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The hostage drama involving ship Capt. Richard Phillips is over, but there's no sign that the piracy problem is going away in the Gulf of Aden. This has made ship owners and the companies that insure them worried about conducting business in the high seas.

Members of Congress are under pressure to draw up new regulations for banking and investing in a matter of months. It's a scary and complicated task, they say, and the stakes are enormous.

The New York Times foreign correspondent Dexter Filkins reports that the Taliban are waging an increasingly aggressive campaign in Afghanistan — a fact evidenced by a 40 percent increase in Afghan civilian deaths in 2008.

Oakland made headlines recently when protests against the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer escalated into violence. But as cities everywhere grapple with a tough economy, racial tension isn't the city's only problem. Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums tells how he's working to keep his city stable.

"Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America -- they will be met," President Barack Obama said in his inaugural address.

A recent report on the rise of young black males being killed in the U.S. continues to raise concern among youth, parents and community leaders. Some say the findings reflect a much larger problem, the failure of society on many levels. A roundtable of people directly affected by violence, including two moms whose sons were killed, share their perspective on the crisis.

Plans are under way to deploy at least 20,000 more American troops to Afghanistan next year. Senior officials are deciding where and how to use the additional troops, while the government is finishing three strategy reviews of the conflict there.

In the wake of multiple congressional corruption scandals, the appetite for lobbying reform in Washington is growing. Capitol Hill reporter Laura Strickler has more on newly proposed reforms.

Indonesia is the world's largest Muslim majority country, and it has become Southeast Asia's most vibrant and healthy democracy. That might sound incredible to those who remember Indonesia as a police state run by the dictator Suharto. And despite problems such as terrorist bombings and the tsunami four years ago, Indonesia is clearly at the head of the democratic class.

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