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pected to yield 4.2 billion euros overall -- or most of the needed amount.
• --The remainder of the money will come from tax increases and privatizations.
• --Cyprus had to agree to restructure its banking sector, which is unusually large for the size of its economy.
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• BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian activists say a top rebel military leader has been wounded and possibly killed by a bomb stuck to his car.
• The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday the blast targeted Col. Riad al-Asaad during a visit to the town of Mayadeen in eastern Syria.
• Col. Riad al-Asaad is a prominent army defector who became head of the Free Syrian Army, an umbrella group that tried to gather rebel fighters under a unified command.
• But al-Asaad became little more than a figurehead and his group has been superseded by the Office of the Chiefs of Staff, associated with the opposition Syrian National Coalition.
• The Observatory reported conflicting reports on al-Asaad's fate, with some saying he had been killed and others saying he lost a leg.
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• BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- Big change is coming to the lives of the lesbian couple at the center of the fight for same-sex marriage in California no matter how the Supreme Court decides their case.
• After 13 years of raising four boys together, Kris Perry and Sandy Stier are about to be empty nesters. Their youngest two children, 18-year-old twins, will graduate from high school in June and head off to college a couple of months later.
• "We'll see all the movies, get theater season tickets because you can actually go," Stier said in the living room of their bungalow in Berkeley. Life will not revolve quite so much around food, and the challenge of putting enough of it on the table to feed teenagers.
• They might also get married, if the high court case goes their way.
• Perry, 48, and Stier, 50, set aside their lunch hour on a recent busy Friday to talk

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