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Photos: Queen Elizabeth chats with a special forces sniper in full camo Nov 27th 2012, 13:00 Queen Elizabeth II, the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign nations, 86 years young, visited Combermere Barracks in the London suburb of Windsor, producing the latest in what has been a string of delightful photo ops. I've included a few, but this first one is my favorite: a British special forces sniper, wearing full field camouflage, talks with his queen. Who knows what they discussed probably just polite chit-chat but it's hard to miss the queen's steely, sniper-like gaze, as the British warrior hunches himself into a posture that's almost a mirror image of his monarch's. Read full article >> Yasser Arafat's remains exhumed to see whether he may have been poisoned Nov 27th 2012, 12:39 JERUSALEM –Remains of Yasser Arafat, the iconic Palestinian leader who died in 2004, were exhumed from his tomb in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday as part of an inquiry into whether he might have been poisoned, Palestinian officials said. Read full article >> France's conservative party splits into two Nov 27th 2012, 12:25 PARIS—Former prime minister Francois Fillon, outraged at losing a chaotic internal leadership vote marred by irregularities, announced Tuesday that he and his followers are splitting off from France's main conservative party and forming their own parliamentary group. Read full article >> State Department seeking a conversation' about China's controversial passport map Nov 27th 2012, 12:00 China's new passport includes, on its eighth page, a watermark that has sparked minor diplomatic disputes with several neighboring countries. The passport displays a map of China that includes a piece of territory disputed with India, an Indian territory that China claims, an outlined demarcation of South China Sea islands claimed by several other nations, and the entirety of Taiwan. My annotation (apologies for the poor artistry) of the passport map is above. Read full article >> South Korea says North is preparing for new missile launch Nov 27th 2012, 11:55 SEOUL — With fresh satellite images showing increasing activity at its launch site, North Korea could be ready to fire off a long-range rocket within several weeks, South Korean officials said Tuesday. Read full article >> Calderon finishes his six-year drug war at stalemate Nov 27th 2012, 11:50 MEXICO CITY — President Felipe Calderon, who sent battalions of poorly trained soldiers into the streets to fight powerful transnational crime organizations, leaves the battlefield this week after six years with at least 60,000 dead in drug violence and the war essentially a stalemate. Read full article >>

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