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• Marines make explosive impact in Afghanistan USMC News 09 Jan 2011 -- Coalition forces present in Afghanistan continuously patrol the country’s vast landscape and cities while conducting operations and gathering information from local citizens.
• 'Ugly Angels’ carry their weight in combat operations USMC News 09 Jan 2011 -- When coalition forces and supplies need to be moved quickly throughout the Regional Command (Southwest)’s area of operations, the Marines of Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 362, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward), are here to carry the weight.
• One Danish soldier killed, bringing fatalities in Afghanistan to 40 IRNA 09 Jan 2011 -- A Danish soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, bringing Denmark military fatalities to 40, according to Danish press.
• Indian Foreign Minister Warns of Outside Interference in Afghanistan VOA 09 Jan 2011 -- India's foreign minister, S.M. Krishna, is on his second and last day of an official visit to Afghanistan where on Sunday he met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai to discuss relations between their two countries.

Defense Policy / Programs

• US Defense Secretary Gates Arrives in China VOA 09 Jan 2011 -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Beijing Sunday for a 3-day visit aimed at improving military ties between Beijing and Washington.
• Army converts garbage into energy, reduces carbon footprint Army News 09 Jan 2011 -- Dr. Emmitt L. Brown, the scientist from the movie "Back to the Future," had things fairly well devised several years ago, feeding trash to the "flux capacitor" to power his time machine.
• Clinton in Gulf for Talks on Iran, Iraq VOA 09 Jan 2011 -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has begun a five-day visit to the Gulf region aimed at persuading Arab allies to tighten nuclear sanctions on Iran, and to enhance their ties with Iraq’s newly formed government. She says Arab allies should stay focused on Iran despite reports its nuclear weapons drive may have slowed.
• Iraq to buy $26 billion worth of armaments from United States RIA Novosti 09 Jan 2011 -- Iraq will buy armaments worth $13 billion from the United States by 2013 and will spend another $13 bn on weapons later, a Baghdad newspaper reported citing an Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman.

Defense Industry

• Russian firm builds another aerostat system for China RIA Novosti 09 Jan 2011 -- Russia's Augur-RosAeroSystems will finish in 2011 the construction of a third large-size tethered aerostat under a contract with a Chinese firm, the company's president said.

Other Conflicts

• Sentinel Project Uses Satellite Images To Monitor, Perhaps Deter, Humanitarian Abuses RFE/RL 09 Jan 2011 -- People act differently when they are being watched. It’s a fact that authoritarian regimes have long exploited to suppress dissent. But watchfulness can also work to the good and perhaps even stop atrocities. That’s the premise behind the Satellite Sentinel Project, a collaboration between Google, the United Nations Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT), the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and celebrity-backed NGOs.
• Sudan Referendum Has Peaceful First Day VOA 09 Jan 2011 -- Southern Sudanese have begun voting on whether to become an independent nation.
• Millions Voting In South Sudan Independence Poll RFE/RL 09 Jan 2011 -- Voters in southern Sudan began casting their ballots today in a weeklong independence referendum widely expected to result in a new breakaway state splitting off from Africa's largest nation.
• Sudan ends first day of referendum on splitting state into two nations RIA Novosti 09 Jan 2011 -- Polling stations in Sudan, in which the country may split into two independent countries, closed on Sunday, a RIA Novosti correspondent has reported.
• About 3,000 foreign observers to monitor Sudan's historic vote RIA Novosti 09 Jan 2011 -- An unprecedented number of about 3,000 foreign observers have been accredited to monitor a referendum in Southern Sudan that might draw new borders on the African continent.
• Sudan’s impending split RIA Novosti 09 Jan 2011
• Kosovo Reruns Vote Under Heavy Scrutiny RFE/RL 09 Jan 2011 -- Polls opened today in five regions in Kosovo, bringing some 100,000 voters back to the ballot box after authorities annulled results from the regions due to vote-rigging.
• Former Nigerian President in Ivory Coast to Mediate Political Crisis VOA 09 Jan 2011 -- Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo is in Ivory Coast for talks with the country's rival presidents. The West African regional alliance is threatening military action to remove the incumbent president if he does not yield power to the internationally-recognized winner of the vote.
• East Jerusalem Hotel Razed to Clear Ground for Settlement VOA 09 Jan 2011 -- A new Israeli settlement project in Jerusalem is casting a shadow over international efforts to revive the peace process. Israel annexed East Jerusalem after capturing it in the 1967 Six-Day War in a move never recognized internationally.

News Reports

• U.S. Disputes Arrest Of Spy Suspect By Iran RFE/RL 09 Jan 2011 -- The United States says an American woman Iran claims to have detained for spying is in fact safe and not in Iranian custody.
• Supreme Leader: Leaders of post-election riots were foreigners' puppets IRNA 09 Jan 2011 -- Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei says the leaders of post-election riots were puppets of foreign conspirators and that the Iranian people successfully withstood them, dealing them a blow.
• Amano unapologetic for serving US interests in IAEA IRNA 09 Jan 2011 -- The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amano was unapologetic for serving US interests in the UN nuclear watchdog amid Iranian accusations he was biased, the news magazine Der Spiegel said on Sunday.
• Supreme Leader praises insight of people of Qom in 1978 IRNA 09 Jan 2011 -- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei here on Sunday praised the insight of the local people of the holy city of Qom in 1978.
• 30,000 Thai Red Shirts Join Anti-Government Rally in Bangkok VOA 09 Jan 2011 -- Thousands of Thai anti-government activists have marched in Bangkok in one of their biggest shows of strength since a mass protest that triggered a deadly military crackdown last year.