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Top Russian spy defects after betraying ring in U.S. (Reuters)

November 11th, 2010

Reuters - The head of Russia’s deep cover U.S. spying operations has betrayed the network and defected, a Russian paper said on Thursday, potentially giving the West one of its…

UK PM calls for prosecutions after violent demo (AP)

November 11th, 2010

Student protesters light a flare as police contain them  outside the entrance to Millbank Tower, housing the headquarters of the Conservative Party, during a protest in London, Wednesday Nov. 10, 2010, against an increase in university tuition fees. Organizers said 50,000 students, lecturers and supporters were demonstrating against plans to raise the cost of studying at a university to 9,000 pounds ($14,000) a year - three times the current rate. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)AP - British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday condemned violence that erupted during a demonstration against government plans to triple university fees, and police acknowledged they were unprepared for…

Mexicans fear turf war after drug kingpin’s death (Reuters)

November 9th, 2010

Mexican federal police present two suspected members of the Los Zetas drug cartel and weapons confiscated during their capture at a news conference at the federal police center in Mexico City October 22, 2010. REUTERS/Mexican Federal Police/HandoutReuters - For Mexicans living in the battleground between two of the country’s biggest drug gangs, the threat of even worse violence is rising as the Zetas try to grab…

What’s Next for Burma Opposition After Elections? (Time.com)

November 8th, 2010

Time.com - Despite the trappings of political openness, the country’s first elections in two decades were hardly an exercise in democracy

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Gunmen block roads after Mexican drug lord killed (Reuters)

November 6th, 2010

President Barack Obama voiced support for Mexican President Felipe Calderon, pictured in September 2010, on Saturday in the wake of an operation in which a leader of one of Mexico's biggest drug cartels was killed in a shootout with soldiers.(AFP/File/Ronaldo Schemidt)Reuters - Rival gunmen blocked roads near the U.S. border and strung up threatening banners on Saturday after marines killed one of Mexico’s top drug kingpins in a government crackdown…

Hitmen block roads after Mexican drug lord killed (Reuters)

November 6th, 2010

Navy marines walk behind an armored pick-up truck during a gunfight with alleged cartel members in the northern border city of Matamoros, Mexico, Friday Nov. 5, 2010.  During the operation, Mexican marines killed reputed Gulf cartel leader and one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords, Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, alias 'Tony Tormenta,' or 'Tony the Storm,' according to the Mexican navy.  (AP Photo/El Bravo de Matamoros)Reuters - Rival hitmen blocked roads near the U.S. border and strung up threatening banners on Saturday after marines killed one of Mexico’s top drug kingpins in a government crackdown…

Tomas weakens to tropical storm after hitting Haiti (Reuters)

November 6th, 2010

A man walks in the rain in front of the national palace in Port-au-Prince November 5, 2010. REUTERS/ Eduardo MunozReuters - Hurricane Tomas weakened to a tropical storm on Saturday after it lashed Haiti’s crowded camps for earthquake survivors and coastal towns, triggering flooding and mudslides that killed at…

After Pakistan’s Floods, the Taliban’s Shadow Lengthens (Time.com)

November 5th, 2010

Time.com - The Pakistani military supposedly pounded the Taliban out of the Swat Valley last year. But the militants have started to regroup, with deadly force

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Qantas 747 lands in Singapore after engine problem (Reuters)

November 5th, 2010

Passengers make their way out of the terminal at Singapore's Changi airport after they disembarked from Qantas flight QF6 in Singapore November 5, 2010. REUTERS/Vivek PrakashReuters - A Qantas aircraft made an emergency landing in Singapore on Friday after experiencing engine problems, an airport official and state TV said, the second such incident involving the…

Qantas plane returns to Singapore after engine problem (Reuters)

November 5th, 2010

Reuters - A Qantas Boeing 747 aircraft landed safely in Singapore after it was forced to return to the city-state due to problems with one of its engines, Singapore state…