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• UN climate negotiators look to US for fresh ideas (AP)
• Experts? In global discourse, loud prevails (AP)
• Iran tests missile, stoking tensions with the West (AP)
• Madagascar coup leader calls for elections (AP)
• Demand for new states could change India's map (AP)
• Study: Muslims Feel They're Being Shut Out of European Society (Time.com)
• Court: UK is hiding info already made public (AP)
• Palestinian village caught amid Israel settlements (AP)
• Brazil toddler has 50 sewing needles inside body (AP)
• Criticized U.N.-backed Congo operation to shut down (Reuters)
• US to expand eyes in the sky over Afghanistan (AP)
• Global housing crisis? What crisis? Vancouver asks (Reuters)
• Activists dodge Japanese whaling fleet after skirmish (AFP)
• Pakistan's Supreme Court throws wrench into terror fight (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Closing largest Kurdish party DTP, Turkey could stall reform efforts (The Christian Science Monitor)
• India's Trash Pickers Keep Global Warming in Check (OneWorld.net)

UN climate negotiators look to US for fresh ideas (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2009 04:14 PM PST AP - U.N. climate negotiators looked Wednesday to the United States to bring fresh ideas — perhaps in the form of extra billions of dollars — to try to salvage a bare-bones political agreement by the end of the week on controlling global warming.

Experts? In global discourse, loud prevails (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2009 12:00 PM PST AP - The leader of the Maldives, an Indian Ocean island nation whose very existence is threatened by global warming, was emphatic. "In all political agreements, you have to be prepared to negotiate," he said in Copenhagen this week. "But physics isn't politics."

Iran tests missile, stoking tensions with the West (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2009 04:03 PM PST AP - Iran on Wednesday test fired an upgraded version of an advanced missile capable of hitting Israel and parts of Europe, an apparent show of strength aimed at discouraging attacks on its nuclear facilities.

Madagascar coup leader calls for elections (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2009 02:04 PM PST AP - The man who took power in Madagascar by force defied efforts to negotiate a solution to the island nation's political crisis by appearing on national TV Wednesday to issue a unilateral call for elections.

Demand for new states could change India's map (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2009 01:39 PM PST AP - From scores fasting in demand of a new state in India's hilly northeast to a powerful chief minister suggesting her region be split up, the map of the nation is facing an overhaul.

Study: Muslims Feel They're Being Shut Out of European Society (Time.com) Posted: 16 Dec 2009 02:15 AM PST Time.com - A newly published report by the Open Society Institute details the complex relationship between Muslims and Europe

Court: UK is hiding info already made public (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2009 04:48 PM PST AP - Details of U.S. interrogation techniques that Britain is fighting to keep secret are no different from what has already been made public by President Barack Obama, according to parts of a U.K. court ruling that were declassified Wednesday.

Palestinian village caught amid Israel settlements (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2009 12:59 PM PST AP - The head of this Palestinian village can't scan the horizon without being reminded of everything his people have lost.

Brazil toddler has 50 sewing needles inside body (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2009 04:53 PM PST AP - A 2-year-old boy has as many as 50 metal sewing needles inside his body, apparently stuck there one by one, a doctor treating him said Wednesday. Brazilian media said the boy's ex-stepfather was detained.

Criticized U.N.-backed Congo operation to shut down (Reuters) Posted: 16 Dec 2009 12:11 PM PST Reuters - A U.N.-backed military operation in eastern Congo in which government soldiers are accused of massacring hundreds of civilians will end this month, the top U.N. official in Congo said on Wednesday.

US to expand eyes in the sky over Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2009 04:03 PM PST AP - The U.S. military is adding more drones and expanding its video surveillance in the skies over Afghanistan to meet the needs of American forces as 30,000 more troops head into the war zone, a top Air Force general said Wednesday.

Global housing crisis? What crisis? Vancouver asks (Reuters) Posted: 16 Dec 2009 07:50 AM PST Reuters - When Bob Stark bid on a loft apartment in a trendy Vancouver neighborhood in June this year, he wasn't expecting competition.

Activists dodge Japanese whaling fleet after skirmish (AFP) Posted: 16 Dec 2009 03:35 AM PST AFP - Militant anti-whaling activists said they were dodging a Japanese surveillance ship in icebergs near Antarctica on Wednesday, following their first skirmish with whalers during the annual hunt.

Pakistan's Supreme Court throws wrench into terror fight (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 16 Dec 2009 12:23 PM PST McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's Supreme Court struck down a political amnesty law Wednesday and ordered corruption cases against the country's pro-Western President, Asif Ali Zardari, and thousands of other politicians reopened.

Closing largest Kurdish party DTP, Turkey could stall reform efforts (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 16 Dec 2009 10:28 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The government's introduction in recent months of a political reform package has increased hope that Turkey is on its way to finally implementing a civilian â€" rather than military â€" solution to its decades-long Kurdish problem, one that has cost an estimated 40,000 lives since 1984 and has stood as a roadblock along Turkey's road to democratization.

India's Trash Pickers Keep Global Warming in Check (OneWorld.net) Posted: 16 Dec 2009 10:23 AM PST OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (The Advocacy Project/New America Media) - As governments struggle to develop an international plan for combating climate change, a new report from a leading Indian environmental group has found that informal recycling makes a huge but unappreciated contribution towards the reduction of greenhouse gases.

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