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• Thousands protest in Egypt's Tahrir against army rule (Reuters)
• Eleven killed in Syria on eve of Arab deadline (Reuters)
• U.N. condemns alleged plot to kill Saudi envoy (Reuters)
• EU, IMF to press Greek parties on reform promises (Reuters)
• U.N. nuclear watchdog board rebukes defiant Iran (Reuters)
• A Credit Crisis in China's Most Enterprising City Is Making the Country Nervous (Time.com)
• UK police charge four with terrorism offences (Reuters)
• 16 killed as Syria OKs observers in principle (AP)
• Official: Drug cartel tried to skew Mexico vote (AP)
• Pope in western Africa to outline church's future (AP)
• Analysis: Obama gambles on Myanmar reforms (Reuters)
• No alternative to F-35 fighter jet, US, Canada say (Reuters)
• Nurse charged over fatal Sydney nursing home fire (AP)
• Israel-Gaza tensions: Pilot program to expand Gaza exports falters (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Diabetic Chefs Make Healthy Eating Easy (Time.com)
• Russia reconquers Eastern Europe via business (The Christian Science Monitor)

Thousands protest in Egypt's Tahrir against army rule (Reuters) Posted: 18 Nov 2011 06:36 AM PST Reuters - About 50,000 mainly Islamist protesters flocked to Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday to press Egypt's military rulers to transfer power to elected civilians after the cabinet launched a move to exempt the army from parliamentary oversight.

Eleven killed in Syria on eve of Arab deadline (Reuters) Posted: 18 Nov 2011 03:11 PM PST Reuters - Syria is seeking changes to a planned mission to monitor its implementation of an Arab League peace initiative, the group's chief said on Friday, on the eve of a deadline for Damascus to take steps to end months of bloodshed.

U.N. condemns alleged plot to kill Saudi envoy (Reuters) Posted: 18 Nov 2011 02:48 PM PST Reuters - The U.N. General Assembly Friday condemned an alleged plot -- blamed by U.S. authorities on Iranian agents -- to kill Saudi Arabia's envoy to the United States and urged Iran to obey international law.

EU, IMF to press Greek parties on reform promises (Reuters) Posted: 18 Nov 2011 03:31 PM PST Reuters - International lenders will press

U.N. nuclear watchdog board rebukes defiant Iran (Reuters) Posted: 18 Nov 2011 11:50 AM PST Reuters - The U.N. nuclear watchdog board censured Iran on Friday over mounting suspicions it is trying to develop nuclear weapons, but Tehran said the move would only strengthen its determination to press on with sensitive work.

A Credit Crisis in China's Most Enterprising City Is Making the Country Nervous (Time.com) Posted: 18 Nov 2011 12:35 PM PST Time.com - Credit Crisis in China's Most Enterprising City Makes the Country Nervous

UK police charge four with terrorism offences (Reuters) Posted: 18 Nov 2011 03:39 PM PST Reuters - British police charged four men from the central English city of Birmingham Friday with terrorism offences linked to Pakistan.

16 killed as Syria OKs observers in principle (AP) Posted: 18 Nov 2011 11:36 AM PST AP - Syria agreed in principle Friday to allow dozens of Arab observers into the country to oversee a peace plan, a significant concession from a hardline regime that loathes any sort of outside interference.

Official: Drug cartel tried to skew Mexico vote (AP) Posted: 18 Nov 2011 04:09 PM PST AP - A Mexican official says drug traffickers tried to influence elections in the western state of Michoacan, a charge some of the candidates and party leaders in the race have already made.

Pope in western Africa to outline church's future (AP) Posted: 18 Nov 2011 01:27 PM PST AP - Women wearing dresses bearing Pope Benedict XVI's portrait tried to climb flagpoles to catch a glimpse of him as he arrived Friday on his second trip to Africa, while security struggled to hold back African nuns trying to reach their hands over the security cordon to touch him.

Analysis: Obama gambles on Myanmar reforms (Reuters) Posted: 18 Nov 2011 03:59 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama is gambling that the United States can nudge Myanmar further toward true political reform, a bet that could bring major diplomatic and economic benefits for both countries after more than 50 years of estrangement.

No alternative to F-35 fighter jet, US, Canada say (Reuters) Posted: 18 Nov 2011 01:20 PM PST Reuters - Defense chiefs from the United States and Canada said on Friday that budgetary pressures would not derail development of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, saying there was no real alternative to what has become the Pentagon's costliest weapons program.

Nurse charged over fatal Sydney nursing home fire (AP) Posted: 18 Nov 2011 02:48 PM PST AP - Police charged a nurse on Saturday with multiple counts of murder over a Sydney nursing home fire that killed four elderly people and critically injured 14 others.

Israel-Gaza tensions: Pilot program to expand Gaza exports falters (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 17 Nov 2011 01:56 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The Bright Star textile company in Gaza used to sew 4 million pieces of clothing a month, most of it for export to Israel and beyond â€" part of a humming manufacturing sector that accounted for nearly a third of Gaza's economy. But after Israel imposed a blockade in 2006, Gaza's factories fell silent, unable to import the raw materials they needed or send their finished products abroad for sale.

Diabetic Chefs Make Healthy Eating Easy (Time.com) Posted: 18 Nov 2011 12:35 PM PST Time.com - Blood Sugar Skillet Magic: The Chefs Rocking the World of Diabetic Cooking

Russia reconquers Eastern Europe via business (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 17 Nov 2011 10:32 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - More than 20 years after Soviet tanks and soldiers pulled out of then-Czechoslovakia in Eastern Europe, Russian influence is on the rise in what was once its imperial backyard. Where guns and bullets failed, rubles are succeeding.

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