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Arab League suspends Syria mission as violence rages (Reuters)
Reuters - The Arab League suspended its monitoring mission in Syria on Saturday because of worsening violence, a move Damascus said was an attempt to draw foreign intervention as it struggles to quell a 10-month revolt against President Bashar al-Assad's rule.
Date Posted : Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:07:02 GMT
UK police arrest Murdoch tabloid staff (Reuters)
Reuters - Police arrested four current and former staff of Rupert Murdoch's best-selling Sun tabloid and a policeman on Saturday in a probe into suspected payments by journalists to officers for information, police and the newspaper's publisher said.
Date Posted : Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:12:38 GMT
Salvage crews suspend work on capsized cruise ship (Reuters)

Firefighter rescuers work on the cruise liner Costa Concordia, which ran aground off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island January 26, 2012. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit LupiReuters - Salvage crews preparing to pump thousands of tonnes of diesel fuel and oil from the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship off the Italian coast suspended work on Saturday because of bad weather that could last into next week, officials said.


Date Posted : Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:19:43 GMT
Britain sticks to 2014 Afghan troop pullout goal (Reuters)
Reuters - British Prime Minister David Cameron said Saturday he was sticking to an end-2014 deadline for withdrawing British combat troops from Afghanistan despite French proposals to speed up NATO's handover of security to Afghan forces.
Date Posted : Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:08:47 GMT
Slovenia parliament confirms Jansa as prime minister (Reuters)
Reuters - The Slovenian parliament confirmed conservative Janez Jansa as prime minister on Saturday, almost two months after an inconclusive December 4 election, parliamentary speaker Gregor Virant said.
Date Posted : Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:16:44 GMT
The Oil Off Cuba: Washington and Havana Dance at Arms Length Over Spill Prevention (Time.com)
Time.com - Despite the embargo and their cold war, the two countries appear to be in some synch over fear of potential drilling catastrophes
Date Posted : Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:25:00 GMT
Sanctions to hit EU buyback firms: Iran oil chief (Reuters)
Reuters - European companies owed oil by Iran could lose out if Tehran imposes a ban on crude exports to the European Union next week, the head of Iran's state oil company said on Saturday.
Date Posted : Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:30:15 GMT
Defense asks ElBaradei to testify in Mubarak trial (AP)

Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak arrives by gurney to court in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. Mubarak, his former interior minister and four top security officers are being tried for complicity in the deaths of hundreds of protesters at the hands of security forces during the Jan. 25, 2011 uprising. The six face the death penalty if convicted. (AP Photo/Mohammed al-Law)AP - A lawyer for Egypt's former interior minister asked the court on Saturday to have Nobel Peace Prize laureate and pro-reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei testify as a witness in his client's defense.


Date Posted : Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:24:34 GMT
Cuba Communist Party eyes term limits at gathering (AP)

A santera looks back while crossing the street where a wall is covered with a mural of the Cuban flag and an image of Cuba's revolutionary hero Ernesto 'Che' Guevara in Havana, Cuba, Friday Jan. 27, 2012. After economic reforms by President Raul Castro were endorsed by the communist congress in mid-2011, the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) is preparing to hold a party conference this weekend. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)AP - Cuba's Communist Party opened a two-day conference Saturday to hold an internal debate on the future of the party, the possibility of political term limits and perhaps even a change or two at the top.


Date Posted : Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:12:15 GMT
Senegal opposition wants protest against president (AP)

Protestors opposed to President Abdoulaye Wade running for third term in next month's elections, rally as they await a decision from the country's highest court on the validity of Wade's candidature, in Dakar, Senegal Friday, Jan. 27, 2012. Senegal's highest court ruled Friday evening that the country's increasingly frail, 85-year-old president could run for a third term in next month's election, a deep blow to the country's opposition which has vowed to take to the streets if the aging leader does not step aside. The banner written with a new slogan on it reads: 'False! Step forced.' (AP Photo)AP - Senegal's opposition called on the population Saturday to rise up against President Abdoulaye Wade's decision to run for a third term, a move that foreshadows more unrest after a night of clashes that saw a policeman stoned to death in the normally peaceful nation on Africa's west coast.


Date Posted : Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:02:30 GMT
Can NATO force weather France's faster exit? (AP)

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, center, France's Defence and Veterans Minister Gerard Longuet, left, and French General and Paris military governor Bruno Dary, right, pay tribute to the Unknown soldier's tomb,  at the Arc of Triomphe, in Paris, Friday Jan. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Lionel Bonaventure, Pool)AP - France's call for a speedier NATO exit from Afghanistan reflects the depth of war fatigue in the West and raises fears that other countries in the U.S.-led coalition will succumb to rising political pressure and pull their troops home early.


Date Posted : Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:14:36 GMT
Saputo warns of cleaning solution in milk (Reuters)
Reuters - Canadian dairy products producer Saputo Inc is warning customers not to consume one of its milk products because it could be tainted with a cleaning solution.
Date Posted : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:55:24 GMT
Information from Australian PM's aide led to clash (AP)
AP - A clash between protesters and Australian police that forced bodyguards to rush Prime Minister Julia Gillard out of an event appears to have been set off by information released by one of Gillard's own aides.
Date Posted : Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:34:06 GMT
Syria's opposition concerned about independent armed rebel groups (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - A leading Syrian opposition figure says that as rebels become increasingly militarized, it is critical that disparate armed groups be integrated with the political opposition so that they are working in concert. 
Date Posted : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:55:37 GMT
U.S.-Backed Yemen Transition Plan Draws Fire From Democracy Activists (Time.com)
Time.com - The overriding concern with maintaining a regime dedicated to the U.S. campaign against al-Qaeda has seen Washington work to keep much of the old order intact
Date Posted : Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:25:00 GMT
Anti-nuclear movement growing in Asia (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Heonseok Lee has a simple way of describing how public sentiment toward nuclear power has changed in South Korea since the disaster at Japanâ??s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant last March 11.
Date Posted : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:33:39 GMT
 

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