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Yahoo! News: World News Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:04:14 GMT
  • 2 months after Haiti quake, housing still elusive (AP)   - 

    Marcel, 6, leans on the wall of his collapsed home as he looks toward a new home built by the Danish People's Aid organization in the Carrefour neighborhood on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Thursday, March 11, 2010. The UN and the Haitian government have approved the Danish organization's design for temporary shelters to be built for displaced earthquake survivors prior to the upcoming rainy season.(AP Photo/Andres Leighton)AP - Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti's devastating earthquake — and with torrential rains expected any day, authorities are not even close to providing the shelters they promised.


  • How bloody will it get? Pakistanis ask as 43 die in week's 4th attack (AP)   - 

    Pakistan's security officials and investigator gather near an army truck damaged by suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, March 12, 2010. A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other, killing scores of people, police said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)AP - Two suicide bombers killed 43 people in near-simultaneous blasts Friday, the fourth major attack in Pakistan this week and a clear sign that militants have the power to strike targets despite months of army offensives and U.S. missile strikes.


  • Iraq PM uses early lead to pursue new govt allies (AP)   - 

    An electoral worker carries a ballot box at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 12, 2010. Partial tallies have only been released from only five of Iraq's 18 provinces, excluding Baghdad. They show the prime minister and his secular rival, former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, locked in a tight contest amid fraud allegations. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Seizing on an early lead in Iraq's election, the prime minister's political coalition began reaching out to rivals Friday as partial results signaled a tight race that was unlikely to produce a clear-cut winner.


  • Women on the pill may live longer, study says (AP)   - AP - Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill, a new study says.
  • Chinese zoo blamed for death of 11 Siberian tigers (AP)   - 

    ** SPECIFIES THE ZOO WHERE TIGERS DIED ** FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2010 file photo, an endangered Siberian tiger runs away with a chicken tossed by tourists at the Harbin Tiger Park in Harbin in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province.  Eleven rare Siberian tigers kept in small cages and fed only chicken bones have died of malnutrition at the cash-strapped Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in Liaoning province in China's frigid northeast, state media said Friday March 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)AP - Eleven rare Siberian tigers have died at a wildlife park in a startling case that activists say hints at unsavory practices among some zoos and animal farms in China: They are overbreeding endangered animals in the hopes of making illicit profit on their carcasses.


  • Germany: Tensions at the Top (Time.com)   - Time.com - Germany: Tensions at the Top
  • German Church apologizes, vows action on abuse (Reuters)   - Reuters - The head of Germany's Catholic Church apologized to victims of child abuse by priests on Friday and met Pope Benedict who encouraged him to press ahead with tough new measures.
  • Al-Qaida: Freed Spanish hostage converted to Islam (AP)   - AP - Al-Qaida's offshoot in North Africa said Friday it released a Spanish woman it had held captive for 100 days in Mauritania because she voluntarily converted to Islam.
  • Haiti judge: New charge for US missionary leader (AP)   - 

    Canadian Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean, right, touches a young boy, who lost an arm during the January earthquake in Haiti, while visiting an orphanage, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson)AP - The last of 10 American missionaries detained in Haiti on suspicion of kidnapping is facing a new charge.


  • Police chief visits violence-hit Nigeria state (AFP)   - 

    Thousands of women in black, one of them carrying a placard reading AFP - Nigeria's police chief Ogbonna Onovo visited violence-hit central Plateau State on Friday and vowed to hold divisional police officers responsible for future incidents.


  • Suicide blasts kill 45 in Pakistan's Lahore (Reuters)   - 

    A woman weeps for her missing son at the site of a suicide bomb attack in Lahore March 12, 2010. REUTERS/Mani RanaReuters - Two suicide bombers targeting the Pakistani military killed at least 45 people in Lahore on Friday, officials said, in a challenge to government assertions that crackdowns have weakened Taliban insurgents.


  • Budget fails to boost Conservatives (Reuters)   - Reuters - A federal budget last week did little to boost the fortunes the Conservatives, who still only have a slight lead in public support, according to a poll released on Thursday.
  • Obama delays Pacific trip for healthcare (Reuters)   - Reuters - President Barack Obama is delaying his trip to Indonesia and Australia next week to stay home and focus on his final push for a healthcare overhaul, White House officials said on Friday.
  • Suicide bombers strike Pakistani market, killing at least 43 (McClatchy Newspapers)   - McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD — In the fifth terrorist attack this week in Pakistan, extremists set off twin suicide bombs Friday in the eastern city of Lahore, killing at least 43 people, a reminder of the continued threat to the country despite an overall fall in violence.
  • UN envoy: No indication of widespread fraud in Iraq election (The Christian Science Monitor)   - The Christian Science Monitor - The United Nations is not seeing widespread fraud that could affect the outcome of the Iraq election, but it is still waiting for details of hundreds of complaints launched by political parties, according to senior UN officials.
  • Iraq Election: Votes Being Counted Amid Risk of Violence (Time.com)   - Time.com - Sunday's poll appears likely to yield an indecisive result, while accusations of ballot fraud by opposition parties could challenge the legitimacy of the new government that eventually emerges
  • Arab Americans Organize to Get Counted in Census (OneWorld.net)   - OneWorld.net - SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 11 (New America Media) - A coalition of Arab-American cultural organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area have launched a grassroots organizing campaign designed to send a clear message to Washington: that they, along with every other Arab in America, are in fact Arab, and not white.
 
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