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• Gaza ceasefire holds but mistrust runs deep
• Syria rebels capture army base in eastern oil region
• Mursi draws fire with new Egypt decree
• Pakistan ID cards remove ghost voters, target poor for aid
• Talks to defuse Iraq army-Kurdish standoff make little headway
• Sarkozy dodges official inquiry in election funding scandal
• Analysis: Egypt proves peace role can survive Arab Spring
• Monti cannot be Italy election candidate: President
• South Korea says IEA wants its nuclear sector to be more transparent
• Britain bans Nigerian Islamist group accused of murder
• Doctor: Puerto Rico boxer Camacho is brain dead
• Hamas emerges with gains from Israeli offensive
• Syrian rebels strengthen hold in country's east
• Southern Israelis disappointed by Gaza cease-fire
• EU leaders enter bitter fight over budget
• Blogger's death in Iran window onto cyber patrols
• Lawsuit against Madonna dismissed in Russia
• Congo rebels, military battle over eastern town
• Egypt's Morsi grants himself far-reaching powers
• Israel says it arrests Tel Aviv bus bomber
• Gaza truce holds as region steps back from brink
• Decades after king's toppling, Iraq revisits its royal history
• The man who remade Mexico City

Gaza ceasefire holds but mistrust runs deep Posted: 22 Nov 2012 08:47 AM PST GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas held firm on Thursday with scenes of joy among the ruins in Gaza over what Palestinians hailed as a victory, and both sides saying their fingers were still on the trigger. In the sudden calm, Palestinians who had been under Israeli bombs for eight days poured into Gaza streets for a celebratory rally, walking past wrecked houses and government buildings. ...

Syria rebels capture army base in eastern oil region Posted: 22 Nov 2012 08:58 AM PST AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels captured an army base in an eastern oil province on Thursday, further weakening President Bashar al-Assad's control in the strategic region bordering Iraq. The capture of the artillery base on the outskirts of Mayadeen, a town on the Euphrates river near some of Syria's main oilfields, followed rebel takeovers of military installations in the north and centre of the country this week. Recent rebel momentum shows the increasing potency of the mainly Sunni Muslim fighters trying to topple Assad, who belongs to the Alawite minority linked to Shi'ite Islam. ...

Mursi draws fire with new Egypt decree Posted: 22 Nov 2012 11:40 AM PST CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi triggered controversy on Thursday by issuing a decree likely to lead to retrials of Hosni Mubarak and his aides but which was compared to the ousted leader's autocratic ways. As well as ordering retrials for Mubarak-era officials responsible for violence during the uprising against his rule, the decree shielded from legal challenge an Islamist-dominated assembly writing Egypt's new constitution. ...

Pakistan ID cards remove ghost voters, target poor for aid Posted: 22 Nov 2012 02:12 PM PST ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Elderly men wait patiently, carefully combing their hennaed beards, while a guitar-playing student entertains the long queue of Pakistanis lined-up to be photographed, fingerprinted and questioned inside a crowded office in the capital Islamabad. This is the unlikely setting for possibly one of Pakistan's few success stories - a massive increase in citizens signing up for government identity cards. Such things rarely top the agenda of a deeply unpopular government, crippled by daily power cuts, a Taliban insurgency and massive corruption. ...

Talks to defuse Iraq army-Kurdish standoff make little headway Posted: 22 Nov 2012 01:14 PM PST BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Talks to defuse a standoff between Iraqi troops and forces from the country's autonomous Kurdish region made little progress on Thursday with both sides further reinforcing positions on their disputed internal border. The second military build-up this year illustrates how far relations between Baghdad's central government, led by Shi'ite Muslim Arabs, and ethnic Kurds have deteriorated, testing Iraq's federal cohesion nearly a year after American troops left. ...

Sarkozy dodges official inquiry in election funding scandal Posted: 22 Nov 2012 02:08 PM PST BORDEAUX, France (Reuters) - French former President Nicolas Sarkozy has not been put under formal investigation by magistrates looking into whether he received illegal campaign funds from France's richest woman in 2007, but has instead been designated a witness in the inquiry. Magistrates questioned Sarkozy for 12 hours as they tried to establish if he had received illegal campaign funding from Liliane Bettencourt, heiress of the L'Oreal cosmetics empire, when he ran for president in 2007. ...

Analysis: Egypt proves peace role can survive Arab Spring Posted: 22 Nov 2012 10:58 AM PST CAIRO (Reuters) - Mediating the Gaza truce was a bravura diplomatic performance by Egypt's new President Mohamed Mursi, jacking up his personal stature and reassuring an anxious Washington that the architecture of Middle East peace can survive the Arab Spring. For nearly two years, Washington has fretted over what would happen in a major showdown between Israel and the Palestinians without the Arab autocrats that kept stability for decades, above all Egypt's Hosni Mubarak who presented himself as the personal guarantor of its 1979 peace with Israel. ...

Monti cannot be Italy election candidate: President Posted: 22 Nov 2012 02:45 PM PST ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti cannot be a candidate in next year's parliamentary election as he is a Senator for life, but he could be involved in forming a government afterwards, President Giorgio Napolitano said on Thursday. The head of state's comments add a further twist to a complicated tale as speculation had been growing that Monti, a technocrat and former European Commissioner, could be persuaded to join a centrist bloc before the vote. ...

