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• International aid continues to pour into Haiti one week after quake
• Vatican memo: Mideast conflict driving Christians out of region
• EU official to PA: Financial support won't continue forever
• Reel life inside the Warsaw Ghetto
• Iran vows to hit back if attacked by Western ship in Gulf

International aid continues to pour into Haiti one week after quake Posted: 19 Jan 2010 10:43 AM PST U.S. military Black Hawk helicopters landed near the earthquake-shattered Haitian presidential palace in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday and dropped off troops who began unloading gear, water and food rations, witnesses said. ...

Vatican memo: Mideast conflict driving Christians out of region Posted: 19 Jan 2010 10:12 AM PST A Vatican document released Tuesday blamed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the occupying of lands for fomenting most of the conflicts in the Middle East, driving Christians out and making life difficult for those who remain. ...

EU official to PA: Financial support won't continue forever Posted: 19 Jan 2010 09:12 AM PST A European Union official said Tuesday that the EU will continue to sustain financially Palestinian efforts to build their independent state, but cautioned that this support would not continue without clear progress in the peace process with Israel. ...

Reel life inside the Warsaw Ghetto Posted: 19 Jan 2010 07:27 AM PST Just months before the Nazis all but emptied the Warsaw Ghetto - sending some 300,000 of its residents to perish at Treblinka - they sent camera-wielding soldiers to capture the increasingly imperiled Jewish community within the ghetto walls. After 30 days of filming in May 1942, the soldiers packed up their equipment; their 62-minute film would forever go unfinished and without a soundtrack. The story of this footage - Nazi propaganda that has been widely used to illustrate ghetto life - is the subject of Yael Hersonski's new documentary, "A Film Unfinished." In advance of the documentary's January 25 world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Hersonski, who is 33 and lives in Tel Aviv, spoke with the Forward's Gabrielle Birkner about what was going on behind the scenes of the film production, the Nazis' preoccupation with moving pictures and her personal connection to the film. ...

Iran vows to hit back if attacked by Western ship in Gulf Posted: 19 Jan 2010 06:36 AM PST Iran's defense minister warned on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic could strike back at Western warships in the Gulf if it were attacked, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. ...

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