| Taliban free captive Chinese engineer in Pakistan (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2009 12:48 AM CST  AP - Pakistani Taliban militants have freed a Chinese engineer held captive for nearly six months, officials said Sunday, as fears rose for the safety of an abducted American threatened with imminent death by his kidnappers.
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| Zimbabwe PM: Aide's arrest undermines unity govt (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2009 01:47 PM CST  AP - Zimbabwe's new prime minister said Saturday he must work with longtime President Robert Mugabe to try to reverse his country's economic collapse, despite signs that factions in the Mugabe camp want to bring down the new coalition government.
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| Afghanistan to take part in US strategic review (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2009 01:01 AM CST  AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai says President Barack Obama has accepted his proposal for Afghanistan to take part in a strategic U.S. review of the Afghan war.
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| Church services mourn Australian wildfire victims (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2009 11:16 PM CST  AP - Australians mourned the victims of deadly wildfires at church services across the country Sunday as news emerged of a class action lawsuit against a power company over the cause of one of the blazes.
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| Saudi king shakes up religious establishment (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2009 02:18 PM CST  AP - The Saudi king on Saturday dismissed the chief of the religious police and a cleric who condoned killing the owners of TV networks that broadcast "immoral" content, signaling an effort to weaken the country's hard-line Sunni establishment.
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| Mobile phone industry gears up for Barca gathering (AFP) Posted: 14 Feb 2009 09:58 PM CST  AFP - The mobile phone industry recently reached the milestone of its four billionth connection worldwide, but the cold winds of economic crisis will chill celebrations at the sector's biggest annual gathering this week.
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| US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,243 (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2009 07:29 PM CST  AP - As of Saturday, Feb. 14, 2009, at least 4,243 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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| Key facts about Venezuela term limits referendum (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2009 11:03 PM CST AP - Key facts about the Venezuelan referendum Sunday: |
| Arrest compromises Zimbabwe unity government: minister (AFP) Posted: 14 Feb 2009 11:57 PM CST  AFP - Zimbabwe's new finance minister said the arrest of a ministerial candidate hours before he was to take oath in a unity government showed President Robert Mugabe's party was not ready to share power.
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| Sri Lanka ruling party wins landslide local vote: results (AFP) Posted: 15 Feb 2009 01:08 AM CST  AFP - Sri Lanka's ruling party headed for a landslide victory in local elections seen as a referendum on the government's military campaign against Tamil rebels, official results showed Sunday.
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| Australia mourns bushfire victims (Reuters) Posted: 15 Feb 2009 12:27 AM CST  Reuters - Australia mourned the victims of deadly bushfires at church services across the country on Sunday while the government vowed to create an early warning system to try to avoid a repetition of the disaster.
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