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• Taliban leader's arrest a new blow to insurgents (AP)
• Study: Quake damage twice value of Haiti economy (AP)
• Baradar Capture: Aided by U.S.-Pakistan Cooperation? (Time.com)
• Lady Gaga in Brit awards hat-trick as women lead the way (AFP)
• Clinton warns of Mideast nuclear arms race (AP)
• Western Mexico: 5 decapitated men found (AP)
• Latest Darfur fighting displaces 'thousands': UNAMID (AFP)
• Obama to hold Afghan war cabinet Wednesday (AFP)
• Canadian Ricker wins cross gold (Reuters)
• Arrest of No. 2 may throw Taliban, peace talks into disarray (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Former prisoner of North Korea builds university for his former captors (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Greece Bailout: France, Germany Angry Over Rescue (Time.com)
• Madagascar Government Cuts Hit Education Hard (OneWorld.net)

Taliban leader's arrest a new blow to insurgents (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:08 PM PST AP - The capture of the Afghan Taliban's No. 2 commander by a joint CIA and Pakistani team dealt a fresh blow to insurgents under heavy U.S. attack and raised hopes that Pakistani security forces are ready to deny Afghan militant leaders a safe haven.

Study: Quake damage twice value of Haiti economy (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 02:01 PM PST AP - Damage from Haiti's catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake may be twice the value of the country's annual economy, Latin America's main development bank said Tuesday.

Baradar Capture: Aided by U.S.-Pakistan Cooperation? (Time.com) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 02:40 PM PST Time.com - The Pakistanis deny that there was a joint operation with the U.S. to arrest Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. But they might have have had no choice but to cooperate

Lady Gaga in Brit awards hat-trick as women lead the way (AFP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:00 PM PST AFP - Flamboyant US superstar Lady Gaga scooped three awards Tuesday at the 30th anniversary edition of top music awards the Brits, in a night of triumph for female artists.

Clinton warns of Mideast nuclear arms race (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:50 PM PST AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told an audience of Saudi college women on Tuesday that it is the shared responsibility of Iran's neighbors to ensure it does not get nuclear weapons.

Western Mexico: 5 decapitated men found (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 02:09 PM PST AP - Mexican authorities have found the decapitated bodies of five men in a western state known for drug-gang violence.

Latest Darfur fighting displaces 'thousands': UNAMID (AFP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 10:03 AM PST AFP - Recent fighting between Sudanese troops and rebels in the western region of Darfur has killed many people and displaced thousands more, UN and African peacekeepers said on Tuesday.

Obama to hold Afghan war cabinet Wednesday (AFP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:44 PM PST AFP - US President Barack Obama will convene a meeting of his Afghan war cabinet on Wednesday to assess the first major offensive of his troop surge strategy against the Taliban.

Canadian Ricker wins cross gold (Reuters) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 03:50 PM PST Reuters - Maelle Ricker thrilled a rowdy hometown crowd and easily won the women's Olympic snowboard cross title on Tuesday, bagging the first gold for a Canadian woman on home soil.

Arrest of No. 2 may throw Taliban, peace talks into disarray (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 03:46 PM PST McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL — The arrest of the second-ranking Taliban leader last week in Pakistan is likely to throw the Islamist movement into disarray and disrupt the Taliban military campaign, and it could mark a strategic U-turn for the government in Islamabad, former Taliban and Western analysts said Tuesday.

Former prisoner of North Korea builds university for his former captors (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 10:00 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - On a Korean War battlefield in 1950, the young, patriotic Kim Chin-kyung, then just 15, lay limp on the ground, wounded by shrapnel.

Greece Bailout: France, Germany Angry Over Rescue (Time.com) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 02:40 PM PST Time.com - Even with the future of the euro at stake, the French and Germans are angrythat their countries may be forced to come to the rescue of financiallyreckless Greece

Madagascar Government Cuts Hit Education Hard (OneWorld.net) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 07:49 AM PST OneWorld.net - ANTANANARIVO, Feb 15 (IRIN) - Madagascar's unresolved political crisis is causing havoc in its education system after steep cuts increased the island state's inability to meet schoolchildren's basic needs, bringing a spike in child labour.

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