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Syrian leader Assad said to be isolated, fearful as regime faces collapse Dec 29th 2012, 00:43 His official portrait still refers to Bashar al-Assad as "The Hope" of the Syrian nation, but signs are increasing that the man who presides over Syria's embattled government has little of it left for himself. Read full article >> China's new leaders discuss fight against corruption, but some are skeptical of action Dec 28th 2012, 23:11 BEIJING — Just days after China unveiled its new top leaders, one of the seven asked to meet with the nation's foremost experts on corruption. The experts arrived expecting to stick to the stale formula for such meetings, and they anticipated the Communist Party's usual caution when it comes to talk of anything approaching self-criticism. So they were shocked when Wang Qishan, the top party official charged with tackling corruption, veered off-script. Read full article >> The crazy list of the world's top Wikipedia searches in 2012 Dec 28th 2012, 19:36 Wikipedia may be one of the world's most popular Web sites, but it's also an amateur anthropologist of sorts. A new list of the top 10 Wikipedia searches in a number of different languages offers an interesting portrait of what captivated worldwide Internet users this year. Read full article >> Israeli gun laws are much stricter than some U.S. gun advocates suggest Dec 28th 2012, 18:46 The United States stands truly alone in the developed world for its lax gun laws, which have contributed to Americans owning guns at a far higher rate than anyone else. The National Rifle Association, in its pushback against calls for gun restrictions after the Sandy Hook Elementary mass shooting, has portrayed things somewhat differently. NRA chief Wayne LaPierre has drawn comparisons to Israel, saying that the U.S. should follow Israel's example of loose gun laws and of responding to mass shooting by posting armed guards at schools. Read full article >> Along the Chinese border, defectors say North Korean province is quietly liberalizing Dec 28th 2012, 18:16 On the northeastern fringe of North Korea, a place so remote that Korea's medieval monarchy once exiled out-of-favor officials there, a province now known as North Hamgyung may be experiencing a degree of relative wealth and freedom unknown in the rest of the country. Read full article >> China's government is blogging more, even as it tries to control blogging Dec 28th 2012, 17:40 China has unveiled tighter Internet controls, legalizing the deletion of posts that are deemed to contain "illegal" information and requiring service providers to report such posts to the authorities. "Service providers are required to instantly stop the transmission of illegal information once it is spotted and take relevant measures, including removing the information and saving records, before reporting to supervisory authorities," the rules state. Read full article >> Senate approves measure to renew controversial surveillance authority Dec 28th 2012, 16:56 Congress approved a measure Friday that would renew expansive U.S. surveillance authority for five more years, rejecting objections from senators who are concerned the legislation does not adequately protect Americans' privacy. Read full article >> The real reason Russia wants to ban adoptions by 'dangerous' American families Dec 28th 2012, 16:19 When President Vladimir Putin signed a law this week banning U.S. families from adopting Russian children, it's hard to imagine, as an American, that he was thinking of the 46 pending adoptions he canceled. The nearly four dozen Russians orphans were within sight of a home and family, only to have them taken away as part of the ban that is widely seen as political retaliation against a U.S. law targeting Russian human rights abusers. It's also hard to imagine that he was thinking of the on-average 1,000 Russians adopted annually into American homes, a reprieve both for the children and for Russia's notoriously harsh and over-burdened orphanages. Read full article >> How India's rape name-and-shame database could backfire Dec 28th 2012, 16:15 A woman who was gang raped by six drunken men in New Delhi on Dec. 16 continues to fight for her life in a Singapore hospital, having sustained a heart attack, a lung and abdominal infection and "significant" brain injury. (Update: The AP reported Friday afternoon that the woman has died.) The 23-year-old medical student was severely beaten with an iron rod, raped for almost an hour and thrown out of a moving bus, sparking massive protests across the country over a perceived lack of government action to stem violence against women there. Read full article >> Muslim Brotherhood's 'Supreme Guide' the focus of liberal Egyptians' angst Dec 28th 2012, 14:51 CAIRO — During a recent night of opposition protests, people chanted against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and decried the draft constitution he was pressing. But the angriest and most fervent chants of all were aimed at a 69-year-old Islamist veterinarian, who many are convinced is secretly ruling Egypt. Read full article >>

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