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• Afghan parliament rejects Karzai's Cabinet list (AP)
• Iran warns West it will make its own nuclear fuel (AP)
• Hopes fade in hunt for Brazil mudslide survivors (AP)
• 2 ships reported hijacked off Somali coast (AP)
• Why Flight 253 Could Delay Guantanamo's Closure (Time.com)
• Britain, US to fund Yemen anti-terror police unit (AP)
• Yemen sends more troops to al-Qaida strongholds (AP)
• Bus plunges off cliff in northern Mexico; 14 dead (AP)
• Trial of Swiss businessman postponed again: lawyer (AFP)
• Remains of early 1900s plane found in Antarctica (AP)
• U.S. military relies on Afghan police while working to clean them up (McClatchy Newspapers)

Afghan parliament rejects Karzai's Cabinet list (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 12:49 PM PST 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 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 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 AP - 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 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 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 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 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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