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• South Korea's Lee calls meeting on economy after North attack (Reuters)
• Cholera-hit Haiti needs nurses, doctors: U.N. (Reuters)
• Protesters disperse after UK student demonstration (Reuters)
• Rio drug gangs battle police, 13 people killed (Reuters)
• NATO and Russia: After Georgia Tension, New Cooperation (Time.com)
• England skipper Strauss out on third ball in Ashes (AFP)
• Egypt's vote ushered in by crackdown on dissent (AP)
• 5 die in crash of Mexican cargo plane in Monterrey (AP)
• Summary box: SAfrica interest rate cuts too small (AP)
• Cambodia holds day of mourning for stampede dead (AFP)
• Quebec government survives confidence vote (Reuters)
• Aust. to deport U.S. man convicted in wife's death (AP)
• Egypt cracks down on Muslim Brotherhood ahead of elections (The Christian Science Monitor)
• China and North Korea Attack: No Criticism from Beijing (Time.com)
• Final Afghan election results show Hazara minority trumped dominant Pashtuns (The Christian Science Monitor)

South Korea's Lee calls meeting on economy after North attack (Reuters) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 04:51 PM PST Reuters - South Korean President Lee Myung-bak called an emergency meeting on Thursday to contain the economic impact of an artillery attack by North Korea while the United States asked China to rein in Pyongyang.

Cholera-hit Haiti needs nurses, doctors: U.N. (Reuters) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 04:15 PM PST Reuters - Haiti needs a surge of foreign nurses and doctors to stem deaths from a raging cholera epidemic that an international aid operation is struggling to control, the United Nations' top humanitarian official said.

Protesters disperse after UK student demonstration (Reuters) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 12:54 PM PST Reuters - Thousands of demonstrators protesting in central London against a rise in university fees began to disperse Wednesday, after earlier scuffles with police and vandalism to some public buildings and a police van.

Rio drug gangs battle police, 13 people killed (Reuters) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 12:24 PM PST Reuters - Suspected Brazilian gang members burned cars and buses in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday in a fourth day of violence, defying a heavy police presence and raids on slum communities that killed 13 people.

NATO and Russia: After Georgia Tension, New Cooperation (Time.com) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:55 PM PST Time.com - After two years of tension over Russia's occupation of Georgia, NATO is looking to build a relationship with Moscow again. Why now -- and does Russia even want to be friends?

England skipper Strauss out on third ball in Ashes (AFP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 05:28 PM PST AFP - England made a disastrous start to their Ashes defence when skipper Andrew Strauss was out to the third ball of the first Test against Australia at the Gabba on Thursday.

Egypt's vote ushered in by crackdown on dissent (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 12:27 PM PST AP - Egypt's parliamentary elections Sunday have been ushered in by one of the most sweeping campaigns to silence critics since President Hosni Mubarak came to power nearly 30 years ago, with the government seemingly determined to shut out its top rival, the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood.

5 die in crash of Mexican cargo plane in Monterrey (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 05:33 PM PST AP - A Mexican air force cargo plane crashed at Monterrey International Airport on Wednesday, killing five military personnel, the Defense Department said.

Summary box: SAfrica interest rate cuts too small (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:52 PM PST AP - SOUTH AFRICA GROWTH SLOWS: South Africa's third-quarter economic growth moderated to 2.6 percent from 2.8 percent in the second quarter, according to new statistics Wednesday.

Cambodia holds day of mourning for stampede dead (AFP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 05:30 PM PST AFP - Cambodia's prime minister led a mourning ceremony Thursday at the site of a bridge stampede in the capital that killed 347 people in the worst national tragedy for decades.

Quebec government survives confidence vote (Reuters) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:22 PM PST Reuters - Quebec's unpopular Liberal government narrowly survived a vote of confidence on Wednesday, fending off a move by separatists to force an early election in the Canadian province.

Aust. to deport U.S. man convicted in wife's death (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 03:53 PM PST AP - An American convicted in the death of his wife while on their honeymoon in Australia is on his way to the airport to return to the United States, where he is expected to be charged in her murder.

Egypt cracks down on Muslim Brotherhood ahead of elections (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 11:52 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Arrests of more than 1,300 political activists, violent dispersals of opposition campaign events, and a reduction of independent poll monitoring all point to a landslide victory for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) in this Sunday's parliamentary elections.

China and North Korea Attack: No Criticism from Beijing (Time.com) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:55 PM PST Time.com - The rest of the world may consider North Korea the ultimate rogue state, but China has a long, close connection with its hermit neighbor. What -- if anything -- will China do to rein it in?

Final Afghan election results show Hazara minority trumped dominant Pashtuns (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 10:39 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Nearly two months after Afghans cast their votes in the parliamentary election, the country’s Independent Election Commission released the final results for all but one area of the country.

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