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• Arab observers aim to see Syria's deadliest city (Reuters)
• Sadr bloc calls for early elections in Iraq (Reuters)
• Analysis: Russia's Putin risks losing touch amid protests (Reuters)
• Exclusive: Afghanistan sets ground rules for Taliban (Reuters)
• Nigeria: Boko Haram Militants Strike on Christmas Day (Time.com)
• PIP implants sold to Dutch firm under new name (Reuters)
• Egypt charge 2 Israelis with smuggling weapons (AP)
• Bolivia's Morales hopes to build railway to Peru (AP)
• Nigerians fear more church attacks after 39 killed (AP)
• Pakistan urged to share border-post map (Reuters)
• Icebreaker reaches stricken Russian fishing vessel (AP)
• Why India pulled the welcome mat for Wal-Mart (The Christian Science Monitor)
• German Court Rules Muslim Student Disturbed the Peace by Praying (Time.com)
• Brazil takes on an centuries-old foe: corruption (The Christian Science Monitor)

Arab observers aim to see Syria's deadliest city (Reuters) Posted: 26 Dec 2011 03:46 PM PST Reuters - Newly-arrived Arab League peace monitors will try Tuesday to see for themselves the situation in the Syrians city of Homs, which opponents of President Bashar al-Assad say has been pulverized by government troops and tanks in recent days.

Sadr bloc calls for early elections in Iraq (Reuters) Posted: 26 Dec 2011 02:44 PM PST Reuters - The head of the political bloc of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on Monday for new elections in Iraq after the biggest crisis in a year saw Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki move against two senior Sunni rivals.

Analysis: Russia's Putin risks losing touch amid protests (Reuters) Posted: 26 Dec 2011 07:50 AM PST Reuters - Vladimir Putin is looking increasingly out of touch in Russia after the opposition brought tens of thousands of people out onto the streets of Moscow for the second time in two weeks to demand a parliamentary election be re-run.

Exclusive: Afghanistan sets ground rules for Taliban (Reuters) Posted: 26 Dec 2011 02:03 PM PST Reuters - Afghanistan will accept a Taliban liaison office in Qatar to start peace talks but no foreign power can get involved in the process without its consent, the government's peace council said, as efforts gather pace to find a solution to the decade-long war.

Nigeria: Boko Haram Militants Strike on Christmas Day (Time.com) Posted: 26 Dec 2011 03:35 AM PST Time.com - In an apparent escalation of its war against the government, the Islamist militant group Boko Haram allegedly targeted churches on the most festive Christian holiday

PIP implants sold to Dutch firm under new name (Reuters) Posted: 26 Dec 2011 03:46 PM PST Reuters - Potentially dangerous breast implants made by a now-defunct French company were sold to about 1,000 Dutch women under a different name, a Dutch health official said on Monday, broadening a scandal that could affect some 300,000 women worldwide.

Egypt charge 2 Israelis with smuggling weapons (AP) Posted: 26 Dec 2011 01:17 PM PST AP - Egypt's state prosecutor on Monday charged two Israelis and a Ukrainian with smuggling weapons and trying to implicate Egyptian security, the first case of its kind against foreigners since longtime President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in February.

Bolivia's Morales hopes to build railway to Peru (AP) Posted: 26 Dec 2011 02:45 PM PST AP - Bolivia's president said Monday that he hopes to build a new railway linking his country to Peru that would facilitate exports to Asia.

Nigerians fear more church attacks after 39 killed (AP) Posted: 26 Dec 2011 02:37 PM PST AP - Women returned to clean the blood from St. Theresa Catholic Church on Monday and one man wept uncontrollably amid its debris as a Nigerian Christian association demanded protection for its churches.

Pakistan urged to share border-post map (Reuters) Posted: 26 Dec 2011 03:47 PM PST Reuters - The head of the U.S. Central Command is urging Pakistan to share a map of its facilities and installations near the Afghan border to help avert episodes like the one that killed 24 Pakistani forces last month.

Icebreaker reaches stricken Russian fishing vessel (AP) Posted: 25 Dec 2011 09:56 PM PST AP - A South Korean polar research ship on Monday reached a leaking Russian fishing vessel that has been stuck in the frigid waters off Antarctica for the past 10 days, New Zealand officials said.

Why India pulled the welcome mat for Wal-Mart (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 25 Dec 2011 08:00 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The Indian government's recent plans to open the retail sector to foreign big-box stores like Wal-Mart was met with such vehement pushback from people across India that the plans had to be shelved earlier this month.

German Court Rules Muslim Student Disturbed the Peace by Praying (Time.com) Posted: 26 Dec 2011 03:35 AM PST Time.com - The Federal Administrative Court in Germany has ruled against an 18-year-old Muslim student, ending his long legal fight for permission to pray openly at school

Brazil takes on an centuries-old foe: corruption (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 25 Dec 2011 06:00 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Since its creation in 2007, the local activist group Rio de Paz, a loose coalition of youths and church members, has focused on one city's most notorious problem: the thousands of murders tallied in Rio de Janeiro each year.

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