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AP - The earth shook and shook Thursday as dignitaries walked in for the swearing-in of Sebastian Pinera as Chile’s president. It shook some more as they waited for him.

AP - Kidnappers have freed two Swiss women snatched off the streets of Haiti’s capital and held for five days, officials said Thursday.

AP - Eight journalists were kidnapped in a northern Mexican border city over a period of two weeks in a wave of abductions unprecedented in the Western Hemisphere, the Inter-American Press Association reported.

AFP - Hambali, the alleged Bali bomb mastermind who is suspected of links to Al-Qaeda, filed a petition Thursday seeking his release from Guantanamo where he has been detained for more than three years.

AP - The DNA tests that revealed how the famed boy-king Tutankhamun most likely died solved another of ancient Egypt’s enduring mysteries — the fate of controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten’s mummy. The discovery could help fill out the picture of a fascinating era more than 3,300 years ago when Akhenaten embarked on history’s first attempt at monotheism.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The U.S.-backed government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai has a “poor” human rights record, tarnished by widespread impunity for security forces who commit abuses; violence against women; torture and extra-judicial killings, the State Department said in an annual report released Thursday.

AFP - Dressed in black and carrying wooden crosses, thousands of women marched Thursday in Nigerian city of Jos to express grief at a new bout of sectarian carnage and anger at the failure to stop it.

The Christian Science Monitor - Conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh said this week heâ??d go to Costa Rica for medical treatment if Congress passes proposed reforms to the US healthcare system.

Time.com - Anger is rising in Greece a week after leaders announced a new austerity package to rein in the deficit, with protesters taking to the streets and workers walking off the job

Time.com - The Vatican faces a growing scandal as allegations have emerged that priestssexually and physically abused students in a choir run by the Pope’s brother, Georg Ratzinger