Monday, October 12, 2009

World News Briefs -- October 12, 2009

Elinor Ostrom, left, and Oliver E. Williamson. AFP/Getty Images

Ostrom, Williamson Win Nobel Prize for Economics -- Wall Street Journal

Two American economists, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson, who study the way decisions are made outside the markets on which many other economists focus, were awarded the Nobel Prize in economics Monday.

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MIDDLE EAST

Bombings outside Iraq reconciliation meeting kill 23.

Palestinians don't want third intifada.

Abbas wants UN vote on Gaza Report.

Diplomacy in the lead on Iran nuclear issue, for now.

Armenia leader to visit Turkey for 'football diplomacy'.

ASIA

Report: NKorea fires 5 short-range missiles.

China court sentences 6 to death in Xinjiang riots.

Pakistan had warning of army headquarters raid.

Blast near Pakistan's Swat Valley kills 41, wounds 45.

U.S. State Dept. split over Pakistan aid.

AFRICA

Rwanda president lauds China's role in Africa, slams West.

Four Sudan Islamists to hang for US diplomat murder.

Dinner is grass in South Sudan after drought kills crops.

Kenya warned over Somali 'troops'.

Easy money fuels rise in kidnappings in Kenya.

EUROPE

Clinton urges Northern Ireland to finish peace push.

US and UK say 'special relationship' is still going strong.

Pro-Kremlin party sweeps Moscow elections.

The Next Step for the E.U.

AMERICAS

Fire razes Sao Paulo shanty town.

Is U.S. recession creating another 'baby bust?'.

Mexico's 'Narco-lawyers' risk everything.

'Obama, I know you are listening': Gay rights activists march in D.C.

TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR

Big Bang scientist 'admits link to al-Qa'ida plotters'.

Ottawa's refusal to take Gitmo inmates irks U.S.

U.S. arrests suspected 1968 Pan Am flight hijacker.

ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS

Top economist says unemployment could peak at 10.5 percent.

U.S. job losses mar recovery, create woes for Dems.

Dollar facing 'power-shift': analysts.

Why investors should bet against the dollar.

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