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• 5. WHAT IS PROVING TO BE A QUANDARY IN TERROR FIGHT
• AP's Lara Jakes finds that the U.S. is struggling to confront an uptick in threats from the world's newest jihadist hot spot -- North Africa.
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• 6. JOBS REPORT EXPECTED TO BE A MIXED BAG
• The January employment report released at 8:30 a.m. is expected to show that job growth remained steady last month even though Americans began receiving smaller paychecks that could keep the economy sluggish.
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• 7. CHINA POISED TO CONTROL STRATEGIC PAKISTANI PORT
• The port, not far from the Strait of Hormuz, gives Beijing another foothold in one of the most sensitive parts of the world.
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• 8. RETIRED PRELATE ENSNARED IN ABUSE ALLEGATIONS
• Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony is relieved of his remaining duties as church releases thousands of pages of personnel files of priests accused of sexual abuse.
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• 9. A CENTENNIAL AS GRAND AS ITS NAME
• Grand Central, once in danger of being demolished, is celebrating its 100th birthday with speeches, a brass band and a rollback to 1913 prices.
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• 10. WHY A POLITICAL ODD COUPLE IS BEING SHOWERED WITH PRAISE
• James Carville and Mary Matalin are the faces of the host committee for New Orleans' biggest event in years -- the Super Bowl -- and say they're humbled by the gratitude of the locals.
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AP News in Brief
Increase in threats but drop in intelligence, local help frustrates US in jihadist hotspot
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States is struggling to confront an uptick in threats from the world's newest jihadist hot spot with limited intelligence and few partners to help as the Obama administration weighs how to keep Islamic extremists in North Africa from jeopardizing national security without launching war.
• The spread of militants across Libya, Algeria and Mali -- many are linked to al-Qaida -- is in part a natural outgrowth for terror networks that have been pushed (Continued on page 24)
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