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• Turkey's top court bans pro-Kurdish party (Reuters)
• Blair defends Iraq war, even without WMD (AFP)
• Elton John puts his wardrobe on sale in London shop (AFP)
• China's Ding into UK final (AFP)
• Saddam ouster right, even without WMDs: Blair (Reuters)
• UK court issues injunction in Woods case (AP)
• Gates says Iran to face new sanctions (Reuters)
• Inuits need cash for freezers in warming Arctic (Reuters)
• Police: Body of Cyprus president stolen from grave (AP)
• First new EU summit shows old indecision (AP)
• Romania's court orders void votes re-examined (AP)
• Turkey bans pro-Kurdish party over ties to rebels (AP)
• Nobel award in hand, Obama faces hard work at home (AP)
• Pope will write letter to Irish Catholics on abuse (AP)
• Russia: Officials fired in lawyer jail death probe (AP)
• Chinese official calls US negotiator irresponsible (AP)
• How much EU countries committing to climate fund (AP)
• NATO officials: Russian should give Afghan arms (AP)
• 19 Turkish miners dead in mine collapse (AP)
• Pope, Vietnamese president try for closer ties (AP)

Turkey's top court bans pro-Kurdish party (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:38 PM PST Reuters - Turkey's top court closed the only pro-Kurdish party in parliament on Friday for having links to PKK Kurdish rebels in a ruling that deals a fresh blow to the country's faltering bid to join the European Union.

Blair defends Iraq war, even without WMD (AFP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:38 PM PST AFP - Britain would have backed the invasion of Iraq even if it had been known that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), former premier Tony Blair said Saturday.

Elton John puts his wardrobe on sale in London shop (AFP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:20 PM PST AFP - Pop legend Elton John is to sell off thousands articles of his clothing, including outrageous outfits from his concerts, in a London shop beginning on Saturday as part of a charity fundraiser.

China's Ding into UK final (AFP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:16 PM PST AFP - China's Ding Junhui reached the UK Championship final after ousting world number two Stephen Maguire 9-5 in their semi-final meeting on Friday.

Saddam ouster right, even without WMDs: Blair (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 03:48 PM PST Reuters - Former British prime minister Tony Blair believes it was right to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from power even though no weapons of mass destruction were ever found.

UK court issues injunction in Woods case (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 03:11 PM PST AP - A British judge has barred journalists in the country from publishing some material about golfer Tiger Woods.

Gates says Iran to face new sanctions (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 02:49 PM PST Reuters - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday he expected the international community to impose significant additional sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.

Inuits need cash for freezers in warming Arctic (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 12:53 PM PST Reuters - Inuit communities need funds to adapt to climate change in the Arctic, including measures to build communal deep freezers to store game because warming is reducing their hunting season, an Inuit leader said on Friday.

Police: Body of Cyprus president stolen from grave (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 12:19 PM PST AP - Grave robbers stole the corpse of former hardline Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, digging up his coffin during a thunderstorm just before the first anniversary of his death, police said Friday.

First new EU summit shows old indecision (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 11:48 AM PST AP - The European Union was supposed to make a decisive show of unity at its first summit since sweeping reforms streamlined its decision-making procession.

Romania's court orders void votes re-examined (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 11:42 AM PST AP - Romania's Constitutional Court ordered a re-examination of voided ballots from the country's disputed presidential election, prolonging months of political uncertainty.

Turkey bans pro-Kurdish party over ties to rebels (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 11:20 AM PST AP - Turkey's top court on Friday banned a pro-Kurdish political party on charges of ties to Kurdish rebels, a decision likely to disrupt a struggling reconciliation process between the state and minority Kurds.

Nobel award in hand, Obama faces hard work at home (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 10:39 AM PST AP - With a Nobel Peace Prize in hand, President Barack Obama returned to the grind of governing, refocusing on his top domestic priority as the Senate moves toward a pivotal moment on legislation to remake the nation's health care system.

Pope will write letter to Irish Catholics on abuse (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 09:38 AM PST AP - Pope Benedict XVI is deeply disturbed by a child sex-abuse scandal in Ireland and will write a letter to Catholics there on the church's response to a report that found the church shielded more than 100 child-abusing priests from the law, the Vatican said Friday.

Russia: Officials fired in lawyer jail death probe (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 09:05 AM PST AP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev fired 20 senior prison officials, including the capital's prison chief, following a probe into the death of a jailed lawyer, officials said Friday.

Chinese official calls US negotiator irresponsible (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 08:43 AM PST AP - China's Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei on Friday said the chief U.S. climate negotiator either lacks common sense or is "extremely irresponsible" for saying that no U.S. climate financing should be going to China.

How much EU countries committing to climate fund (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 07:52 AM PST AP - European Union leaders agreed at a summit Friday to come up with $3.6 billion a year through 2012, or a total of $10.8 billion over three years, to help pay developing nations to cut emissions and adapt to climate change. Here are some of the pledges made by the 27 EU members until a new climate pact being negotiated in Copenhagen comes into effect in 2013:

NATO officials: Russian should give Afghan arms (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 07:36 AM PST AP - NATO plans to ask Russia to contribute more to the escalating Afghan war by donating AK-47 assault rifles, grenade launchers, artillery, armored vehicles and other weapons to the expanding Afghan army, officials said Friday.

19 Turkish miners dead in mine collapse (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 07:02 AM PST AP - An explosion caused the collapse of an underground chamber of a Turkish coal mine, killing 19 workers, the government said Friday.

Pope, Vietnamese president try for closer ties (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 06:52 AM PST AP - The Vatican called a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and the president of Vietnam on Friday "a significant stage" in efforts for closer ties between the communist country and the Holy See.

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