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• AP IMPACT: Drug cartels co-opt rehab for recruits (AP)
• 10 Americans charged in Haiti with kidnapping (AP)
• Venezuelan police break up anti-Chavez protest (AP)
• Protestants accept deal to save NIreland govt (AP)
• Egypt restores monastery touting religious harmony (AP)
• Iran's Secret Obsession: Getting Lost in Tehran (Time.com)
• N.Ireland party backs deal, saves power-sharing (AFP)
• U.S. rushing bomb dogs to Iraq amid equipment concerns (AP)
• Jamaican cleric says he was unfairly demonized (AP)
• Mandela celebrates 20 years of freedom (AP)
• Dalai Lama to visit White House despite China anger (AFP)
• Vancouver counts the cost of high security (Reuters)
• 3 cheetahs swim moat, briefly escape in NZealand (AP)
• U.S. plan to win Afghanistan tribe by tribe is risky (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Why Jacob Zuma's infidelity carries a small political price (The Christian Science Monitor)
• People of the Year: Neipamei Ngodia and Kakenya Ntaiya (OneWorld.net)

AP IMPACT: Drug cartels co-opt rehab for recruits (AP) Posted: 04 Feb 2010 12:39 PM PST AP - Mexico's powerful cartels have taken to running drug rehabilitation centers, turning recovering addicts into hit men and smugglers and giving some an ultimatum: Work for us or we'll kill you.

10 Americans charged in Haiti with kidnapping (AP) Posted: 04 Feb 2010 05:16 PM PST AP - Ten U.S. Baptist missionaries were charged with kidnapping Thursday for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti to a hastily arranged refuge just as officials were trying to protect children from predators in the chaos of a great earthquake.

Venezuelan police break up anti-Chavez protest (AP) Posted: 04 Feb 2010 02:46 PM PST AP - Police used tear gas, plastic bullets and water cannons to scatter hundreds of students protesting against the government Thursday, while President Hugo Chavez's supporters celebrated the 18th anniversary of his failed coup as an army officer.

Protestants accept deal to save NIreland govt (AP) Posted: 04 Feb 2010 05:27 PM PST AP - Lawmakers from Northern Ireland's major Protestant party have unanimously backed a compromise plan with the Catholic minority to save their power-sharing government, Democratic Unionist Party leader Peter Robinson declared Friday.

Egypt restores monastery touting religious harmony (AP) Posted: 04 Feb 2010 10:55 AM PST AP - Egypt's chief archaeologist unveiled on Thursday an extensive renovation of the oldest monastery in the world, touting the work at the 1,600 year-old-site as a symbol of peaceful coexistence between the country's Muslims and Christians.

Iran's Secret Obsession: Getting Lost in Tehran (Time.com) Posted: 03 Feb 2010 11:45 PM PST Time.com - The denizens of the capital of the Islamic Republic are as excited about Season Six of the U.S. TV show as fans elsewhere. Perhaps more so.

N.Ireland party backs deal, saves power-sharing (AFP) Posted: 04 Feb 2010 06:23 PM PST AFP - Northern Ireland's leader Peter Robinson has said his party has backed a deal with their power-sharing partners to pull the province's threatened administration back from the brink.

U.S. rushing bomb dogs to Iraq amid equipment concerns (AP) Posted: 04 Feb 2010 10:09 AM PST AP - The American military is rushing delivery of dozens of bomb-detection dogs to Iraq after accusations that widely used mechanical devices are ineffective to pinpoint explosives at checkpoints and other search sites, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.

Jamaican cleric says he was unfairly demonized (AP) Posted: 04 Feb 2010 02:34 PM PST AP - A radical Muslim cleric who served time in a British jail for inciting murder and was recently deported to his native Jamaica said Thursday that he has been unfairly demonized by the media.

Mandela celebrates 20 years of freedom (AP) Posted: 04 Feb 2010 02:11 PM PST AP - Nelson Mandela, fellow veterans of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle and family have raised glasses of bubbly to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his release from prison.

Dalai Lama to visit White House despite China anger (AFP) Posted: 04 Feb 2010 06:20 PM PST AFP - The United States risked inflaming a row on multiple fronts with China, saying the Dalai Lama would visit the White House later this month despite Beijing's fierce protests.

Vancouver counts the cost of high security (Reuters) Posted: 04 Feb 2010 04:14 PM PST Reuters - The threat of a terror attack on the Vancouver Olympics is considered low but Canada is still spending far more to protect the event than it did to build the venues where athletes will compete.

3 cheetahs swim moat, briefly escape in NZealand (AP) Posted: 04 Feb 2010 05:52 PM PST AP - Three cheetahs swam a moat and crawled through a hole in a rusty fence to escape their enclosure and then briefly roamed inside a wildlife park in New Zealand.

U.S. plan to win Afghanistan tribe by tribe is risky (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 04 Feb 2010 10:49 AM PST McClatchy Newspapers - PAKTIA PROVINCE, Afghanistan — U.S. officials put a lot of hope last year in Haji Rashid, an up-and-coming community leader in the Zormat district of Afghanistan's Paktia province. They considered Rashid a unifying figure who was capable of bringing together about a dozen tribes in the area to work in support of the American-backed Afghan government.

Why Jacob Zuma's infidelity carries a small political price (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 04 Feb 2010 10:22 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - A sitting president cheats on his wife with another woman, admits to the press that he has a “love-child,” and he still keeps his job.

People of the Year: Neipamei Ngodia and Kakenya Ntaiya (OneWorld.net) Posted: 04 Feb 2010 11:28 AM PST OneWorld.net - for forging their own path out of a patriarchal society, and then returning to provide new opportunities for the girls in their community

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