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• Berlusconi resigns, crowds in Rome celebrate (Reuters)
• Newsmaker: Showman Berlusconi leaves amid jeers and boos (Reuters)
• Mexico says copter crash likely due to thick fog (Reuters)
• China unlikely to budge on thorny South China Sea dispute (Reuters)
• Arab League suspends Syria as global pressure rises (Reuters)
• The Arab League Votes to Suspend Syria (Time.com)
• End of an era: Italy's Berlusconi resigns (AP)
• Yemeni forces kill 6 al-Qaida-linked militants (AP)
• Newly appointed Haiti culture minister dies (AP)
• Correction: Nigeria-Baby on Payroll story (AP)
• Obama says China must play by the rules (Reuters)
• 'Naked marriages' on rise in China (The Christian Science Monitor)
• How the regime change will affect the economy and politics of Europe (Time.com)
• Egyptian revolution, Part 2: Now, to build a nation (The Christian Science Monitor)

Berlusconi resigns, crowds in Rome celebrate (Reuters) Posted: 12 Nov 2011 02:18 PM PST Reuters - Silvio Berlusconi resigned on Saturday to make way for an emergency government Italians hope will save them from financial ruin as thousands of jeering protesters shouted "clown, clown" and toasted the end of a scandal-plagued era.

Newsmaker: Showman Berlusconi leaves amid jeers and boos (Reuters) Posted: 12 Nov 2011 01:59 PM PST Reuters - Silvio Berlusconi dominated Italy for 17 years with a unique mix of political talent and brazen behavior but left office brought low by the power of bond markets with the jeers of the Roman crowd ringing in his ears.

Mexico says copter crash likely due to thick fog (Reuters) Posted: 12 Nov 2011 05:01 PM PST Reuters - Thick fog likely caused the helicopter crash on Friday that killed Mexican Interior Minister Francisco Blake and all seven others on board, the country's transportation minister said on Saturday.

China unlikely to budge on thorny South China Sea dispute (Reuters) Posted: 12 Nov 2011 05:12 PM PST Reuters - Pressured at home and increasingly sensing a concerted regional effort to contain its territorial claims, China will be in no mood to make concessions on vast areas of the disputed South China Sea at two key east Asian summits in Indonesia this week.

Arab League suspends Syria as global pressure rises (Reuters) Posted: 12 Nov 2011 03:47 PM PST Reuters - The Arab League suspended Syria and called on its army to stop killing civilians in a surprise move on Saturday that some Western leaders said should prompt tougher international action against President Bashar al-Assad.

The Arab League Votes to Suspend Syria (Time.com) Posted: 11 Nov 2011 10:30 PM PST Time.com - After its first "agreement" was humiliatingly ignored by Damascus, the 22-nation pan-Arab council issues a tough four-day deadline. How will the League enforce it?

End of an era: Italy's Berlusconi resigns (AP) Posted: 12 Nov 2011 02:48 PM PST AP - A chorus of Handel's "Alleluia" rang out Saturday as Silvio Berlusconi resigned as Italian premier, ending a tumultuous 17-year political era and setting in motion a transition aimed at bringing the country back from the brink of economic crisis.

Yemeni forces kill 6 al-Qaida-linked militants (AP) Posted: 12 Nov 2011 01:14 PM PST AP - Yemeni soldiers killed six al-Qaida-linked fighters in a southern city on Saturday, a security official said, raising doubts about the government's claim to have retaken full control of the area after months of fighting.

Newly appointed Haiti culture minister dies (AP) Posted: 12 Nov 2011 05:12 PM PST AP - Former journalist and newly appointed Haitian Culture Minister Choiseul Henriquez has died while in Canada. He was 51.

Correction: Nigeria-Baby on Payroll story (AP) Posted: 12 Nov 2011 12:41 PM PST AP - In a story Nov. 11 about a newborn baby being added to a government payroll in northern Nigeria, The Associated Press erroneously reported how much the child was paid. The child earned $150 a month, not in total for the last two or three years.

Obama says China must play by the rules (Reuters) Posted: 12 Nov 2011 02:41 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama used an Asia-Pacific summit on Saturday to push back against China's trade practices, insisting Beijing stop poaching U.S. intellectual property and allow its currency to rise.

'Naked marriages' on rise in China (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 12 Nov 2011 01:22 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Even to the most modern of young Beijing couples, some traditions are sacred: Real estate consultant Zhu Heng and his lawyer bride, Jia Zhiwei, are postponing their wedding banquet until Mr. Zhu's parents' feng shui adviser chooses an auspicious date for it.

How the regime change will affect the economy and politics of Europe (Time.com) Posted: 11 Nov 2011 10:30 PM 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.

Egyptian revolution, Part 2: Now, to build a nation (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 12 Nov 2011 01:11 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - It's Thursday night and the Egyptian revolution has come to Minya al-Qamh, a small agricultural city on the Nile River Delta. Gay party lights crisscross a downtown street where local youths have quickly erected a colorful tent around a stage. One organizer cranks up the public-address system to warm up the crowd, chanting anti-Mubarak lyrics over the rap song "Gangsta's Paradise." "Hosni and Gamal Mubarak/ too much grief/ 30 years/ no relief."

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