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• U.S. leads calls for Gbagbo to concede Ivory Coast vote (Reuters)
• Abbas says may dissolve PA if no peace deal (Reuters)
• U.S. troops had tea with killer Afghan policeman (Reuters)
• Karzai seen as weak by U.S., own cabinet: WikiLeaks (Reuters)
• U.N. urges Haiti candidates: respect law, shun violence (Reuters)
• Pakistan: The Taliban and the Endangered Sikhs of Peshawar (Time.com)
• Pitcairn mayor on child porn charges (AFP)
• Cuba commutes Salvadoran bomber's death sentence (AP)
• Villagers flee military raids in Nigerian oil region: army (AFP)
• Obama tells troops in Afghanistan they're thriving (AP)
• Toronto teams not on sales block, Teachers' says (Reuters)
• Israel wildfire exposes gaps in emergency preparedness (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Why Sweden Wants Julian Assange Arrested (Time.com)
• What NATO looks like in the age of European austerity (The Christian Science Monitor)

U.S. leads calls for Gbagbo to concede Ivory Coast vote (Reuters) Posted: 03 Dec 2010 04:39 PM PST Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama led calls on Friday for incumbent Laurent Gbagbo to accept defeat in Ivory Coast's presidential election, rejecting a top court's ruling that handed Gbagbo victory and sparked fears of unrest.

Abbas says may dissolve PA if no peace deal (Reuters) Posted: 03 Dec 2010 02:08 PM PST Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas raised the prospect on Friday of dissolving the Palestinian Authority if a peace deal could not be achieved with Israel and the world did not recognize a Palestinian state.

U.S. troops had tea with killer Afghan policeman (Reuters) Posted: 03 Dec 2010 01:22 PM PST Reuters - U.S. troops had tea with a rogue Afghan border policeman shortly before he shot six of them dead, the NATO-led coalition said on Friday, after an investigation into one of the worst such shootings in more than a year.

Karzai seen as weak by U.S., own cabinet: WikiLeaks (Reuters) Posted: 03 Dec 2010 04:08 AM PST Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai's own inner circle considers him weak and sometimes unscrupulous, leaked U.S. diplomatic cables show, a domestic vote of no confidence that may be more damaging than foreign criticisms.

U.N. urges Haiti candidates: respect law, shun violence (Reuters) Posted: 03 Dec 2010 01:13 PM PST Reuters - Irregularities in Haiti's elections seem "more serious than initially thought," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday, urging candidates and their supporters to respect the law and avoid violence.

Pakistan: The Taliban and the Endangered Sikhs of Peshawar (Time.com) Posted: 03 Dec 2010 04:15 PM PST Time.com - A religious minority in an overwhelmingly Muslim nation, the Sikhs nevertheless consider one part of the Taliban-infested frontier region their home

Pitcairn mayor on child porn charges (AFP) Posted: 03 Dec 2010 04:46 PM PST AFP - The mayor of Pitcairn, a Pacific island notorious in recent times for child sex convictions, has been charged with possessing child pornography, it was reported Saturday.

Cuba commutes Salvadoran bomber's death sentence (AP) Posted: 03 Dec 2010 04:34 PM PST AP - Cuba's Supreme Court commuted the death sentence of a Salvadoran man convicted of terrorism for his role in a string of bombings that killed an Italian and wounded 11 others in 1997, ruling Friday that he should serve 30 years in prison instead.

Villagers flee military raids in Nigerian oil region: army (AFP) Posted: 03 Dec 2010 03:52 PM PST AFP - Dozens of villagers in Nigeria's main oil-producing region took refuge in a nearby city after fleeing military raids targeting camps believed run by a gang leader, an army spokesman said Friday.

Obama tells troops in Afghanistan they're thriving (AP) Posted: 03 Dec 2010 04:47 PM PST AP - In a rousing holiday-season visit, President Barack Obama on Friday told cheering U.S. troops in Afghanistan they're succeeding in their vital mission fighting terrorism. But after he flew in secrecy for 14 hours to get here, foul weather kept him from nearby Kabul and a meeting to address frayed relations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Toronto teams not on sales block, Teachers' says (Reuters) Posted: 03 Dec 2010 03:47 PM PST Reuters - The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTTP) said Friday it was not in talks, nor was it anxious to sell, its majority stake in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, the owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team and the Toronto Raptors basketball team.

Israel wildfire exposes gaps in emergency preparedness (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 03 Dec 2010 10:14 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Firefighters struggled for a second day to overcome a deadly blaze in the Carmel mountains outside of the northern Israel city of Haifa, as fire trucks flown from European countries arrive to help extinguish the worst fire in the history of the Jewish state.

Why Sweden Wants Julian Assange Arrested (Time.com) Posted: 03 Dec 2010 04:15 PM PST Time.com - After prosecutors dropped their case against him, the elusive founder of WikiLeaks again faces extradition to Sweden on sex-crimes charges

What NATO looks like in the age of European austerity (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 03 Dec 2010 10:07 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - When Portugal's Prime Minister José Sócrates welcomed President Obama on Nov. 19 to the NATO summit in Lisbon by announcing 150 additional Portuguese soldiers for Atlantic Alliance's deployment in Afghanistan, it was a surprise to the Portuguese people, who are coping with a growing economic crisis.

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