Ivory Coast legislative polls open amid tension

Ivory Coast legislative polls open amid tension

Ivory Coast legislative polls open amid tension

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 11:45 PM PST

First parliamentary poll since disputed presidential elections, as party of ex-leader Laurent Gbagbo calls for boycott


India anti-graft activist fasts demanding strong ombudsman (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 11:17 PM PST

Reuters - A popular anti-corruption crusader who rocked the Indian government with street protests in the summer went on a day-long hunger strike Sunday and has warned of more to come if his demand for a tough law on graft are not quickly met.


(AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 11:09 PM PST

AP - Ex-Panama dictator Noriega flown home for new punishment after 22 years in US, French jails.


US hostage, 14, escapes in Philippine jungle (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 11:07 PM PST

In this photo taken Saturday Dec. 10, 2011, Kevin Lunsman, a kidnapped American teenage boy, talks to Filipino soldiers inside the Philippine military compound in Zamboanga city, southern Philippines following his escape from suspected al-Qaida-linked militants. Lunsman, 14, wandered without shoes for two days in a southern Philippine jungle before villagers found him, ending his five-month captivity, officials said Sunday. Lunsmann, claimed to have told his four armed captors that he would take a bath in a stream and then made a dash for freedom Friday in Basilan province, police Senior Supt. Edwin de Ocampo said. He followed a river down a mountain until villagers found him late the next day, de Ocampo said. (AP Photo)AP - A kidnapped American teenage boy escaped from suspected al-Qaida-linked militants and wandered without shoes for two days in a southern Philippine jungle before villagers found him, ending his five-month captivity, officials said Sunday.

India anti-graft activist fasts demanding strong ombudsman

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 11:25 PM PST

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A popular anti-corruption crusader who rocked the Indian government with street protests in the summer went on a day-long hunger strike Sunday and has warned of more to come if his demand for a tough law on graft are not quickly met.

Tunisian assembly adopts provisional constitution

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 11:03 PM PST

Document paves the way for the creation of a new government, but was opposed by one-third of the constituent assembly.


Iran says will not return US drone (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 10:23 PM PST

This photo released on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, claims to show US RQ-170 Sentinel drone which Tehran says its forces downed earlier this week, as the chief of the aerospace division of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, right, listens to an unidentified colonel, in an undisclosed location, Iran. (AP Photo/Sepahnews) EDS NOTE: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE.AP - A senior commander of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard says his country will not return a U.S. surveillance drone captured by its armed forces.

India anti-corruption activist holds symbolic fast (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 10:59 PM PST

Indian anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare, 74, gestures as he pays respect at the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011. Hazare began a day-long token fast for a powerful anti-corruption ombudsman, according to news reports. Earlier in the year Hazare went on a 12-day hunger strike pushing Parliament to consider his anti-graft demands and promised his jubilant supporters that his battle against endemic corruption would continue. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)AP - A popular anti-corruption activist ramped up pressure for strong anti-graft measures Sunday with a brief symbolic fast in the Indian capital.

Russian protests: Why I took to Moscow's streets (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 11:44 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - I’m scared. I got calls from my mom, my dad, my brother, my aunt and they all told me me pretty much the same thing: “Do you really understand what is going on? It is dangerous. There are going to be provocations. You can be arrested or injured. Do you understand that you can be fired?" (I work for a state-owned media company, in the entertainment sector.)


Russia protests: Moscow rocked by biggest since fall of USSR (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 10:09 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - If there was any doubt that significant numbers of Russians are ready to tear up the Putin-era social contract, which exchanges political freedom for relative prosperity, it was dramatically dispelled Saturday.


Bomb blasts hit Nigerian city of Jos

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 10:39 PM PST

At least one person reported killed and several injured at an outdoor bar where people were watching a football match.


Former Panama strongman Noriega heads home to prison (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 11:20 PM PST

Reuters - Manuel Noriega, Panama's ruthless drug-running military dictator of the 1980s, is to be returned home on Sunday, headed for a jungle prison to serve a 20-year term for the murders of opponents during his rule.


An unmarked date reflects Indian ambivalence (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 10:12 PM PST

AP - A century ago, in a tent city of 25,000 people built on the plains of north India, a new king stood before princes and maharajahs, soldiers and bureaucrats, and made a surprise announcement that would change the fate of this city. Delhi, the king said on that December day, would be the new capital of India.


Former Panama strongman Noriega heads home to prison

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 11:20 PM PST

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Manuel Noriega, Panama's ruthless drug-running military dictator of the 1980s, is to be returned home on Sunday, headed for a jungle prison to serve a 20-year term for the murders of opponents during his rule.

Israeli aircraft strike Gaza following rocket fire (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 10:12 PM PST

The body of Ramadan Bahajat Zaalan, 12, during his funeral in Gaza City, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. Ramadan died of his injuries later Friday after an Israeli strike. Israeli forces had carried multiple airstrikes against Hamas facilities and suspected militants on Friday. It was a sharp escalation after weeks of low-level, but persistent rocket fire by Palestinian militants and Israeli retaliations. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)AP - Israeli aircraft struck the Gaza Strip early Sunday, wounding a 12-year-old girl and her father, according to a Palestinian health official.

Philippines gunmen free U.S. teenager after 5 months (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 09:31 PM PST

Reuters - Philippine gunmen late on Saturday freed a U.S. teen-ager after holding him captive for nearly five months on an island in the troubled south of the country, security officials said.


Philippines gunmen free U.S. teenager after 5 months

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 09:31 PM PST

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine gunmen late on Saturday freed a U.S. teen-ager after holding him captive for nearly five months on an island in the troubled south of the country, security officials said.

Gingrich stands by 'invented' Palestinians remark

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 09:18 PM PST

US presidential hopeful says he supports two-state solution but defends controversial comments about Palestinians.


Iraq: Key figures since the war began (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 09:01 PM PST

AP - _U.S. deaths as of Nov. 30, 2011: 4,485.


Samsung says sells over 300 million mobile handsets in 2011 (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 09:13 PM PST

Reuters - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (005930.KS) said on Sunday its annual mobile handset sales this year had exceeded 300 million units for the first time in the company's history.


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