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Militants launched a fresh attack Monday in Nigeria's second largest city, Kano, which is already reeling from a series of bombings and shootings that killed more than 200 people earlier this month. A police station in Mandawari was attacked at 6 a.m., just after the dusk-to-dawn curfew was lifted, police said. No one was hurt. Hours earlier, gunmen on motorbikes hit a police station in

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The U.N. Security Council this week will take up a draft resolution proposed by Morocco that calls on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down and transfer power. "It is primarily a straightforward condemnation of what has transpired, a call upon the government of Syria to adhere to the commitments it made," U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice told reporters about the draft. She noted that it

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At least 64 people were killed in Syria on Sunday, according to an opposition activist group, as the Arab League suspended a monitoring mission designed to protect Syrian civilians from government-sponsored violence. The dead included 19 in Homs, 15 in Hama and 16 around Damascus, according to the Local Coordination Committees of Syria. Three children were among those killed, the group said.

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The embattled president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, is outlining new economic proposals during a broadcast Sunday that observers say is aimed at boosting his poor standing with voters ahead of April's general election. Though Sarkozy has yet to announce his candidacy, he is widely expected to face Socialist Francois Hollande, who is polling ahead in public opinion surveys, as he seeks a second

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A 12,000-person mile-round glass mothership is about to land in the heart of Silicon Valley. Futuristic, with its own self-contained electricity plant: plans for Apple’s new disc-shaped headquarters encompass the lasting legacy of the late Steve Jobs – a slick design, with an uber-efficient core. Over the years dozens of technophiles, seduced by three decades of technological smut, have made

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As tech tycoons go, Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro, doesn't exactly look the part. Watching the small, silver-haired figure pick his way through the Davos throng, it seems the main reason people turn their heads is to admire his black Nehru jacket, done up to the neck. But even among this heady crowd of global power brokers congregating in the Swiss Alps, Premji is one of the most influential.

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Thousands of Yemeni air force personnel rallied in the capital Saturday to demand the removal of the president's half-brother as the country's air force commander. They marched in front of the Sanaa home of Vice President Abdurabu Hadi to urge the removal of the commander, Mohammed Saleh, whose policies are under fire by other air force officials. Thousands of air force members staged similar

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A woman's body was found Saturday in the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship, Italian officials said, taking the number of people confirmed dead to 17. Rescuers have been searching the site since the massive liner struck rocks and rolled onto its side in shallow waters off an island on Italy's Tuscan coast on January 13, leading to a panicked overnight evacuation. Fifteen people remain missing.

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Most of us think of soap as a way to make stuff less sticky. But a new process actually ups the stickiness of soap itself — by making it magnetic. Researchers at Bristol University in the United Kingdom have created the world's first magnetic soap, made by dissolving iron-rich salts in water. The goal is to create a soap that can be used in industrial cleaners or in environmental cleanups that

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A Georgia man who poured gasoline over his girlfriend and set her on fire was Friday sentenced to more than 200 years in prison. Earlier Friday a jury found Orville Brooks, 30, guilty of the attack on Tara Best in the couple's apartment a year ago, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. He was convicted on eight counts, including false imprisonment and criminal intent to commit murder,

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Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara is wrapping up a three-day visit to France to cement new defense and business ties, but most importantly to turn the page on years of bitter relations between the two countries. Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara has been given the red-carpet treatment during his visit here in Paris. The Champs Elysees is awash with Ivorian and French flags and French

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U.S. military leaders say they have begun preparations for a new, leaner military as Washington prepares to make cuts in the defense budget. Washington wants to reassure its allies, though, that it will remain engaged with them. The branch of the military to be hardest hit is the U.S. Army, which will see the reduction of more than 70,000 ground troops and the removal of two brigades from

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Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has postponed his return from exile until the political situation in Pakistan and the court cases against him are resolved, a senior leader in his party said Friday. Another party source who is close to Musharraf but did not want to be named said Musharraf will not return in the next year and is stepping out of politics. Musharraf has lived in exile

