[World] Ukrainian Ruling Party Faces Election Backlash

Ukrainian Ruling Party Faces Election Backlash
http://www.voanews.com/content/ukraine-ruling-party-faces-election-backlash/1535758.html
Ukraine's ruling party is facing criticism at home and abroad, even as it appears on course to maintain its majority after Sunday's parliamentary elections.

In Haiti, Hurricane Sandy Leaves Behind Death and Devastation
http://world.time.com/2012/10/29/in-haiti-hurricane-sandy-leaves-behind-death-and-devastation/
As Hurricane Sandy bore down on the Northeastern U.S. on Monday evening, the 50 million Americans in its path at least knew it wouldn't wreak the kind of devastation that storms like these leave in Haiti.

Scores Dead in Myanmar Violence
http://www.livemint.com/Politics/JbaXJio5FReKg2Uez6kssJ/Death-toll-from-Myanmar-riots-rises-to-88.html
By JAMES HOOKWAY. BANGKOKâ€"A week of clashes in western Myanmar has left at least 67 people dead and forced some 22,000 people to flee their homes to live in crowded camps along the country's coast, raising pressure on the government to find a ...

Iran dispatches warships to Sudan after Israeli airstrike on missile base
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9641042/Iran-dispatches-warships-to-Sudan-after-Israeli-airstrike-on-missile-base.html
Iran dispatches warships to Sudan after Israeli airstrike on missile base. Iran risked Israeli military retaliation Monday with the dispatch of a naval task force to Sudan just days after a widely reported airstrike by the Jewish state against a missile base run by ...

The new leader who must change China
http://www.startribune.com/business/176328491.html
Just after the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, which starts in Beijing on Nov. 8, a short line of dark-suited men, and perhaps one woman, will step onto a red carpet in a room in the Great Hall of the People and meet the world's press.

Breaking the taboo against criticizing the Jewish state
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/10/30/jonathan-sas-breaking-the-taboo-against-criticizing-the-jewish-state/
Last week, the National Post editorial board applauded the fact that the days when explicitly “anti-Israel” positions could be reliably found amongst a certain stripe of Canadian leftist politician have passed us by ('Boat for Gaza's 15 Minutes Are over,' Oct. 24).

High winds cut power to thousands across the GTA
http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/high-winds-cut-power-to-thousands-across-the-gta-1.1014770
Nearly 70,000 Ontarians were without power Monday night as a powerful storm system worked its way into the province. “As of 10:30 this evening there are 330 reported storm related outages across the province affecting nearly 66,900 customers,” Energy ...

S. Africa President Jacob Zuma Drops Lawsuit Over Rape Cartoon
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hDuNHaXeVvAnj4SufxjMNhrPtgoQ?docId=a8ac0795b8114bedb068875cfaeeeb22
10/29/2012 7:00 AM ET South African President Jacob Zuma has dropped a lawsuit he had filed against a leading newspaper and a cartoonist two years ago over a controversial cartoon published in 2008, his office announced on Sunday.