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Syria bombards Homs; West scrambles for new strategy
Monday, February 6, 2012 12:09:49 PM CST
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian forces bombarded Homs on Monday, killing 50 people in a sustained assault on several districts of the city which has become a centre of armed opposition to President Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian National Council opposition group said.
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U.N. nuclear talks in Tehran: frustrated hopes
Monday, February 6, 2012 11:48:50 AM CST
VIENNA (Reuters) - After two days of rare and intensive talks in Tehran, senior U.N. nuclear officials may have felt they were finally making headway towards getting Iran to address suspicions that it is bent on developing the ability to make atom bombs.
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Palestinian rivals agree to form unity government
Monday, February 6, 2012 8:33:39 AM CST
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The leaders of rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas signed a deal in Qatar on Monday to form a unity government of independent technocrats for the West Bank and Gaza, headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Analysis: Iran economy could limp along under sanctions
Monday, February 6, 2012 9:17:20 AM CST
DUBAI (Reuters) - Tightening international sanctions against Iran look set to shrink its economy, push up inflation and further erode its currency, but they may fail to deliver a knock-out blow that forces Tehran to compromise on its nuclear ambitions.
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Netanyahu can't fly solo in Israel to attack Iran
Monday, February 6, 2012 11:32:57 AM CST
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Three decades ago, an Israeli prime minister faced his cabinet and invoked the Holocaust in an emotional appeal to approve an air strike against an Arab atomic reactor.
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Pakistan factory collapses in gas blast, 5 dead, many trapped
Monday, February 6, 2012 8:46:07 AM CST
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A three-storey factory collapsed on Monday in the Pakistani city of Lahore after a gas explosion, killing at least five people and trapping dozens, emergency officials said.
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Egypt army urges swift move to presidential election
Monday, February 6, 2012 11:52:23 AM CST
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's military leadership called for a swift move to a presidential election on Monday and security forces sealed off the Interior Ministry in Cairo from stone-throwing protesters clashing with riot police for a fifth day.
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Queen Elizabeth marks 60 years on throne
Monday, February 6, 2012 12:02:58 PM CST
LONDON (Reuters) - Sixty years after she ascended to the throne in an austere Britain still facing post-war rationing, Queen Elizabeth marked the milestone on Monday with a new website that showed just how much the world has changed during her reign.
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Election preparations start in conflict-torn Yemen
Monday, February 6, 2012 10:47:03 AM CST
SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen has begun a publicity campaign to get citizens to vote in the upcoming presidential election, officials said on Monday, part of a deal to ease President Ali Abdullah Saleh out of office and pull the country back from the brink of civil war.
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Children among 12 dead as quake hits Philippines
Monday, February 6, 2012 8:54:31 AM CST
MANILA (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the central Philippine island of Negros on Monday, triggering landslides that toppled houses and killing at least 12 people, including two children, officials said.