China says North Korea ties survived "tempests" (Reuters)

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• China says North Korea ties survived "tempests" (Reuters)
• Wikileaks' Assange in UK, police know where: report (Reuters)
• EU must spend more to fight terrorism: EU official (Reuters)
• U.S. views Chavez in "axis of mischief": leak (Reuters)
• Putin warns West over missile defence: report (Reuters)
• Truth's Consequences: WikiLeaks' War on Secrecy (Time.com)
• Central bank takes center stage in EU debt crisis (AP)
• Baghdad blasts wound 12, including 5 policemen (AP)
• UN finds irregularities in Guatemalan adoptions (AP)
• Donors pledge 3.55 bln dollars for east Sudan (AFP)
• Korea on menu as China's Hu awaits White House (Reuters)
• U.S. frets over bad image on Canadian TV: WikiLeaks (Reuters)
• Qantas threatens Rolls-Royce after engine fault found (AFP)
• US State Department tells employees not to read WikiLeaks (The Christian Science Monitor)
• WikiLeaks Shows the Skills not Failings of U.S. Diplomats (Time.com)
• World AIDS Day 2010: France's Carla Bruni lauds pope for condom comments (The Christian Science Monitor)

China says North Korea ties survived "tempests" (Reuters) Posted: 01 Dec 2010 11:52 PM PST Reuters - China, pushed again by Washington to bring North Korea to heel after last week's artillery attack on the South, told Pyongyang their relationship had withstood international "tempests."

Wikileaks' Assange in UK, police know where: report (Reuters) Posted: 01 Dec 2010 05:04 PM PST Reuters - Wikileaks website founder Julian Assange is in Britain and police know his whereabouts but have refrained so far from acting on an international warrant for his arrest, a British newspaper said on Thursday.

EU must spend more to fight terrorism: EU official (Reuters) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 12:09 AM PST Reuters - The European Union is spending too little on fighting terrorism at a time when its transport network is insufficiently protected, the EU's counter-terrorism coordinator said Thursday.

U.S. views Chavez in "axis of mischief": leak (Reuters) Posted: 01 Dec 2010 07:46 PM PST Reuters - Cuban intelligence services directly advise Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in what a U.S. diplomat called the "Axis of Mischief," according to a State Department cable released by the WikiLeaks website.

Putin warns West over missile defence: report (Reuters) Posted: 01 Dec 2010 08:48 PM PST Reuters - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told CNN television Russia would deploy nuclear weapons and "strike forces" if it were shut out of a Western missile shield, adding punch to a warning from President Dmitry Medvedev.

Truth's Consequences: WikiLeaks' War on Secrecy (Time.com) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST Time.com - Rogue activist Julian Assange wants to curb government secrecy, but his massive leak of classified U.S. diplomatic cables is undermining the Obama Administration's efforts to do just that

Central bank takes center stage in EU debt crisis (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 01:02 AM PST AP - The European Central Bank appears set to keep its special measures to flood banks with cash and could even step up purchases of government bonds to help countries contain a debt crisis that threatens to spiral out of control even after last weekend's bailout of Ireland.

Baghdad blasts wound 12, including 5 policemen (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2010 11:21 PM PST AP - Five policemen were among a dozen people wounded Thursday in separate rush-hour bombings in Baghdad, authorities said, in a reminder of continuing violence in Iraq.

UN finds irregularities in Guatemalan adoptions (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2010 07:46 PM PST AP - A United Nations anti-corruption commission has found irregularities in Guatemala's adoption program despite government efforts to prevent fraudulent adoptions.

Donors pledge 3.55 bln dollars for east Sudan (AFP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 12:56 AM PST AFP - Donors and investors have pledged 3.55 billion dollars for the development of resource-rich but neglected east Sudan, officials said on Thursday at the end of a two-day conference in Kuwait City.

Korea on menu as China's Hu awaits White House (Reuters) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 01:06 AM PST Reuters - An invitation to dinner at the White House could help coax Chinese President Hu Jintao to stomach tougher pressure on ally North Korea when he visits Washington next month.

U.S. frets over bad image on Canadian TV: WikiLeaks (Reuters) Posted: 01 Dec 2010 04:02 PM PST Reuters - American diplomats in Ottawa fretted about the relentlessly negative image of the United States on television shows in Canada, according to secret cables released by WikiLeaks.

Qantas threatens Rolls-Royce after engine fault found (AFP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 12:36 AM PST AFP - Australian carrier Qantas laid the ground on Thursday to sue Rolls-Royce after air safety officials probing an A380 engine blast reported a potentially "catastrophic" problem with the turbine.

US State Department tells employees not to read WikiLeaks (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 01 Dec 2010 01:16 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The US State Department has directed its staff around the world not to surf the WikiLeaks website, according to employees.

WikiLeaks Shows the Skills not Failings of U.S. Diplomats (Time.com) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST Time.com - Diplomatic cables made public by WikiLeaks show the skills of American diplomats, not their failings

World AIDS Day 2010: France's Carla Bruni lauds pope for condom comments (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 01 Dec 2010 12:47 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - France’s first lady Carla Bruni not only agrees with Pope Benedict XVI's new statements on condom use, she is “astonished, surprised, and grateful.”

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