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• Israeli air strike kills 11 civilians in Gaza: Hamas
• Analysis: Japan politics could fragment further on road to two-party system
• Rivals dispute leadership of France's conservatives
• Syria rebels say seized military base near Turkey border
• Insight: Sri Lanka's "people's dynasty" - help or harm for growth?
• Iran hosts meeting on Syrian conflict
• UK's Cameron pledges to lower hurdles to growth
• Army abuses a setback for Ivorian reconciliation: Human Rights Watch
• As Wen Jiabao departs, China's dam plans to accelerate
• Bomb rips through Nairobi minibus, killing six
• Israel strike kills 11 in Gaza, including children
• Obama: Historic Myanmar visit underscores progress
• Southern Israel residents scared but determined
• Hamas links truce to end of Gaza border blockade
• Rebels in Congo reach door of Goma
• Obama to speak at Myanmar campus scarred by past
• Obama gets taste of Thailand at Buddhist temple
• Myanmar announces new prisoner amnesty
• Pro- and anti-gay protesters clash in Paris
• Rocket sirens pierce the Tel Aviv 'bubble'
• Gazans flee border areas, fearing Israeli ground invasion
• Rupert Murdoch's Jewish problem. And his Egyptian one.
• Bal Thackeray: godfather of nativists in India's most cosmopolitan city
• Giving back: Eight innovative philanthropists around the world
• Israelis question too, 'Who wants this war?'
• Syrians want to know: 'Are you okay after Superstorm Sandy?'
• Israel's Iron Dome provides cover, but not normalcy
• How will the FARC-Colombia peace talks impact Latin America?

Israeli air strike kills 11 civilians in Gaza: Hamas Posted: 18 Nov 2012 03:14 PM PST GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli missile killed at least 11 Palestinian civilians including four children in Gaza on Sunday, medical officials said, apparently an attack on a top militant that brought a three-storey home crashing down. International pressure for a ceasefire seemed certain to mount in response to the deadliest single incident in five days of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel and Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip. ...

Analysis: Japan politics could fragment further on road to two-party system Posted: 18 Nov 2012 01:13 PM PST TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan ruling party lawmaker Mieko Nakabayashi isn't just worried that her Democratic Party will lose power in next month's election; she fears a comeback by rival conservative Liberal Democrats will spell a return to the prolonged one-party rule that critics blame for many of the country's past policy ills. Three years after the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) ended more than half a century of nearly non-stop Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) rule, surveys suggest disappointed voters will hand the LDP the most seats in a December 16 poll for parliament's lower house. ...

Rivals dispute leadership of France's conservatives Posted: 18 Nov 2012 04:34 PM PST PARIS (Reuters) - The result of a tightly fought two-way contest to choose the next leader of France's conservatives remained unclear early on Monday, with both sides claiming they had won. Jean-Francois Cope, a disciple of former president Nicolas Sarkozy, announced his victory to reporters around 2230 GMT, only for former prime minister Francois Fillon to say 20 minutes later that he was in the lead. Cope supporters said he was some 1,000 votes ahead, while Fillon said he had a lead of more than 200 votes. ...

Syria rebels say seized military base near Turkey border Posted: 18 Nov 2012 04:30 PM PST AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said they captured a large special forces base on a main road between the city of Aleppo and the Turkish border on Sunday. No independent verification of the rebels' statement was immediately available. Video footage showed rebels inside the 18 sq km (7 square mile) facility in Orum al-Sughra among tanks and artillery they had seized. At least 18 troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad were taken prisoner, opposition campaigners said. A statement by the Aleppo Media Centre said at least 15 tanks were seized and that officers were among loyalist forces ...

Insight: Sri Lanka's "people's dynasty" - help or harm for growth? Posted: 18 Nov 2012 01:21 PM PST JAFFNA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - From foreign hotel towers sprouting on Colombo's seafront to the new motorbikes and mobile phones buzzing in war-ravaged Jaffna, at first glance, Sri Lanka seems to be living up to its claim as Asia's latest frontier market. But private businesses are not investing enough, threatening the boom that has swept the island since the end of a long ethnic conflict, while President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family are tightening their grip on the economy and institutions with what critics see as an unusually personalized system of government. ...

