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• France to stay in Mali until stability restored
• Explosions kill 83 at Syrian university as exams begin
• ANA-operated Boeing 787 makes emergency landing, smoke seen: NHK
• Pakistan turmoil deepens as court orders PM's arrest
• Maduro stands in for Venezuela's ailing Chavez in key speech
• Indian troops kill Pakistani soldier in Kashmir
• Analysis: New China leaders must steady economy in 2013 before driving reform
• Japan's Abe turns to Southeast Asia to counter China
• U.S. condemns comments by Egypt's Mursi as Islamist leader
• Analysis: Mali's Islamist groups united by war threat
• Dozens killed in blasts at Syria university
• Race is on for EU's $1.3 billion science projects
• French triple troops in Mali, prepare for assault
• From misery to tragedy in Egyptian train crash
• France girds for new threats amid Mali operation
• Israel's Labor head poised to be Netanyahu gadfly
• US condemns comments from Egypt's Morsi
• Iran: Khamenei's ban on nuclear weapons binding
• Pakistani court orders PM's arrest amid huge rally
• Cuba critics look to test government on travel law
• Pakistan's political crisis: Is democracy endangered?
• As IAEA arrives in Tehran, Iran braces for full force of US sanctions
• How the French got to airstrikes in Mali: A briefing from Bamako
• Memories of its own civil war dampen Lebanon's desire to help Syrian refugees
• Pakistani stock exchange on edge after court orders prime minister's arrest
• 'Red October' malware found snooping on Russian state networks
• Pakistan's court order to arrest the prime minister unsettles nation
• Mali rebel fighters better prepared than first thought: French officials
• Good Reads: Thick financial fog, unskilled workers, self-helped Americans, and a forgiveness that heals

France to stay in Mali until stability restored Posted: 15 Jan 2013 02:27 PM PST BAMAKO/DUBAI (Reuters) - France pledged on Tuesday to keep troops in Mali until stability returned to the West African country, raising the specter of a long campaign against al Qaeda-linked rebels who held their ground despite a fifth day of air strikes. Paris has poured hundreds of soldiers into Mali and carried out 50 bombing raids since Friday in the Islamist-controlled northern half of the country, which Western and regional states fear could become a base for terrorist attacks in Africa and Europe. ...

Explosions kill 83 at Syrian university as exams begin Posted: 15 Jan 2013 01:34 PM PST BEIRUT (Reuters) - Two explosions tore through one of Syria's biggest universities on the first day of student exams on Tuesday, killing 83 people and wounding dozens, a monitoring group said. Bloodshed has disrupted civilian life across Syria since a violent government crackdown in early 2011 on peaceful demonstrations for democratic reform turned the unrest into an armed insurgency bent on overthrowing President Bashar al-Assad. ...

ANA-operated Boeing 787 makes emergency landing, smoke seen: NHK Posted: 15 Jan 2013 04:33 PM PST TOKYO (Reuters) - A Boeing 787 operated by All Nippon Airways Co made an emergency landing in Takamatsu in western Japan after smoke appeared in the Dreamliner cabin, public broadcaster NHK reported on Wednesday. All passengers on board were evacuated, it said, without giving further details. The plane was heading for Haneda Airport in Tokyo, it said. (Reporting by Mayumi Negishi; Editing by Paul Tait)

Pakistan turmoil deepens as court orders PM's arrest Posted: 15 Jan 2013 02:31 PM PST ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered the arrest of the prime minister on Tuesday on corruption allegations, ratcheting up pressure on a government that is also facing street protests led by a cleric who has a history of ties to the army. The combination of the arrest order and the mass protest in the capital, Islamabad, led by Muslim cleric Muhammad Tahirul Qadri, raised fears among politicians that the military was working with the judiciary to force out a civilian leader. ...

Maduro stands in for Venezuela's ailing Chavez in key speech Posted: 15 Jan 2013 04:52 PM PST CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro gave a brief state of the nation address on Tuesday in place of his ailing boss, Hugo Chavez, who has not been seen in public since going to Cuba for cancer surgery more than a month ago. Maduro stood in for Chavez with a 10-minute speech to Congress in which he defended the president's decision to rule the OPEC nation from a hospital bed in Havana, despite opposition calls for him to step aside and name a temporary leader. ...

