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• Mass anti-Assad protest in Homs as monitors visit (Reuters)
• Iran threatens to stop Gulf oil if sanctions widened (Reuters)
• Street fights in Yemen as U.S. considers letting in Saleh (Reuters)
• Putin ejects Kremlin "puppet master" after protests (Reuters)
• Argentina's Fernandez has carcinoma, it has not spread (Reuters)
• North Koreans' Tears, Sadness Upon Kim Jong Il's Death (Time.com)
• Whale sperm, orgasmic feet top 2011 bad science list (Reuters)
• Mass protests in Syrian city as monitors arrive (AP)
• Proposed Guantanamo rule change sparks backlash (AP)
• Swedish reporters sentenced to 11 yrs in Ethiopia (AP)
• NKorean TV shows mourners paying respect to Kim (AP)
• Stricken Russian boat sailing from Antarctic ice (AP)
• Is model Turkey sliding into authoritarianism? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Arab League Mission to Syria to Quell Assad's Violence (Time.com)
• South Korea peace seekers meet new leader of the North (The Christian Science Monitor)

Mass anti-Assad protest in Homs as monitors visit (Reuters) Posted: 27 Dec 2011 04:40 PM PST Reuters - Tens of thousands of Syrians have taken to the streets in the flashpoint city of Homs to rally against President Bashar al-Assad and plead for newly-arrived Arab peace monitors to bear witness to their plight.

Iran threatens to stop Gulf oil if sanctions widened (Reuters) Posted: 27 Dec 2011 02:10 PM PST Reuters - Iran threatened on Tuesday to stop the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz if foreign sanctions were imposed on its crude exports over its nuclear ambitions, a move that could trigger military conflict with economies dependent on Gulf oil.

Street fights in Yemen as U.S. considers letting in Saleh (Reuters) Posted: 27 Dec 2011 05:07 PM PST Reuters - Foes and backers of a plan to ease Yemen's president out of power fought each other with stones and clubs on Tuesday, deepening the country's chaos as Washington considered a request from the leader to fly to the United States.

Putin ejects Kremlin "puppet master" after protests (Reuters) Posted: 27 Dec 2011 01:29 PM PST Reuters - The architect of Vladimir Putin's tightly controlled political system became one of its most senior victims on Tuesday when he was shunted out of the Kremlin in the wake of the biggest opposition protests of Putin's 12-year rule.

Argentina's Fernandez has carcinoma, it has not spread (Reuters) Posted: 27 Dec 2011 04:44 PM PST Reuters - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez will be operated on for a cancerous tumor in the area of her thyroid gland next month, a government spokesman said on Tuesday.

North Koreans' Tears, Sadness Upon Kim Jong Il's Death (Time.com) Posted: 27 Dec 2011 02:50 PM PST Time.com - Either there is world-class sorrow going on over the Dear Leader or else there must be some method to what seems to be all the mad keening in Pyongyang

Whale sperm, orgasmic feet top 2011 bad science list (Reuters) Posted: 27 Dec 2011 04:16 PM PST Reuters - From whale sperm to colon cleansers to the shape of a woman's foot when she has an orgasm, celebrities did not disappoint during 2011 with their penchant for peddling suspect science in the world's media.

Mass protests in Syrian city as monitors arrive (AP) Posted: 27 Dec 2011 05:07 PM PST AP - Tens of thousands of defiant Syrian protesters thronged the streets of Homs Tuesday, calling for the execution of President Bashar Assad shortly after his army pulled its tanks back and allowed Arab League monitors in for the first time to the city at the heart of the anti-government uprising.

Proposed Guantanamo rule change sparks backlash (AP) Posted: 27 Dec 2011 05:10 PM PST AP - The new commander of the Guantanamo Bay prison wants a team of government and law enforcement officials to be allowed to review all communications between lawyers and inmates accused of helping organize the Sept. 11 attacks, The Associated Press has learned.

Swedish reporters sentenced to 11 yrs in Ethiopia (AP) Posted: 27 Dec 2011 04:17 PM PST AP - A court in Ethiopia has sentenced two Swedish journalists to 11 years in prison on charges of supporting terrorism after the two illegally entered the country with an ethnic Somali rebel group in a case that has been criticized by media rights groups.

NKorean TV shows mourners paying respect to Kim (AP) Posted: 27 Dec 2011 05:13 PM PST AP - Sobbing mourners filed past the begonia-bedecked bier of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, some appearing to shake with grief, in footage aired Wednesday on state television in the hours before his funeral.

Stricken Russian boat sailing from Antarctic ice (AP) Posted: 27 Dec 2011 02:34 PM PST AP - A Russian fishing boat that was stuck for 12 days while in danger of sinking in the frigid waters off Antarctica began a trek through 100 miles (160 kilometers) of sea ice to open water on Wednesday, New Zealand officials said.

Is model Turkey sliding into authoritarianism? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 26 Dec 2011 10:31 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - A constitutional law professor, a prize-winning investigative journalist, a noted free-speech activist.

Arab League Mission to Syria to Quell Assad's Violence (Time.com) Posted: 27 Dec 2011 02:50 PM PST Time.com - As the regional organization sends observers into the violence-racked country, the opposing sides try to make their versions of reality prevail

South Korea peace seekers meet new leader of the North (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 26 Dec 2011 09:59 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The widow of a former South Korean president invoked memories of the brightest moment in North-South relations Monday as she visited the bier in Pyongyang of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il.

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