Australia floods cause "catastrophic" damage (Reuters)

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• Australia floods cause "catastrophic" damage (Reuters)
• Pakistani scholars say mourning slain governor risky (Reuters)
• U.S. looks to China as talks begin on North Korea (Reuters)
• Chavez floats Stone, Penn, Clinton for U.S. envoy (Reuters)
• Gbagbo commits to talks but Ivorian deadlock remains (Reuters)
• Pakistan: Liberal Governor Salmaan Taseer Assassinated (Time.com)
• Spanish official industrial output rebounds (AFP)
• Kuwait lawmakers gather on fate of prime minister (AP)
• Chavez warms to US suggestion of new envoy (AP)
• Negotiations to go on in Ivory Coast crisis (AP)
• Philippine raid captures communist rebel commander (AP)
• Harper says now not a good time for election (Reuters)
• Australian floods spread, threaten Barrier Reef (AFP)
• China lends a hand as Spain climbs from economic doldrums (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Iraq Veteran Embeds with Former Unit in Kandahar, Afghanistan (Time.com)
• Sudan's Bashir softens tone in rare visit to semiautonomous South (The Christian Science Monitor)

Australia floods cause "catastrophic" damage (Reuters) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 11:19 PM PST Reuters - Australia's record floods are causing catastrophic damage to infrastructure in the state of Queensland and have forced 75 percent of its coal mines, which fuel Asia's steel mills, to grind to a halt, Queensland's premier said on Wednesday.

Pakistani scholars say mourning slain governor risky (Reuters) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 11:42 PM PST Reuters - Five hundred moderate Pakistani religious scholars have warned that anyone who expresses grief over the assassination of a senior ruling party official who opposed the country's blasphemy law could suffer the same fate.

U.S. looks to China as talks begin on North Korea (Reuters) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 10:51 PM PST Reuters - The U.S. has stepped up pressure on China to rein in its long-time ally North Korea, sending its envoy to Beijing on Wednesday as part of a campaign to push the North to end its nuclear programme.

Chavez floats Stone, Penn, Clinton for U.S. envoy (Reuters) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 07:23 PM PST Reuters - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sought to end a diplomatic stand-off with the United States on Tuesday by suggesting it name Bill Clinton, actor Sean Penn or director Oliver Stone as its envoy to Caracas.

Gbagbo commits to talks but Ivorian deadlock remains (Reuters) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 12:20 PM PST Reuters - Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo has agreed to further talks to end his country's post-election crisis, buying himself time after a demand by African leaders that he step down or face force.

Pakistan: Liberal Governor Salmaan Taseer Assassinated (Time.com) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 12:25 AM PST Time.com - The outspoken and popular governor of Punjab was infamous among many of his conservative Islamic compatriots for taking the side of minority groups

Spanish official industrial output rebounds (AFP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 12:41 AM PST AFP - Spanish industrial output spurted by 2.3 percent in November, despite radical measures to correct public finances, adjusted data from the statistics agency Ine showed on Wednesday.

Kuwait lawmakers gather on fate of prime minister (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 12:39 AM PST AP - Kuwait's parliament is meeting in a closed-door session for a vote that could bring down the prime minister and throw the country into a political crisis.

Chavez warms to US suggestion of new envoy (AP) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 10:42 PM PST AP - President Hugo Chavez welcomed the U.S. government's suggestion that it may nominate a new ambassador to Venezuela, joking that Washington might consider naming an American he knows and likes such as Oliver Stone or Sean Penn.

Negotiations to go on in Ivory Coast crisis (AP) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 11:46 PM PST AP - The African Union's envoy says mediators in the Ivory Coast political crisis are going "the extra mile" to negotiate the departure of the West African nation's renegade leader to avoid any bloodshed that is likely to follow if force is used to remove Laurent Gbagbo.

Philippine raid captures communist rebel commander (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 12:57 AM PST AP - Philippine troops and police captured a senior communist rebel commander, officials said Wednesday as a 19-day Christmas truce ended this week with both sides vowing to step up fighting.

Harper says now not a good time for election (Reuters) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 12:27 PM PST Reuters - Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Tuesday now is not a good time for an election and that it is up to opposition parties to decide whether or not to force one.

Australian floods spread, threaten Barrier Reef (AFP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 12:41 AM PST AFP - Australia's disastrous floods have spread to 40 towns and are threatening the world-famous Great Barrier Reef as tonnes of sludge pour into the sea, officials and scientists said Wednesday.

China lends a hand as Spain climbs from economic doldrums (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 12:27 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Spanish officials Tuesday claimed the worst of the country's economic crisis could be over as China’s vice premier arrived for an official visit that has raised expectations of big business deals and more support for Spain’s treasury.

Iraq Veteran Embeds with Former Unit in Kandahar, Afghanistan (Time.com) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 12:25 AM PST Time.com - A former U.S. Army captain embeds as a journalist with his old unit, which has been reassigned to Afghanistan after several years in Iraq.

Sudan's Bashir softens tone in rare visit to semiautonomous South (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 12:18 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir made a rare visit to South Sudan Tuesday, just days ahead of this oil-rich region’s Jan. 9 vote on independence.

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