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• String of bombings kill 101, injure 200 in Pakistan
• U.S., Afghanistan have reached "last chapter" in war aim: Panetta
• China's new leader: harbinger of reform or another conservative?
• Venezuela's sick Chavez misses own inauguration bash
• Founder of Kurdish PKK among three women slain in Paris
• Italy's Berlusconi enters lion's den to close gap ahead of vote
• Mali Islamists capture strategic town, residents flee
• Analysis: Hollande policy gaffes endanger French reform drive
• Kremlin says Russia-U.S. adoption deal still in effect
• Bombings kill 115 people in Pakistan
• Islamists clash with military, take key Mali town
• 3 Kurds killed in Paris; political motive claimed
• Locals say shifting sea ice frees trapped whales
• Venezuela holds symbolic inauguration for Chavez
• Artist Selaron found dead by his work in Brazil
• Lawyer: Police beat New Delhi gang rape suspects
• Pakistani soldier killed by Indian gunfire
• Academy shows love for 'Amour' with 5 Oscar nods
• A view of post-quake Haiti, on the run
• Can India and Pakistan ease tensions after recent flareup?
• Idle No More: Canada's indigenous 'Occupy' movement
• Is Russia backing off its anti-US adoption ban?
• Critics of Likud's new vanguard say party has abandoned founder's ideals
• Afghanistan: Taliban may be 'weak,' but fear remains
• What was 'Mr.Google' doing in North Korea?
• Kurdish leader's murder in Paris threatens tentative Turkish-PKK peace deal

String of bombings kill 101, injure 200 in Pakistan Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:46 PM PST QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 101 people were killed in bombings in two Pakistani cities on Thursday in one of the country's bloodiest days in recent years, officials said, with most casualties caused by sectarian attacks in Quetta. The bombings underscored the myriad threats Pakistani security forces face from homegrown Sunni extremist groups, the Taliban insurgency in the northwest and the less well-known Baloch insurgency in the southwest. ...

U.S., Afghanistan have reached "last chapter" in war aim: Panetta Posted: 10 Jan 2013 10:43 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday that the two countries had reached the "last chapter" in their effort to establish a sovereign Afghanistan that can provide for its own security. After a formal welcoming ceremony at the Pentagon, Panetta told Karzai that 2013 would mark an important turning point in the war, with Afghan forces due to begin taking the lead role in providing security across the country while coalition troops offered support and training. ...

China's new leader: harbinger of reform or another conservative? Posted: 10 Jan 2013 03:02 PM PST BEIJING (Reuters) - When Xi Jinping became the new leader of China's Communist Party two months ago, hopes were high for reform in the giant nation. But despite what appears to be sensitive handling of a strike by journalists and a challenge to Beijing's tight control of the press, signs of change seem tentative. Xi's commitment to reform, or lack of it, will come into sharper focus over the next few months, in particular after he officially assumes the presidency in March at a session of the National People's Congress, the country's rubber-stamp parliament. ...

Venezuela's sick Chavez misses own inauguration bash Posted: 10 Jan 2013 01:52 PM PST CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez remained on his sickbed in Cuba on Thursday while thousands of supporters rallied in his honor on the day he should have been sworn in for a new six-year term in the South American OPEC nation. The postponement of the inauguration, a first in Venezuelan history, has laid bare the gravity of Chavez's condition after complications from a fourth cancer operation in his pelvic area. ...

Founder of Kurdish PKK among three women slain in Paris Posted: 10 Jan 2013 10:34 AM PST PARIS/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A woman who helped found the Kurdish PKK rebel movement and two other women were found shot dead in Paris overnight after execution-style killings that cast a shadow over peace moves between Turkey and the guerrillas. The bodies of Sakine Cansiz, a founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the early 1980s, and her two fellow activists were found in the early hours of Thursday at an institute in the French capital that has close links to the PKK. They appeared to have been shot in the head, a French police source said. ...

Italy's Berlusconi enters lion's den to close gap ahead of vote Posted: 10 Jan 2013 03:27 PM PST ROME (Reuters) - Seeking a fifth term as Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi took his election campaign into risky and unfamiliar territory on Thursday when he appeared on a television program run by some of his fiercest critics. Desperate to close a wide gap with the center-left less than seven weeks before the vote, Berlusconi surprised many observers when he said he would attend a talk show hosted by a journalist who has made a career out of criticizing him. ...

Mali Islamists capture strategic town, residents flee Posted: 10 Jan 2013 02:07 PM PST BAMAKO (Reuters) - Islamist rebels drove the Malian army out of the strategic northern town of Konna on Thursday, residents said, in the fiercest fighting since militant groups seized control of northern Mali nine months ago. The fall of Konna, about 600 km (375 miles) northeast of the capital Bamako, was a major setback to government forces which had said earlier on Thursday they were making headway against the alliance of al Qaeda-linked rebels. ...

Analysis: Hollande policy gaffes endanger French reform drive Posted: 10 Jan 2013 11:30 AM PST PARIS (Reuters) - On the campaign trail, Francois Hollande pleased working-class voters with promises of a super-tax on millionaires and sought to reassure foreign investors with commitments to restore public finances and revive French industry. But now as he starts 2013 and his eighth month as president, the Socialist's clumsy handling of those promises has turned the public mood against him, created the impression among many entrepreneurs that he is anti-business and prompted smirking foreign leaders to offer refuge to French tax exiles. ...

