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More protests, attacks in Syria after UN condemnation
Reuters
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Erika Solomon | AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, disregarding UN condemnation of their violent suppression of a nationwide revolt, renewed a bombardment of the opposition stronghold of Homs ...
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Pattinson says may be too old to return to "Twilight"
Reuters
By Mike Collett-White | BERLIN (Reuters) - British actor Robert Pattinson said on Friday he may be too old to reprise his role as the ever-youthful vampire Edward Cullen in the "Twilight" movies, should author Stephenie Meyer decide to add another ...
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Hackers target Putin's vote-monitoring system
Reuters
By Gleb Bryanski | NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia (Reuters) - Hackers have tried to crash a vast network of web cameras which Vladimir Putin has ordered to allay fears of vote-rigging in the March presidential election, a deputy minister said on Friday.
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As Xi visit winds down, US silent on movie talks
Reuters
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Talks aimed at opening China's market to more American movies hung in the balance on Friday as China's expected next leader visited Los Angeles without any word from the US government that a deal had been reached.
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German film eyes the big prize at Berlin festival
Reuters
By Mike Collett-White | BERLIN (Reuters) - German drama "Barbara" is the critics' favorite to take away the Golden Bear for best picture at this year's Berlin film festival, in what would be the first home win since 2004. The 10-day cinema showcase, ...
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Bridgit Mendler enters "Secret World of Arriety"
Reuters
By Zorianna Kit | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In just a few short years, Bridgit Mendler has risen to become one of the Disney Channel's most popular stars thanks to the success of her series "Good Luck Charlie" and the Disney Channel original movie ...
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RPT-COLUMN-Lack of financial literacy can hurt retirement
Reuters
(Repeating Thursday item to widen distribution) (The author is a Reuterscolumnist. The opinions expressed are his own.) By Mark Miller Feb 16 (Reuters) - Okay, folks -- it's time for a Personal Finance 101 quiz. Please answer the following three ...
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Survivors accuse guards after Honduras prison blaze
Reuters
By Ioan Grillo and Mike McDonald | COMAYAGUA, Honduras (Reuters) - Survivors of a Honduran prison fire that killed more than 350 inmates accused guards of leaving inmates to die inside their cells and shooting at others who tried to escape the flames.
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For Mideast foes' Oscar films, family trumps flag
Reuters UK
By Dan Williams | JERUSALEM (Reuters) - As their nations warn of war, the Israeli and Iranian directors facing off at next week's Academy Awards share a reluctance to see politics read into their movies, both of which are portraits of troubled families ...
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Net Insight AB: YEAR-END REPORT 2011
Reuters
Net Insights Nimbra(TM) platform is the industry solution for video, voice and data, reducing operational costs by 50 percent and enhancing competitiveness in delivery of existing and new media services. More than 150 world class customers run mission ...
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Chinese envoy heads to Syria after UN vote against Assad
WAMC
"Today the UN General Assembly sent a clear message to the people of Syria - the world is with you," US Ambassador Susan Rice said in a statement. Beirut-based political commentator Rami Khouri told Reutersthat the vote was important even though it ...
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Nigerian "underwear" bomber gets life in prison in US
Reuters
By Bernie Woodall and Deepa Seetharaman | DETROIT (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Nigerian man to life in prison for trying to blow up a US airliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009 with a bomb hidden in his underwear.
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Nigerian 'underwear' bomber gets life in prison in US
Reuters
... lawyer, attorney general) By Bernie Woodall and Deepa Seetharaman DETROIT, Feb 16 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Nigerian man to life in prison for trying to blow up a US airliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009 with ...
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How secure are labs handling world's deadliest pathogens?
Reuters
By Sharon Begley and Julie Steenhuysen | NEW YORK/CHICAGO (Reuters) - To reach his office in Galveston National Laboratory, where scientists study deadly pathogens such as the Ebola and Marburg viruses, director James Le Duc swipes his key card at the ...
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Hackers target Putin's vote-monitoring system
The West Australian
NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia (Reuters) - Hackers have tried to crash a vast network of web cameras which Vladimir Putin has ordered to allay fears of vote-rigging in the March presidential election, a deputy minister said on Friday. Putin, facing the biggest ...
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Turkmen leader sworn in after election landslide
The West Australian
ASHGABAT (Reuters) - Turkmenistan's president was sworn in for a second five-year term on Friday in a ceremony that lauded the former dentist for his purported greatness after he clinched a new landslide election victory. Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov won ...
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China's Baidu looks to mobile search for growth
Reuters India
By Melanie Lee and Alexei Oreskovic | SHANGHAI/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - China's top search engine, Baidu Inc(BIDU.O), plans to begin monetising its mobile search traffic and social media platforms this year in an effort to boost growth outside its ...
