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• Clinton offers Myanmar first rewards for reform (Reuters)
• Syria firms and VIPs sanctioned in "civil war" (Reuters)
• NATO attack threatens war on militants: Pakistan (Reuters)
• Egypt awaits poll results, Tahrir protest planned (Reuters)
• Qaeda's Zawahri says group kidnapped American in Pakistan (Reuters)
• Australia Bans Distinctive Cigarette Packaging -- Should Others Follow? (Time.com)
• Sarkozy calls for treaty to save euro (AP)
• Israeli defense chief: Iran strike may be needed (AP)
• Biologists find albino among Brazil dolphins (AP)
• Somali refugee acknowledges aiding terror group (AP)
• Analysis: Confusion not progress expected at Afghan meet (Reuters)
• Supreme Court to hear corn syrup price-fixing (Reuters)
• NZ engineers found building safe before collapse (AP)
• Clinton visit to Burma (Myanmar): Will an economic opening follow? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Europe's Race to the Bottom: How Austerity is Killing the Euro (Time.com)
• Mugabe grilled in South African chicken ad (The Christian Science Monitor)

Clinton offers Myanmar first rewards for reform (Reuters) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 04:03 PM PST Reuters - The United States will support more aid for Myanmar and consider installing an ambassador after an absence of some two decades, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday, offering the first rewards for reform.

Syria firms and VIPs sanctioned in "civil war" (Reuters) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 01:18 PM PST Reuters - The United States, European Union and Arab League blacklisted Syrian VIPs and companies on Thursday to force an end to the military crackdown on protesters challenging the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.

NATO attack threatens war on militants: Pakistan (Reuters) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 01:25 PM PST Reuters - Pakistan, enraged by a NATO cross-border attack that killed 24 soldiers, could end support for the U.S.-led war on militancy if its sovereignty is violated again, the foreign minister said, warning that "enough is enough."

Egypt awaits poll results, Tahrir protest planned (Reuters) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:15 PM PST Reuters - Egypt will hear the results of elections which Islamist parties look set to win on Friday, and protesters have called a rally to remember 42 people killed in clashes with police last month.

Qaeda's Zawahri says group kidnapped American in Pakistan (Reuters) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 02:50 PM PST Reuters - Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of an American man in Pakistan and demanded the release of prisoners and an end to air strikes in Muslim countries in exchange for his freedom, according to an Internet statement.

Australia Bans Distinctive Cigarette Packaging -- Should Others Follow? (Time.com) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 01:15 PM PST Time.com - Philip Morris is suing the Australian government over a law mandating drab green packaging for cigarettes. The industry worries it could hurt business. The government hopes it will.

Sarkozy calls for treaty to save euro (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 04:21 PM PST AP - Germany and France will push for a broad treaty "refounding and rethinking the organization of Europe," French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared Thursday. He said that without some new "convergence" among European countries, the continent's crushing debt could destroy the euro.

Israeli defense chief: Iran strike may be needed (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 04:15 PM PST AP - Israel does not want to take military action against Iran over its nuclear program, but at some point may have no other option, Israel's defense minister said Thursday.

Biologists find albino among Brazil dolphins (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 04:20 PM PST AP - Brazilian biologists have found an extremely rare example of an albino dolphin among an endangered species that lives off the southern coast of South America.

Somali refugee acknowledges aiding terror group (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 04:28 PM PST AP - A Somali refugee living in San Diego pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to aiding four men who left Minnesota to join a Somali terror group, including one man who is suspected of carrying out a suicide bombing in the African nation in October.

Analysis: Confusion not progress expected at Afghan meet (Reuters) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 02:48 PM PST Reuters - Next week's Bonn conference on Afghanistan was supposed to offer a chance to renew Western commitment to stabilize the Asian nation as foreign troops head home after a decade battling the Taliban.

Supreme Court to hear corn syrup price-fixing (Reuters) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 09:18 AM PST Reuters - Canada's Supreme Court said on Thursday it will hear a case that alleges producers of high-fructose corn syrup, including U.S. agribusiness giants Cargill Inc and Archer Daniels Midland Co, conspired to fix the sweetener's price.

NZ engineers found building safe before collapse (AP) Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:22 PM PST AP - Engineers inspected and declared a New Zealand office building safe five times in the months before it collapsed and killed 18 people in an earthquake earlier this year, according to testimony at a government probe.

Clinton visit to Burma (Myanmar): Will an economic opening follow? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 10:27 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - A pivotal moment may have arrived for Burma (Myanmar), with the arrival on Wednesday of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the first time in over a half-century that such a senior American official has visited the country.

Europe's Race to the Bottom: How Austerity is Killing the Euro (Time.com) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 01:15 PM PST Time.com - Stock markets may have soared after central banks around the world got together to provide more dollars to Europe's strained financial sector. But we also got an indication of just how bad things have become

Mugabe grilled in South African chicken ad (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 09:49 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Those were the days, Mr. Mugabe.

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