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Kerry heading to Jerusalem, Ramallah next week
CNN Online
Jerusalem, and Ramallah, West Bank: two crucial stops for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in his ongoing attempt to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Kerry will travel to those cities on New Year's Day to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, respectively, "to discuss ongoing final status negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians, among other issues," the State Department said in a statement Saturday.
Eight 'attackers' shot dead in Xinjiang
Afp, Beijing
Eight "attackers" armed with knives and explosives were killed yesterday during a "terrorist attack" on a police station in China's Xinjiang according to authorities, the latest deadly incident in the largely Muslim region.
One of the attackers was held in the clash in Shache county, said the official website of the government of Xinjiang, where mainly Muslim Uighurs are the largest ethnic group.
NSA hacks computers worldwide
The Guardian Online
A top-secret National Security Agency hacking unit infiltrates computers around the world and breaks into the toughest data targets, according to internal documents quoted in a magazine report on Sunday.
Details of how the division, known as Tailored Access Operations, steals data and inserts invisible "back door" spying devices into computer systems were published by the German magazine Der Spiegel.
El Salvador erupts, thousands evacuated
Afp, San Salvador
Some 2,000 people were evacuated in eastern El Salvador Sunday when the Chaparrastique volcano belched and spewed a column of ashes high into the sky.
The 2,330 meter high volcano began erupting around 1630 GMT, and authorities suspended scores of flights across parts of the small Central American country. No victims were reported.
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