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• Crackdown in Belarus as Alexander Lukashenko heads for win (Reuters)
• Seoul to go ahead with drills despite threats of war (Reuters)
• France, U.N. reject Gbagbo demand to quit Ivory Coast (Reuters)
• Oil pipeline blast rattles Mexico town, kills 27 (Reuters)
• American tourist stabbed to death in Israel (Reuters)
• WikiLeaks Reveals BP's 'Other' Offshore Drilling Disaster (Time.com)
• On the frontlines in Italy's 'little China' (AFP)
• Ex-Iranian FM criticizes president for sacking him (AP)
• Guatemalan military seizes drug-plagued province (AP)
• Obama presses region on Sudan referendum (AFP)
• SKorea to conduct firing drills from border island (AP)
• Survivors pray for 30 lost in Australia refugee wreck (AFP)
• Why Night Raids May Doom U.S. Prospects in Afghanistan (Time.com)
• DREAM Act Dies in Senate, But Dream Is Still Alive (OneWorld.net)

Crackdown in Belarus as Alexander Lukashenko heads for win (Reuters) Posted: 19 Dec 2010 03:43 PM PST Reuters - Police in Belarus beat demonstrators with batons and rounded up opposition leaders in a violent crackdown after an election on Sunday that was certain to return President Alexander Lukashenko for a fourth term.

Seoul to go ahead with drills despite threats of war (Reuters) Posted: 19 Dec 2010 05:10 PM PST Reuters - South Korea will go ahead with live firing drills from a disputed island on Monday, local media said, despite threats of attack by Pyongyang and pressure from Russia and China to cancel the exercise.

France, U.N. reject Gbagbo demand to quit Ivory Coast (Reuters) Posted: 19 Dec 2010 03:27 PM PST Reuters - France joined the United Nations on Sunday in rejecting a demand by Laurent Gbagbo to quit Ivory Coast and stepped up calls for him to stand down as president after a disputed poll or face sanctions.

Oil pipeline blast rattles Mexico town, kills 27 (Reuters) Posted: 19 Dec 2010 01:54 PM PST Reuters - Fuel thieves tampering with an oil pipeline could have sparked a deadly blast in central Mexico that flooded streets with fire and killed at least 27 people before dawn on Sunday, officials said.

American tourist stabbed to death in Israel (Reuters) Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:03 AM PST Reuters - An American tourist was stabbed to death and another woman wounded while hiking in foothills outside Jerusalem, Israeli police said on Sunday.

WikiLeaks Reveals BP's 'Other' Offshore Drilling Disaster (Time.com) Posted: 18 Dec 2010 10:40 PM PST Time.com - It got little publicity at the time, but almost two years before Deepwater Horizon, an accident imperiled a Caspian Sea platform

On the frontlines in Italy's 'little China' (AFP) Posted: 19 Dec 2010 05:13 PM PST AFP - Italian police officers sweep through the mosquito-infested clothes workshop, rifling through personal belongings and cracking jokes about the foreign food as six Chinese labourers look on in fear.

Ex-Iranian FM criticizes president for sacking him (AP) Posted: 19 Dec 2010 12:30 PM PST AP - Iran's former foreign minister criticized the president Sunday for abruptly firing him last week in the middle of an official visit to Africa, saying the dismissal was "un-Islamic, undiplomatic and offensive," according to a local media report.

Guatemalan military seizes drug-plagued province (AP) Posted: 19 Dec 2010 05:31 PM PST AP - The Guatemalan military declared a state of siege Sunday in a northern province that authorities say has been overtaken by Mexican drug traffickers.

Obama presses region on Sudan referendum (AFP) Posted: 19 Dec 2010 02:30 PM PST AFP - US President Barack Obama has written to regional leaders to rally support for a peaceful and timely referendum on the independence of south Sudan, the White House said Sunday.

SKorea to conduct firing drills from border island (AP) Posted: 19 Dec 2010 05:25 PM PST AP - South Korea will go ahead with live firing drills Monday despite North Korea's threat to retaliate, the South's military said, sharply ramping up tensions as the U.N. failed to find a solution.

Survivors pray for 30 lost in Australia refugee wreck (AFP) Posted: 18 Dec 2010 10:56 PM PST AFP - Traumatised survivors of a refugee boat wreck off Australia held a private vigil behind bars for the 30 people who died, as debate raged over Canberra's policy on boat people arriving from Asia.

Why Night Raids May Doom U.S. Prospects in Afghanistan (Time.com) Posted: 18 Dec 2010 10:40 PM PST Time.com - 
They may be killing hundreds of low level Taliban, but the civilian casualties have turned the local population against Western troops

DREAM Act Dies in Senate, But Dream Is Still Alive (OneWorld.net) Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:57 AM PST OneWorld.net - SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 18 (New America Media) - Eighteen-year-old Francisco Curiel was present in the U.S. Senate chamber as the votes were tallied. His hopes alternately surged and crashed as each of the powerful legislators made their choice, “yea” or “nay,” on the DREAM Act.

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