Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/11/2011

Italy is not out of the woods yet. A new austerity bill has been passed by the Italian Senate, but still has to make its way through the Chamber of Deputies. Meanwhile, financial panic is beginning in France, whose banks have major exposure to Italian and Greek debt. Britain is preparing contingency plans for an “economic Armageddon” in the event that the euro collapses.

In other news, drug dealers in an Al Qaeda-controlled area of Yemen are being publicly whipped for selling hallucinogens named after prominent Arab leaders, such as Muammar Ghadafi or Bashar al-Assad.

To see the headlines and the articles, open the full news post.

Thanks to Bewick, C. Cantoni, Caroline Glick, Diana West, Fjordman, Gaia, Insubria, JP, Kitman, Nilk, RE, SB, Van Grungy, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.

Commenters are advised to leave their comments at this post (rather than with the news articles) so that they are more easily accessible.

Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. We check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.