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• Afghan leader takes control of vote fraud panel (AP)
• Latin America creates bloc sans US; spat mars mood (AP)
• Argentine stolen at birth, now 32, learns identity (AP)
• Haiti adoption fights mirror desperation (AP)
• Police: 6 dead, 66 buried by Indonesian landslide (AP)
• Soeur Junon: Haitians Turn to a Prophetess for Hope (Time.com)
• Brown warns against legalising assisted suicide (AFP)
• Al-Qaida leader in Yemen threatens new US attacks (AP)
• Activists: Cuba dissident dies after hunger strike (AP)
• Plane believed carrying Nigeria leader lands in capital (AFP)
• China toughens Internet rules (AFP)
• Canada blast through to quarter-finals (Reuters)
• Australia, China resume trade talks after rows (AFP)
• Carlo Janka stakes claim as next ski star with giant slalom gold (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Baradar Capture: Was There a Rift with Mullah Omar? (Time.com)
• India's Indigenous Groups Step Up Anti-Mining Protests (OneWorld.net)

Afghan leader takes control of vote fraud panel (AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2010 07:49 PM PST AP - Afghanistan's president has raised concern he's reneging on promises to clean up corruption by taking control of a formerly independent body that monitors election fraud, complicating Obama administration efforts to erode support for the Taliban.

Latin America creates bloc sans US; spat mars mood (AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2010 05:11 PM PST AP - Latin America and Caribbean leaders united Tuesday to create a regional bloc excluding Canada and the United States, but its birth was undermined by a spat in which the Colombian president told Venezuela's Hugo Chavez to "be a man."

Argentine stolen at birth, now 32, learns identity (AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:34 PM PST AP - The search is finally over for Abel Madariaga, whose pregnant wife was kidnapped by Argentine security forces 33 years ago.

Haiti adoption fights mirror desperation (AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2010 03:49 PM PST AP - Foreigners detained, Haitians enraged, children caught in the middle: The scenario that played out this week echoed the case of 10 Americans caught trying to spirit youngsters out of this earthquake-ravaged nation.

Police: 6 dead, 66 buried by Indonesian landslide (AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2010 07:52 PM PST AP - Rescuers used heavy digging equipment Wednesday to clear a muddy landslide that killed at least six people and left 66 buried on Indonesia' main island of Java, an official said.

Soeur Junon: Haitians Turn to a Prophetess for Hope (Time.com) Posted: 23 Feb 2010 03:40 PM PST Time.com - Government officials ignored the Haitian-American when she predicted disaster three years ago, now politicians are flocking to her side

Brown warns against legalising assisted suicide (AFP) Posted: 23 Feb 2010 07:55 PM PST AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned against legalising assisted suicide, in comments published Wednesday on the eve of the introduction of new guidelines by prosecutors on the divisive issue.

Al-Qaida leader in Yemen threatens new US attacks (AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2010 02:02 PM PST AP - A senior operative of the al-Qaida network in Yemen — the group that claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas Day attack on an American passenger jet over Detroit — has threatened more attacks on the United States.

Activists: Cuba dissident dies after hunger strike (AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2010 05:34 PM PST AP - An opposition political activist imprisoned since 2003 died Tuesday after a lengthy hunger strike, members of Cuba's human rights community said.

Plane believed carrying Nigeria leader lands in capital (AFP) Posted: 23 Feb 2010 07:41 PM PST AFP - A plane landed at the presidential wing of Abuja airport amid heavy security Wednesday, after reports that Nigeria's ailing president was returning home after three months, an AFP correspondent noted.

China toughens Internet rules (AFP) Posted: 23 Feb 2010 08:06 PM PST AFP - China has issued new restrictions on Internet use, requiring those wanting to set up a website to meet regulators and provide identity documents, in a move slammed Wednesday by one rights group.

Canada blast through to quarter-finals (Reuters) Posted: 23 Feb 2010 06:58 PM PST Reuters - Canada overcame early jitters to storm into the Olympic men's ice hockey quarter-finals with a confidence-boosting 8-2 rout of Germany on Tuesday.

Australia, China resume trade talks after rows (AFP) Posted: 23 Feb 2010 07:51 PM PST AFP - Australia on Wednesday resumed free-trade talks with China after a 14-month gap, sweeping aside a brief plunge in ties to focus on a booming partnership tipped to deliver decades of growth.

Carlo Janka stakes claim as next ski star with giant slalom gold (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:36 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - This morning before the men's giant slalom, Carlo Janka might have felt a bit like an Austrian. The young Swiss alpine skier, of whom so much had been expected in the Olympics, had delivered no medals in the first three races â€" kind of like the Austrian men.

Baradar Capture: Was There a Rift with Mullah Omar? (Time.com) Posted: 23 Feb 2010 12:05 PM PST Time.com - An alleged rift between Mullah Omar and his second in command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, may be the reason that Pakistan was willing to give Baradar up -- all part of fragile equation of U.S.-Pakistan cooperation

India's Indigenous Groups Step Up Anti-Mining Protests (OneWorld.net) Posted: 23 Feb 2010 11:32 AM PST OneWorld.net - BHUBASNEWAR, Feb 23 (IPS) - When 5,000 indigenous Dongria Kondhs trekked Sunday to Niyam Dongar hill, the abode of their presiding deity Niyam Raja, and designated it as inviolate, it meant they were stepping up their resistance to a controversial alumina refinery and bauxite mine project here.

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