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Mexico's crime wave has left up to 25,000 missing, government documents show Nov 29th 2012, 23:38 MEXICO CITY — Mexico's attorney general has compiled a list showing that more than 25,000 adults and children have gone missing in Mexico in the past six years, according to unpublished government documents. Read full article >> United Nations upgrades Palestine's status Nov 29th 2012, 23:09 UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelming Thursday to recognize Palestine as a "non-member observer state" at the United Nations, delivering a stinging defeat to American and Israeli efforts to block the Palestinian bid. Read full article >> Map: How Europe voted on Palestine at the U.N., in 2011 and now Nov 29th 2012, 22:57 The United Nations General Assembly voted today to upgrade the Palestinian Authority to a "non-member observer state," a symbolic victory in the Palestinian quest for statehood. The vote was overwhelming, with 138 in favor, nine against, and 41 abstentions. Most of the votes, including the United States' "no," were unsurprising. One important story here is in Europe: The European Union's 27 votes were never going to decide the outcome, but they are an important indicator of potentially changing global diplomacy with regards to Israeli-Palestinian relations. Read full article >> The three big questions on Syria's Internet blackout Nov 29th 2012, 20:10 This morning, an entire country was effectively cut off from the Internet. Web traffic in and out of Syria dropped to zero abruptly, a drastic development more than a year into a conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives. Cellphone service also appears to be partially down, according to the BBC, and there are reports that the Damascus airport has been largely shut down, as well. Read full article >> 6 scathing highlights from the Leveson report Nov 29th 2012, 20:00 The report issued by a panel headed by Justice Brian Leveson singled out Rupert Murdoch's News of the World for wrongdoing in the phone-hacking scandal, and also took on criminal behavior and ethical lapses in the British press overall. Read full article >> Israel braces for Palestinian victory in U.N. status vote Nov 29th 2012, 18:06 JERUSALEM – Anticipating a stinging diplomatic defeat at the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that a vote there to upgrade the Palestinians' status to a non-member state would "change nothing," insisting that only negotiations with Israel could bring about Palestinian statehood. Read full article >> Qatari poet jailed for 'insulting emir' Nov 29th 2012, 17:22 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Qatari poet has been sentenced to life imprisonment after a trial that rights groups say highlights the broadening crackdown on dissent across the Gulf. Mohammed ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami, who has been detained in solitary confinement since his detention in November 2011, was sentenced by the trial court after being charged with insulting the emir and trying to overthrow the government. Read full article >> Judge accepts terms under which Manning would plead guilty to lesser charges Nov 29th 2012, 17:11 A military judge on Thursday accepted the terms under which the young Army private charged in one of the largest leaks of classified material in U.S. history would plead guilty to lesser charges, a move that raises questions about whether the government will proceed with its most serious charges. Read full article >> Petraeus says he messed up royally' Nov 29th 2012, 16:40 In a hand-written note to a friend, former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus said he "screwed up royally" in his alleged affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell. "I paid the price (appropriately) and I sought to do the right thing at the end of the day," he wrote in the Nov. 20 letter to retired Brig. Gen. James Shelton obtained by the New York Post. Read full article >> British report calls for new press watchdog Nov 29th 2012, 16:26 LONDON — After nine months of hearings sparked by phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid, a landmark report released Thursday recommended new, independent oversight of newspapers in what was seen as a day of reckoning for the British press. Read full article >> A stunning chart shows Syria's Internet blackout Nov 29th 2012, 16:02 Syria's apparent shutdown of all Internet services has now been confirmed by a second Web-monitoring service, Akamai. The company released this chart of Web traffic in and out of Syria, reporting that the country is "effectively off the Internet." Akamai says the traffic is at zero, a remarkable indication of how swiftly and completely Syria seems to have taken its offline. Removing an entire country from the Internet is no small feat, and has potentially serious implications for Syria's economy, its security and the uprising that began last year. Read full article >> Web monitor: 100 percent of Syria's Internet just shut down Nov 29th 2012, 15:04 It appears that the Syrian government may have just taken a drastic measure it has conspicuously avoided over the nearly two years of fighting: cutting itself off from the Internet. Renesys, a Web-monitoring service, reported Thursday morning that sweeping outages in Syria had shut down 92 percent of the country's routed networks. Shortly after, it updated to report that the remaining IP address blocks had gone down, "effectively removing the country from the Internet." The "Syrian Internet Is Off The Air," it announced. Read full article >> Best place to be born in 2013: Switzerland Nov 29th 2012, 14:56 Switzerland is the best country for a baby to be born in 2013, according to a new study by the Economist Intelligence Unit, which is based on both subjective and objective quality of life factors. The variables include life expectancy, gender equality, political freedoms, and even climate, but because the study looks at where "to be born" not "where to live," some of the factors look at what life will be like in those countries in 2030, when children born in 2013 reach adulthood. Read full article >> 12-year survey: Japanese view of China and Korea hits record low Nov 29th 2012, 14:14 Since 2000, the Japanese government has surveyed public opinion toward a handful of foreign countries, and this year's results found something surprising and potentially quite significant. The number of respondents who reported they feel "friendly" toward Japan's two most important neighbors, China and South Korea, have hit record lows. Read full article >> Egypt's Constitutional Assembly begins voting on draft document Nov 29th 2012, 13:51 CAIRO — Egypt's Islamist-dominated constitutional convention began voting Thursday on the 230 articles of the nation's draft charter, a move that could inflame a political crisis touched off last week when President Mohamed Morsi gave himself sweeping new powers. Read full article >>

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