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Portugal uses privatizations to drive down debt (AP)

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 5:24am PST

">[news.yahoo.com] AP - Portugal announced new austerity measures Monday to avoid a debt crisis like the one engulfing Greece, cutting welfare benefits and government hiring as well as selling assets and raising taxes on the well-off.
Vietnam releases human rights lawyer from prison (AP)

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 5:21am PST

AP - A Vietnamese human rights lawyer has been released from prison after serving a three-year sentence for advocating for a multiparty government in Internet posts.
Police, US troops battle gunmen in E. Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 5:11am PST

">[news.yahoo.com] AP - Police say attackers have detonated a bomb near a government building in eastern Afghanistan and have holed up in another building nearby where they are firing on Afghan police and U.S. troops.
Security tight after hundreds die in central Nigeria (Reuters)

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 4:58am PST

Reuters - Soldiers patrolled the central Nigerian city of Jos on Monday and aid workers tried to assess the death toll after attacks on outlying communities in which several hundred people were feared to have been killed.
AbitibiBowater gets tentative deal with union (Reuters)

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 4:31am PST

Reuters - AbitibiBowater Inc has reached a tentative labor deal affecting about 4,000 workers, bringing the newsprint maker closer to emerging from bankruptcy protection, the company and union said on Sunday.
Toyota chief meets Japan PM, vows to rebuild trust (AP)

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 4:06am PST

">[news.yahoo.com] AP - Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda met with Japan's prime minister Monday and promised to restore trust in the automaker's cars as it embarks on a broad campaign to repair its tarnished reputation.
6.0 earthquake hits eastern Turkey, kills 57 (AP)

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 4:05am PST

">[news.yahoo.com] AP - A strong, pre-dawn earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 struck eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 51 people as it knocked down stone and mud-brick houses and minarets in at least six villages, the government said.
Gates meeting with military, political leaders (AP)

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 3:57am PST

">[news.yahoo.com] AP - Preparations have begun for a crucial campaign to assert Afghan government control over Kandahar, spiritual home of the Taliban, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan said Monday.
PM slams lack of women in boardroom (AFP)

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 3:47am PST

">[news.yahoo.com] AFP - Politicians and business chiefs should join forces to boost the number of women in the boardroom, premier Gordon Brown said Monday, calling the current situation "completely unacceptable."
At least 500 dead in Nigeria religious attacks (AFP)

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 3:18am PST

">[news.yahoo.com] AFP - Nigeria's government sent in troops to the flashpoint Jos region on Monday after machete-wielding gangs attacked Christian villages, killing at least 500 people, officials say.
Blast hits police building in Pakistan, 12 dead (AP)

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 3:16am PST

">[news.yahoo.com] AP - A suicide car bomber Monday struck a building where police interrogate high-value suspects in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, killing at least 12 people and wounding 61 more including women taking children to school, officials said.
Iraq awaits election results, parties claim gains (AP)

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 3:13am PST

">[news.yahoo.com] $Electoral workers sit with piles of ballot boxes at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 8, 2010. The conclusion of Sunday's vote does not spell an immediate end to Iraq's political uncertainty, as it could be days until results come in and with the fractured nature of Iraqi politics, months to form a government. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)$ AP - The top U.S. general for Iraq said Monday the country's national election was a milestone on the way to a full pullout of U.S. combat troops by September 1 as planned.
Pakistan seeks identity of American suspect (AP)

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 3:09am PST

">[news.yahoo.com] AP - An American member of al-Qaida was picked up in a raid in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi, Pakistani officials said Monday, but reversed earlier assertions that the detained man was the terror network's U.S.-born spokesman.
Chile quake survivors suffer cold, rainy night (AP)

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 3:08am PST

">[news.yahoo.com] AP - A strong rain on a chilly night added to the misery Monday of survivors of Chile's terrible earthquake and tsunami, many of whom live in tents and improvised shelters as continuing aftershocks threaten to collapse what's left of their homes.
Nigeria: More than 200 dead in religious violence (AP)

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 2:48am PST

">[news.yahoo.com] AP - Rioters armed with machetes slaughtered more than 200 people including a 4-day-old infant, residents said, less than two months after sectarian violence in the volatile region left more than 300 dead.
Searching for Zheng: China's Ming-Era Voyager (Time.com)

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 2:15am PST

Time.com - Medieval admiral Zheng He has become a potent symbol for modern China
After Iraq's Elections, Who Will Lead the Country? (Time.com)

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 2:05am PST

Time.com - The election is over. But the counting -- and the dealing -- could go on for a while