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Russian Ad Compares Putin Foe to Hitler

ROBERT MACKEY and GLENN KATES The New York Times 01/13/2012

While Republican voters in South Carolina are being warned in a new ad not to trust Mitt Romney because, “like John Kerry, he speaks French,” politicking in Russia, where a new president will be elected in March, is a good deal less subtle.

Reporters defend tabloids at UK media inquiry JILL LAWLESS AP 01/09/2012	Picasso, Mondrian Paintings Stolen in Greece The Wall Street Journal 01/09/2012
Reporters and editors from Britain's Sun tabloid painted their newspaper as a moral paragon Monday, saying accuracy was paramount and privacy always a consideration, while the paper's legal counsel insisted he had seen no evidence of phone hacking.	Thieves carried out a well-organized, pre-dawn heist at Greece's biggest state art museum on Monday, taking two oil paintings by 20th century masters Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian, police said.
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Vaclav Havel, former Czech president, leader of "Velvet Revolution," dies at 75 Michael Winfrey and Jana Mlcochova Reuters 12/18/2011	Vladimir Putin 'would lose honest presidential election', says former Russian PM Andrew Osborn Telegraph 12/18/2011
Vaclav Havel, an anti-Communist playwright who became Czech president and a worldwide symbol of peace and freedom after leading the bloodless "Velvet Revolution," died at the age of 75 on Sunday.	Vladimir Putin has been rattled by recent protests against his rule and would lose an honest presidential election if he had the guts to allow one, a former Russian prime minister has claimed.
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Egypt's Islamists claim sweep of second round vote Marwa Awad and Tamim Elyan Reuters 12/18/2011	Arab uprising could spark unrest in UK: general Mohammed Abbas Reuters 12/14/2011
Egypt's two leading Islamist parties said on Sunday their separate party lists secured about three-quarters of votes cast in the second round of a parliamentary election, extending their lead in the three-stage vote.	Britain's top soldier warned on Wednesday that pro-democracy uprisings in the Middle East could spawn militant Islamist activity in Britain, but said the greatest threat was economic.
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Norway massacre: Breivik declared insane BBC News 11/29/2011	British Inquiry Is Told Hacking Is Worthy Tool SARAH LYALL The New York Times 11/29/2011
Psychiatrists assessing self-confessed Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik have concluded that he is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.	He admitted that he and his colleagues hacked into people’s phones and paid police officers for tips. He confessed to lurking in unmarked vans outside people’s houses, stealing confidential documents, rifling through celebrity garbage cans and pretending that he was not a journalist pursuing a story but “Brad the teenage rent boy,” propositioning a priest.
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