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• Egypt's Mursi to meet judges over power grab
• Syrian rebels take airbase in slow progress toward Damascus
• "Shadow of Roh" neck and neck with dictator's daughter before South Korea polls
• Voters in tsunami-hit zone feel let down as Japan election nears
• China's princelings come of age in new leadership
• European lawmaker Strasser on trial for corruption
• Eight dead, human remains found in northern Mexico
• Bersani leads after Italy center-left primary
• Serbia Democrats elect Belgrade mayor as new party leader
• Separatists winning in Catalonia, Spain: early results
• 112 killed in fire at Bangladesh garment factory
• Egypt's political foes dig in their heels
• Gaza cleric calls violation of Israel truce sinful
• Gaza cease-fire raises hopes for reconstruction
• Congo and M23 rebels negotiate in Uganda
• Historic Jewish cemetery in Caribbean fades away
• France: Sarkozy's party battles to save itself
• Spain's Catalonia punishes pro-referendum leader
• UN to launch new round of talks on global warming
• Grammy-winning bassist injured in Swiss bus crash
• President Morsi stands firm despite Egypt protests
• In world's most religious country, humanists rally for secular space
• Stalemate in Syria? Army short on loyalists, rebels short on guns

Egypt's Mursi to meet judges over power grab Posted: 25 Nov 2012 03:14 PM PST CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi will meet senior judges on Monday to try to ease a crisis over his seizure of new powers which has set off violent protests reminiscent of last year's revolution which brought him to power. Egypt's stock market plunged on Sunday in its first day open since Mursi issued a decree late on Thursday temporarily widening his powers and shielding his decisions from judicial review, drawing accusations he was behaving like a new dictator. ...

Syrian rebels take airbase in slow progress toward Damascus Posted: 25 Nov 2012 07:52 AM PST AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said on Sunday they had captured a helicopter base east of Damascus after an overnight assault, their latest gain in a costly battle to unseat President Bashar al-Assad that is drawing nearer to his seat of power. The Marj al-Sultan base, 15 km (10 miles) from the capital, is the second military facility on the outskirts of the city reported to have fallen to Assad's opponents this month. Activists said rebels had destroyed two helicopters and taken 15 prisoners. ...

"Shadow of Roh" neck and neck with dictator's daughter before South Korea polls Posted: 25 Nov 2012 01:11 PM PST SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's December presidential election looks set to turn into a referendum on two of the country's most polarizing leaders as the daughter of military dictator Park Chung-hee faces off against a former aide to ex-President Roh Moo-hyun. Park's authoritarian rule propelled South Korea from poverty to the cusp of developed-nation status and ended when he was assassinated in 1979. ...

Voters in tsunami-hit zone feel let down as Japan election nears Posted: 25 Nov 2012 01:50 PM PST IWAKI/KAMAISHI, Japan (Reuters) - Three weeks before Japan's first national election since the March 2011 earthquake, none of the contenders has managed to win the hearts, and votes, of those hardest-hit by the disaster - with many feeling let down by the entire political class. Volunteers and donations had poured in after the magnitude 9.0 quake off the northeast coast of Japan's main island Honshu unleashed a deadly tsunami that killed nearly 19,000 and triggered reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant. ...

China's princelings come of age in new leadership Posted: 25 Nov 2012 01:19 PM PST BEIJING (Reuters) - In China they are known as "princelings" — the privileged children of the revolutionary founders of the People's Republic of China. And in the generational leadership change that just took place in Beijing, it could not have been clearer that having the right family bloodlines is among the most important attributes an ambitious cadre could possess. Of the seven men who now comprise the Communist Party's new politburo standing committee, the apex of political power in China, four are members of "the red aristocracy", led by the new general secretary of the party, Xi Jinping. ...

European lawmaker Strasser on trial for corruption Posted: 25 Nov 2012 02:03 PM PST VIENNA (Reuters) - Disgraced Austrian politician Ernst Strasser goes on trial on Monday in a corruption case that has undermined trust in European and Austrian institutions. The former Austrian interior minister and European lawmaker could face 10 years in jail if convicted, after being caught on camera offering to propose amendments to European laws in exchange for 100,000 euros ($130,000 a year). Strasser, 56, was exposed last year by undercover journalists from Britain's Sunday Times posing as lobbyists. ...

Eight dead, human remains found in northern Mexico Posted: 25 Nov 2012 01:43 PM PST MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities discovered the bodies of eight men and the remains of others in the northern state of Chihuahua over the weekend, the local government said on Sunday. The eight victims, who were aged 30-35, were found by a road roughly 50 miles south of the city of Chihuahua. The victims had been tortured and shot in the head, a spokesman for the state government said. State prosecutors also found a grave containing the remains of men who died roughly two years ago in the desert area just south of the city of Ciudad Juarez, near the U.S. border. ...

