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NKorea's Kim Jong Il sends nuclear envoy to China (AP)
09 02 2010

In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, right, meets with senior Chinese Communist Party envoy Wang Jiarui, unseen, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Wang was in North Korea on a mission to persuade the reclusive state to rejoin nuclear disarmament talks, reports said. Sitting at left is Kim Yong Il, international department director of the Workers' Party of Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)

AP - North Korea's Kim Jong Il reportedly dispatched his top nuclear envoy to Beijing on Tuesday to discuss restarting nuclear disarmament talks, a day after pledging Pyongyang's commitment to a nuclear-free Korean peninsula.

UN appeals for $538M in Pakistan humanitarian aid (AP)
09 02 2010

Elderly Pakistani men line up to get a ration of rice during a donated food distribution in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

AP - Aid groups in Pakistan need nearly $538 million over the next six months to help hundreds of thousands of people displaced by army clashes against the Taliban, the U.N. said in an international appeal Tuesday.

Afghan avalanches kill at least 28, strands 1,500 (AP)
09 02 2010 AP - Avalanches on a mountain pass north of Kabul have killed at least 28 people, with another 1,500 stranded in their vehicles on snow-blocked roads, Afghan officials said Tuesday.

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