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• Typhoon kills more than 436 in southern Philippines (Reuters)
• Boat with illegal migrants sinks off Indonesia, 300 missing (Reuters)
• Troops beat Cairo protesters, clashes kill 10 (Reuters)
• Arabs may take Syria peace plan to United Nations (Reuters)
• Warring Yemen forces quit Sanaa, 2 troops die in south (Reuters)
• Commentary: Seasons in a Turbulent Year (Time.com)
• France Sarkozy's popularity remains stable: poll (Reuters)
• Egypt military uses heavy hand in crushing protest (AP)
• Venezuela honors Simon Bolivar with new coffin (AP)
• Nigeria seizes bomb factory after Islamist attacks (Reuters)
• Flash floods kill more than 400 in Philippines (AP)
• Crew stabilizes leaky Russian ship near Antarctica (AP)
• Israeli lawmakers move to annex West Bank, one museum at a time (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Egypt's Christians Back Parties That Oppose Islamists (Time.com)
• Childbirth and maternal health improve in Afghanistan (The Christian Science Monitor)

Typhoon kills more than 436 in southern Philippines (Reuters) Posted: 17 Dec 2011 08:53 AM PST Reuters - More than 400 people were killed and an unknown number were missing after a typhoon struck the southern Philippines, causing flash floods and landslides and driving tens of thousands from their homes.

Boat with illegal migrants sinks off Indonesia, 300 missing (Reuters) Posted: 17 Dec 2011 03:33 PM PST Reuters - A boat carrying illegal immigrants heading for Australia sank off the coast of east Java in Indonesia and over 300 people were missing with many feared dead, a senior emergency official said.

Troops beat Cairo protesters, clashes kill 10 (Reuters) Posted: 17 Dec 2011 12:17 PM PST Reuters - Soldiers beat demonstrators with batons in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday in a second day of clashes that have killed 10 people and wounded hundreds, marring the first free election most Egyptians can remember.

Arabs may take Syria peace plan to United Nations (Reuters) Posted: 17 Dec 2011 12:42 PM PST Reuters - Arab states may take their proposals for ending Syria's crackdown on protests to the U.N. Security Council next week unless Damascus agrees to implement the initiative, Qatar's foreign minister said on Saturday.

Warring Yemen forces quit Sanaa, 2 troops die in south (Reuters) Posted: 17 Dec 2011 09:02 AM PST Reuters - Forces loyal to outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his opponents withdrew from their positions in the capital Sanaa on Saturday, witnesses and officials said, in a further sign a peace deal signed last month was being implemented.

Commentary: Seasons in a Turbulent Year (Time.com) Posted: 17 Dec 2011 06:20 AM PST Time.com - Looking Back on the Seasons in a Turbulent Year

France Sarkozy's popularity remains stable: poll (Reuters) Posted: 17 Dec 2011 12:36 PM PST Reuters - French President Nicolas Sarkozy's popularity has remained stable but most voters continue to be unimpressed by his policies, a poll to be published in weekly newspaper Journal du Dimanche Sunday showed.

Egypt military uses heavy hand in crushing protest (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2011 02:13 PM PST AP - Troops pulled women across the pavement by their hair, knocking off their Muslim headscarves. Young activists were kicked in the head until they lay motionless in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

Venezuela honors Simon Bolivar with new coffin (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2011 03:25 PM PST AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez paid tribute to 19th century independence leader Simon Bolivar on Saturday by unveiling a new coffin containing Bolivar's remains and adorned with gold, pearls and diamonds.

Nigeria seizes bomb factory after Islamist attacks (Reuters) Posted: 17 Dec 2011 01:04 PM PST Reuters - Nigerian authorities raided a bomb making factory Saturday belonging to suspected members of an Islamist sect in the northeast, the military said, after gun and bomb attacks across northern Nigeria over four days killed at least seven people.

Flash floods kill more than 400 in Philippines (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2011 01:49 PM PST AP - Flash floods devastated a southern Philippines region unaccustomed to serious storms, killing more than 400 people while they slept, rousting hundreds of others to their rooftops and turning two coastal cities into muddy, debris-filled waterways that were strewn Saturday with overturned vehicles and toppled trees.

Crew stabilizes leaky Russian ship near Antarctica (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2011 06:30 PM PST AP - The 32 crew members aboard a leaking Russian fishing ship near Antarctica have made progress stabilizing the vessel, and a plane was scheduled to drop them supplies Saturday. Rescue ships, hampered by heavy sea ice, were still several days away.

Israeli lawmakers move to annex West Bank, one museum at a time (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 16 Dec 2011 09:09 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - As Rachel Slonim shows a visitor around the modest, unheated archeological museum in this West Bank settlement, she becomes animated when she reaches a display case with artifacts from the biblical Israelite period.

Egypt's Christians Back Parties That Oppose Islamists (Time.com) Posted: 17 Dec 2011 06:20 AM PST Time.com - Limiting the extent of the Islamist victory at the polls becomes the overriding priority for a community fearing intolerance and attacks on tourism

Childbirth and maternal health improve in Afghanistan (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 16 Dec 2011 08:06 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Amid increasing focus on the fraught question of what will happen in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of NATO combat forces, a recent survey released by the country's health ministry indicates a significant leap forward for Afghanistan's women.

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