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A small asteroid the size of a city bus zoomed between Earth and the moon's orbit Friday just days after its discovery, but it never posed a threat to our planet, NASA says. The asteroid 2012 BX34 passed within 36,750 miles (59,044 kilometers) of Earth when it made its closest approach at 10:30 a.m. EST (1530 GMT). The space rock is about 37 feet (11 meters) wide and would have broke apart in

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The 'Blues' who keep the nation's Capitol safe are seeing green. The officers who patrol the metal detectors and corridors of the Capitol Hill complex are earning some of the best pay and benefits in the business. A new government report shows the U.S. Capitol Police, or USCP, provides top-shelf pay when officers sign up and top-shelf benefits when they retire. Though the union is pushing for

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Detractors say the F-35 stealth fighter, the costliest military plane ever, is destined to go down as one of the biggest follies in aviation history. But it may have found a savior: deep-pocketed U.S. allies hungry to add its super high-tech capabilities to their arsenal. The program marked a major success last month when Japan chose it over the Boeing F/A-18 and the Eurofighter Typhoon as a

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"As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression," Twitter wrote in a blog post published Thursday. It said even with the possibility of such restrictions, Twitter would not be able to coexist with some countries. "Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there," it said. Twitter

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Egyptian authorities are preventing several U.S. citizens from leaving the country because of ongoing investigations into the work of civil society groups supporting the country's legislative elections. State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland says U.S. officials are “very actively involved” with their Egyptian counterparts to lift the travel ban. "We have several U.S. citizens working at

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Measuring the response in babies' brains as someone looks at them or looks away can help predict which will go on to develop further symptoms of autism, researchers said. Children are not currently given a conclusive diagnosis of autism until after the age of two as the behavioural signs associated with the condition become more clear. Although brain scans are not a completely accurate

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his government does not oppose negotiating with Western powers about its nuclear program but also wants them to change what he calls their "foul" behavior toward Iran. Speaking Thursday on a visit to the southern province of Kerman, Ahmadinejad accused the West of creating obstacles to negotiations. Iran and six world powers held their last round of

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Data for England from the NHS Information Centre shows the percentage of people spending more than four hours in emergency departments rose from 4 per cent of all attendances (600,000) in 2009/10 to 5.6 per cent (900,000) in 2010/11. The rise was before the Government scrapped the four-hour A&E target introduced under Labour and replaced it with a new set of quality indicators. The total

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Iran is ready to revive talks with the world powers, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday, as toughening sanctions aim at forcing Tehran to sharply scale back its nuclear program. Even so, he insisted that the pressures will not force Iran to give up its demands, including to continue enriching uranium, that led to the collapse of dialogue last year. The United States and its allies

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta unveiled a plan Thursday that would cut nearly a half-trillion dollars from the defense budget over the next decade by retiring older planes and ships, delaying some projects and shrinking U.S. ground forces by about 100,000. The plan would reduce the size of the Army by 80,000 soldiers by 2017, bringing the force size to a level slightly larger than it was on 9/

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Two teenage girls in Texas are facing capital murder charges after a man was found stabbed in a motel room, MyFoxDFW.com reports. Police say 17-year-old Tatina Daniels and 18-year-old Teresa Price were "partying" Monday night in a motel room with the victim, 40-year-old Jesse Morales, Jr. Authorities did not give details on what happened in the hotel room that night, but said the "party"

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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who moved the nation with an improbable comeback after a gunman shot her in the head last year, formally resigned Wednesday in an emotional appearance in the U.S. House of Representatives. "I will recover and will return," the Arizona Democrat said in a letter read aloud by her friend and colleague, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who fought back tears. A standing

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The Japanese government predicted a worst-case scenario at the height of its nuclear crisis last year warning that tens of millions of people, including Tokyo residents, might need to evacuate the region to avoid contamination. But fearing widespread panic, authorities kept the analysis secret. The 15-page warning was compiled by experts and presented to then-prime minister Naoto Kan two weeks

