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• Haiti quake aid snarled; up to 50,000 feared dead (AP)
• Trapped Haitian girl dies despite rescue effort (AP)
• Haitians fill triage center, but little treatment (AP)
• Taiwan, Tibet, and trade loom over U.S.-China ties (AP)
• Flood of aid to Haiti looks like chaos, but normal (AP)
• Haiti Earthquake: Will Criminal Gangs Exploit Chaos? (Time.com)
• Injury blows add to Benitez's Liverpool woes (AFP)
• Iraq's electoral commission bars 500 candidates (AP)
• In Haiti, tragedy, a way of life, is redefined (AP)
• Child Survival Results Show Complexity of Aid Work (OneWorld.net)
• Attack on Google exploited Microsoft browser flaw (Reuters)
• Obama aid to Yemen could risk backlash in Arab world (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Nigeria president still out: VP Goodluck Jonathan takes over (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Haiti Donations by Text Message: Fundraising Goes Viral (Time.com)

Haiti quake aid snarled; up to 50,000 feared dead (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 06:06 PM PST AP - Doctors and search dogs, troops and rescue teams flew to this devastated land of dazed, dead and dying people Thursday, finding bottlenecks everywhere, beginning at a main airport short on jet fuel and ramp space and without a control tower.

Trapped Haitian girl dies despite rescue effort (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 05:58 PM PST AP - Trapped beneath the crumbled remains of her home, the 9-year-old girl could be heard begging for rescue as neighbors clawed at sand and debris with their bare hands.

Haitians fill triage center, but little treatment (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 04:40 PM PST AP - PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Across much of Port-au-Prince, if you have a broken bone or a gash in your head, you'll get the same advice: Make your way however you can to the Hotel Villa Creole. They have a triage center in the parking lot where you can get top-notch medical care.

Taiwan, Tibet, and trade loom over U.S.-China ties (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 04:23 PM PST AP - Barely two weeks into the new year, U.S.-China relations are being roiled by old tensions over Taiwan, Tibet and trade, along with new irritations including Google's charges it had been hacked and Pentagon concerns over the People's Liberation Army's massive buildup.

Flood of aid to Haiti looks like chaos, but normal (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 04:07 PM PST AP - Relief supplies are coming into quake-struck Haiti without people knowing. Coordination seems missing. A United Nations official is calling it "chaos." All this while victims aren't being helped.

Haiti Earthquake: Will Criminal Gangs Exploit Chaos? (Time.com) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 04:55 PM PST Time.com - Led by Robin Hood-like figures, Haiti's gangs have exploited the country's other crises, often mixing politics with social issues to profit criminally

Injury blows add to Benitez's Liverpool woes (AFP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 05:57 PM PST AFP - Just when Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez thought things could not get any worse, he found himself facing up to the prospect of being without star players Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard.

Iraq's electoral commission bars 500 candidates (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 06:07 PM PST AP - Iraq's electoral commission on Thursday barred 500 candidates from running in March's parliamentary election, including a prominent Sunni lawmaker, in a decision that is sure to deepen Iraq's sectarian divides.

In Haiti, tragedy, a way of life, is redefined (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 06:07 PM PST AP - EDITOR'S NOTE — Jonathan M. Katz is The Associated Press' correspondent in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He filed this first-person account of the moments after Tuesday's earthquake, which has redefined tragedy for a nation that knows it all too well.

Child Survival Results Show Complexity of Aid Work (OneWorld.net) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 06:05 PM PST OneWorld.net - DAKAR, Jan 14 (IRIN) - The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) "accelerated child survival programme" in 11 West African countries did not save significantly more lives than in areas that were not targeted, says an evaluation published in The Lancet this week - but analysts say this does not mean UNICEF was doing the wrong things.

Attack on Google exploited Microsoft browser flaw (Reuters) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 04:59 PM PST Reuters - Recent sophisticated cyber attacks on Google Inc and other businesses exploited a previously unknown flaw in Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer browser.

Obama aid to Yemen could risk backlash in Arab world (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 04:41 PM PST McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's decision to boost U.S. aid to Yemen to help the small Arabian Peninsula country fight al Qaida risks tying the U.S. more closely to an autocratic ruler whose repression of economic and political grievances is strengthening the terrorists and pushing his impoverished nation toward breakup.

Nigeria president still out: VP Goodluck Jonathan takes over (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 12:34 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - A federal court handed Nigeria’s vice-president the power to carry out state affairs while his boss, President Umaru Yar’Adua, continues treatment in a Saudi Arabian hospital.

Haiti Donations by Text Message: Fundraising Goes Viral (Time.com) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 04:55 PM PST Time.com - Wyclef Jean's YÉle Haiti and other organizations are raising a lot of money by getting people to use their cell phones to pledge small donations by text message

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