China leftists urge parliament not to expel Bo Xilai

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• China leftists urge parliament not to expel Bo Xilai
• Netanyahu says doesn't know of any U.S.-Iran talks
• Five wounded in south Beirut gunfire: sources
• As world helps shot Pakistani girl, Afghans ask "what about us?"
• Iran's Ahmadinejad denied visit to Evin prison
• Israeli forces clash with Hamas, kill two gunmen in Gaza foray
• Analysis: Killing of security chief raises fears for Lebanon
• South Korean police ban propaganda leaflet launch to North
• Emir of Qatar to be first head of state to visit Gaza
• Insight: Murky deals cast doubt over Nigeria's power sell-off
• 2 killed in overnight clashes in Lebanon
• Castro publishes article criticizing health rumors
• SKorean activists banned from flying leaflets
• Soldiers' arrest marks shift in Guatemala
• US astronaut sees science breakthrough in space
• World sea piracy falls to lowest level since 2008
• Uruguayan way: legal abortion and marijuana sales
• Clintons land in Haiti to showcase industrial park
• Fighting flares for 5th day in Libyan town
• Palestinian elections: Despite Hamas boycott, Hamas fares poorly
• Lebanon's leaders cautious as public vents rage at funeral
• Reverse brain drain: China engineers incentives for “brain gain”
• Reverse brain drain: Poles circulate home and out again to Europe
• Reverse brain drain: 'African Lion' economies vs West’s fast track
• Reverse brain drain: Economic shifts lure migrants home
• Reverse brain drain pulls Brazilians home, and Europeans with them
• Pimples at the polls: Argentina tries to lower voting age to 16
• Iran and US can agree on one thing: There are no direct talks planned

China leftists urge parliament not to expel Bo Xilai Posted: 21 Oct 2012 11:51 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - A group of Chinese leftists has issued a public letter calling on the country's largely rubber stamp parliament not to expel disgraced former top leader Bo Xilai from its ranks, saying the move is legally questionable and politically motivated. Stripping membership from Bo - the one-time Communist Party chief of Chongqing who is accused of abusing power, taking huge bribes and other crimes - also removes his immunity from prosecution, and paves the way for formal charges against him. ...

Netanyahu says doesn't know of any U.S.-Iran talks Posted: 21 Oct 2012 01:39 PM PDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he didn't know about any U.S. plans to talk bilaterally with Iran, saying tougher sanctions and a "credible military option" were the best ways to peacefully halt Tehran's nuclear program. The White House had earlier denied a New York Times report that Washington and Tehran had agreed in principle to hold bilateral negotiations to halt what the West fears is a plan by the Islamic Republic to develop nuclear weapons. ...

Five wounded in south Beirut gunfire: sources Posted: 22 Oct 2012 12:51 AM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - Five people were wounded by gunfire in southern Beirut on Monday, security and medical sources said, after a night of tension following the funeral of an intelligence official killed by a car bomb. The sources said the shooting occurred on the edge of Tariq al-Jadida, a Sunni Muslim district which neighbors Shi'ite suburbs in the south of the Lebanese capital. The army closed several roads in the area, local media said. Residents had earlier reported heavy overnight gunfire around Tariq al-Jadida between gunmen armed with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades. ...

As world helps shot Pakistani girl, Afghans ask "what about us?" Posted: 21 Oct 2012 04:48 PM PDT KABUL (Reuters) - The global attention bestowed on a Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban has sparked outcry amongst many Afghans dismayed by what they say is the unequal response to the plight of their women and children. Malala Yousufzai, shot by Taliban gunmen for advocating girls' education, was flown from Pakistan to Britain to receive treatment after the attack this month which drew widespread condemnation and an international outpouring of support. "Every day an Afghan girl is abused, raped, has acid thrown on her face and mutilated. ...

