[World] Three Trampled to Death in Madrid Halloween Party Stampede

Three Trampled to Death in Madrid Halloween Party Stampede
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/02/women-trampled-at-madrid-halloween-party-stampede/
Halloween festivities in Madrid turned deadly at a local events center in the early hours of Nov. 1. Partygoers flocked to the Madrid Arena, located in the western region of the capital known as Casa de Campo, for Thriller Music Park, an electronic music party ...

U.S. officials: CIA ran Benghazi consulate
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/01/3078348/us-officials-no-delays-in-rescue.html
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- The CIA was the real commanding agency at the attacked U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, not the State Department, senior U.S.

As Fighting Rages, Clinton Seeks New Syrian Opposition
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/world/middleeast/syrian-air-raids-increase-as-battle-for-strategic-areas-intensifies-rebels-say.html
BEIRUT, Lebanon â€"The United States indicated on Wednesday that it was undertaking its most aggressive attempt yet to reshape the Syrian opposition, with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton dismissing the current leadership as a bunch of ...

Ministers to discuss Northern Ireland prison officer murder
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/nov/02/ministers-ireland-prison-officer-murder
Irish ministers and their counterparts in Northern Ireland are to discus a response to the murder of a prison officer along the M1 motorway.

'Choa!': Korean elephant talks
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/talking-elephant-parrot-human-speech-article-1.1195650
Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- Korean is considered one of the hardest languages in the world to master, but an elephant in a South Korean zoo is making a good start.

Amnesty: Nigerian Security Making Insurgency Worse
http://www.voanews.com/content/amnesty-international-nigeria-boko-haram-nigeria/1537420.html
“We found that the very grave human rights abuses by the armed group Boko Haram are being met with serious human rights violations by security forces in their response to Boko Haram," said Lucy Freeman, Amnesty International's deputy director for Africa.

Cyclone Nilam: Bodies of missing sailors found in India
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-20177073
The bodies of three of the five missing sailors from an oil tanker which ran aground after a cyclone hit India's Tamil Nadu state have been found.

China Presents a Four-Point Proposal For Resolving the Civil War in Syria
http://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/Mediator-on-Syria-meets-China-s-FM-to-seek-support-3995166.php
The plan lacked crucial specific details, however, like what role President Bashar al-Assad of Syria would play in any transition.

Bourbon crewmen liberated
http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/nigeria/201211/96510.php
Bourbon has confirmed that the seven crew members, six Russians and one Estonian, abducted from Bourbon Liberty 249 off the coast of Nigeria on October 15 2012, have been released.

Japan protests to US over Okinawa 'assault'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20177028
Japan has protested to the US after another incident in Okinawa allegedly involving a member of the US military. A US serviceman reportedly entered an apartment above a bar and hit a teenage boy.