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Baidu reports jump in 4th-quarter profit and revenue
Reuters
| SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - China's top search engine, Baidu Inc, beat Wall Street's earnings estimates as its revenue grew more than 80 percent year-on-year in the fourth-quarter. Shares of Baidu were up more than 2 percent to $144.98 in after-hours ...
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Why east Europeans chose internet piracy
Kyiv Post
PRAGUE, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Vitezslav, a 31-year-old Czech, is one of many people in the European Union's emerging east whose opposition to a new anti-pirating pact culminated this month in huge protests across the bloc that may now torpedo the treaty.
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Lack of financial literacy can hurt retirement
Reuters
By Mark Miller (Reuters) - Okay, folks -- it's time for a Personal Finance 101 quiz. Please answer the following three questions: 1. Suppose you had $100 in a savings account and the interest rate was 2 percent per year. After five years, how much do ...
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South American Silver (TSX:SAC) Featured in February Issue of The Gold ...
Reuters
The deposit outlined at Escalones is open laterally and down dip and according to Brien Lundin lies within a world class mining district in Chile. That district hosts the nearby El Teniente, the largest underground copper mine on the planet.
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Chinese envoy heads to Syria after UN vote against
Yahoo!7 News
"Today the UN General Assembly sent a clear message to the people of Syria - the world is with you," US Ambassador Susan Rice said in a statement. Beirut-based political commentator Rami Khouri told Reuters that the vote was important even though it ...
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Iran offers "new initiatives" for talks with powers
Malaysia Star
By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran, facing sanctions that could cripple its oil exports, has told world powers it wants to resume long-stalled talks with "new initiatives," and France said it might be open to addressing suspicions about its ...
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Malaysia Star
West Weighs Tehran's Offer to Talk
Wall Street Journal
(Video: Reuters/Photo: Getty Images) "The letter today is something that, obviously, we need to consult...to determine what the next step should be, but we have always maintained that it's in our interest to try to resume talks with Iran, assuming that ...
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Wall Street Journal
Chinese envoy heads to Syria after UN vote against Assad
Chicago Tribune
AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - A senior Chinese official was due to visit Damascus on Friday in a show of support for Bashar-al Assad after the UN General Assembly told the Syrian president to halt a violent crackdown and surrender power.
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Mission impossible? US wants sanctions to hurt only Iran
Chicago Tribune
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama hopes the toughest sanctions ever imposed on Iran will squeeze its oil exports - all without scaring markets, crimping growth, impoverishing ordinary Iranians or antagonizing allies.
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INSIGHT-Containing the world's deadliest microbes
Reuters AlertNet
15 story to clarify that escaped microbes were from labs of various safety levels, not just from BSL-4 labs, paragraph 28) By Sharon Begley and Julie Steenhuysen NEW YORK/CHICAGO, Feb 15 (Reuters) - To reach his office in Galveston National Laboratory, ...
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Suicide bomber kills 21 in NW Pakistan (Reuters) - News On Feeds
Reuters - A suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest outside a mosque in a Shi'ite neighborhood Friday in the restive northwestern Kurram tribal region near the Afghanistan border, killing at least 21 people, local government and security ...
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Bridgit Mendler enters "Secret World of Arriety"
By Reuters
doddle NEWS – Android · doddle – Android ... LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – In just a few short years, Bridgit Mendler has risen to become one of the Disney Channel's most popular stars thanks to the success of her series “Good Luck Charlie” and the Disney Channel original movie “Lemonade Mouth.” ... When Disney was preparing a new show, “Good Luck Charlie” about a teenage girl who creates video diaries of advice for her baby sister, Mendler was brought in for an audition.
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Gold Fields Q4 up 26% in line with consensus
By Reuters
By: Reuters. 17th February 2012. TEXT SIZE. Text Smaller Disabled Text Bigger. JOHANNESBURG – Gold Fields, the world's fourth-largest gold producer, reported a 26% rise in quarterly earnings on Friday, in line with expectations as its results were ... Shares of Gold Fields are up 1% this year, slightly outperforming a 1.5% decline in Johannesburg's index of gold miners. Edited by: Reuters. FULL Access to Mining Weekly and Engineering News - Subscribe Now! Topics in this article ...
Mining Weekly | Gold
The Greece game turns chaotic | Felix Salmon - Reuters
By Felix Salmon
The market attempted some kind of rally on the ECB news today, which on its face is weird — if the ECB takes its bonds out of the restructuring pile, then that just means a bigger haircut for everybody else, if Greece is going to reach debt sustainability. ... Then, once you're thoroughly confused and depressed, put yourself in the position of a European politician who has to make real-world decisions with real-world consequences. .... Felix Salmon is the finance blogger at Reuters.