Bersani leads after Italy center-left primary Posted: 25 Nov 2012 01:42 PM PST ROME (Reuters) - Pier Luigi Bersani, head of Italy's Democratic Party, led his main rival Matteo Renzi in a primary to pick the center-left candidate in next year's election, early counting indicated on Sunday, setting the stage for a final runoff vote next week. With almost a third of the vote counted, Bersani had about 44.6 percent, ahead of Renzi, the 37 year-old mayor of Florence, who was campaigning as a moderniser, on 36.5 percent, according to party officials. Nichi Vendola, the openly gay head of the left-wing Left, Ecology, Freedom party was in third place with 14. ...

Serbia Democrats elect Belgrade mayor as new party leader Posted: 25 Nov 2012 12:03 PM PST BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's pro-Western Democratic Party elected mayor of Belgrade Dragan Djilas as its new leader on Sunday who pledged to reform the party following an election defeat in May. Addressing a party congress, 45-year-old Djilas said the Democrats had to take their share of responsibility for unemployment, now over 25 percent, double-digit inflation and a public debt seen at 60 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by the end of this year. "The fact is that we are responsible ... ...

Separatists winning in Catalonia, Spain: early results Posted: 25 Nov 2012 03:43 PM PST BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Four separatist parties in Spain's Catalonia looked set to win a majority in regional elections on Sunday, partial results showed, but the main one was on course to lose some seats, possibly undermining its bid to call an independence referendum. With half of votes counted, the ruling Convergence and Union alliance, or CiU, was winning 48 seats in the 135-seat local parliament, well down from its current 62 seats. ...

112 killed in fire at Bangladesh garment factory Posted: 25 Nov 2012 02:07 PM PST Fire raced through a garment factory that supplies major retailers in the West, killing at least 112 people, many of whom were trapped by the flames because the eight-story building lacked emergency exits, an official said Sunday.

Egypt's political foes dig in their heels Posted: 25 Nov 2012 04:38 PM PST Supporters and opponents of Egypt's president on Sunday grew more entrenched in their potentially destabilizing battle over the Islamist leader's move to assume near absolute powers, with neither side appearing willing to back down as the stock market plunged amid the fresh turmoil.

Gaza cleric calls violation of Israel truce sinful Posted: 25 Nov 2012 05:25 AM PST A leading Islamic cleric in the Gaza Strip has ruled it a sin to violate the recent cease-fire between Israel and the Hamas militant group that governs the Palestinian territory — according a religious legitimacy to the truce and giving the Gaza government strong backing to enforce it.

Gaza cease-fire raises hopes for reconstruction Posted: 25 Nov 2012 11:27 AM PST Mohammed Falah Azzam has been through this before.

Congo and M23 rebels negotiate in Uganda Posted: 25 Nov 2012 09:54 AM PST Congolese officials are in talks Sunday with representatives of M23, the rebel group that last week took control of the eastern Congo city of Goma, according to Ugandan officials.

Historic Jewish cemetery in Caribbean fades away Posted: 25 Nov 2012 12:42 PM PST Headstones are pockmarked, their inscriptions faded. Stone slabs that have covered tombs for centuries are crumbling. White marble has turned grey, likely from the acrid smoke that spews from a nearby oil refinery.

France: Sarkozy's party battles to save itself Posted: 25 Nov 2012 01:31 PM PST Parents struggle to explain it to their kids. Ambassadors struggle to explain it to their governments. The only thing that's clear is that French politics is a mess.

Spain's Catalonia punishes pro-referendum leader Posted: 25 Nov 2012 02:58 PM PST Voters in the economically powerful region of Catalonia on Sunday punished the leader who made a referendum over breaking away from Spain a central plank of his campaign, seeing his party's majority reduced by a dozen seats.

UN to launch new round of talks on global warming Posted: 25 Nov 2012 08:41 AM PST As nearly 200 countries meet in oil-and-gas-rich Qatar for annual talks starting Monday on slowing global warming, one of the main challenges will be raising climate aid for poor countries at a time when budgets are strained by financial turmoil.

Grammy-winning bassist injured in Swiss bus crash Posted: 25 Nov 2012 09:30 AM PST Grammy-winning jazz bassist Marcus Miller and several members of his band were injured when their bus overturned Sunday on a busy highway in Switzerland, killing the driver, police said.

President Morsi stands firm despite Egypt protests Posted: 25 Nov 2012 09:58 AM PST Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi attempted to calm a furor raised by his decree expanding his powers as clashes between police and a small group of protesters continued in Cairo today.

In world's most religious country, humanists rally for secular space Posted: 25 Nov 2012 08:15 AM PST In Ghana, where deeply held religious beliefs unite much of the population, a new group has formed around a shared disbelief in religion.

Stalemate in Syria? Army short on loyalists, rebels short on guns Posted: 25 Nov 2012 06:26 AM PST A little more than a week ago, Ahmad Dahar was a member of the embattled Syrian government's state security service in Damascus. Although he was officially a guard, he says he was not allowed to carry a weapon or go on any missions because he is a Sunni Muslim while the country's core leaders are from the minority Alawite sect of Islam.

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