Thursday,  December 06, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 141 • 27 of 30 •  Other Editions

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• "We are awaiting instructions from the Foreign Ministry. It will be the foreign relations department that decides the process," Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla said following McAfee's arrest Wednesday at a hotel in an upscale part of Guatemala City.
• Earlier on Wednesday, McAfee said he had formally requested asylum in Guatemala after entering the country from Belize, where he says he fears for his safety because he has sensitive information about official corruption and refused to donate to local politicians.
• Since refusing to turn himself in to authorities in Belize, the 67-year-old had been in hiding, blogging his movements and calling reporters, until reappearing in Guatemala to claim asylum. He has not said how he crossed the border into Guatemala.
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Pushed NYC subway rider's horrific death has straphangers thinking about what they would do

• NEW YORK (AP) -- As New York City straphangers pondered what they would do in a similar nightmare situation, authorities charged a homeless man in the death of a Queens resident pushed in front of an oncoming subway train and killed as onlookers watched.
• "I would certainly try to do whatever I possibly could," said Denise Martorana, 34, as she waited for the "A'' train at Penn Station on Wednesday evening.
• "I certainly wouldn't be able to stand there and watch, that's for sure," she said.
• Naeem Davis, 30, was arraigned Wednesday night on a second-degree murder charge and ordered held without bail in the death of 58-year-old Ki-Suck Han on Monday. He is due back in court on Dec. 11.
• Davis has several prior arrests in New York and Pennsylvania on mostly minor charges including drug possession.
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Spreading the love: Fun., West, Jay-Z, Mumford & Sons among 6 top nominees for 2013 Grammys

• NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Grammy Awards celebrated the diversity of music as six different artists tied for lead nominee -- Kanye West, Jay-Z, Frank Ocean, Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, Mumford & Sons and fun.
• Auerbach received five nominations as a member of the Keys and also is up for producer of the year, earning a spot with the others at the top of the list as the

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