Kremlin says Russia-U.S. adoption deal still in effect Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:58 PM PST MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said on Thursday that a bilateral agreement with United States regulating adoptions will remain in effect for another year despite a new Russian law banning Americans from adopting Russian children. The spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, did not say whether that meant Americans could continue to adopt Russian children until the bilateral agreement, which took effect on November 1, expires next January. ...

Bombings kill 115 people in Pakistan Posted: 10 Jan 2013 03:23 PM PST QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A series of bombings killed 115 people across Pakistan on Thursday, including 81 who died in twin blasts on a bustling billiards hall in a Shiite area of the southwestern city of Quetta.

Islamists clash with military, take key Mali town Posted: 10 Jan 2013 03:34 PM PST BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The Islamists who rule northern Mali clashed with government forces for the first time in nearly a year, seizing a strategic city Thursday as the al-Qaida-linked militants pushed toward the government line of control in the center of the troubled country.

3 Kurds killed in Paris; political motive claimed Posted: 10 Jan 2013 03:02 PM PST PARIS (AP) — Three Kurdish activists, including reportedly one of the founding members of a militant separatist group, were shot dead in what authorities called an "execution" in central Paris. The slayings prompted speculation that the long-running conflict between insurgents from the minority group and Turkey was playing out on French shores.

Locals say shifting sea ice frees trapped whales Posted: 10 Jan 2013 11:26 AM PST MONTREAL (AP) — About a dozen killer whales trapped under sea ice appeared to be free after the ice shifted, village officials in Canada's remote north said Thursday, while residents who feared they would get stuck elsewhere hired a plane to track them down.

Venezuela holds symbolic inauguration for Chavez Posted: 10 Jan 2013 04:23 PM PST CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Nothing shows the extent of Hugo Chavez's grip on power quite as clearly as his absence from his own inauguration Thursday.

Artist Selaron found dead by his work in Brazil Posted: 10 Jan 2013 04:20 PM PST RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The candy-colored steps of a staircase in Rio's bohemian neighborhood of Lapa were the life work of Chilean artist Jorge Selaron and a symbol of his adopted city. On this gray, rainy Thursday, they became his memorial.

Lawyer: Police beat New Delhi gang rape suspects Posted: 10 Jan 2013 03:18 AM PST NEW DELHI (AP) — Police badly beat the five suspects arrested in the brutal gang rape and killing of a young woman on a New Delhi bus, the lawyer for one of the men said Thursday, accusing authorities of tampering with evidence in the case that has transfixed India.

Pakistani soldier killed by Indian gunfire Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:41 PM PST ISLAMABAD (AP) — Indian troops fired across the disputed Kashmir border and killed a Pakistani soldier Thursday, Pakistan's military said, the third deadly incident in the disputed Himalayan region in recent days.

Academy shows love for 'Amour' with 5 Oscar nods Posted: 10 Jan 2013 01:12 PM PST LONDON (AP) — Hollywood's movie elite sent their love to "Amour" on Thursday, giving director Michael Haneke's searing portrait of old age five Academy Award nominations including best foreign film and — unexpectedly — best picture.

A view of post-quake Haiti, on the run Posted: 10 Jan 2013 02:59 PM PST PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Six days a week, the rail-thin athlete sets off at daybreak, his neon-green running shoes glowing in the grey light of dawn.

Can India and Pakistan ease tensions after recent flareup? Posted: 10 Jan 2013 02:26 PM PST Tensions between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan increased Thursday as Pakistan reported that another one of its soldiers was killed by Indian troops. This is the fourth death reported in the past five days along the along the 415-mile long Line of Control (LoC) that divides the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region between the two countries.

Idle No More: Canada's indigenous 'Occupy' movement Posted: 10 Jan 2013 01:35 PM PST Canada's First Nations peoples and their supporters have been loudly protesting federal legislation that, they say, strips protections from dozens of Canada's lakes and waterways and ignores the government's treaty obligations to its indigenous inhabitants. Since November, dozens of demonstrations, blockades, and flash mob-style circle dances have sprung up across the country. Youth- and women-led, the social-media savvy Idle No More movement is being compared to last year's Occupy protests and is gaining international attention and momentum.

Is Russia backing off its anti-US adoption ban? Posted: 10 Jan 2013 11:26 AM PST The Kremlin appeared to backtrack Thursday, just a little bit, on a controversial new law banning all US adoptions of Russian orphans that has triggered stormy public opposition and rare open criticism from members of Vladimir Putin's own government.

Critics of Likud's new vanguard say party has abandoned founder's ideals Posted: 10 Jan 2013 11:37 AM PST Few Israelis today remember that until 1966, Arab citizens of the Jewish state were under army rule and needed permits from the local military governor to travel outside their home towns for work, study, or medical care. Even fewer know that a key figure in bringing an end to this less than democratic system was Menachem Begin, the fiery founder of the right-wing opposition Herut party, predecessor of today's Likud party headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Afghanistan: Taliban may be 'weak,' but fear remains Posted: 10 Jan 2013 10:39 AM PST The television is always tuned to the news channel at the police station in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan.

What was 'Mr.Google' doing in North Korea? Posted: 10 Jan 2013 07:25 AM PST Google Chairman Eric Schmidt wrapped up four days in North Korea today after glimpsing the state of technology in one of the world's most closed societies, leaving observers wondering what he had accomplished.

Kurdish leader's murder in Paris threatens tentative Turkish-PKK peace deal Posted: 10 Jan 2013 05:57 AM PST • A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

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