Iran hosts meeting on Syrian conflict Posted: 18 Nov 2012 01:35 PM PST DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran, the closest ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, hosted a conference in Tehran on Sunday to seek a resolution to the civil war in Syria. Iranian officials said about 200 Syrian "political characters" had participated but there was no indication that the Syrian National Coalition, a new umbrella opposition group led by Sunni Muslim cleric Mouaz Alkhatib, had attended. Iran has strongly supported Assad and has accused Western and Arab nations of fomenting violence in Syria by arming opposition groups. ...

UK's Cameron pledges to lower hurdles to growth Posted: 18 Nov 2012 04:05 PM PST LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron promised on Monday to slash legal and regulatory obstacles to economic growth, seeking to ward off criticism that the government is doing too little to help companies and revive an ailing economy. Cameron said he was determined to cut through officialdom and change a risk-averse government culture of consultation, review and audit that hindered enterprise. "When this country was at war in the 1940s, Whitehall underwent a revolution," he said, referring to the British government. "Normal rules were circumvented. ...

Army abuses a setback for Ivorian reconciliation: Human Rights Watch Posted: 18 Nov 2012 04:21 PM PST ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Hundreds of civilians suspected of backing Ivory Coast's former president have been swept up in mass arrests and abused by the army, dealing a major setback to efforts to heal divisions after a decade of crisis, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. Years of political deadlock in Ivory Coast ended in a brief post-election civil war last year, caused by President Laurent Gbagbo's refusal to accept his defeat at the polls. Gbagbo is now in The Hague charged with crimes against humanity. ...

As Wen Jiabao departs, China's dam plans to accelerate Posted: 18 Nov 2012 01:09 PM PST BEIJING (Reuters) - The number of new hydropower projects in China could surge as the country's populist premier Wen Jiabao retires and a new leadership team races to meet ambitious 2020 energy goals. Dam building slowed considerably under Wen, who personally intervened to block hydropower projects and avoid the potential for protest from local populations. Projects such as the $59 billion Three Gorges Dam have been the focus of criticism over the social and environmental cost China is paying for development. ...

Bomb rips through Nairobi minibus, killing six Posted: 18 Nov 2012 10:21 AM PST NAIROBI (Reuters) - A bomb tore through a minibus in Nairobi's Somali-dominated Eastleigh neighborhood on Sunday, killing six people in an attack highlighting the security risks Kenya faces because of its intervention in Somalia to fight al Qaeda-linked militants. Kenya has suffered a string of deadly attacks in its capital Nairobi, the port city of Mombasa as well as the eastern garrison town of Garissa over the past year. ...

Israel strike kills 11 in Gaza, including children Posted: 18 Nov 2012 03:48 PM PST An Israeli missile ripped through a two-story home in a residential area of Gaza City on Sunday, killing at least 11 civilians, including four young children and an 81-year-old woman, in the single deadliest attack of Israel's offensive against Islamic militants.

Obama: Historic Myanmar visit underscores progress Posted: 18 Nov 2012 05:02 PM PST On the eve of his landmark trip to Myanmar, President Barack Obama tried to assure critics that his visit was not a premature reward for a long-isolated nation still easing its way toward democracy.

Southern Israel residents scared but determined Posted: 18 Nov 2012 11:34 AM PST After days of incessant rocket fire, the largest city in southern Israel has been turned into a ghost town. Schools are closed, stores are shuttered and normally bustling streets are empty.

Hamas links truce to end of Gaza border blockade Posted: 18 Nov 2012 01:16 PM PST Gaza's Hamas rulers are aiming high in the conditions they place on stopping rocket fire into Israel in indirect cease-fire talks launched this weekend. Emboldened by Arab support and confident in their arsenal, the Islamists say calm can only come if Israel opens the gates of the tiny, closed-off territory.

