Media Roundup: 07 Nov 2011

Ortega, Perez Lead in Nicaragua, Guatemala Elections

By: Tracy Wilkinson | Los Angeles Times

Preliminary results in presidential voting seem to indicate clear winners in the two Central American nations.

To Strike Iran or Not, With the U.S. or Not

By: Pierre Klochendler | Inter Press Service

Preceding the UN atomic watchdog's report on Iran's nuclear quest, a flurry of reports about Israel increasingly tilting towards preventive military action against Iran highlights U.S. military support of Israel, but tests its influence over its ally.

Greece Reaches Agreement on Unity Government

By: Michael Birnbaum | The Washington Post

Prime Minister George Papandreou will resign, bringing Greece a step closer to stability after a political crisis set off last week threatened its future in the euro zone.

More News

• Weighing Pentagon Cuts, Panetta Faces Deep Pressures
  By: THOM SHANKER and ELISABETH BUMILLER | The New York Times
  
• The U.S. Defense Budget and Strategic Overmatch
  By: Tammy S. Schultz | World Politics Review
  
• Former Guatemalan General Wins Presidency
  By: Edgar Calderon | Agence France-Presse
  
• Iran on Brink of Nuclear Capability, IAEA Says
  By: Joby Warrick | The Washington Post
  
• Damascus' Long Shadow Creeps into Lebanon
  By: Nicholas Blanford | Time
  
• Analysis: Little Hope Seen of Taliban Settlement Before 2014
  Reuters
  
• G20 Seeks More Talks on Eurozone Crisis
  By: Chris Giles and Gerrit Wiesmann | Financial Times
  
• Italy Government Borrowing Rates Hit Euro-Era High
  BBC
  
• China Appears Unlikely to Come to Eurozone's Rescue
  By: David Pierson and Don Lee | Los Angeles Times
  
• Gobi Mega-Mine Puts Mongolia on Brink of World's Greatest Resource Boom
  By: Jonathan Watts | The Guardian
  
• Why Killing of Colombia FARC Chief 'Alfonso Cano' May Delay Peace
  By: Sibylla Brodzinsky | The Christian Science Monitor
  
• Georgia Says It Won't Drag NATO Into War
  By: Ben Birnbaum | The Washington Times
  
• Poland Steps Into Arab Spring
  By: Robert Stefanicki | Inter Press Service
  
• Sirleaf Seen Winning Liberia Run-Off Vote
  By: Richard Valdmanis and Alphonso Toweh | Reuters
  
• Qatar: Pygmy With the Punch of a Giant
  The Economist
  
• Russia and Kazakhstan Prioritize Multilateral Cooperation
  By: Sergei Blagov | Eurasia Daily Monitor
  
• Pushing China's Limits on Web, if Not on Paper
  By: EDWARD WONG | The New York Times