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Syria violence kills 37, U.N. Security Council to meet
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 Reuters - Security forces killed 37 people in Syria on Friday, activists and residents said, as people in Homs mourned 14 members of a family they said were slain by militiamen in one of the worst sectarian attacks in a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.
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| Date Posted : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:01:25 GMT |
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Costa Cruises offers compensation to rescued passengers
(Reuters)
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| Reuters - Costa Cruises has offered 11,000 euros ($14,500) in compensation to each of the more than 3,000 passengers aboard its liner that ran aground and capsized two weeks ago, Italian consumer groups said on Friday. |
| Date Posted : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:16:06 GMT |
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Boko Haram leader tape threatens Nigeria forces
(Reuters)
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| Reuters - In an audio tape posted on the Internet, the purported leader of the violent Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram threatened to kill more security personnel and kidnap their families, and accused U.S. President Barack Obama of waging war on Islam. |
| Date Posted : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:52:47 GMT |
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Taliban willing to compromise, Afghan negotiators say
(Reuters)
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| Reuters - Senior Afghan peace negotiators believe the Taliban are willing to significantly soften past hardline ideologies, with its leaders already laying the ground for possible peace talks in the Gulf state of Qatar. |
| Date Posted : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:48:41 GMT |
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Kidnapped Norwegian freed in Yemen
(Reuters)
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| Reuters - A Norwegian working for the United Nations was freed on Friday, nearly two weeks after being kidnapped in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the Interior Ministry said. |
| Date Posted : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:10:47 GMT |
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Syria: Are Captured Iranians Military Men or Engineers?
(Time.com)
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| Time.com - The revolt against President Assad has long alleged that Iran has sent soldiers to prop up the regime. Their latest proof, however, may not quite satisfy doubts about the claim |
| Date Posted : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:05:00 GMT |
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Exclusive: Germany wants Greece to relinquish budget controls
(Reuters)
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| Reuters - Germany is pushing for Greece to relinquish control over its budget policy to European institutions as part of discussions over a second rescue package, a European source told Reuters on Friday. |
| Date Posted : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:28:27 GMT |
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Islamists, protesters scuffle at at Egypt rally
(AP)
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 AP - Muslim Brotherhood supporters and secular protesters hurled bottles and rocks at each other and got into fistfights in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday as their political differences boiled over at a rally by tens of thousands marking an anniversary in the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
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| Date Posted : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:48:25 GMT |
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Guatemala: Ex dictador to face genocide charges
(AP)
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 AP - The defense lawyer for former dictator Efrain Rios Montt said Friday that a Guatemalan judge violated due process when she issued unprecedented genocide charges against Rios Montt for conduct during the country's bloody civil war.
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| Date Posted : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:41:50 GMT |
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Senegal awaits court's decision on president
(AP)
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| AP - Senegal braced itself for possible violence before the constitutional court decides Friday whether to allow the country's leader of 11 years to run for a third term even though the constitution was revised after he came to office to allow a maximum of two. |
| Date Posted : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:06:57 GMT |
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France to cut Afghan combat role, leave 2013
(Reuters)
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| Reuters - French troops will start handing over security to the Afghan army in March and focus on training until pulling out of Afghanistan completely at the end of 2013, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Friday. |
| Date Posted : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:00:33 GMT |
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Saputo warns of cleaning solution in milk
(Reuters)
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| Reuters - Canadian dairy products producer Saputo Inc is warning customers not to consume one of its milk products because it could be tainted with a cleaning solution. |
| Date Posted : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:55:24 GMT |
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Australian gov't, activists trade blame for clash
(AP)
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 AP - Authorities and indigenous-rights protesters blamed each other Friday for a heated clash in which bodyguards had to rush Prime Minister Julia Gillard out of an event marking the anniversary of British colonization.
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| Date Posted : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:49:32 GMT |
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Russia bars liberal candidate from presidential election
(The Christian Science Monitor)
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| The Christian Science Monitor - Veteran liberal politician Grigory Yavlinsky, who's been a presidential candidate three times before, will not be allowed to run against Vladimir Putin in the upcoming March 4 presidential polls, Russia's official electoral commission announced today. |
| Date Posted : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:55:10 GMT |
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An Introduction to Messi: An Outsider's Take
(Time.com)
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| Time.com - The man everyone wants to know is someone who doesn't want to give out -- or doesn't have -- any real personal information. Is he just a sports machine? |
| Date Posted : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:05:00 GMT |
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Experts cast doubt on Japan nuclear power plant stress tests
(The Christian Science Monitor)
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| The Christian Science Monitor - Advisers to Japan's nuclear safety agency have condemned stress tests being conducted at nuclear power plants around the country as the government seeks international support for the early resumption of dozens of idle reactors. |
| Date Posted : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:36:00 GMT |
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