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• Haiti charges returned ex-dictator Duvalier (Reuters)
• Quake shakes Pakistan, damage seems limited (Reuters)
• Swiss banker linked to WikiLeaks on trial over secrecy (Reuters)
• Russia's Medvedev backs independent Palestine (Reuters)
• Tunisia's New Regime: A Lot Like the Old Regime? (Time.com)
• Irish PM Cowen survives leadership challenge (AFP)
• Jordan opposition calls for elected prime minister (AP)
• Haiti moves toward corruption trial for Duvalier (AP)
• Obama, Egypt's Mubarak discuss Tunisia, Lebanon (Reuters)
• Obama pressured to speak out on China human rights (Reuters)
• Bank of Canada holds rates, signals extended pause (Reuters)
• Hariri tribunal launches legal case, prompting protests in Lebanon (The Christian Science Monitor)
• China: Two Faces, Fierce and Friendly (Time.com)
• Tunisian events likely to spark wider Arab reforms, but not revolutions (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Food Crisis Warnings Fall on Stony Ground (OneWorld.net)

Haiti charges returned ex-dictator Duvalier (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2011 03:08 PM PST Reuters - Haiti on Tuesday briefly detained former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, back from exile in France, and charged him with corruption, theft and abuses of power allegedly committed during his 15-year rule.

Quake shakes Pakistan, damage seems limited (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2011 02:41 PM PST Reuters - A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.2 shook southwestern Pakistan early on Wednesday, jolting residents of cities as far apart as Delhi and Dubai, but the epicenter was far from major population centers.

Swiss banker linked to WikiLeaks on trial over secrecy (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2011 03:50 PM PST Reuters - Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer, among the first to use WikiLeaks to publish private bank documents, goes on trial Wednesday charged with breaching banking secrecy and threatening his former employer.

Russia's Medvedev backs independent Palestine (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2011 02:23 PM PST Reuters - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev endorsed a Palestinian state on Tuesday, saying Moscow had recognized independence in 1988 and was not changing the position adopted by the former Soviet Union.

Tunisia's New Regime: A Lot Like the Old Regime? (Time.com) Posted: 18 Jan 2011 03:20 PM PST Time.com - Protesters are furious that so much of the old government remains, but the opposition has yet to come to terms about how it wants to wield power

Irish PM Cowen survives leadership challenge (AFP) Posted: 18 Jan 2011 02:58 PM PST AFP - Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen survived a leadership challenge from his foreign minister Tuesday, winning a confidence vote that will see him lead the ruling party into elections expected in March.

Jordan opposition calls for elected prime minister (AP) Posted: 18 Jan 2011 11:47 AM PST AP - Jordanians should be able to elect their prime minister and other government officials rather than having them appointed, the powerful Islamist opposition said Tuesday in a rare challenge to Jordan's political system.

Haiti moves toward corruption trial for Duvalier (AP) Posted: 18 Jan 2011 05:26 PM PST AP - A judge will decide whether former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier will be tried on charges that include corruption and embezzlement for allegedly pilfering the treasury before his 1986 ouster, a lawyer for the ex-strongman said Tuesday.

Obama, Egypt's Mubarak discuss Tunisia, Lebanon (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2011 04:51 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama spoke with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday about the U.S. desire for calm in Tunisia and thanked him for Egypt's support for a U.N.-backed tribunal set up to try the assassins of Lebanese statesman Rafik al-Hariri.

Obama pressured to speak out on China human rights (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2011 04:59 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to publicly speak out against Beijing's harsh treatment of political and religious dissidents during a state visit this week by Chinese President Hu Jintao.

Bank of Canada holds rates, signals extended pause (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2011 11:09 AM PST Reuters - The Bank of Canada held its key interest rate steady on Tuesday and signaled it may keep rates on hold for longer than markets had expected even though it nudged its economic growth forecasts higher.

Hariri tribunal launches legal case, prompting protests in Lebanon (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 18 Jan 2011 07:51 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Shiite supporters of the Hezbollah-led parliamentary opposition assembled on the streets of several Beirut neighborhoods early Tuesday, a trial show of force that panicked some schools into closing and sent a tremor of unease through the Lebanese capital.

China: Two Faces, Fierce and Friendly (Time.com) Posted: 18 Jan 2011 03:20 PM PST Time.com - China: Two Faces, Fierce and Friendly

Tunisian events likely to spark wider Arab reforms, but not revolutions (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 18 Jan 2011 05:55 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Few narratives of political change are as powerful as that of Tunisia, where the decision of a 26-year-old college graduate to set himself on fire â€" to protest the police seizure of his produce cart, for lack of permits â€" set off a revolution that toppled an authoritarian president.

Food Crisis Warnings Fall on Stony Ground (OneWorld.net) Posted: 18 Jan 2011 01:46 PM PST OneWorld.net - LONDON, Jan 17 (OneWorld.net) - A seminal moment of the 2008 banking collapse enjoys the improbable association with the British monarch. Attending a function at the London School of Economics, the Queen was overheard to demand “why did no one see the crisis coming?”

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