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President Obama meets Monday at the White House with Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi arrives amid a scandal that's front-page news in Italy. It centers on questions about his relationship with a teenage starlet.

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Indonesia is struck by a second and third powerful earthquake following an initial 8.4-magnitude temblor, sending panicked residents fearful of a tsunami fleeing for higher ground.

On this day in 1969, a young army officer named Muammar Gadhafi overthrew the king of Libya. On the anniversary of Gadhafi's ascent to power, the Libyan leader seems to be making peace with the West, but his reform efforts have faltered.

In Libya, the death sentence has been commuted to life in prison for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV. Families of the children each received $1 million in compensation.

The return of Stephen Kappes to the CIA, where he will soon become the agency's No. 2 official, is likely to help smooth some of the turbulence the spy agency has experienced since the upheaval that followed the departure of George Tenet.

The past week has brought big changes to CIA headquarters. Former CIA officials tell NPR that there's a growing sense of optimism for the future. In particular, they generally like the choice of Gen. Michael Hayden to lead the spy organization.

Police take the man who shot Pope John Paul II back into custody after an appeals court ordered him to return to prison to serve more time for killing a journalist and for other crimes in Turkey.