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Video said to show Syrian rebel executing unarmed prisoners Nov 30th 2012, 23:11 This video, posted to YouTube on Thursday after the Syrian Internet blackout went into effect, has been viewed thousands of times and drawn wide attention from Syria-watchers. Reuters says the video "appears to have been filmed by a Syrian rebel who points the camera along the barrel of his gun as he shoots 10 unarmed prisoners." Read full article >> Drone crashes mount at civilian airports Nov 30th 2012, 20:22 The U.S. Air Force drone, on a classified spy mission over the Indian Ocean, was destined for disaster from the start. An inexperienced military contractor, operating by remote control in shorts and a T-shirt from a trailer at Seychelles International Airport, committed blunder after blunder during a six-minute span April 4. Read full article >> Refugee: Palestinians in Arab countries have it bad, too Nov 30th 2012, 20:17 A day after the U.N. General Assembly voted to grant Palestinians limited recognition of statehood, Israel authorized the construction of 3,000 homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, prompting swift condemnation from Palestinians. Read full article >> Can U.S. communication kits' help Syrians get around the Internet blackout? Nov 30th 2012, 18:51 One way that some Syrians may be able to circumvent the total Internet blackout that has cut the entire country off from the Web since Thursday morning is with U.S.-provided "communication kits." State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland says the U.S. has provided 2,000 kits that would allow Syrians to continue communicating with one another and the outside world, and largely outside of state monitoring. The kits include a laptop, satellite receiver and 50-foot cable. Read full article >> Singapore strike exposes labor tensions Nov 30th 2012, 18:24 SINGAPORE — With its drab dormitories and factory buildings, the Woodlands industrial area of Singapore could not be further removed from the city-state's image as a burgeoning Asian financial center. But this week, 259 bus drivers from mainland China went on a two-day strike at a public bus company in a protest over pay and living conditions, including an infestation of bed bugs in mattresses at the company's rented dormitories in the area. Read full article >> Fighting rages near Damascus airport; Syrian Web and phone blackouts continue Nov 30th 2012, 18:00 BEIRUT — Heavy fighting broke out near Damascus International Airport early Friday, as telephone and Internet lines remained out of service in Syria's capital and other cities for a second day.  The clashes were concentrated a few kilometers away from the airport, by the villages of Aqraba and Babila, according to activists. Syrian military jets pounded the area with bombs during the fighting. Read full article >> Coalition of the opposing: Why these 9 countries voted against Palestine at the U.N. Nov 30th 2012, 17:04 Nauru, a remote and impoverished Pacific island nation, is the world's smallest sovereign country by population. It has tried and failed to build an economy based on, among other things, "offshore-banking schemes and providing Australia with refugee-detention services." On Thursday, Naura joined the United States, the world's richest and most powerful country, as part of a small and somewhat oddball coalition of nine United Nations member-states that voted against recognizing the Palestinian Authority as a non-member observer state. Read full article >> Surprising video shows Syrian Internet connections dropping one by one Nov 30th 2012, 16:27 Syria is almost entirely cut off from the Internet for a second day because of what appears to be a deliberate shutting down of routers. The video below, via Cloudflare, shows Internet paths out of Syria being shuttered one by one: Read full article >> Ahmadinejad proves resilient in Iran Nov 30th 2012, 14:58 TEHRAN — For months, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been seen here as an increasingly marginal figure who may not even be able to serve out his term, which ends next summer. But now, Ahmadinejad appears to have defied his political obituary once more. Read full article >> Syria Internet outage: How it might have happened and what it means Nov 30th 2012, 14:51 As Syria's Internet and phone blackout goes into its second day, fears are building that Syrians who have relied on smartphones, YouTube and social networks throughout the two-year uprising will be cut off from their primary methods of communication. Read full article >> In Gaza, surge of support for Hamas starts to fade Nov 30th 2012, 13:22 JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip — Strung across chaotic streets and through mazes of yard-wide alleys, the iconic green flags of the Islamic Resistance Movement, better known as Hamas, festoon the gray acres of cement-block buildings. Read full article >>

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