Iran's Ahmadinejad denied visit to Evin prison Posted: 22 Oct 2012 12:28 AM PDT DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's judiciary has blocked a request by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to visit Tehran's Evin prison where a top presidential aide is being held, a further sign of his waning influence in a last year in office. Ali Akbar Javanfekr, Ahmadinejad's press advisor and head of the country's state news agency IRNA, was sent to Evin in September to serve a six-month sentence for publishing an article deemed offensive to public decency. ...

Israeli forces clash with Hamas, kill two gunmen in Gaza foray Posted: 22 Oct 2012 01:08 AM PDT GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed two Palestinian militants during an incursion in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday that touched off clashes with gunmen from the governing Hamas movement, local officials said. They said militants fired mortar bombs at Israeli troops spotted inside Gaza's boundary fence, drawing air strikes against a Hamas training camp and other targets. Hamas claimed one of the dead gunmen as its own, and the other was not immediately identified. Two Hamas fighters were wounded. ...

Analysis: Killing of security chief raises fears for Lebanon Posted: 21 Oct 2012 11:40 PM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Beirut car bomb that killed a top Lebanese security official will probably prove to be the most destabilizing attack in Lebanon since the 2005 assassination of former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri. What is less clear - and this is something that instils fear in a society still scarred by its 1975-90 civil war - is whether the attack was a reprisal or the start of a campaign of violence by Damascus and its allies, suspected by many Lebanese of trying to spread Syria's conflict across its borders. ...

South Korean police ban propaganda leaflet launch to North Posted: 21 Oct 2012 09:41 PM PDT PAJU, South Korea (Reuters) - South Korean police banned activists from sending propaganda leaflets across the heavily militarized border into North Korea on Monday, following last week's threat of attack by Pyongyang if they went ahead. Police and troops blocked highway exits to the launch site close the demililitarized zone that separates the impoverished North from its affluent neighbor to prevent activists from launching balloons carrying materials denouncing Pyongyang. ...

Emir of Qatar to be first head of state to visit Gaza Posted: 21 Oct 2012 04:51 PM PDT GAZA (Reuters) - The emir of pro-Western Qatar will become the first head of state to enter the blockaded Gaza Strip on Tuesday, in a high-profile visit breaking the isolation of the Iranian-backed Islamist movement Hamas that seized power in 2007. Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani is officially visiting the Palestinian enclave to inaugurate reconstruction projects worth over $250 million, which an envoy of his oil-rich, conservative Arab emirate unveiled in Gaza last week. But his trip will be loaded with political symbolism. ...

Insight: Murky deals cast doubt over Nigeria's power sell-off Posted: 21 Oct 2012 11:37 PM PDT ABUJA (Reuters) - For decades Nigeria has failed to fix chronic electricity shortages that stifle growth and help keep millions in poverty. That is about to change, the government says, when most of the power sector is privatized by the end of the year. Its target is to increase electricity output tenfold to 40,000 megawatts by 2020. Turning on the lights in a country where power cuts are a daily ordeal could push Nigeria's growth into double digits and help diversify its economy away from oil, which in 50 years has created a super-rich elite but has done little to reduce mass poverty. ...

2 killed in overnight clashes in Lebanon Posted: 22 Oct 2012 12:33 AM PDT Clashes in Beirut and other parts of Lebanon killed at least two people and left more than a dozen wounded overnight as fears grow that Syria's civil war is spilling over into its smaller neighbor, security officials and state-run media said Monday.

Castro publishes article criticizing health rumors Posted: 21 Oct 2012 11:59 PM PDT Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he doesn't even suffer from a headache in an article he published in state-media Monday criticizing those who spread rumors he was on his death bed.

SKorean activists banned from flying leaflets Posted: 21 Oct 2012 10:33 PM PDT South Korea banned activists from launching anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the heavily fortified border into North Korea on Monday in an unusual move to halt their propaganda campaign.

Soldiers' arrest marks shift in Guatemala Posted: 21 Oct 2012 06:55 PM PDT Chanting and waving signs to protest high electricity prices, thousands of unarmed indigenous demonstrators blockaded a highway in western Guatemala, forcing a standoff with police. Two truckloads of soldiers arrived and gunfire erupted, killing eight protesters and wounding 34.

