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More than 200 killed in Syria\'s Homs before U.N. vote (Reuters)
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document.write('Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:56:35 GMT
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Reuters - Syrian forces killed more than 200 people in an assault on the city of Homs, activists said, the bloodiest day of an 11-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, ahead of a Saturday vote on a U.N. resolution calling for him to cede power.
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Iran says oil ban will not halt nuclear work (Reuters)
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document.write('Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:27:36 GMT
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document.write('Reuters - Iran\'s oil minister said the Islamic state would not retreat from its nuclear program even if its crude oil exports grind to a halt, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.
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Russians stage rival protests over Putin (Reuters)
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document.write('Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:50:57 GMT
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document.write('Reuters - Tens of thousands of Russians defied bitter cold in Moscow on Saturday to demand fair elections in a march against Vladimir Putin\'s 12-year rule, and thousands of others staged a rally supporting the prime minister.
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Afghan Taliban deny Mullah Omar wrote to White House (Reuters)
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document.write('Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:42:48 GMT
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document.write('Reuters - The Afghan Taliban denied on Saturday that the group\'s leader Mullah Omar wrote to the White House last year.
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India\'s Congress wins court reprieve over telecoms scandal (Reuters)
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document.write('Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:57:47 GMT
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document.write('Reuters - India\'s beleaguered government won some rare relief on Saturday when a court threw out a corruption case against one its top ministers ahead of crucial state elections next week.
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Egyptian Protesters Confront Police After Soccer Riots (Time.com)
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document.write('Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:50:00 GMT
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document.write('Time.com - Four more die in a day of violent clashes, as anger over alleged police complicity in a stadium tragedy unleashes pent-up frustrations
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Russia: still 2 big problems with Syria resolution (AP)
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document.write('Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:44:41 GMT
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AP - Moscow still sees two problems of "crucial importance" with a draft U.N. resolution on the violence in Syria, Russia\'s foreign minister said Saturday amid Western attempts to head off a Russian veto in the Security Council.
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Syrian activists: 200 dead in government assault (AP)
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document.write('Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:44:47 GMT
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AP - Syrian forces unleashed a barrage of mortars and artillery on the battered city of Homs for hours before dawn on Saturday, sending terrified residents fleeing into basements and killing more than 200 people in what appeared to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said.
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Peru frees Chilean arrested outside air base (AP)
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document.write('Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:36:34 GMT
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document.write('AP - Peruvian police have freed one of two Chileans arrested this week on suspicion of espionage.
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Sudan rebels "seeking way" to hand over abducted Chinese (Reuters)
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document.write('Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:09:30 GMT
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document.write('Reuters - Sudanese rebels said they are looking for ways to hand over 29 Chinese workers held in the border state of South Kordofan, Chinese state media said, as Sudan\'s government confirmed the death of one worker in a firefight.
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Merkel unhappy China blocked lawyer from meeting (AP)
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document.write('Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:25:55 GMT
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AP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed regret Saturday that Chinese police blocked a human rights lawyer from meeting her and said the Communist government should have the confidence to allow dissent.
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Canada PM wants RIM to grow as "a Canadian company" (Reuters)
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document.write('Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:56:44 GMT
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document.write('Reuters - Canada\'s prime minister drew an apparent line in the sand on foreign takeovers on Friday, saying he wanted to see BlackBerry maker Research In Motion grow "as a Canadian company" and questioning whether hostile takeovers of key domestic firms are in the country\'s best interests.
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Australia\'s Gillard faces new leadership discontent (Reuters)
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document.write('Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:24:06 GMT
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document.write('Reuters - Growing speculation that Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard could be dumped by her party before the end of the year forced senior ministers to rally behind her Friday after a disastrous start to 2012.
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Facebook on collision course with new EU privacy laws (The Christian Science Monitor)
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document.write('Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:06:00 GMT
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document.write('The Christian Science Monitor - With its initial public offering this week, Facebook is roaring ahead. However, new European Union privacy regulations are taking aim at Internet companies\' ability to profit through control of personal information â the key to their tremendous online advertising profits.
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Bangladeshi Investors Badly Hit by the Stock-Market Crash (Time.com)
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document.write('Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:50:00 GMT
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document.write('Time.com - The dramatic rise and swift fall of Bangladesh\'s stock market is a cautionary tale for emerging-market investors oblivious to the perils of hasty deregulation and rapid capital inflows
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A banker\'s punishment: Sir Fred Goodwin is now just Fred (The Christian Science Monitor)
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document.write('Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:20:09 GMT
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document.write('The Christian Science Monitor - In the good times he was the doyen of British banking. Wealthy and courted by decision makers and knighted by Queen Elizabeth for services to his industry, Sir Fred Goodwin, head of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), seemed invincible.
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