Iran regime drums up its own crowds to oppose Green Movement (The Christian Science Monitor)

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• Iran regime drums up its own crowds to oppose Green Movement (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Ex-Indonesia president laid to rest
• North Korea bans use of foreign currency (AP)
• Australian residents return to razed homes (AP)
• Obama's Unappreciated First Year
• Tweaking The War On Terror
• Republican Rigidity
• Labour's Retrograde Politics
• Suicide bomber attacks CIA base in Afghanistan, killing at least 8 Americans
• Al-Qaeda and Yemen
• CIA deaths on the job
• Iraq War Casualties
• O'Malley weighs more measures to slow Maryland foreclosures
• Obama's apparent low-key approach to Kashmir disappoints some in disputed region
• Indonesians to bury popular former president Wahid (AP)
• Murder victims found hanging from Mexico overpass (AP)
• Canadians killed in Afghan attacks
• Chavez disputes Spanish official's climate remarks (AP)
• AP source: CIA officers believed killed in attack (AP)
• Shocked residents survey Australia wildfire wreckage (AFP)

Iran regime drums up its own crowds to oppose Green Movement (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 09:09 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - On Wednesday, the Islamic Republic of Iran reacted to last Sunday’s violent demonstrations by marshaling supporters in countrywide demonstrations and launching a media offensive against the opposition Green Movement.

Ex-Indonesia president laid to rest Posted: 30 Dec 2009 09:15 PM PST State funeral held for Abdurrahman Wahid who took office in 1999 after Suharto was ousted.

North Korea bans use of foreign currency (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 09:27 PM PST AP - North Korea has banned the use of foreign currency, another sign its hard-line communist government is intent on reasserting control over the country's nascent market economy.

Australian residents return to razed homes (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 09:10 PM PST AP - Residents returned Thursday to nearly 40 homes razed in Australia's most destructive wildfires in almost year, which left four people injured.

Obama's Unappreciated First Year Posted: 30 Dec 2009 09:01 PM PST Voters are largely overlooking his achievements.

Tweaking The War On Terror Posted: 30 Dec 2009 09:01 PM PST The U.S.' defensive approach isn't doing the trick.

Republican Rigidity Posted: 30 Dec 2009 09:01 PM PST Why health care reform and tax laws are suffering.

Labour's Retrograde Politics Posted: 30 Dec 2009 09:00 PM PST Britain's ruling party makes class a central issue in the looming general election.

Suicide bomber attacks CIA base in Afghanistan, killing at least 8 Americans Posted: 30 Dec 2009 09:00 PM PST A suicide bomber infiltrated a CIA base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least eight Americans in what is believed to be the deadliest single attack on U.S. intelligence personnel in the eight-year-long war and one of the deadliest in the agency's history, U.S. officials said.

Al-Qaeda and Yemen Posted: 30 Dec 2009 09:00 PM PST Al-Qaeda has used Yemen as a base to launch attacks against U.S. interests since the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000. Some major events:

CIA deaths on the job Posted: 30 Dec 2009 09:00 PM PST Ninety CIA employees have been posthumously honored for their deaths in the line of duty since the agency's inception in 1947. Fatal incidents include:

Iraq War Casualties Posted: 30 Dec 2009 09:00 PM PST Total number of U.S. military deaths since 2003 and names of the U.S. troops killed recently in the Iraq war, as announced by the Pentagon:

O'Malley weighs more measures to slow Maryland foreclosures Posted: 30 Dec 2009 09:00 PM PST The conviction in Laura Holbrook's words masks the fear she has lived with for a year: "I won't be homeless with five kids," she says.

Obama's apparent low-key approach to Kashmir disappoints some in disputed region Posted: 29 Dec 2009 09:00 PM PST SRINAGAR, INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR -- Every day, Irfan Ansari sorts through dozens of résumés from young Kashmiris seeking jobs at his call center, seen by many here as a haven from the turmoil caused by militant Islamist forces seeking to uproot the government of Indian-administered Kashmir.

Indonesians to bury popular former president Wahid (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 09:02 PM PST AP - Thousands of mourners thronged roads Thursday in Indonesia to say farewell to late President Abdurrahman Wahid, a beloved, one-eyed cleric who reached out to religious minorities in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation.

Murder victims found hanging from Mexico overpass (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 08:38 PM PST AP - The bound, beaten bodies of two men were found hanging by their necks from a highway overpass in northern Mexico on Wednesday, along with a handwritten message from a drug cartel.

Canadians killed in Afghan attacks Posted: 30 Dec 2009 08:15 PM PST Four soldiers and one journalist dead hours after eight Americans killed in suicide blast.

Chavez disputes Spanish official's climate remarks (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 07:38 PM PST AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is trading barbs with Spain's environment minister over the Copenhagen summit on climate change.

AP source: CIA officers believed killed in attack (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 08:29 PM PST AP - A congressional official says CIA employees are believed to be among the dead in Wednesday's suicide bombing inside a base in eastern Afghanistan.

Shocked residents survey Australia wildfire wreckage (AFP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 08:03 PM PST AFP - Shocked residents returned to survey the wreckage on Thursday after Western Australia's worst wildfire in 50 years engulfed 38 homes in an isolated rural community.

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