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The millions of people who use the devices, hailed as a bridge between laptops and mobile phones, are also at risk of neck injuries, claims a new study. Researchers found that the flexibility and convenience tablet computers are hailed for could actually be harming users, especially if held on their laps. They are at risk of "iPad shoulder" or "iPad neck" because holding a tablet low down

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The Arab League says the withdrawal of monitors from Gulf Arab states will not hinder its work in Syria as France, Britain and Germany joined efforts at the United Nations to end President Bashar al-Assad's rule. A league official, Adnan al-Khudeir said Wednesday a new group of observers is set to replace the 55 monitors from the Gulf Cooperation Council who left Syria Wednesday after their

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The Tibetan government-in-exile has called on the international community to take action to halt violence in western China that has reportedly killed several Tibetans and left others wounded. "The Central Tibetan Administration urges the international community to not remain passive before the current situation," Lobsang Sangay, the head of the government-in-exile, said in a statement Tuesday.

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The hostages had been held captive since October in Somalia, but on Tuesday, a U.S. Special Operations team freed them with a swiftness and lethal force reminiscent of the raid on Usama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan. The raid Tuesday was conducted by a joint team overseen by Africa Command and involved Navy SEAL Team Six, the same unit -- though not the exact same individuals -- that killed

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Syria has extended the Arab League monitors' mission for a month, Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdessi told CNN Tuesday. This comes after the league voted Sunday to extend the mission. Syrian media quoted the Foreign Ministry as saying the mission will last until February 22. Foreign Minister Walid Moallem sent a letter to Arab League Secretary-General Nabil el-Araby notifying him of

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The internet gossip mill continues to churn with speculation as to the identity of Khloe Kardashian’s biological father. The latest development comes from a number of gossip blogs, including Zap 2 it and Necole Bitchie, latching on to a report from Hollywoodite.com, which claims that Khloe’s real dad is none other than Kris Jenner’s hairdresser, Alex Roldan. The news follows a bombshell claim

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Google is famous for its “don’t be evil” mantra. But how closely does the company still stick to that code? The search giant altered its results page on Jan. 10 to spotlight information from the Google+ social network for some users -- but not information from Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn or the many other social networks. And those companies aren't taking the snub lightly: Twitter's

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A new study by Deloitte examines the benefits of free Facebook pages used by businesses to promote trade. Speaking at the DLD conference in Munich, Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg claimed that “Facebook is about a lot more than sharing pictures or keeping up with friends; increasingly social media means growth and jobs.” She added that “social media is proving particularly

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At least nine people were killed and at least 72 others wounded Tuesday when four car bombs and a roadside bomb exploded in mostly Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad, police officials said. The first two attacks took place in Sadr City, an area in eastern Baghdad, police said. A car bomb exploded in al-Mudhafar Square, near a group of laborers who were waiting to be picked up for a daily job,

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The lone Marine convicted in his squad's killing of two dozen unarmed civilians in one of the Iraq War's defining moments escaped jail time Tuesday after defending his order to raid homes in Haditha as a necessary act "to keep the rest of my Marines alive." The sentencing of Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich ends a six-year prosecution for the 2005 attack that failed to win any manslaughter convictions

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In a new report, Human Rights Watch sharply criticizes Russia and China for blocking action on Syria in the U.N. Security Council and takes aim at other countries that it says have also been obstacles to stopping the 10-month violent repression in Syria. The annual human rights review of more than 90 countries highlights the spread of the Arab Spring democratic movement and urges the

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Behind every bare breast and flash of buttocks is a hard working entertainment lawyer. The lawyer is usually the one to negotiate Hollywood’s most awkward legal agreement: the nudity clause. “The nudity rider spells out exactly what an actor agrees to do in a role: partial nudity, full frontal nudity — even simulated sex,” LA attorney Brian J. Murphy says. The document — usually about one

