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• Climate reality: Voluntary efforts not enough (AP)
• Iraq sends forces to oil well seized by Iran (AP)
• Forest plan gets the ax at UN climate talks (AP)
• 2,000 trapped as Eurostar trains break down (AP)
• U.S. Companies Shut Out as Iraq Auctions Its Oil Fields (Time.com)
• Mancini knows time is against him at City (AFP)
• Egyptians building Gaza barrier come under fire (AP)
• Bodies of 8 men found in burned truck in Mexico (AP)
• Lockerbie bomber Megrahi's health deteriorates (AFP)
• Cambodia sends Uighur asylum-seekers back to China (AP)
• Canada's opposition says not keen on 2010 election (Reuters)
• WWII shipwreck found off Australian coast (AFP)
• Copenhagen summit: Major powers broker compromise voluntary climate pact (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Why I Would Sign the 'Copenhagen Accord' (OneWorld.net)

Climate reality: Voluntary efforts not enough (AP) Posted: 19 Dec 2009 06:14 PM PST AP - Around the world, countries and capitalism are already working to curb global warming on their own, with or without a global treaty.

Iraq sends forces to oil well seized by Iran (AP) Posted: 19 Dec 2009 06:19 PM PST AP - Iraq deployed security forces Saturday near a remote oil well seized by Iran, officials said, and its government pressed Tehran to withdraw its forces from the area along their disputed southern border.

Forest plan gets the ax at UN climate talks (AP) Posted: 19 Dec 2009 08:48 AM PST AP - A plan to protect the world's biologically rich tropical forests by paying poor nations to protect them was shelved Saturday after world leaders failed to agree on a binding deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

2,000 trapped as Eurostar trains break down (AP) Posted: 19 Dec 2009 02:04 PM PST AP - More than 2,000 people were stranded beneath the English Channel for up to 16 hours when their Eurostar trains came to a halt in a tunnel, leaving many of them without food, water — or any idea of what was happening.

U.S. Companies Shut Out as Iraq Auctions Its Oil Fields (Time.com) Posted: 19 Dec 2009 07:40 AM PST Time.com - Antiwar protestors insisted that the U.S. invaded Iraq for its oil, but nobody seems to have told the Iraqis. They've awarded most oil contracts to countries that opposed the war

Mancini knows time is against him at City (AFP) Posted: 19 Dec 2009 05:04 PM PST AFP - Roberto Mancini will be confident he can make an immediate impact as the new manager of Manchester City.

Egyptians building Gaza barrier come under fire (AP) Posted: 19 Dec 2009 12:06 PM PST AP - Shots were fired from the Gaza Strip on Saturday at Egyptians installing an underground barrier meant to choke off the smuggling of goods and weapons through tunnels into blockaded Gaza.

Bodies of 8 men found in burned truck in Mexico (AP) Posted: 19 Dec 2009 04:11 PM PST AP - The bound and burned bodies of eight men were found in the central Mexico state of Queretaro, prosecutors said Saturday.

Lockerbie bomber Megrahi's health deteriorates (AFP) Posted: 19 Dec 2009 05:44 PM PST AFP - The condition of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan sentenced to life imprisonment for the Lockerbie bombing and repatriated in August, has deteriorated and the cancer that afflicts him has spread through his body, a medical bulletin said early Sunday.

Cambodia sends Uighur asylum-seekers back to China (AP) Posted: 19 Dec 2009 05:50 PM PST AP - Cambodia deported a group of 20 Muslim asylum-seekers back to China, despite protests from the U.S. and the U.N., which rushed people to the airport in an attempt to physically prevent their expulsion.

Canada's opposition says not keen on 2010 election (Reuters) Posted: 19 Dec 2009 09:31 AM PST Reuters - In a sharp change of position, the head of Canada's main opposition party said in an interview published on Saturday that he was not keen on trying to trigger an election next year.

WWII shipwreck found off Australian coast (AFP) Posted: 19 Dec 2009 04:31 PM PST AFP - Deep-sea searchers on Sunday found the wreck of an Australian hospital ship torpedoed by a Japanese submarine during World War II off the country's east coast, the government said.

Copenhagen summit: Major powers broker compromise voluntary climate pact (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 18 Dec 2009 03:44 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The United States and four other countries agreed to a new, voluntary climate pact today.

Why I Would Sign the 'Copenhagen Accord' (OneWorld.net) Posted: 19 Dec 2009 11:28 AM PST OneWorld.net - COPENHAGEN, Dec 19 (OneClimate.net) - I was one of the very few people around the world listening to world leaders as they took the floor one after another in the wee hours of this morning to justify their positions in favor or against the so-called "Copenhagen Accord." I was one of the even fewer people who also followed the ups, downs, frenzies, and stagnations of the Copenhagen Climate Summit for the 11 days and nights that led up to last night's dramatic oratorical jousting session.

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