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| Bombings, bombardments kill across Syria
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| Reuters - At least 28 people were killed in two bomb attacks in Syria's second city Aleppo on Friday while in besieged Homs, opposition neighborhoods endured another day of bombardment by President Bashar al-Assad's troops. |
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| Asia giants join Iran diplomacy as sanctions hurt trade
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| Reuters - China said on Friday it would send a senior official to Tehran to discuss Iran's nuclear standoff with the West, and India indicated it would also weigh in, as Asia's two giants seek to head off new sanctions already playing havoc with trade. |
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| Syrian officials should be sent to ICC: U.N. rights office
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| Reuters - Syrian officials suspected of committing or ordering crimes against humanity should face prosecution in the International Criminal Court (ICC), the United Nations human rights office said on Friday. |
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| Insight: Arms and men out of Libya fortify Mali rebellion
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| Reuters - Equipped with heavy weapons from Muammar Gaddafi's looted arsenals, the Tuareg-led rebels who assaulted the town of Aguelhoc in northern Mali last month overwhelmed the remote garrison. |
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| Norway mass killer faces 24-hour psychiatric watch
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| Reuters - Anders Behring Breivik, an anti-immigration militant who killed 77 people in a Norwegian bomb-and-gun massacre last July, is to undergo psychiatric observation 24 hours a day for up to four weeks as he prepares for his April criminal trial. |
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| Can China Successfully Educate Its Future Workforce?
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| Time.com - While China aims to continue to modernize its economy, the plight of millions of migrant children at substandard urban schools could jeopardize the nation's ability to grow and develop a skilled workforce, experts warn |
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| Germany jails Kosovan for life for killing U.S. airmen
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| Reuters - A Kosovo-Albanian man who killed two U.S. airmen and wounded two others in a gun attack at Frankfurt airport last March was sentenced to life in prison by German court on Friday. |
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| Yemeni protesters pin hopes for change on VP
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| AP - Tens of thousands of Yemenis rallied in cities across the country Friday calling for sweeping political changes as President Ali Abdullah Saleh approaches what appears to be the end of his 33-year rule. |
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| US Virgin Islands police slaying case solved
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| AP - Police in the U.S. Virgin Islands say they have solved an 11-year-old case involving a missing police officer. |
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| Egyptians protest against a year of army rule
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| Reuters - Thousands of Egyptians marched to the Defense Ministry Friday to press demands for the generals to hand over power, a day before a strike called by activists to mark the first anniversary of President Hosni Mubarak's fall. |
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| Turkey to discuss steps on Syria in Washington
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| AP - Turkey's foreign minister said Friday he will propose new ways to pressure Syria when he meets with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday. |
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| Insight: Quebec lessons for Scotland in how to pop the question
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| Reuters - For Brits grappling with the idea of Scottish independence, it may be worth looking across the Atlantic. |
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| Gov't: Building toppled by NZ quake substandard
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 AP - A six-story building that collapsed and killed 115 people in last year's New Zealand earthquake was made of weak columns and concrete and did not meet standards when it was built, the government said Thursday.
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| Why Egypt may not care about losing US aid
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| The Christian Science Monitor - A growing number of US officials are warning that Egyptâs insistence on prosecuting at least 16 Americans in a crackdown on pro-democracy organizations will have drastic consequences. |
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| Spain: Why 'Superjudge' Baltasar Garzon Is Being Punished
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| Time.com - One of the world's top crusaders against human-rights violations has been banned from the bench for 11 years. And his legal troubles aren't over |
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| Brazil's Petrobras names first female CEO
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| The Christian Science Monitor - In naming a woman to head Latin America's largest firm, the Brazilian oil company Petrobras is giving a boost to gender parity in a region that has seen women rising well beyond their US peers in politics and starting to populate executive suites. |
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