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Italian officials discovered a sixteenth body while searching the wrecked Costa Concordia while operations are under way to remove a half-million gallons of fuel from the ship before it creates an environmental disaster off the coast of Giglio, Italy. The most recent body was discovered on the third floor deck. Italian news reports say it was a woman’s body. Beside the recovery effort, Italian

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Gartner vice-president Carolina Milanesi tweeted that “RIM's CEO change reminds me of the Nokia Spring reshuffle before [current CEO Stephen] Elop was appointed in September. The reshuffle was not enough for Nokia”. Mr Heins has replaced founders and co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, although both will remain as directors of the company despite presiding over a 75 per cent decline in

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House Speaker John Boehner on Sunday insisted that the next year will be spent on policy, not politics, but said it's "pathetic" if President Obama tries to offer the "same old" ideas at Tuesday's State of the Union that he's been offering in the past three years. The speaker, appearing on "Fox News Sunday," said those policies haven't helped the economy. "They made it worse," he said. "And if

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Having stuck deals with several of the major Hollywood studios, new movies such as Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Drive, are only available to rent for a period of two weeks in the UK via Blockbuster. The once extremely popular film rental business has been playing catch up with the likes of Sky, Virgin and latterly Lovefilm and Netflix, for the last few years, having failed to capitalise on

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The Department of Health (DoH) has drawn up plans to radically reform the assistance given to thousands of women with crisis pregnancies. Among them is a proposal to place abortion providers under a legal obligation to offer women access to independent counselling, stripping them from providing any "in-house" service. Critics of the existing system say the counselling which is offered by the

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Newt Gingrich won Saturday's South Carolina GOP presidential primary, marking a stunning turnaround for a candidate who finished fourth in Iowa and New Hampshire and whose campaign had been left for dead -- again -- by observers just weeks ago. With about 95% of polling places reporting, Gingrich had 40% of the vote, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney getting 27% and former U.S. Sen.

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Italian media say police divers searching the Costa Concordia cruise liner, which ran aground earlier this month off the Italian island of Giglio, have found a hard disk containing data of the voyage, as another body was pulled from the wreckage, bringing the death toll to 12. Media reports say the disk retrieved late Saturday may shed light on the role Captain Francesco Schettino played in the

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Yemen's parliament approved a controversial law Saturday that ensures President Ali Abdullah Saleh complete immunity from prosecution. The law was delayed for weeks as Saleh insisted on specific changes guaranteeing his aides partial protection from legal actions. In return, Saleh will step down from power in Yemen next month after ruling the country for more than 33 years. Yemeni Information

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Federal prosecutors have shut down one of the world's largest file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, on charges of violating piracy laws -- a day after a 24-hour blackout of popular websites such as Wikipedia drew national attention to the issue. "This action is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States," the Justice department said in a statement about the

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The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in the Arabian Sea on Thursday, Navy officials said, a likely prelude to testing Iran's recent warning against sending a U.S. carrier through the Strait of Hormuz. The Lincoln joins the USS Carl Vinson, already in the region, returning the U.S. Navy its standard two-carrier presence there. The carrier USS John Stennis left in the past few days and

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Taking a picture of a black hole, an object so gravitationally bound that not even photons of light can escape, sounds like an oxymoron, but astronomers this week will attempt to do just that. What they're hoping to glimpse is something called the "event horizon" -- the swirl of matter and energy that are visible around the rim of the black hole just before it falls into the abyss. "Even five

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The head of Nigeria's police has been given 24 hours to produce a terror attack suspect who escaped police custody under suspicious circumstances, a government minister said Thursday. Minister of Police Affairs Navy Capt. Caleb Olubolade said he and Police Inspector General Hafiz Ringim had been summoned to see President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday over the escape. The fugitive, identified by

