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• British police warn students against violence (Reuters)
• Italian film director Monicelli leaps to his death (Reuters)
• Stocks end off their lows, weighed down by Europe (AP)
• Summary Box: Stocks down; weighed down by Europe (AP)
• Bailout fails to stem Europe worries, bonds rise (AP)
• Oil settles above $85 a barrel (AP)
• 4 Lessons for Washington From Europe's Debt Crisis (U.S. News & World Report)
• Wall Street slips as euro concerns linger (Reuters)
• Fiat to make utility vans for Opel (AFP)
• Turkey gives orphanage to Ecumenical Patriarchate (AP)
• Pro-European alliance ahead in Moldova elections (AP)
• British imposes controls on lethal injection drug (AP)
• Beaten reporter: Russian media freedom shrinking (AP)
• Berlusconi: No wild parties, just elegant soirees (AP)
• Napoleonic warriors find rest in Lithuania (AP)
• Staggering Picasso trove turns up in France (AP)
• Nations unhappy about secret US diplomatic cables (AP)
• Serbia to retry 2 ex-police for slain Americans (AP)
• Irish bailout gets lukewarm market response (AP)

British police warn students against violence (Reuters) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 04:10 PM PST Reuters - British police have warned students not to use violence in a protest on Tuesday against a planned rise in tuition fees, after clashes at two previous demonstrations.

Italian film director Monicelli leaps to his death (Reuters) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 03:48 PM PST Reuters - Mario Monicelli, 95, who directed some of postwar Italy's most famous films and launched the careers of some of the country's greatest actors, jumped to his death from a Rome hospital window on Monday, Italian media said.

Stocks end off their lows, weighed down by Europe (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 02:34 PM PST AP - Stocks ended lower Monday on lingering fears that Europe's debt crisis will continue to spread even after Ireland gets bailed out. The Dow Jones industrial average dipped below 11,000 earlier, but recovered much of its losses late in the day.

Summary Box: Stocks down; weighed down by Europe (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 02:26 PM PST AP - DOW PARES BACK LOSSES: The Dow Jones industrial average fell 39.51 points, or 0.4 percent, to close at 11,052.49. It had been down as many as 163 earlier.

Bailout fails to stem Europe worries, bonds rise (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 02:20 PM PST AP - Treasurys edged higher Monday as investors flocked to the safety of bonds on fears that the European debt crisis could spread to other countries like Portugal and Spain. Bonds also got a lift from the latest batch of purchases by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Oil settles above $85 a barrel (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 02:15 PM PST AP - Oil prices rose after the European Union agreed on a bailout plan for Ireland, although some concern remained that a financial crisis could surface in Portugal and Spain. Traders also monitored ongoing tensions between North Korea and South Korea.

4 Lessons for Washington From Europe's Debt Crisis (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 01:30 PM PST U.S. News & World Report - Greece fell first, and now Ireland has followed. Portugal seems likely to be next--and then the dominoes get bigger. At some point in the future, the mighty United States could even be one of them.

Wall Street slips as euro concerns linger (Reuters) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 01:45 PM PST Reuters - Stocks edged down in a low-volume session on Monday on worries Europe's credit crisis will spread despite a weekend agreement to bail out Ireland.

Fiat to make utility vans for Opel (AFP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 12:58 PM PST AFP - Italian auto giant Fiat and Opel signed an accord on Monday for the supply of general utility vehicles to the German unit of General Motors from the end of next year.

Turkey gives orphanage to Ecumenical Patriarchate (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 12:15 PM PST AP - The spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians was given back the deed to a historic building on Monday in a move hailed as a symbolic but important victory for the formerly dominant church in Turkey.

Pro-European alliance ahead in Moldova elections (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 12:10 PM PST AP - Moldova's governing pro-Europe alliance was leading the opposition Communists, election results indicated Monday, but it appeared the coalition was just short of winning enough legislative seats to end the country's year-long political deadlock.

British imposes controls on lethal injection drug (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 11:02 AM PST AP - Britain imposed controls on the export of a drug used in American executions Monday, following pressure from death penalty opponents who sought to make it more difficult for U.S. states to obtain the sedative.

Beaten reporter: Russian media freedom shrinking (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 11:00 AM PST AP - A Russian reporter, whose beating has shocked the country and caused international outrage, said in his first interview after the attack that the nation's media freedom is shrinking.

Berlusconi: No wild parties, just elegant soirees (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 10:31 AM PST AP - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi insisted Monday he only throws elegant, dignified soirees at his villas and not wild parties as reportedly described by a Rome-based U.S. diplomat in a cable contained in the Wikileaks trove.

Napoleonic warriors find rest in Lithuania (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 09:48 AM PST AP - The skeletons of 18 of Napoleon's soldiers were laid to rest Monday in Lithuania — 200 years after the French emperor tried in vain to invade Russia.

Staggering Picasso trove turns up in France (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 08:05 AM PST AP - A retired French electrician and his wife have come forward with 271 undocumented, never-before-seen works by Pablo Picasso estimated to be worth at least ?60 million ($79.35 million), an administrator of the artist's estate said Monday.

Nations unhappy about secret US diplomatic cables (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 05:13 AM PST AP - Nations around the world are condemning the release of confidential U.S. diplomatic cables on subjects such as Iran's nuclear program and U.S. efforts to spy on foreign officials.

Serbia to retry 2 ex-police for slain Americans (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 03:56 AM PST AP - Serbia's Appeals Court has overturned the acquittal of two former policemen accused of involvement in the 1999 execution-style slaying of three Albanian-American brothers and ordered a retrial, the war crimes prosecutor said Monday.

Irish bailout gets lukewarm market response (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 03:09 AM PST AP - The euro67.5 billion ($89.4 billion) bailout of Ireland has done little to assuage investor concerns that Europe has finally got a grip on its debt crisis, with European stocks trading mostly lower Monday and the euro hitting a fresh two-month low.

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