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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1274 politics Politics - World en-us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:19:10 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1274 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/un_un_haiti_children ap/20100210/un_un_haiti_children AP us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:19:10 GMT AP - The head of UNICEF warned Tuesday that people may still be trying to smuggle children out of Haiti and said protecting youngsters who survived the earthquake is the top concern of the U.N. children's agency. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_vatican_intrigue ap/20100209/eu_vatican_intrigue AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:16:50 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_vatican_intrigue"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100203/capt.0ef7aab4452046519d09c79d116e3c96.vatican_pope_rom104.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=.i9qN4aTI9ld8kEoGqFSLA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Pope Benedict XVI arrives for the weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)" border="0" /></a>AP - A scandal in Italy's Catholic Church has morphed into a tale of Vatican intrigue complete with forged documents, reports of dueling cardinals and a papal admonishment Tuesday to put the matter to rest.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_vatican_intrigue"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100203/capt.0ef7aab4452046519d09c79d116e3c96.vatican_pope_rom104.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=.i9qN4aTI9ld8kEoGqFSLA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="Pope Benedict XVI arrives for the weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_ireland_catholic_abuse ap/20100209/eu_ireland_catholic_abuse AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:31:41 GMT AP - Prominent Irish victims of Catholic sexual abuse have written to Pope Benedict XVI asking him to take responsibility for the church's concealment of child molestation by forcing out bishops implicated in the decades of cover-up. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_afp/eucommission afp/20100209/eucommission AFP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:43:17 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_afp/eucommission"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265736482897-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=99&q=85&sig=64L_12MskcgsWnLocD39eA--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso looks on during a press conference after the approbation vote by EU Parliament for the college of commissioners of the new EU commission at the EU Parliament in Strasbourg, Eastern France. The European Parliament on Tuesday gave overwhelming approval to the new team of Barroso who urged governments to step up the fight against the economic crisis.(AFP/Georges Gobet)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The European Parliament on Tuesday gave overwhelming approval to the new team of EU commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso who urged governments to step up the fight against the economic crisis.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_afp/eucommission"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265736482897-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=99&q=85&sig=64L_12MskcgsWnLocD39eA--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="photo" title="European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso looks on during a press conference after the approbation vote by EU Parliament for the college of commissioners of the new EU commission at the EU Parliament in Strasbourg, Eastern France. The European Parliament on Tuesday gave overwhelming approval to the new team of Barroso who urged governments to step up the fight against the economic crisis.(AFP/Georges Gobet)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_us_missile_defense ap/20100209/eu_russia_us_missile_defense AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:29:00 GMT AP - U.S. missile defense plans are a threat to Russian national security and have slowed down progress on a new arms control treaty with Washington, Russia's top military officer said Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_hospital_gowns ap/20100209/eu_britain_hospital_gowns AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:59:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_hospital_gowns"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.f2c2bb4770674b06824049e336b67978.britain_hospital_gowns_lon808.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=uJoQ8z6Kenl15SGwV9yPEw--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="This is an undated handout made available from the North Bristol National Health Service Trust in western England on Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010 of the new hospital gown, right, which protects patients' 'dignity and privacy' by keeping their bottoms covered up, and the old gown, left. Traditional robes which fasten at the back can expose the rear - so two Bristol hospitals are phasing them out in favour of the new 'dignity gowns'. The more modest model, ties up at the sides and wraps around the body. (AP Photos/North Bristol NHS Trust/PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES" border="0" /></a>AP - The British government is getting behind a plan to replace drafty open-backed hospital gowns with versions that preserve patients' modesty.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_hospital_gowns"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.f2c2bb4770674b06824049e336b67978.britain_hospital_gowns_lon808.