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• Brown blames US over Iraq reconstruction errors (AP)
• Billions for Haiti, a criticism for every dollar (AP)
• China's economic promises focus on creating jobs (AP)
• Somali pirates, security personnel in 4 shootouts (AP)
• Iraq's Sunnis fear election could spark violence (AP)
• Switzerland Keeping the Secrets of Alleged Tax Evaders (Time.com)
• Oscar suites break out the gifts, Twittens anyone? (Reuters)
• Iraqis abroad cast ballots in homeland's election (AP)
• Foreign hospitals help quake-damaged health system (AP)
• U.N. to start troop withdrawals from Congo in 2010 (Reuters)
• China central bank to keep yuan basically stable (Reuters)
• Pirates hijack tanker, head to Somalia, owner says (Reuters)
• Problems with civilian 'surge' could upset U.S. Afghan timetable (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Germany's Merkel meets Greece PM over debt bailout tensions (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Togo Tip-Toeing Toward Reconciliation (OneWorld.net)

Brown blames US over Iraq reconstruction errors (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 01:38 PM PST AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted Friday the decision to invade Iraq was justified, but told a major inquiry into the war that the United States dismissed warnings of chaos and violence once Saddam Hussein was toppled.

Billions for Haiti, a criticism for every dollar (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 02:55 PM PST AP - The world's bill for the Haitian earthquake is large and growing — now $2.2 billion — and so is the criticism about how the money is being spent.

China's economic promises focus on creating jobs (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 01:27 PM PST AP - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged Friday to redouble the country's stimulus program to focus on job creation, signaling that Beijing's main worry is keeping its factories humming and its restive workers making money from strong exports to the world.

Somali pirates, security personnel in 4 shootouts (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 01:21 PM PST AP - Signaling a new offensive mindset, international military officials vowed Friday to fight the pirates as swarms of Somalis moved into the waters off East Africa. Four shootouts with pirates showed that high-seas attacks are intensifying with the end of the monsoon season.

Iraq's Sunnis fear election could spark violence (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 12:21 PM PST AP - They're back, on street corners in places Sunnis had thought were safe again: the Shiite militiamen who drove them from their homes in a bloody campaign that brought Iraq to the brink of civil war.

Switzerland Keeping the Secrets of Alleged Tax Evaders (Time.com) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 02:00 PM PST Time.com - UBS agreed to give up the names of alleged American tax cheats -- but for Switzerland, giving up secrecy is a hard thing to do

Oscar suites break out the gifts, Twittens anyone? (Reuters) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 05:22 PM PST Reuters - Here's a tip for Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller: want to improve your troubled marriage? Try Twittens.

Iraqis abroad cast ballots in homeland's election (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 01:32 PM PST AP - Thousands of Iraqis living abroad lined up at polling stations to cast ballots in their homeland's crucial parliamentary elections Friday, a constituency Iraq's Sunni Arab minority hope will boost their showing.

Foreign hospitals help quake-damaged health system (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 04:26 PM PST AP - Chile launched a hepatitis and tetanus vaccination campaign Friday and doctors warned of outbreaks of diarrhea and infection among thousands of people displaced by the earthquake and the tsunami that heavily damaged or destroyed 36 hospitals and made garbage dumps of coastal towns and cities.

U.N. to start troop withdrawals from Congo in 2010 (Reuters) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 05:40 PM PST Reuters - The United Nations could begin withdrawing troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the biggest U.N. peacekeeping mission in the world, as early as June, the peacekeeping chief said Friday.

China central bank to keep yuan basically stable (Reuters) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 05:41 PM PST Reuters - China's central bank pledged on Saturday to keep the yuan's exchange rate basically stable in 2010 and said it will enhance coordination with its foreign counterparts on major policy issues.

Pirates hijack tanker, head to Somalia, owner says (Reuters) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 10:45 AM PST Reuters - Pirates have hijacked a Marshall Islands-registered tanker off Madagascar and are heading toward Somali waters, the ship's Norwegian owners said Friday.

Problems with civilian 'surge' could upset U.S. Afghan timetable (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 03:46 PM PST McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's "surge" of U.S. civilian officials and experts into Afghanistan is beset by a shortage of qualified personnel, a lack of housing and other problems that could disrupt its timetable for turning over full control of the country to the Afghan government, a new report Friday says.

Germany's Merkel meets Greece PM over debt bailout tensions (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 01:57 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - German Chancellor Angela Merkel met her Greek counterpart George Papandreou here tonight to discuss Greece’s financial crisis, as tensions rise over whether Germany will provide crucial support to an EU bailout for the heavily indebted Mediterranean country.

Togo Tip-Toeing Toward Reconciliation (OneWorld.net) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 07:40 AM PST OneWorld.net - LOMÉ, Mar 4 (IRIN) - As up to 3.2 million Togolese cast their ballots in the presidential election on 4 March, IRIN asked voters and experts what it would take to reach true reconciliation after decades of political violence. This is the first of a two-part series on Togo's road to reconciliation.

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