating violent protests in Bahrain this year will be  given access to official files and be able to meet witnesses in  secret, the panel’s chair said yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Imported fenugreek seeds from  Egypt may be the source of highly toxic E.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and  Senate Democrats are weighing a scaled-back U.S.

WASHINGTON  (Reuters Life!) – A man charged with  stowing away on a flight from New York to Los Angeles last  Friday cleared airport security screening, the Transportation  Security Administration confirmed yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – When President Barack Obama  cited cost as a reason to bring troops home from Afghanistan,  he referred to a $1 trillion price tag for America’s wars.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela called off a  regional summit due to Hugo Chavez’s unexpectedly longer  recovery from surgery in Cuba, hours after releasing video on  Wednesday of the socialist leader chatting with Fidel Castro.

ATHENS,  (Reuters) – Greece approved the first of two  austerity measures yesterday despite worsening street  violence, in a vote vital to winning fresh international aid so  it can pay its debts on time and stave off bankruptcy.