International Headline News

Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:02:04 -0500
TOP STORIES as of 0900 HKT -- 25 January, 2010

> HAITI QUAKE TOLL SOARS PAST 100,000, GOVERNMENT SAYS
More than 111,000 people died in the January 12 earthquake,
Haiti's government says, as thousands of people push for rescue
effortsto continue.

> ALLEGED BIN LADEN TAPE: MORE ATTACKS
A new tape allegedly from Osama bin Laden claims responsibility
for an attempt to blow up a plane en route to the U.S. on
Christmas Day and warns of more attacks.

> BROTHER: MAN SURVIVED 11 DAYS ON SODA
Hours after Haiti announced it was ending rescue operations, a
24-year-old man was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed hotel
in Port-au-Prince.

> N. KOREA HITS OUT AT 'RECKLESS' SOUTH
North Korea will consider any pre-emptive strike that the South
takes against its nuclear facilities as a declaration of war,
its state media said Sunday.

> AFGHAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION DELAYED
Afghanistan said Sunday it will postpone parliamentary elections
from May until September.

> IMPASSE IN ISRAELI, PALESTINIAN TALKS
U.S. President Barack Obama's special envoy to the Middle East
ended a four-day trip to Israel and the West Bank with no
breakthrough in persuading Israelis and Palestinians to go back
to the negotiating table.

> PLANE CATCHES FIRE TRYING TO LAND IN IRAN
At least 20 passengers were injured Sunday when an Iranian plane
caught fire while landing in the northeastern city of Mashhad,
state media reported.

> GUNMEN ATTACK CONVOY IN INDONESIA
Seven people, including one American, were wounded Sunday when a
convoy of buses came under fire near a U.S. mining company in the
province of Papua, police said.

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