NORWAY: Three women – Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian women’s rights campaigner Leymah Gbowee, and Yemeni activist Tawakkul Karman – received the Nobel Peace prize in a ceremony in Oslo on Saturday, Dec. 10. (Washington Post)
PAKISTAN: Pakistani forces took control late Dec. 10, of an airbase operated by U.S. troops to support the Afghanistan war. The U.S. was asked to hand over the base by Sunday, Dec. 11, following a NATO attack on two border patrol posts that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers Nov. 26. (Xinhua)
ISRAEL/PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: A Palestinian demonstrator died after being hit with a tear gas canister fired from an Israeli soldier at close range. (New York Times)
RUSSIA: Protests erupted to condemn allegations of electoral fraud, the country’s largest since the collapse of the USSR. (BBC)
SOUTH AFRICA/WORLD: Negotiators struck a modest climate change deal Dec. 11, in Durban. The pact, in essence an extension of the Kyoto Protocol, will force the world’s biggest polluters to take action on greenhouse gas emissions. (Reuters Africa)
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