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• Shi'ites targeted as Baghdad blasts kill 72 (Reuters)
• 2011 "Year of the Tyrant," 2012 ominous for Syria, Iraq (Reuters)
• Shootings in Mexico's Veracruz kill 16 (Reuters)
• U.S. intelligence warned of strife after Iraq pullout (Reuters)
• N. Korea: Military Generals Real Rulers, not Kim Jong Un (Time.com)
• Moody's cuts credit ratings for Slovenia (AP)
• Bombs rock Baghdad, raising fears of sectarian war (AP)
• 16 killed in violence in Mexican state (AP)
• Russia and US clash over NATO bombing probe (AP)
• Chinese seaside town protesters in police standoff (AP)
• Ottawa to rethink federal regulator plan (Reuters)
• AP Exclusive: Problems found before NZ ship crash (AP)
• Washington Flails as Chaos Threatens Iraq: Will Iran Stoke or Douse the Fires? (Time.com)

Shi'ites targeted as Baghdad blasts kill 72 (Reuters) Posted: 22 Dec 2011 10:55 AM PST Reuters - A wave of bombings killed at least 72 people in Baghdad Thursday, the first attacks since Iraq's Shi'ite-led government was engulfed in a crisis that risks fracturing the country along sectarian and ethnic lines.

2011 "Year of the Tyrant," 2012 ominous for Syria, Iraq (Reuters) Posted: 22 Dec 2011 07:56 AM PST Reuters - It all began with a slap and a slur hurled at a poor vegetable seller by a policewoman in a provincial Tunisian city. Mohamed Bouazizi set himself alight in a protest that ignited a chain of fires across the Arab world. Twelve months after his death, he would scarcely recognize the region he knew.

Shootings in Mexico's Veracruz kill 16 (Reuters) Posted: 22 Dec 2011 03:49 PM PST Reuters - At least 11 people were killed by an armed gang on Thursday in the Mexican Gulf coast state of Veracruz, where drug-related violence flared this autumn, before five of the gunmen were shot dead by security forces.

U.S. intelligence warned of strife after Iraq pullout (Reuters) Posted: 22 Dec 2011 05:01 PM PST Reuters - U.S. intelligence agencies warned that security gains in Iraq could degenerate into sectarian violence after a troop pullout that some officials say left the United States with little leverage in a country it occupied for nearly nine years.

N. Korea: Military Generals Real Rulers, not Kim Jong Un (Time.com) Posted: 22 Dec 2011 08:10 AM PST Time.com - Kim Jong Un may be taking the place of his late father as North Korea's leader, but it's the military brass who will be calling the shots

Moody's cuts credit ratings for Slovenia (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2011 04:02 PM PST AP - Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the credit ratings for Slovenia, saying the country's government faces risks from the eurozone debt crisis and the potential that it may need to step in and provide financial support to banks.

Bombs rock Baghdad, raising fears of sectarian war (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2011 02:49 PM PST AP - A terrifying wave of bombs tore through mostly Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 69 people and evoking fears that Iraq could dissolve into a new round of sectarian violence now that American troops have left.

16 killed in violence in Mexican state (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2011 04:50 PM PST AP - A group of five gunmen sprayed three passenger buses with bullets in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Veracruz on Thursday, killing seven passengers, before being chased down and killed by soldiers.

Russia and US clash over NATO bombing probe (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2011 04:24 PM PST AP - Russia urged the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to investigate civilian deaths in Libya from NATO's bombing campaign, a move the United States immediately dismissed as "a cheap stunt" to distract from Moscow's failure to condemn the Syrian government's ongoing killing of protesters.

Chinese seaside town protesters in police standoff (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2011 04:39 PM PST AP - Chinese authorities have detained five people in a southern seaside town where protests against a planned power plant expansion resulted in clashes with police, state media and an official said, as riot police fired tear gas.

Ottawa to rethink federal regulator plan (Reuters) Posted: 22 Dec 2011 03:09 PM PST Reuters - Canada's top court derailed government plans to consolidate a patchwork system of provincial securities regulators on Thursday, ruling that proposed federal legislation violated provincial rights and forcing the government back to the drawing board.

AP Exclusive: Problems found before NZ ship crash (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2011 03:54 AM PST AP - When an Australian ship inspector took a close look at a metal pin securing cargo on the Rena, he realized it wasn't an original. It was too thin and had no tab to keep it from falling out. Then he discovered that cleats securing the hatch could be removed with a single finger.

Washington Flails as Chaos Threatens Iraq: Will Iran Stoke or Douse the Fires? (Time.com) Posted: 22 Dec 2011 08:10 AM PST Time.com - The question that may determine whether or not Iraq descends into sectarian confrontation may be this: What does Iran want right now?

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