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“Let the Headlines Speak”
by From the Internet
November 22nd, 2012

Nato to consider Turkey's Patriot missile request
Nato says it will consider "without delay" Turkey's request to deploy Patriot anti-missile systems to protect its border with the unrest-torn Syria. The comments were made by the military bloc's chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Germany's foreign minister has already said the request by Turkey, a Nato member, should be approved.

US diplomat Susan Rice defends Benghazi comments
The US ambassador to the United Nations has defended comments she made days after a deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Susan Rice said her remarks in a series of TV interviews on 14 September were based on information provided by the US intelligence community. Ms Rice has faced Republican criticism after saying the attacks stemmed from protests over an anti-Islamic film.

EU and US thank Egypt for Gaza truce
EU and US statements after one week of Gaza hostilities have underlined the new status of the Muslim Brotherhood in the region. British foreign minister William Hague and French President Francois Hollande - speaking for the two former colonial powers in the Middle East - joined the US on Wednesday (21 November) in singling out Egypt's role in ending the fighting.

Lebanon army dismantles rocket aimed at Israel
The Lebanese army disabled a rocket on Thursday which was primed to be fired into northern Israel and said two others were launched late on Wednesday but fell short of the border. An army statement said the incidents all took place near the southern Lebanese town of Marjayoun, about five km (three miles) from Israel's northern border.

23 killed, 54 injured in Pakistan suicide blast
Death toll of the suicide bombing that hit a Shiite Muslims procession in Pakistan's northern city of Rawalpindi on Wednesday night rose to 23 on Thursday morning, while 53 others got injured, local media said. The attack happened at 11:33 p.m. local time when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a Shiite Muslims procession in Misrial area in Rawalpindi, an adjoining city of the country's capital Islamabad.

'Iran is hauling dirt to site IAEA wants to inspect'
Iran has been hauling dirt to a military site UN nuclear inspectors want to visit, Western diplomats said on Wednesday, saying the findings were based on satellite images and they reinforced suspicions of a clean-up. ...The pictures, presented during a closed-door briefing for member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency, suggested Iran was continuing to try to hide incriminating traces of any illicit nuclear-related activity.

PM: We're ready to take a harsher stance if truce fails
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Israel is prepared to act if Hamas breaks the Egypt-mediated truce. "The operation's goals were met," Netanyahu said. "I know there are citizens that expect a harsher stand in Gaza - and we are prepared to make one. We choose when to act, against who to act and how to act," Netanyahu added.

Pakistan Taliban vow to attack Indian targets over Mumbai gunman
Pakistan's Taliban movement threatened on Thursday to attack Indian targets to avenge the country's execution of Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the lone survivor of the militant squad responsible for a rampage through Mumbai that killed 166 people in 2008. Kasab was hanged on Wednesday amid great secrecy, underscoring the political sensitivity of the November 26, 2008, massacre, which still casts a pall over relations between nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India.

Syria rebels 'capture key army base' in the east
Syrian rebel fighters say they have taken a military base in the town of Mayadeen, leaving a swathe of eastern Syria under opposition control. Opposition sources say they control a key oil-producing area between the city of Deir Ezzor and the Iraq border. The rebels have made advances in the north and east but have yet to take a major city from government forces.

Sao Paulo sees big jump in murder
Brazil's biggest city, Sao Paulo, saw 176 killings in October, more than double the number in the same period last year, official figures show. The data was released just hours after Sao Paulo's security chief, Antonio Ferreira Pinto, resigned amid a wave of violence in the city. Analysts say the upsurge in killings indicates an "undeclared war" between police and a criminal faction. So far this year, 95 officers have been killed, compared with 47 in 2011.

EU budget summit opens with hard bargaining
EU leaders are beginning talks on the bloc's seven-year budget, with many of them calling for cuts in line with the savings they are making nationally. Countries that rely heavily on EU funding, including Poland and its ex-communist neighbours, want current spending levels maintained or raised.

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