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• Arab ministers to discuss "toothless" Syria mission (Reuters)
• U.S. concerned about Bahrain activist, urges probe (Reuters)
• Turkey's custody laws draw flak after general held (Reuters)
• Egypt Islamists seen winning near two-thirds of seats (Reuters)
• Five severed heads found in northern Mexican city (Reuters)
• Waiting for the Sentence: Joran van der Sloot's Slow Road to Justice (Time.com)
• Protesters march for ETA prisoners in north Spain (AP)
• Opposition supporters rally in Bahrain despite ban (AP)
• Docs: Argentine leader's thyroid wasn't cancerous (AP)
• End of decades of Nigeria cheap gas fuels unrest (AP)
• Grounded cargo ship breaks apart on NZ reef (AP)
• Body found in Ivory Coast may be missing reporter (Reuters)
• Hot air balloon hits power lines in NZ; 11 dead (AP)
• China's new European trade hub: An Irish town of 18,000 (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Claim and Counterclaim: Who Is Bombing Damascus? (Time.com)
• What the execution of 15 kidnapped Pakistani soldiers means (The Christian Science Monitor)

Arab ministers to discuss "toothless" Syria mission (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jan 2012 03:31 PM PST Reuters - Arab League foreign ministers meet on Sunday to discuss whether to ask the U.N. to help their mission in Syria, which has failed to end a 10-month-old crackdown on unrest that has killed thousands.

U.S. concerned about Bahrain activist, urges probe (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jan 2012 05:12 PM PST Reuters - The United States called on its ally Bahrain on Saturday to investigate the case of a prominent Bahraini human rights activist who the opposition says was beaten by security forces.

Turkey's custody laws draw flak after general held (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jan 2012 10:15 AM PST Reuters - A day after the jailing of Turkey's former military chief, pending possible trial on accusations he tried to overthrow the government, newspaper columnists criticized the authorities for failing to reform sweeping pre-trial custody laws.

Egypt Islamists seen winning near two-thirds of seats (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jan 2012 12:11 PM PST Reuters - The Muslim Brotherhood said on Saturday it had won at least 41 percent of the seats in Egypt's lower house of parliament, with Islamists of various stripes occupying almost two thirds of the assembly so far.

Five severed heads found in northern Mexican city (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jan 2012 02:28 PM PST Reuters - Mexican police in the northern city of Torreon found the severed heads of five people killed in a suspected outbreak of drug gang violence.

Waiting for the Sentence: Joran van der Sloot's Slow Road to Justice (Time.com) Posted: 06 Jan 2012 09:15 PM PST Time.com - The main suspect in the Natalee Holloway case is about to find out his fate in the death of a young Peruvian woman

Protesters march for ETA prisoners in north Spain (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2012 12:09 PM PST AP - Tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of downtown Bilbao late Saturday to call for an amnesty that would allow ETA prisoners to serve out the remainder of their sentences in the Basque region, rather than in jails further afield.

Opposition supporters rally in Bahrain despite ban (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2012 04:32 PM PST AP - Anti-government protesters converged on the headquarters of Bahrain's main opposition party Saturday, defying a government ban on the gathering and pressing ahead with their campaign for greater political and civil rights for the nation's Shiite Muslims.

Docs: Argentine leader's thyroid wasn't cancerous (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2012 04:08 PM PST AP - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez didn't have cancer after all.

End of decades of Nigeria cheap gas fuels unrest (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2012 02:42 PM PST AP - For decades, Nigerians have expected low gasoline prices, one of the few perks seen by residents of an oil-rich nation where corruption siphons billions. Now, that long-cherished benefit has ended, more than doubling prices and fueling a planned nationwide strike by angry labor unions.

Grounded cargo ship breaks apart on NZ reef (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2012 03:52 PM PST AP - A cargo ship grounded off the New Zealand coast since October has split into two pieces after being lashed by pounding seas, spilling sea containers and debris and sparking fears a fresh oil spill could wash ashore, maritime officials said Sunday.

Body found in Ivory Coast may be missing reporter (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2012 02:19 PM PST Reuters - Investigators in Ivory Coast have unearthed a body which they say may belong to Franco-Canadian journalist Guy-Andre Kieffer, who went missing in country's economic capital Abidjan in 2004, his brother told France 3 television on Friday.

Hot air balloon hits power lines in NZ; 11 dead (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2012 01:07 AM PST AP - A hot air balloon carrying 11 people turned into a tower of "sheer flame" Saturday after hitting power lines in a rural area of New Zealand, killing everyone aboard and horrifying residents.

China's new European trade hub: An Irish town of 18,000 (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 06 Jan 2012 09:32 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - As China's government readies to buy up European infrastructure, a trade hub slated for the Irish midlands could prove a showcase for the world's second-largest economy in a struggling continent and provide much needed jobs in debt-addled Ireland.

Claim and Counterclaim: Who Is Bombing Damascus? (Time.com) Posted: 06 Jan 2012 09:15 PM PST Time.com - The regime says terrorists are behind the attacks (and by extension the protests); the opposition claims the incidents are staged by the government

What the execution of 15 kidnapped Pakistani soldiers means (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 06 Jan 2012 08:21 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Islamist militants killed 15 captive soldiers Thursday in an attack, dealing a blow for tentative peace talks between the government and the Pakistani Taliban.

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