'Round The World Roundup #1

Michigan

Home Health Care Advocates Protest Cuts (Lansing State Journal)
"About 150 home health care workers and advocates gathered Thursday in Lansing to protest budget cuts that would reduce their pay."

Ford to shut down Ohio plant, keep another one closed for a year (The Detroit Free Press)
"Ford Motor Co. said Monday it will close its casting plant in Brook Park, Ohio, outside of Cleveland, in 2009. The plant employs 1,218 hourly and salaried workers."

National

Searchers look for trapped tornado victims (CNN.com)
"A top official of a Kansas town destroyed by a deadly tornado said Monday that it was
possible victims still remained trapped under debris from the disaster."

Bush to host Queen Elizabeth at white-tie dinner (CNN.com)
"The British monarch and her husband, Prince Philip, are being greeted Monday morning with a 21-gun salute and a parade by the U.S. Army's Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps attended by 7,000 guests on the White House's South Lawn."

Recovering New Jersey governor resumes duties (Houston Chronicle)
"Jon S. Corzine resumed his duties as governor Monday, nearly a month after a high-speed crash on the Garden State Parkway almost killed him."

World

Double suicide bombings in Iraq kill 20 (Associated Press)
"Two suicide car bombers attacked a market and a police checkpoint on the outskirts of Ramadi, killing at least 20 people and dealing a blow to recent U.S. success in reclaiming the Sunni city from insurgents."

France's Sarkozy seeks parliament allies (Associated Press)
"French president-elect Nicolas Sarkozy plans to waste no time making France a friendlier place for business — and a less inviting place for criminals and would-be immigrants — but first he must win control of parliament in new elections next month."

Hezbollah says it is near freeing Israeli captives (MSNBC.com)
"Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Sunday there has been progress in negotiations to free two Israeli soldiers whose abduction by the militant group sparked a 34-day war in Lebanon last summer."