Must Reads: A ‘Red Era’ museum, Obama and mothers of the missing

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From attacks in Afghanistan to the missing in Mexico, here are five stories you shouldn’t miss from the past week in global news:

China museum builder lets history speak

Obama faces new Mideast challenges in his second term

As ‘insider attacks’ grow, so does U.S.-Afghanistan divide

Mothers from Central America search for missing kin in Mexico

Britain’s crackdown on Web comments sparks free-speech debate

-- Emily Alpert in Los Angeles

Photo: Marta Elena Perez of from Nicaragua attends Mass at the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City on Oct. 28, 2012, with a photograph of her daughter, Karla Patricia Perez, who went missing in 2005. Credit: Marco Ugarte / Associated Press