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A new academic paper argues that workaholism is often unfairly seen as a negative phenomenon for individuals and society. A Rouen Business School professor, Yehuda Baruch, argues that workaholism - while still an addiction - can lead to positive outcomes for individuals, business and society. It should not, he concluded, be automatically dismissed as a vice. In the article, published in Career

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Italian divers resumed their search Thursday for at least 21 people missing from a wrecked cruise ship off Italy's northwestern coast. Officials say divers began searching again after the operation was suspended Wednesday out of concern the Costa Concordia might move off its rocky resting place into deeper waters. Anxious relatives are holding on to faint hopes rescue workers will find more

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Eastman Kodak Co. filed for bankruptcy protection early Thursday morning, after the film pioneer failed to raise fresh cash to fund a long-sputtering turnaround, The Wall Street Journal reported. The 131-year-old company struggled for decades to cope with the emergence of competitors in its film business and the rise of digital technology. But its final pivot -- an attempt to transform itself

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Just before the final debate Thursday and days before the voting, Republican presidential candidates have launched increasingly strident attacks against each other and President Barack Obama in the run-up to the South Carolina primary. Front-runners Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich traded accusations involving honesty and tactics, while Rick Santorum criticized both men for what he called placing

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The battle for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination shifts to the U.S. state of South Carolina on Saturday. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is hoping for a third straight victory in the South Carolina primary after earlier wins in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. But Romney’s Republican rivals are hoping to at least slow him down. South Carolina public

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News that the Afghan Taliban will be opening an office in the Gulf state of Qatar triggered speculation about possible talks for a political settlement in Afghanistan, but analysts caution against excessive optimism about any deal. Announcement of the Qatar office came in a statement earlier this month from the Taliban group believed to be based in Quetta, Pakistan.  Many of the insurgents who

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Half a million people will face an emergency bordering on famine by March if international humanitarian organizations are not allowed into areas of Sudan that are mired in conflict, United States envoy to Sudan Princeton Lyman warned Wednesday. "There is a looming humanitarian disaster in Sudan," Lyman warned in the South African capital Pretoria as part of his effort to rally support for

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The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to reject a request by President Obama to raise the debt ceiling -- a largely symbolic vote, since the Senate is expected to allow the debt ceiling hike. The House voted, 239-176, in support of a measure that voices opposition to the increase. Six Democrats voted along with Republicans to oppose the debt ceiling increase. House Republicans had only

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As increasing numbers of people and businesses launch apps, the ones which will make the most money in the long run will be those that are free to download but then offer ‘in-app’ products to buy. The report, which has been compiled by the mobile team at technology analyst firm Screen Digest, predicts that in-app purchases will rise to account for 64 percent of the total app market revenue by

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Rick Perry drew a fiery rebuke from the Turkish government Tuesday after suggesting at a presidential debate that the country is run by Islamic terrorists and questioning its NATO membership. As the Texas governor stood by his remarks, the U.S. State Department distanced the Obama administration from the comments. Turkey's Ministry of Foreign Affairs decried the comments as "unfounded and

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Tribal violence in South Sudan’s Jonglei state recently reached alarming levels with thousands of armed young men involved in attacks on villages. The death toll has yet to be determined, but the United Nations says tens of thousands of people in Pibor County were forced to flee attackers. In Pibor town, hundreds of displaced people gather in the midday sun, waiting for U.N. aid workers to

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The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibilty for the Tuesday killing of Pakistani reporter Mukarram Khan Aatif, who worked for the Voice of America. Aatif was assassinated in Shabqadar, a small town located in the violence-hit Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, not far from Peshawar. Witnesses and local police say that Aatif was attending evening prayers when two assailants on a motorbike arrived at

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NEW YORK – A New Jersey woman got the morning commute of her life when she gave birth to her first child on a PATH commuter train to New York. The 31-year-old woman, Rabita Sarkar, of Harrison, N.J., said she had started feeling contraction-like pains but didn't think they were real because her baby wasn't due yet. She and her 30-year-old husband decided to travel into the city to have her