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=uJoQ8z6Kenl15SGwV9yPEw--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="This is an undated handout made available from the North Bristol National Health Service Trust in western England on Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010 of the new hospital gown, right, which protects patients' 'dignity and privacy' by keeping their bottoms covered up, and the old gown, left. Traditional robes which fasten at the back can expose the rear - so two Bristol hospitals are phasing them out in favour of the new 'dignity gowns'. The more modest model, ties up at the sides and wraps around the body. (AP Photos/North Bristol NHS Trust/PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_gates_iran ap/20100209/eu_gates_iran AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:04:21 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_gates_iran"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265642748164-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=64psxwoLkJJvWf0GhZQuUA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="French President Nicolas Sarkozy and US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, seen here on February 5, agreed in talks Monday that "strong" new sanctions must be passed against Iran over its nuclear drive, the French presidency said.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)" border="0" /></a>AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates wants to see the United Nations slap sanctions on Iran in "weeks, not months."</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_gates_iran"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265642748164-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=64psxwoLkJJvWf0GhZQuUA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="French President Nicolas Sarkozy and US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, seen here on February 5, agreed in talks Monday that "strong" new sanctions must be passed against Iran over its nuclear drive, the French presidency said.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_royal_antique ap/20100209/eu_britain_royal_antique AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:48:14 GMT AP - A British woman says she's shocked that a dusty dish on her shelf has been identified as a very valuable 260-year-old antique made for the King of Prussia. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_earthquake ap/20100209/cb_haiti_earthquake AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:05:35 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_earthquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.9512770501c048909dbeef991f7f429c.haiti_earthquake_pap121.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=CS0rEAPqeoApxsiT8cBk8Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Fristmer Alexi, 40, carries his daughter Rosemita, 10, to the General Hospital after she fell ill over night in downtown Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Thousands were killed and many displaced by the Jan. 12 earthquake that left the city in ruins. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)" border="0" /></a>AP - Fourteen-month-old Abigail Charlot survived Haiti's cataclysmic earthquake but not its miserable aftermath. Brought into the capital's General Hospital with fever and diarrhea, little Abigail literally dried up.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_earthquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.9512770501c048909dbeef991f7f429c.haiti_earthquake_pap121.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=CS0rEAPqeoApxsiT8cBk8Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Fristmer Alexi, 40, carries his daughter Rosemita, 10, to the General Hospital after she fell ill over night in downtown Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Thousands were killed and many displaced by the Jan. 12 earthquake that left the city in ruins. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_af/piracy ap/20100209/piracy AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:16:32 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_af/piracy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265736902279-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=_23ITNWg8temf7yBVuhpUA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Clouds rise above the Seychelles main island of Mahe in 2009. Oceanographers carrying out vital studies of the Indian Ocean's marine world have been idle for a year, left stranded ashore by Somalia's marauding pirates and the global armada combating them.(AFP/File/Roberto Schmidt)" border="0" /></a>AP - The European Union Naval Force says Somali pirates have freed a Panama-flagged cargo ship and its crew of 26 after a ransom was paid.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_af/piracy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265736902279-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=_23ITNWg8temf7yBVuhpUA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Clouds rise above the Seychelles main island of Mahe in 2009. Oceanographers carrying out vital studies of the Indian Ocean's marine world have been idle for a year, left stranded ashore by Somalia's marauding pirates and the global armada combating them.(AFP/File/Roberto Schmidt)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_demjanjuk ap/20100209/eu_germany_demjanjuk AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:21:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_demjanjuk"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.05b4ee744686414ab8cc63006e949819.germany_demjanjuk_trial_bmun104.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=FWO9ez9Yynkf6c83c_JOHg--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="Accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk arrives in the courtroom in Munich, southern Germany Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Demjanjuk, a 89-year-old former U.S. auto worker, is on trial in Germany facing charges he helped force 27,900 Jews into gas chambers in the Sobibor extermination camp in 1943. (AP Photo/Andreas Gebert, pool)" border="0" /></a>AP - A top German investigator testified Tuesday that John Demjanjuk has given conflicting stories about where he spent the rest of World War II after being captured by the Germans in 1942.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_demjanjuk"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.05b4ee744686414ab8cc63006e949819.germany_demjanjuk_trial_bmun104.