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Global News Alert - February 1, 2010
Feb 1, 2010 - Anonymous
January 29, 2010 Global News Alert February 2, 2010 Global News Alert
Afghanistan
Times Online - President Karzai Invites Taliban to Join Peace Talks with Government, by Jerome Starkey
RFE/RL - Karzai Says He Has Always Favored Peace Talks with Taliban
Associated Press -Afghan Taliban Deny Meeting with UN, by Robert Reid
New York Times - Afghan Officials Says Talks with Taliban Are Ongoing, by Rod Nordland
BBC News - Taliban Attack Repelled in Afghanistan
Department of Defense - Afghan Forces Contain Attack on Barracks
LA Times - NATO Airstrike Kills 4 Afghan Troops, by Laura King
RFE/RL - NATO, Afghan Government Troops Clash
LA Times - Marine Assault Vehicles Key to Afghan Strategy, by Tony Perry
Christian Science Monitor - To Fight Deadliest Taliban Threat in Afghanistan, US Troops go Low-Tech, by Julius Cavendish
Washington Post - U.S. Makes Small Strides in Getting Afghan Army Fit, but Hurdles Remain, by Keith Richburg
Department of Defense - NATO Comander Sees Pivotal 2010 for Afghanistan, by Donna Miles
Washington Times - Kazakh Official Warns Against Quitting Afghanistan, by Claude Salhani
Pakistan
Washington Post - Leader of Pakistani Taliban Thought to be Dead after U.S. Strike, by Pamela Constable and Haq Nawaz Khan
LA Times - Pakistani Army Investigating Reports of Taliban Leader's Death, by Alex Rodriguez
Associated Press - Pakistani Taliban Deny Death of Their Leader, by Ishtiaq Mahsud
BBC News - Suicide Bomber Attacks Checkpoint in Pakistan
Iraq
Wall Street Journal - Suicide Bomber Kills 41 Shiite Pilgrims in Baghdad, by Ben Lando
Associated Press - Iraqi Police: Female Suicide Bomber Kills 41, by Bushra Juhi
New York Times - Scores Killed in Attack on Shiite Pilgrims in Iraq, by Steven Lee Myers
New York Times - Incremental Steps in Iraq to Let Kurdistan Oil Flow, by Sam Dagher
RFE/RL - Iraq Signs 10th Oil Deal, Polls Loom
VOA News - Russia's Lukoil Wins Iraqi Contracts to Develop Major Oil Field
VOA News - Iraq Inaugurates Span of New Border Security Fence with Syria, by Edward Yeranian
Department of Defense - Veterans See Improvements in Iraqi Army, by Ben Hutto
New York Times - U.S. Examines Whether Blackwater Tried Bribery, by Mark Mazzetti and James Risen
World
Iran
Reuters - EU's Ashton Says Iran "Worrying," U.N. Next Route
LA Times - Iran's Opposition Leaders Call for Big Turnout on Anniversary of '79 Revolution, by Borzou Daragahi
Reuters - Iran Top Judge Rejects "Political" Hanging Pressure, by Parisa Hafezi
Wall Street Journal - How Bambi Met James Bond to Save Israel's Extinct Deer, by Charles Levinson
Persian Gulf
Times Online - U.S. Raises Tensions with Iran by Selling Anti-Missile Systems, by Tim Reid
LA Times - U.S. Beefs Up Defenses Near Iran, by Julian Barnes
Washington Post - U.S. Steps Up Arms Sales to Persian Gulf Allies, by Joby Warrick
Israel
Christian Science Monitor - Israel: Hamas Commander Killed in Dubai was Key Arms Smuggler, by Ilene Prusher
BBC News - Israel Reprimands Top Officers over UN Compound Strike
Yemen
New York Times - Yemen Seems to Reject Cease-Fire with Rebels, by Robert Worth
LA Times - In Yemen, the Truth is a Casualty of War, by Jeffrey Fleishman and Haley Sweetland Edwards
Egypt
New York Times - In Egypt, Religious Clashes Are Off the Record, by Michael Slackman
Nigeria
Christian Science Monitor - Nigeria Militants Call off Truce in Oil-Rich Niger Delta, by Scott Baldauf
Somalia
Associated Press -8 Killed in Fighting in Somalia's Capital, by Mohamed Olad Hassan
North Korea
Associated Press - North Korean Weapons Mystery Continues, by Jane Fugal
Haiti
Washington Post - As Food Distribution Improves, Haitians Want U.S. to 'Take Over,' by Peter Slevin
New York Times - In Quake's Wake, Haiti Faces Leadership Void, by Ginger Thompson and Marc Lacey
Associated Press - U.S. Troops More Than Welcome in Haiti - For Now, by Ben Fox
China
Washington Times - Arm Sales to Taiwan Provoke Beijing's Ire, by Bill Gertz
Wall Street Journal - U.S.-China Relations Cool on Arms Deal, by Andrew Browne and Jason Dean
Washington Post - China's Strident Tone Raises Concerns Among Western Governments, Analysts, by John Pomfret
United States Military
Washington Post - Gates Orders Air Force and Navy to Study Joint Weapons System, by Walter Pincus