[World] Iran's President Ties Drop in Currency to Sanctions

Iran's President Ties Drop in Currency to Sanctions
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/world/middleeast/iran-president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-ties-currency-drop-to-sanctions.html
TEHRAN - Iran's president admitted Tuesday that the American-led economic sanctions on the country were partly to blame for a breathtaking 40 percent fall in value of the Iranian currency, the rial, over the past week.

Georgia election: US and Russia hail parliamentary vote
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19808911
Georgia's leaders have been praised for a vote that is expected to deliver the country's first democratic transfer of power in post-Soviet history.

State Department stayed out of contractors' dispute over consulate security ...
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hoD8FUWh0g2bpzXSVPLdGcugTNoQ?docId=CNG.22011a6a4c26a3b31e175088bb6ae443.991
Letters obtained exclusively by Fox News appear to show the State Department refused to get involved when the company tasked with protecting the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, raised security concerns, the latest indication that warning signs may ...

Despite Tory carping, Canadians value the United Nations
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/1265803--despite-tory-carping-canadians-value-the-united-nations
Two years ago Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives cared enough about the United Nations to lobby for a Security Council seat.

Pope's Former Butler Admits He Leaked Documents
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/popes-former-butler-admits-in-court-to-leaking-documents/article4583403/
VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI's former butler admitted in testimony on Tuesday to betraying the pope by copying and leaking confidential papal documents, one of the most significant breaches in recent Vatican history, but he insisted that his ...

Lawmaker cancels Mike Tyson's New Zealand visa
http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/world-news/new-zealand-cancels-mike-tyson-visa-3248529.html
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Mike Tyson has been barred from New Zealand after a lawmaker rescinded the visa he had been issued to fulfill a speaking engagement later this month.

Surveillance photo released of Kara Alongi, missing teen suspected of Twitter hoax
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/02/14186815-surveillance-photo-released-of-kara-alongi-missing-teen-suspected-of-twitter-hoax
By Katherine Creag and Brian Thompson, NBCNewYork.com Police have released a surveillance photo of a young woman they believe to be the runaway 16-year-old New Jersey girl who set off a Twitter firestorm after she apparently falsely indicated an ...

Will change system in 15 days, says Kejriwal at party launch
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/anna-hazare-does-a-uturn-on-arvind-kejriwal/297004-37-64.html
Arvind Kejriwal launched his political party on Tuesday promising to change the system within a fortnight of being “voted to power”.

Police drop Strauss-Khan gang rape case
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/dominique-strauss-kahn/9581496/Dominique-Strauss-Kahn-gang-rape-charges-dropped.html
French prosecutors say they are shelving an investigation into allegations that disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn had engaged in group rape.