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Reuters – Heavy fighting raged near Baba Amro in Homs on Wednesday after elite Syrian troops attacked the rebel-held bastion that has endured 25 days of siege and fierce bombardment, activists said. Read more
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French presidential front-runner Francois Hollande yesterday threatened a 75pc tax on the income of the super-rich, setting off a major political storm. Read more
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Rats Sinking Ships comes to mind – gone off, creswell, 29/2/2012 16:35 Click to rate Rating 1 Report abuse Not before time but surely it is time that the Government made it impossible for any part of the UK media to be owned or controlled through majority shares by foreign nationals and [...]
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Expand File photo / NZ Herald A sheep thought to be the world’s oldest has died after falling over a 45m cliff. The blackface ewe – nicknamed Twiggy because of her scrawny appearance – was just a month short of her 26th birthday. Crofter [...]
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Definition: Tiananmen Square is the largest city square in the world, sitting in the heart of Beijing, China. It’s named after the Tiananmen Gate to the Forbidden City — the Chinese imperial palace — which was erected in 1417. The square came into existence in 1651, and was made four times larger in the 1950s [...]
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Let’s call it “kicking them while they’re down” — or at least using crisis-laden Greece to make a point. Iran’s semi-official media initially said today that it had refused a shipment of oil to Greece, but after the Greek oil company denied the report another government-controlled Iranian news agency changed the story. From Reuters: Read [...]
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4:57am UK, Wednesday February 29, 2012 Republican Mitt Romney has won a crucial presidential primary in his native Michigan. He beat his closest rival Rick Santorum avoiding an upset that could have severely dented his White House hopes. As expected, Mr Romney also won the second primary of the night in Arizona. [...]
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Veena Malik has said that the Bollywood film industry is like a family to her. The actor was speaking at a birthday party organised in her honour in Mumbai on Sunday. “When I was new here, I wondered what will happen? What response I will get? And trust me, today standing before all of you, [...]
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The Palestinians have invited the U.N. Security Council to visit the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, a move Israel says is an attempt to try to divert attention from getting back to direct negotiations to settle the decades-old conflict. Read more
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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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The Pentagon said Monday that it will not change its “fundamental strategy” in Afghanistan despite a week of crises that have worsened the strained partnership between the Afghan government and U.S. and NATO forces. U.S. officials acknowledged that tensions remain high in Kabul and that distrust has not dissipated since last weekend’s [...]
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AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian forces shelled opposition strongholds, killing at least 25 people, on Tuesday and a wounded British photographer was smuggled out of Homs into neighboring Lebanon. Read more
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yahoo has demanded licensing fees from Facebook for use of its technology, the companies said on Monday, potentially engulfing social media in the patent battles and lawsuits raging across much of the tech sector. Read more
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British Sunday Times photographer Paul Conroy has been evacuated from the besieged Syrian city of Homs and is in neighbouring Lebanon, diplomats say. Read more
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Reuters – Hollywood is helping London developers weather the financial crisis by turning empty offices into film sets, providing cash and publicity for landlords struggling to fill buildings with tenants because of the uncertain economic outlook. Read more
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Reuters – Syrian artillery pounded rebel-held areas of Homs as President Bashar al-Assad’s government announced that voters had overwhelmingly approved a new constitution in a referendum derided as a sham by his critics at home and abroad. Read more
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NEW claims that will allegedly “destroy the prosecution case” against the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing will be revealed today. Read more
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Met boss Sue Akers (pictured) said that illegal payments from one individual at the Sun to public officials were part of a ‘trade craft’ within the newspaper. Read more