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• Central African Republic rebels halt advance, agree to peace talks
• U.N. lifts Syria death toll to "truly shocking" 60,000
• Egypt's Brotherhood says UAE arrests unfounded
• Venezuela's opposition demands "whole truth" about Chavez health
• Gunmen kidnap seven Pakistani soldiers
• Nominee to be Libyan foreign minister turns down the job
• U.N. worried about reports of air strikes in Myanmar
• Italy's Monti fires opening salvo of second-term campaign
• Mandela's recovery "on track" at home: South African government
• Former Chilean military officials held in singer's 1973 slaying
• UN says more than 60,000 dead in Syrian civil war
• Egypt panel implicates Mubarak, military in deaths
• C. African Republic leader faces rebel threat
• Venezuela opposition: Chavez secrecy feeds rumors
• APNewsBreak: Google exec chairman to visit NKorea
• Indian court may suspend lawmakers facing crimes
• American journalist missing in Syria
• Malala's father given diplomatic role in UK
• Ivory Coast stampede survivors blame barricades
• Activist asks public to visit China Nobel wife
• For Egypt's satirists, Morsi's power is no joke
• 5 female teachers killed: Pakistan aid work imperiled
• Myanmar launches air-strikes on Kachin rebels
• Is Russia trying a dead whistle-blower because of a US law?
• After 'peaceful' 2012, Kashmiris urge end to war-time measures
• In South Korea, Kim Jong-un's New Year speech generates surprise - and doubt
• Any end in sight? Syrian conflict enters third calendar year

Central African Republic rebels halt advance, agree to peace talks Posted: 02 Jan 2013 11:15 AM PST DAMARA, Central African Republic (Reuters) - Rebels in Central African Republic said they had halted their advance on the capital on Wednesday and agreed to start peace talks, averting a clash with regionally backed troops. The Seleka rebels had pushed to within striking distance of Bangui after a three-week onslaught and threatened to oust President Francois Bozize, accusing him of reneging on a previous peace deal and cracking down on dissidents. ...

U.N. lifts Syria death toll to "truly shocking" 60,000 Posted: 02 Jan 2013 02:58 PM PST AMMAN/GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 60,000 people have died in Syria's uprising and civil war, the United Nations said on Wednesday, dramatically raising the death toll in a struggle that shows no sign of ending. In the latest violence, dozens were killed in a rebellious Damascus suburb when a government air strike turned a petrol station into an inferno, incinerating drivers who had rushed there for a rare chance to fill their tanks, activists said. "I counted at least 30 bodies. They were either burnt or dismembered," said Abu Saeed, an activist who arrived in the area an hour after the 1 ...

Egypt's Brotherhood says UAE arrests unfounded Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:14 AM PST CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said on Wednesday some of its members had been wrongfully arrested in United Arab Emirates (UAE) on allegations of helping to train local Islamists in subversion tactics. "I know 11 people were detained. I know that some of them are from the Brotherhood," said Mahmoud Ghozlan, a Brotherhood spokesman in Cairo. "The claim that they are a cell seeking to destabilize the country is devoid of truth. ...

Venezuela's opposition demands "whole truth" about Chavez health Posted: 02 Jan 2013 03:52 PM PST CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition on Wednesday demanded the government tell "the whole truth" about the health of cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez, who has not been heard from in three weeks after undergoing a grueling operation in Cuba. Officials have acknowledged the usually garrulous former soldier's health is delicate after his fourth cancer surgery in 18 months, but they have offered scant details on his condition. He has not spoken in public in more than three weeks. ...

Gunmen kidnap seven Pakistani soldiers Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:32 AM PST ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped seven soldiers from a bus in Pakistan on Wednesday, military officials said, just days after Taliban forces executed 21 pro-government paramilitaries they had seized. The gunmen took the seven soldiers and let go a sweeper on the bus with them, one military official said. The gunmen were wearing military uniforms, other sources said. The men were travelling between army headquarters in Rawalpindi and their stations in the northern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa when they were taken off their bus in Jand in Punjab province. ...

Nominee to be Libyan foreign minister turns down the job Posted: 02 Jan 2013 01:04 PM PST TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The man proposed as Libya's foreign minister has rejected the post despite being cleared by an Integrity Commission which was asked to examine his ties to deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi. Ali Aujali, Libya's former ambassador to the United States was among eight of the 27 ministers nominated by Prime Minister Ali Zeidan who were referred to the commission, which studies the backgrounds of public officials, after protests outside congress over the makeup of his cabinet. ...

U.N. worried about reports of air strikes in Myanmar Posted: 02 Jan 2013 12:46 PM PST UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced concern on Wednesday at reports of air strikes in Myanmar's Kachin State, where a 20-month conflict between government troops and rebels has been escalating. "(Ban) has taken serious note of the most recent reports indicating air strikes against targets in Kachin State," U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said in a statement. ...

Italy's Monti fires opening salvo of second-term campaign Posted: 02 Jan 2013 08:31 AM PST ROME (Reuters) - Italy's outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti pledged to cut labor taxes to fuel growth on Wednesday as he shed his neutral technocrat stance and fired the opening salvo of his campaign for a second term. The former European Commissioner was appointed in November 2011 to lead an unelected right-left government of experts to save Italy from financial crisis after Silvio Berlusconi quit amid a sex scandal and a crisis that threatened the euro. ...

