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• New U.N. draft resolution on Syria: bombs hit capital (Reuters)
• Analysis: What's the plan if North Korea collapses? (Reuters)
• Russia test-fires two new nuclear missiles (Reuters)
• UK's Prince Philip, 90, has heart surgery (Reuters)
• Cuba says to release 2,900 prisoners (Reuters)
• The Clash of the Two Egypts: Tahrir Square Vs. Abbasiya Square (Time.com)
• Palace says Prince Philip given heart stent (AP)
• Twin suicide bombs shake Syrian capital, kill 44 (AP)
• Alan Gross not part of Cuban prisoner amnesty (AP)
• Day of violence in northern Nigeria kills at least 24 (Reuters)
• Turkey slams France over genocide debate (AP)
• Economy runs out of steam in October (Reuters)
• 4 jailed for 'exorcism' killing of Australian (AP)
• For tiny Burundi, big returns in sending peacekeepers to Somalia (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Debate in Peru as Paroled Lori Berenson Arrives Home (Time.com)
• Flying too close to the sun: German solar companies fall on hard times (The Christian Science Monitor)

New U.N. draft resolution on Syria: bombs hit capital (Reuters) Posted: 23 Dec 2011 03:29 PM PST Reuters - World powers argued about the details of a U.N. resolution on Syria, after suicide car bombers lent a grim new face to its conflict by killing 44 in Damascus.

Analysis: What's the plan if North Korea collapses? (Reuters) Posted: 23 Dec 2011 10:28 AM PST Reuters - North Korea appears to be making an orderly transition after the death of leader Kim Jong-il last week, but the risk of collapse is higher than before and regional powers need to start discussing that contingency with China, diplomats and analysts say.

Russia test-fires two new nuclear missiles (Reuters) Posted: 23 Dec 2011 10:44 AM PST Reuters - Russia successfully tested on Friday its two new Bulava intercontinental missiles, which experienced several failures in the past.

UK's Prince Philip, 90, has heart surgery (Reuters) Posted: 23 Dec 2011 04:19 PM PST Reuters - Britain's Prince Philip, the 90-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth, had heart surgery to ease a blocked artery on Friday after being rushed to hospital with chest pains as he prepared to celebrate Christmas with the royal family.

Cuba says to release 2,900 prisoners (Reuters) Posted: 23 Dec 2011 04:35 PM PST Reuters - Cuba, which is preparing for a visit by Pope Benedict XVI next spring, will release 2,900 prisoners in the coming days for humanitarian reasons, including some convicted of crimes against "the security of the state," the Cuban government said on Friday.

The Clash of the Two Egypts: Tahrir Square Vs. Abbasiya Square (Time.com) Posted: 23 Dec 2011 12:50 PM PST Time.com - The shocking assault on an anonymous woman has energized the protests in Tahrir but the military regime is launching colorful and loud counter-propaganda

Palace says Prince Philip given heart stent (AP) Posted: 23 Dec 2011 04:42 PM PST AP - Queen Elizabeth II's husband has undergone surgery for a blocked coronary artery, British royal officials said Friday.

Twin suicide bombs shake Syrian capital, kill 44 (AP) Posted: 23 Dec 2011 01:23 PM PST AP - Two car bombers blew themselves up Friday outside the heavily guarded compounds of Syria's intelligence agencies, killing at least 44 people and wounding dozens more in a brazen attack on the powerful security directorates, authorities said.

Alan Gross not part of Cuban prisoner amnesty (AP) Posted: 23 Dec 2011 05:03 PM PST AP - An American government subcontractor jailed in Cuba for crimes against the state is not among nearly 3,000 prisoners granted amnesty by President Raul Castro on Friday, said a senior Foreign Ministry official.

Day of violence in northern Nigeria kills at least 24 (Reuters) Posted: 23 Dec 2011 02:59 PM PST Reuters - Clashes between a violent Islamist sect and security forces in Nigeria's northeastern city of Damaturu have killed at least 24 people in the past day, police said on Friday.

Turkey slams France over genocide debate (AP) Posted: 23 Dec 2011 11:26 AM PST AP - Turkey responded to French genocide allegations with a charge of its own Friday, accusing France of committing genocide during its colonial occupation of Algeria.

Economy runs out of steam in October (Reuters) Posted: 23 Dec 2011 08:50 AM PST Reuters - Canada's economy stalled in October after four consecutive months of growth, pointing to a fourth-quarter slowdown as increasing global uncertainty mutes expectations for next year.

4 jailed for 'exorcism' killing of Australian (AP) Posted: 23 Dec 2011 04:31 AM PST AP - Four people convicted in the beating death of a woman during what they said was an exorcism ritual on a remote Australian island were sentenced Friday to several years in jail.

For tiny Burundi, big returns in sending peacekeepers to Somalia (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 22 Dec 2011 10:29 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - When the Somali Islamist insurgent group Al Shabab slaughtered roughly 70 peacekeepers from Burundi earlier this month, it would easy to wonder why this tiny mountainous country in Central Africa sent 4,000 of its young men to fight in Mogadishu.

Debate in Peru as Paroled Lori Berenson Arrives Home (Time.com) Posted: 23 Dec 2011 12:50 PM PST Time.com - On parole for collaborating with terrorists, the American is back in the U.S. for three weeks. Many Peruvians believe she is a flight risk

Flying too close to the sun: German solar companies fall on hard times (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 22 Dec 2011 09:41 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - "The Fall of Icarus": commentators often invoke Greek mythology these days to describe the situation of Germany’s solar industry.

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