Indian troops kill Pakistani soldier in Kashmir Posted: 15 Jan 2013 12:47 PM PST ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Indian troops killed a Pakistani soldier in the disputed territory of Kashmir late on Tuesday, the Pakistani army said, the fifth fatality in hostilities between the nuclear armed neighbors since the new year. The soldier was killed at a position called Kundi during firing from the Indian side that began at 10 p.m. EST, Pakistan's army said in a statement. Two Pakistani and two Indian soldiers were killed in early January in the worst outbreak of violence in Kashmir since the India and Pakistan agreed a ceasefire nearly a decade ago. ...

Analysis: New China leaders must steady economy in 2013 before driving reform Posted: 15 Jan 2013 04:23 PM PST BEIJING (Reuters) - China's new leaders must stabilize the economy this year to keep employment high while avoiding a surge in housing prices and inflation that could undermine reforms needed to overhaul the country's export-oriented growth model. Without stability, incoming President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang, who are set to be confirmed in March, have no chance of delivering a slew of reforms they say are needed now to tackle a host of financial, industrial and income imbalances that threaten China's future. ...

Japan's Abe turns to Southeast Asia to counter China Posted: 15 Jan 2013 01:42 PM PST TOKYO/JAKARTA (Reuters) - The last time he was prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe's inaugural foreign trip was to China. In the job again 7 years later and relations with Beijing now chilly, Abe is turning first this time to the rising economic stars of Southeast Asia. A hawkish Abe wants them to help counterbalance the growing economic and military might of China at a time when Japan needs new sources of growth for its languishing economy and is debating whether to make its own military more muscular. ...

U.S. condemns comments by Egypt's Mursi as Islamist leader Posted: 15 Jan 2013 01:01 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Tuesday strongly condemned disparaging comments about Jews that Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi was reported to have made almost three years ago when he was a Muslim Brotherhood leader, and urged him to repudiate his remarks. White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters that the language Mursi used was "deeply offensive" and that U.S. officials had raised concerns with the Egyptian government on the matter. ...

Analysis: Mali's Islamist groups united by war threat Posted: 15 Jan 2013 10:28 AM PST DAKAR (Reuters) - A powerful southern offensive by Islamists in Mali last week, halted only by French air strikes, showed that a loose alliance of rebels from al Qaeda's North African wing and local groups has been united by the threat of foreign intervention. When the coalition of Islamists swept across northern Mali last year, massacring army troops and carving up the vast desert zone, ties between Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and local groups Ansar Dine and MUJWA had looked opportunistic, and regional mediators believed they could prize them apart. ...

Dozens killed in blasts at Syria university Posted: 15 Jan 2013 03:11 PM PST BEIRUT (AP) — Twin blasts ripped through a university campus in Syria's largest city on Tuesday as students were taking exams, setting cars alight, blowing the walls off dormitory rooms and killing more than 80 people, according to anti-regime activists and a government official.

Race is on for EU's $1.3 billion science projects Posted: 15 Jan 2013 02:23 PM PST BERLIN (AP) — Call it Europe's Got Talent for geeks.

French triple troops in Mali, prepare for assault Posted: 15 Jan 2013 03:54 PM PST BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — After a punishing bombing campaign failed to halt the advance of al-Qaida-linked fighters, France pledged Tuesday to triple the size of its force in Mali, sending in hundreds more troops as it prepared for a land assault to dislodge the militants occupying the northern half of the country.

From misery to tragedy in Egyptian train crash Posted: 15 Jan 2013 02:05 PM PST BADRASHEEN, Egypt (AP) — Packed in a rickety train speeding through the night, the poorly fed, pale-looking Egyptian conscripts were coming from some of Egypt's most dirt-poor villages to serve in one of the most miserable, lowly jobs of the security forces — as grunts in an anti-riot force usually deployed against protesters.

France girds for new threats amid Mali operation Posted: 15 Jan 2013 01:35 PM PST PARIS (AP) — France's military campaign to stop advancing Islamist insurgents in Mali has been met with a volley of threats from the extremists, feeding fears that the French could be targeted within their own borders. On Tuesday, as security forces stepped up patrols everywhere from airports to the Eiffel Tower, France's top security official issued a grim warning: the enemy is already here.

