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• Tunisia frees prisoners, says wants break with past (Reuters)
• At least 207 missing in Brazil floods, 741 dead (Reuters)
• Haiti's "Baby Doc" accused of crimes against humanity (Reuters)
• Powers to press defiant Iran in nuclear row (Reuters)
• Ivory Coast talks fail, Gbagbo rejects mediator (Reuters)
• How Ehud Barak Killed Israel's Labor Party (Time.com)
• Clinical Arsenal beat Leeds in FA Cup (AFP)
• Media: Palestinian died from medicine, not gas (AP)
• Tunisia calms as government rejects old guard (AP)
• US, China tout $45 billion in export deals (Reuters)
• Canada arrests man wanted on US terrorism charges (Reuters)
• Rising rivers swamp another Australian town (AP)
• How strong are charges against Haiti's Jean-Claude Duvalier? Very, say experts. (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Queensland Floods: Residents Clean Mess, Assess Damage (Time.com)
• After ousting Tunisian leader, protesters struggle to find their own (The Christian Science Monitor)
• 'Urgent' Access to Somalia Drought Communities Needed (OneWorld.net)

Tunisia frees prisoners, says wants break with past (Reuters) Posted: 19 Jan 2011 03:55 PM PST Reuters - Tunisia's interim leaders said they freed the last of its political prisoners and promised a "complete break with the past" on Wednesday to appease street protesters who want a total purge of the old guard.

At least 207 missing in Brazil floods, 741 dead (Reuters) Posted: 19 Jan 2011 03:49 PM PST Reuters - At least 207 people are still missing after Brazil's worst landslides in decades, authorities said on Wednesday, as the death toll from the disaster in a scenic mountain region reached 741.

Haiti's "Baby Doc" accused of crimes against humanity (Reuters) Posted: 19 Jan 2011 03:46 PM PST Reuters - Four Haitians, including a former United Nations spokeswoman, filed criminal complaints on Wednesday against former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, accusing him of crimes against humanity including torture.

Powers to press defiant Iran in nuclear row (Reuters) Posted: 19 Jan 2011 03:40 PM PST Reuters - Major powers believe sanctions and setbacks to Iran's nuclear program may have strengthened their hand before talks with a still-defiant Tehran, but chances of real progress at this week's meeting in Istanbul look slim.

Ivory Coast talks fail, Gbagbo rejects mediator (Reuters) Posted: 19 Jan 2011 03:37 PM PST Reuters - Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga said African efforts to mediate Ivory Coast's disputed poll had failed on Wednesday, and Laurent Gbagbo rejected him as mediator after Odinga warned he faced sanctions or force.

How Ehud Barak Killed Israel's Labor Party (Time.com) Posted: 19 Jan 2011 02:00 PM PST Time.com - Labor was the party that founded the State of Israel and embodied its government and its ethos for decades. After its chairman's defection, it will be a shadow in the Knesset

Clinical Arsenal beat Leeds in FA Cup (AFP) Posted: 19 Jan 2011 05:42 PM PST AFP - Arsene Wenger insists there are no problems between Arsenal team-mates Cesc Fabregas and Denilson after the Brazilian appeared to criticise the Gunners captain in an interview.

Media: Palestinian died from medicine, not gas (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2011 01:39 PM PST AP - Israel's military contends that a woman who died after a Palestinian protest was the victim of a medical error and was not killed by tear gas, Israeli media reported late Thursday. A Palestinian group disagreed.

Tunisia calms as government rejects old guard (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2011 01:29 PM PST AP - Tunisia's new government said Wednesday it has freed all the country's political prisoners and also moved to track down assets stashed overseas by its deposed president and his widely disliked family.

US, China tout $45 billion in export deals (Reuters) Posted: 19 Jan 2011 05:45 PM PST Reuters - The United States and China on Wednesday agreed on $45 billion in U.S. export deals and to give U.S. companies greater access to China's $88 billion-plus government contracts market at the start of Chinese President Hu Jintao's four-day state visit.

Canada arrests man wanted on US terrorism charges (Reuters) Posted: 19 Jan 2011 05:44 PM PST Reuters - Canadian police have arrested a man accused of helping stage suicide bomb attacks in Iraq, including one that killed five U.S. soldiers, officials said on Wednesday.

Rising rivers swamp another Australian town (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2011 05:02 AM PST AP - Authorities told townspeople in Australia's southeast to flee homes with three days of supplies Wednesday as a surging river threatened another community in a flooding crisis that has devastated the country's mining industry.

How strong are charges against Haiti's Jean-Claude Duvalier? Very, say experts. (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 19 Jan 2011 07:29 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - During his 15 years in power, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier is said to have brazenly robbed Haiti’s treasury of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Queensland Floods: Residents Clean Mess, Assess Damage (Time.com) Posted: 19 Jan 2011 02:00 PM PST Time.com - Residents of flooded towns in southeastern Queensland, Australia, are beginning to return to their sludge-filled homes. It's the beginning of a long, expensive process

After ousting Tunisian leader, protesters struggle to find their own (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 18 Jan 2011 01:10 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Tunisia's unity government got off to a shaky start one day after being formed, underlining the faltering position of Tunisia’s opposition as it attempts to harness a popular uprising that it did not drive.

'Urgent' Access to Somalia Drought Communities Needed (OneWorld.net) Posted: 19 Jan 2011 04:42 PM PST OneWorld.net - NAIROBI, Jan 19 (IRIN) - With drought worsening across Somalia, officials in the south and central parts of the country - largely controlled by Islamist opposition groups - have appealed for access to communities that have reported deaths of people and livestock.

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