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Afghanistan
UN: Afghanistan Bribes Totaled Nearly $4 Billion - VOA
UN: Cost of Afghan Bribery 'Increases' - BBC
UN: Afghan Corruption Worth Twice Government Revenue - Reuters
UK Defense Secretary Visits Afghanistan - AP
ISAF Operations Summary - AFPS
What's the Afghanistan Mission? - LAT opinion
Terrorism / Counterterrorism
CIA Nominee Defends US Drone Policy - VOA
Brennan Defends Anti-Terror Policies at Senate Hearing - WP
Brennan Defends Counterterrorism Policies at Hearing - NYT
Brennan Defends Use of Drones to Target Terror - USAT
CIA Nominee Defends Drone Strikes - BBC
Panetta: Distance, Time Affected Benghazi Response - AFPS
Obama Hands Off on Benghazi Action - WT
Dempsey ‘Surprised’ at Clinton’s Benghazi Testimony - WT
Europe Weighs Terrorist Designation for Hezbollah - USAT
French Try to Root Out Would-be Jihadists at Home - AP
Turkish Parliament Approves Anti-Terrorism Financing Law - Reuters
A Long Overdue Discussion - NYT editorial
Attack of the Obama Drones - WT editorial
Targeted Killings: What are the Limits? - LAT editorial
America Must Come Clean About Drone Strikes - Dawn editorial
Drone Warfare Is Right and Moral - DB opinion
An Old Policy in a New Fight - WP opinion
Obama Can’t Shut Out Judges on Drones - WP opinion
Drones Can't Solve All of Our Problems - Atlantic opinion
Will US Begin Acknowledging Unintended Casualties? - WP opinion
Obama Demands Unquestioning Acceptance of Ability to Kill - WT opinion
Blaming Terrorists for Terrorism - WS opinion
With Burgas Bombing, Hezbollah Returned to Roots - Atlantic opinion
Syria
Fighting Rages Around Syrian Capital for Second Day - VOA
Fight Expands in Damascus as Diplomatic Hopes Sink - NYT
Heavy Fighting Hits Syrian Capital - BBC
Syrian Jets Bomb Damascus Ring Road to Halt Rebel Push - Reuters
Panetta Says the Pentagon Backed Arming Syrian Rebels - NYT
Pentagon Leaders Favored Arming Syrian Rebels - WP
Panetta Backs Syria Rebels Arms Plan - BBC
Pentagon Backs Plan for US to Arm Syrian Rebels - Reuters
Senate Hearing Draws Out a Rift in US Policy on Syria - NYT
Islamic Summit Ends With Call for Dialogue in Syria - VOA
Islamic Summit Backs Syria Dialogue - AP
Obama’s Syria Veto - WP editorial
Iran
Supreme Leader of Iran Rejects Direct Talks With US - NYT
Iran Rebuffs US Nuclear Talks Offer - BBC
Iran Claims Footage Extracted from Downed US Drone - VOA
Video Was Downloaded From US Drone, Iran Says - NYT
Iran Shows 'Captured Drone Footage' - BBC
Yemen Calls for Iran to Stop Sending Arms - AP
Yemen Demands Iran Halt Support for Insurgents - Reuters
Iran's Ahmadenijad Entices Egypt Into Alliance - AP
Iran’s Ahmadinejad: Latest Leader Attacked With a Shoe - VOA
Iran Urges Young Couples to Have More Babies - LAT
Obama’s Last Chance to Stop Iran - WT opinion
Tunisia
New Uncertainty Grips Tunisia After Assassination - NYT
Assassination Roils Tunisia - VOA
A New Season of Unrest in Birthplace of Arab Spring - USAT
Tunisian Protesters Ransack Police Station in Capital - Reuters
Tunisia's Political Crisis Deepens - BBC
Call for New Gov’t Rejected After Political Assassination - WP
Tunisia Ruling Party Rejects PM's Call for New Cabinet - LAT
Tunisia Islamists Say No New Gov't as Crisis Grows - AP
Opposition Leader's Funeral Brings Day of Reckoning - Reuters
Mali
Sporadic Fighting in Mali as UN Weighs Peacekeeping Force - VOA
Mali a Sign of France's Reset Africa Policy - VOA
Looted Libyan Arms in Mali May Have Shifted Conflict’s Path - NYT
Islamic Summit Backs Mali Government, Omits France - Reuters
