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• Brazil leader rapped for stance on Cuba dissidents (AP)
• Law bars Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi from elections (AP)
• US-Israel row highlights quandary over settlements (AP)
• Disaster experts praise Chile quake response (AP)
• Church abuse scandal reaches pope's brother (AP)
• Biden Israel Trip: Apology for Timing of Settlement News (Time.com)
• 'Britain's Fritzl' abused daughters for years (AFP)
• Gates keeps up pressure on Iran with Gulf visit (AP)
• In paying for sex changes, Cuba breaks from past (AP)
• Pope denounces 'atrocious' Nigeria bloodshed (AFP)
• Japan revises down 4Q economic growth (AP)
• Canada Parliament eats seal to defy "ignorant" EU (Reuters)
• Sydney teens charged over attack on Canadian wheelchair-user (AFP)
• Israeli settlement plans give Obama little room to maneuver (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Joe Biden, in Ramallah, stymied by new settlement construction (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Beyond Sanctions: How to Solve the Iranian Riddle (Time.com)

Brazil leader rapped for stance on Cuba dissidents (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2010 05:36 PM PST AP - Brazil's president came under withering criticism Wednesday at home and in Cuba for his deference to the island's communist government over political prisoners and hunger strikes for human rights.

Law bars Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi from elections (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2010 01:39 PM PST AP - Myanmar's military regime took yet another step to expunge Aung San Suu Kyi from the political scene Wednesday by effectively barring her from the first elections in 20 years and pressuring her opposition party to expel her from its ranks.

US-Israel row highlights quandary over settlements (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2010 05:37 PM PST AP - An open diplomatic row during the visit of Vice President Joe Biden has shined a spotlight on the U.S. failure to rein in Israeli settlement ambitions and deepened Palestinian suspicions that the United States is too weak to broker a deal.

Disaster experts praise Chile quake response (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2010 03:15 PM PST AP - President Michelle Bachelet leaves office Thursday with a chunk of her country in ruins — and her popularity in the clouds.

Church abuse scandal reaches pope's brother (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2010 05:10 PM PST AP - Church abuse scandals in Germany have reached the older brother of Pope Benedict XVI and are creeping ever closer to the pontiff himself.

Biden Israel Trip: Apology for Timing of Settlement News (Time.com) Posted: 10 Mar 2010 12:00 PM PST Time.com - Vice President Joe Biden was publicly humiliated by the Israeli announcement of a controversial settlement project, and said it undermined trust in a new U.S. peace effort. But Israel has no plans to shelve the project

'Britain's Fritzl' abused daughters for years (AFP) Posted: 10 Mar 2010 05:52 PM PST AFP - Two women who were raped and abused by their father for over 25 years, becoming pregnant 18 times, have won an apology from local authorities for failing to prevent the serial incest.

Gates keeps up pressure on Iran with Gulf visit (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:25 PM PST AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Saudi leaders Wednesday that the U.S. effort for diplomatic engagement with Iran had come to naught and he asked for the influential kingdom's help to win wide backing for biting economic penalties against Tehran.

In paying for sex changes, Cuba breaks from past (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2010 09:52 AM PST AP - Looking in the mirror used to make Yiliam Gonzalez sick to her stomach.

Pope denounces 'atrocious' Nigeria bloodshed (AFP) Posted: 10 Mar 2010 12:22 PM PST AFP - Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday denounced the "atrocious" bloodshed in Nigeria after a massacre of Christian villagers, as police said 49 people would be charged over the killings.

Japan revises down 4Q economic growth (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:21 PM PST AP - Japan says its economy grew notably less in the fourth quarter than initial estimates.

Canada Parliament eats seal to defy "ignorant" EU (Reuters) Posted: 10 Mar 2010 12:35 PM PST Reuters - Canadian parliamentarians tucked into a meal of seal meat on Wednesday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union, which has banned imports of seal products.

Sydney teens charged over attack on Canadian wheelchair-user (AFP) Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:01 PM PST AFP - Two Australian teenagers have been charged over a vicious attack on a disabled Canadian tourist who was knocked out of his wheelchair and battered with a metal bar, police said on Thursday.

Israeli settlement plans give Obama little room to maneuver (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:21 PM PST McClatchy Newspapers - JERUSALEM — President Barack Obama faces what may be the biggest test to date of his credibility in the Middle East after Israel greeted Vice President Joe Biden's with an announcement that it will construct 1,600 new homes in disputed East Jerusalem, diplomats and analysts said Wednesday.

Joe Biden, in Ramallah, stymied by new settlement construction (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 10 Mar 2010 11:03 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Vice President Joe Biden embarked on the Palestinian leg of his Middle East trip on Wednesday with tensions still high over Israel’s surprise announcement of new settlement construction in East Jerusalem.

Beyond Sanctions: How to Solve the Iranian Riddle (Time.com) Posted: 10 Mar 2010 12:00 PM PST Time.com - Beyond Sanctions: How to Solve the Iranian Riddle

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