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• Russia's Putin offers protesters small change (Reuters)
• Syrian rebels kill 27 soldiers in south (Reuters)
• France hands Carlos the Jackal another life prison term (Reuters)
• Italy's Monti faces confidence vote on austerity (Reuters)
• Libya to allow UK police to probe Lockerbie: minister (Reuters)
• Sale of Lethal Injection Drug Sodium Thiopental to Be Restricted in Europe (Time.com)
• Dudley: Fed's dollar lines shield U.S. from Europe (Reuters)
• US formally ends Iraq war with little fanfare (AP)
• 3 bodies found at Mexican student group office (AP)
• ICC prosecutor: Gadhafi death may be war crime (AP)
• Russian fishing ship listing badly near Antarctica (AP)
• Canada Wheat Board bill becomes law, uncertainty remains (Reuters)
• China Seethes Over a Rash of Deadly School Bus Crashes (Time.com)

Russia's Putin offers protesters small change (Reuters) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:47 AM PST Reuters - Vladimir Putin offered to ease slightly his tight political control of Russian politics in token concessions to protesters he suggested had been paid to turn out in the biggest demonstrations since he took power 12 years ago.

Syrian rebels kill 27 soldiers in south (Reuters) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 02:30 PM PST Reuters - Army deserters killed 27 soldiers in southern Syria on Thursday, an activist group said, in some of the deadliest attacks on forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad since the start of an uprising nine months ago.

France hands Carlos the Jackal another life prison term (Reuters) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 04:03 PM PST Reuters - A French court sentenced flamboyant Marxist militant Carlos the Jackal to another life prison term on Thursday for bomb attacks that killed 11 people nearly three decades ago.

Italy's Monti faces confidence vote on austerity (Reuters) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 03:41 PM PST Reuters - Italy's government faces a confidence vote in parliament on Friday, a move to speed up approval of a 33-billion euro ($43 billion) austerity package intended to restore market confidence in the euro zone's third largest economy.

Libya to allow UK police to probe Lockerbie: minister (Reuters) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 01:33 PM PST Reuters - The Libyan government will allow British police to go to Libya to investigate the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and the unsolved 1984 killing of a policewoman in London, a British minister said on Thursday.

Sale of Lethal Injection Drug Sodium Thiopental to Be Restricted in Europe (Time.com) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 02:45 AM PST Time.com - Pushed by human rights groups, the European Union is set to severely restrict the sale of sodium thiopental, one of the main ingredients used in lethal injections in the U.S.

Dudley: Fed's dollar lines shield U.S. from Europe (Reuters) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 04:35 PM PST Reuters - A top U.S. Federal Reserve official on Thursday defended the central bank's decision to provide dollars for overseas banks stressed by Europe's debt crisis, saying the action was needed to protect the U.S. economy.

US formally ends Iraq war with little fanfare (AP) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 04:43 PM PST AP - Nearly nine years after American troops stormed across the Iraq border in a blaze of shock and awe, U.S. officials quietly ended the bloody and bitterly divisive conflict here Thursday, but the debate over whether it was worth the cost in money and lives is yet unanswered.

3 bodies found at Mexican student group office (AP) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 04:02 PM PST AP - Mexicans got a rare glimpse into the rough-and-tumble student organizations at many of Mexico's universities Thursday, after three bodies were found buried at one group's headquarters in the western city of Guadalajara.

ICC prosecutor: Gadhafi death may be war crime (AP) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 03:29 PM PST AP - The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said Thursday there are "serious suspicions" that the death of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was a war crime.

Russian fishing ship listing badly near Antarctica (AP) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 04:39 PM PST AP - A Russian fishing vessel with 32 crew members was in trouble and taking on water near Antarctica on Friday, with heavy sea ice hampering rescue efforts.

Canada Wheat Board bill becomes law, uncertainty remains (Reuters) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 04:28 PM PST Reuters - The Canadian Parliament gave final approval on Thursday to a government bill to end the Canadian Wheat Board's 68-year-old grain marketing monopoly, but legal challenges threaten to leave farmers and the grain industry in limbo into the New Year.

China Seethes Over a Rash of Deadly School Bus Crashes (Time.com) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 02:45 AM PST Time.com - After an astonishing string of crashes, Chinese netizens are demanding government action and better safety standards

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