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• Assange due in UK court over Swedish extradition (Reuters)
• Sudan border clashes kill 36 as south votes (Reuters)
• Australia floods kill eight, toll to rise as 70 still missing (Reuters)
• OAS experts challenge Haiti election result: report (Reuters)
• Ouattara offers unity government if Gbagbo steps down (Reuters)
• Israel's Rightward Lurch Scares Even Some Conservatives (Time.com)
• Two hours of TV-watching boosts heart risk (AFP)
• Sudan president offers to relieve south of debt (AP)
• Cops seize cocaine cache during USVI traffic stop (AP)
• Niger kidnappings show terror's spread (AP)
• Aust. flood crisis worsens; 8 killed, 72 missing (AP)
• Eight dead, scores missing in Australian flash floods (AFP)
• Iran plane crash latest to afflict aging fleet (The Christian Science Monitor)
• German Egg Scare: Are Lax Food-Safety Laws to Blame? (Time.com)
• Sheer joy as South Sudanese vote for independence (The Christian Science Monitor)

Assange due in UK court over Swedish extradition (Reuters) Posted: 10 Jan 2011 03:47 PM PST Reuters - WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange is due to appear in a London court on Tuesday as lawyers draw the battle lines in his fight to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning about alleged sex crimes.

Sudan border clashes kill 36 as south votes (Reuters) Posted: 10 Jan 2011 03:36 PM PST Reuters - At least 36 people have died in clashes between Arab nomads and southerners near Sudan's north- south border, leaders in the contested Abyei region said on Monday, on the second day of a vote on southern independence.

Australia floods kill eight, toll to rise as 70 still missing (Reuters) Posted: 10 Jan 2011 04:16 PM PST Reuters - Australian police have launched a major search and rescue operation after devastating flash floods killed eight people, left more than 70 missing and threatened on Tuesday to swamp the country's third-largest city.

OAS experts challenge Haiti election result: report (Reuters) Posted: 10 Jan 2011 02:14 PM PST Reuters - A leaked report on Haiti's disputed November 28 elections by Organization of American States experts recommends that a government-backed presidential candidate be eliminated from a second-round run-off, a U.S. media report said Monday.

Ouattara offers unity government if Gbagbo steps down (Reuters) Posted: 10 Jan 2011 01:02 PM PST Reuters - Ivory Coast presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara would form a unity government with members of incumbent Laurent Gbagbo's party, as long as Gbagbo steps down first, the country's ambassador to the United Nations said.

Israel's Rightward Lurch Scares Even Some Conservatives (Time.com) Posted: 10 Jan 2011 03:10 PM PST Time.com - A coalition system in which minority parties hold the balance of power enables a series of moves that some see as endangering Israeli democracy

Two hours of TV-watching boosts heart risk (AFP) Posted: 10 Jan 2011 05:17 PM PST AFP - People who spend more than two hours per day of leisure time watching television or sitting in front of a screen face double the risk of heart disease and higher risk of dying, a new study said.

Sudan president offers to relieve south of debt (AP) Posted: 10 Jan 2011 03:56 PM PST AP - Sudan's president has offered to relieve the south from any debt burden if it votes for independence by assuming the whole $36 billion national debt.

Cops seize cocaine cache during USVI traffic stop (AP) Posted: 10 Jan 2011 03:50 PM PST AP - Federal authorities say they have seized 228 kilograms (502 pounds) of cocaine during a traffic stop in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Niger kidnappings show terror's spread (AP) Posted: 10 Jan 2011 04:22 PM PST AP - With stunned diners looking on, the turbaned attackers burst through the metal door of the open-air restaurant and went straight for their targets: two Frenchmen whom they brazenly dragged at gunpoint into a vehicle waiting outside.

Aust. flood crisis worsens; 8 killed, 72 missing (AP) Posted: 10 Jan 2011 05:22 PM PST AP - At least eight people were killed and 72 left missing after the latest downpour to hit Australia's flood-wracked Queensland state sent raging torrents rushing through several towns, washing away cars and houses, officials said Tuesday.

Eight dead, scores missing in Australian flash floods (AFP) Posted: 10 Jan 2011 02:35 PM PST AFP - Eight people died and scores were missing on Tuesday after giant flash floods smashed through an Australian town like an "inland tsunami", dramatically escalating a widespread flood crisis.

Iran plane crash latest to afflict aging fleet (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 10 Jan 2011 06:12 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday ordered an investigation into the cause of a bad-weather crash of an IranAir passenger jet on Sunday that took 77 lives in northwest Iran.

German Egg Scare: Are Lax Food-Safety Laws to Blame? (Time.com) Posted: 10 Jan 2011 03:10 PM PST Time.com - Even as Germany reopens thousands of farms, the detection of high dioxin levels in animal feed has raised serious questions about the country's food-safety standards

Sheer joy as South Sudanese vote for independence (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 11:18 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Joy marked the faces of South Sudanese citizens as they waited in long lines at polling stations throughout this dusty boomtown that, come July, is likely to be the world’s newest capital.

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