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• Hunger-striking activist flown from Spain (AP)
• Pakistan bans minister's travel after graft ruling (AP)
• Venezuela's Chavez sees US threat in Dutch islands (AP)
• Police: Brazil boy stuck with needles in rituals (AP)
• Under U.S. Pressure, Pakistan Balks at Helping on Afghan Taliban (Time.com)
• W.Sahara activist arrives home after hunger strike in Spain (AFP)
• Monument lifted from Cleopatra's underwater city (AP)
• Brazil's top court halts boy's return to US dad (AP)
• Ex-Gitmo detainee struggles to build life in Chad (AP)
• Pakistan minister 'barred from leaving country' (AFP)
• Tories have lead of 6 to 9 points in polls (Reuters)
• Rio Tinto ships first iron ore to India (AFP)
• Pakistan stops defense minister from making official trip (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Mexican drug lord: Why Arturo Beltran Levya's death matters (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Behind the Murder of a Drug Czar (Time.com)
• Sudan Lays Groundwork for Elections, Peace (OneWorld.net)

Hunger-striking activist flown from Spain (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2009 04:33 PM PST AP - Spanish news reports say an activist from the disputed territory of Western Sahara who has been on hunger strike in Spain for more than a month has been flown back home.

Pakistan bans minister's travel after graft ruling (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2009 04:54 PM PST AP - Pakistan's anti-corruption agency barred the defense minister and nearly 250 other top officials from leaving the country Thursday as political turmoil deepened following a Supreme Court ruling that struck down a graft amnesty.

Venezuela's Chavez sees US threat in Dutch islands (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2009 03:49 PM PST AP - Hugo Chavez accused the Netherlands on Thursday of allowing the United States to use Dutch islands off Venezuela's Caribbean coast to prepare a possible military attack against his country.

Police: Brazil boy stuck with needles in rituals (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2009 05:07 PM PST AP - The stepfather of a 2-year-old boy found with 42 sewing needles in his body confessed to jabbing them into the toddler during a month of rituals with a lover who he claimed received instructions through trances, Brazilian police said Thursday.

Under U.S. Pressure, Pakistan Balks at Helping on Afghan Taliban (Time.com) Posted: 17 Dec 2009 02:50 AM PST Time.com - Pakistan remains reluctant to act against longtime allies now fighting the U.S. But neither does it want the U.S. doing the job itself on Pakistani soil

W.Sahara activist arrives home after hunger strike in Spain (AFP) Posted: 17 Dec 2009 04:39 PM PST AFP - Western Sahara independence activist Aminatou Haidar arrived back in the disputed Moroccan territory early Friday on a medically equipped plane from Spain's Canary Islands where she had been on hunger strike for over a month, the Moroccan authorities announced.

Monument lifted from Cleopatra's underwater city (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2009 04:03 PM PST AP - Archaeologists on Thursday hoisted a 9-ton temple pylon from the waters of the Mediterranean that was part of the palace complex of the fabled Cleopatra before it became submerged for centuries in the harbor of Alexandria.

Brazil's top court halts boy's return to US dad (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2009 04:08 PM PST AP - Brazil's Supreme Court delayed the return of a 9-year-old boy to his U.S. father only hours after the man arrived from New Jersey on Thursday in hopes of taking the boy home for Christmas.

Ex-Gitmo detainee struggles to build life in Chad (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2009 02:22 PM PST AP - A former detainee who spent his teenage years at Guantanamo Bay said Thursday he is struggling to build a life in his parents' native Chad, a central African nation he had never seen before his release from the U.S. military prison earlier this year.

Pakistan minister 'barred from leaving country' (AFP) Posted: 17 Dec 2009 05:07 PM PST AFP - Pakistan's Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar said he has been barred from leaving the country for an official visit to China after a Supreme Court decision revived a corruption case against him.

Tories have lead of 6 to 9 points in polls (Reuters) Posted: 17 Dec 2009 07:48 AM PST Reuters - One poll this week showed Canada's governing Conservatives with a six-point lead over the main opposition Liberal Party, the smallest lead in two months, while another has them maintaining a nine-point margin.

Rio Tinto ships first iron ore to India (AFP) Posted: 17 Dec 2009 12:16 AM PST AFP - Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto said Thursday it had secured its first-ever iron ore sale to India, a "ground-breaking" development it described as significant for its future.

Pakistan stops defense minister from making official trip (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 17 Dec 2009 04:05 PM PST McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD — Pakistani authorities Thursday took steps to block two top officials who are crucial to the war on terrorism from leaving the country because a Supreme Court decision Wednesday bars them from traveling abroad while they're facing revived corruption charges.

Mexican drug lord: Why Arturo Beltran Levya's death matters (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 17 Dec 2009 10:21 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The Mexican military killed one of the country’s most powerful drug traffickers late Wednesday, handing the government a badly needed victory in its three-year war against drug traffickers.

Behind the Murder of a Drug Czar (Time.com) Posted: 17 Dec 2009 02:50 AM PST Time.com - Neighborhood drug wars and drug-war politics wreak havoc in Honduras

Sudan Lays Groundwork for Elections, Peace (OneWorld.net) Posted: 17 Dec 2009 10:55 AM PST OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Dec 17 (OneWorld.net) - After a series of protests and arrests in Sudan's capital city last week, officials finally agreed Sunday on guidelines for both the national elections in April and a vote on southern independence in 2011. But concerns remain about the humanitarian situation in the country.

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