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Iranian official says Tehran has images of 'forbidden' Israeli bases from ...
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/report-iran-drone-pictures-israeli-bases-17586939
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has images of sensitive Israeli military bases taken by a drone that was launched by Lebanon's Hezbollah movement and downed by Israel earlier this month, a senior Iranian lawmaker claimed Monday in the latest boast from Tehran ...

Zuma's missed opportunity to sell South Africa
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-20125079
This was, surely, a moment for some salesmanship. After the most damaging months that South Africa's economy has experienced in two decades - with foreign investment and confidence shrinking alarmingly (and perhaps excessively) following the Marikana ...

Lithuania at risk of political stalemate after election
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/29/lithuania-election-opposition-win?newsfeed=true
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Jimmy Savile: Catholic Church bid to remove papal knighthood
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20108980
The papal knighthood given to Jimmy Savile "should not have been bestowed", a Vatican spokesman has told the BBC. The Catholic Church in England and Wales confirmed it has written to the Holy See to ask if the honour can be posthumously removed.

Powerful storm kills at least 30 in Philippines, Vietnam
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/10/2012102822144884274.html
More than a thousand rescue workers have been deployed in Vietnam; Helicopters are on standby to search for an oil rig adrift from its towboats; Tropical Storm Son-Tinh had already killed at least 27 people in the Philippines.

Kate Middleton naked photos: French police preparing to arrest a paparazzi
http://www.mtv.co.uk/news/kate-middleton/367431-kate-middleton-topless-pictures-photographer-arrested
French police are preparing to arrest a paparazzi linked to the topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge. Their name has been given to detectives investigating the alleged breach of privacy as Kate holidayed with Prince William at a villa in Provence.

Setback for Ukraine democracy: observers
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/observers-attack-ukraine-election-16231125.html
"Considering the abuse of power, and the excessive role of money in this election, democratic progress appears to have reversed in Ukraine," said OSCE special co-ordinator Walburga Habsburg Douglas.

Egypt's Coptic Church to vote on new pope
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/egypt-s-coptic-church-to-vote-on-new-pope-1.1014613
CAIRO, Egypt -- A council of Egypt's Coptic Christians is voting Monday in a process that will elect a new spiritual leader for the ancient church as the community struggles to assert its identity and role amid a rising tide of Islamism that has left many Copts ...