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  In BB's wake    World Donors Pledge $7.4B For Palestine   Dismal Housing News as Pessimism Grows     
   
           
    Gaddafi visit to France is ‘kiss of death’    John Bolton:  Looking Back in Anger    
        NY Couple Convicted in Slavery Case     
    The Economist   Is the U.S. now ready for talks with Syria?           
       Election 2008       Protests Lend Momentum To Students' Struggle    Border Patrol fires tear gas into Mexico       
                                           
  How John Edwards Could Win Iowa   Kissinger's foggy focus on Iran     
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  McCain Looks for Joe-mentum        
                     
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  Kosovo Vows To Break With Serbia By May      
             
           Iraq /  Afghanistan/ Pakistan          UK/Ireland    
                       
  Kosovo: President Says 'We Won't Be Hostage To Any Country'     
Forces facing a decade locked into Afghanistan
    The City of London's tumble     
   'Kosovo Talks Failed Due to the Albanians' Intransigence'    
Iraq: Culture Warriors Enter the War Zone
    UK 'failed to make Basra safe'     
  Finns Snap Up Swastika Rings for Christmas    
Insurgents Disguised as Bride and Groom
    Canoeist turns up after vanishing five years ago     
  Moldova: A Political Battle, With Christmas At Its Center     
Iraq's Muqtada not quite Hezbollah mold 
  "Dead" Canoeist Appears In British Court    
       
             
       East Asia            Russia             China    
               
  Cargo trains begin service in Koreas   Putin Accepts Protégé's Offer Of PM Post     China leaves US, India trailing    
  US Envoy Arrives in North Korea to Inspect Nuclear Plant   Putin Backs Underling As Successor     Shanghai News    
  Samsung Scandal May "Reshape Korea Inc."     Thanks, But We Don't Need Your Monitors      China's Anti-satellite Test Raises Concerns    
  China's Hu Ends Japan Summit Without Resolution on Gas Fields
The Milosevic Mold 
           
       
       South Asia            Germany          France   Letters from Nantes  
                     
  Bali climate deal marks a geopolitical shift    Germany Faces Taliban Pincer in Afghanistan  
Sarkozy and the Supermodel
 
  Bali talks seek new climate pact   Nazi Hunters Follow New Leads to Track Down "Dr. Death"    When Sarkozy Met Gaddafi   
  The strange, slow-motion disaster of the mud volcano      China Threatens to Sue over Fake Terracotta Warriors  
Eta raises stakes by killing guard on French soil 
 
  How the US got its Philippine bases back     Why David Lynch Should Learn German    
Youths Riot for 3rd Night Outside Paris
   
         
     
         
     
                             
       Latin America/The Caribbean          Italy          Brazil    
                 
  Castro: I Will Not "Cling" To Power   Italian shoots 'suffering' wife in her hospital bed    On Rio's mean streets, a rare credibility     
  Fujimori Due In Peru Court Over Massacres   Vatican: For True Progress, We Need Faith   A neglected Brazilian slums looking to Lula for change  
   'My Mother Is Slowly Fading'   Eleven New Cases of AIDS Every Day in Italy   Brazil Police Release 3 Cisco Employees In Tax Fraud Probe  
  Colombian hostage letter details     Going to Hell with Benigni    A Violent Police Unit, on Film and in Rio’s Streets       
                     
       Africa            Australia/New Zealand        Canada    
                 
  Somalia on the Edge   PM Rudd's first act: ratifying Kyoto    Tories turn to ex-PQ premier for Bali talks    
  Mandela and Tutu scold ANC ahead of vote Rudd ratifies Kyoto   16-year-old gunned down in doorway of his home     
  Teddy trouble: hopes rise for British teacher jailed in Sudan    NZ woman dies during Fiji honeymoon   It looks like we're in for one heck of a winter'    
  South Africa's enigmatic and controversial president     Ambulance set alight   In unusual move, jury seeks no advice from court    
   
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    The uncomfortable rise of the rupee      Pam Anderson files for another divorce, changes mind      
 
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