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Syria bombards Homs; West scrambles for new strategy (Reuters)
Monday, February 6, 2012 9:16:42 AM CST
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 (Reuters)
Monday, February 6, 2012 11:01:46 AM CST
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 (Reuters)
Monday, February 6, 2012 8:33:38 AM CST
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 (Reuters)
Monday, February 6, 2012 9:17:17 AM CST
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 (Reuters)
Monday, February 6, 2012 11:32:49 AM CST
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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Argentina and Britain's Unfinished War: Hate E-Mail, Harassing Calls and Prince William (Time.com)
Monday, February 6, 2012 8:20:00 AM CST
Time.com - Whether called the Falklands or Las Malvinas, the south Atlantic islands are once again the center of a diplomatic row as the 30th anniversary of a brief war approaches
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Norway mass killer demands medal at court hearing (AP)
Monday, February 6, 2012 11:59:07 AM CST
AP - The right-wing extremist who has admitted killing 77 people in Norway's worst peacetime massacre told a court Monday that he deserves a medal of honor for the bloodshed and demanded to be set free.
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US closes Syrian embassy, presses Assad to go (AP)
Monday, February 6, 2012 11:34:19 AM CST
AP - The U.S. closed its Syrian embassy Monday and Britain recalled its ambassador to Damascus in a dramatic escalation of Western pressure on President Bashar Assad to give up power, just days after diplomatic efforts at the United Nations to end the crisis collapsed.
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Brazil: Standoff between striking police, soldiers (AP)
Monday, February 6, 2012 11:23:18 AM CST
AP - Striking state police and their supporters have clashed with Brazilian soldiers outside the state legislature in the northeastern city of Salvador.
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Mount Cameroon sends flames out in brief explosion (AP)
Monday, February 6, 2012 10:55:55 AM CST
AP - Cameroon state radio says that Mount Cameroon, a volcano in the country's southwest region, sent ashes and flames into the air in a brief explosion.
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Citi gets approval to issue credit card in China (AP)
Monday, February 6, 2012 11:31:38 AM CST
AP - Citigroup Inc.'s Chinese subsidiary is set to become the first U.S.-based bank to issue its own credit cards in China.
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Canadian Muslims issue fatwa against "honor killing" (Reuters)
Sunday, February 5, 2012 3:20:13 PM CST
Reuters - A group of Canada's leading Muslim clerics has issued a fatwa against so-called "honor killings," just a week after three members of an Afghan Canadian family were convicted of a gruesome quadruple murder that triggered a national debate about cultural values.
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Correction: Australia helicopter deaths story (AP)
Monday, February 6, 2012 1:28:07 AM CST
AP - In a story Feb. 5 about the deaths of two filmmakers in an Australian helicopter crash, The Associated Press reported erroneously the location of the crash. Nowra is 97 miles (156 kilometers) south of Sydney, not north.
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Americans face prosecution as Egypt ignores Clinton, Congress (The Christian Science Monitor)
Sunday, February 5, 2012 12:07:04 PM CST
The Christian Science Monitor - Egypt is bringing criminal charges against at least 40 people, including some American citizens, over the foreign funding of nongovernmental organizations, sharply raising the stakes in a standoff with the US that has put $1.3 billion in US military aid to Egypt at risk.
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Russia and China Challenge the West on Syria: What Implications for Iran? (Time.com)
Monday, February 6, 2012 8:20:00 AM CST
Time.com - The breach among the Permanent Five members of the U.N. Security Council in Saturday's vote on Syria's increasingly bloody power struggle could have profound implications for Syria's immediate future
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Syria next steps: With diplomacy stalled, escalation expected (The Christian Science Monitor)
Sunday, February 5, 2012 8:50:01 AM CST
The Christian Science Monitor - Diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis in Syria appear to have reached an impasse following the vetoing by Russia and China of a United Nations Security Council resolution.