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In India, the World’s Largest School Lunch Program (Time.com)

Time.com - Despite its optimistic economy andgrowing geopolitical clout, India continues to be home to moreundernourished children than any other country. Can wholesome school lunches be part of the solution?

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French Cabinet reshuffle puts conservatives at top (AP)

Secretary-General of the French Presidency, Claude Gueant announces France's Prime Minister Francois Fillon's new cabinet line-up on Sunday Nov 14, 2010 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. French President Nicolas Sarkozy reappointed Francois Fillon as prime minister on Sunday despite often prickly relations between the two; asking him to create a new government. The president had been expected for months to make changes to his government before 2012 presidential elections. But the reshuffle turned into a highly unusual 24-hour weekend marathon.(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy appointed a new government Sunday in a marathon weekend reshuffle with faithful allies taking top posts clearly aimed at pleasing his conservative ranks before…

Haiti: Where Building a Hospital Can be Illegal (Time.com)

Time.com - Haiti’s government finds itself caught between the need to house more than a million people displaced by the earthquake, and the rights of landowners

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Four Canadians dead in Mexican hotel gas explosion (Reuters)

Reuters - At least four Canadian tourists and two workers were killed on Sunday in a gas explosion at a hotel on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, authorities said.

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Sudan independence vote chief slams foreign donors (Reuters)

Reuters - Foreign donors have held up preparations for a referendum on south Sudan’s independence by not transferring money to the organizers and wasting money on pointless grants, the head…

Lax Egypt border lets Hamas rearm: Israeli official (Reuters)

Reuters - Egypt is not doing nearly enough to clamp down on arms smuggling into Gaza, allowing the Palestinian militant group Hamas to build up a potent arsenal of rockets,…

Five NATO troops killed as Afghanistan violence soars (Reuters)

An Afghan disabled man walks past  Afghan traditional clothes arranged for sale in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Nov 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)Reuters - Five troops serving with the NATO-led force in Afghanistan were killed on Sunday, including three in a clash with insurgents in the east, the coalition said, one of…

Israeli government seen accepting new settlement freeze (Reuters)

An Israeli soldier holds a Palestinian boy during a protest by foreign, Israeli and Palestinian activists against a nearby Jewish settlement north of the Israeli occupied West Bank town of Hebron last month. Israel's cabinet will on Sunday consider a US incentives package designed to persuade it to impose a new settlement freeze that could kick-start stalled peace talks with the Palestinians.(AFP/File/Hazem Bader)Reuters - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will probably win narrow approval from his coalition government for a U.S. proposal to extend a freeze on West Bank settlement building, Israeli political…

NATO says 5 soldiers killed in Afghanistan (Reuters)

Reuters - Five soldiers serving with the NATO-led force in Afghanistan were killed on Sunday, including three in a clash with insurgents in the east, the coalition said, one of…

British couple freed by pirates arrives in Kenya (Reuters)

Released British hostage Rachel Chandler disembarks from a plane as she arrives at the airport in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, November 14, 2010. REUTERS/Omar FarukReuters - A plane carrying British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler landed in the Kenyan capital on Sunday after their release from captivity by Somali pirates.


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