Felix Salmon
NewsDaily: Queen Beatrix not hit by Austrian avalanche: PM
NewsDaily: Your best source for breaking news ... Queen Elizabeth marks 60 years on throne. LONDON, Feb. 6, 2012 (Reuters) — Sixty years after she ascended to the throne in an austere Britain still facing post-war rationing, Queen Elizabeth marked the milestone on Monday with a new website that showed just how much the world has changed during her reign. ... Enter a keyword or phrase to find the latest news stories, plus related articles, videos, blog posts, and podcasts.
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Murdoch flies in to meet with angry British staff | The Raw Story
By Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch will address hostile journalists at his British newspaper arm Friday, many of them fearful after the recent arrests of senior staff at the mass-selling Sun tabloid over allegations of widespread criminality. Murdoch, who flew into Britain ... However he is also likely to say that the company has no option but to cooperate with the police after a phone hacking scandal last year forced the closure of the News of the World tabloid. Murdoch arrived at his east ...
The Raw Story
Arab League backs Syria opposition, calls for peacekeepers | Reuters
CAIRO (Reuters) - The Arab League threw its support on Sunday firmly behind the ... on Syria on February 4, to lift their objections and allow theworld body to act. .... governments supporting it," Zawahri said in a videorecording posted on the Internet. .... Thomson Reuters is the world'slargest international multimedia news ...
www.reuters.com/article/.../us-syria-idUSL5E8DB0BH201202...
U.S., Japan decouple Marines Guam move from Okinawa ... - Reuters
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan and the United States agreed on Wednesday to decouple the transfer ... Exclusive: Clinton in talks about possible move toWorld Bank ... Marines inch toward charges over desecration video ... the reduction of burden on people in Okinawa," Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba told a news conference.
www.reuters.com/.../us-japan-us-marines-idUSTRE8170KD20...
Ousted at gunpoint, ex-president of Maldives takes to streets | Reuters
MALE (Reuters) - The ousted president of the Maldives, credited with bringing ... Exclusive: Clinton in talks about possible move to World Bank ...Dead pile up after massive Honduran prison blaze | Video ... Waheed told anews conference.
www.reuters.com/.../us-maldives-idUSTRE8170AO20120208
Palestinian rivals agree to form unity government | Reuters
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The leaders of rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas signed a deal ... Related Video. Video ....Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia newsagency, providing investing news, ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-palestinians-government-idUSTRE815...
Monsignors' mutiny revealed by Vatican leaks | Reuters
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Call it Conspiracy City. Call it Scandal City. Call it Leak City. These days the holy city has been in the news for anything but holy ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-vatican-scandal-idUSTRE81C0ZL201...
NATO, Afghan and Pakistan officials to hold border talks | Reuters
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - NATO, Afghan and Pakistani military officials will hold talks on ... Exclusive: Clinton in talks about possible move to WorldBank. 09 Jun 2011. Honduras prison fire kills more than 350 inmates |Video .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest internationalmultimedia news agency, providing investing ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-pakistan-nato-idUSTRE8170EQ20120...
World reacts to Houston's death | Video | Reuters.com
Video: Video Gallery ... The world reacts to the death of singer Whitney Houston ...
www.reuters.com/video/.../world-reacts-to-houstons-death?...
Chinese envoy visits Tehran for nuclear talks | Reuters
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A senior Chinese diplomat arrived in Tehran on Sunday to discuss Iran's nuclear ... Exclusive: Clinton in talks about possible move to World Bank ... Honduras prison fire kills more than 350 inmates | Video ... The semi- official ISNA news agency said China's assistant foreign minister, Ma Zhaoxu, met a ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-iran-china-idUSTRE81B0HO2012021...
Kabila aide dies, minister hurt in DRC plane crash | Reuters
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila's chief adviser was killed and his finance minister seriously injured in an airplane ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-congo-democratic-crash-idUSTRE81B...
Russia's Putin condemns horrible crimes in Libya | Reuters
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday horrible crimes ... Exclusive: Clinton in talks about possible move to World Bank ... China leader-in-waiting Xi woos and warns U.S. |Video .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest internationalmultimedia news agency, providing investing ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-russia-libya-putin-idUSTRE8170VK20...
Bahrain serious on reform but youth violence poses obstacle | Reuters
MANAMA (Reuters) - A top U.S. lawman hired by Bahrain to help clean up its security ... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest internationalmultimedia news ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-bahrain-police-timoney-idUSTRE81C...
Islamist militants execute three men in south Yemen | Reuters
ADEN (Reuters) - Islamist militants in southern Yemen said they had executed three ... Exclusive: Clinton in talks about possible move to WorldBank .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest internationalmultimedia news agency, ... information available on Reuters.com, video, mobile, and interactive television platforms.
www.reuters.com/.../us-yemen-execution-idUSTRE81B0HD20.
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