US astronaut sees science breakthrough in space Posted: 22 Oct 2012 12:57 AM PDT A U.S. astronaut departing this week for the International Space Station said Monday that the bulk of the scientific benefits from the orbiting laboratory will be seen over the coming decade.

World sea piracy falls to lowest level since 2008 Posted: 22 Oct 2012 01:00 AM PDT Sea piracy worldwide fell to its lowest level since 2008 over the first nine months of this year as navies and shipping companies cracked down on attacks off the coast of Somalia, an international maritime watchdog said Monday.

Uruguayan way: legal abortion and marijuana sales Posted: 21 Oct 2012 06:37 PM PDT Uruguayans used to call their country the Switzerland of Latin America, but its faded grey capital seems a bit more like Amsterdam now that its congress has legalized abortion and is drawing up plans to sell government-grown marijuana.

Clintons land in Haiti to showcase industrial park Posted: 22 Oct 2012 12:09 AM PDT The Haitian government is hosting Hillary and Bill Clinton, a delegation of foreign investors and a crowd of celebrities Monday to showcase the marquee project of the U.S. aid effort since the 2010 earthquake.

Fighting flares for 5th day in Libyan town Posted: 21 Oct 2012 05:54 PM PDT Pro-government militias battled fighters in a former stronghold of the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi on Sunday, the fifth straight day of clashes that have killed at least 30 people.

Palestinian elections: Despite Hamas boycott, Hamas fares poorly Posted: 21 Oct 2012 11:09 AM PDT Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party made a disappointing showing in yesterday's local elections, with its chosen candidates failing to secure local majorities in key cities including Ramallah despite a boycott by its chief rival, Hamas.

Lebanon's leaders cautious as public vents rage at funeral Posted: 21 Oct 2012 09:50 AM PDT Tens of thousands of Lebanese gathered in central Beirut Sunday for the funeral of a top Sunni security chief whose assassination last week in a car bomb explosion has revived fears in Lebanon of a renewed spate of sectarian bombings and killings.

Reverse brain drain: China engineers incentives for “brain gain” Posted: 21 Oct 2012 09:02 AM PDT Nowhere in the world has a government taken the task of tempting exiled talent to return home as seriously as in China.

Reverse brain drain: Poles circulate home and out again to Europe Posted: 21 Oct 2012 09:03 AM PDT When Wojciech Burkot was licensed by Google to open a research and development office anywhere on the planet, the wiry, high-energy physicist chose Krakow, Poland. And not just because he was born there.

Reverse brain drain: 'African Lion' economies vs West’s fast track Posted: 21 Oct 2012 09:01 AM PDT It was the daily four-hour round-trip commute, in a series of cramped and silent trains from one side of London to the other, that got to Sitati Kituyi in the end.

Reverse brain drain: Economic shifts lure migrants home Posted: 21 Oct 2012 09:02 AM PDT "Brain drain" – the flow of intellect and skilled labor from poor to rich countries – has been so constant in modern times that the Nigerian cabdriver who was educated as a doctor back home is just as much a fixture of New York City's landscape as a fledgling Broadway actress or Wall Street banker.

Reverse brain drain pulls Brazilians home, and Europeans with them Posted: 21 Oct 2012 09:01 AM PDT When school friends Alessandra Orofino and Miguel Lago were growing up here in the 1990s, their hometown wasn't where they envisioned getting an auspicious start to their futures. It was depressed, dirty, and violent. So like thousands of Brazilians with means, they headed abroad for college – both to Europe, and she, later, to the United States.

Pimples at the polls: Argentina tries to lower voting age to 16 Posted: 21 Oct 2012 08:33 AM PDT Should the US lower its voting age to 16 or 17? Argentina is the latest nation on track to do so.

Iran and US can agree on one thing: There are no direct talks planned Posted: 21 Oct 2012 07:13 AM PDT Iran followed the United States on Sunday in denying that the two countries had scheduled direct bilateral negotiations on Iran's controversial nuclear program.

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