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• Iran warns region against "dangerous" stance on Hormuz (Reuters)
• Exclusive: Pakistan-U.S. ties on hold for "re-evaluation" (Reuters)
• Exclusive: Senior al Qaeda figure killed in drone strike (Reuters)
• Italy aims to stabilize cruise ship as weather worsens (Reuters)
• Military helicopter crashes in southern Afghanistan (Reuters)
• Why the World Should Ignore the Presidential Campaign Foreign Policy Debates (Time.com)
• 2 bombs hit Northern Ireland city of Londonderry (AP)
• US military chief in Israel to discuss Iran nukes (AP)
• Prison deaths spike in Venezuela's violent prisons (AP)
• Nigeria puts $310,000 bounty on escaped bomb suspect (Reuters)
• US sees new interest from Taliban in peace talks (AP)
• Nortel execs say Deloitte approved of accounting (Reuters)
• 3 shark attacks in Australia in less than 3 weeks (AP)
• Attack on foreign tourists widens rift between Ethiopia, Eritrea (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Q&A: Russia's Blogger in Chief on the Anti-Putin Movement (Time.com)
• Costa Concordia captain: symbol of the era? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Iran warns region against "dangerous" stance on Hormuz (Reuters) Posted: 19 Jan 2012 09:03 AM PST Reuters - Iran's foreign minister warned Arab neighbors on Thursday not to put themselves in a "dangerous position" by aligning themselves too closely with the United States in the escalating dispute over Tehran's nuclear activity.

Exclusive: Pakistan-U.S. ties on hold for "re-evaluation" (Reuters) Posted: 19 Jan 2012 09:39 AM PST Reuters - Pakistan's ties with the United States remain on hold following a NATO cross-border air attack, its foreign minister said on Thursday, and Washington should not push Islamabad to go after militant groups or bring them to the Afghan peace process.

Exclusive: Senior al Qaeda figure killed in drone strike (Reuters) Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:45 PM PST Reuters - A militant who acted as a senior operations organizer for al Qaeda was targeted and killed in one of two U.S. drone strikes launched against targets inside Pakistan last week, a U.S. official said.

Italy aims to stabilize cruise ship as weather worsens (Reuters) Posted: 19 Jan 2012 04:30 PM PST Reuters - Italian authorities hope to stabilize the wrecked cruise ship Costa Concordia as worsening weather on Friday could cause it to shift deeper into the sea, delaying plans to pump oil out of the vessel to prevent a possible environmental disaster.

Military helicopter crashes in southern Afghanistan (Reuters) Posted: 19 Jan 2012 04:37 PM PST Reuters - A helicopter belonging to international military forces in Afghanistan crashed in the country's south on Thursday, with casualties expected, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force in the country said.

Why the World Should Ignore the Presidential Campaign Foreign Policy Debates (Time.com) Posted: 19 Jan 2012 02:35 AM PST Time.com - Foreign policy vows made on the presidential campaign trail are almost invariably forgotten by the winning candidate once in office

2 bombs hit Northern Ireland city of Londonderry (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:52 PM PST AP - Two bombs planted by Irish Republican Army dissidents detonated Thursday night in the Northern Ireland city of Londonderry, but no injuries were reported as police quickly evacuated the area following phoned warnings.

US military chief in Israel to discuss Iran nukes (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2012 04:12 PM PST AP - The top U.S. general, visiting Israel at a delicate and dangerous moment in the global standoff with Tehran, is expected to press for restraint amid fears that the Jewish state is nearing a decision to attack Iran's nuclear program.

Prison deaths spike in Venezuela's violent prisons (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2012 04:37 PM PST AP - The number of inmates killed in Venezuela's notoriously violent prisons soared to 560 last year, a watchdog group said Thursday.

Nigeria puts $310,000 bounty on escaped bomb suspect (Reuters) Posted: 19 Jan 2012 01:36 PM PST Reuters - Nigeria's police are offering a 50 million naira ($309,600) reward for information leading to the recapture of the main suspect in a Christmas Day bomb attack, who escaped within 24 hours of his arrest this week.

US sees new interest from Taliban in peace talks (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:42 PM PST AP - The Obama administration is moving ahead with plans for negotiating with the Taliban, confident that talks offer the best chance to end the 10-year-old war in Afghanistan. But the military worries things are moving too fast, and intelligence agencies offered a gloomy prognosis in their latest Afghanistan report.

Nortel execs say Deloitte approved of accounting (Reuters) Posted: 19 Jan 2012 11:44 AM PST Reuters - Defence lawyers for three former Nortel executives charged with fiddling with balance sheets to trigger bonus payments on Thursday said the telecom equipment company's external auditor knew about major accounting adjustments and signed off on them.

3 shark attacks in Australia in less than 3 weeks (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:30 PM PST AP - A snorkeling guide was attacked by a 10-foot (3-meter) tiger shark off a remote beach in Australia's third attack this month. That's as many attacks as the country generally sees in an entire year.

Attack on foreign tourists widens rift between Ethiopia, Eritrea (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 19 Jan 2012 12:37 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Five western tourists on a trip of a lifetime in East Africa walked into a long-running, albeit low-boil, international conflict and paid with their lives Wednesday.

Q&A: Russia's Blogger in Chief on the Anti-Putin Movement (Time.com) Posted: 19 Jan 2012 02:35 AM PST Time.com - TIME talks to Andrei Navalny, who has the most popular political blog in Russia and is the acclaimed leader of the largest antigovernment protests since the fall of the Soviet Union

Costa Concordia captain: symbol of the era? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 19 Jan 2012 12:29 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - When the Titanic went down in 1912, the orchestra was reportedly playing “Nearer My God to Thee.”

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