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• Tough bargaining still ahead at UN climate talks (AP)
• Costs and security fears weigh on Iraq oil auction (AP)
• Under one Danish roof, humanity talks climate (AP)
• DomRep: Ousted Honduras leader, successor to meet (AP)
• Experts: Somali Islamists improving tactics, bombs (AP)
• African Asylum Seekers Shot at by Egypt's Border Patrol (Time.com)
• Turkey's top court bans pro-Kurdish party (Reuters)
• Defense secy tells US troops Iraq mission critical (AP)
• Guatemalan ex-president Laugerud dies at 79 (AP)
• US voices concern over hunger-striking Sahara activist (AFP)
• AP sources: FBI questions students, eyes charges (AP)
• Canada opens mobile market to Globalive (Reuters)
• Dozens treated over Australian airport leak: report (AFP)
• Worried father turned in 5 Americans to Pakistani police (McClatchy Newspapers)

Tough bargaining still ahead at UN climate talks (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 05:26 PM PST AP - After a week of U.N. climate talks, some money is finally on the table and a draft agreement has been circulated. Now the really hard bargaining begins.

Costs and security fears weigh on Iraq oil auction (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 01:21 PM PST AP - Iraqi officials cheered and clapped as the first oil field up for bid went to a major international consortium at the opening of the country's biggest postwar auction Friday. But from there, the chill set in.

Under one Danish roof, humanity talks climate (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 12:43 PM PST AP - Once every turn around the sun, inhabitants of our battered blue globe gather by the thousands in an assigned place, for a two-week ritual of despair and hope called a climate conference.

DomRep: Ousted Honduras leader, successor to meet (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 05:45 PM PST AP - The leader of the Dominican Republic said Friday that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya will meet with his elected successor next week in his Caribbean nation.

Experts: Somali Islamists improving tactics, bombs (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 09:30 AM PST AP - Somali Islamist insurgents have imported terrorist tactics and technology used with deadly results in Iraq and Afghanistan, threatening the African country's beleaguered government and causing alarm as far as Washington.

African Asylum Seekers Shot at by Egypt's Border Patrol (Time.com) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:55 AM PST Time.com - Egyptian authorities have cracked down on the increasing number of African asylum seekers crossing into Israel -- including, say refugee rights groups, a policy of shooting those along the border. But those who make it to the Promised Land face hardship

Turkey's top court bans pro-Kurdish party (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:38 PM PST Reuters - Turkey's top court closed the only pro-Kurdish party in parliament on Friday for having links to PKK Kurdish rebels in a ruling that deals a fresh blow to the country's faltering bid to join the European Union.

Defense secy tells US troops Iraq mission critical (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:54 PM PST AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that plans are on track to reduce American forces in Iraq next year and warned that neighboring Iran risks sanctions soon if it fails to cooperate on its controversial nuclear program.

Guatemalan ex-president Laugerud dies at 79 (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 05:47 PM PST AP - Former President Kjell Eugenio Laugerud, who is credited with helping rebuild Guatemala after the devastating 1976 earthquake, has died from complications related to cancer. He was 79.

US voices concern over hunger-striking Sahara activist (AFP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:49 PM PST AFP - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has raised US concern over a hunger-striking Western Sahara independence activist with Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi-Fihri, a US spokesman said Friday.

AP sources: FBI questions students, eyes charges (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 05:10 PM PST AP - FBI agents have questioned some of the young Americans arrested in Pakistan as U.S. investigators gather evidence that could lead to a conspiracy charge against them, an American official and another person familiar with the case said Friday.

Canada opens mobile market to Globalive (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 12:25 PM PST Reuters - Canada opened up competition in its telecoms sector on Friday by overturning a regulatory ruling that had blocked Egyptian-backed Globalive from offering wireless service in a market now dominated by three carriers.

Dozens treated over Australian airport leak: report (AFP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 10:45 AM PST AFP - Part of Sydney Airport was evacuated Friday as 27 people were treated by paramedics for the effects of a suspected gas leak, a report said.

Worried father turned in 5 Americans to Pakistani police (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 03:40 PM PST McClatchy Newspapers - SARGODHA, Pakistan — Pakistani police arrested five American Muslims this week on suspicion of planning terrorist actions after Khalid Farooq, the father of one of them, turned them in, alarmed that they were determined to fight U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Pakistani officials and friends of the family said Friday.

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