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=FWO9ez9Yynkf6c83c_JOHg--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="Accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk arrives in the courtroom in Munich, southern Germany Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Demjanjuk, a 89-year-old former U.S. auto worker, is on trial in Germany facing charges he helped force 27,900 Jews into gas chambers in the Sobibor extermination camp in 1943. (AP Photo/Andreas Gebert, pool)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_italy_iran ap/20100209/eu_italy_iran AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:19:38 GMT AP - About 100 Iranians protested Tuesday in front of the Italian embassy in Tehran, shouting "Death to Italy, Death to Berlusconi, " Italy's foreign minister said. Protests were also held outside the French and Dutch embassies. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_ukraine_presidential_elections ap/20100209/eu_ukraine_presidential_elections AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:13:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_ukraine_presidential_elections"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100207/capt.94279947a0564912a7edf18841097df8.ukraine_presidential_elections_xaz136.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=zN2zd2VCR0HV8VTQaoMu2A--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Ukraine's Prime Minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko speaks to the media in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. Tymoshenko's impassioned leadership of the 2004 Orange protests against a rigged presidential ballot made her an international celebrity, and she fought hard in recent weeks to rekindle the heady emotions of those days, at one point debating an empty lectern to dramatize her opponent's refusal to meet her head-to-head.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)" border="0" /></a>AP - Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko plans to legally challenge the results of the presidential runoff that opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych appears to have won, her campaign said Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_ukraine_presidential_elections"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100207/capt.94279947a0564912a7edf18841097df8.ukraine_presidential_elections_xaz136.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=zN2zd2VCR0HV8VTQaoMu2A--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="Ukraine's Prime Minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko speaks to the media in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. Tymoshenko's impassioned leadership of the 2004 Orange protests against a rigged presidential ballot made her an international celebrity, and she fought hard in recent weeks to rekindle the heady emotions of those days, at one point debating an empty lectern to dramatize her opponent's refusal to meet her head-to-head.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/world_markets ap/20100209/world_markets AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:09:15 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/world_markets"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.4a71400196304a0aa60a9e8b7df8e3a0.wall_street_ath202.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=t0W81imakNVSy4X6RWeHZQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A man walks past a screen showing falling stocks at the Athens Stock Exchange, in red, in Greece on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Stocks traded mixed Monday as investors remained wary about the strength of the economic recovery and mounting debt in Europe. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)" border="0" /></a>AP - Greek stocks led European and U.S. markets higher on Tuesday on hopes that EU officials will provide the region's most heavily indebted economies with some form of support to keep the market crisis at bay.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/world_markets"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.4a71400196304a0aa60a9e8b7df8e3a0.wall_street_ath202.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=t0W81imakNVSy4X6RWeHZQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="A man walks past a screen showing falling stocks at the Athens Stock Exchange, in red, in Greece on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Stocks traded mixed Monday as investors remained wary about the strength of the economic recovery and mounting debt in Europe. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_jordan_un_palestinians ap/20100209/ml_jordan_un_palestinians AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:27:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_jordan_un_palestinians"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.9b92bd19d7e542ff8f021b82d565fe9d.mideast_jordan_u_n__palestinians_amm101.jpg?x=109&y=130&q=85&sig=1a5mlTo6nw7qy51g4uKzJA--" align="left" height="130" width="109" alt="New UNRWA Commissioner-General Filippo Grandi speaks during a press conference in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Grandi appealed for an additional $100 million to meet operating costs and improve education, health and social services. (AP Photo / Nader Daoud)" border="0" /></a>AP - The head of the U.N. agency aiding Palestinian refugees is warning of a looming funding shortfall and appealing for another $100 million.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_jordan_un_palestinians"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.9b92bd19d7e542ff8f021b82d565fe9d.mideast_jordan_u_n__palestinians_amm101.jpg?x=109&y=130&q=85&sig=1a5mlTo6nw7qy51g4uKzJA--" align="left" height="130" width="109" alt="photo" title="New UNRWA Commissioner-General Filippo Grandi speaks during a press conference in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Grandi appealed for an additional $100 million to meet operating costs and improve education, health and social services. (AP Photo / Nader Daoud)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_terror ap/20100209/eu_britain_terror AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:37:15 GMT AP - The conviction of a man accused of wanting to become a suicide bomber was overturned Tuesday after a court in Scotland ruled that the trial judge did not properly instruct the jury. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanunrestundisplacedaid afp/20100209/pakistanunrestundisplacedaid AFP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:29:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanunrestundisplacedaid"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265711037265-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=G0orxke.utZRE_tZSZ9mwA--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="Pakistani internally-displaced tribesmen outside a distribution point in Dera Ismail Khan in October 2009. The United Nations led an appeal Tuesday for millions of dollars to feed and assist more than one million people displaced by conflict in Pakistan's northwest and in border areas with Afghanistan.(AFP/File/Farooq Naeem)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The United Nations led an appeal Tuesday for millions of dollars to feed and assist more than one million people displaced by conflict in Pakistan's northwest and in border areas with Afghanistan.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanunrestundisplacedaid"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265711037265-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=G0orxke.utZRE_tZSZ9mwA--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="Pakistani internally-displaced tribesmen outside a distribution point in Dera Ismail Khan in October 2009. The United Nations led an appeal Tuesday for millions of dollars to feed and assist more than one million people displaced by conflict in Pakistan's northwest and in border areas with Afghanistan.(AFP/File/Farooq Naeem)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_plane_crash_investigation ap/20100209/eu_britain_plane_crash_investigation AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:59:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_plane_crash_investigation"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265708179811-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=55&q=85&sig=c4I.Jd2w0L45QDzw29Q4Dw--" align="left" height="55" width="130" alt="The wheels from a British Airways jet lie on the grass at Heathrow Airport on January 17 2008, after it landed short of the runway. Ice in the fuelling system is believed to have caused a British Airways Boeing 777 to crash-land at Heathrow two years ago, an official report has found.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)" border="0" /></a>AP - A British accident report has confirmed that a buildup of ice in the fuel lines of a Boeing 777 jet caused its crash landing at London's Heathrow Airport two years ago.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_plane_crash_investigation"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265708179811-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=55&q=85&sig=c4I.Jd2w0L45QDzw29Q4Dw--" align="left" height="55" width="130" alt="photo" title="The wheels from a British Airways jet lie on the grass at Heathrow Airport on January 17 2008, after it landed short of the runway. Ice in the fuelling system is believed to have caused a British Airways Boeing 777 to crash-land at Heathrow two years ago, an official report has found.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_un_hospitals ap/20100209/cb_haiti_un_hospitals AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:13:47 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_un_hospitals"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r941859175.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=QeAo9cGW7kyVQi1IJdT1Jg--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Survivors of Haiti's earthquake gather at the Haitian border February 8, 2010. More than 200,000 people were killed in the 7.0 magnitude quake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12. It has led to scenes of chaotic food handouts amid the ruins of the capital Port-au-Prince. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado (HAITI - Tags: DISASTER SOCIETY)" border="0" /></a>AP - The United Nations warned Monday that it will cut off shipments of free medicine to Haitian hospitals that charge patients, saying it had learned some are levying fees for drugs.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_un_hospitals"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r941859175.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=QeAo9cGW7kyVQi1IJdT1Jg--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="Survivors of Haiti's earthquake gather at the Haitian border February 8, 2010. More than 200,000 people were killed in the 7.0 magnitude quake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12. It has led to scenes of chaotic food handouts amid the ruins of the capital Port-au-Prince. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado (HAITI - Tags: DISASTER SOCIETY)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_afp/euparliamentcommission afp/20100209/euparliamentcommission AFP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:56:46 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_afp/euparliamentcommission"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265683784878-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=0XOOqtvT3Z_uoFJjNzpDzg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso attends a press conference at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Barroso's new team is set to get the green light from the European parliament Tuesday, ending a three-month limbo period during the bloc's worst ever economic crisis(AFP/File/Georges Gobet)" border="0" /></a>AFP - EU Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso's new team is set to get the green light from the European parliament Tuesday, ending a three-month limbo period during the bloc's worst ever economic crisis.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/worldpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_afp/euparliamentcommission"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265683784878-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=0XOOqtvT3Z_uoFJjNzpDzg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso attends a press conference at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Barroso's new team is set to get the green light from the European parliament Tuesday, ending a three-month limbo period during the bloc's worst ever economic crisis(AFP/File/Georges Gobet)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP)