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• Iran plans enrichment sites in defiance of UN (AP)
• Honduras hopes to move past coup with election (AP)
• Former rebel leader is Uruguay's president-elect (AP)
• NZ man caught by river rescue dilemma (AP)
• UAE to back banks amid Dubai meltdown (AP)
• Why Ireland Is Running Out of Priests (Time.com)
• Nazi guard Demjanjuk to stand trial in Germany (Reuters)
• Netanyahu ill, trip to Germany postponed (AP)
• Guatemalan funeral homes compete for corpses (AP)
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• China's economy reaps a golden age of weddings (Reuters)
• Canada may tweak emissions goals before Copenhagen (Reuters)
• Trainers of Afghan police have work cut out for them (McClatchy Newspapers)
• If Mahmoud Abbas steps down, Hamas official next in line (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Workers of the World vs. China Inc. (Time.com)

Iran plans enrichment sites in defiance of UN (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 03:38 PM PST AP - Iran approved plans Sunday to build 10 industrial scale uranium enrichment facilities, a dramatic expansion of the program in defiance of U.N. demands it halt enrichment and a move that is likely to significantly heighten tensions with the West.

Honduras hopes to move past coup with election (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 05:01 PM PST AP - Hondurans on Sunday elected a new president whose first challenge will be defending his legitimacy to the world and ending a crisis over a June coup that has isolated one of Latin America's poorest countries.

Former rebel leader is Uruguay's president-elect (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 04:11 PM PST AP - A plain-talking former leader of leftist guerrillas who once sought power through kidnappings and bombings is now the president-elect of Uruguay.

NZ man caught by river rescue dilemma (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 03:57 PM PST AP - As his wife floundered screaming for help in murky river water, a frantic New Zealand man was forced to abandon a bid to rescue his teenage son to save his partner from drowning, he said Monday.

UAE to back banks amid Dubai meltdown (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 03:37 PM PST AP - The United Arab Emirates has pledged to stand behind foreign and domestic banks in the country, offering additional money while extolling the strength of the Gulf nation's financial sector as world markets brace for a potential day of reckoning Monday over Dubai's crushing debt.

Why Ireland Is Running Out of Priests (Time.com) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 07:10 AM PST Time.com - Young men are turning away from the priesthood in one of Europe'straditional Catholic strongholds. Some dioceses could soon be withoutpriests if new recruits aren't found -- quickly

Nazi guard Demjanjuk to stand trial in Germany (Reuters) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 04:56 PM PST Reuters - John Demjanjuk, an 89-year-old former Nazi camp guard, is due to stand trial on Monday on charges of helping to force 27,900 Jews into gas chambers in 1943.

Netanyahu ill, trip to Germany postponed (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 12:41 PM PST AP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fallen ill, and his trip to Germany has been postponed.

Guatemalan funeral homes compete for corpses (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 03:39 PM PST AP - They're called "calaqueros" — skullmongers — and they make a living off Guatemala City's infamously high murder rate.

(AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 05:31 PM PST AP - Police says 3 Spanish aid workers kidnapped in Mauritania.

China's economy reaps a golden age of weddings (Reuters) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 04:32 PM PST Reuters - Meng Ni and Fan Zhiqing said "I do" to each other in the same month that they said "we do" to their real estate agent.

Canada may tweak emissions goals before Copenhagen (Reuters) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 07:55 AM PST Reuters - Canada may make minor adjustments to its targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions before climate talks in Copenhagen next month, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Sunday.

Trainers of Afghan police have work cut out for them (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 09:01 AM PST McClatchy Newspapers - KOLK, Afghanistan — When the improvised bomb exploded in a mud-walled compound about 300 yards from a new traffic checkpoint, the six Afghan police officers at the post just looked at one another.

If Mahmoud Abbas steps down, Hamas official next in line (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 27 Nov 2009 01:00 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - If Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of the mainstream Fatah party makes good on his threat to resign, the man constitutionally assured his post is from the rival Hamas faction.

Workers of the World vs. China Inc. (Time.com) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 07:10 AM PST Time.com - Workers of the World vs. China Inc.

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