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• Syrian tanks attack town amid civil war warning (Reuters)
• Myanmar frees more political prisoners, U.S. lauds move (Reuters)
• Peru court sentences Van der Sloot to 28 years for murder (Reuters)
• Sweating Out His Sentence: van Der Sloot Doesn't Get the Max (Time.com)
• S&P cuts credit ratings for France, Italy, Spain (AP)
• Saudi Shiites protest after troops kill 1 youth (AP)
• Peru court sentences Van der Sloot to 28 years (AP)
• Nigeria unions suspend strikes in fuel dispute (Reuters)
• US to normalize Myanmar ties, rewarding reforms (AP)
• Bowing to Twitter, Canada ends election night gag (Reuters)
• Australian sentenced to Saudi lashing returns home (AP)
• Downgrade of France's credit rating dashes uplifting week for eurozone (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Who Killed an Iranian Nuclear Expert? Israel Isn't Telling (Time.com)
• Growing Catholic divide over Mexico drug war (The Christian Science Monitor)

Syrian tanks attack town amid civil war warning (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 11:02 AM PST Reuters - Unrest in Syria cost at least 15 lives Friday and troops backed by tanks attacked Zabadani, a town near the border with Lebanon, an opposition leader said, in the first big military assault since Arab League monitors arrived last month.

Myanmar frees more political prisoners, U.S. lauds move (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 04:01 PM PST Reuters - Myanmar freed at least 200 political prisoners on Friday in an amnesty that prompted the United States to upgrade diplomatic relations as one of the world's most reclusive states opens up after half a century of authoritarian rule.

Peru court sentences Van der Sloot to 28 years for murder (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 09:50 AM PST Reuters - Dutch citizen Joran Van der Sloot was sentenced to 28 years in prison by a Peruvian court on Friday for killing a woman in Lima in 2010, exactly five years since 18-year-old Alabama native Natalee Holloway disappeared after spending time with him.

Sweating Out His Sentence: van Der Sloot Doesn't Get the Max (Time.com) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 02:40 PM PST Time.com - The confessed killer in a Peru murder case and the main suspect in the Natalee Holloway disappearance gets 28 years out of a possible 30 years in prison. And he is up for parole in just over nine years from now

S&P cuts credit ratings for France, Italy, Spain (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 03:57 PM PST AP - Standard & Poor's swept the debt-ridden European continent with punishing credit downgrades Friday, stripping France of its coveted AAA status and dropping Italy even lower. Germany retained its top-notch rating, but Portugal's debt was consigned to junk.

Saudi Shiites protest after troops kill 1 youth (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 01:04 PM PST AP - Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in a tense region in eastern Saudi Arabia on Friday following the killing of a Shiite youth in clashes with security forces.

Peru court sentences Van der Sloot to 28 years (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 04:02 PM PST AP - Joran van der Sloot knew his guilty plea in the strangulation death of a young woman he met at a Lima casino was a big gamble as he tried to get a reduced sentence. On Friday, the poker-loving Dutchman lost.

Nigeria unions suspend strikes in fuel dispute (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 03:31 PM PST Reuters - Nigerian unions suspended strikes and protests over rising petrol prices for the weekend on Friday while talks take place between union leaders and government, but warned of more industrial action if there was no resolution.

US to normalize Myanmar ties, rewarding reforms (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 03:01 PM PST AP - The United States is restoring full diplomatic relations with Myanmar, a landmark in the Obama administration's drive to reward democratic reforms by a government the U.S. previously treated as a pariah.

Bowing to Twitter, Canada ends election night gag (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 10:21 AM PST Reuters - The Canadian government, bowing to the power of Twitter and Facebook, said on Friday it would end a ban on reporting early election results before polls close across the country.

Australian sentenced to Saudi lashing returns home (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2012 09:41 PM PST AP - An Australian man who received 75 lashes in Saudi Arabia after being convicted of blasphemy has returned home.

Downgrade of France's credit rating dashes uplifting week for eurozone (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 02:25 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - A downgrade of France’s triple-A credit rating brings not just a sour note but mild shock waves inside Europe’s financial capitals, coming at the end of a week that seemed to bode well for chances of staunching the eurozone crisis.

Who Killed an Iranian Nuclear Expert? Israel Isn't Telling (Time.com) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 02:40 PM PST Time.com - The Jewish State is officially silent about the killing of a uranium-enrichment expert. But it is not in mourning, either, and many feel Mossad once again can take credit

Growing Catholic divide over Mexico drug war (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 11:10 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Bishop José Raúl Vera López of Mexico has never shied away from controversy, defending unpopular minorities ranging from illegal migrants to prostitutes.

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