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Needles successfully extracted from Brazil boy (AP)
US dad's custody fight threatening ties (AP)
U.S. father pleads for boy's return from Brazil (Reuters)
Senator places hold on bill over custody battle (AP)

Needles successfully extracted from Brazil boy (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 06:37 PM PST

AP - Surgeons on Friday successfully removed four sewing needles from the lung and near the heart of a Brazilian toddler, allegedly plunged into him by his stepfather during a monthlong series of bizarre rituals.

US dad's custody fight threatening ties (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 04:32 PM PST

AP - A New Jersey man made an emotional plea Friday for Brazilian authorities to let him take his son home in a custody fight that is expanding into a political tussle and testing the limits of an international child abduction treaty.

U.S. father pleads for boy's return from Brazil (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 11:46 AM PST

Reuters - The American father of a boy at the center of a Brazil-U.S. custody dispute made an emotional appeal to be reunited with his son on Friday, calling the situation "cruel, tragic and sad."