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Experts from the 15 nations on the U.N. Security Council are scheduled to discuss a new draft resolution on the violence in Syria. The meeting Tuesday will examine the proposed resolution Russia sent to the Security Council Monday, the third Moscow has presented in the past month. Western diplomats said Monday the draft resolution is confusing and does not make clear whether Russia would accept

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Thai police said Tuesday that they would seek court permission to extend the detention of a Lebanese man they have charged with illegal possession of explosive materials. The move comes amid tension after the United States and Israel warned their citizens in Bangkok on Friday of the possibility of an imminent terrorist attack. The police charged the man, Atris Hussein, on Monday after finding

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The Republican candidates were returning to the campaign trail Tuesday slightly bruised but unbowed after a raucous debate that left Mitt Romney fielding attacks from the get-go and all five candidates earning wild reception from a fired-up audience that will be casting votes alongside fellow South Carolinians on Saturday. Romney was put on defense out of the box at the Fox News/Wall Street

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Syrian human rights activists say at least five people were killed by pro-government forces Monday, as Arab League monitors struggle to document the violence.  It was another difficult day for Arab League monitors. One group, taken to hear evidence of unrest in areas just outside the capital, spent the morning listening to government official after government official tell of attacks against

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Russian officials say they still have no firm information where a failed Mars moon probe plummeted to Earth, the day after it went down. The unmanned Phobos-Ground probe fell Sunday after being stuck in Earth's orbit for two months. The $170 million craft was one of the heaviest and most toxic pieces of space junk ever to crash to Earth, but space officials and experts said the risks posed by

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Indian doctors have reported the country's first cases of "totally drug-resistant tuberculosis," a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease. It's not the first time highly resistant cases like this have been seen. Since 2003, patients have been documented in Italy and Iran. It has mostly been limited to impoverished areas, and has not spread widely. But experts

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The websites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and of El Al, the Israeli airline, were brought down Monday morning by an apparent hacking attack. An internet hacker who calls himself Ox Omar sent an e-mail to the Jerusalem Post Monday in which he claims that together with a hacking group calling themselves "Nightmare" that the websites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and that of El Al would be

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Jean Gross, the outgoing 'communication champion' for children, said parents should be advised by text to switch the television off, if they had it on all day, and reminded to speak to their babies. She raised the idea in her last report on how to improve the speaking, reading and writing skills of children. Gross said such radical ideas were needed to combat a problem that seemed to be

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The senior adviser to a pro-Newt Gingrich super PAC is defending the release of a 28-minute film on Mitt Romney's leadership at private equity firm Bain Capital even though the content has been discredited by fact-checkers and Gingrich has asked for inaccuracies to be corrected. "We stand by the film," Rick Tyler, senior adviser to Winning Our Future, said of the release titled "King of Bain:

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A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck Sunday off the coast of Antarctica, prompting a warning that there was a "small possibility" it could trigger a tsunami. The tremor was centered in waters south of South America's southern tip, about 334 miles (539 kilometers) west of Coronation Island and 388 miles northeast of Palmer Station in Antarctica, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. It hit at

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Chinese President Hu Jintao is expected to visit Addis Ababa this month to inaugurate a new African Union headquarters financed by China and built largely with Chinese labor.  The project was launched when Moammar Gadhafi was maneuvering to move Africa's diplomatic capital to Libya. Official African Union and Ethiopian sources confirm that President Hu will be in Addis Ababa January 28 to open

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Iraqi authorities say militants have raided a government security compound in the western city of Ramadi, killing at least seven policemen and wounding about 15 other people. Officials say the assault began Sunday morning when the insurgents set off several bombs around the capital of Iraq's Anbar province.  They say one assailant later blew himself up at the entrance to Ramadi's security

