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Russia’s Medvedev to meet Japan’s PM: spokeswoman (Reuters)

Reuters - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will hold a bilateral meeting with Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC), Medvedev’s spokeswoman said…

Targeted by the Taliban, Pakistan’s Sufi Muslims Fight Back (Time.com)

Time.com - A mass movement sees itself as locked in a struggle for the soul of Pakistan, but declines to resort to violence as its enemies have done

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Haiti cholera toll at 800, U.S. risk seen low (Reuters)

A Haitian resident suffering from cholera waits for help on a street at the slum of Cite-Soleil in Port-au-Prince November 10, 2010. REUTERS/St-Felix EvensReuters - The death toll in Haiti’s cholera epidemic climbed on Thursday to 800, according to an American medical expert, but U.S. health authorities said the risk of widespread transmission…

Taiwan ex-president gets 19 years in prison (Reuters)

Reuters - Taiwan’s supreme court sentenced ex-president Chen Shui-bian, an anti-China firebrand whose rhetoric enraged Beijing and irked Washington, and his wife to 19 years in prison for bribery, a…

Haiti cholera toll at 800, worry for U.S.: CDC expert (Reuters)

A Haitian nurse treats a cholera victim at the Charles Colimon hospital in Petite Riviere. Aid groups fought Wednesday to halt the spread of cholera in Haiti's teeming capital, where makeshift camps crammed with earthquake survivors are ripe ground for the epidemic to take hold.(AFP/File/Nicholas Kamm)Reuters - The death toll in Haiti’s cholera epidemic climbed on Thursday, reaching 800, according to a U.S. medical expert who expressed concern about risk of transmission to the United…

Clinton offers Netanyahu security pledge on peace talks (Reuters)

Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday that Israel’s security requirements would be fully taken into account in any peace deal with…

Iraq breaks impasse as Maliki to form government (Reuters)

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki speaks during a news conference after meeting Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak at the presidential palace in Cairo October 20, 2010. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah DalshReuters - Shi’ite Nuri al-Maliki was re-nominated as Iraqi prime minister on Thursday as fractious politicians ended an eight-month deadlock that raised fears of renewed sectarian warfare.


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Netanyahu tells Clinton he is serious about peace (Reuters)

Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he was “quite serious” about talks with the Palestinians as he met with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton amid…

Burma under military control

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Bomb explodes next to Yemen ruling party building (Reuters)

Reuters - A bomb exploded next to the headquarters of Yemen’s ruling party in the south of the country Thursday, a local official said, but it was unclear who was…