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• In mourning, hermit kingdom North Korea seals itself off (Reuters)
• Fierce clashes in Cairo as Clinton voices outrage (Reuters)
• Awlaki video urges U.S. Muslims to join al Qaeda (Reuters)
• Iraqi Sunni leaders denounce PM Maliki (Reuters)
• Benghazi Residents Demonstrate Against Libyan Government (Time.com)
• Europe fights to save cap-and-trade as crisis hits (AP)
• Iraq VP denies charges of running death squads (AP)
• Clinton-Bush nonprofit gives $1.5 million to Haiti (AP)
• Libyan leader returns to University of Washington (AP)
• Second air drop for stricken Russian fishing ship (AP)
• Federal government imposes "sustainable" health funding formula (Reuters)
• Sharks and goats dot quest for good wine on the cheap (Reuters)
• Kim Jong-il's death brings end to era of cruelty, mystery (The Christian Science Monitor)
• The Koreas: Could Kim Jong Il's Death Lead to Reunification? (Time.com)
• Vaclav Havel: playwright, poet, president, advocate for 'the individual' (Video) (The Christian Science Monitor)

In mourning, hermit kingdom North Korea seals itself off (Reuters) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 01:34 AM PST Reuters - North Korea was in seclusion on Tuesday, a day after it announced the death of its leader Kim Jong-il, as concern mounted over what would happen next in the deeply secretive nation that is trying to build a nuclear arsenal.

Fierce clashes in Cairo as Clinton voices outrage (Reuters) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:17 PM PST Reuters - Egyptian police and soldiers fired guns and teargas to try to clear protesters from Cairo's Tahrir Square on the fifth day of clashes that have killed 13 people and drawn a stinging rebuke from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Awlaki video urges U.S. Muslims to join al Qaeda (Reuters) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 02:36 PM PST Reuters - U.S.-born al Qaeda militant Anwar al-Awlaki, killed in a CIA drone strike in September, posthumously called on U.S. Muslims to join the group in the Middle East in a video released on Tuesday.

Iraqi Sunni leaders denounce PM Maliki (Reuters) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 12:14 PM PST Reuters - The Iraqi vice president accused of running death squads hit back at the prime minister on Tuesday in a sectarian feud that risks wrecking Iraq's fragile balance of power, just days after U.S. troops finally withdrew.

Benghazi Residents Demonstrate Against Libyan Government (Time.com) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 03:20 PM PST Time.com - Afraid that their long-ignored city will continue to be forgotten, residents demonstrate against a government they say has too many Gaddafi holdovers

Europe fights to save cap-and-trade as crisis hits (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:30 PM PST AP - Europe's main weapon in the battle against climate change is now fighting for its own survival.

Iraq VP denies charges of running death squads (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 01:09 PM PST AP - Iraq's Sunni vice president denied Shiite accusations that he organized death squads, describing the charges Tuesday as a trumped-up case brought only after the departure of U.S. troops about assassinations allegedly committed five years ago.

Clinton-Bush nonprofit gives $1.5 million to Haiti (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:30 PM PST AP - The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund says it hopes $1.5 million in grants will help Haiti build its hotel, education and technology sectors.

Libyan leader returns to University of Washington (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:37 PM PST AP - One morning last February, Ali Tarhouni, a professor at the University of Washington's business school, gave his microeconomics students some startling news: He wouldn't be teaching them anymore. He was off to help with the Libyan revolution.

Second air drop for stricken Russian fishing ship (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 03:14 PM PST AP - A New Zealand air force cargo plane flew to Antarctica on Wednesday to drop sea pumps and hull patches to a leaking Russian fishing vessel, stuck in the frigid waters after hitting sea ice last week.

Federal government imposes "sustainable" health funding formula (Reuters) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 06:48 AM PST Reuters - Finance Minister Jim Flaherty imposed what he called a fiscally sustainable formula for increasing federal transfers to the provinces for health care, one that will eventually increase spending by less than the current 6 percent a year.

Sharks and goats dot quest for good wine on the cheap (Reuters) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 03:36 AM PST Reuters - Natalie MacLean is a wine cheapskate and proud of it.

Kim Jong-il's death brings end to era of cruelty, mystery (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 19 Dec 2011 11:04 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Kim Jong-il’s death at the age of 69 ended an era of profligacy and harshness that included reports of both his wild living in his many mansions and stories from defectors of extreme cruelty in a gulag system to which 200,000 people were constantly consigned.

The Koreas: Could Kim Jong Il's Death Lead to Reunification? (Time.com) Posted: 20 Dec 2011 03:20 PM PST Time.com - Kim Jong Il's sudden death sent Seoul scrambling -- and reignited decades-old questions about the future of the Korean Peninsula

Vaclav Havel: playwright, poet, president, advocate for 'the individual' (Video) (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 19 Dec 2011 06:52 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - “People, your government has returned to you.”

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