| Haitians desperate for supplies; rescues continue (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2010 12:35 AM PST  AP - Rescuers pulled a dehydrated but otherwise uninjured woman from the ruins of a luxury hotel in the Haitian capital early Sunday, an event greeted with applause from onlookers witnessing rare good news in a city otherwise filled with corpses, rubble and desperation.
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| Iraq's 'Chemical Ali' gets new death sentence (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2010 12:16 AM PST  AP - Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" was convicted Sunday of crimes against humanity and received a death sentence for his involvement in a poison gas attack on Halabja.
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| Pakistani officials: Suspected US drone kills 12 (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2010 12:34 AM PST  AP - Suspected U.S. unmanned aircraft fired on a house in Pakistan's volatile tribal region Sunday, killing at least a dozen people in an area hit by a surge of such strikes since the beginning of the year, intelligence officials said.
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| Haitians search desperately for missing relatives (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2010 12:08 AM PST  AP - They wait outside crumbled schools or shattered markets, searching for sisters, fathers, children, lovers. They stand vigil at smashed buildings where sons were last known to be, or at tangles of concrete where their mothers once went shopping.
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| For health care, a frantic ride in the final days (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2010 12:08 AM PST  AP - Like a roller-coaster ride on its last twisting turns, President Barack Obama's campaign to remake health care is barreling into final days of breathless suspense and headlong momentum.
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| JFK breach is 2nd this month at NYC-area airport (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2010 12:45 AM PST  AP - A busy terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport was evacuated after a man opened a restricted door and set off an alarm, authorities said, making it the second known security breach at a New York-area airport this month.
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| Thousands protest sheriff's immigration efforts (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2010 12:09 AM PST  AP - Thousands of immigrant rights advocates marched in front of a county jail in Phoenix Saturday in a protest that was aimed at Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigration efforts and was marked by a clash between a small group of protesters and police officers.
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| 'SNL' lampoons late-night mess with sketch (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2010 12:09 AM PST  AP - "Saturday Night Live" has entered the late-night fray, lampooning the mess involving Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien.
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| Colts beat Ravens 20-3, advance to AFC title game (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 11:10 PM PST  AP - There's a price to pay for keeping the ball out of Peyton Manning's hands.
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| Saints rout Cardinals 45-14, reach NFC title game (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 11:11 PM PST  AP - Maybe a little rest was all Drew Brees and Reggie Bush needed to shift the Saints' league-leading offense back into overdrive.
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| World pledges quake aid, Haitians still waiting (Reuters) Posted: 17 Jan 2010 12:43 AM PST  Reuters - World leaders have stepped up to pledge aid to rebuild a devastated Haiti, but on the streets of its wrecked capital quake survivors were still waiting on Sunday for the basics: food, water and medicine.
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| New death sentence for Iraq's "Chemical Ali" (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 11:48 PM PST  Reuters - An Iraqi court sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majeed, the Saddam Hussein-era official widely known as "Chemical Ali," on Sunday to death by hanging for a 1988 gas attack that killed about 5,000 Kurds, a court official said.
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| U.N. confirms death of Haiti mission chief Annabi (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 05:05 PM PST  Reuters - The U.N. mission chief in Haiti, Hedi Annabi, died in Tuesday's earthquake that devastated the country's capital, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced on Saturday.
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| Pakistani Taliban leader denies death on tape (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 08:33 AM PST Reuters - Pakistani Taliban militants issued an audio tape on Saturday which they said was of their leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, and proved he had not been killed in a U.S. strike two days ago. |
| Google denies leaving China, seeks negotiations (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 11:41 PM PST Reuters - Google Inc enters a second week of high stakes brinkmanship with China's government, amid speculation the firm has decided to pull out of the world's biggest Internet market over cyber-spying concerns. |
| Abbas signals readiness to resume talks with Israel (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 01:53 PM PST  Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has signaled a readiness to resume peace talks with Israel if the United States were to set out specific goals for negotiations, official Palestinian news agency Wafa said Saturday.
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| Spanish politician may sue over bin Laden photo (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 02:09 PM PST  Reuters - A Spanish politician said on Saturday that he was "stupefied" by the FBI's decision to use his photograph to compose its latest image of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and is considering taking legal action. "Firstly I will ask the FBI for an explanation, which they haven't given me yet, and then I will reserve the right to take legal action," Gaspar Llamazares told CNN+.
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| As poll looms, Myanmar still building parliament (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 08:37 PM PST Reuters - Military-ruled Myanmar's first parliamentary elections in 20 years are set for this year, yet construction on its parliament is not yet complete -- suggesting little chance of a poll in the next few months. |
| Desperation in Haiti as scale of disaster grows (AFP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 10:33 PM PST  AFP - Desperate Haiti quake survivors pleaded for vital supplies amid anger over the chaotic aid effort, while the true extent of the disaster beyond the capital began to emerge.
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| Iraq's 'Chemical Ali' sentenced to death (AFP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 11:51 PM PST  AFP - Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as Saddam Hussein's enforcer "Chemical Ali" was on Sunday sentenced to death for ordering the gassing of Kurds in the Iraqi village of Halabja, state television said.
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