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• GM unveils its revamped storied sports car, with a 6.2-liter, 450-horsepower engine and styling with nods to the '63 Sting Ray.
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• San Francisco faces Atlanta for the NFC championship and New England hosts Baltimore in the AFC.
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AP News in Brief
French bomb training camps, supply lines of Malian jihadists in north; battle for Diabaly
• BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- A Malian intelligence agent posted near the central Malian town of Diabaly confirmed that French pilots launched a raid on Monday morning close to the town.
• The bombing run marks an expansion of the battle to retake Mali's north. Until Sunday night, the raids had all occurred in distant northern areas. The bombardments near Diabaly follows airstrikes late Sunday 40 kilometers (25 miles) east of the locality, in the rice growing region of Anatola, once the site of a major USAID-funded project.
• The agent, who could not be named because he was not authorized to speak to the press, said that shots rang out near a military base in Diabaly. Soon after, he said French jets flew over the area, dropping bombs.
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Obama starts 2nd term with bad blood weighing down ties with Israel's Netanyahu
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama heads into his second term weighed down by an American government snarled in partisan gridlock, but also by an unproductive relationship with the leader of Israel, the bedrock U.S. ally in the tumultuous Middle East.
• And the puzzle that is the U.S.-Israeli relationship under Obama and Prime Min (Continued on page 25)
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