Rebels in Congo reach door of Goma Posted: 18 Nov 2012 03:47 PM PST A rebel group believed to be backed by Rwanda advanced to within two miles (three kilometers) of Goma, a crucial provincial capital in eastern Congo, marking the first time that rebels have come this close since 2008.

Obama to speak at Myanmar campus scarred by past Posted: 18 Nov 2012 04:47 PM PST The soldiers began to shoot students at Rangoon University at 6:30 p.m. Hla Shwe watched, cowering in a nearby building, as his friends died. "I heard the shouting," he recalled. "They shot whoever they saw."

Obama gets taste of Thailand at Buddhist temple Posted: 18 Nov 2012 04:55 PM PST Leaving behind chants of "Obama, Obama" by adoring crowds on the streets, the president of the United States stepped into the serenity of Thailand's most famous temple compound to marvel at its centerpiece — a gigantic, golden statue of a reclining Buddha propped up on one elbow before passing into nirvana.

Myanmar announces new prisoner amnesty Posted: 18 Nov 2012 08:48 AM PST Myanmar's leader has ordered a new prisoner amnesty ahead of a historic visit to the country by President Barack Obama on Monday.

Pro- and anti-gay protesters clash in Paris Posted: 18 Nov 2012 09:52 AM PST The controversial Ukrainian group Femen, whose topless members stage pranks to support gay rights, have taunted a march in Paris by Catholics who oppose France's draft law to legalize gay marriage.

Rocket sirens pierce the Tel Aviv 'bubble' Posted: 18 Nov 2012 01:50 PM PST Israel's cosmopolitan capital has developed a reputation over the past decade for residents leading lives removed from the rest of Israel and the Middle East, but this weekend's rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip have burst the infamous Tel Aviv bubble.

Gazans flee border areas, fearing Israeli ground invasion Posted: 18 Nov 2012 01:16 PM PST As Israel pounds Gaza with airstrikes for the fifth straight day, residents are increasingly worried that the rockets' reign of terror may give way to an even more deadly Israeli ground invasion.

Rupert Murdoch's Jewish problem. And his Egyptian one. Posted: 18 Nov 2012 11:56 AM PST One of the pleasures of following Rupert Murdoch's account on Twitter is that the brief notes left there seem to have been written by the man himself.

Bal Thackeray: godfather of nativists in India's most cosmopolitan city Posted: 18 Nov 2012 09:56 AM PST The funeral of Bal Thackeray, a nativist leader who dominated the politics of Mumbai, has brought the city of nearly 20 million to a standstill. Shops widows are shuttered, movie theaters closed, and people across the metropolis are staying in their homes. But not everything is closing down out of respect: Many in Mumbai feel they have been forced into mourning.

Giving back: Eight innovative philanthropists around the world Posted: 18 Nov 2012 09:07 AM PST The global face of philanthropy is changing. Donors no longer just open their wallets. They're actively involved in causes, use savvy business practices, and leverage what they give to achieve more good. Meet eight innovators.

Israelis question too, 'Who wants this war?' Posted: 18 Nov 2012 07:35 AM PST Just days after Adi Pito married a woman from the town of Kiryat Malachi, he heard that a rocket from Gaza had struck an apartment building there, killing three residents.

Syrians want to know: 'Are you okay after Superstorm Sandy?' Posted: 18 Nov 2012 07:39 AM PST I had just sat down to interview a commander of the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo and we were exchanging the normal pre-meeting pleasantries as some distant gunfire cracked in the background. After 20 months of conflict here, most artillery and gunfire goes unnoticed unless people are close enough to be directly affected.

Israel's Iron Dome provides cover, but not normalcy Posted: 18 Nov 2012 06:29 AM PST Israel's Iron Dome system, a relatively new umbrella to stop the Gaza rockets that have been raining down over southern Israel, has achieved a claimed success rate of roughly 90 percent in its most rigorous test yet.

How will the FARC-Colombia peace talks impact Latin America? Posted: 18 Nov 2012 05:00 AM PST If the Colombian government succeeds in reaching a peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), it will put to an end one of the longest standing armed conflicts in the world.

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