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• Mega-church minister Osteen signs on for reality TV series (Reuters)
• ACLU: FBI used outreach to collect info on Muslims (AP)
• Jewish cemetery in Kosovo capital desecrated (AP)
• Muslim Brotherhood surges out of the gate in Egypt's elections (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Belgium's next PM learns to lead in Dutch too (AP)

Mega-church minister Osteen signs on for reality TV series (Reuters) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:06 PM PST Reuters - The Rev. Joel Osteen, who leads the largest U.S. church congregation, said he has signed an agreement to develop a reality television show.

ACLU: FBI used outreach to collect info on Muslims (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 10:58 AM PST AP - Heavily blacked-out internal FBI documents released Thursday indicate that the FBI, in some cases between 2007 and 2009, ran background checks on people they encountered at Muslim-related events and recorded personal information such as email addresses, phone numbers, physical descriptions and opinions in reports marked "routine."

Jewish cemetery in Kosovo capital desecrated (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 09:55 AM PST AP - Police in Kosovo are investigating who sprayed swastikas on dozens of tombstones in a Jewish cemetery recently restored by American and Kosovan students, a spokesman said Thursday.

Muslim Brotherhood surges out of the gate in Egypt's elections (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 08:25 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - After the first round of elections this week, the Muslim Brotherhood is on track to gain the largest bloc of seats in Egypt’s new parliament, potentially giving it considerable sway over the country's direction post-Mubarak. The 80-year-old Islamist organization â€" banned under former President Hosni Mubarak â€" has tapped the deep networks and reputation for social justice it had built over decades of charity work to run a highly efficient campaign, reaching not only Brotherhood members but Egyptians ignored by the government and unfamiliar with the many new liberal parties forged in Tahrir Square.

Belgium's next PM learns to lead in Dutch too (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 07:44 AM PST AP - Finally, after a world record 530-plus days of negotiations, Elio Di Rupo is on the cusp of leading his first Belgian government.

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