South Korea says IEA wants its nuclear sector to be more transparent Posted: 22 Nov 2012 01:04 PM PST SEOUL (Reuters) - The International Energy Agency (IEA) wants South Korea to bring more transparency to its nuclear power sector and strengthen the independence of regulators to increase trust in the safety of its plants, the economy ministry said on Friday. The agency, which advises industrialized nations and represents 28 oil importing countries, was due later on Friday to unveil a report on South Korea's energy policies for the first time since 2006. ...

Britain bans Nigerian Islamist group accused of murder Posted: 22 Nov 2012 11:42 AM PST LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Thursday banned a Nigeria-based Islamist group it said was aligned with al Qaeda as a minister said the oulawed organisation was probably responsible for the killing of a Briton and an Italian. Britain's interior ministry described the group - Ansaru - as "a Nigeria-based terrorist organisation motivated by an anti-Nigerian government and anti-Western agenda". The two men Britain believes the group murdered were Chris McManus, a Briton, and Franco Lamolinara, an Italian. ...

Doctor: Puerto Rico boxer Camacho is brain dead Posted: 22 Nov 2012 04:06 PM PST Famed Puerto Rican boxer Hector "Macho" Camacho is clinically brain dead, doctors said Thursday, but family members disagreed on whether to take him off life support and two of the fighter's aunts said later that relatives had agreed to wait two more days.

Hamas emerges with gains from Israeli offensive Posted: 22 Nov 2012 12:57 PM PST Hamas has emerged from battle with the triumphal sense of a hard-won game change: By stopping its offensive when it did, Israel's hard-line government seems to have grudgingly accepted that the Islamic militant group cannot soon be dislodged from power in Gaza.

Syrian rebels strengthen hold in country's east Posted: 22 Nov 2012 12:47 PM PST Syrian rebels strengthened their hold Thursday on an oil-rich province bordering Iraq, activists said, capturing a key military base that was considered one of the last bastions for President Bashar Assad's loyalists in the strategic region.

Southern Israelis disappointed by Gaza cease-fire Posted: 22 Nov 2012 01:04 PM PST In this southern Israeli town, which has lived for nearly 13 years under the constant threat of rocket attacks from Gaza, there is little joy over a new cease-fire between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers: Schools remain closed, traffic is sparse and hope is hard to find.

EU leaders enter bitter fight over budget Posted: 22 Nov 2012 02:43 PM PST The leaders of Britain and France staked out starkly different visions of Europe's future Thursday as talks began in Brussels on how much the European Union should be allowed to spend, setting the stage for a long, divisive and possibly inconclusive summit.

Blogger's death in Iran window onto cyber patrols Posted: 22 Nov 2012 12:27 PM PST In his last blog entry, activist Sattar Beheshti wrote that Iranian authorities had given him an ultimatum: Either stop posting his "big mouth" attacks against the ruling system or tell his mother that she will soon be in mourning.

Lawsuit against Madonna dismissed in Russia Posted: 22 Nov 2012 10:16 AM PST A Russian court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit that sought millions of dollars in damages from Madonna for allegedly traumatizing minors by speaking up for gay rights during a concert in St. Petersburg.

Congo rebels, military battle over eastern town Posted: 22 Nov 2012 09:44 AM PST Congolese soldiers and rebel fighters battled for hours over the eastern town of Sake on Thursday, forcing thousands of people to flee as the militants seeking to overthrow the government vowed to push forward despite mounting international pressure.

Egypt's Morsi grants himself far-reaching powers Posted: 22 Nov 2012 02:13 PM PST Egypt's Islamist president unilaterally decreed greater authorities for himself Thursday and effectively neutralized a judicial system that had emerged as a key opponent by declaring that the courts are barred from challenging his decisions.

Israel says it arrests Tel Aviv bus bomber Posted: 22 Nov 2012 01:21 PM PST Israeli authorities arrested an Arab Israeli on Thursday on accusations he planted a bomb on a bus in Tel Aviv that wounded 27 people and threatened to sabotage efforts to broker a cease-fire to end the fighting in Gaza, police said.

Gaza truce holds as region steps back from brink Posted: 22 Nov 2012 06:13 AM PST Hamas leaders in Gaza declared victory over Israel on Thursday, and thousands of flag-waving supporters rallied in celebration as the battered territory entered its first day of calm under an Egyptian-brokered truce that ended the worst cross-border fighting in four years.

Decades after king's toppling, Iraq revisits its royal history Posted: 22 Nov 2012 07:31 AM PST More than half a century after Iraq's monarchy was toppled in a violent coup, Iraqis are coming to grips with a controversial part of their history that some consider the country's golden age.

The man who remade Mexico City Posted: 22 Nov 2012 05:58 AM PST Jose Guadalupe Gonzalez walks among giant paper-mache renderings of fantastical dragons and serpents, called alebrijes, with his wife and two teenage daughters in the middle of Mexico City's Zocalo to celebrate Day of the Dead. Later, the family considered catching a play for free, also in the main plaza, or strolling along the nearby, new pedestrian streets of downtown Mexico.

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