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| • Biden: Palestinians deserve ‘viable’ state |
 Vice President Joe Biden voices displeasure over an Israeli plan to enlarge an east Jerusalem settlement and reassures his Palestinian hosts that they deserve an independent state.
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| • 6 dead in attack on U.S. aid group in Pakistan |
 Suspected militants attacked the offices of a U.S.-based Christian aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan, killing six Pakistani employees.
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| • German Catholics to investigate abuse charges |
 Catholic authorities in Germany announced two major abuse investigations Wednesday.
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| • Taliban claim suicide attack on NATO base |
| The Taliban claims responsibility for a suicide bombing inside a U.S.-Afghan base in eastern Afghanistan that killed two NATO service members. |
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| • Britain confronts debt of Greek proportions |
| The woes of Britain show that the troubles for Europe, and the West, extend far beyond the traditionally laggard countries of southern Europe. |
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| • Quake claims Haiti’s best and brightest |
 The Jan. 12 earthquake disproportionately killed young professionals, and compounding the loss is a quickening brain drain of people with the ability and means to leave a ravaged country.
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| • U.K. millionaire to move to mud hut |
| An ex-con U.K. millionaire is selling his 16th-century farmhouse and businesses to start a children's charity in Uganda. |
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| • New death threats for Swedish cartoonist |
 The Swedish cartoonist whose sketch of the Prophet Muhammad has angered Muslims says he's received more death threats since arrests were made this week over an alleged plot to kill him.
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| • Israeli TV ad spoofs Hamas killing |
 An Israeli supermarket chain looks to cash in on the publicity over the assassination of a Hamas operative in Dubai with a series of new TV ads offering "killer prices."
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| • Obama hosts Haitian President Preval for talks |
 President Barack Obama is renewing America's commitment to the recovery and reconstruction of earthquake-devastated Haiti, telling visiting President Rene Preval he understands the situation there "remains dire."
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| • 2 Australians charged in vicious attack on tourist |
| Two Australian teenagers have been charged in a brutal attack in a Sydney train station on a Canadian tourist in a wheelchair. |
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| • China space program selects first women astronauts |
| A Chinese proverb says women hold up half the sky. In the future, they'll be doing it from space. |
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| • NYT: Michelangelo bumped from art chart by ... |
 By one new metric, Michelangelo has been bumped from his perch atop the Italian art charts by Caravaggio.
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| • Pirates target tropical tourist hot spot |
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| • Families: 3 Americans detained in Iran call home |
| Cindy Hickey had rehearsed what she would say to her son when she finally got to talk to him months after he was detained in Iran. When the time came, the conversation lasted only about a minute, she said, "so it was hard to say a lot." |
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| • Dalai Lama: China aims to annihilate Buddhism |
| The Dalai Lama lashed out at China on Wednesday, accusing it of trying to "annihilate Buddhism" in Tibet and rebuffing all his efforts to reach a compromise over the disputed Himalayan region. |
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| • NYT: Flu shots in kids provide ‘herd immunity’ |
| Although previous studies have demonstrated what scientists call “herd immunity,” none have been so incontrovertible as a study of farming colonies in Canada. |
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