A Car Bomb outside a hospital in Benghazi, Libya killed at least 12 people and injured dozens more.  The government said whoever was responsible did not want success for Libya’s revolution, that started in Benghazi.  It comes after British Petroleum started pulling people out of the country, taking advice from a UK warning about instability in Libya.

Meeting at the White House, President Obama and UK Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to ratchet up pressure on Syria, with the goal of getting rid of the Bashar al-Assad regime.  Cameron spoke of stepping up non-lethal aid to the rebels, which include factions loyal to al Qaida, so good luck wading through that quagmire.  Cameron also said Syria’s ally Russia had been convinced to join negotiations to end Syria’s civil war.

The US Justice Department secretly obtained two months of personal and professional telephone records of reporters and editors for the Associated Press.  The news agency is calling it a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.  The government would not say why it sought the records, but officials had previously spoke of an investigation of who gave the AP information about a foiled terror plot detailed in a story a year ago.

Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was taken to a military hospital after fainting on his way to a court hearing.  It will be up to a judge to decide when Rios Montt will be sent back to Matamoros Prison, when he was sentenced to 80 years incarceration last Friday for ordering the genocide of the Ixil Mayan people during his rule in 1982 and 1983.

India and the US are already congratulating Nawaz Sharif and his Muslim League for winning Pakistan’s Assembly elections over the weekend, although the official tally isn’t expected until later.  Sharif is already working up a budget to be presented to lawmakers in June, looking forward to working with the US as equals, and has had extensive talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about easing long-standing mutual antagonism.

Bulgaria’s election results are a little murkier; voters failed to pick a clear winner.  The center-right GERB party is struggling to find allies to join a new government, but years of bullying from former Prime Minister Boiko Borisav have the mainstream parties refusing that handshake.  That could give the edge to the fascist Ataka party the role of kingmaker, or put the second-place Socialist Party a chance to rejoin government of the EU’s poorest member. 

Jewish settlers are angry with the Israeli government for plans to hand over parts of the West Bank for the construction of a new Palestinian city near Jericho. Construction of new urban centers for Palestinians is extremely rare in the West Bank.  Human rights groups have previously accused Israel of blocking the development of Palestinian communities in the Jordan Valley, destroying homes of Palestinian Bedouin communities and denying them access to water.

Hong Kong’s top court has ruled that a transsexual woman can marry her boyfriend.  The narrow ruling only covers the right of a transgender person who was born male to marry a man, and for one who was born female to marry a woman. Hong Kong’s marriage registry had previously refused her marriage request because her birth certificate still classified her as male.