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• Haiti gives conflicting counts for quake deaths (AP)
• Britain discloses secret data on detainee abuse (AP)
• Venezuela seeks God's help amid energy crisis (AP)
• Girl, 7, gets OK to be samba queen in Rio Carnival (AP)
• Iran anniversary: Opposition tries to thwart a crackdown (Time.com)
• Freud self-portrait fetches 2.8 million pounds (AFP)
• Iraq orders former Blackwater security guards out (AP)
• Former Uruguayan dictator sentenced to 30 years (AP)
• Exile of Guinea junta leader sparks hope back home (AP)
• Afghans airlift bodies as avalanche deaths hit 166 (AP)
• Snow finally falls on bare Cypress (Reuters)
• Australia asks China for transparency in Rio case (Reuters)
• Afghan government in tentative talks with insurgent leader (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Olympic Village: Athletes impressed, taxpayers angry (Time.com)

Haiti gives conflicting counts for quake deaths (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:53 PM PST AP - Haiti issued wildly conflicting death tolls for the Jan. 12 earthquake on Wednesday, adding to confusion about how many people actually died — and to suspicion that nobody really knows.

Britain discloses secret data on detainee abuse (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:34 PM PST AP - Britain was forced by an appeals court Wednesday to reveal a long-secret description of how a former terrorism suspect was beaten, shackled and deprived of sleep during interrogations by U.S. agents.

Venezuela seeks God's help amid energy crisis (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2010 02:19 PM PST AP - A state-run power company is urging its employees to seek divine intervention to help Venezuela resolve severe electricity shortages that prompted President Hugo Chavez to declare an energy emergency.

Girl, 7, gets OK to be samba queen in Rio Carnival (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2010 04:53 PM PST AP - A family court judge ruled Wednesday that a 7-year-old girl should be allowed to samba before a crowd of thousands as a Carnival drum corps queen, a coveted role normally reserved for sultry models.

Iran anniversary: Opposition tries to thwart a crackdown (Time.com) Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:10 PM PST Time.com - Even as Tehran presses it nuclear program forward, its political crisis continues unabated, with every anniversary an occasion for protest

Freud self-portrait fetches 2.8 million pounds (AFP) Posted: 10 Feb 2010 05:27 PM PST AFP - A self-portrait of Lucian Freud nursing a black eye after a fight with a taxi driver sold for more than 2.8 million pounds (3.2 million euros, 4.4 million dollars) at a London auction.

Iraq orders former Blackwater security guards out (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:58 PM PST AP - Iraq has ordered hundreds of private security guards linked to Blackwater Worldwide to leave the country within seven days or face possible arrest on visa violations, the interior minister said Wednesday.

Former Uruguayan dictator sentenced to 30 years (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2010 05:44 PM PST AP - Former dictator Juan Maria Bordaberry was sentenced to 30 years in prison for violating the constitution when he led a 1973 coup that began 12 years of dictatorship in Uruguay, the prosecutor said Wednesday.

Exile of Guinea junta leader sparks hope back home (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2010 12:19 PM PST AP - After only a year in power, Guinea's dictator is in exile, his departure having breathed surprising new life into a country he had terrorized, and hopes are even stirring that the nation will hold its first democratic elections in half a century.

Afghans airlift bodies as avalanche deaths hit 166 (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2010 06:03 PM PST AP - Helicopters ferried rescuers to and bodies away from the site of massive avalanches that blocked an important mountain pass north of Kabul as the death toll soared to 166, officials said. Hundreds more remained trapped in snowbound cars.

Snow finally falls on bare Cypress (Reuters) Posted: 10 Feb 2010 02:16 PM PST Reuters - Vancouver Olympics organizers breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday as Mother Nature finally cooperated and snow began to fall on the barren hills of Cypress Mountain three days before moguls competition begins.

Australia asks China for transparency in Rio case (Reuters) Posted: 10 Feb 2010 04:31 PM PST Reuters - Australia urged China on Thursday to deal quickly and transparently with the trials of four China-based employees of global miner Rio Tinto accused of bribery and stealing commercial secrets.

Afghan government in tentative talks with insurgent leader (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:50 PM PST McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan — Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, one of Afghanistan's most brutal Islamist warlords, is holding tentative peace talks with the government of Afghanistan that could cause a split in the Taliban-led insurgency, Afghan politicians in Kabul said Wednesday.

Olympic Village: Athletes impressed, taxpayers angry (Time.com) Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:10 PM PST Time.com - The sparkling Olympic Village in Vancouver is a serious financial headache. As the world cheers, taxpayers cringe

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