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• Tunisian leader bows to unrest, sets departure date (Reuters)
• Brazil flood death toll rises to 482, more feared (Reuters)
• Lebanon to start talks on new government on Monday (Reuters)
• Nigeria's Jonathan takes early lead in primaries (Reuters)
• Al Qaeda claims kidnapping of Frenchmen found dead (Reuters)
• More than 1 Million Cut Off in Sri Lanka's Deluge (Time.com)
• Body of murdered Irish bride leaves Mauritius (AFP)
• Iran invites foreign experts to nuclear sites (AP)
• 464 die in Brazil slides, survivors relate horrors (AP)
• Gates: No doubt on civilian control of China military (Reuters)
• Hudson's Bay Co. in spotlight with Target deal (Reuters)
• Brisbane flood clean-up starts as damage emerges (AFP)
• What Hezbollah wants from Lebanon's next government (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Brazil's Murderous Floods: A Disaster Foretold (Time.com)
• South Korea and Japan sail into territorial dispute (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Vietnam: Communists Gag the Web (OneWorld.net)

Tunisian leader bows to unrest, sets departure date (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 04:45 PM PST Reuters - Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, facing the worst unrest of his rule, said on Thursday he would not run again when his term ends in 2014, prompting scenes of celebration in the streets of the capital.

Brazil flood death toll rises to 482, more feared (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 04:09 PM PST Reuters - Rescue workers dug for survivors on Thursday and struggled to reach areas cut off by floods and landslides that have killed at least 482 people in one of Brazil's deadliest natural disasters in decades.

Lebanon to start talks on new government on Monday (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 09:08 AM PST Reuters - Lebanese leaders agreed on Thursday to start talks next week on rebuilding a government after Hezbollah walked out of Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri's coalition, testing political faultlines across the Middle East.

Nigeria's Jonathan takes early lead in primaries (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 04:47 PM PST Reuters - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan took an early lead on Friday as votes were counted from the ruling party primaries, although his main rival's camp raised questions about the conduct of the poll.

Al Qaeda claims kidnapping of Frenchmen found dead (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 10:49 AM PST Reuters - Al Qaeda claimed responsibility on Thursday for the abduction of two Frenchmen found dead after a failed rescue attempt in Niger last week, but did not say how the men died.

More than 1 Million Cut Off in Sri Lanka's Deluge (Time.com) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 04:50 PM PST Time.com - This year, the nightmare of the Asian tsunami has returned to eastern Sri Lanka, where 21 have died and over one million are cut off in heavy rains

Body of murdered Irish bride leaves Mauritius (AFP) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 02:33 PM PST AFP - The body of Michaela McAreavey, the daughter of a prominent Irish sports personality murdered whilst on her honeymoon in Mauritius, was repatriated Thursday, an official said.

Iran invites foreign experts to nuclear sites (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 11:51 AM PST AP - Iran said Thursday that foreign experts can accompany the international envoys Tehran has invited to inspect its nuclear facilities ahead of planned talks with world powers.

464 die in Brazil slides, survivors relate horrors (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 05:51 PM PST AP - The power was out, but lightning flashes illuminated the horror as villagers watched neighbors' homes vanish under a wall of mud and water, turning neighborhoods into graveyards. Survivors dug at the earth barehanded Thursday, but all they found were bodies.

Gates: No doubt on civilian control of China military (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 05:43 PM PST Reuters - The United States has no doubt China's President Hu Jintao is in control of his country's military, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday, after a test flight of a stealth fighter jet apparently caught the nation's civilian leaders unaware.

Hudson's Bay Co. in spotlight with Target deal (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 02:50 PM PST Reuters - No company can say "been there, done that" better than the 340-year-old Hudson's Bay Co, which predates Canada itself -- and the United States too.

Brisbane flood clean-up starts as damage emerges (AFP) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 04:33 PM PST AFP - The full horror of the devastation wrought by floods in Brisbane emerged Friday as waters drained from the swamped Australian city but barrelled on towards small towns downstream.

What Hezbollah wants from Lebanon's next government (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 10:57 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - While the collapse of its coalition government throws Lebanon back into political turmoil, this latest crisis for a nation accustomed to strife is unlikely to turn violent on the streets.

Brazil's Murderous Floods: A Disaster Foretold (Time.com) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 04:50 PM PST Time.com - Every year's rainy season brings new death and destruction, yet the authorities fail to take basic steps the could alleviate the risk posed by flooding

South Korea and Japan sail into territorial dispute (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 09:58 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Japan and South Korea sailed into a territorial dispute Thursday when a South Korean fishing vessel veered into disputed waters in the Sea of Japan (also known as the East China Sea).

Vietnam: Communists Gag the Web (OneWorld.net) Posted: 13 Jan 2011 04:48 PM PST OneWorld.net - BANGKOK, Jan 12 (IPS) - By clamping down on the Facebook.com social networking service, Vietnam's ruling Communist Party is revealing its discomfort with the rapidly expanding avenue for free expression even as it pushes to transform the once poor agrarian nation into a modern industrial society by 2020.

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