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2014-12-22 U.S. World


BBC News
   
Tunisia election: Essebsi claims historic victory   
BBC News
Tunisia's Beji Caid Essebsi has claimed victory in the country's first free presidential election, with exit polls suggesting he won 55.5% of the vote. Supporters of the 88-year-old celebrated in the capital Tunis. Campaigners for his rival, caretaker President ...

Veteran Tunisian Statesman Claims Win After Presidential Run-off   TIME
Official from hated Ben Ali regime claims victory in Tunisia presidential election   Sydney Morning Herald
Tunisian Candidate Claims Victory Over Interim President   Wall Street Journal (blog)
Channel News Asia   
Irish Times   
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Los Angeles Times
   
Kurdish fighters enter Islamic State-occupied town of Sinjar   
Los Angeles Times
Kurdish fighters backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Sunday entered the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, which has been held by Islamic State militants for months. The campaign to retake the mountain town is the latest effort to regain ground lost to the ...

US planes hit 'Islamic State' in Iraq, Syria after big Kurdish victory (+video)   Christian Science Monitor
Massud Barzani hails advances against IS   The News International
Iraq's Barzani praises Peshmerga forces on Mount Sinjar   BBC News
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Reuters
   
Obama says Sony hack not an act of war   
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama moved to prevent U.S. anger at North Korea from spiraling out of control on Sunday by saying the massive hacking of Sony Pictures was not an act of war but instead was cyber-vandalism.
North Korea Threatens Bigger Pain If Punished Over Sony Hack   Businessweek
Sony Pictures should reverse itself   Washington Times
What Did Obama Know, or Want to Know, About Sony's Response to Hack?   Bloomberg
New York Times   
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New York Daily News
   
Crazed driver hits 11 in France terror attack   
New York Daily News
A man who reportedly spent time in a psychiatric hospital shouted "Allahu akbar!" as he rammed his car into crowds at five different locations around Dijon in central France on Sunday, injuring 11 people in a half-hour rampage. At least two people were ...

Driver Shouting 'Allahu Akbar!' Runs Down 11 French Pedestrians   NBCNews.com
Man shouting 'Allahu Akbar' drives into crowd in France, injures 11   Firstpost
'Allahu Akbar' lone wolf attacker shot dead by French police   euronews
Irish Independent   
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Irish Independent
   
Jordan confirms it hanged 11 murderers in one day   
Irish Independent
Jordan's Interior Ministry says the kingdom has hanged 11 people convicted of murder, the first executions to take place in the country in eight years. Ads by Google. Share. Facebook · Twitter · Google · Email. Go To. Comments. The official Petra news agency ...

Jordan Executes 11 After 8-Year Moratorium   New York Times
Jordan hangs 11 men after eight-year death penalty moratorium   Inquirer.net
Jordan Hangs 11 Men After 8-Year Execution Ban Ends   TIME
ABC Online   
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BBC News
   
More executions after Peshawar school massacre   
BBC News
Pakistan has hanged four prisoners, the second set of executions since a death penalty moratorium was lifted after the Peshawar school massacre. The four men were convicted of involvement in a plot to assassinate then President Pervez Musharraf. One of ...

Four more involved in attack on Musharraf hanged   The News International
Pakistan hangs four prisoners as execution campaign widens   Irish Times
4 militants executed, more in line   The Nation
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Daily Times   
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gulfnews.com
   
Egypt opens border with Gaza after 2-month closure   
gulfnews.com
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: A Palestinian border official says Egypt has opened its border post with the Gaza Strip for the first time in two months, offering temporary relief to Palestinians seeking to leave the coastal enclave. Maher Abu Sabha, the Gaza official in ...


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UPI.com
   
Russian Facebook blocks page supporting Putin's biggest critic   
UPI.com
The page advertised a rally in support of Alexei Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin's harshest critics, and it was set to follow the Jan. 15 verdict in a controversial embezzlement case that many have denounced as political in nature. By Fred Lambert ...

Facebook accused of bowing to Putin: Site shuts down page supporting ...   Daily Mail
Anti-Putin Facebook page blocked   Irish Times
Russia blocks Facebook site urging rally for anti-Kremlin activist Alexei Navalny   Telegraph.co.uk
International Business Times   
The Independent   
Stuff.co.nz   
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Haaretz
   
Netanyahu orders minimum wage hike for Israel's public sector   
Haaretz
In another apparent case of election economics, Prime Minster Benjamin Netanya announced at Sunday's weekly cabinet meeting that he planned to extend a formula for raising the minimum wage for the private sector to the public sector as well. “Adding the ...

Israeli MPs okay funding to build tourist center in West Bank   Press TV
Israel parliament gives $3.95m to settler tourism plan   AsiaOne
Economic issues whip up Israelis in 'chocolate pudding' election   Economic Times
Tribune-Review   
Sputnik International   
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Daily Times
   
In Hopes of Ending Deadlock, Premier Offers Early Elections   
New York Times
ATHENS — Prime Minister Antonis Samaras of Greece, seeking to rally lawmakers behind the government's candidate for president in a critical vote that could throw the country into new financial turmoil, offered on Sunday to set a date for early general ...

Early Greek presidential election revives fears of 'Grexit'   Irish Times
Greek PM offers early elections in return for support for candidate   The Guardian
Greece's PM has offers a compromise to ensure presidential elections go smoothly   Balkans.com Business News
Daily Times   
Reuters   
The Guardian Nigeria   
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