1/14/2010-1/19/2010

• Haiti: Avalanche of international aid flowing into Haiti
• Still no final death count
• Bill Clinton flew in on 1/18/10
• Getting it to those who need it to most is challenging
• Still a lot of violence, but also a lot of patience
• More than 2,000 U.S. marines set to arrive
• Afghanistan: Taliban attack in heart of Kabul
• Two men detonated suicide bombs while other militants “fought to the death”  right near heart of Afghan government
• Attack demonstrates the Taliban’s new trend of bringing the fight to cities, rather  than to rural areas
• FIRST time they’ve mounted an attack of this nature so successfully
• Iraq: seeks U.S. Blackwater lawsuit signatures
• Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says they want compensation for a number of cases, including the 2007 killing of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad’s Nisoor Square
• Lawyers of the accused say they were acting in self-defense
• Ukraine: Orange leader Viktor Yushchenko eliminated from the country’s presidential election
• International monitors say the election has, thus far, been clean
• Canada: Toronto truck bomb plotter imprisoned
• Zakaria Amara, 24, co-led the Islamist militant group dubbed the Toronto 18
• Plan was to set off three truck bombs in eastern Canada
• France: Warning against Internet Explorer
• Certa, a government agency that oversees cyber threats, released the warning on ALL versions
• Calls for web users to find an alternative for security reasons
• These calls have been echoed by Germany
• Counterargument (primarily from Microsoft) maintains that other browsers probably have equal risks