2011年12月11日星期日

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Medvedev orders Russia poll inquiry, gets insults (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 12:18 PM PST

Reuters - President Dmitry Medvedev ordered an investigation on Sunday into allegations of fraud in Russia's parliamentary election, one day after tens of thousands of protesters demanded it be annulled and rerun.

Major battle in Syria; shops shut by strike (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 01:09 PM PST

Reuters - Army defectors fought government troops Sunday in one of the biggest battles of Syria's nine-month uprising, and a strike shut businesses in a new gesture of civil disobedience, residents and activists said.

One person wounded in south Lebanon by rocket (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 02:53 PM PST

Reuters - One person was injured in southern Lebanon Sunday when a rocket apparently fired toward Israel hit a Lebanese border village, security sources in Lebanon said.

France points finger at Syria for Lebanon attack (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 02:47 PM PST

Reuters - France's Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Sunday Paris believed Syria was behind attacks on its troops in Lebanon earlier this week.

New U.N. climate deal struck, critics say gains modest (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 11:57 AM PST

United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres speaks with Brazil's Minister of Environment Izabella Teixeira (L) and chief climate envoy Luiz alberto Figueiredo during a plenary session at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP17) in Durban December 10, 2011. The conference has gone an extra day in an attempt to iron out an agreement on climate change policies. REUTERS/Rogan WardReuters - Countries from around the globe agreed on Sunday to forge a new deal forcing all the biggest polluters for the first time to limit greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the plan was too timid to slow global warming.


Crackdown or Negotiation? Russian Protests Pose a Dilemma for Putin (Time.com)

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 09:35 PM PST

Time.com - Shocked by the scale of protest against last week's fraudulent election, the ruling party is divided on how far to go in answering the demonstrators' demands

Insight: The day Europe lost patience with Britain (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 04:26 PM PST

EU leaders pose for a family photo after Croatia signed an accession treaty with the European Union, at a summit in Brussels December 9, 2011. REUTERS/Thierry RogeReuters - It was billed as a summit to save the euro. It may be remembered as the day Europe lost patience with Britain, as most of the continent threw its lot in with EU founding members France and Germany and committed to binding their economies ever more tightly.


Iran says it will not return US drone (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 03:18 PM PST

This photo released on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, claims to show US RQ-170 Sentinel drone which Tehran says its forces downed earlier this week, as the chief of the aerospace division of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, right, listens to an unidentified colonel, in an undisclosed location, Iran. (AP Photo/Sepahnews) EDS NOTE: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE.AP - Iran will not return a U.S. surveillance drone captured by its armed forces, a senior commander of the country's elite Revolutionary Guard said Sunday.


Noriega returns to Panama a largely irrelevant man (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 05:28 PM PST

The Iberia airliner that carried home Panama's ex-dictator Manuel Noriega is seen after landing at the Tocumen international airport in Panama City, Sunday Dec. 11, 2011. Noriega's return comes after more than 20 years in U.S. and French prisons for drug trafficking and money laundering. Panama convicted him during his captivity overseas for the slayings of two political opponents in the 1980s. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)AP - More than two decades after the U.S. forced him from power, Manuel Noriega returned to Panama on Sunday as a prisoner and, to many of those he once ruled with impunity, an irrelevant man.


Climate deal doesn't make things worse — or better (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 04:39 PM PST

U.N. climate official Christiana Figueres, right, talks with delegates at the climate change summit as it nears it's end in the city of Durban, South Africa, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. Some ministers and top climate negotiators left Durban without an agreement Saturday, with time running out and the prospect of an inconclusive end jeopardizing new momentum in the fight against global warming. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)AP - The hard-fought deal at a global climate conference in South Africa keeps talks alive but doesn't address the core problem: The world's biggest carbon polluters aren't willing to cut emissions of greenhouse gases enough to stave off dangerous levels of global warming.


9 suspects, guard flee from 2 Philippine jails (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 05:21 PM PST

AP - Philippine authorities are searching for three Chinese drug trafficking suspects who escaped from a Manila jail together with a guard.

Australia PM poised for first cabinet reshuffle (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 02:21 PM PST

Reuters - Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard is expected to unveil changes to her frontbench on Monday, focusing the government on jobs and labor relations as she tries to reverse plummeting voter support ahead of elections in two years time.

Russian protests: Why I took to Moscow's streets (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 11:44 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - I’m scared. I got calls from my mom, my dad, my brother, my aunt and they all told me me pretty much the same thing: “Do you really understand what is going on? It is dangerous. There are going to be provocations. You can be arrested or injured. Do you understand that you can be fired?" (I work for a state-owned media company, in the entertainment sector.)

How a Deal May Save the Euro But Not Preserve Europe (Time.com)

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 09:35 PM PST

Time.com - Out of Brussels emerges an agreement that almost all of Europe has acceded to -- except Britain. And that estrangement may be ominous for everyone involved

Russia protests: Moscow rocked by biggest since fall of USSR (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 10:09 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - If there was any doubt that significant numbers of Russians are ready to tear up the Putin-era social contract, which exchanges political freedom for relative prosperity, it was dramatically dispelled Saturday.

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