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• Embattled UN rethinking Afghan-Pakistan role (AP)
• Student stuns Iran by criticizing supreme leader (AP)
• Negotiators scale back UN climate pact ambitions (AP)
• Palestinian shock: President says he wants to quit (AP)
• General Assembly urges Gaza investigations (AP)
• UK's Brown stands firm on Afghanistan (AP)
• Israel: Weapons would let Hezbollah fight a month (AP)
• Hurricane Ida rips into Nicaragua's Atlantic coast (AP)
• Tsvangirai calls off Zimbabwe unity government boycott (AFP)
• New Afghan violence makes Obama decision tougher (AP)
• Canada flu spread and vaccination pace both pick up (Reuters)
• Shoe thrown at former Australian PM in Cambridge (AFP)
• Afghan insurgents make wreckage of U.S. armored vehicles (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Israel moves to rein in right-wing extremists (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Water Concerns 1 Month After Indonesia Quake (OneWorld.net)

Embattled UN rethinking Afghan-Pakistan role (AP) Posted: 05 Nov 2009 05:05 PM PST AP - The United Nations is sending about 600 foreign staff out of the country or into secure compounds because of the deadly Taliban attack on U.N. workers, warning the Afghan government Thursday that international support will wane unless it cracks down on corruption fueling the insurgency.

Student stuns Iran by criticizing supreme leader (AP) Posted: 05 Nov 2009 02:41 PM PST AP - An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country's most powerful man to his face.

Negotiators scale back UN climate pact ambitions (AP) Posted: 05 Nov 2009 02:33 PM PST AP - With the U.S. Congress still struggling to agree on sharp cuts in greenhouse gases or how to fund them, European officials said Thursday they were now striving for a political agreement instead of a new treaty to allow the U.S. and other rich nations to make commitments that are not legally binding.

Palestinian shock: President says he wants to quit (AP) Posted: 05 Nov 2009 03:14 PM PST AP - By announcing he doesn't want another term in office, embattled Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pushed the Mideast peace effort into unknown territory Thursday, opening the way to a succession battle that could play into the hands of his rival, the militant Hamas.

General Assembly urges Gaza investigations (AP) Posted: 05 Nov 2009 04:00 PM PST AP - The U.N. General Assembly urged Israel and the Palestinians Thursday to investigate alleged war crimes during last winter's conflict in Gaza and raised the possibility of Security Council action if they don't.

UK's Brown stands firm on Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 05 Nov 2009 04:01 PM PST AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to defend his government's commitment to Afghanistan in a major speech Friday, saying the war is essential to his country's security, according to excerpts released in advance by his office.

Israel: Weapons would let Hezbollah fight a month (AP) Posted: 05 Nov 2009 05:16 PM PST AP - Israel said Thursday that Hezbollah could have bombarded the Jewish state for a month with the weapons confiscated in the country's largest-ever arms seizure, and called on the world to focus on the Lebanese militants' chief backer, Iran, rather than assailing Israel.

Hurricane Ida rips into Nicaragua's Atlantic coast (AP) Posted: 05 Nov 2009 05:18 PM PST AP - Hurricane Ida swept onto Nicaragua's Atlantic coast Thursday, destroying homes, damaging schools and downing bridges before losing steam and becoming a tropical storm as it moved inland.

Tsvangirai calls off Zimbabwe unity government boycott (AFP) Posted: 05 Nov 2009 02:07 PM PST AFP - Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Thursday called off a boycott of power-sharing ties with President Robert Mugabe that had paralysed the fragile unity government for three weeks.

New Afghan violence makes Obama decision tougher (AP) Posted: 05 Nov 2009 05:05 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama's next move on Afghanistan is growing more difficult by the day. Deadly attacks this week deepened British and U.N. alarm over their commitments, and fresh worries about Iraq could delay the exit of U.S. troops there, squeezing an already overstretched military.

Canada flu spread and vaccination pace both pick up (Reuters) Posted: 05 Nov 2009 11:20 AM PST Reuters - Close to 6 million Canadians, or about 18 percent of the population, will be vaccinated against H1N1 flu by early next week, Canada's chief public health officer said on Thursday.

Shoe thrown at former Australian PM in Cambridge (AFP) Posted: 05 Nov 2009 03:52 AM PST AFP - An angry man threw a boot at former Australian prime minister John Howard during a debate at Cambridge University, the quick-thinking student who caught the shoe said on Thursday.

Afghan insurgents make wreckage of U.S. armored vehicles (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 05 Nov 2009 04:29 PM PST McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Taliban-led insurgents in Afghanistan have devised ways to cripple and even destroy the expensive armored vehicles that offer U.S. forces the best protection against roadside bombs by using increasingly large explosive charges and rocket-propelled grenades, according to U.S. soldiers and defense officials.

Israel moves to rein in right-wing extremists (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 04 Nov 2009 01:00 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - A US native from this isolated settlement was arrested by Israeli security services nearly a month ago amid allegations that he killed two Palestinians more than a decade ago and attempted to murder two others more recently. The local media are calling it the latest case of Jewish terrorism.

Water Concerns 1 Month After Indonesia Quake (OneWorld.net) Posted: 04 Nov 2009 08:27 PM PST OneWorld.net - JAKARTA, Nov 4 (IRIN) - Thousands of survivors of an earthquake that devastated Indonesia's West Sumatra Province are still grappling with a lack of clean water and adequate sanitation more than a month after the disaster, relief workers say.

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