Attacks on members of the media along a long stretch of the border with the U.S. have resulted in what amounts to a news blackout. (feeds.nytimes.com)

A Swiss abbot says 60 people have reported being victims of abuse by Catholic priests in Switzerland. (feeds.boston.com)

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world's largest search engine, is now "99.9 percent" certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times said on Saturday. (feeds.reuters.com)

North Korea plans to head back to the bargaining table early next month for talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons program, a news report said Saturday. (feeds.boston.com)

Authorities in Ireland are investigating whether a second American woman was involved in a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist, The Wall Street Journal reports. (pheedo.msnbc.msn.com)

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities in Ireland are investigating whether a second American woman was involved in a suspected international plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist for mocking the Prophet Mohammad, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. (feeds.reuters.com)

Mexico defended its military courts system on Thursday after a U.S. human rights report cited reports of alleged abuses by the army and a lack of investigation in many of the cases. (www.newsvine.com)

It's been four years since laptop computers passed desktop in unit sales in the US. But laptop vendors can't rest. The netbook phenomenon swept the tech world in 2009, changing the rules for the category. And this year, tablets like the iPad might change (www.cnet.com)