 West Bank settlement housing gets initial approval
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 22.02.2012 19:17  0 views  0 comments
 AP - Israel gave preliminary approval on Wednesday to a plan to build 600 new homes in a settlement deep inside the West Bank, a move that drew rebukes from the United Nations and Palestinians and threatened to raise tensions with the U.S. as the prime minister prepares to head to the White House.
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| Assad forces try to bomb Homs into submission
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22.02.2012 19:09 0 views 0 comments
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 Reuters - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces rained rockets and bombs down on opposition-held neighborhoods of the city of Homs on Wednesday, reducing buildings to rubble and killing more than 80 people, including two Western journalists.
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| US stocks fall as Europe frets over Greece
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22.02.2012 19:05 0 views 0 comments
 AP - U.S. stocks fell Wednesday as investors worried over the details of a new bailout plan for Greece.
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| Afghans, US may defer issues in strategic deal
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22.02.2012 18:59 0 views 0 comments
 AP - The U.S. and the Afghan governments are considering pushing through a long-delayed partnership agreement by moving the contentious issues of night raids and control over detainees to separate negotiations, officials from both countries said.
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| Iran defiant as U.N. nuclear talks fail
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22.02.2012 18:57 0 views 0 comments
 Reuters - The U.N. nuclear watchdog ended its latest mission to Iran after talks on Tehran's suspected secret atomic weapons research failed, a setback likely to increase the risk of confrontation with the West.
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| NH jury chosen in Rwanda genocide case
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22.02.2012 18:51 0 views 0 comments
AP - A federal jury of eight men and four women is set to begin hearing graphic testimony in the case of a New Hampshire woman charged with lying about her role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Read more »
| Venezuela's Chavez says his cancer is likely back
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22.02.2012 18:23 0 views 0 comments
 AP - President Hugo Chavez has raised serious doubts about whether he'll have the stamina for a successful re-election bid, revealing that he needs to return to Cuba to have a lesion removed that is probably malignant.
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| Chavez surgery rocks Venezuela ahead of election
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22.02.2012 18:05 0 views 0 comments
 Reuters - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's imminent departure for more cancer surgery in Cuba has thrown his re-election campaign into uncertainty and once again shaken the socialist leader's passionate supporters.
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| Karzai urges calm as six die in Afghan Koran protests
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22.02.2012 17:07 0 views 0 comments
 Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed for calm Wednesday after officials said six people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests over the burning of copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, at NATO's main base in the country.
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| Rogers profit tops forecasts but wireless lags
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22.02.2012 16:50 0 views 0 comments
Reuters - Rogers Communications, Canada's biggest wireless telecoms company, said on Wednesday that cost-cutting and growth in its cable and media businesses pushed it to a stronger than expected quarterly profit despite lagging core wireless results. Read more »
| Syria: War Reporter Marie Colvin and Photographer Remi Ochlik Are Killed
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22.02.2012 16:00 0 views 0 comments
Time.com - A celebrated American-born war reporter and a young French photographer were killed on Wednesday morning when Syrian forces bombed a makeshift media center in the besieged city of Homs Read more »
| Grasping at Straws: The Syrian Opposition Appeals to Russia
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22.02.2012 16:00 0 views 0 comments
Time.com - In the face of continuing bloodshed in their homeland, one anti-Assad group courts the regime's allies in the Syrian business community and Moscow. Is it all in vain? Read more »
| Aussie foreign minister resigns in leadership rift
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22.02.2012 12:34 0 views 0 comments
AP - Australia's foreign minister resigned Wednesday in a bitter rift with Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who may poll party lawmakers next week on who should lead the country. Read more »
| U.S., French journalists killed in Syria
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22.02.2012 12:26 0 views 0 comments
Reuters - American correspondent Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday when rockets fired by government forces hit the house they were staying in, opposition activists and witnesses said. Read more »
| Bank of England panel split on size of stimulus
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22.02.2012 10:15 0 views 0 comments
AP - Bank of England rate-setters were divided this month on the vote to inject another 50 billion pounds ($79 billion) into the British economy, with two members arguing that a bigger stimulus was needed, minutes to the meeting showed Wednesday. Read more »
| Myanmar's parliament chief rebukes "sluggish" government
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22.02.2012 10:14 0 views 0 comments
Reuters - A senior figure in Myanmar's parliament on Wednesday described recent reforms in the country as "sluggish and unsatisfactory" and urged the civilian government to act faster to push through legislation for the benefit of the public. Read more »
| French Minister: French journalist killed in Syria
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22.02.2012 10:14 0 views 0 comments
AP - France's foreign minister has confirmed the death of a French journalist in violence in Syria after government forces shelled the restive central city of Homs. Read more »
| Australia PM battle looms after foreign minister quits
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22.02.2012 10:13 0 views 0 comments
Reuters - Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigned on Wednesday, saying he could no longer work with Prime Minister Julia Gillard, igniting a new and bitter leadership crisis for the struggling minority government. Read more »
| Syrian troops kill 27 in village raids
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22.02.2012 9:56 0 views 0 comments
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Reuters - Syrian troops and militia loyal to President Bashar al-Assad captured and then shot dead 27 young men in northern villages and two foreign journalists were killed in shelling of the besieged city of Homs, activists said on Wednesday.
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| Witness: Explosions heard in north Nigeria city
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22.02.2012 9:54 0 views 0 comments
 AP - Multiple explosions rocked Nigeria's second-largest city, witnesses said Wednesday, just over a month after a radical Islamist sect claimed an attack there that left at least 185 people dead.
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