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Paul McKenna’s home is nestled in the Hollywood Hills. Inside there’s white marble. Outside there are leafy, spectacular views, and a bijou swimming pool. The house was occupied by Sean Connery in the Seventies. McKenna has always wanted to be James Bond, and I’m sure that has influenced his decision to live here. I am greeted by a giant Great Dane, Bentley. Then another normal-sized Great Dane

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Despite a 10-month crackdown on anti-government protests, Syrians in the town of Douma have kept up their defiance of a government many want overthrown. By day, people in the town on the outskirts of Damascus try to go about their business. But nighttime, they say, holds a different story. This reporter was allowed into Douma by the Syrian government, but only in the presence of an official

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In 2007, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy opened its doors to academically gifted, underprivileged girls in South Africa. On Saturday, the first class graduated, with a 100 percent pass rate. A proud mother. That is how Oprah Winfrey has described herself, as she watches the Class of 2011 leave the nest. The girls are the first batch to graduate from the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy, in

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Kenya’s High Court has ruled that Kenyans should vote in presidential and parliamentary elections by March, 2013, which is 60 days after the end of the current parliament's five-year term. But the much-awaited election's exact date, which was contested due to requirements in the country’s new constitution, remains undecided. The court also left open the possibility that Kenyans could line up

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The U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Somalia says international aid has helped improve conditions in the drought-stricken Horn of Africa, but says the region still faces a crisis situation. Mark Bowden spoke to VOA in Washington Friday. He said distribution of seed in the Horn has gone well, so farmers can take advantage of recent rains. He also said the U.N.'s current $1.5 billion appeal is

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One of the youngest pan-Africa publications is celebrating its one-year anniversary. A French-language spinoff of popular Internet magazine Slate.com, Slate Afrique aims to bring quality news to African and foreign readers. Our reporter visited the publication's Paris-based headquarters. Pierre Cherruau is on the phone, speaking to a foreign journalist about the future of French-Rwandan

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Standard & Poor's Friday downgraded the credit ratings of nine European countries caught up in the eurozone crisis. This includes France, which has Europe's second-largest economy. S&P's downgrade of France's credit rating has been expected for weeks. French Finance Minister Francois Baroin called it only "half a surprise," as he confirmed on TV Friday night the downgrade from AAA to AA+. He

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A team of British scientists has published new details of the world’s deepest volcanic vents, discovered in 2010 in a canyon on the Caribbean seafloor. Although the vents are gushing liquid minerals estimated to be hotter than 450 degrees Celsius, they are surrounded by a remarkable abundance of marine life, including species of shrimp and snails never seen before. The volcanic vents were

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Richard O’Dwyer, a computer science student at Sheffield Hallam University, faces up to 10 years in a federal prison for operating TVShack. The 23-year-old, described as “quiet, introverted and vulnerable” by his father, is accused of criminal copyright infringement. The website did not itself host unlawful downloads or video streams, but acted as a directory of links to others that did,

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Iran's embassy in Turkey has issued a statement denying reports Tehran was shipping weapons through Turkey to Syria. "We deny such claims and we would like to state that the Islamic Republic of Iran sees people's demands to be paid attention to as a way of providing domestic security and stability, and believes that dialogue between the Syrian government and the opposition is the way out from

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The use of the images on Winfield packets has been criticised as misleading and a possible payback for Australia’s fierce anti-tobacco campaign. Australia is set to introduce new plain-packaging measues - believed to be the world’s toughest anti-tobacco laws – which will ban logos and branding on cigarette packets from later this year. BAT and several other tobacco firms have launched legal

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Professor Cathy Warwick, chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives, said many women now had greater expectations and aspirations about childbirth. But she warned those who went over the top in celebrating their pregnancy - which she derided as "yummy mummy" or "WAG" parenting - could need intensive counselling if something went wrong before birth. Diagnostic scans were often now regarded

