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  SKorea's porn fight 'like shoveling in a blizzard'

  Moon Tae-Hwa stares at his computer, dizzy and nauseous from the hours of porn he's viewed online while his wife and children slept. He feels no shame ... 

• Hope and fear in gay marriage cases at high court

  Gay marriage supporters see 41 reasons to fret over the Supreme Court's decision to take up the case of California's ban on same-sex unions. 

• Chinese police accuse monk of inciting immolations

  Police detained a monk and his nephew in China's Sichuan province and accused them of instigating the self-immolations of eight ethnic Tibetans on the ... 

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  Ghana's president declared election winner

  President John Dramani Mahama on Sunday was declared the winner of Ghana's presidential election, despite widespread technical glitches with the ... 

• Private college presidents pay was up slightly

  Compensation for private college presidents has continued to drift upward, while the number crossing the $1 million barrier — a signal of prestige, ... 

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  Snapshot: Chavez's designated successor

  The man President Hugo Chavez wants to succeed him is an intensely loyal 50-year-old former bus driver who has long served as the international face ... 

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  Egypt opposition urges more protests

  Egypt's opposition said Sunday it will keep up protests against a referendum on a disputed draft constitution but stopped short of advocating either ... 

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  Islamist-leaning draft constitution divides Egypt

  President Mohammed Morsi is unlikely to worry if Egypt's Islamist-leaning draft constitution passes by only a small margin in a Dec. 15 referendum, ... 

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  Romanian exit polls: center-left gov't wins vote

  Romania's center-left government won a clear victory in Sunday's parliamentary elections, according to exit polls. The result could inflame the ... 

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  Syria's civil war spills into Lebanon, 4 dead

  Syria's civil war spilled over into neighboring Lebanon once again on Sunday, with gun battles in the northern city of Tripoli between supporters and ... 

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  South Africa at crossroads as Mandela hospitalized

  Inside a Catholic church that once served as a major rallying point for anti-apartheid activists, the image of a gray-suited Nelson Mandela appears ... 

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  EU leaders in Norway to pick up Nobel Peace Prize

  European Union leaders on Sunday hailed the achievements of the 27-nation bloc, but acknowledged they need more integration and authority to solve ... 

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  Italy awaits market reaction to Monti exit soon

  Italy and the rest of Europe on Sunday anxiously awaited the reaction of financial markets to Premier Mario Monti's surprise decision to resign and ... 

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  Israel grows jittery of new Palestinian uprising

  The rising confidence and bellicosity of Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, combined with rapidly deteriorating relations with Israel's would-be peace ... 

• Talks between Congo government and rebels open

  Talks started here between the Congo government and rebels who have seized strategic parts of eastern Congo. Ugandan Minister of Defence Chrispus ... 

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  Palestinian president appeals for urgent Arab aid

  The Palestinian president is urging Arab nations to provide major financial assistance to cover a new monthly $100 million budgetary shortfall after U 

• Pakistan: US drone kills senior al-Qaida leader

  A U.S. drone strike has killed a senior al-Qaida leader in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border, Pakistani intelligence officials said, in ... 

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  Challenger: Merkel isolating Germany in Europe

  Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-left challenger accused the German leader of isolating the country in Europe as he sought Sunday to kick-start his ... 

• Senegal's Casamance rebels free 8 army prisoners

  Roman Catholic peacemakers say that eight Senegalese soldiers were freed by rebels in the southern Casamance district. The Sant'Egidio Community ... 

• French official: 'Kind of racism' in Corsica bombs

  France's interior minister said Sunday that there was a "kind of racism" behind the bombings of dozens of vacation homes on the French island of ... 

• Report: 4 Lebanese killed in Syria-linked fighting

  Lebanon's official news agency says four people have been killed in fighting in the Lebanese city of Tripoli between gunmen loyal to opposite sides ... 

• Military: US service member killed in Afghanistan

  The U.S. military says one of its service members has been killed in eastern Afghanistan. The U.S. force says in a statement that the service member ... 

• Iraq officials say bombing kills 3

  Iraqi authorities say a bomb exploded near the house of an anti-al-Qaida militiaman south of Baghdad, killing him, his 8-year-old son and another ... 

• Saudi says foreign group behind cyber-attacks

  A Saudi official says the cyber-attacks that hit the country's oil giant Aramco and Qatari natural gas producer RasGas in August originated outside ... 

• Somalia: AU, gov't troops take town from rebels

  African Union and Somali troops have taken a rebel stronghold north of the Somali capital, another setback for the al-Shabab extremists who once ...