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• West African army chiefs to approve Mali troops plan
• Exclusive: Brazil wants Venezuela election if Chavez dies - sources
• Senate Republican leader wants 10,000 troops in Afghanistan
• Obama meets new Saudi interior minister at White House
• Pakistan cleric tells followers: bring down government now
• Netanyahu conundrum faces Iranian riddle
• Colombia wants to pick up pace as talks with FARC rebels resume
• Train carrying army recruits crashes in Egypt, 12 killed
• Police car attacked in Libya's Benghazi, one wounded
• Syria war envelops region in "staggering" crisis: aid agency
• Mali rebels make gains, vow to avenge French bombs
• Syria bombs Damascus suburbs to keep rebels out
• Mubarak's new trial could answer a key question
• New cemetery endangers Egypt's ancient necropolis
• Severe Beijing smog prompts openness from government
• 2012 military suicides hit a record high of 349
• Palace: Prince William and Kate's baby due in July
• Court denies Berlusconi bid to halt sex trial
• Russian soldiers to trade foot wraps for socks
• Thousands of protesters rally in Pakistani capital
• French government unfazed by massive anti-gay marriage protest
• French public backs Mali intervention, but for how long?
• What is Pakistan's 'million-march'?
• Back in Afghanistan, Karzai shifts tone on US troop immunity
• Kremlin: Adoption ban needed to create 'Russia Without Orphans'
• Mali Islamists threaten to retaliate 'at the heart of France'
• Havana scraps exit visas, but most Cubans won't be going abroad
• With French air strikes, has the war to retake northern Mali begun? (+video)

West African army chiefs to approve Mali troops plan Posted: 14 Jan 2013 03:16 PM PST BAMAKO (Reuters) - West African defense chiefs will on Tuesday approve plans to speed up the deployment of African troops against Islamist rebels in northern Mali, with some regional soldiers seen arriving next week. France has already poured hundreds of troops into Mali and carried out days of air strikes in a vast desert area seized last year by an Islamist alliance that combines al Qaeda's north African wing AQIM with Mali's home-grown MUJWA and Ansar Dine rebel groups. Western and regional powers are concerned the insurgents will use Mali's north as a launchpad for international attacks. ...

Exclusive: Brazil wants Venezuela election if Chavez dies - sources Posted: 14 Jan 2013 01:59 PM PST SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil is urging Venezuela's government to hold elections as quickly as possible if President Hugo Chavez dies, senior officials told Reuters on Monday, a major intervention by Latin America's regional powerhouse that could help ensure a smoother leadership transition in Caracas. Brazilian officials have expressed their wishes directly to Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro, the officials said on condition of anonymity. Chavez has designated Maduro as his preferred successor if he loses his battle with cancer. ...

Senate Republican leader wants 10,000 troops in Afghanistan Posted: 14 Jan 2013 10:35 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday he thinks that 10,000 U.S. troops should remain in Afghanistan after 2014, when President Barack Obama wants to withdraw most combat troops. McConnell has just finished a visit to Afghanistan with a small group of his fellow Republican senators, his seventh trip there in the past decade. "I think we're going to need a minimum of about 10,000 troops here to provide adequate training and counterterrorism in the post-2014 period. ...

Obama meets new Saudi interior minister at White House Posted: 14 Jan 2013 01:16 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama met Saudi Arabia's new interior minister, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, on Monday to discuss security and regional issues, the White House said. Prince Mohammed, appointed in November after the death of his father, veteran Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz, is best known as Saudi Arabia's long-time security chief and has garnered the praise of Western governments for his role in the campaign against al Qaeda. ...

Pakistan cleric tells followers: bring down government now Posted: 14 Jan 2013 03:35 PM PST ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A populist Pakistani cleric told tens of thousands of supporters gathered in the capital for an anti-corruption rally early on Tuesday morning that they could force the government to quit within hours. Supporters of Sufi cleric Muhammad Tahirul Qadri heeded his call to move towards parliament and removed the barriers put in place to contain them until they reached the square in front of the building. "The march is over and the revolution has started," said Qadri, who shot to fame since returning from Canada a few weeks ago, demanding an interim government. ...

