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• Tunisia sets three-day mourning for protest victims (Reuters)
• Korea breakthrough as Seoul agrees to talks with North (Reuters)
• Iran nuclear talks begin, expectations low (Reuters)
• Blair set for second grilling on Iraq War (Reuters)
• U.S. resumes deportations to quake-ravaged Haiti (Reuters)
• Bouazizi: The Man Who Set Himself and Tunisia on Fire (Time.com)
• Belarus leader to take office after flawed poll (Reuters)
• Palestinians defy US with Security Council request (AP)
• Baby Doc slips out of Haiti hotel to private home (AP)
• Tunisia's Islamists eye place in politics (AP)
• Troicki pull-out hands Djokovic Australian Open win (AFP)
• Canada budget officer doubtful on spending freeze (Reuters)
• Australia flags taxpayer levy to pay for floods (AFP)
• In town at center of Tunisia uprising, 23 years of repressed emotions burst forth (The Christian Science Monitor)
• U.N. Resolution on Israeli Settlements Puts Obama in Bind (Time.com)
• Why 'Baby Doc' Jean-Claude Duvalier returned to Haiti: 5 theories (The Christian Science Monitor)

Tunisia sets three-day mourning for protest victims (Reuters) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 05:46 PM PST Reuters - Tunisia observes three days of national mourning from Friday for the dozens of people killed during protests before and after the ouster of former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, state television said.

Korea breakthrough as Seoul agrees to talks with North (Reuters) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 03:13 PM PST Reuters - South Korea agreed on Thursday to a North Korean offer of high-level military talks, a major breakthrough in the crisis on the peninsula that improves the prospect of renewed aid-for-disarmament negotiations.

Iran nuclear talks begin, expectations low (Reuters) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 04:21 PM PST Reuters - Six world powers will try to persuade Iran to rein in its nuclear program at talks on Friday, with little expectation of a major breakthrough but hope they can at least agree on a process that will bring more talks.

Blair set for second grilling on Iraq War (Reuters) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 04:28 PM PST Reuters - Former Prime Minister Tony Blair will appear Friday before an inquiry into the Iraq War for a second public grilling to clarify earlier evidence detailing his reasons for joining the controversial invasion.

U.S. resumes deportations to quake-ravaged Haiti (Reuters) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 04:55 PM PST Reuters - The United States resumed the deportation of Haitians on Thursday for the first time since the devastating earthquake that struck the poor Caribbean nation last year.

Bouazizi: The Man Who Set Himself and Tunisia on Fire (Time.com) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 05:35 PM PST Time.com - His self-immolation is being emulated elsewhere in the Arab world but without the same effect in Tunisia. Yet the conditions he was protesting remain.

Belarus leader to take office after flawed poll (Reuters) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 04:25 PM PST Reuters - Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko will be sworn in on Friday in a ceremony boycotted by Western envoys after being re-elected last month in what the opposition and international monitors said was a rigged vote.

Palestinians defy US with Security Council request (AP) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 12:23 PM PST AP - The Palestinian request to have the U.N. Security Council condemn Israeli settlements looks at first like another declarative gambit that changes little on the ground.

Baby Doc slips out of Haiti hotel to private home (AP) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 06:04 PM PST AP - Former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier slipped out the back of his hotel Thursday and was driven to a private home on a mountain above Haiti's capital, in the latest unexpected twist in his surprise return to the country that kicked hdim out nearly 25 years ago.

Tunisia's Islamists eye place in politics (AP) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 02:52 PM PST AP - For decades, Tunisians espousing political Islam were banned, jailed and forced underground by their country's autocratic regime.

Troicki pull-out hands Djokovic Australian Open win (AFP) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 05:54 PM PST AFP - Third seed Novak Djokovic advanced to the fourth round of the Australian Open after his Serbian Davis Cup teammate Viktor Troicki retired with a stomach strain after losing the first set.

Canada budget officer doubtful on spending freeze (Reuters) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 08:27 AM PST Reuters - The federal government does not appear to be taking the steps needed to freeze departmental operating budgets as promised, the country's parliamentary budget officer said on Thursday.

Australia flags taxpayer levy to pay for floods (AFP) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 04:52 PM PST AFP - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has raised the prospect of a one-off levy on taxpayers to pay for rebuilding after epic floods, as she refused to back away from bringing the budget to surplus.

In town at center of Tunisia uprising, 23 years of repressed emotions burst forth (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 19 Jan 2011 01:59 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The dusty provincial town where Tunisia’s revolution started doesn’t look like it’s accustomed to attention.

U.N. Resolution on Israeli Settlements Puts Obama in Bind (Time.com) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 05:35 PM PST Time.com - The U.S. wants to shield Israel from U.N. condemnation, but doing so could weaken Washington's role as the sole mediator of the Middle East peace process

Why 'Baby Doc' Jean-Claude Duvalier returned to Haiti: 5 theories (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 19 Jan 2011 12:59 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier’s surprise return to Haiti after nearly 25 years has baffled observers and spurred dueling theories over why the former dictator returned now.

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