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• Pope says condoms sometimes permissible to stop AIDS (Reuters)
• Rescue efforts at New Zealand mine face further delay (Reuters)
• Colombia says apparently kills senior leftist rebel (Reuters)
• Mexico begins extradition of drug lord to U.S. (Reuters)
• What the Pope Really Said About Condoms (Time.com)
• Britons want William for next king, not Charles: polls (AFP)
• Israel says US has provided written guarantee (AP)
• Gates: Focus on Afghan troop training after 2014 (AP)
• Gunfire as Madagascar military meets coup plotters (AP)
• Obama: US role in Afghanistan unclear past 2014 (AP)
• NATO targets terrorism, cybersecurity as central to 21st century mission (The Christian Science Monitor)
• The Lady Walks Free Again (Time.com)
• New Afghan war plans could cost US taxpayers an extra $125 billion (The Christian Science Monitor)

Pope says condoms sometimes permissible to stop AIDS (Reuters) Posted: 20 Nov 2010 04:33 PM PST Reuters - Using condoms may sometimes be justified to stop the spread of AIDS, Pope Benedict says in a new book, in surprise comments that relax one of the Vatican's most controversial positions.

Rescue efforts at New Zealand mine face further delay (Reuters) Posted: 20 Nov 2010 03:21 PM PST Reuters - Efforts to rescue 29 men trapped in a New Zealand coal mine faced more agonizing delays on Sunday when authorities said they would drill a new shaft to test air quality because toxic gases made it too dangerous for rescue teams go in.

Colombia says apparently kills senior leftist rebel (Reuters) Posted: 20 Nov 2010 01:51 PM PST Reuters - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Saturday that security forces apparently killed a senior commander of the leftist FARC guerrillas who is wanted by the United States.

Mexico begins extradition of drug lord to U.S. (Reuters) Posted: 20 Nov 2010 10:32 AM PST Reuters - Mexico began the process of extraditing Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez, believed to be one of the country's top drug bosses, to the United States on Saturday, the federal prosecutor's office said in a statement.

What the Pope Really Said About Condoms (Time.com) Posted: 20 Nov 2010 03:45 PM PST Time.com - In a far-ranging book-length interview with a German journalist, Benedict XVI discusses church reform, sexuality, child abuse and the use of condoms.

Britons want William for next king, not Charles: polls (AFP) Posted: 20 Nov 2010 04:55 PM PST AFP - Britons want Prince William and his new fiancee Kate Middleton to be Britain's next king and queen, instead of the current heir to the throne Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, polls showed Sunday.

Israel says US has provided written guarantee (AP) Posted: 20 Nov 2010 11:19 AM PST AP - The U.S. has given Israel a written guarantee that it won't pressure the Jewish state for additional settlement freezes if it accepts a limited 90 day construction moratorium to revive Mideast peace talks, a top Israeli official said Saturday.

Gates: Focus on Afghan troop training after 2014 (AP) Posted: 20 Nov 2010 04:02 PM PST AP - Only a "fraction" of the current 150,000 foreign forces fighting in Afghanistan are likely to remain in the country past 2014, probably as trainers and advisers instead of front-line combat troops, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday.

Gunfire as Madagascar military meets coup plotters (AP) Posted: 20 Nov 2010 04:36 PM PST AP - A group of dissident officers was reported ready to surrender Saturday after attempting to seize power earlier in the week, but junior officers resisted and gunfire rang out during negotiations aimed at defusing a volatile impasse.

Obama: US role in Afghanistan unclear past 2014 (AP) Posted: 20 Nov 2010 04:16 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama says it's "hard to anticipate" the exact U.S. role in Afghanistan beyond 2014.

NATO targets terrorism, cybersecurity as central to 21st century mission (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 19 Nov 2010 03:01 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - NATO on Friday adopted a “plan of action” for 21st-century security threats that draws on both the recent lessons of Afghanistan and the alliance’s longer experience with defense by deterrence.

The Lady Walks Free Again (Time.com) Posted: 20 Nov 2010 03:45 PM PST Time.com - With Suu Kyi Free at Last, What's Next for Burma?

New Afghan war plans could cost US taxpayers an extra $125 billion (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 19 Nov 2010 12:48 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - As leaders at the NATO summit in Lisbon meet this weekend to discuss strategy in Afghanistan, US war planners have been signaling that troop withdrawals set to begin in 2011 will be mostly symbolic and that the handover to Afghan forces in 2014 is “aspirational.”

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