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“Clinton urges solution to Haiti ‘kidnap’ case”
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“Former US President Bill Clinton urged the US and Haitian governments to resolve the case of 10 American missionaries accused of trying to take children illegally out of quake-hit Haiti.  Clinton, named by the United Nations to coordinate relief efforts for survivors of the devastating January 12 quake, made the appeal during a visit to the shattered Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, his second since last month’s disaster”

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“Does this deal secure the future?”
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Gordon Brown, Peter Robinson, Martin McGuinness and Brian Cowen announce the Hillsborough Castle Agreement

Gordon Brown, Peter Robinson, Martin McGuinness and Brian Cowen announce the Hillsborough Castle Agreement

“It began with real fears that Sinn Fein’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness might resign and a breakneck rush by Gordon Brown and Brian Cowen to Hillsborough to stave off the imminent collapse of the Stormont Assembly.  It continued through 10 days and almost as many nights of negotiations, interspersed with waves of optimism and pessimism about the outcome”

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“China warns US on Dalai Lama”
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Iran: “Executes two over post-election unrest”
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“Abbas awaits US clarification over peace talks”
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ntopNews_uUSTRE61512P20100206“Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said  he had asked the United States to clarify its offer to mediate indirect peace talks with Israel before he would announce any decision to resume the negotiations.  ’Yesterday I met with an American delegation and we held an Egyptian, Jordanian and Palestinian trilateral meeting,’ Abbas said after talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo”

 

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Analysis: “America and China”
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“It is probably the most important relationship of today’s world, and even more of tomorrow’s.  If the United States and China cannot co-operate, what hope of stemming climate change and the spread of nuclear weapons, or returning the global economy to a path of stable growth?   Over the past decade, the established superpower and the rising one have rubbed along reasonably well; relations with China are, by common consent, one of the few things George Bush junior got mostly right.  But under Barack Obama, after a cordial start, slights have been building up for a while.  The past week has produced a sharp reminder of how sensitive the relationship can be—and how quickly it might spin out of control.

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Female suicide bomber kills 54, mostly women and children
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“UN chief Ban urges Sudan unity ahead of African summit”
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“Every marriage has its secrets …”
Performance Arts

“Missing Pieces is a confronting contemporary drama about two married couples presented by DamShel Productions during the 2010 Adelaide Fringe and is also participating in the Youth Engagement Program (YEP).    Written and directed by Shelley Wall Missing Pieces exposes the frailties of two relationships and the secrets they share and hide from each other.  The play explores sexual identity, society conformity, family responsibility vs. personal freedom, infidelity and addresses the emotionally provocative issues of domestic and sexual violence in Australia.  The play premiered at the Tap Gallery, Sydney in October 2009″

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UK: “Air passengers who refuse full body scan to be barred”
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BRITAIN/“Air passengers who refuse to submit to controversial full body scans will be barred from boarding their flights.   The technology – which has been strongly condemned by civil liberties campaigners – began operating at Heathrow and Manchester airports yesterday.  Birmingham will follow suit later this month before the anti-terror devices are rolled out nationally”


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“Roy Orbison given Hollywood Walk of Fame star”
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“Apple iPad, a threat to publishers?”
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“Leonard Cohen delays tour due to back injury”
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Leonard Cohen collapsed on stage last year

Leonard Cohen collapsed on stage last year

“Canadian singer Leonard Cohen has had to postpone his tour of Europe by six months due to a back injury, his spokesperson has said.  Cohen, 75, has been told to undergo physiotherapy to help in his recovery, but it is still unclear how the back injury was caused”

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“Richard Branson unveils underwater plane”
Travel

“UK tycoon Sir Richard Branson has unveiled his new toy – an underwater ‘plane’ for a voyage to the bottom of the sea.  The Virgin Atlantic boss hopes the submarine with fighter jet technology will explore uncharted depths at 35,000ft (10,668 metres).   The Sun reported the $670,000 (£415,000) carbon fiber prototype Necker Nymph will swoop 130ft under the surface but Sir Richard, 59, is building a stronger version to go deeper than any sub has ever been”

