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  Concern grows in Egypt over arrest powers

  President Morsi decree extending army's arrest powers before the referendum sets 'dangerous precedent' warns Amnesty

  • Blog: Monday's developments in Egypt and the Middle East
  • Opposition rejects referendum amid widespread protest – video
  • Egyptian opposition group to boycott vote
  • Protests continue before Morsi referendum - in pictures
  • Ahdaf Soueif: Egypt's hopes betrayed by Morsi
  • Editorial: Withdrawal of decree will not restore trust

• Israel suspected over Iran nuclear inquiry leaks

  

  Western officials believe Israel may have leaked information from IAEA investigation into nuclear activity in attempt to raise global pressure on Iran

  • Iran's nuclear programme: the holy grail of the intelligence world

• Chávez says his cancer has returned

  

  Venezuelan president, who was recently re-elected for a fourth period, announces that if his health worsens his successor would be his vice president

  • Hugo Chávez names Nicolas Maduro as successor
  • Cancer has been a political weapon for both sides

Europe

• Eurozone crisis live: Mario Monti's resignation pledge spooks markets - as it happened

  
  Live 10 Dec 2012:

  Italian prime minister's promise to step aside brings fresh political uncertainty to the eurozone, sending shares tumbling in Milan and Italy's bond yields up

  • Monti resignation causes fears of renewed euro turbulence
  • Nils Pratley: Monti's success was only superficial
  • Italy on 'edge of abyss', says Silvio Berlusconi

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China

• Two Tibetans detained in China for 'inciting' self-immolations

  Chinese news agency says monk and his nephew have recruited eight people to set themselves on fire since 2009
  • China calls US Tibet remarks 'disgusting'
  • Tibetan students injured during protests in China
  • China sets up firefighters at Tibetan monasteries
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United States

• Obama's corporate charm offensive: wooing the Republicans' beloved base

  

  Heidi Moore: A new pragmatism is emerging in Obama's relations with America's CEO – and it gives the president a useful bargaining chip

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Middle East

• Army's plans to support Syrian rebels

  
  11 Dec 2012: Cameron asks military chiefs to draw up plans for maritime or air support to rebels – but UK 'will act only if US does'

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South and Central Asia

• Pakistan's Asif Ali Zardari backs girls' education at event for Malala Yousufzai

  
  10 Dec 2012: Pakistan's President Zardari tells Unesco event in Paris that providing education for girls is the best strategy to defeat Taliban

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Asia Pacific

• North Koreans get glimpse into another way of life with illegal forays into China

  
  10 Dec 2012: Sixty-year-old Chae Hunha risked her life to cross North Korea's border and is missing her family, but she cannot go home
  • North Korea extends launch period for controversial long-range rocket
  • Kim Jong-il anniversary: 'We are too busy trying to survive to care'

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Africa

• Robert Mugabe, my husband: 'he chose me' gushes Zimbabwe's first lady

  
  10 Dec 2012: Grace Mugabe, married to Africa's oldest leader, says her husband is 'supportive of women' and a 'fine gentleman'

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Americas

• Jenni Rivera, Mexican music star, dies in plane crash

  
  10 Dec 2012:

  US-born grupero singer, whose frankness was loved by millions of fans, was in jet that crashed near Monterrey, NTSB confirms

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