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• Rescuers pull Haitian man from deep under rubble (AP)
• Part of UK airport closed to analyze white powder (AP)
• Biden: US to appeal dismissal of Blackwater case (AP)
• Haiti elderly receive some medical care, need food (AP)
• Haiti's Signal FM: The Little Radio Station that Could (Time.com)
• Expert lawyers to declare Iraq war illegal: reports (AFP)
• Biden confident Iraqis to settle election dispute (AP)
• Group tackles animal welfare in Haiti after quake (AP)
• 150 bodies recovered from wells after Nigerian massacre: official (AFP)
• Japan ruling party No. 2 denies scandal (Reuters)
• Aussies hopping mad at govt stance on toad-busting (AP)
• New study argues war deaths are often overestimated (The Christian Science Monitor)
• The Distant Memories of Haiti Before the Quake (Time.com)

Rescuers pull Haitian man from deep under rubble (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2010 03:57 PM PST AP - An international team of rescuers unearthed a shop clerk in good condition from deep beneath the concrete and wooden wreckage of a hotel grocery store Saturday, 11 days after an earthquake crumbled Haiti's capital.

Part of UK airport closed to analyze white powder (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2010 02:11 PM PST AP - Police closed and evacuated part of Manchester Airport on Saturday after discovering a man preparing to board a flight was carrying a white powder in his hand luggage, but the substance turned out to be harmless.

Biden: US to appeal dismissal of Blackwater case (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2010 05:38 PM PST AP - The U.S. will appeal a court decision dismissing manslaughter charges against five Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday.

Haiti elderly receive some medical care, need food (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2010 03:36 PM PST AP - Relief groups brought doctors and medication to the ruins of a city nursing home Saturday, the first time its dozens of elderly residents have received significant care since the Jan. 12 earthquake. Still, caregivers said the residents continue to face a critical food shortage.

Haiti's Signal FM: The Little Radio Station that Could (Time.com) Posted: 23 Jan 2010 08:05 AM PST Time.com - How a radio station survived the quake and became the informational lifeline of the country's devastated capital

Expert lawyers to declare Iraq war illegal: reports (AFP) Posted: 23 Jan 2010 05:41 PM PST AFP - Two former government lawyers involved in the preparations for Britain's invasion of Iraq will testify at a public inquiry this week that the March 2003 conflict was illegal, reports said Sunday.

Biden confident Iraqis to settle election dispute (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2010 04:19 PM PST AP - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden says he's confident Iraqis are working toward a solution to difficult pre-election dispute.

Group tackles animal welfare in Haiti after quake (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2010 03:54 PM PST AP - Animal welfare groups arrived in Haiti on Saturday to help protect earthquake victims by vaccinating stray dogs and maintaining the health of livestock.

150 bodies recovered from wells after Nigerian massacre: official (AFP) Posted: 23 Jan 2010 12:02 PM PST AFP - At least 150 bodies were recovered from wells after Muslim-Christian clashes in central Nigeria, a village head said Saturday, taking the unofficial death toll past 450.

Japan ruling party No. 2 denies scandal (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jan 2010 03:52 PM PST Reuters - Japanese ruling party kingpin Ichiro Ozawa denied on Saturday any wrongdoing in a funding scandal that is dimming his party's mid-year election prospects, and vowed to stay on in his key position.

Aussies hopping mad at govt stance on toad-busting (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2010 09:00 AM PST AP - When the enemy reached Australia's largest state last year, the Kimberley Toad Busters knew the battle was on. But they didn't expect that officialdom might strip them of their most effective weapon.

New study argues war deaths are often overestimated (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 01:48 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - A new report released this week asserts that the human cost of modern warfare has decreased significantly, challenging both the methods and results of other studies.

The Distant Memories of Haiti Before the Quake (Time.com) Posted: 23 Jan 2010 08:05 AM PST Time.com - When a city like Port-au-Prince is leveled, you have so many memories of it and so many connections, now severed, that it's as if you'd lived a fiction instead of your real life.

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