Mandela's recovery "on track" at home: South African government Posted: 02 Jan 2013 07:50 AM PST JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African President Nelson Mandela's recovery is 'on track' at his home in Johannesburg, the government said on Wednesday in its first statement since the anti-apartheid hero was released from hospital a week ago. Mandela, 94, who has been in frail health for several years, spent nearly three weeks in a Pretoria hospital in December for treatment of a lung infection and surgery to remove gallstones, his longest stay for medical care since his release from prison in 1990. ...

Former Chilean military officials held in singer's 1973 slaying Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:55 AM PST SANTIAGO (Reuters) - At least four former military officials were detained in Chile on Wednesday for their alleged role in the slaying of singer-songwriter Victor Jara during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. Jara was killed days after the coup that ousted left-leaning President Salvador Allende, and his death became a symbol of the political violence and human rights abuses that ravaged Latin America in the 1970s. Chilean prosecutors have accused two former lieutenants, Hugo Sanchez and Pedro Barrientos, of fatally shooting Jara and named six others as accomplices in the 1973 ...

UN says more than 60,000 dead in Syrian civil war Posted: 02 Jan 2013 12:56 PM PST BEIRUT (AP) — The United Nations gave a grim new count Wednesday of the human cost of Syria's civil war, saying the death toll has exceeded 60,000 in 21 months — far higher than recent estimates by anti-regime activists.

Egypt panel implicates Mubarak, military in deaths Posted: 02 Jan 2013 01:07 PM PST CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian fact-finding mission determined that Hosni Mubarak watched the uprising against him unfold through a live TV feed at his palace, despite his later denial that he knew the extent of the protests and crackdown against them, a member of the mission said Wednesday.

C. African Republic leader faces rebel threat Posted: 02 Jan 2013 03:10 PM PST DAMARA, Central African Republic (AP) — More than 30 truckloads of troops from Chad line the two-lane highway just outside of Damara, supporting Central African Republic government forces who want to block a new rebel coalition from reaching the capital.

Venezuela opposition: Chavez secrecy feeds rumors Posted: 02 Jan 2013 01:19 PM PST CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's opposition demanded that the government reveal specifics of President Hugo Chavez's condition Wednesday, criticizing secrecy surrounding the ailing leader's health more than three weeks after his cancer surgery in Cuba.

APNewsBreak: Google exec chairman to visit NKorea Posted: 02 Jan 2013 04:49 PM PST SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Google's executive chairman is preparing to travel to one of the last frontiers of cyberspace: North Korea.

Indian court may suspend lawmakers facing crimes Posted: 02 Jan 2013 06:03 AM PST NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian lawmakers facing sexual assault charges against women could be suspended from office if the country's top court rules in favor of a petition submitted following a gang-rape and murder that shocked the country.

American journalist missing in Syria Posted: 02 Jan 2013 12:13 PM PST BEIRUT (AP) — An American journalist has been missing in Syria since he was kidnapped more than one month ago, his family said Wednesday, less than two years after he was held by government forces in Libya while covering that country's civil war.

Malala's father given diplomatic role in UK Posted: 02 Jan 2013 11:56 AM PST LONDON (AP) — The father of a teenage Pakistani activist shot in the head by Taliban for advocating girls' education has been given a diplomatic post in the U.K.

Ivory Coast stampede survivors blame barricades Posted: 02 Jan 2013 03:04 PM PST ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Survivors of a stampede in Ivory Coast that killed 61 people, most of them children and teenagers, after a New Year's Eve fireworks display said Wednesday that makeshift barricades stopped them from moving along a main boulevard, causing the crush of people.

Activist asks public to visit China Nobel wife Posted: 02 Jan 2013 05:22 AM PST BEIJING (AP) — Chinese activists urged the public on Wednesday to visit dissident Liu Xiaobo's wife to highlight that she has been under house arrest since her husband won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010.

For Egypt's satirists, Morsi's power is no joke Posted: 02 Jan 2013 11:14 AM PST There are few things dictators hate more than satirists, with their uncomfortable habit of piercing hypocrisy and self-importance with just a few well-placed verbal or written barbs.

5 female teachers killed: Pakistan aid work imperiled Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:17 AM PST Pakistani police on Wednesday searched for the gunmen behind the brazen murder of five teachers and two health workers, amid fears that public health campaigns would suffer and lead to a resurgence of polio and other preventable diseases.

Myanmar launches air-strikes on Kachin rebels Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:08 AM PST Heavy fighting between the Myanmar Army and the rebel Kachin Independence Army (KIA), is raising concern that a major escalation of violence is under way in the region, casting a shadow over Myanmar's much-touted reforms.

Is Russia trying a dead whistle-blower because of a US law? Posted: 02 Jan 2013 09:30 AM PST At the center of the stormiest US-Russia diplomatic crisis since the cold war stands the enigmatic figure of Sergei Magnitsky, for whom the US Senate has named a punitive new law that imposes harsh visa and economic sanctions against scores of Russian officials who are deemed to have committed serious human rights violations.

After 'peaceful' 2012, Kashmiris urge end to war-time measures Posted: 02 Jan 2013 09:28 AM PST Government tallies in Kashmir find that 2012 was the most peaceful year since an armed rebellion began in the disputed region in 1989. Despite that, no measures have been taken to demilitarize the region or to revoke the draconian laws that provide impunity to paramilitary forces here.

In South Korea, Kim Jong-un's New Year speech generates surprise - and doubt Posted: 02 Jan 2013 07:01 AM PST North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un signaled his desire for improved relations with South Korea in a New Year's Day address that South Korean officials see as an unsatisfying attempt to appear conciliatory.

Any end in sight? Syrian conflict enters third calendar year Posted: 02 Jan 2013 05:33 AM PST • A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

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