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• Islamists seek to extend gains in Egypt run-off vote (Reuters)
• Russia's Putin and party suffer election blow (Reuters)
• U.S. official says no sign Iran shot down drone (Reuters)
• Syrian secret police defect, Arab deadline looms (Reuters)
• Slovenia asks mayor to form recession-busting coalition (Reuters)
• 'Organic' Mineral Water? German Court Allows Statement of the Obvious (Time.com)
• Italian government approves austerity measures (AP)
• Egypt's ElBaradei: Liberals 'decimated' in vote (AP)
• Dominican-Haitian activist Sonia Pierre dies at 48 (AP)
• Police: 6 die when town attacked in north Nigeria (AP)
• China services data may bolster case for further easing (Reuters)
• Australian teen freed from Bali drug detention (AP)
• Early Russian polls show surprise setback for Vladimir Putin (The Christian Science Monitor)
• George Clooney's Satellites Build a Case Against an Alleged War Criminal (Time.com)
• A US citizen stirs up Pakistani 'memo-gate' (The Christian Science Monitor)

Islamists seek to extend gains in Egypt run-off vote (Reuters) Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:43 PM PST Reuters - The Muslim Brotherhood's party will seek to extend a lead over hardline Islamists in run-offs in Egypt's parliamentary vote Monday, with liberal parties struggling to hold their ground in a political landscape redrawn by the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak.

Russia's Putin and party suffer election blow (Reuters) Posted: 04 Dec 2011 03:45 PM PST Reuters - Russian voters have dealt Vladimir Putin's ruling party a heavy blow by cutting its parliamentary majority in an election that showed growing unease with his domination of the country as he prepares to reclaim the presidency.

U.S. official says no sign Iran shot down drone (Reuters) Posted: 04 Dec 2011 11:29 AM PST Reuters - Iranian media reported on Sunday that their country's military had shot down a U.S. reconnaissance drone in eastern Iran, but a U.S. official said there was no indication the aircraft had been shot down.

Syrian secret police defect, Arab deadline looms (Reuters) Posted: 04 Dec 2011 02:27 PM PST Reuters - At least a dozen Syrian secret police have defected from an intelligence compound, activists said Sunday, in what appeared to be the first major desertion from a service that has acted as a pillar of President Bashar al-Assad's rule.

Slovenia asks mayor to form recession-busting coalition (Reuters) Posted: 04 Dec 2011 03:51 PM PST Reuters - Slovenia tasked the mayor of its capital city Monday with forging a government to halt the euro zone member's slide back into recession, and he faces potentially weeks of tough coalition talks.

'Organic' Mineral Water? German Court Allows Statement of the Obvious (Time.com) Posted: 04 Dec 2011 07:10 AM PST Time.com - A German court has ruled in favor of a mineral water company hawking theirH2O as "bio," or organic

Italian government approves austerity measures (AP) Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:27 PM PST AP - Premier Mario Monti said Sunday his government of technocrats has approved a package of austerity and growth measures worth euro30 billion ($40.53 billion) to "reawaken" the Italian economy and help save the euro common currency from collapse.

Egypt's ElBaradei: Liberals 'decimated' in vote (AP) Posted: 04 Dec 2011 03:45 PM PST AP - Egypt's top reformist leader said Sunday the liberal youth behind the country's uprising have been "decimated" in parliamentary elections dominated by Islamists and expressed concern about the rise of hard-line religious elements advocating extremist ideas such as banning women from driving.

Dominican-Haitian activist Sonia Pierre dies at 48 (AP) Posted: 04 Dec 2011 02:08 PM PST AP - Sonia Pierre, a human rights activist who bravely fought discrimination against poor Dominicans of Haitian descent since she was a child, died Sunday, according to colleagues. She was 48.

Police: 6 die when town attacked in north Nigeria (AP) Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:26 PM PST AP - Gunmen from a radical Muslim sect raided a town in northern Nigeria early Sunday morning, bombing police stations and robbing banks in an attack that killed at least six people, authorities said.

China services data may bolster case for further easing (Reuters) Posted: 04 Dec 2011 02:41 PM PST Reuters - China's services sector contracted in November, mirroring similar weakness in the country's giant manufacturing sector and underlining expectations that Beijing can ease monetary policy further to cushion the blows of the global economy.

Australian teen freed from Bali drug detention (AP) Posted: 03 Dec 2011 09:50 PM PST AP - A 14-year-old Australian boy has been released after serving two months in an Indonesian detention center for buying drugs while vacationing with his family on the resort island of Bali.

Early Russian polls show surprise setback for Vladimir Putin (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 04 Dec 2011 01:10 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The results of exit polls, reported on Russian state TV, suggest that the Kremlin might be in for a huge shock when the votes from Sunday's State Duma elections have all been counted.

George Clooney's Satellites Build a Case Against an Alleged War Criminal (Time.com) Posted: 04 Dec 2011 07:10 AM 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

A US citizen stirs up Pakistani 'memo-gate' (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 04 Dec 2011 11:54 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - A private American citizen has accused Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari and a former top diplomat of being aware in advance of the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May.

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