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Today's World News: Filipino who lost wife in massacre files candidacy NATO teams train Afghans on the front line Jobs, economics complicate Brazil's Amazon fight Cambodian ex-prison chief pleads for release Iran seizes rights lawyer's Nobel Peace medal How a Little Town in Peru Is Becoming a Hotspot British nuclear watchdog issues reactor concerns Palestinians urge US to raise pressure on Israel Brazil: 'Gringos' must pay to stop Amazon razing Namibia vote expected to return party to power China pledges stable economic policy for next year Pickton gets leeway in murder appeal Invading camels to be shot in Australian town Pakistan military moving to undercut Zardari over his close U.S. ties Afghanistan war: Why helicopters are critical to US and NATO forces When Thanksgiving Comes to Afghanistan Shock over Obama Decision to Reject Landmine Ban Filipino who lost wife in massacre files candidacy Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:50 pm PST AP - A politician whose wife and relatives were among 57 people massacred in the southern Philippines in an apparent bid to stop him from running for governor filed his candidacy Friday for the election. Full Story Top NATO teams train Afghans on the front line Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:48 pm PST AP - As President Barack Obama prepares to pour up to 35,000 more U.S. troops into Afghanistan, a much smaller contingent of NATO trainers — many of them European — form a crucial part of the strategy to win the war and get foreign troops home. Full Story Top Jobs, economics complicate Brazil's Amazon fight Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:48 pm PST AP - Drawing his .40-caliber pistol, Severiano Pontes dashes across the steaming, muddy jungle floor, a hunch telling him what he would find around a bend. Full Story Top Cambodian ex-prison chief pleads for release Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:35 pm PST AP - The Khmer Rouge prison chief blamed for thousands of deaths at an infamous torture center asked Cambodia's genocide tribunal to release him Friday, citing the decade he already has served in jail and his cooperation with the panel. Full Story Top Iran seizes rights lawyer's Nobel Peace medal Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:59 pm PST AP - Iranian authorities confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the human rights lawyer said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against any dissent. Full Story Top How a Little Town in Peru Is Becoming a Hotspot Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:05 am PST Time.com - The name of the place was, if anything, a synonym for bad luck but now it ison the trade highway between Peru and Brazil, between the Pacific and theAtlantic Full Story Top British nuclear watchdog issues reactor concerns Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:45 pm PST AFP - Britain's nuclear safety watchdog has warned that French and US-Japanese reactors planned for construction in Britain could be rejected unless safety concerns were met. Full Story Top Palestinians urge US to raise pressure on Israel Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:48 pm PST AP - Palestinians appealed to the United States on Thursday to raise pressure on Israel, saying an Israeli plan to halt new construction in the West Bank was insincere. Full Story Top Brazil: 'Gringos' must pay to stop Amazon razing Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:12 pm PST AP - Brazil's president said Thursday that "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world's largest tropical rain forest. Full Story Top Namibia vote expected to return party to power Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:47 pm PST AP - Namibia's President Hifikepunye Pohamba was among the first to vote in an election expected to return him and his party to power, despite a challenge from a new breakaway party. Full Story Top China pledges stable economic policy for next year Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:49 pm PST AP - Chinese leaders pledged Friday to maintain stable economic policies over the year ahead as they wrapped up an annual planning meeting amid a massive stimulus effort, a state news agency said. Full Story Top Pickton gets leeway in murder appeal Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:43 am PST Reuters - Canada's Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to give serial killer Robert Pickton more legal leeway in appealing his conviction in the brutal murder of six Vancouver sex trade workers. Full Story Top Invading camels to be shot in Australian town Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:32 am PST AP - Australian authorities plan to corral about 6,000 wild camels with helicopters and gun them down after they overran a small Outback town in search of water, trampling fences, smashing tanks and contaminating supplies. Full Story Top Pakistan military moving to undercut Zardari over his close U.S. ties Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:24 pm PST McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan _ Suspicions by Pakistan's powerful army that the country's civilian leadership is growing too close to the United States are fueling a political crisis that analysts here believe threatens the survival of the government and could divert attention from the battle against Islamic extremists. Full Story Top Afghanistan war: Why helicopters are critical to US and NATO forces Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:00 am PST The Christian Science Monitor - In one of the worst chapters of their casualty-marred deployment in Afghanistan, Canadian forces earlier this year lost 10 soldiers in 90 days to improvised bombs on one stretch of highway in Kandahar province. Full Story Top When Thanksgiving Comes to Afghanistan Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:30 am PST Time.com - TIME's Kabul correspondent talks about a tradition that is coming to an endas the tenor of the war changes and the expatriate community suffers a seachange Full Story Top Shock over Obama Decision to Reject Landmine Ban Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:47 am PST OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (OneWorld.net) - The Obama administration announced yesterday that it would not be joining a treaty signed by 158 other countries to ban landmines. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the decision "lacks vision, compassion, and basic common sense." Full Story Top

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