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• Blast kills at least four in Nigerian capital (Reuters)
• U.N. official warns Gbagbo on rights violations (Reuters)
• Seven dead as car bomb hits church in Egypt (Reuters)
• Russian police detain 130 in anti-government protests (Reuters)
• Estonia joins crisis-hit euro club, others wary (Reuters)
• Can Sudan Split Without Falling Apart? (Time.com)
• Fireworks fill the sky as Britain welcomes in 2011 (AFP)
• Bomb hits Egypt church at New Year's Mass, 7 dead (AP)
• AP Interview: Abbas says recognitions hit Israel (AP)
• Seven dead, 24 injured in attack on church in Egypt (AFP)
• 20 missing after ship sinks off Marshall islands (AFP)
• Liberals pressure government on corporate tax (Reuters)
• Australia floods larger than France strand 200,000 (AP)
• Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon becoming less of a hotbed for militancy (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Queensland Faces the New Year, Under Water (Time.com)
• 'Digital Confucius' introduces Chinese students to liberal arts at Yale and beyond (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Cote d'Ivoire: Back to square one? (OneWorld.net)

Blast kills at least four in Nigerian capital (Reuters) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 06:05 PM PST Reuters - An explosion at a crowded market in Nigeria's capital Abuja killed at least four people and injured more than a dozen more during New Year's Eve celebrations late Friday, police said.

U.N. official warns Gbagbo on rights violations (Reuters) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 01:02 PM PST Reuters - A senior United Nations official warned incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and other senior officials on Friday they may be held criminally accountable for human rights violations.

Seven dead as car bomb hits church in Egypt (Reuters) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 06:15 PM PST Reuters - A car bomb exploded outside a church and killed seven people in Egypt's northern city of Alexandria as worshippers gathered to mark the New Year, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.

Russian police detain 130 in anti-government protests (Reuters) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 12:05 PM PST Reuters - Police detained at least 130 protesters at New Year's Eve rallies in Moscow and St Petersburg on Friday against restrictions on freedom of assembly and a court decision to keep former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky in jail.

Estonia joins crisis-hit euro club, others wary (Reuters) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:35 PM PST Reuters - Estonia joined the euro zone as its newest member Saturday, but the currency club's deepening crisis is likely to put off bigger eastern European entrants from joining for up to a decade.

Can Sudan Split Without Falling Apart? (Time.com) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 12:35 AM PST Time.com - Can Sudan Split Without Falling Apart?

Fireworks fill the sky as Britain welcomes in 2011 (AFP) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 06:07 PM PST AFP - Britain celebrated the New Year with a blaze of fireworks over London and Edinburgh as thousands partied in the streets to welcome in 2011.

Bomb hits Egypt church at New Year's Mass, 7 dead (AP) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 05:57 PM PST AP - A car exploded in front of a Coptic Christian church as worshippers emerged from a New Year's Mass in the Egyptian city of Alexandria early Saturday, killing at least seven people, officials said.

AP Interview: Abbas says recognitions hit Israel (AP) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:24 PM PST AP - Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said Friday that a recent wave of nations recognizing a Palestinian state based upon 1967 borders is pressuring Israel and the U.S. to return to negotiations and reach a peace deal.

Seven dead, 24 injured in attack on church in Egypt (AFP) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 05:39 PM PST AFP - At least seven people died and 24 were injured early Saturday in an attack on a Christian church in the northern Egyptian city of Alexandria, rescue workers told AFP.

20 missing after ship sinks off Marshall islands (AFP) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 05:23 PM PST AFP - Twenty people are missing after a supply ship sank about 80 miles (130 kilometres) from the Marshall Islands capital Majuro early Saturday, officials said.

Liberals pressure government on corporate tax (Reuters) Posted: 30 Dec 2010 11:41 AM PST Reuters - Opposition parties should unite to fight corporate tax cuts planned by the Conservative government, the Liberal Party said on Thursday amid expectations it may seek to trigger an election next year.

Australia floods larger than France strand 200,000 (AP) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 05:32 AM PST AP - Military aircraft dropped supplies to towns cut off by floods in northeastern Australia as the prime minister promised new assistance Friday to the 200,000 people affected by waters covering an area larger than France and Germany combined.

Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon becoming less of a hotbed for militancy (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 10:30 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The murder of a senior Al-Qaeda-inspired jihadi and the exodus of other militants from here in recent months may herald some welcome stability for this impoverished Palestinian refugee camp.

Queensland Faces the New Year, Under Water (Time.com) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 12:35 AM PST Time.com - After a decade of drought, the eastern Australian state of Queensland is being hit by its worst floods in 50 years

'Digital Confucius' introduces Chinese students to liberal arts at Yale and beyond (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 09:14 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - When Prof. Shelly Kagan sat cross-legged on his desk in front of a class of Yale University students in the spring of 2007, introducing his course “Philosophy 176 â€" Death,” he could hardly have expected that he would one day gather an enormous and avid fan base in China.

Cote d'Ivoire: Back to square one? (OneWorld.net) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 03:24 AM PST OneWorld.net - LOGUATU, Dec 30 (IRIN) - NGOs working in northeastern Liberia say many of the 30,000 refugees arriving from neighbouring Côte d’Ivoire are reporting widespread violence and intimidation from both Ivoirian government troops and soldiers from the former rebel Forces Nouvelles operating in the west.

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