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Syrian troops crushed pockets of rebel soldiers Tuesday on the outskirts of Damascus as Western diplomats took up a U.N. draft resolution demanding President Bashar Assad halt the violence and yield power. Read more
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All the polls are predicting a BIG Mitt Romney win Tuesday in Florida, which isn’t surprising since Mitt outspent Newt Gingrich roughly 5:1 in the Sunshine State. Or $15.3 mill to $3.4 mill in combined Super PAC plus campaign spending. What does money buy in Florida, a state like California where campaigns are won on [...]
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A division of Johnson & Johnson is recalling 43 over-the-counter medicines made for infants and children — including liquid versions of Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl — after federal regulators identified what they called deficiencies at the company’s manufacturing facility. Read more
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VENEZUELA Chávez opponents jailed in crackdown Two foes of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez who had publicly criticized the socialist government in recent days found themselves in jail this week as part of a crackdown on opposition figures that has prompted alarm about the state of democracy in the oil-rich Latin American country. On Monday, former [...]
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BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungarians celebrated joining the European Union eight years ago by chopping through the barbed wire that separated them from Austria, eliminating a final vestige of the Iron Curtain. But after years of financial crisis, many here in Europe’s heart are questioning their westward ties. Read more
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AMMAN/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Syrian government forces reasserted control of Damascus suburbs on Tuesday after beating back rebels at the capital’s gates as diplomatic pressure mounted on President Bashar al-Assad at the United Nations. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House hopeful Mitt Romney’s lead over rival Newt Gingrich has stretched to 15 percentage points in Florida, according to results of a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday, just a day before the state’s Republican primary. Read more
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Western countries are preparing to push for a tough resolution at a UN Security Council meeting on the crisis in Syria. Read more
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AP – A masked man is reflected on an electronic stock board at a securities firm in central Tokyo, Monday, … Slideshow:Stock Markets Play Video Wall Street Video:Will investors ‘Like’ Facebook after IPO? AP Play Video Wall Street Video:Buy Cash Cow Firms Now? CNBC By JOE McDONALD, AP Business Writer Joe Mcdonald, Ap Business Writer – 14 mins ago BEIJING [...]
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AMMAN/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces have taken the upper hand in escalating battles on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, while top Western and Arab diplomats are seeking a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for him to go. Read more
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THE cruise ship that capsized off Italy’s coast will take up to 10 months to remove, officials said yesterday, as rough seas off the Tuscan coast forced the suspension of recovery operations. Read more
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Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters, America’s arch-rival chat heavyweights, are ‘pulling out all the stops’ to snare her as a guest in an hour-long special. Read more
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Expand Demonstrators protest against the rightist fraternity WKR-Ball in downtown Vienna, Austria, Friday, Jan. 27, 2012. Photo / AP Far-right Austrian politicians have been widely criticised for comparing protests against a fancy ball that attracts extremists to the Nazis’ persecution of Jews. Vienna’s Jewish community [...]
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A girl suffering from a skin condition is treated in Ifo Hospital on the outskirts in the Ifo refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya. Refugees are caught in the ongoing civil war in Somalia and the worst drought to affect the Horn of Africa in six decades. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images) Read more
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They’ve been besties in the unenviable quest to get Europe to right its economic ship, and now German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be giving French President Nicolas Sarkozy a hand on the campaign trail in what promises to be a challenging campaign for her European counterpart. From Deutsche-Welle: Read more
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Newt Minow, that is. The famed Chicagoan and former FCC chair has penned an essay for Politico, “Lower the curtain on debate audience” in which he argues: Audiences at debates should remain silent while the event is broadcast — so the audience at home can benefit from the undiluted opportunity to see the [...]
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“The current battles taking place in and around Damascus may not yet lead to the unravelling of the regime but the illusion of normalcy that the Assads have sought hard to maintain in the capital since the beginning of the revolution has surely unravelled,” said Ammar Abdulhamid, a US-based Syrian dissident. Read more
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Greece yesterday rejected a German plan for it to surrender control of its tax and spending policies to a powerful European Commission official in return for a EUR130bn bailout. Read more
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As we previewed for you in Friday’s Chronicle/SFGate.com, Berkeley-based Presente Action — which aspires to be the “Latino MoveOn” — launched its national call-out against GOP Sen. Marco Rubio Friday as he addressed the conservative Hispanic Leadership Conference alongside Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney. There’s a strong chance that either would pick Rubio as their [...]
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A division of Johnson & Johnson is recalling 43 over-the-counter medicines made for infants and children — including liquid versions of Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl — after federal regulators identified what they called deficiencies at the company’s manufacturing facility. Read more