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• Aid slowly reaching Haitians as desperation grows (AP)
• In Haiti, little separates life and death (AP)
• AP Enterprise: US buyers must beware in China (AP)
• UN launches $550 million appeal for Haiti aid (AP)
• US kills FBI-wanted terrorist in Pakistan strike (AP)
• After the Quake: Should Haitian Refugees Be Given Special Status? (Time.com)
• Ukraine 'model farm' to help sell ND ag supplies (AP)
• Yemen says airstrike kills al-Qaida military chief (AP)
• Haiti by the numbers: Damage, help on giant scale (AP)
• Former Haiti president Aristide 'ready' to return (AFP)
• China plays down Google dispute but U.S. concerned (Reuters)
• Canadian drug-injection site allowed to stay open (Reuters)
• Aborigines to ask Prince William for slain warrior's head (AFP)
• 'Flying IEDs': The new weapon threat in Iraq? (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Are Latin America's drug cartels working with al-Qaeda? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Haiti Tries to Dig Out as Corpses Pile Up (Time.com)

Aid slowly reaching Haitians as desperation grows (AP) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 04:45 PM PST AP - Pushed to the far edge of desperation, earthquake-ravaged Haitians dumped decaying bodies into mass graves and begged for water and food Friday amid fear that time is running out to avoid chaos and to rescue anyone still alive in the wreckage.

In Haiti, little separates life and death (AP) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 02:39 PM PST AP - The body lies on the side of the road that leads to and from Haiti's capital city.

AP Enterprise: US buyers must beware in China (AP) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 04:47 PM PST AP - David Smith pushed a cart piled high with boxes of beads and other jewelry through a maze of shops at a wholesale market in southern China.

UN launches $550 million appeal for Haiti aid (AP) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 03:25 PM PST AP - The United Nations said Friday about a third of the buildings in Haiti's capital have been damaged or destroyed, and appealed for $550 million to help three million people badly affected by the earthquake.

US kills FBI-wanted terrorist in Pakistan strike (AP) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 10:22 AM PST AP - A U.S. missile strike in Pakistan killed one of the FBI's most-wanted terrorists, a man suspected in a deadly 1986 plane hijacking with a $5 million bounty on his head, three Pakistani intelligence officials said Friday.

After the Quake: Should Haitian Refugees Be Given Special Status? (Time.com) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 01:45 PM PST Time.com - Undocumented aliens from the impoverished island nation have long been excluded from a special immigration status. Will the earthquake change that?

Ukraine 'model farm' to help sell ND ag supplies (AP) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 04:04 PM PST AP - It used to take Alex Oronov 24 hours of flight time to shop for North Dakota farm machinery. Now it takes him less than an hour.

Yemen says airstrike kills al-Qaida military chief (AP) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 03:18 PM PST AP - Yemeni warplanes struck outside a desert village near the border with Saudi Arabia on Friday, killing six al-Qaida operatives, including the group's top military leader in the country, security officials said.

Haiti by the numbers: Damage, help on giant scale (AP) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 03:40 PM PST AP - People in Haiti needing help: 3 million. Bodies collected for disposal so far: 9,000. Number of people being fed daily by the United Nation's World Food Program: 8,000.

Former Haiti president Aristide 'ready' to return (AFP) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 04:41 PM PST AFP - Former Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide, exiled in South Africa since 2004, said Friday he was "ready" to return to help rebuild the country in the wake of the devastating earthquake.

China plays down Google dispute but U.S. concerned (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 03:11 PM PST Reuters - China sought on Friday to play down a threat by Google Inc to quit the country on hacking and censorship concerns, but the United States said it will formally express concern over the cyber attacks the Internet search giant said originated in China.

Canadian drug-injection site allowed to stay open (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 01:22 PM PST Reuters - The Canadian government must allow Vancouver's Insite facility, North America's only sanctioned drug-injection site, to remain open, a provincial appeals court ruled on Friday.

Aborigines to ask Prince William for slain warrior's head (AFP) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 12:13 AM PST AFP - Australian Aborigines said Friday they will ask Britain's Prince William for help in finding and returning the head of an indigenous warrior when he visits Sydney next week.

'Flying IEDs': The new weapon threat in Iraq? (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 12:47 PM PST McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — U.S. troops stationed at an outpost in southern Iraq heard a chilling whistle, and then a 60-pound airborne bomb punched through a concrete blast wall and sent shrapnel flying, wounding three Americans.

Are Latin America's drug cartels working with al-Qaeda? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 08:29 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - It's known as the Coca Cola plane. In early November, drug traffickers landed a Boeing 727 in the Malian desert in Gao state and offloaded between 10 and 12 million tons of cocaine.

Haiti Tries to Dig Out as Corpses Pile Up (Time.com) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 01:45 PM PST Time.com - Port-au-Prince is a series of open graves and funeral pyres and no one knows how many have died. But the living are pulling together to clear away the rubble

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