Southeast Asia
 | ABC Online - A top Khmer Rouge leader who is on trial for genocide has told a Cambodian war crimes court that the prosecution is telling "fairytales". |
 | New York Times - BANGKOK - A retired truck driver was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Wednesday for sending cellphone text messages that a court deemed insulting to Thailand's monarchy. |
 | gulfnews.com - AP Image Credit: AP Journalists and supporters join a motorcade in front of the National Press Club in Manila yesterday to commemorate the second anniversary of the politically motivated killings in southern Maguindanao province. |
 | Philippine Star - MANILA, Philippines - Former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo cannot invoke her right to life in questioning the legality of her being in the government's watchlist order (WLO) unless she can prove that her condition is really ... |
 | Philippine Star - MANILA, Philippines - Former first gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo will be charged with two counts of graft for the alleged anomalous sale of two secondhand helicopters to the Philippine National Police (PNP). |
 | 3News NZ - A New Zealand pilot was injured and his Spanish co-pilot killed when their small plane crashed into a mountain in Indonesia's remote Papua region, rescue officials say. |
 | Bangkok Post - These are trying times for Thailand, of that there is little doubt. Thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people remain inundated by the floods. |
 | Tempo - JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Police say two Indonesian palm oil workers have been arrested for allegedly slaughtering at least 20 endangered orangutans and proboscis monkeys. |
 | Bangkok Post - Flood-hit Nonthaburi residents petitioned the Administrative Court yesterday to revoke the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's power in managing flood in areas connected to other provinces. |
 | Inquirer.net - MANILA, Philippines—The United Nations (UN) will next year pour some $37.9 million in humanitarian aid into Central Mindanao, saying its people have been seriously affected by “cycles of displacement” due to armed conflicts and natural ... |
 | International News Network - Washington: A War Crimes Tribunal in Malaysia has found former US President George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair guilty of war crimes for their roles in the Iraq war, Press TV reports. |
 | Jakarta Post - Erfi TriasunuThe Indonesian Military (TNI), lawmakers and experts all agree that Jakarta must directly talk with Papuans who have separatist aspirations to immediately end conflict in the province as the international community continues to urge ... |
 | Washington Post - PARIS - The Palestinians can raise their flag alongside those of 194 full-fledged nations at UNESCO after signing a document Wednesday finally giving them a voice within the vast UN system - bringing pride across the Arab world yet hobbling the ... |
 | Bernama - SETIU, Nov 23 (Bernama) -- The Terengganu government has given the assurance that there is adequate supply of food and other necessities for flood victims who are evacuated to relief centres in the state. |
World
 | Voice of America (blog) - Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh and opposition leaders signed a long-awaited agreement Wednesday to transfer power to the country's vice president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and hold early presidential elections. |
 | Huffington Post - CAIRO -- At the foot of Mohamed Mahmoud Street, just a few feet from the resounding crowds in Tahrir Square, a group of people gathered around a man holding four canisters above his head. |
 | Agenzia Giornalistica Italia - (AGI) Washington- The US Embassy in Damascus has invited US citizens to leave Syria "immediately", the CBS news network reported. |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - Make no mistake: the Israeli leader will strike against Iran if he deems it necessary. A TOO-FRANK recent exchange between Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy, inadvertently caught on microphone, about Benjamin Netanyahu being a liar has provoked ... |
 | MiamiHerald.com - KARACHI, Pakistan - Sherry Rehman, a high-profile politician under threat for her call to reform Pakistan's blasphemy law, was named Pakistan's new ambassador to Washington on Wednesday, one day after her predecessor was forced to resign ... |
 | San Francisco Chronicle - The White House says Bahrain's government must hold those responsible for human rights violations accountable following the release of a report detailing torture, excessive force and fast-track justice in the Persian Gulf kingdom. |
 | CBS News - Visitors are reflected as they walk in the Davidson Center near the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem's Old City, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. |
 | BBC News - The International Criminal court has accepted that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi will be tried on Libyan soil and not at The Hague. As it stands, the ICC's involvement in the procedure of Saif al-Islam's trial appears as though ... |
 | Hong Kong Standard - A 49-year-old Hong Kong man who left A$1 million (HK$7.68 million) stuffed in a suitcase when he walked away from a Sydney cafe was under police guard in hospital last night. |
 | Economic Times - BEIJING: Striking a combative posture amid deepening row over the South China Sea, China today announced naval exercises in the Western Pacific asserting that its lawful rights including navigation should not be hindered. |
 | Deutsche Welle - Greece has moved one step closer to unfreezing its desperately needed bailout package after conservative leader Antonis Samaras declared he supports the country's fiscal targets with certain "modifications. |
 | Christian Science Monitor - South Korea's National Assembly gave the final nod Tuesday to a controversial US free trade agreement that is expected to boost bilateral trade of $88 billion last year. |
 | Stuff.co.nz - LATEST: The son of a pilot who walked away from yesterday's waterfront helicopter crash says his dad will be shocked when he watches the crash footage. |
 | Inquirer.net - By Williamor A. Magbanua KIDAPAWAN CITY, North Cotabato, Philippines—Four people were killed while eight others were wounded when unidentified men lobbed a fragmentation grenade in a house in Midsayap, North Cotabato on Wednesday night, police said. |
 | Forbes - The Super Committee of 6 Democrats and 6 Republicans charged with proposing $1.2 trillion in budget cuts over the next decade could not agree to a plan by their deadline. |
 | Channel News Asia - SINGAPORE: Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has said it no longer advises Singaporeans to consider deferring non-essential travel to Bangkok. |
| 3News NZ - A New Zealand pilot was injured and his Spanish co-pilot killed when their small plane crashed into a mountain in Indonesia's remote Papua region, rescue officials say. |
 | Livemint - Twenty-one years after her political party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), swept the elections in the country then known as Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi is moving a few steps closer to power. |
 | AsiaOne - SEOUL - Rescuers have saved 15 crewmen from a South Korean ship that sank in the South China Sea and a search is continuing for six still missing, Seoul's foreign ministry said Wednesday. |
 | Eurweb.com - *Dr. Conrad Murray's world came a'tumbling down when he was found guilty in the death of Michael Jackson. He allegedly admitted he wants to take his own life and who knows what the man is going through privately as he is being blamed for the death of ... |
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