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• Gunman turns Belgian Christmas market into bloodbath (Reuters)
• Pakistani police rescue chained students from seminary (Reuters)
• French prosecutors seek life for Carlos the Jackal (Reuters)
• Russian tycoon eyes paper to back election bid (Reuters)
• Is Taiz Going to be the Benghazi of Yemen? (Time.com)
• Attack in Belgian city leaves 5 dead, 122 wounded (AP)
• Kuwait ruler decrees new Cabinet (AP)
• Mexico says captured cartel leader had arsenal (AP)
• Tribal elders broker end to fighting in Libya region (Reuters)
• Aussie PM impressed by Obama as a 'good person' (AP)
• Famine alert: West Africa still has time to avoid 2012 food crisis (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Cholera Fallout: Can Haitians Sue the U.N. for the Epidemic? (Time.com)
• Deadly fire prompts review of India's booming hospitals (The Christian Science Monitor)

Gunman turns Belgian Christmas market into bloodbath (Reuters) Posted: 13 Dec 2011 04:24 PM PST Reuters - A lone gunman brought carnage to the Belgian city of Liege on Tuesday, spraying bullets at Christmas shoppers and hurling a grenade at people waiting for a bus, killing four people including a girl of 17 months before shooting himself dead.

Pakistani police rescue chained students from seminary (Reuters) Posted: 13 Dec 2011 11:34 AM PST Reuters - Police in the Pakistani city of Karachi have rescued 54 students from the basement of an Islamic seminary, or madrassa, where they said they were kept in chains by clerics, beaten and barely fed.

French prosecutors seek life for Carlos the Jackal (Reuters) Posted: 13 Dec 2011 02:44 PM PST Reuters - French prosecutors on Tuesday demanded a second life sentence for the veteran Marxist militant Carlos the Jackal for carrying out four bomb attacks in France in the early 1980s that killed 11 people and injured nearly 200.

Russian tycoon eyes paper to back election bid (Reuters) Posted: 13 Dec 2011 11:36 AM PST Reuters - Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, who hopes to challenge Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in a presidential election next March, is exploring a bid for the influential daily Kommersant to back up his campaign.

Is Taiz Going to be the Benghazi of Yemen? (Time.com) Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:15 PM PST Time.com - The government claims armed rebels want to turn the city, the cradle of the uprising against Saleh, into a beachhead for a massive and violent civil war

Attack in Belgian city leaves 5 dead, 122 wounded (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2011 05:11 PM PST AP - Summoned for questioning by Belgian police, a man with a history of weapons and drug offenses left home armed with hand grenades, a revolver and an assault rifle. Stopping at a central square filled with holiday shoppers, he lobbed three grenades into the crowd, then opened fire.

Kuwait ruler decrees new Cabinet (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:28 PM PST AP - Kuwait's ruler has issued a decree to form a new Cabinet, a move toward calling an election.

Mexico says captured cartel leader had arsenal (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2011 05:05 PM PST AP - Mexican authorities said Tuesday that an alleged founder of the Zetas drug cartel had an arsenal of 169 guns when he was captured Monday, and may have been linked to the abduction of nine Mexican marines.

Tribal elders broker end to fighting in Libya region (Reuters) Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:21 PM PST Reuters - An outbreak of fighting south of the Libyan capital which killed at least four people stopped on Tuesday after local elders agreed a ceasefire, Reuters journalists in the area said.

Aussie PM impressed by Obama as a 'good person' (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2011 05:05 PM PST AP - Australia's prime minister says President Barack Obama impressed her as a "good person" through his acknowledgment of attendants and security staff during his recent visit to Australia.

Famine alert: West Africa still has time to avoid 2012 food crisis (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 12 Dec 2011 01:35 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Africa looks like it might be hit once more by a food crisis, this time in the arid Sahel region of Western Africa. But the good news is that the world’s Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) is giving West African countries and donor nations a period of time to prepare, says the aid group Oxfam.

Cholera Fallout: Can Haitians Sue the U.N. for the Epidemic? (Time.com) Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:15 PM PST Time.com - The 2010 earthquake may have been an act of god but the ensuing cases of cholera almost certainly had humans to blame. Can Haitian victims successfully sue the U.N.?

Deadly fire prompts review of India's booming hospitals (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 12 Dec 2011 12:51 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - A hospital fire that killed more than 90 people in India last week is raising concerns about safety procedures in the country's rapidly-expanding hospital system.

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