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Yahoo! News: World News

Spain reopens airspace after controllers' strike (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Dec 2010 12:35 PM PST

A pilot stands near stranded passengers in Tenerife's Los Rodeos airport after flights were cancelled due to a mass walkout of air traffic controllers, in Spain's Canary Islands December 3, 2010. REUTERS/Santiago FerreroReuters - Spanish airspace reopened on Saturday after a wildcat strike by air traffic controllers paralyzed airports for a second day and the government declared its first state of emergency in the post-Franco era.

Deadly Israeli fire rages on despite global aid (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Dec 2010 01:02 PM PST

A firefighting aircraft flies over a forest fire on Mount Carmel near the northern city of Haifa December 3, 2010. REUTERS/Nir EliasReuters - Israel struggled to contain a huge and deadly forest fire that raged on for a third day on Saturday, despite the efforts of firefighting planes from half a dozen countries.

Greek police find suspected guerrilla arms cache (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Dec 2010 12:09 PM PST

Reuters - Greek police located a cache of guns and explosives believed to belong to leftist urban guerrillas in a central Athens apartment Saturday.

Hosni Mubarak party to sail through boycotted Egypt vote (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Dec 2010 04:13 PM PST

Reuters - The party of President Hosni Mubarak will march to victory almost unchallenged in Egypt's second-round parliamentary election on Sunday, after the two biggest opposition groups quit a contest they said was rigged.

In Pakistan, Christianity Earns a Death Sentence (Time.com)

Posted: 04 Dec 2010 01:50 PM PST

Time.com - The case of Aasia Noreen highlights the use of blasphemy laws for religious persecution

Burns defends WBO super-featherweight title (AFP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2010 04:52 PM PST

Scotland's Ricky Burns, pictured in May 2010, defeated Colombian-born Norwegian fighter Andrews Evensen on points to retain his WBO super-featherweight title on Saturday.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Scotland's Ricky Burns defeated Colombian-born Norwegian fighter Andrews Evensen on points to retain his WBO super-featherweight title on Saturday.

Iran says UN agency sending spies, not inspectors (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2010 12:33 PM PST

Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh waits to the start of the IAEA's board of governors meeting at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, Friday Dec. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)AP - Iran's intelligence minister accused the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency of sending spies in the guise of inspectors to collect information about Iran's nuclear activities, state TV reported Saturday.

Iberoamerican summit moves to protect democracy (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2010 01:54 PM PST

Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez, center bottom row, gestures to photographers as Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, right bottom row, laughs, next to El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes, left top row, Spain's King Juan Carlos, left bottom row, Guatemala's President Alvaro Colom, second top row, and Mexico's President Felipe Calderon before the official photo of the Ibero American summit in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010. Leaders of the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world held their annual goal-setting summit amid tensions raised by the publication of U.S. diplomatic cables that in some cases plant doubts about the unity and friendship they publicly profess. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking nations wrapped up their annual meeting Saturday by adopting a provision threatening exclusion for any member country that doesn't abide by democratic process.

Nigeria: Village raid shows dangers in oil delta (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2010 03:50 PM PST

A child who fled with his mother following a deadly army attack on Ayakoromor village stands at a microcredit organization where they have take refuge with other members of the community in the nearby town of Warri, Nigeria, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010. The military launched Wednesday a massive attack including aerial bombings that was aimed at finding a wanted militant. Civilians caught in the middle tried to escape with their lives, human rights activists say. The violence represents yet another example of how those toiling in poverty in a region that makes billions for Nigeria find themselves caught between a military seeking revenge and power-hungry militants.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)AP - As the heavily armed Nigerian soldiers slipped closer to a suspected militant camp in the country's oil-rich southern delta, they were ready for a fight after suffering casualties only days earlier.

Yang keeps LPGA Championship lead with late birdies (AFP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2010 05:16 PM PST

Amy Yang of South Korea hits her tee shot on 14th hole during the third round of the LPGA Tour Championship at the Grand Cypress Resort in Orlando, Florida. Yang birdied the last two holes Saturday for a one-over par 73 that allowed her to cling to a one-stroke lead after the third round of the event.(AFP/Getty Images/Scott Halleran)AFP - South Korea's Amy Yang birdied the last two holes for a one-over par 73 that allowed her to cling to a one-stroke lead after the third round of the LPGA Tour Championship.

For Europe, WikiLeaks offers cyberdrama with Julian Assange as main character (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 03:26 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - The week of WikiLeaks has not exactly found the French intelligentsia dancing around a bonfire of support for Julian Assange and his disregard for state secrecy.

This is the House that Ireland Built (Time.com)

Posted: 04 Dec 2010 01:50 PM PST

Time.com - Ireland's Ghost Estates: Shadows of Prosperity Past

37 years after escaping killing fields, a Cambodian returns as US Navy commander (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 01:43 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - US Navy Cmdr. Michael Misiewicz watched today as relatives prepared to board his destroyer, which was docked a few miles off the shore of Cambodia. He had not seen any of them since he left the Southeast Asian nation as a boy 37 years ago, escaping civil war and the murderous Khmer Rouge.

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