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Arabs to discuss Syria escalation

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Feb. 12 (News Report) - Basic supplies are said to be running low in Homs Arab foreign ministers are meeting in Cairo on Sunday to decide their next move after a resolution on Syria failed in the UN Security Council last week.

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Asia's highest mountains have lost no ice in past 10 years, study shows

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Damian Carrington - Feb. 08 (News Report) - The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows. The discovery has stunned scientists, who had believed that aro

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Army Colonel Challenges Pentagon’s Afghanistan Claims

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Scott Shane - Feb. 05 (Special Report) - After two deployments in Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis says the Pentagon is not telling the whole truth about how the war is going.

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Army Colonel Challenges Pentagon’s Afghanistan Claims

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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Unions Shocked By American Airlines Proposed Cuts

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - By Wade Goodwyn - Feb. 02 (News Report) - American Airlines is looking to cut 13,00 jobs as part of a restructuring. The company — which is in bankruptcy — also wants to reduce salaries by 20 percent and end its pension plan.

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Greeks unsettled by demands of a frustrated Europe - The Washington Post

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Michael Birnbaum - Feb. 01 (News Report) - .. before Greece can get more money, Europe is asking it to take steps that threaten to aggravate an already biting recession.

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Why Are the Chinese Buying Record-Quantities of Gold?

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - Jan. 30 (News) - One answer, among many, stands out

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Assange takes chat-show job with state-funded Russian TV

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Shaun Walker - Jan. 26 (News Report) - A TV channel funded by Kremlin will air a chat show hosted by the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in an unlikely collaboration announced yesterday. Russia Today, which broadcasts from Moscow in English, said that the programme will be written and hoste

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Sanctions take toll on ordinary Iranians - CNN.com

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Shirzad Bozorgmehr, Moni Basu - Jan. 23 (News Report) - The lives of ordinary Iranians have been deeply touched in recent weeks by the Western sanctions.

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Undercover police had children with activists

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Rob Evans, Paul Lewis - Jan. 22 (News Report) - Undercover police had children with activists — Disclosure likely to intensify controversy over long-running police operation to infiltrate and sabotage protest groups — Two undercover police officers secretly fathered children with political campaigners they had been sent to spy …

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Ethnic War Intensifies in Myanmar, Jeopardizing U.S. Ties

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Edward Wong - Jan. 19 (News Report) - The Burmese military’s offensive against the Kachin in northern Myanmar is raising human rights concerns among American officials.

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Stop the Madness

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - By Rebuttal - Jan. 19 (News Analysis) - This isn't the first time that hawks have raised the alarm about Iran's nuclear program, claiming that the sky is falling. Breathless, hypothetical timelines to an Iranian bomb have continued almost unabated since the time of the shah.

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Support for Internet Bill Wanes as Protests Spread

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jonathan Weisman - Jan. 18 (News Report) - Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, announced he would no longer back the anti-Internet piracy legislation he had co-sponsored. Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, quickly followed suit.

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Problems plague cleanup at Hanford nuclear waste site

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

USA Today - By Peter Eisler - Jan. 18 (Special Report) - Seven decades after scientists came here during World War II to create plutonium for the first atomic bomb, a new generation is struggling with an even more daunting task: cleaning up the radioactive mess.

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Australian panel to recommend changing constitution to recognize Aborigines - CNN.com

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Jethro Mullen, CNN - Jan. 18 (News Report) - "The lack of acknowledgment of a people's existence in a country's Constitution has a major impact on their sense of identity, value within the community and perpetuates discrimination and prejudice.."

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Web Piracy Bills Invite a Protracted Battle

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jenna Wortham, Somini Sengupta - Jan. 16 (News Report) - The Obama administration’s statement of opposition to antipiracy legislation let the technology industry claim a victory, but few in Silicon Valley or Hollywood consider the battle over.

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One Percent, Many Variations

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Shaila Dewan, Robert Gebeloff - Jan. 15 (Special Report) - Adam Katz is happy to talk to reporters when he is promoting his business, a charter flight company based on Long Island called Talon Air. But when the subject was his position as one of America’s top earners, he balked. Seated at a desk fashioned from a jet fuel cell, wearing a button-down shirt with the company logo, he considered the public relations benefits and found them lacking: “It’s not very popular to be in the 1 percent these days, is it?”

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South Sudan Massacres Follow Independence

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jeffrey Jettleman - Jan. 13 (News Report) - The trail of corpses begins about 300 yards from the corrugated metal gate of the United Nations compound and stretches for miles into the bush. There is an old man on his back, a young woman with her legs splayed and skirt bunched up around her hips, and a whole family — man, woman, two children — all facedown in the swamp grass, executed together. How many hundreds are scattered across the savannah, nobody really knows.

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Blaming U.S. and Israel, Iran Reports Killing of Nuclear Scientist

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Alan Cowell, Rick Gladstone - Jan. 11 (News Report) - A bomber on a motorcycle killed a scientist from Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment site and his bodyguard-driver on Wednesday during the morning commute in Tehran, Iranian media reported, in an assassination that could further elevate international tensions over the Iranian nuclear program and stoke the country’s growing anti-Western belligerence.

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In Greece, fears that austerity is killing the economy - The Washington Post

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Anthony Faiola - Jan. 11 (News Report) - Unemployment has surged to 18.8 percent from 13.3 percent only a year ago.

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Iran sentences American man to death in CIA case

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Associated Press Staff - Jan. 09 (News Report) - An Iranian court has convicted a former U.S. Marine, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death, state radio reported Monday.

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Yemen’s children pay the highest price in crisis - The Washington Post

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Sudarsan Raghavan - Jan. 09 (Special Report) - Malnutrition rates are rising. Children are, more than ever, vulnerable to life-threatening illnesses and diseases.

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South Sudan's Jonglei state a 'humanitarian disaster area' - CNN.com

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By CNN Wire Staff - Jan. 06 (News Report) - The London-based Minority Rights Group International .. condemned the attacks between the Lou Nuer and the Murle and called on the government to protect citizens from all ethnic groups.

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Yemen President, Saleh, Won’t Leave Country

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Kareem Fahim - Jan. 04 (News Report) - There had been hopes that President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s departure might ease antigovernment protests.

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Police kill armed 8th-grader in Texas school

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CBS News - By CBS News - Jan. 04 (News Report) - Police shot and killed an armed eighth-grader who "engaged" officers in the main hallway of his middle school on Wednesday, the South Texas school district said.

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