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• Al Qaeda Yemen wing claims parcel plot, UPS crash (Reuters)
• Tomas soaks Haiti quake camps, triggers floods (Reuters)
• Engine problems hit second Qantas aircraft (Reuters)
• France, China urge balanced trade, reform (Reuters)
• Mosque blasts in Pakistan's NW kills at least 71 (Reuters)
• Burma's Elections: The Junta Now Believes in Politics (Time.com)
• China, France join forces for world monetary reform (AFP)
• Al-Qaida group takes responsibility for mail bombs (AP)
• Judge orders Lori Berenson freed from prison (AP)
• Tanzania's president easily wins re-election (AP)
• Earthquakes dog Clinton on overseas trips (AP)
• Steeper fall seen for Canadian home resales this year (Reuters)
• Missing Aussie girl's mom thinks daughter is dead (AP)
• Georgia nabs Russian 'spy ring,' angering Moscow (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Obama Administration Gets Another Scolding -- on Human Rights (Time.com)
• Union leader warns of violence during G20 protests in South Korea (The Christian Science Monitor)

Al Qaeda Yemen wing claims parcel plot, UPS crash (Reuters) Posted: 05 Nov 2010 02:54 PM PDT Reuters - Al Qaeda's Yemen-based wing claimed responsibility for a foiled plot to send explosive parcels to the United States last week, and for the crash of a UPS jet in Dubai in September.

Tomas soaks Haiti quake camps, triggers floods (Reuters) Posted: 05 Nov 2010 02:31 PM PDT Reuters - Hurricane Tomas soaked Haiti's crowded earthquake survivors' camps and swamped coastal towns as it swirled between Haiti and Cuba on Friday, trailing thunderstorms that still could cause flooding and mudslides.

Engine problems hit second Qantas aircraft (Reuters) Posted: 05 Nov 2010 04:12 PM PDT Reuters - Engine trouble forced a Qantas Airways Ltd jet to make an emergency landing in Singapore on Friday, less than 48 hours after another of the Australian carrier's aircraft had to land prematurely because its engine blew up.

France, China urge balanced trade, reform (Reuters) Posted: 05 Nov 2010 03:37 PM PDT Reuters - France and China have reached a "real convergence" over the need to reform the global financial system after two days of talks between President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao.

Mosque blasts in Pakistan's NW kills at least 71 (Reuters) Posted: 05 Nov 2010 09:54 AM PDT Reuters - Two explosions killed at least 71 people in mosques in Pakistan's northwest on Friday, officials said, after a relative lull in militant violence.

Burma's Elections: The Junta Now Believes in Politics (Time.com) Posted: 05 Nov 2010 04:10 PM PDT Time.com - The military rulers of Burma has now allowed its citizens to practice politics. Within its own rules, of course.

China, France join forces for world monetary reform (AFP) Posted: 05 Nov 2010 04:42 PM PDT AFP - China and France joined forces Friday to push for reform of the global monetary system when France takes the helm of the G20 economic grouping next week.

Al-Qaida group takes responsibility for mail bombs (AP) Posted: 05 Nov 2010 05:13 PM PDT AP - A Yemen-based al-Qaida group on Friday claimed responsibility for the international mail bomb plot uncovered late last week as well as the crash of a United Parcel Service cargo plane in September.

Judge orders Lori Berenson freed from prison (AP) Posted: 05 Nov 2010 05:13 PM PDT AP - A Peruvian judge ordered convicted rebel collaborator Lori Berenson freed from prison Friday, ruling her initial parole decision sound, but the New Yorker's legal troubles remained unresolved.

Tanzania's president easily wins re-election (AP) Posted: 05 Nov 2010 04:50 PM PDT AP - Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete won a second term in office with 61 percent of the vote, election officials said Friday.

Earthquakes dog Clinton on overseas trips (AP) Posted: 05 Nov 2010 05:14 PM PDT AP - What is it about Hillary Rodham Clinton and earthquakes? Seems the secretary of state rarely takes an overseas trip that is not in some way affected by a temblor. Clinton and her staff were jolted from sleep in their hotel rooms in New Zealand early Saturday by a strong aftershock from a 7-magnitude quake that struck in September. It was the second aftershock since she arrived here Friday.

Steeper fall seen for Canadian home resales this year (Reuters) Posted: 05 Nov 2010 07:38 AM PDT Reuters - Home resales in Canada will decline more than previously thought this year due to weaker than expected activity in the third quarter, the Canadian Real Estate Association said on Friday.

Missing Aussie girl's mom thinks daughter is dead (AP) Posted: 05 Nov 2010 03:13 AM PDT AP - The biological mother of an Australian girl who was reported missing from her home in the U.S. nearly a month ago said through tears Friday that she believes her daughter is dead.

Georgia nabs Russian 'spy ring,' angering Moscow (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 05 Nov 2010 09:29 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Georgia on Friday accused 13 people, including four Russian citizens, of passing information to Russia's GRU military spy agency during the brief August 2008 war between the two countries.

Obama Administration Gets Another Scolding -- on Human Rights (Time.com) Posted: 05 Nov 2010 04:10 PM PDT Time.com - Human Rights Council drags the U.S. over the coals on torture and other issues, but those criticisms will likely fuel Republican skepticism of the international body

Union leader warns of violence during G20 protests in South Korea (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 05 Nov 2010 08:31 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The chief of South Korea’s largest trade union professes a belief in nonviolence â€" but he offers no guarantees if police try to stop protests during next week's G20 summit of world leaders here.

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