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China seizes more melamine-tainted milk powder

BEIJING Feb 8, 2010 Chinese inspectors have shut dairy firms in the northwest after they found contaminated milk powder there.

Haiti protesters denounce aid corruption, hoarding

PORT-AU-PRINCE Feb 8, 2010 Hundreds of Haitian earthquake survivors protested in a suburb of their wrecked capital on Sunday.

Continuing back injury makes Dinara Safina pull out of Dubai Tennis Championships

Hamas could be facing cash crunch; unable to pay January salaries

GAZA  Feb 8, 2010 Hamas has failed to pay the January salaries of many of the 34,000 Palestinian civil servants and security men in the Gaza Strip.

Australia changes immigration laws to seek higher skills

CANBERRA Feb 08, 2010 The Australian government said it will dump 20,000 low-skilled migrant applications, received before September 1, 2007.  It will re-focus its immigration intake on high-skilled jobs critical to the economy.

Mubarak cracks down on Muslim Brotherhood, ahead of elections

CAIRO  Feb 8, 2010 Egyptian security forces have held senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood today, sources close to the group said. 

    Security forces detained 20 other members of the Brotherhood on Saturday and Sunday. The Brotherhood called it a crackdown  before elections this year.

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