The document summarizes several international news stories from different locations around the world, including: - An Irvine, California couple asking a man to violently beat their son for suspected smoking. - Climate talks in Durban, South Africa going into overtime as negotiators try to agree on a new framework. - Peru's cabinet chief and his aides resigning amid failed negotiations over a mining project and social programs. It also provides more in-depth coverage of large anti-government protests in Russia against electoral fraud and Vladimir Putin's rule, with tens of thousands demonstrating in Moscow and other cities despite some pressure on opposition groups. Police showed unusual restraint and state media provided unexpected airtime to the opposition.

1. The Daily Reflector, Sunday, December 11, 2011 A
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Parents ask man to beat child Climate conference in overtime Peru’s Cabinet cheif resigns
An Irvine couple who suspected their 15- A package of documents was submit- An official close to Peruvian Cabinet
year-old son of smoking turned to a man ted to a marathon U.N. climate con- chief Salomon Lerner said he has resigned.
believed to be relied on in their church to vi- ference Saturday that would set a new The official said some of Lerner’s aides
olently discipline children, authorities said. course for the global fight against cli- have also stepped down. He spoke on con-
The parents asked Paul Kim, 39, to dis- mate change for more than a decade to dition of anonymity due to the matter’s
cipline their son after finding a lighter in come. sensitive nature.
his possession, dropping the boy off at South Africa’s foreign minister and Lerner had been campaign manager
Kim’s Chino Hills home with permission chairman of the 194-party conference, to President Ollanta Humala, who was
for the beating, San Bernardino County Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, told delegates elected in June.
sheriff’s spokesperson Cindy Bachmann that failure to agree after 16 days of work He recently was involved in failed attempts
said Saturday. would be an unsustainable setback for in- to negotiate an end to protests that have
Kim hit the child with a metal pole ternational efforts to control greenhouse stalled Peru’s biggest foreign investment, the
about a dozen times, causing severe bruis- gases. $4.8 billion Conga gold mining project.
ing on his legs, according to Bachmann. “This multilateral system remains A windfall tax that the industry agreed
An adult at the boy’s school saw the fragile and will not survive another to, and that Lerner played a key role in
bruises and called Irvine police, who in shock,” she told a full meeting of the brokering, is helping to underwrite social
turn informed San Bernardino County conference, which had been delayed the associated press welfare programs that Humala promised
officials, she said. more than 24 hours while ministers and skywatchers spot a lunar eclipse during the election campaign
Kim was arrested Tuesday at his home senior negotiators labored over words in the sky beside a statue of Buddha on
and released Thursday after posting bail. and nuances. saturday. From Associated Press reports
Russia’s stunning protests end with feel of change
by Jim heintZ and ies as well. ers. The head of its youth had nearly 170,000 activists
vladimir isachenkov United Russia official wing, Timur Prokopenko, “who are ready at moment
the associated press Andrei Isayev on Saturday was quoted by the Interfax to go to rallies” in support
acknowledged that the op- news agency as saying he of the government.
MOSCOW — Tens of position “point of view is ex-
thousands of people held tremely important and will
the largest anti-govern- be heard in the mass media,
ment protests that post-So- society and the state.”
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Nonetheless, the prime for the beleaguered oppo- to far exceed that. Just as Russian Facebook analog Come and bring a friend!!!
minister seems to be in a sition, at least in the short striking, police allowed a Vkontakte said this week
weaker position than he term. Although city au- separate unauthorized pro- his company has been pres-
was a week ago, before Rus- thorities generally refuse test to take place in Revolu- sured by the Federal Secu-
sians voted in parliamen- opposition forces permis- tion Square. rity Service to block op-
tary elections. His United sion to rally or limit the State-controlled tele- position supporters from
Party lost a substantial gatherings to small atten- vision, which generally posting. On Friday, he was
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it retains a majority. Saturday were sanctioned. position groups, broadcast for questioning. OFF
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Putin, who was the
president of Russia in
2000-08 before stepping
aside because of term lim-
its, will seek a new term in
the Kremlin in the March the associated press
presidential elections. The riot police detain a
protests have tarnished protester during a rally in
his campaign, but there is downtown st. petersburg on
not yet any obvious strong saturday.
challenger.
The most dramatic of
Saturday’s protests saw a
vast crowd jam an expan-
sive Moscow square and
adjacent streets, packed so
tight that some demonstra-
tors stood on others’ toes.
Although police estimated
the crowd at 30,000, aerial
photographs suggested far
more, and protest organiz-
ers made claims ranging
from 40,000 to 100,000 or
more.
Elsewhere in Russia,
some 7,000 protesters as-
sembled in St. Petersburg,
and demonstrations rang-
ing from a few hundred
people to a thousand took
place in more than 60 other
cities. Police reported only
about 100 arrests nation-
wide, a notably low number
for a force that characteris-
tically enforces quick and
harsh action against oppo-
sition gatherings.
The police restraint was
one of several signs that
conditions may be easing