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• Survivors shiver in Turkey after quake kills 51 (AP)
• Hundreds slaughtered in Nigeria religious violence (AP)
• Iraqi parties both claim to be ahead in election (AP)
• Real Hurt Lockers in Iraq: Life is no movie (AP)
• Togo security blocks opposition headquarters (AP)
• Why Divisions in Northern Ireland Are Reopening (Time.com)
• Postal workers agree deal to end long dispute (AFP)
• Israelis, Palestinians to begin indirect talks (AP)
• Haiti frees US missionary; group leader still held (AP)
• Machete attacks on Christian villages kill 500-plus in Nigeria (AFP)
• Indonesian president in Australia for historic address (AFP)
• AbitibiBowater gets tentative deal with union (Reuters)
• Elephant calf dies during labour at Sydney's zoo (AFP)
• U.S. government knows of no al Qaida arrest in Pakistan (McClatchy Newspapers)
• In Iraq, the Methboub family waits – and copes (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Israelis and Palestinians: Agreeing to Talk, and to Fail (Time.com)

Survivors shiver in Turkey after quake kills 51 (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:15 PM PST AP - Hundreds of earthquake survivors huddled in aid tents and around bonfires Monday in eastern Turkey, seeking relief from the winter cold after a strong temblor knocked down stone and mud-brick houses in five villages, killing 51 people.

Hundreds slaughtered in Nigeria religious violence (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:50 PM PST AP - The killers showed no mercy: They didn't spare women and children, or even a 4-day-old baby, from their machetes. On Monday, Nigerian women wailed in the streets as a dump truck carried dozens of bodies past burned-out homes toward a mass grave.

Iraqi parties both claim to be ahead in election (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 03:07 PM PST AP - The Iraqi prime minister's coalition and its main secular rival both claimed to be ahead in the vote count Monday, a day after historic parliamentary elections that the top U.S. commander said would let all but 50,000 American troops come home by the end of summer.

Real Hurt Lockers in Iraq: Life is no movie (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:02 PM PST AP - American bomb disposal experts in Iraq say few people understood what they did.

Togo security blocks opposition headquarters (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 03:01 PM PST AP - Anti-riot police sealed off the sandy alleyways leading to the headquarters of Togo's largest opposition party on Monday, stranding the country's opposition leader outside for more than an hour in a tense standoff following a contentious election.

Why Divisions in Northern Ireland Are Reopening (Time.com) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:40 PM PST Time.com - The province should soon have new powers over its own police service, but old divisions are reappearing and rising violence threatens the whole idea of power sharing

Postal workers agree deal to end long dispute (AFP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:43 PM PST AFP - Postal workers and state-owned Royal Mail have agreed a deal to end a long-running dispute over pay and modernisation that sparked a series of walkouts last year, both sides said.

Israelis, Palestinians to begin indirect talks (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 01:38 PM PST AP - Israel and the Palestinians agreed to begin indirect, American-brokered talks, the U.S. Mideast envoy announced Monday — ending a 14-month deadlock in peacemaking and representing the Obama administration's first substantive diplomatic achievement here.

Haiti frees US missionary; group leader still held (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 03:05 PM PST AP - One of two Baptist missionaries still held on kidnapping charges in Haiti was released Monday, but the U.S. group's leader remained in custody.

Machete attacks on Christian villages kill 500-plus in Nigeria (AFP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:45 PM PST AFP - UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Washington led calls for restraint on Monday after the slaughter of more than 500 Christians in Nigeria, as survivors told how the killers chopped down their victims.

Indonesian president in Australia for historic address (AFP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:27 PM PST AFP - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono arrived in Australia on Tuesday for a three-day visit during which he will be given the rare honour of addressing the country's parliament.

AbitibiBowater gets tentative deal with union (Reuters) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:31 AM PST Reuters - AbitibiBowater Inc has reached a tentative labor deal affecting about 4,000 workers, bringing the newsprint maker closer to emerging from bankruptcy protection, the company and union said on Sunday.

Elephant calf dies during labour at Sydney's zoo (AFP) Posted: 07 Mar 2010 11:43 PM PST AFP - An elephant calf has died during days of labour at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, where its mother was a part of a programme to breed endangered Asian elephants, officials said Monday.

U.S. government knows of no al Qaida arrest in Pakistan (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:11 PM PST McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Despite numerous news reports that Pakistan has arrested an American al Qaida operative in the port city of Karachi, the U.S. government is unaware that anyone affiliated with the terrorist network, American or otherwise, has been captured in Pakistan recently, U.S. officials said Monday.

In Iraq, the Methboub family waits – and copes (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:40 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Expectations of good news have rarely been higher in the poor Iraqi household of Karima Selman Methboub, whose son Ali is due in coming weeks to be released from prison after more than 1-1/2 years.

Israelis and Palestinians: Agreeing to Talk, and to Fail (Time.com) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:40 PM PST Time.com - Neither side believes indirect talks being initiated by the U.S. will bring peace, but each will try to use their failure to its own advantage

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