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• Egypt's top court shuts down, blames Islamist protesters
• Suicide bombers attack U.S. base in Afghanistan
• Russia may soften religion law over Putin concerns
• Mexico's new president, opposition agree to push reforms
• Analysis: Nationalist strains echo on Japan campaign trail
• Kosovo demands investigation into ex-U.N. prosecutor del Ponte
• Opposition candidate wins Slovenian presidential election
• Bersani wins big in Italian center-left primary
• Netanyahu brushes off world condemnation of settlement plans
• Egypt's highest court joins judicial strike
• AP IMPACT: China overtaking US as global trader
• AP Exclusive: Strife hardens Syrian rebel brigade
• Palestinian president returns triumphantly from UN
• Bersani wins Italy primary, heads to general vote
• Syrian warplanes strike rebels in Damascus suburbs
• Exit poll: Ex-PM Pahor wins Slovenia presidency
• Thousands attend anti-Nazi rally in Hungary
• Rebels in Congo demand negotiations
• New Zealand: forget Kyoto, write new climate deal
• Africans mark significant progress on World AIDS day
• Pushback: Israel withholds Palestinian revenue, approves new settlements
• In post-revolutionary Tunisia, 'it's (still) the economy, stupid.'
• Global water crisis: too little, too much, or lack of a plan?
• Global water crisis: Seen from the first Himalayan glacial trickle

Egypt's top court shuts down, blames Islamist protesters Posted: 02 Dec 2012 03:25 PM PST CAIRO (Reuters) - Protests by Islamists allied to President Mohamed Mursi forced Egypt's highest court to adjourn its work indefinitely on Sunday, intensifying a conflict between some of the country's top judges and the head of state. The Supreme Constitutional Court said it would not convene until its judges could operate without "psychological and material pressure", saying protesters had stopped the judges from reaching the building. ...

Suicide bombers attack U.S. base in Afghanistan Posted: 02 Dec 2012 12:17 AM PST JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Suicide attackers detonated bombs and fired rockets outside a major U.S. base in Afghanistan on Sunday, killing five people in a brazen operation that highlighted the country's security challenges ahead of the 2014 NATO combat troop pullout. Local police officials said bodies in Afghan police and military uniforms were scattered around the entrance of the airfield in the eastern city of Jalalabad after a two-hour battle. A Taliban spokesman said the militant group had launched the 6 a.m. assault. The Taliban, who have been fighting U.S. ...

Russia may soften religion law over Putin concerns Posted: 02 Dec 2012 12:03 PM PST MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian lawmakers are reworking a draft law introducing prison terms for religious offences after signs that Vladimir Putin is concerned it could undermine the delicate balance between the country's many religions. The president's party proposed the law after two members of the Pussy Riot punk band were jailed for two years over a protest in a cathedral against Putin's increasingly close ties with the Russian Orthodox Church. ...

Mexico's new president, opposition agree to push reforms Posted: 02 Dec 2012 04:48 PM PST MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Sunday signed a pact with the country's leading political parties to increase competition in the telecommunications sector and overhaul the education system. The agreement was an effort to break through years of political gridlock in Congress on Pena Nieto's second day in office. Pena Nieto, 46, took office on Saturday, returning to power his centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, after 12 years in the opposition. No party holds an outright majority in Congress. "We have to negotiate to build consensus. ...

Analysis: Nationalist strains echo on Japan campaign trail Posted: 02 Dec 2012 01:08 PM PST TOKYO (Reuters) - Be careful what you wish for. U.S. officials have long urged Japan to loosen limits on its military, bear more of the burden of its own defense and play a more prominent global role. Now, Japanese politicians gearing up for a December 16 parliamentary election are promising to do just that - but with a strain of strident nationalism that could give not only Asian neighbors but also Washington cause for concern. ...

Kosovo demands investigation into ex-U.N. prosecutor del Ponte Posted: 02 Dec 2012 12:09 PM PST PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo called on Sunday for an investigation into the work of former United Nations chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte after the country's former prime minister was acquitted for a second time on war crimes charges brought by the Swiss lawyer. Ramush Haradinaj, a Kosovo Albanian former guerilla commander who served briefly as prime minister, was cleared last week of crimes against humanity in a retrial at the U.N. tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. ...

Opposition candidate wins Slovenian presidential election Posted: 02 Dec 2012 12:24 PM PST LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Former center-left prime minister Borut Pahor was elected to the largely ceremonial post of Slovenian president on Sunday to a backdrop of rising unrest in the recession-hit euro zone state. Pahor is a member of the opposition Social Democrats, and has called for cooperation between the government and opposition to tackle the economic crisis and prevent Slovenia becoming the latest member of the 17-member currency union to seek a bailout. In a run-off vote, Pahor won 67.4 percent, ahead of incumbent Danilo Turk on 32.6 percent with 99. ...

Bersani wins big in Italian center-left primary Posted: 02 Dec 2012 02:25 PM PST ROME (Reuters) - Pier Luigi Bersani won a run-off primary election by a huge margin on Sunday to become the Italian center-left candidate for prime minister in national elections early next year. In his victory speech, Bersani promised to tackle Italy's economic crisis and high unemployment if elected and said his Democratic Party would have to win by telling Italians "the truth, not fairy tales" about the grave situation. ...

