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Yahoo! News: World News Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:50:01 GMT |
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Russia, China veto U.N. draft backing Arab plan for Syria
(Reuters)
- Reuters - Russia and China vetoed on Saturday a U.N. resolution that backed an Arab plan calling on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to quit, stalling global efforts to end his bloody crackdown on unrest after hundreds were reported killed in the city of Homs.
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Blast hits Egypt's gas pipeline to Israel
(Reuters)
- Reuters - An explosion hit a gas pipeline running from Egypt to Israel Sunday, witnesses and state television reported.
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Russians stage rival protests over Putin
(Reuters)
- 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, while supporters of the prime minister staged a rival rally drawing comparable numbers.
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Magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes off Vancouver Island
(Reuters)
- Reuters - A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck off Vancouver Island on Saturday, some 209 miles west of Victoria, the capital of the Canadian province of British Columbia, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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Protests grip Cairo as pressure mounts for early vote
(Reuters)
- Reuters - An Egyptian government building was set on fire on Sunday as protests disrupted the heart of Cairo for a fourth day and public figures demanded a faster transition to civilian rule.
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Massacre in Syria: Reports of Hundreds Killed in Homs, While Diplomats Fiddle at the U.N.
(Time.com)
- Time.com - Friday night, Syrian security forces carried out what the opposition Syrian National Council called a "horrific massacre" targeting Homs in one of the worst in the 11-month uprising.
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European chill moves west, 122 die in Ukraine
(Reuters)
- Reuters - Bitterly cold weather that has claimed hundreds of lives in eastern Europe swept westwards over the continent on Saturday, blanketing Rome's Colosseum with snow for the first time in three decades and disrupting air and rail traffic.
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AP Interview: US women call Egypt captors 'kind'
(AP)
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 AP - Their kidnappers gave them tea and dried fruit, and talked about religion and tribal rights. The California women were allowed to bring their Egyptian tour guide with them. One even put out his cigarette in the car when a hostage said the smoke was bothering her.
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Venezuela's Chavez hosts allies at ALBA bloc talks
(AP)
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 AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told a group of his international allies on Saturday that countries in the left-leaning ALBA bloc should work together to strengthen their economies to withstand global economic troubles.
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Libyan Sufis mark Prophet's birthday despite tension
(Reuters)
- Reuters - Libyan Sufis staged a joyous parade through the heart of Tripoli on Saturday to mark the Prophet Mohammad's birthday, defying radical Salafi Muslims pressuring them to scrap the centuries-old tradition.
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Report says 3 set themselves on fire in China
(AP)
- AP - Three more people have set themselves on fire to protest China's policies toward Tibetans in a politically sensitive area that has already been the scene of ethnic violence this year, a report said Sunday.
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Canada PM wants RIM to grow as "a Canadian company"
(Reuters)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 – the key to their tremendous online advertising profits.
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Egyptian Protesters Confront Police After Soccer Riots
(Time.com)
- 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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A banker's punishment: Sir Fred Goodwin is now just Fred
(The Christian Science Monitor)
- 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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