Israel's Labor head poised to be Netanyahu gadfly Posted: 15 Jan 2013 10:55 AM PST JERUSALEM (AP) — Just seven years after quitting her job as a high-profile media commentator, the leader of Israel's Labor Party appears to be on track to become head of the country's second-largest parliamentary faction and the leading voice against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

US condemns comments from Egypt's Morsi Posted: 15 Jan 2013 02:51 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Tuesday gave a blistering review of remarks that Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi made almost three years ago about Jews and called for him to repudiate what it called unacceptable rhetoric.

Iran: Khamenei's ban on nuclear weapons binding Posted: 15 Jan 2013 11:08 AM PST TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran sought Tuesday to spell out in its clearest terms yet that it is not seeking nuclear weapons, highlighting a religious decree issued by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that bans nuclear weapons.

Pakistani court orders PM's arrest amid huge rally Posted: 15 Jan 2013 11:50 AM PST ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's leaders received a powerful one-two punch Tuesday as the Supreme Court ordered the arrest of the prime minister in a corruption case and a firebrand cleric led thousands of protesters in a second day of anti-government demonstrations in the capital.

Cuba critics look to test government on travel law Posted: 15 Jan 2013 12:56 PM PST HAVANA (AP) — For years, Cuban dissidents say, authorities' message to them has been the same: Sure, you can leave the country. Just don't expect us to let you come back.

Pakistan's political crisis: Is democracy endangered? Posted: 15 Jan 2013 02:10 PM PST The Supreme Court's decision to order the arrest of the prime minister on the midst of major protests in Islamabad expressing frustration at the government has unleashed heated debate about whether democracy has just been upended in Pakistan.

As IAEA arrives in Tehran, Iran braces for full force of US sanctions Posted: 15 Jan 2013 01:03 PM PST As Iranian officials prepare for a new round of negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), US sanctions set to hit Tehran in February have Iranians worried that billions of dollars long stuck in bank accounts outside the Islamic Republic could soon become cemented in place.

How the French got to airstrikes in Mali: A briefing from Bamako Posted: 15 Jan 2013 12:39 PM PST French airstrikes in Mali last week have jolted the West's attention. The strikes and more planned deployments by France and other African states, are designed to halt the progress of Islamist rebels in Mali, and deny radicals an Afghan-style haven for jihad against Europe. Journalist Peter Tinti has lived in West Africa for the last three years and arrived in Bamako today. Here's his first briefer from the capital.

Memories of its own civil war dampen Lebanon's desire to help Syrian refugees Posted: 15 Jan 2013 08:38 AM PST References to the "Onion Factory," an abandoned farm once used by Syrian intelligence agents as an interrogation center and prison for Lebanese detainees, still send a shudder through residents of this Sunni town.

Pakistani stock exchange on edge after court orders prime minister's arrest Posted: 15 Jan 2013 07:48 AM PST Pakistan's main stock exchange fell by 525 points on Tuesday afternoon, adding to uncertainty after the Supreme Court ordered the arrest of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in connection with alleged impropriety in contracts for rental power projects.

'Red October' malware found snooping on Russian state networks Posted: 15 Jan 2013 06:50 AM PST When computer security experts recently discovered the hugely sophisticated and obviously state-sponsored cyber-spy worms Stuxnet and Flame, many wondered out loud whether organized criminals might soon get their hands on similar malware tools that can siphon almost any sensitive information from even the best-guarded system.

Pakistan's court order to arrest the prime minister unsettles nation Posted: 15 Jan 2013 06:38 AM PST The news that the Supreme Court had called for the arrest of Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf ran through Pakistan like an electric current Tuesday afternoon.

Mali rebel fighters better prepared than first thought: French officials Posted: 15 Jan 2013 06:31 AM PST • A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

Good Reads: Thick financial fog, unskilled workers, self-helped Americans, and a forgiveness that heals Posted: 14 Jan 2013 04:24 PM PST Here's the short answer to the question posed on the cover of the latest Atlantic Monthly, "What's inside America's banks?": No one knows. Not the regulators, not sophisticated investors, and not even the bankers themselves.

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