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 | | Good Morning Aron, | WED 03 Feb 2010 | | | |  |  | |  | |  | |  |  | 
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|  | February 03, 2010 09:20 AM ET  | TIMERGARA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan's Taliban claimed responsibility for a bomb on Wednesday that killed three U.S. soldiers outside a girls school in the northwest of the country and threatened more attacks on Americans.  | |  |  | February 03, 2010 09:22 AM ET  | CHICAGO (Reuters) - An Illinois Democrat who won his party's nomination on Tuesday to campaign for Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat struck a populist tone, attacking his Republican opponent as part of the Washington establishment.  | |  |  | February 03, 2010 09:27 AM ET  | TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Wednesday it had launched a Kavoshgar-3 rocket capable of carrying a satellite -- a move that may add to Western concern about Tehran's nuclear program.  | |  |  |  | February 03, 2010 08:33 AM ET  | CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Thousands of U.S. Marines are preparing to take on a southern Afghanistan Taliban enclave in a massive show of force intended as a decisive start to President Barack Obama's "surge" of 30,000 extra troops.  | |  |  | February 03, 2010 06:27 AM ET  | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day has provided "useful, actionable" intelligence to U.S. authorities after the FBI flew his relatives to the United States to urge him to cooperate, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.  | |  |  | February 03, 2010 09:26 AM ET  | GENEVA (Reuters) - The aid operation in Haiti has been complicated and frustratingly slow, but is making significant progress, particularly in getting food to quake survivors, the top U.N. relief official said on Tuesday.  | |  |  |  | February 03, 2010 03:04 AM ET  | BEIJING (Reuters) - China warned President Barack Obama on Wednesday that a meeting between him and the Dalai Lama would further erode ties between the two powers, already troubled by Washington's arms sales to Taiwan.  | |  |  |  | February 03, 2010 06:30 AM ET  | KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - A bomb on a cart pulled by a motorcycle killed at least 20 in a crowd of Shi'ite pilgrims on Wednesday in Iraq's holy city of Kerbala where hundreds of thousands have gathered for a religious rite, police said.  | |  |  |  | February 03, 2010 09:26 AM ET  | DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syria has received a request from Washington to accredit a U.S. ambassador to Damascus, ending a four-year diplomatic absence, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said on Wednesday.  | |  |  |  | February 03, 2010 06:58 AM ET  | THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court must rule again on whether Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir must face an additional charge of committing genocide in Darfur, appeals judges at the tribunal ruled on Wednesday.  | | | | |   | | | |

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