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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