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Afghan parliament rejects Karzai's Cabinet list (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 12:49 PM PST

Afghan parliament members vote during a debate in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010. Afghan parliament began voting on President Hamid Karzai's list of nominees for his new cabinet. (AP Photo/Farzana Wahidy)AP - A chastened President Hamid Karzai must submit new Cabinet picks after defiant lawmakers rejected 17 of his 24 nominees Saturday, including a powerful warlord and the country's only woman minister.


Iran warns West it will make its own nuclear fuel (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 12:22 PM PST

FILE - Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki speaks during a press conference at a hotel in Beirut, Lebanon, in this Dec. 21, 2009 file photo. Mottaki told state TV on Saturday the West must 'make a decision' whether to accept the Iranian counterproposal to either sell Tehran the fuel or swap it for Iran's enriched uranium. Mottaki says this is an 'ultimatum.' (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)AP - Iran set a one-month deadline Saturday for the West to accept its counterproposal to a U.N.-drafted nuclear plan and warned that otherwise it will produce reactor fuel at a higher level of enrichment on its own.


Hopes fade in hunt for Brazil mudslide survivors (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 12:55 PM PST

Rescue workers carry the body of a mudslide victim in Ilha Grande, an island off the city of Angra dos Reis near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010. A rain-soaked hillside collapsed on homes and an upscale lodge after New Year celebrations early Friday, killing at least 20 people, according to Brazilian authorities. A separate mudslide in the nearby city of Angra dos Reis killed at least 11 people. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - Firefighters using heavy machinery, shovels and bare hands dug for survivors Saturday but only found corpses under a mountain of red earth and crushed lodgings — the worst of a spate of mudslides and floods that killed at least 64 people in southeastern Brazil.


2 ships reported hijacked off Somali coast (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:05 AM PST

Map of the Horn of Africa region spots the approximate locations of recent pirate attacksAP - A cargo ship and a chemical tanker have both been hijacked by pirates in the perilous waters off the coast of Somalia, bringing to four the number of ships seized in the past week, officials said Saturday.


Why Flight 253 Could Delay Guantanamo's Closure (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 09:30 AM PST

FILE -This Dec. 25, 2009 file photo shows Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on the runway after arriving at Detroit Metropolitan Airport from Amsterdam. Officials say a passenger aboard the plane was trying to ignite an explosive device Friday. (AP Photo/J.P. Karas, File)Time.com - Most of the remaining prisoners are from Yemen. Returning them to that country isn't likely to weaken al-Qaeda


Britain, US to fund Yemen anti-terror police unit (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 04:19 PM PST

A yemeni Girl passes the Sana'a Institute for Arabic Language in San'a, Yemen Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010.  Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the suspect in the Christmas Day airline attack, was an Arabic student at the institute in August. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - The British government said Sunday that Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Barack Obama had agreed to fund a counterterrorism police unit in Yemen to tackle the rising terrorist threat from the country.


Yemen sends more troops to al-Qaida strongholds (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 04:25 PM PST

An undated handout picture from the Yemeni army shows a soldier manning a machinegun in Saada province, around 250 kms north of the capital Sanaa. Shiite rebels battling government forces in north Yemen told AFP on Saturday they are ready for talks with Sanaa once the government declares a AP - Yemen deployed several hundred extra troops to two mountainous eastern provinces that are al-Qaida's main strongholds in the country and where the suspected would-be Christmas airplane bomber may have visited, security officials said Saturday.


Bus plunges off cliff in northern Mexico; 14 dead (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 01:55 PM PST

AP - A bus carrying farm workers and their families home has plunged off a cliff in northern Mexico, killing 14 people.

Trial of Swiss businessman postponed again: lawyer (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:08 AM PST

Swiss businessmen Rashid Hamdani (L) and Max Goeldi pose in this handout picture taken in December 2009 at the Swiss Ambassy in Tripoli and released by The Swiss section of Anmesty International. The trial of one of two Swiss businessmen barred from leaving Libya for 18 months and charged with illegal business activities has been postponed, their lawyer said on Saturday.(AFP/AI-HO/File)AFP - The trial of one of two Swiss businessmen barred from leaving Libya for 18 months and charged with illegal business activities has been postponed, their lawyer said on Saturday.


Remains of early 1900s plane found in Antarctica (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 03:31 PM PST

AP - Remains of the first airplane ever taken to Antarctica, in 1912, have been found by Australian researchers, the team announced Saturday.

U.S. military relies on Afghan police while working to clean them up (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 12:32 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan — A group Georgia National Guard soldiers joined Lt. Col. Mir Salam Adamkhil, a Kabul precinct chief, in his office Thursday. At first the conversation centered on small talk, mostly about the precinct chief's teenage sons, as the men sipped on chai.

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