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• Niger offers asylum to Gaddafi son: report (Reuters)
• Suspected Kurd militants hijack ferry in Turkey (Reuters)
• Italy's Berlusconi to resign, end scandal-hit era (Reuters)
• Mexican interior minister killed in helicopter crash (Reuters)
• Strauss-Kahn demands hearing in prostitution inquiry (Reuters)
• How the regime change will affect the economy and politics of Europe (Time.com)
• Suspected Kurdish rebels hijack ferry in Turkey (AP)
• Hundreds march in Egypt to mourn slain Christians (AP)
• Mexico's top Cabinet secretary dies in crash (AP)
• US group: Sudan building up air bases near S.Sudan (AP)
• Pacific rim leaders mull ways to fend off EU woes (AP)
• U.S. punts tricky pipeline decision past 2012 election (Reuters)
• NZ mine boss faces charges over deadly explosion (AP)
• iCow: Kenyans now manage their herds via mobile phone (The Christian Science Monitor)
• The Death of Mexico's Interior Minister: History Repeats Itself, Eerily (Time.com)
• Split the EU? Europe debt crisis pushes idea into the open. (The Christian Science Monitor)

Niger offers asylum to Gaddafi son: report (Reuters) Posted: 11 Nov 2011 02:24 PM PST Reuters - Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou said Friday he had granted Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi asylum on humanitarian grounds but did not know the location of another fugitive son Saif al-Islam, South African media reported.

Suspected Kurd militants hijack ferry in Turkey (Reuters) Posted: 11 Nov 2011 03:14 PM PST Reuters - Up to five suspected Kurdish militants claiming to be carrying a bomb hijacked a passenger ferry carrying 24 people in northwestern Turkey on Friday, the transport minister said.

Italy's Berlusconi to resign, end scandal-hit era (Reuters) Posted: 11 Nov 2011 03:38 PM PST Reuters - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is expected to resign on Saturday, making way for an emergency government and ending one of the most scandal-plagued eras in Italy's post-war history.

Mexican interior minister killed in helicopter crash (Reuters) Posted: 11 Nov 2011 03:24 PM PST Reuters - Mexican Interior Minister Francisco Blake was killed in a helicopter crash on Friday, a blow to the government as it fights powerful drug cartels.

Strauss-Kahn demands hearing in prostitution inquiry (Reuters) Posted: 11 Nov 2011 02:45 PM PST Reuters - Lawyers for disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn Friday urged French magistrates to speak to him as soon as possible about a prostitution scandal in which his name has figured, saying he was being "lynched" in the media while they delayed.

How the regime change will affect the economy and politics of Europe (Time.com) Posted: 11 Nov 2011 07:10 AM PST Time.com - The heads of government in both countries are changing without any actual recourse to the popular will. How democracy got a market downgrade in the E.U.

Suspected Kurdish rebels hijack ferry in Turkey (AP) Posted: 11 Nov 2011 04:19 PM PST AP - A ferry with 18 passengers was hijacked off a northwestern Turkish port on Friday and several coast guard boats and helicopters followed the vessel as it approached Istanbul, officials said.

Hundreds march in Egypt to mourn slain Christians (AP) Posted: 11 Nov 2011 01:29 PM PST AP - Hundreds of Egyptians marched Friday through Cairo to commemorate 27 people killed last month in clashes with the military that triggered new criticism of Egypt's ruling generals and their handling of the aftermath of this year's uprising.

Mexico's top Cabinet secretary dies in crash (AP) Posted: 11 Nov 2011 04:38 PM PST AP - The country's top Cabinet secretary, Francisco Blake Mora, a key figure in Mexico's battle with drug cartels, died Friday in a helicopter crash that President Felipe Calderon said was probably an accident.

US group: Sudan building up air bases near S.Sudan (AP) Posted: 11 Nov 2011 12:19 PM PST AP - A U.S. satellite monitoring group said Friday that Sudan's military is upgrading air bases near the border with South Sudan and building up air resources in what could be a precursor to a widened aerial bombing campaign.

Pacific rim leaders mull ways to fend off EU woes (AP) Posted: 11 Nov 2011 04:37 PM PST AP - A push to build a Pacific free trade bloc gained ground Friday with Japan's decision to join negotiations, as Asia-Pacific leaders converging on Hawaii for an annual summit mulled ways to prevent Europe's crisis from derailing the global recovery.

U.S. punts tricky pipeline decision past 2012 election (Reuters) Posted: 11 Nov 2011 06:01 AM PST Reuters - The U.S. government on Thursday delayed approval of a Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline until after the 2012 U.S. election, bowing to pressure from environmentalists and sparing President Barack Obama a damaging split with liberal voters he may need to win reelection.

NZ mine boss faces charges over deadly explosion (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2011 11:25 PM PST AP - He was the grim, sometimes tearful boss who became the face of a New Zealand coal mine for the world's media and to miners' families after a 2010 explosion killed 29 workers.

iCow: Kenyans now manage their herds via mobile phone (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 11 Nov 2011 07:21 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - As an organic farmer outside of Nairobi, Su Kahumbu could see the challenge that her cattle-herding neighbors had in handling the expenses of their most precious assets, the female cow.

The Death of Mexico's Interior Minister: History Repeats Itself, Eerily (Time.com) Posted: 11 Nov 2011 07:10 AM PST Time.com - Just a week after the third anniversary of a predecessor in a plane crash, the man who leads Mexico's fight against the narcos perishes in a helicopter accident

Split the EU? Europe debt crisis pushes idea into the open. (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 11 Nov 2011 05:39 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - A long-running taboo on the idea of splitting the European Union into two zones or tiers is being breached by a debt crisis that has brought Ireland, Portugal, Greece, and now Italy to their financial and political knees.

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