Netanyahu conundrum faces Iranian riddle Posted: 14 Jan 2013 11:08 AM PST JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a simple message as he seeks a third term in office - he is a strong man and a vote for him at parliamentary elections on January 22 means Israel will be a powerful nation. The Hebrew word for strong, "hazak", peppers the television adverts of his right-wing Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu party like a compulsive mantra and is smeared across the blue-and-white campaign posters that dominate billboards around the country. ...

Colombia wants to pick up pace as talks with FARC rebels resume Posted: 14 Jan 2013 08:48 AM PST HAVANA (Reuters) - Representatives of the Colombian government and Marxist-led FARC rebels reconvened in Havana on Monday for a third round of peace talks that the government says need to start moving faster. The two sides began negotiating an end to their bloody, half-century-old conflict on November 19, but so far have only agreed on procedural issues and are returning from a three-week break over the holidays. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says he wants the process wrapped up by next November, but the rebels have said reaching a peace accord cannot be rushed. ...

Train carrying army recruits crashes in Egypt, 12 killed Posted: 14 Jan 2013 04:19 PM PST CAIRO (Reuters) - A military train carrying young recruits to army camp derailed in a Cairo suburb on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people and injuring 96 others, state news media and a security source said. The train was traveling from Upper Egypt to Cairo when it derailed in the Giza neighborhood of Badrashin, the security source said. Injured passengers were moved to hospitals, the health ministry said in a statement. The train was a military vehicle carrying conscripted youth on their way to an army camp, state news media said. ...

Police car attacked in Libya's Benghazi, one wounded Posted: 14 Jan 2013 03:42 PM PST BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - At least one police officer was wounded when attackers threw a hand grenade at a patrol car in the east Libyan city of Benghazi on Monday in the latest in a series of assaults on security officials, the force said. The city was the seat of the uprising that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi more than a year ago, and the government has struggled to control rival armed factions there ever since. The police car was parking near a crossroads close to the center of Libya's second biggest city when it came under attack from a passing car, a police source said. ...

Syria war envelops region in "staggering" crisis: aid agency Posted: 14 Jan 2013 11:32 AM PST BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's civil war is unleashing a "staggering humanitarian crisis" on the Middle East as hundreds of thousands of refugees flee violence including gang rape, an international aid agency said on Monday. Opposition activists said an air strike on rebel-held territory southwest of Damascus killed 20 people, including women and children, adding to the more than 60,000 people estimated to have been killed in the 21-month-old conflict. ...

Mali rebels make gains, vow to avenge French bombs Posted: 14 Jan 2013 02:38 PM PST BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Despite a punishing bombardment by French warplanes, al-Qaida-linked insurgents grabbed more territory in Mali on Monday, seizing a strategic military camp that brought them far closer to the government's seat of power.

Syria bombs Damascus suburbs to keep rebels out Posted: 14 Jan 2013 11:40 AM PST BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government bombed areas around Damascus on Monday as part of its push to keep rebel fighters out of the capital, leaving many children among the dozens killed, anti-regime activists said.

Mubarak's new trial could answer a key question Posted: 14 Jan 2013 01:54 PM PST CAIRO (AP) — Hosni Mubarak's new trial may resolve key questions unanswered in his first one: Who ordered the crackdown that left some 900 protesters dead and who pulled the trigger?

New cemetery endangers Egypt's ancient necropolis Posted: 14 Jan 2013 01:33 PM PST DAHSHOUR, Egypt (AP) — In this more than 4,500-year-old pharaonic necropolis, Egypt's modern rituals of the dead are starting to encroach on its ancient ones. Steamrollers flatten the desert sand, and trucks haul in bricks as villagers build rows of tombs in a new cemetery nearly up to the feet of Egypt's first pyramids and one of its oldest temples.

