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• Russians vote in election test for Vladimir Putin (Reuters)
• Egypt's Brotherhood leads on eve of run-off vote (Reuters)
• At least 23 dead in intensifying Syria violence (Reuters)
• Peru anti-mine roadblocks lifted, government calls talks (Reuters)
• Israel's Barak plays down "shadow war" against Iran (Reuters)
• 'Organic' Mineral Water? German Court Allows Statement of the Obvious (Time.com)
• Russia's ruling party wary as nation votes (AP)
• AP Interview: Iraq PM confident in post-US future (AP)
• Brazil: 33 dead in truck-bus crash (AP)
• Congo's Kabila leads election in early results (AP)
• Clinton speaks with Pakistan PM on NATO strikes (Reuters)
• Australia's ruling party endorses gay marriage (AP)
• Mexico drug war casualty: Citizenry suffers post-traumatic stress (The Christian Science Monitor)
• George Clooney's Satellites Build a Case Against an Alleged War Criminal (Time.com)
• Pervasive insecurity in Mexico: If this isn't 'terror,' what is? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Russians vote in election test for Vladimir Putin (Reuters) Posted: 03 Dec 2011 12:52 PM PST Reuters - Vladimir Putin's ruling party could see its vast parliamentary majority cut back in elections that began Sunday in the icy tundra and sparsely-populated swathes of Russia's far east.

Egypt's Brotherhood leads on eve of run-off vote (Reuters) Posted: 03 Dec 2011 03:54 PM PST Reuters - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has called on its rivals to accept the will of the people after a first-round vote set its party on course to take the most seats in the country's first freely elected parliament in six decades.

At least 23 dead in intensifying Syria violence (Reuters) Posted: 03 Dec 2011 02:36 PM PST Reuters - At least 23 people were reported killed in Syria Saturday as violence intensified in the eighth month of an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, pushing the death toll close to 4,600, an activist group said.

Peru anti-mine roadblocks lifted, government calls talks (Reuters) Posted: 03 Dec 2011 01:36 PM PST Reuters - Peruvian protesters opposed to a $4.8 billion gold mine project abandoned roadblocks on Saturday as government officials called weekend talks with regional leaders to try to resolve the conflict.

Israel's Barak plays down "shadow war" against Iran (Reuters) Posted: 03 Dec 2011 12:12 PM PST Reuters - Defense Minister Ehud Barak played down speculation on Saturday that Israel and U.S.-led allies were waging clandestine war on Iran, saying sanctions and the threat of military strikes were still the way to curb its nuclear program.

'Organic' Mineral Water? German Court Allows Statement of the Obvious (Time.com) Posted: 02 Dec 2011 09:45 PM PST Time.com - A German court has ruled in favor of a mineral water company hawking theirH2O as "bio," or organic

Russia's ruling party wary as nation votes (AP) Posted: 03 Dec 2011 04:00 PM PST AP - Russia's long dominant party appeared likely to lose its edge as voters across the sprawling country cast ballots for Parliament on Sunday, many of them frustrated over corruption and the gap between ordinary Russians and the super-rich.

AP Interview: Iraq PM confident in post-US future (AP) Posted: 03 Dec 2011 03:23 PM PST AP - Weeks before the U.S. pullout, Iraq's prime minister confidently predicted Saturday that his country will achieve stability and remain independent of its giant neighbor Iran even without an American troop presence.

Brazil: 33 dead in truck-bus crash (AP) Posted: 03 Dec 2011 02:45 PM PST AP - Brazilian authorities say a tractor-trailor has slammed into a bus carrying sugarcane cutters, killing at least 33 people and injuring 13 others.

Congo's Kabila leads election in early results (AP) Posted: 03 Dec 2011 03:16 PM PST AP - Congo's president, seeking a second term in a nation reeling from poverty and pummeled by war, was leading Saturday in early results, but his opponents insisted he step aside and accused him of trying to engineer "carnage."

Clinton speaks with Pakistan PM on NATO strikes (Reuters) Posted: 03 Dec 2011 02:41 PM PST Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Saturday, again offering U.S. condolences over the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers in NATO air strikes last week, the State Department said in a statement.

Australia's ruling party endorses gay marriage (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2011 10:35 PM PST AP - Australia's ruling party voted Saturday to endorse same-sex marriage, a reversal of its long-standing position that has little practical effect on the chance of gay marriage being legalized in the country.

Mexico drug war casualty: Citizenry suffers post-traumatic stress (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 03 Dec 2011 09:31 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - It was not a stifling evening, so Carolina Gomez, a pretty and petite kindergarten teacher in this Gulf coast city, turned off her air-conditioning unit and slid open the window over her bed. The tropical breeze lulled her to sleep by 11 p.m.

George Clooney's Satellites Build a Case Against an Alleged War Criminal (Time.com) Posted: 02 Dec 2011 09:45 PM PST Time.com - Exclusive: According to documents obtained by TIME, the ICC is building a case against Sudanese Defense Minister Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein with the help of information gathered by George Clooney and John Prendergast's Satellite Sentinel Project

Pervasive insecurity in Mexico: If this isn't 'terror,' what is? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 03 Dec 2011 09:31 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Across the country bombs packed with unsophisticated explosives have gone off, killing bystanders and targets alike; gory videos documenting the torture and beheadings of countless people are disseminated on the Internet; dismembered bodies are disposed of in public spaces with threatening messages penned as warnings to others.

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