Exclusive: Afghanistan sets ground rules for Taliban talks (Reuters)

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• Exclusive: Afghanistan sets ground rules for Taliban talks (Reuters)
• Islamists kill dozens in Nigeria Christmas bombs (Reuters)
• Suicide bomber kills 6 outside Iraq ministry (Reuters)
• Arab mission to Syria to visit Homs Tuesday: source (Reuters)
• Japan urges China to help keep North Korea in check (Reuters)
• Nigeria: Boko Haram Militants Strike on Christmas Day (Time.com)
• In-flight fight causes diversion to Dutch airport (AP)
• Iraq agrees to move Iran exiles; rockets hit camp (AP)
• Mexican army: 'El Chapo' security head arrested (AP)
• Powerful Darfur rebel chief killed, Sudan says (Reuters)
• Analysis: Caution mutes US response to NKorea (AP)
• Icebreaker reaches stricken Russian fishing vessel (AP)
• Why India pulled the welcome mat for Wal-Mart (The Christian Science Monitor)
• German Court Rules Muslim Student Disturbed the Peace by Praying (Time.com)
• Brazil takes on an centuries-old foe: corruption (The Christian Science Monitor)

Exclusive: Afghanistan sets ground rules for Taliban talks (Reuters) Posted: 25 Dec 2011 11:58 PM PST Reuters - Afghanistan will accept a Taliban office in Qatar to help peace talks but no foreign power can get involved in the process without its consent, the government's peace council said, as efforts gather pace to find a solution to the 10-year war.

Islamists kill dozens in Nigeria Christmas bombs (Reuters) Posted: 25 Dec 2011 05:21 PM PST Reuters - Islamist militants set off bombs across Nigeria on Christmas Day - three targeting churches including one that killed at least 27 people - raising fears that they are trying to ignite sectarian civil war.

Suicide bomber kills 6 outside Iraq ministry (Reuters) Posted: 26 Dec 2011 12:32 AM PST Reuters - A suicide car bomber killed at least six people and wounded 31 when he detonated explosives in an attack on Iraq's interior ministry in Baghdad, police and hospital sources said on Monday.

Arab mission to Syria to visit Homs Tuesday: source (Reuters) Posted: 26 Dec 2011 12:37 AM PST Reuters - Monitors will visit Syria's restive city of Homs on Tuesday, a source at the mission told Reuters, as they seek to assess whether Damascus is ending a bloody nine-month crackdown on protests in line with an Arab League peace plan.

Japan urges China to help keep North Korea in check (Reuters) Posted: 25 Dec 2011 11:12 PM PST Reuters - Japan urged China on Monday to shoulder a big role in ensuring North Korea avoids volatility after the death of its leader, Kim Jong-il.

Nigeria: Boko Haram Militants Strike on Christmas Day (Time.com) Posted: 26 Dec 2011 12:35 AM PST Time.com - In an apparent escalation of its war against the government, the Islamist militant group Boko Haram allegedly targeted churches on the most festive Christian holiday

In-flight fight causes diversion to Dutch airport (AP) Posted: 25 Dec 2011 02:00 PM PST AP - Dutch airport police say they have detained a Finnish man who fought with crew members aboard a flight from the Spanish island of Tenerife to Finland.

Iraq agrees to move Iran exiles; rockets hit camp (AP) Posted: 26 Dec 2011 12:50 AM PST AP - The United Nations and the Iraqi government agreed to relocate several thousand Iranian exiles living in a camp in northeastern Iraq, potentially averting a showdown with its residents. The dissidents, who have yet to say if they will go willingly, reported a rocket attack on the camp.

Mexican army: 'El Chapo' security head arrested (AP) Posted: 25 Dec 2011 06:32 PM PST AP - The Mexican army announced Sunday that it had captured the head of security for Sinaloa drug cartel head Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, one of the world's most wanted men.

Powerful Darfur rebel chief killed, Sudan says (Reuters) Posted: 25 Dec 2011 04:47 PM PST Reuters - Sudan's military has killed the leader of Darfur's most powerful rebel group, dealing a severe blow to insurgents in the remote western region and complicating a nearly decade-long war with Khartoum in which hundreds of thousands are believed to have died.

Analysis: Caution mutes US response to NKorea (AP) Posted: 26 Dec 2011 01:11 AM PST AP - The Obama administration's cautious response to the death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il reflects unease and uncertainty about the leadership transition in the reclusive country that has confounded U.S. presidents since Harry S. Truman.

Icebreaker reaches stricken Russian fishing vessel (AP) Posted: 25 Dec 2011 09:56 PM PST AP - A South Korean polar research ship on Monday reached a leaking Russian fishing vessel that has been stuck in the frigid waters off Antarctica for the past 10 days, New Zealand officials said.

Why India pulled the welcome mat for Wal-Mart (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 25 Dec 2011 08:00 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The Indian government's recent plans to open the retail sector to foreign big-box stores like Wal-Mart was met with such vehement pushback from people across India that the plans had to be shelved earlier this month.

German Court Rules Muslim Student Disturbed the Peace by Praying (Time.com) Posted: 26 Dec 2011 12:35 AM PST Time.com - The Federal Administrative Court in Germany has ruled against an 18-year-old Muslim student, ending his long legal fight for permission to pray openly at school

Brazil takes on an centuries-old foe: corruption (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 25 Dec 2011 06:00 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Since its creation in 2007, the local activist group Rio de Paz, a loose coalition of youths and church members, has focused on one city's most notorious problem: the thousands of murders tallied in Rio de Janeiro each year.

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