Archive for January 10th, 2010

Dansby’s fumble return in OT gives Cards 51-45 win (AP)

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers watches Arizona Cardinals' Karlos Dansby (58) run back a fumble after Rodgers was hit by Michael Adams (27) during overtime of an NFL wild-card playoff football game Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010, in Glendale, Ariz. Arizona won 51-45. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - Old master Kurt Warner and playoff newcomer Aaron Rodgers staged a passing duel to rival any the NFL has seen. And when the highest-scoring postseason game in league history ended abruptly in overtime, Rodgers flung his helmet to the sideline in disgust.


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Japan to come clean on secret nuke deals with US (AP)

In this Nov. 19, 1969 file photo, U.S. President Richard Nixon, right, welcomes Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington when the two leaders were holding talks concerning the return of Okinawa to Japanese control. Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has ordered a panel of ministry officials and academics to investigate secret agreements, including ones signed by Nixon and Sato in 1969, long hidden in Foreign Ministry files that allowed nuclear-armed U.S. warships to enter Japanese ports, violating a hallowed principle of postwar Japan. Yet their very existence was officially denied. (AP Photo/File)AP - To the government's critics, it was a long and shocking act of official stonewalling: Agreements long hidden in Foreign Ministry files allowed nuclear-armed U.S. warships to enter Japanese ports, violating a hallowed principle of postwar Japan. Yet their very existence was officially denied.


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Super Bowl-style corporate ads for candidates? (AP)

FILE - In this March 20, 2002, file photo Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., left, and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., smile during a rally on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Supreme Court has raised a range of high-stakes possibilities that could substantially scale back the hard-won 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, also named the McCain-Feingold law after its sponsors, and let corporations, unions and wealthy individuals pour money into elections in time for this year's congressional races, not to mention the 2012 presidential contest; a ruling is expected as early as Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010.  (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File)AP - Possibly coming soon to your TV screen: election-season Super Bowl-style ads promoting congressional and presidential candidates, paid for by some of the nation's largest corporations.


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Qaeda threatens to execute French hostage in Mali (AFP)

Frenchman Pierre Camatte, who was taken hostage in Mali in late November. The north African branch of Al-Qaeda said it will execute Camatte unless four of its militants are freed from jail in Mali in 20 days, the US monitoring group SITE said on Monday.(AFP/File)AFP - The north African branch of Al-Qaeda threatened to execute a French hostage unless four of its militants are freed from jail in Mali in 20 days, two US monitoring groups said on Monday.


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Malaysia defends ‘Allah’ stance amid new church attack (AFP)

Hundreds of Malaysian Christians pray at a special Sunday service inside a hall after their church was set ablaze by the unidentified attackers, in Kuala Lumpur on January 10. Malaysia on Monday defended its refusal to allow non-Muslims to use the word AFP - Malaysia on Monday defended its refusal to allow non-Muslims to use the word "Allah", as a dispute over the issue saw a ninth church attacked in a spate of fire-bombings and vandalism.


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Al-Qaida Offers Exchange for French Hostage – ABC News


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Al-Qaida Offers Exchange for French Hostage
ABC News
AP Al-Qaida's North Africa offshoot demanded the release of four of its members in exchange for a French hostage it kidnapped two months ago, in a message posted on militant Web sites Monday that gave a 20 day deadline. ...
Qaeda threatens to execute French hostage in MaliAFP

Al Qaeda sets 20-day deadline for French hostage's lifeReuters

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