President's Son Leads Chadians Against Islamists in Mali - Reuters
Middle East / North Africa
Palestinian Officials: Obama Must Pressure Israel - AP
Palestinians: Hamas and Fatah 'in Unity Talks' - BBC
Israel's Netanyahu Tackles Tricky Coalition-Building - Reuters
Yemen Calls for Iran to Stop Sending Arms - AP
Iran's Ahmadenijad Entices Egypt Into Alliance - AP
Egypt's Government Nearing End of the Road, Says Ex-PM - Reuters
Egypt Protects Liberals' Homes After Death Threat - Reuters
ICC: Libya Must Hand Over Gadhafi Spy Chief - VOA
Looted Libyan Arms in Mali May Have Shifted Conflict’s Path - NYT
The Global Shadow War Between Israel and Iran - Time opinion
The Coming War in the Middle East - DI opinion
US Department of Defense
Pentagon Warns of Huge Cuts - USAT
Panetta, Dempsey List Consequences of Sequestration - AFPS
Panetta Discusses 2014 Defense Budget Request - AFPS
Pentagon Gearing Up to Fight the PR War - WP
Carter Sees DOD Strategy at Work on Europe, Middle East Trip - AFPS
United States
State of the Union Address Likely to Focus on Domestic Issues - VOA
Federal Reserve's Internal Site Hacked - VOA
Poll: 9-in-10 Americans Support Gun Background Checks - VOA
Obama Promised Peace, But Delivered More War - FP opinion
The Superpower Takes a Breather - WSJ opinion
Call Obama’s Sequester Bluff - WP opinion
Africa
Mali a Sign of France's Reset Africa Policy - VOA
Suspected Congolese Rebels Charged With Plotting Coup - VOA
South Africa Charges Congo Rebels With Coup Plot - BBC
Nigeria Opposition Merge to Challenge President's Party - VOA
Nigeria Opposition Parties Merge - VOA
Zuma Outrage at South Africa Gang-Rape Murder - BBC
Americas
Mexico: World’s Eyes on Acapulco Rape Case - WP
American Resident Killed in Mexico Stabbing - AP
Official: Arsenal Found Inside Venezuelan Prison - AP
Colombia Police: Kidnapped Germans in Good Health - AP
Chile Navy Investigates 'Xenophobia' - BBC
Haiti Urged to Pursue Duvalier Charges - BBC
Haiti Court Postpones Duvalier Appeals Hearing - AP
Asia / Pacific
Tensions Flare as Japan Says Russian Planes Entered Airspace - NYT
Russian jets 'Breach Japan airspace' - BBC
Japan Pledges to Solve Territorial Dispute with Russia - VOA
China to Probe Japan Radar Claim - BBC
China Accuses Japan of Smear Campaign - VOA
China’s Thirst for Power and Water Alarms Downstream India - WP
Mystery Blogger Suspected to be Communist Leader - USAT
Exposing Chinese Corruption Online, One Video at a Time - VOA
China’s Rural-Urban Balancing Act - WP
China Arrests Over Tibet Immolations - BBC
Battling Self-Immolations, China Makes More Arrests - NYT
China 'Smuggles' Mozambique Timber - BBC
S. Korean Military Sharpens Reflexes on Divided Peninsula - Reuters
Alleged Witch Burned Alive in Papua New Guinea - AP
Europe
Relations Between Russia and US Deteriorating - VOA
New Generation of Russian Dissidents Flees to West - VOA
Reform Quickly or Lose Deals, EU Tells Ukraine - VOA
Ukraine Rejects Gazprom Gas Bill - BBC
EU Budget Summit Wrestles Over Cuts - BBC
EU Proposes New Cybercrime Rules - BBC
Will Turkey's Erdogan Join the Dictator's Club? - NR opinion
South Asia
Allen, Dunford Visit Pakistani Military Chief - AFPS
Pakistan: Wave of Violence Grips Karachi - VOA
Bomb Kills Policeman in Pakistani City of Karachi - AP
China’s Thirst for Power and Water Alarms Downstream India - WP
Report Faults Indian Gov’t Over Widespread Child Sex Abuse - NYT
India Child Sex Victims 'Humiliated' - BBC
Nepal's Maoists Set Terms to End Political Deadlock - Reuters
Protests Rage Over Bangladeshi War Crimes Islamist - Reuters