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Thursday, January 06, 2011 (2011x4)

Uitzenddatum: Jan 06, 2011

2011/01/06 Headlines: U.S. to Send 1,400 More Marines to Afghanistan; Nancy Pelosi Passes House Speaker Gavel to John Boehner; Hedge Funds Spent $10 Million to Help GOP Win Election; Census: 48 Million Americans Now in Poverty; Global Food Prices Hit Record High; Gene Sperling Expected to be Tapped for Top Economic Post; Commission: Cost-Cutting Decisions Led to BP Spill; Amnesty Report: Sexual Violence Against Women on Rise in Haiti; Oxfam: Haiti is Still in Ruins a Year After Earthquake; U.N. Calls for 2,000 Troops for Ivory Coast; Pakistani Guards Questioned over Assassination of Governor; Sadr Returns to Iraq After Exile in Iran; Israel Considers Probe of Human Rights Groups; Brazilian Truth Commission Proposed