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January 9th, 2012

Sweeping Immunity Law in Yemen Sparks New Protests, Debates Over How to Handle Past Crimes Al-Qaeda-Linked Group Asserts Responsibility for 37 Baghdad Attacks
Myanmar Opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi Confirms She Will Run for Parliament - Report: US Agents Helped Mexican, Colombian Drug Traffickers Launder Millions in Drug Proceeds
Claims: China Plans Military Base in Pakistan Drone Strikes Killed 609 People Last Year: Study
Afghan Forces Under Threat in Helmand Electricity Only Reaches One in Three Afghans
Egyptian Islamist Party Backs Down From Demand to Form Government Beijing Rejects Sanctions on Iranian Oil
US Air Force Now Needs Permission to Fly in Iraqi Airspace About 100 Soldiers Restricted to Washington Base for Theft Probe
Lawsuit Seeks Release of Gitmo Detainee Video US Agents Helped Launder Millions in Drug Proceeds
North Korea Airs Film Celebrating Its 'Genius Among the Geniuses' Feds: Chicago Homeland Security Project a Disaster
US Opposes Sudan's Bashir Visit to Libya Bahrain Bars Rights Campaigner From Trial of Medical Workers
Ex-Envoy at Center of Pakistani Scandal Decries 'Witch Hunt' UN: No Evidence of South Sudan Massacre
Bosnia Feud Threatens End to Shared Balkan Heritage Pakistanis Blow Up NATO Oil Tanker
Pakistan PM: Army Responses to Memogate Illegal Yemen's Government Approves Amnesty Proposal for President
Amnesty: Repression to Continue in Face of 'Resilient' Arab Spring' 15 Killed in Attacks Targeting Shiite Pilgrims in Iraq
500 Syrian Army Defectors in North Lebanon, Report Says Ahmadinejad, Chavez Mock US, Joke About Nukes Being Under Grassy Knoll
Israeli MP Rapped for Threatening to Beat Up Arab MP Over Gaza Flotilla Israel Cabinet Supports Bill to Prohibit Use of Nazi Symbols in Protests
Hamas Leader Warns PA Against Pursuing Peace With Israel Instead of Palestinian Unity The Enduring Scandal at Guantanamo
Chile Invokes Pinochet-Era Terror Law as Blazes Turn Deadly US Inspectors Okay Oil Rig Bound for Cuban Waters
Iraq's PM Maliki: Democrat or Autocrat? Moscow Rally Shows Leftist Strategy Against Putin
Plea Talks Afoot in NYC Pipe-Bomb Terror Case Afghan Government: Cease-Fire Before Taliban Talks
Big Trouble in Istanbul's Little Kurdistan Arab Monitors 'Buy Time' for Assad: Syria Opposition
More FBI Hijinx: Kosovo Muslim Man Charged in Attempted Florida Car Bombing Ohio Charity Accused by US of Hamas Ties Disbands
China Rebuffs US Appeal to Sanction Iranian Oil US Condemns Iranian Death Sentence for American
China Nudges North and South Korea to Reach Out China Warns US to Be 'Careful' in Military Refocus
Report: Body Paraded After China Self-Immolation Police: Sect Kills Nigeria Secret Police Officer
Nigeria Fuel Protests Turn Violent, Two Killed Mubarak-Era Figures Recycle Careers in Rural Egypt
Tribal Clashes in S. Sudan Kill at Least 24 Housing Market Blooms in Cuban Provinces
Iranian, Venezuelan Leaders Rebuff US, Joke About Bomb Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan: Officials Back Boko Haram
Amnesty Says Arab Leaders Fail to See Scale of Uprisings Bahrain Unrest: Policeman Jailed for Joining Protests
Afghan 'Soldier' Kills NATO Serviceman in Zabul Tibet Monk Dies in China After Self-Immolating
Abducted Pakistan Paramilitary Troops Found Shot Dead Mexico Bodies May Be Drug Gang Victims: Police
Former US Soldier Craig Baxam 'Helped Al-Shabab' Cameron Denies 'Dictating' Terms of Scottish Referendum
Iraq: Sectarian Attacks Leave 28 Dead, Dozens Wounded Mitt Romney, 19, Demonstrated in Favour of Vietnam War Draft
Lieberman: Palestinians Were Dragged Into Negotiations, Breakthrough Impossible Attacks Are an Attempt to Break Up Nigeria: Archbishop
Opening Statements Set in Iraq War Crime Trial Tunisia's Islamist Party Slams Anti-Semitic Chants Disquieting Local Jews
Iran Court Sentences American Spy to Death Nigeria Fuel Strike Brings Country to a Halt
Clashes Between PKK and Turkish Forces Reported Man Accused of Plotting Fla. Bombings
Iraqi Officials: Car Bombs Kill at Least 14 in Baghdad Official: Beheaded Bodies of 10 Pakistani Soldiers Found
Beijing Rejects Sanctions on Iranian Oil UN Chief Not Welcome in Lebanon: Hezbollah
Chechnya Rebel Clash With Russian Troops 'Kills Seven' Guinea Bissau President Dies in France
Drama Lighting Up Iraqi Lives Israel to Increase Defence Budget by $700m
US Likely to Resume Drone Strikes in Pakistan

January 8th, 2012

Protests Continue as Yemeni Cabinet Looks to Promise Immunity to Entire Govt
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