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KHARTOUM, Sudan, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Sudan and Chad's decision to normalize relations could end up having a positive effect on the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan, an observer says.

CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- A Canadian teenager has been banned from using the Internet after pleading guilty to posting a school shooting threat on Prince Edward Island.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- The youngest detainee at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison is at the center of an international debate over whether he should be prosecuted or rehabilitated.

VICTORIA, British Columbia, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- A report on the future on the Anglican Church in Canada says declining membership could make it extinct by 2061.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army needs hundreds of additional substance-abuse counselors to meet the increasing number of soldiers seeking alcohol treatment, a top official says.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Sweden will send 30 additional soldiers to Afghanistan next week, Swedish Armed Forces said.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Republicans have closed the gap with Democrats on whom Americans trust to handle the country's problems, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll indicated.

TORONTO, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Organized smuggling rings have begun sneaking Haitians into Canada, a Haitian-Canadian lawyer in Toronto says.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- For more than 60 years the U.S.-Pakistani relationship has veered between despair and euphoria. In a very social sense, the two states could be characterized as an aging married couple occupying very distant parts of a large, deteriorating house whose plumbing, electrics and phone systems are in disrepair and who are at a loss on how to interact to fix both their relationship and their living conditions. In essence, something between a marriage counselor and a plumber is sorely needed to improve this complex relationship.

KIEV, Ukraine, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Supporters of Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko are seeking a recount of the ballots cast in Sunday's presidential runoff election, a lawmaker says.

JOLIET, Ill., Feb. 10 (UPI) -- A Chicago law professor says pre-trial proceedings for Drew Peterson make it impossible for the former Bolingbrook, Ill., policeman to get a fair trial.

KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- At least 150 bodies were pulled from vehicles buried by an avalanche in the Salang Pass in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday

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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Google's decision to start a social networking site called Buzz pits the Internet navigator directly against Facebook and Twitter, U.S. analysts are saying.

TEHRAN, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Iran's nuclear energy chief says his country remains willing to discuss with the West the possibility of sending Iranian uranium abroad for enrichment.