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• Yemeni forces raid al-Qaida hideout, clashes erupt (AP)
• Somali arrested at airport with chemicals, syringe (AP)
• State Department: 8 Americans die in Afghan attack (AP)
• Briton held for over 2 years in Iraq freed (AP)
• The Palestinian Woman in the Way of a Gilad Shalit Deal (Time.com)
• Iceland approves Icesave compensation (AFP)
• Bombs kill 23 in Iraq's western Anbar province (AP)
• Venezuela's Chavez says coup attempt would fail (AP)
• 3 men indicted on narcotics-terrorism charges (AP)
• Blast kills 5 Canadians in southern Afghanistan (Reuters)
• Blast kills 5 Canadians in southern Afghanistan (Reuters)
• Residents flee terrifying Australian wildfires (AFP)
• China ruling portends more trade action in 2010 (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Lula Movie: Brazil's President as a Cinema Superhero (Time.com)

Yemeni forces raid al-Qaida hideout, clashes erupt (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 06:03 PM PST AP - Yemeni forces raided an al-Qaida hideout and set off a gunbattle Wednesday as the government vowed to eliminate the group that claimed it was behind the Christmas bombing attempt on a U.S. airliner.

Somali arrested at airport with chemicals, syringe (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 06:03 PM PST AP - U.S. officials are investigating a Somali man's alleged attempt to board a flight bound for Djibouti and Dubai last month carrying chemicals, liquid and a syringe in a case bearing chilling echoes of the plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day.

State Department: 8 Americans die in Afghan attack (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 06:00 PM PST AP - Separate bomb explosions Wednesday in Afghanistan's volatile east and south killed eight Americans and five troops and a journalist from Canada, U.S. and NATO officials said.

Briton held for over 2 years in Iraq freed (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 04:02 PM PST AP - A British contractor was freed Wednesday and in good health more than two years after he was abducted, apparently the only survivor of a group of five Britons abducted in a daring raid outside Iraq's Finance Ministry in 2007.

The Palestinian Woman in the Way of a Gilad Shalit Deal (Time.com) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 02:30 AM PST Time.com - Sentenced to life for a crime that shocked Israel, Amneh Muna is high on the list of prisoners Hamas wants released in exchange for the soldier Gilad Shalit

Iceland approves Icesave compensation (AFP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 05:05 PM PST AFP - Iceland parliament's approved paying nearly four billion euros to Britain and the Netherlands, which had compensated more than 320,000 of their savers in a failed Icelandic bank.

Bombs kill 23 in Iraq's western Anbar province (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 01:24 PM PST AP - Twin bombings — one an assassination attempt against an Iraqi provincial governor — killed 23 people and wounded the governor Wednesday in the worst violence in months to hit the western province that was once al-Qaida's top stronghold in Iraq.

Venezuela's Chavez says coup attempt would fail (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 06:03 PM PST AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is looking to 2010 facing a recession, trying to prevent widespread power outages, and warning his opponents against a coup attempt. Chavez said in a televised speech Wednesday that any action like the failed military rebellion against him in 2002 wouldn't have a chance.

3 men indicted on narcotics-terrorism charges (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 04:21 PM PST AP - Three men suspected of being al-Qaida associates have been indicted on charges they plotted to ferry drugs through the Sahara Desert to raise money for terrorist attacks.

Blast kills 5 Canadians in southern Afghanistan (Reuters) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 05:24 PM PST Reuters - Four Canadian soldiers and a Canadian journalist were killed when their armored vehicle was hit by a bomb in southern Kandahar province on Wednesday, the Canadian Defense Ministry said.

Blast kills 5 Canadians in southern Afghanistan (Reuters) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 04:59 PM PST Reuters - Four Canadian soldiers and a Canadian journalist were killed when their armored vehicle was hit by a bomb in southern Kandahar province on Wednesday, the Canadian Defense Ministry said.

Residents flee terrifying Australian wildfires (AFP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 01:39 PM PST AFP - Residents in Western Australia fled a raging wildfire Wednesday that incinerated nearly 40 homes in the country's worst blaze since "Black Saturday" fires killed 173 in February.

China ruling portends more trade action in 2010 (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 03:32 PM PST McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A ruling Wednesday by the U.S. International Trade Commission in favor of domestic steelmakers and against Chinese exporters of tubular steel points to a likely trend in 2010 — more trade action against the export powerhouse.

Lula Movie: Brazil's President as a Cinema Superhero (Time.com) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 02:30 AM PST Time.com - An all-too-lovingly hagiographic movie about Luiz InÁcio Lula da Silva is about to open in his home country, causing his opposition much consternation

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