Kabul blast kills around 30, toll expected to rise (Reuters)

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• Kabul blast kills around 30, toll expected to rise (Reuters)
• Syria says "would like" to accept Arab deal (Reuters)
• Ivory Coast's Gbagbo appears before ICC (Reuters)
• The ICC Scrutinized as the Ex-Ivorian Leader Goes on Trial (Time.com)
• China braces as European crisis adds to strains (AP)
• Egypt runoff exposes tensions between Islamists (AP)
• Nobel Laureate: Haiti pres's army plan an "error" (AP)
• Clashes erupt in Congo ahead of vote results (Reuters)
• 20 killed in rare attacks on Afghan Shiites (AP)
• Bank of Canada says Greece exit not the cure (Reuters)
• Croc attack suspected in Australian diver's death (AP)
• Putin's party ekes out majority in controversial Russia election (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Thousands Occupy Russian Square in Public Protest of Putin (Time.com)
• With peace stalled, Afghanistan looks to extend foreign aid (The Christian Science Monitor)

Kabul blast kills around 30, toll expected to rise (Reuters) Posted: 06 Dec 2011 01:10 AM PST Reuters - Around 30 people were killed and 67 others injured when a suicide bomber attacked a Shi'ite Muslim shrine in central Kabul on Tuesday, security and health officials said. The toll is expected to rise.

Syria says "would like" to accept Arab deal (Reuters) Posted: 05 Dec 2011 11:53 AM PST Reuters - Syria said it had conditionally approved an Arab League peace plan to end eight months of unrest which threatens to drag the country to civil war and activists said at least 60 bodies were taken to hospitals in the central city of Homs on Monday.

Ivory Coast's Gbagbo appears before ICC (Reuters) Posted: 05 Dec 2011 09:54 AM PST Reuters - Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo appeared at the International Criminal Court on Monday to face charges of crimes against humanity, the first former head of state expected to be tried by the court since its inception in 2002.

The ICC Scrutinized as the Ex-Ivorian Leader Goes on Trial (Time.com) Posted: 06 Dec 2011 01:00 AM PST Time.com - With its chief prosecutor nearing the end of his term, the International Criminal Court in the Hague is receiving increasing scrutiny

China braces as European crisis adds to strains (AP) Posted: 06 Dec 2011 12:36 AM PST AP - Europe's festering debt crisis is adding to strains on China just as the country is pricking its property bubble and facing a manufacturing downturn, limiting the ability of the world's No. 2 economy to prop up global growth.

Egypt runoff exposes tensions between Islamists (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2011 01:56 PM PST AP - The runoff Monday for Egypt's first-round parliamentary elections heated up tensions between competing Islamist groups that have so far dominated the vote, with scuffles breaking out and allegations of death threats.

Nobel Laureate: Haiti pres's army plan an "error" (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:57 PM PST AP - Nobel laureate Oscar Arias has advised Haitian President Michel Martelly that it would be an "error" to restore the disbanded army, according to a letter delivered to presidential offices on Monday.

Clashes erupt in Congo ahead of vote results (Reuters) Posted: 05 Dec 2011 03:46 PM PST Reuters - Clashes erupted between protesters and security forces in parts of Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday as diplomats scrambled to defuse tensions ahead of the country's full election results.

20 killed in rare attacks on Afghan Shiites (AP) Posted: 06 Dec 2011 01:19 AM PST AP - A suicide bombing tore through a crowd of Shiite worshippers marking a holy day Tuesday in the Afghan capital, the deadliest of twin attacks that killed at least 20 people in a rare burst of violence targeting the minority Islamic sect.

Bank of Canada says Greece exit not the cure (Reuters) Posted: 05 Dec 2011 11:50 AM PST Reuters - Kicking Greece out of the euro zone would not be an easy cure for the region's sovereign debt problems, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said in an interview published on Monday.

Croc attack suspected in Australian diver's death (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2011 10:58 PM PST AP - Australian police say a man who died during a spearfishing dive may have been attacked by a crocodile.

Putin's party ekes out majority in controversial Russia election (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 05 Dec 2011 11:17 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Vladimir Putin's United Russia party appears to have eked out a 50 percent win in Sunday's elections for the State Duma, which puts it on track to dominate Russia's lower house of parliament for the next five years.

Thousands Occupy Russian Square in Public Protest of Putin (Time.com) Posted: 06 Dec 2011 01:00 AM PST Time.com - In the biggest expression of public anger at Vladimir Putin, thousands gather in a Moscow square, suddenly venting in public what they have been spewing in the blogosphere

With peace stalled, Afghanistan looks to extend foreign aid (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 05 Dec 2011 10:33 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - As Afghan President Hamid Karzai addressed representatives from about 100 countries and 60 foreign ministers gathered in Bonn, Germany to discuss the future of Afghanistan, one aspect of his speech was conspicuously brief: reconciliation with the Taliban.

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