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“Pork ‘more gratifying’ than Viagra”
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“J D Salinger, literary recluse, dies at 91″
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Iran: “Launches satellite rocket”
Space

ntopNews_uUSTRE6116GO20100203“Iran said  it had launched a domestically made satellite-carrier rocket carrying live animals — a move that may increase Western concern that Tehran is trying to build a nuclear bomb.  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [previously] said that Iran was ready to send its enriched uranium abroad in what appeared to be an easing of its position in the nuclear dispute. He [further] said the satellite launch was a huge breakthrough which help break “the global domineering system” — a reference to Iran’s Western foes.  The Islamic Republic hoped to send astronauts into space soon, he said, speaking at a ceremony unveiling new satellite and space technology”

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“Clinton urges internet freedom, condemns cyber attacks”
Technology

narticle_uUSTRE60K1V220100121“US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton  called for an unfettered worldwide Internet and urged global condemnation of those who conduct cyber attacks, as China sought to contain tension with the United States over the hacking and censorship of Google.  ’A new information curtain is descending across much of the world,’  she said, calling growing Internet curbs the modern equivalent of the Berlin Wall. ‘We stand for a single Internet where all of humanity has equal access to knowledge and ideas,’  said Clinton in a major address that cited China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt among countries that censored the Internet or harassed bloggers.’  Countries that built electronic barriers to parts of the Internet or filtered search engine results contravened the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights, which guarantees freedom of information, she said”

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“Google may pull out of China over cyber attacks”
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“US-born pandas Tai Shan and Mei Lan arrive in China”
General Interest

Chinese television has shown live footage of the pandas' arrival

Chinese television has shown live footage of the pandas' arrival

“Two pandas born in the US have arrived in China for the start of a new life.  The pandas were born while the two sets of parents were on loan from China to US zoos. Loaned pandas and offspring must eventually return to China”

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“Pilgrims and progress”
Opinion

It is still repression, not development, that keeps Tibet stable

It is still repression, not development, that keeps Tibet stable

“On the corner of Ramoche Temple Road, a bustling alley where the ethnic violence that engulfed Lhasa nearly two years ago first broke out, finishing touches are being put to a fried-chicken fast-food restaurant. Opposite, a newly opened second-floor café offers coffee, sandwiches and well-cushioned seating. On the street below, five helmeted riot police—one of them with a rifle—stand rigid and vigilant. Hard as it tries to look normal, Lhasa cannot quite pull it off”

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Jimmy Carter: “A crisis in Sudan”
Opinion

“One of the most urgent responsibilities the international community faces is in Sudan, which is facing a renewal of nationwide violence.  Many accomplishments hang in the balance. The Bush administration helped to orchestrate a Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) there in 2005. One of its key provisions is that a referendum will be held in January 2011 in the southern region, so that citizens can decide whether to secede or remain part of a unified nation”

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“Wave of brutal attacks shocks Kyrgyz journalist”
International Crime

Gennady Pavluk often criticised the Kyrgyz government

Gennady Pavluk often criticised the Kyrgyz government

Sitting in a dim corner of a coffee shop in central Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Olga Kolosova is holding back her tears.  ’I could not believe what had happened until I saw him in the hospital,’ she said.  ’I was hoping until the very last moment that there was some kind of a mistake.  But there was not”

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‘The tragedy of dying languages”
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The Kallawaya tribe of Bolivia

The Kallawaya tribe of Bolivia

“The death of the last speaker of an ancient language in India’s Andaman Islands highlights the fact that half of the world’s 7,000 languages are in danger of disappearing. Linguist K David Harrison argues that we still have much to learn from vanishing languages”

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“Court ordered to rule again on Bashir genocide charge”
International Crime

ntopNews_uUSTRE6121QN20100203“The International Criminal Court must rule again on whether Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir must face an additional charge of committing genocide in Darfur, appeals judges at the tribunal ruled.  The judges reversed a decision that prosecutors had not provided sufficient evidence to add genocide to Bashir’s charge sheet, which already includes seven counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including murder, extermination, torture and rape”

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