Netanyahu brushes off world condemnation of settlement plans Posted: 02 Dec 2012 01:38 PM PST JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday brushed off world condemnation of Israel's plans to expand Jewish settlements after the Palestinians won de facto U.N. recognition of statehood. "We will carry on building in Jerusalem and in all the places that are on the map of Israel's strategic interests," a defiant Netanyahu said at the weekly cabinet meeting. In another blow to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, Israel announced it was withholding Palestinian tax revenues this month worth about $100 million. ...

Egypt's highest court joins judicial strike Posted: 02 Dec 2012 03:50 PM PST Egypt's highest court joined a judicial rebellion against President Mohammed Morsi on Sunday by declaring an open-ended strike on the day it was supposed to rule on the legitimacy of two key assemblies controlled by allies of the Islamist leader.

AP IMPACT: China overtaking US as global trader Posted: 02 Dec 2012 08:06 AM PST Shin Cheol-soo no longer sees his future in the United States.

AP Exclusive: Strife hardens Syrian rebel brigade Posted: 02 Dec 2012 08:34 AM PST A year ago, a soft-spoken sweet shop owner from this poor Syrian town got together with his little brother and eight friends to declare war on President Bashar Assad.

Palestinian president returns triumphantly from UN Posted: 02 Dec 2012 02:57 PM PST The Palestinian president returned triumphantly to the West Bank on Sunday, receiving a boisterous welcome from thousands of cheering supporters at a rally celebrating his people's new acceptance to the United Nations.

Bersani wins Italy primary, heads to general vote Posted: 02 Dec 2012 02:17 PM PST Pier Luigi Bersani, the head of Italy's main center-left Democratic Party, won a runoff primary Sunday to become the main center-left candidate for Italy's 2013 general elections — a vote that polls indicate could well be won by the Democratic Party given the utter disarray of the opposing center-right.

Syrian warplanes strike rebels in Damascus suburbs Posted: 02 Dec 2012 10:39 AM PST Syrian warplanes and artillery blasted parts of the capital Damascus and its rebellious suburbs on Sunday, part of what activists described as intense fighting as rebels try to push their way into the center of President Bashar Assad's power base.

Exit poll: Ex-PM Pahor wins Slovenia presidency Posted: 02 Dec 2012 02:02 PM PST Former Slovenia Prime Minister Borut Pahor won the presidential election Sunday, calling for unity in the tiny EU nation where discontent has been mounting with government budget cuts and other austerity measures designed to avoid a bailout.

Thousands attend anti-Nazi rally in Hungary Posted: 02 Dec 2012 10:11 AM PST Thousands attended an anti-Nazi rally Sunday in Hungary organized by Jewish and civic groups to protest a far-right lawmaker's call to screen Jews for national security risks.

Rebels in Congo demand negotiations Posted: 02 Dec 2012 09:14 AM PST Rebels believed to be backed by Rwanda said Sunday they would take back Congo's city of Goma if the government does not agree to negotiate with them by Monday.

New Zealand: forget Kyoto, write new climate deal Posted: 02 Dec 2012 10:06 AM PST Highlighting a rift between the rich countries and emerging economies like China, New Zealand's climate minister staunchly defended his government's decision to drop out of the emissions pact for developed nations, saying it's an outdated and insufficient response to global warming.

Africans mark significant progress on World AIDS day Posted: 02 Dec 2012 01:35 PM PST Governments, civil society groups, and people with AIDS in Africa marked World AIDS Day on Saturday, with growing optimism for an AIDS-free generation as reports are showing the epidemic has stabilized.

Pushback: Israel withholds Palestinian revenue, approves new settlements Posted: 02 Dec 2012 11:45 AM PST Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government struck a $120 million blow to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority today and further undermined its territorial claims, announcing plans to move forward with a controversial settlement that would effectively divide the West Bank in two.

In post-revolutionary Tunisia, 'it's (still) the economy, stupid.' Posted: 02 Dec 2012 10:26 AM PST On Friday morning the people of Siliana carried their governor out of town in effigy – represented by a coffin marked "governor" – which they pitched down an embankment to jeers and celebration.

Global water crisis: too little, too much, or lack of a plan? Posted: 02 Dec 2012 08:59 AM PST For most of history, thirsty humans made do with what moisture fell from above: The sun warmed the salty seas, pure water evaporated into the air and then cooled and fell to the earth as precipitation. There it clung to glaciers, froze and thawed in lakes, was absorbed by plant roots, coursed through fractured bedrock, and seeped slowly through soil, into aquifers. Most of it returned to sea and sky all over again. There is as much of that water on the planet today as when the first amphibian flopped ashore; as much as when the ancient Greeks divined the future in the babble of brooks.

Global water crisis: Seen from the first Himalayan glacial trickle Posted: 02 Dec 2012 08:59 AM PST In the Nepalese Himalayas in 2009, I trekked into the Langtang Valley, just short of the Tibetan border, and to a village of empty plywood cabins. The arrival of the summer monsoon season had chased the trekkers away.

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