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South Sudan poised for historic independence vote (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 04:53 PM PST

An officer from the Sudan Referendum Commission (SSRC) checks voter registration kits, manuals and cards of referendum at the main distribution centre in Khartoum January 8, 2011, a day ahead of a referendum. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin AbdallahReuters - Millions of south Sudanese will vote on Sunday in a referendum expected to split Africa's largest country in two.

Bodies beheaded in Mexico tourist city (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

A police officer walk by two men found shot dead in Acapulco, Mexico. Twenty-three people were murdered Saturday in the beach resort of Acapulco, including 15 decapitated men found near a shopping center, authorities said, in latest onslaught in Mexico's brutal drug wars.(AFP/Pedro Pardo)Reuters - Fifteen bodies, all but one of them decapitated, were found early on Saturday in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco as drug violence in Mexico intensified.

French rescue fails, two hostages killed in Niger (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 02:17 PM PST

Reuters - France said two of its nationals were found dead, apparently executed by their kidnappers, after French special forces joined a failed attempt to rescue them Saturday in the African state of Niger.

Israel envoy to discuss reviving peace talks in U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 01:18 PM PST

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem January 3, 2011. REUTERS/Ronen ZvulunReuters - An envoy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Washington next week to discuss ways to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, a statement from Netanyahu's office said on Saturday.

Protest in central Nigerian city after Muslims killed (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 12:00 PM PST

Nigerian ex-militant leader Henry Okah is seen in this picture provided by his family. A South African court has rejected a bail appeal by Okah, who is accused of ordering twin car bombings on Nigeria's independence day.(AFP/File/-)Reuters - Nigerian soldiers fired into the air to disperse youths burning vehicles and tyres in the central city of Jos on Saturday in protest at the killing of seven Muslims in a nearby village, residents said.

Southern Sudan Set for Historic Independence Vote (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 01:45 PM PST

Time.com - For 50 years, Southern Sudanese fought against their northern government. Tomorrow, bursting with joy, they head to polls to secede and create a new nation

Dalglish honoured by Liverpool return (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 03:05 PM PST

Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish, pictured in May 2010, the last manager to bring the English league title to Anfield in 1990, admitted on Saturday it was AFP - Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish, the last manager to bring the English league title to Anfield in 1990, admitted on Saturday it was "a great honour" to be back in charge.

Al-Sadr hammers anti-US message in 1st Iraq speech (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 03:18 PM PST

Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr gestures during his first public appearance since returning from nearly four years of self-imposed exile in Najaf, south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011. The powerful cleric was greeted by shouts of 'Long live the leader' outside his ancestral home in the holy Shiite city of Najaf. Al-Sadr appears beneath a graphic banner bearing the pictures of his brother, the late Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr, left, and father, the late Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, right. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Muqtada al-Sadr lambasted the American "enemy" in Iraq during his first speech in the country since returning from exile, fiery rhetoric from a new powerbroker in the government that will make it difficult to extend the U.S. military deployment beyond the end of this year.

14 decapitated bodies found in Mexico resort city (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 03:36 PM PST

Soldiers stand near the bodies of two men lying on the sidewalk after they were killed by gunmen in Acapulco, Mexico, Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011. Several separate violent incidents overnight in this Pacific resort city have left more than 25 dead, including one where bodies of 15 dead men, 14 of them decapitated, were found in front of a shopping plaza. (AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez)AP - The bodies of 15 men, all but one of them headless, were found on a street outside a shopping center in Acapulco on Saturday as police reported 27 people slain in the Pacific resort in less than a day.

Nigerian shows up unexpectedly in Ivory Coast (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 04:15 PM PST

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, center, leaves his hotel for a meeting with incumbent Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011. Obasanjo made an unannounced visit to Ivory Coast late Saturday in an effort to help resolve the country's deepening political crisis after several other West African leaders have failed to persuade the incumbent to cede power.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)AP - Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo made an unannounced visit to Ivory Coast, arriving late Saturday for a private meeting with the country's defiant president in a final effort to get him to cede power after losing the recent election.

US defense chief: China moving fast on new weapons (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 04:38 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2010, file photo U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates gestures as he walks past, from left, India's Defense Minister Shri AK Antony, China's Defense Minister Liang Guanglie, Cambodia's Defense Minister Tea Banh and Brunei's Deputy Defense Minister Mustappa Sirat on occasion of the first Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Defense Ministers Meeting Plus in Hanoi, Vietnam. After a rocky year for U.S.-Chinese relations and in hopes of strengthening relations with the rising military power and global competitor Gates is set to depart Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011, on an Asia trip to meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao a week ahead of Hu's planned state visit to Washington. (AP Photo/Kham, Pool, File)AP - China is farther along in its development of a new stealth fighter jet than the U.S. had predicted, and that plane and other Chinese military advances are worrisome, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday.

Nervous wait for towns in Australia flood zone (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 02:40 PM PST

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, left, flies in an Army helicopter with Col. Luke Foster to view the flooded Fitzroy River in northeast Queensland state, Australia, Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011. Ten people have died and some 200,000 people have been affected by the floods spawned by torrential rains falling on and off since late November in the huge Outback state. (AP Photo/Murray Ware, Pool)AP - Residents of two Australian towns waited anxiously behind levies and walls of sandbags on Sunday to find out if they would become the latest victims of the country's huge floods.

With independence vote, South Sudan finally sees end to decades of struggle (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 12:12 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Two days remain until South Sudanese vote in an unprecedented referendum to decide whether or not to split Sudan, Africa's largest country, into two independent states.

What's behind North Korea's offer for unconditional talks? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 10:58 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - US envoy Stephen Bosworth struck an enigmatic note here Friday on the chances for more talks with North Korea after both South Korea and Japan flatly rebuffed Pyongyang’s bid to return to the table without preconditions.

Suicides Rise Across India (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 05:55 AM PST

OneWorld.net - KOLKATA, Jan 7 (IPS) - "India has become the suicide capital of the world," says Daya Sandhu, a counselling psychology professor at the University of Louisville in the U.S.

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