Severe Beijing smog prompts openness from government Posted: 14 Jan 2013 02:28 PM PST BEIJING (AP) — One of Beijing's worst rounds of air pollution kept schoolchildren indoors and sent coughing residents to hospitals Monday, but this time something was different about the murky haze: the government's transparency in talking about it.

2012 military suicides hit a record high of 349 Posted: 14 Jan 2013 01:45 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year, far exceeding American combat deaths in Afghanistan, and some private experts are predicting the dark trend will grow worse this year.

Palace: Prince William and Kate's baby due in July Posted: 14 Jan 2013 07:16 AM PST LONDON (AP) — The former Kate Middleton is due to give birth to her first baby in July, and her health is improving after a bout of severe morning sickness, palace officials said Monday.

Court denies Berlusconi bid to halt sex trial Posted: 14 Jan 2013 12:21 PM PST MILAN (AP) — A Milan court on Monday rejected a bid by former Premier Silvio Berlusconi to halt his sex-for-hire trial for Italy's general election campaign, a ruling that makes a verdict likely before the February vote.

Russian soldiers to trade foot wraps for socks Posted: 14 Jan 2013 02:17 PM PST MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian official says it's time for the nation's soldiers to switch from foot wraps to socks.

Thousands of protesters rally in Pakistani capital Posted: 14 Jan 2013 02:02 PM PST ISLAMABAD (AP) — Thousands of Pakistanis fed up with a government they say is corrupt and indifferent to the plight of common citizens descended on the capital Monday, responding to the call of a charismatic cleric who has quickly become a powerful but mysterious political force.

French government unfazed by massive anti-gay marriage protest Posted: 14 Jan 2013 02:33 PM PST Opponents to a government-sponsored bill that would legalize marriage and adoption for same-sex couples took the streets of Paris Sunday in the biggest demonstration over a social issue in France in nearly 30 years.

French public backs Mali intervention, but for how long? Posted: 14 Jan 2013 02:15 PM PST Despite the suddenness of France's military involvement in Mali, President François Hollande's decision to send troops to the troubled African nation has been well received across the French political spectrum. French politicians from nearly all the country's parties have thus far supported the campaign, which has seen early successes in stopping the southward advance of Mali's al-Qaeda-linked rebels who seized control of the country's north in the first half of last year.

What is Pakistan's 'million-march'? Posted: 14 Jan 2013 02:12 PM PST Tens of thousands of protesters, including women and children, are gathering in Islamabad, less than a mile away from the Parliament building, as police stand by to stop them from entering the heavily-guarded area where the Pakistani president, the prime minister, and foreign embassies are situated.

Back in Afghanistan, Karzai shifts tone on US troop immunity Posted: 14 Jan 2013 10:41 AM PST A diplomatic dance has commenced between the US and Afghanistan over a US request for legal immunity that would enable a contingent of American troops to stay on beyond 2014.

Kremlin: Adoption ban needed to create 'Russia Without Orphans' Posted: 14 Jan 2013 09:05 AM PST After some 20,000 Russians marched through the frigid streets of downtown Moscow Sunday to protest the Dima Yakovlev Act, which bans all adoptions of Russian orphans by US citizens, the Kremlin was moved to offer a rare public response.

Mali Islamists threaten to retaliate 'at the heart of France' Posted: 14 Jan 2013 06:02 AM PST • A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

Havana scraps exit visas, but most Cubans won't be going abroad Posted: 14 Jan 2013 06:41 AM PST Havana's old town is a colorful though faded grid of dilapidated houses punctuated by chess games and 1950s-era American cars. Neighbors chat from their doorways, like Estrella, who sits on a knee-high box in in front of her home.

With French air strikes, has the war to retake northern Mali begun? (+video) Posted: 13 Jan 2013 12:59 PM PST France widened its military intervention in the African nation of Mali today beyond targets in the center of the country, sending fighter jets to the north to hammer training camps, infrastructure, and logistics depots used by Islamist rebels with ties to Al Qaeda.

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