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The French foreign minister called Thursday on Syrian authorities to divulge the "whole truth" about the killing Wednesday of a French journalist in the city of Homs. Alain Juppe told France 2 television that an "investigation must establish the origin of these events, and in particular where the firing came from, who is responsible for this, so that we can then act accordingly." France 2 TV

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New laws introduced by Fiji's military government have been criticized as more repressive than the emergency measures they replaced. It is almost a week since the authorities in the capital, Suva, lifted draconian powers that banned public meetings and muzzled the media. The military seized power in a bloodless coup in the South Pacific nation in December 2006. A few days ago, Fiji’s army-led

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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is temporarily suspending distribution of aid to more than one million people in central and southern Somalia, after local authorities blocked deliveries of food and seeds. In mid-December, authorities in Jowhar, in the Middle Shabelle region of central Somalia, stopped a Red Cross humanitarian convoy for what they called a quality check. 

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Japan is prepared to gradually reduce the amount of oil it imports from Iran, Finance Minister Jun Azumi said Thursday, as the United States seeks to muster international support to put fresh pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program. Japan imports 10% of its crude oil from Iran at the moment, Azumi said at a news briefing after meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. The

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The letter published today from the presidents of two medical royal colleges concerning the impact of the Working Time Directive on the training of doctors tells a depressingly familiar story. For years before the directive came into force in August 2009, its potential impact was predicted. Indeed, this newspaper forecast in 2004 that it would cost the NHS the equivalent of 9,000 junior doctors.

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Germany's economic recovery went into reverse at the end of last year but the country still notched up 3 per cent growth in 2011 -- twice as fast as in the US and the rest of the eurozone. Highlighting the robustness of Europe's largest economy -- even as the eurozone debt crisis escalated -- the Wiesbaden-based federal statistics office reported 2011 overall had seen only a modest slowdown

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The Chinese community is in mourning in Italy.  Shops are closed and a funeral is to be held Thursday, after a Chinese father and his nine-month-old daughter were gunned down in a robbery that went horribly wrong. The Chinese community in Italy wants justice and more security.  The brutal killing, last week, of Zhou Zeng and his baby, Joy, was too much even for people who are used to keeping to

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Two Nigerian trade unions accused the country's president of using "armed thugs" to attack protesters, and urged demonstrators to continue their nationwide strike against high fuel prices on Wednesday and beyond. "In a Mubarak-style response to the peoples' protests, the Jonathan administration brought into Abuja, thugs armed with various weapons including guns," the Nigeria Labour Congress and

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State employees in California have two options: join the Service Employees International Union or refuse membership and still be required to pay non-member dues. Either way, union officials must provide very specific notice and accounting information if they intend to use non-members' dues money for political purposes. One group of non-members says the SEIU failed to do that when it levied a

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Nigerians took to the streets for the second day of a nationwide strike Tuesday, showing their anger over a government decision that has more than doubled fuel prices in the largely impoverished country. Some protests over the end of fuel subsidies were marred by clashes that left 16 people dead and 205 injured, according to a tally collected by the Nigerian Red Cross Tuesday. The strike,

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New services will incorporate results from a user’s friends and profile in the social network Google+, as well as people, pages and profiles in a user’s network or adjacent to it. The service will only work if a user is signed in to their Google account, and a new button on the search results page will allow people to toggle between results from the web and from what Google is calling “Your

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Joran van der Sloot returns to a Peruvian courtroom on Wednesday, five days after requesting more time to "reflect" on what plea he will make in his murder trial. The 24-year-old Dutch national indicated on Friday that he was willing to make a "confession" in the 2010 killing of Stephany Flores, but that he did "not agree with the aggravating factors" as defined in the murder charge levied

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As required, Alabama's players whooped it up amid the confetti and fireworks, yet there was something muted about this championship celebration. Turns out, these guys knew the ending to the sequel before they even got to the Big Easy. For two months, the Crimson Tide stewed over its first meeting with top-ranked LSU. By the time the team touched down in New Orleans, there was little doubt in

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