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 | | | | Good Morning Aron, | MON 28 Dec 2009 | | | | |  | | | | | | |  | | | 
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| | December 28, 2009 09:15 AM ET
 | ABUJA (Reuters) - The family of a Nigerian man who tried to blow up a U.S. passenger airliner said on Monday they had lost contact with him while he was studying abroad and reported his disappearance to security agencies two months ago.
| | | | December 28, 2009 07:35 AM ET
 | TEHRAN (Reuters) - Police fired teargas on Monday to disperse supporters of reformist leader Mirhossein Mousavi who gathered to express their condolences over his nephew's death in an anti-government rally, an Iranian opposition website said.
| | | | December 28, 2009 08:45 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The system aimed at keeping air travel secure failed when a Nigerian man who was suspected of ties to militants managed to smuggle explosives aboard a flight, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Monday.
| | | | | December 28, 2009 08:31 AM ET
 | KARACHI (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew up a Shi'ite Muslim procession in Pakistan's commercial capital Karachi on Monday, killing at least 22 people, the latest in a series of attacks across the country which have killed hundreds.
| | | | December 28, 2009 06:29 AM ET
 | TOKYO (Reuters) - A state-backed turnaround fund may seek to put Japan Airlines Corp through bankruptcy court as part of a restructuring of the struggling carrier, two sources with knowledge of the matter said.
| | | | December 28, 2009 09:12 AM ET
 | SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen said on Monday it had arrested 29 suspected al Qaeda members and vowed to carry out more raids against the group, after an attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner turned the spotlight on the poor Arab country.
| | | | | December 27, 2009 10:15 PM ET
 | BEIJING (Reuters) - The crew of a Chinese ship hijacked by Somali pirates in mid-October was safely rescued, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday, making no mention of a reported ransom payment.
| | | | | December 27, 2009 01:00 PM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The families of three Americans charged with espionage in Iran after straying over the border from northern Iraq in July said on Sunday they have secured an Iranian lawyer to try to get them released.
| | | | | December 28, 2009 05:43 AM ET
 | BEIJING (Reuters) - A senior Chinese police official has vowed "pre-emptive attacks" against threats to Communist Party control, in a speech published days after the nation's most prominent dissident was jailed for criticizing the Party.
| | | | | December 27, 2009 09:39 PM ET
 | DETROIT (Reuters) - When the first emergency alert from Detroit's airport went out just before noon on Sunday, it looked oddly like a mistaken repeat of the scare from two days earlier: "Nigerian national caused disturbance on Flight 253."
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Family says Nigeria attacker had cut off contact
