A.M. Links: Bomb Attacks Target Christians in Iraq, Protesters Clash With Police in Thailand, New Home Sales Drop in November

• Japanese Prime Minister
  Shinzo Abe has been criticized in China and South Korea for
  visiting a shrine which honors 2.5 million Japanese war dead,
  including World War II war criminals.
• Egypt’s interim government has labeled the
  Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
• The
  Commerce Department says that new home sales dropped 2.1
  percent in November.
• At least
  37 people have been killed by bomb attacks targeting Christians
  in Iraq.
• Demonstrators
  in Thailand, who are trying to disrupt preparations for
  elections set to take place in February, have clashed with police,
  who claim that they were shot at.
• A former New
  Orleans cop who was convicted of burning a body after Hurricane
  Katrina has asked for his resentencing to be delayed.

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