Sunday, December 4, 2011

Egypt's Brotherhood leads on eve of run-off vote (Reuters)

Egypt's Brotherhood leads on eve of run-off vote (Reuters)

Egypt's Brotherhood leads on eve of run-off vote (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 03:54 PM PST

Reuters - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has called on its rivals to accept the will of the people after a first-round vote set its party on course to take the most seats in the country's first freely elected parliament in six decades.

Russians vote in election test for Vladimir Putin (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 09:59 PM PST

Reuters - Vladimir Putin's ruling party could see its vast parliamentary majority cut back on Sunday in elections widely seen as a test of his popularity ahead of an expected return to the presidency early next year.

At least 23 dead in intensifying Syria violence (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 02:36 PM PST

Reuters - At least 23 people were reported killed in Syria Saturday as violence intensified in the eighth month of an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, pushing the death toll close to 4,600, an activist group said.

Peru anti-mine roadblocks lifted, government calls talks (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 01:36 PM PST

Reuters - Peruvian protesters opposed to a $4.8 billion gold mine project abandoned roadblocks on Saturday as government officials called weekend talks with regional leaders to try to resolve the conflict.

Israel's Barak plays down "shadow war" against Iran (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 12:12 PM PST

Reuters - Defense Minister Ehud Barak played down speculation on Saturday that Israel and U.S.-led allies were waging clandestine war on Iran, saying sanctions and the threat of military strikes were still the way to curb its nuclear program.

'Organic' Mineral Water? German Court Allows Statement of the Obvious (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 09:45 PM PST

Time.com - A German court has ruled in favor of a mineral water company hawking theirH2O as "bio," or organic

Opposition expected to win Croatian vote (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 11:57 PM PST

Passers by walk past a defaced electoral poster of the ruling HDZ party, in Zagreb, Croatia, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. Croatia's ruling conservatives, who have brought the country to the threshold of the European Union but are enmeshed in corruption scandals, are on course to lose power in Sunday's election. The parliamentary vote will pit the governing Croatian Democratic Union, or HDZ, against a coalition of center-left parties who have convincingly led in all recent opinion polls. Sentence on poster reads: Vote for Politics of Political Determination and at the flag : National Pride. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)AP - Croatians are voting in an election that is expected to unseat the conservative government ahead of the country's entry into the European Union.

As US leaves Iraq, AP men recall a war in pictures (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 09:01 PM PST

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - FILE - In this March 31, 2004 file photo, Iraqis chant anti-American slogans as charred bodies hang from a bridge over the Euphrates River in Fallujah, west of Baghdad. The photo has a great deal of significance to AP photojournalist Khalid Mohammed. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)AP - Burned bodies hanging from a bridge. A boy buried under rubble from a bombing. A father gunned down in front of his 7-year-old daughter. These were some of the harrowing images captured by three Iraqi photographers of The Associated Press who have covered the Iraq war since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.

Panama plane crash kills American, passenger (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 06:33 PM PST

AP - A Panamanian police official says a small plane piloted by a U.S. citizen has crashed about 50 miles west of the capital of Panama City, killing both people on board.

Zambia rejects rights group's call to arrest Bush (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 10:34 PM PST

AP - Zambia has dismissed an international rights group's call for the arrest on torture charges of former President George W. Bush, who has been touring Africa to raise awareness about cervical and breast cancer.

Exclusive: India government puts foreign supermarkets "on pause" (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 12:06 AM PST

Reuters - India has put a plan to open up its retail industry to foreign supermarkets on hold, a senior government source said on Sunday, an embarrassing turnaround for a beleaguered government fighting to retain the support of key allies.

Australian teen freed from Bali drug detention (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 09:50 PM PST

AP - A 14-year-old Australian boy has been released after serving two months in an Indonesian detention center for buying drugs while vacationing with his family on the resort island of Bali.

Mexico drug war casualty: Citizenry suffers post-traumatic stress (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 09:31 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - It was not a stifling evening, so Carolina Gomez, a pretty and petite kindergarten teacher in this Gulf coast city, turned off her air-conditioning unit and slid open the window over her bed. The tropical breeze lulled her to sleep by 11 p.m.

George Clooney's Satellites Build a Case Against an Alleged War Criminal (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 09:45 PM PST

Time.com - Exclusive: According to documents obtained by TIME, the ICC is building a case against Sudanese Defense Minister Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein with the help of information gathered by George Clooney and John Prendergast's Satellite Sentinel Project

Pervasive insecurity in Mexico: If this isn't 'terror,' what is? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 09:31 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Across the country bombs packed with unsophisticated explosives have gone off, killing bystanders and targets alike; gory videos documenting the torture and beheadings of countless people are disseminated on the Internet; dismembered bodies are disposed of in public spaces with threatening messages penned as warnings to others.
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