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Global News Alert - February 4, 2010
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Afghanistan
Wall Street Journal - U.S. Annouces Helmand Offensive, by Michael Phillips
New York Times - Military Officials Say Afghan Fight is Coming, by Rod Nordland
LA Times - In Afghanistan, Marines Ready Attack on Taliban Redoubt, by Tony Perry
RFE/RL - Risks Seen in Afghan Anti-Taliban Tribal Uprising Plans, by Abubakar Siddique
Washington Post - Karzai's Taliban Reconciliation Strategy Raises Ethnic, Rights Concerns at Home, by Joshua Partlow
Christian Science Monitor - Why Karzai Needs Saudi Arabia for Taliban Talks, by Ben Arnoldy
RFE/RL - Karzai Seeks Saudi Mediation with Taliban
Associated Press - NATO Chief: No Plan to 'Bribe' Taliban, by Slobodan Lekic
Associated Press - US to Share Anti-Bomb Equipment, Tech with NATO, by Anne Flaherty
Reuters - Afghans Want to be Farmers, not Fighters, Says U.S., by Sue Pleming
Pakistan
Associated Press - Intelligence Official: US Believes Mehsud is Dead, by Matt Apuzzo
New York Times - Soliders Deaths Fraw Focus to U.S. in Paksitan, by Jane Perlez
Washington Post - Blast Kills 3 U.S. Troops in Northwest Paksitan, by Karin Brulliard and Haq Nawaz Khan
Associated Press - Pakistani Police: Bomber Rammed US Soldier's Car, by Munir Ahmad
Reuters - Pakistan Arrests 30 Susupects in U.S. Forces Attack
Wall Street Journal - India Proposes New Talks with Pakistan, by Amol Sharma
Iraq
Reuters - Iraq Says Lifting Ban on Candidates 'Illegal"
Washington Post - With Fewer Allies This Time, Iraq's Maliki Faces Tough Reelection Campaign, by Leila Fadel
Washington Post - Iraqi Court Lifts Mass Ban on Candidates, Cutting Rist of Sunni Election Boycott, by Leila Fadel and Qais Mizher
New York Times - Ban on Hundreds of Iraqi Candidates Overturned, by Steven Lee Myers
VOA News - Suicide Bomber Kills Shi-ite Pilgrims Near Iraq Hold City of Karbala, by Edward Yeranian
Times Online - Shia Muslims Attacked on Karbala Pilgrimage as Iraq Heads for Election
Department of Defense - Iraqi Forces Arrest 8 Terrorism Suspects
RFE/RL - Iraqi Officials Lament Failure to Refine More Oil
LA Times - An Iraqi Woman's Taste of Freedom Turns Sour, by Ned Parker
World
Iran
Reuters - Lawmaker: Russia, West Closer on Iran Sanctions
Reuters - U.S. Fighting "Psychological War" in Gulf: Iran
Times Online - Ahmadinejad Plays Game of Cat-and-Mouse with West over Nuclear Deal, by James Bone and Catherine Philp
BBC News - China Warns Against Iran Nuclear Programme Sanctions
Yemen
LA Times - Ruling Yemen Gets Even More Complicated, by Jeffrey Fleishman and Haley Edwards
Somalia
New York Times - Somali Pirates Seize Libyan Vessel, by Mark McDonald
Syria
Times Online - US Picks Veteran Envoy in Puch for Middle East Peace, by Giles Whittell
North Korea
Washington Times - Nuclear Missile Threats to U.S. Mount, by Bill Gertz
Colombia
New York Times - Colombian Paramilitaries' Successors Called a Threat, by Simon Romero
Christian Science Monitor - Colombia's 'Neo-Paramilitaris' on the Rise, by Sibylla Brodzinsky
United Kingdom
Wall Street Journal - U.K. Reviews Miliary Spending, by Alistair MacDonald