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• China under pressure to rein in North Korea after attack (Reuters)
• Teetering Irish government sets out 4-year plan (Reuters)
• All 29 trapped New Zealand miners dead: police (Reuters)
• Afghan violence soars, insurgency expanding: U.S. (Reuters)
• Haiti cholera spreading faster than predicted: U.N. (Reuters)
• Forewarned? Germany Heightens Security in Response to Terror Threat (Time.com)
• Appeal starts in British student sex-murder case (AFP)
• Rescue service: 2 dead in Haifa refinery leak (AP)
• Jawbone found in Aruba doesn't belong to Holloway (AP)
• Somali Cabinet fight exposes political paralysis (AP)
• 2nd blast at New Zealand mine; 29 believed dead (AP)
• Ontario hangs energy future on green power (Reuters)
• Australia commits to rare earths supply to Japan (Reuters)
• Palestinian officials fund schools, fill potholes in E. Jerusalem. Are they building a state? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• A New Israel Law Makes Peace Even More Difficult (Time.com)
• Technical glitches may be troubling Iran's nuclear efforts (The Christian Science Monitor)
• HIV Prevalence Hits 40 Percent Among S. African Farm Workers (OneWorld.net)

China under pressure to rein in North Korea after attack (Reuters) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 08:01 PM PST Reuters - INCHEON, South Korea (Reuters)- China came under heavy pressure to tame its ally North Korea on Wednesday after the reclusive state attacked South Korea, while the United States moved to cool tension in the economically powerful region.

Teetering Irish government sets out 4-year plan (Reuters) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 06:11 PM PST Reuters - Ireland's deeply unpopular government will finally explain on Wednesday how it plans to save 15 billion euros over the next four years, inflicting more pain on voters to prove that it can tackle the country's debt.

All 29 trapped New Zealand miners dead: police (Reuters) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 08:06 PM PST Reuters - All 29 miners trapped underground in a New Zealand mine for five days are believed to be dead following a second explosion in the Pike River Coal mine, police said on Wednesday.

Afghan violence soars, insurgency expanding: U.S. (Reuters) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 02:19 PM PST Reuters - Violence in Afghanistan hit an all-time high in recent months as Western troops battled an increasingly sophisticated insurgency expanding across the country, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.

Haiti cholera spreading faster than predicted: U.N. (Reuters) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 01:59 PM PST Reuters - Haiti's deadly cholera epidemic is spreading faster than originally estimated and is likely to result in hundreds of thousands of cases and last up to a year, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday.

Forewarned? Germany Heightens Security in Response to Terror Threat (Time.com) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 08:10 PM PST Time.com - With intelligence reports saying Islamic militants are planning an attack atthe end of the month, security is tightened across Germany. But can anoverstretched police force do enough to protect the people?

Appeal starts in British student sex-murder case (AFP) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 08:03 PM PST AFP - The appeal trial of Amanda Knox over the sex-murder of a British student in Italy gets underway on Wednesday, as prosecutors seek a harsher sentence and Knox's family protests her innocence.

Rescue service: 2 dead in Haifa refinery leak (AP) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 01:37 PM PST AP - Two workers were killed and two others were in critical condition in a Haifa hospital late Sunday after inhaling poisonous material from an accidental leak at the country's oil refinery, the rescue service said.

Jawbone found in Aruba doesn't belong to Holloway (AP) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 06:32 PM PST AP - A jawbone found on an Aruba beach does not belong to missing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, prosecutors in the Dutch Caribbean island said Tuesday. The jawbone is human, though it is unclear who it belongs to.

Somali Cabinet fight exposes political paralysis (AP) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 04:43 PM PST AP - Somali parliamentarians are vowing not to endorse the proposed Cabinet of the new American-Somali prime minister over complaints that he has reduced the number of ministers, tapped technocrats from outside Somalia and reduced some clans' influence.

2nd blast at New Zealand mine; 29 believed dead (AP) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 08:26 PM PST AP - All 29 workers missing underground in a New Zealand coal mine are believed to have died after a second explosion, police said.

Ontario hangs energy future on green power (Reuters) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 03:27 PM PST Reuters - Ontario unveiled a sweeping long-term power plan on Tuesday that throws the province's support squarely behind renewable energy, but also brought bad news for consumers who will see their electricity bills double by 2030.

Australia commits to rare earths supply to Japan (Reuters) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 12:01 AM PST Reuters - Australia promised on Tuesday to be a future long-tem supplier of rare earths to Japan, after China suspended shipments of the minerals to its neighbor.

Palestinian officials fund schools, fill potholes in E. Jerusalem. Are they building a state? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 03:08 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Officially, Israel considers the Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem as part of its "undivided and eternal" capital.

A New Israel Law Makes Peace Even More Difficult (Time.com) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 08:10 PM PST Time.com - A new Israeli law declares that withdrawal from occupied East Jerusalem or Golan Heights requires a two-thirds majority in the legislature or approval in a referendum. And that may be a tough ask in an increasingly hawkish electorate

Technical glitches may be troubling Iran's nuclear efforts (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 02:21 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Iran stopped the bulk of its uranium enrichment for a time this month, UN nuclear inspectors stated Tuesday amid reports that technical difficulties are afflicting Iran’s nuclear efforts.

HIV Prevalence Hits 40 Percent Among S. African Farm Workers (OneWorld.net) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 02:54 PM PST OneWorld.net - JOHANNESBURG, Nov 23 (IRIN/PlusNews) - The HIV prevalence rate among farm workers in South Africa is about 40 percent, the highest ever recorded in southern Africa, according to a new study.

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