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A surprisingly deep Chinese joke about Hurricane Sandy Oct 30th 2012, 23:41 The invaluable Tea Leaf Nation rounds up some of the apparently widespread discussion about Hurricane Sandy on Chinese social media. Some of the comments offer concern for American well-being, some find lessons for China (more infrastructure, less censorship), and some cheer at "those American devils" getting their due. Read full article >> Protesters disrupt Libya congress as it tries to vote on new government Oct 30th 2012, 21:03 TRIPOLI, Libya — Protesters stormed Libya's General National Congress on Tuesday, just as representatives were moving to vote on a government after months of political stalemate. The protesters said they objected to several nominees in Prime Minister Ali Zidan's proposed 27-member cabinet, including the minister of Islamic affairs, who they said was a secularist. Read full article >> Poland has fracking tensions, too Oct 30th 2012, 20:36 In the United States., fights between environmental nonprofits and state governments over hydraulic fracturing — or fracking — have spanned from Pennsylvania to California. And in Europe, Poland has become the latest fracking battlefield. Read full article >> Pro-Assad page claims Syria and Iran engineered Hurricane Sandy Oct 30th 2012, 17:54 Among the many global reactions to Hurricane Sandy's impact on the U.S. East Coast, this one might be the most amusing. Syrian Army News, a pro-regime Facebook page, announced that anti-Western "resistance" forces working under President Bashar al-Assad and under the Iranian government secretly engineered the natural disaster using "highly advanced technology." It describes the hurricane as a punishment for threatening Assad's Syria. Read full article >> Brazilians dare to hope crackdown on corruption is real Oct 30th 2012, 17:47 SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Normally, live coverage of events in Brazil is reserved for football matches. But in recent weeks, the law professors at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), a Brazilian educational institution, have been running live commentary on something entirely different – the Mensalão (or big monthly allowance) case in the Supreme Court. Read full article >> Clinton calls for unity in Bosnia, criticizes Serb nationalists Oct 30th 2012, 17:20 SARAJEVO, Bosnia — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a blunt warning to squabbling Balkan leaders Tuesday that they risk being left behind as their neighbors join economically and diplomatically with Europe. Read full article >> In India, dengue panic after Bollywood movie mogul Yash Chopra's death Oct 30th 2012, 17:01 Reports from several states in India indicate that dengue fever, an infectious virus carried by mosquitoes, is on the rise this month. But some think that public concern over the disease might be prompted by a celebrity — rather than health — obsession. Read full article >> China powerless to prevent rising tide of Tibetan self-immolations Oct 30th 2012, 16:50 NEW DELHI — As China's Communist Party prepares for its leadership transition, a wave of self-immolations has spread and accelerated across Tibet, in the most sustained protests against Beijing's rule there in five decades. Read full article >> Hurricane Sandy's economic damage felt in far-away India Oct 30th 2012, 16:14 Analysts are trying to put a number on Hurricane Sandy's potential cost to the United States, with a disaster-modeling firm predicting $10 billion to $20 billion in damages, a University of Maryland economist estimating $45 billion, and a financial analyst suggesting the storm could cost $10 billion per day in lost productivity. That's just in the United States, but there's reason to believe that this hit to the world's largest economy could resonate farther out  — as far as India. Read full article >> 2 NATO troops die in Afghan insider attack Oct 30th 2012, 15:22 KABUL — Two members of the U.S.-led military coalition were killed Tuesday by a man wearing an Afghan police uniform in southern Afghanistan, an official said. The killings are the latest in a series of insider attacks that have sown distrust between coalition and Afghan forces. Read full article >> The world is watching: Global concern, boasting, jokes over Hurricane Sandy Oct 30th 2012, 14:57 The world's interest in all things United States is showing Tuesday in foreign media and social media coverage of Hurricane Sandy's impact on the East Coast. Those cross-cultural datapoints are anecdotal, of course, but still reveal a small degree of how America is interpreted abroad and of the people doing that interpreting.  Read full article >> Has N. Korea shut down one of its gulags? Oct 30th 2012, 14:24 SEOUL — Human rights groups and defector organizations have spent weeks now investigating rumors about the closure of Camp 22, North Korea's largest political prison camp, and the only thing proven so far is the North's expertise at keeping secrets. Read full article >> A viral, fake Hurricane Sandy photo migrates to China Oct 30th 2012, 12:43 The Chinese Web has picked up on one of the most popular photos from Hurricane Sandy. It's from Brigantine, N.J., and purports to show a shark swimming through the town's flooded streets. It was originally posted by a guy named Kevin McCarty, who earlier posted another shark-in-Jersey photo that TheAtlantic.com's Alexis Madrigal demonstrated was fake. It's been shared almost 7,000 times on Facebook and has now made its way over to China, where users on the country's massive Twitter-like service, Weibo, picked it up. (Spotted by Bloomberg columnist Adam Minter.) Read full article >>

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