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REUTERS World News, Apr 27, 2012

Amazon's streak of Fire ignites shares
Reuters
By Alistair Barr (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's quarterly results beat Wall Street's most bullish expectations as heavy spending by the world's largest Internet retailer began to pay off through sales of more digital products on its new Kindle Fire ...
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Inspirational Guardiola leaves powerful legacy
Reuters Blogs (blog)
Softly-spoken, unfailingly magnanimous in victory and defeat, keen on poetry and philosophy and a snappy dresser, Guardiola has earned the admiration and respect of an overwhelming majority in the often cut-throat world of football in Spain and beyond.
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Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng escapes from house arrest
msnbc.com (blog)
This image grab taken from a video which was released on Friday shows Chen Guangcheng, a blind Chinese lawyer, speaking following his escape from house arrest. Reutersreported that one person on a Chinese social-media site wrote that Chen "has escaped ...
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msnbc.com (blog)
Profile - Inspirational Guardiola leaves powerful legacy
Reuters UK
MADRID (Reuters) - The inspiration for a team widely considered one of the best to grace the game, a thorn in the side of bitter rivals Real Madrid and a symbol of Catalan nationalism, Pep Guardiola has been all these things and more as a player and ...
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Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng escapes from house arrest
msnbc.com
This image grab taken from a video which was released on Friday shows Chen Guangcheng, a blind Chinese lawyer, speaking following his escape from house arrest. Reutersreported that one person on a Chinese social-media site wrote that Chen "has escaped ...
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msnbc.com
Obama video hints that Romney wouldn't have nabbed Bin Laden
MiamiHerald.com (blog)
4 2007 Reuters article, "Mitt Romney criticized Barack Obama for vowing to strike al-Qaeda targets inside Pakistan if necessary." Obama went on to win the presidency. He made good on his pledge. Osama Bin Laden was killed.
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MiamiHerald.com (blog)
Schoolyard on Fire: Coming of Age During the LA Riots
The Atlantic
Here's how the inferno changed the world of a teenage boy. A California National Guardsman stands watch in front of a graffiti-covered wall during the 1992 LA Riots. (Lee Celano/Reuters) On Wednesday, April 29, 1992, I left Emerson Junior High School ...
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Biz Break: A changing video game industry shows up in Zynga, Nintendo results ...
San Jose Mercury News
The company's revenue grew 32 percent from the same quarter in 2011 to $321 million, beating Thomson Reuters' average analyst projections of $317.25 million. A net loss of $85.4 million, or 12 cents a share, became profits of 6 cents a share when ...
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Spy games: Pentagon to set up Defense Clandestine Service to focus on North ...
Baltimore Sun
(Bobby Yip/Reuters) PHOTO LINK People in South Korea watch a television broadcast reporting that North Korea launched a long-range missile on April 13, 2012. North Korea launched the missile, which disintegrated midair and fell into the sea.
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Baltimore Sun
Bin Laden's family deported from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia
The Province
By Qasim Nauman, Reuters April 26, 2012 2:31 PM This framegrab from an undated video released by the US Department of Defense reportedly show Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden making a video at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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Biz Break: A changing video game industry shows up in Zynga, Nintendo results ...
San Jose Mercury News
The company's revenue grew 32 percent from the same quarter in 2011 to $321 million, beating Thomson Reuters' average analyst projections of $317.25 million. A net loss of $85.4 million, or 12 cents a share, became profits of 6 cents a share when ...
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US judge rejects releasing bin Laden photos
Stabroek News
By Stabroek staff | 0 Comments | World News | Friday, April 27, 2012 WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A federal judge yesterday refused to order President Barack Obama's administration to release photos and video of the US military operation that killed Osama ...
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Sources: Scant evidence 'torture' helped war on terror, Senate probe finds
msnbc.com (blog)
By Reuters WASHINGTON - A nearly three-year-long investigation by Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats is expected to find there is little evidence the harsh "enhanced interrogation techniques" the CIA used on high-value prisoners produced ...
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Obama video: Would Romney have made same call on bin Laden?
CNN (blog)
The video then asks "which path would Mitt Romney have taken" and includes a quote from a Reuters article from August 4, 2007, which said "Mitt Romney criticized Barack Obama for vowing to strike al-Qaeda targets inside Pakistan if necessary.
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Syrian women risk lives to smuggle aid to dissidents
Jerusalem Post
By REUTERS Smuggling food, medicine to opposition considered by security forces to be "aiding terrorists" and treated as severely as weapons smuggling. BEIRUT - When the aspirin and alcohol swabs fell from under her clothes at a Syrian army checkpoint, ...
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Housing Market's Lame Comeback: Seven And A Half Things To Know
Huffington Post
Meanwhile, some 11 million homeowners still owe more on their houses than their homes are worth, including more than a million people who have just bought in the past two years, Reuters reports: "Many borrowers, particularly since late 2010, ...
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Murdoch blames rogue tabloid News of the World for phone-hacking
Sydney Morning Herald
Autoplay OnOff Video feedback Video settings Wishes he had closed down News of the World sooner Says someone led a cover-up Defends The Sun daily Rupert Murdoch called his News of the World tabloid an "aberration" overnight, accusing journalists of ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Redford To Bring Indie U.S. Cinema To London
Daily Gossip
Actor-director Robert Redford told reporters at Reuters that he plans to bring independent US cinema to London next week. The 75-year-old actor intends to move the film festival that is usually held in Park City, Utah to Sundance London.
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Daily Gossip
Camera market defies smartphone onslaught
Winnipeg Sun
(REUTERS/Choi Jae-gu/Yonhap) SINGAPORE -- While most attention in the gadget world is on the breakneck pace of innovation in mobile phones, tablets and computers, another device has resolutely refused to die: the camera. Despite the onslaught of camera ...
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The Wanted: More Than Just a Boy Band
First Coast News
United States music Jay McGuiness Scooter Braun Boy Bandsinternational us The Wanted Europe celebrity news Justin Bieber News domestic United Kingdom entertainment Cindy Martin TRIGP newslook one direction nathan World Thomson Reuters Group Ltd 01:49.
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Will Nintendo's pride be its downfall?
MSN Money
Reuters quotes a few analysts saying that Nintendo might have to put their franchises on other devices. Anyone who's known Nintendo over the years knows it won't do that. But it may be a mistake. Nintendo has some of the most valuable franchises in ...
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The OccupyUSA Blog for Friday (April 27), With Frequent Updates
The Nation. (blog)
8:20 Felix Salmon at Reuters reviews importance of May Day events and new Citi protest.... Our pal here at The Nation, Peter Rothberg, often provides a soundtrack for major events and holidays. Now he has come up with a Top Ten music videos for May Day ...
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The Nation. (blog)
Bradley Manning judge warns military prosecutors in WikiLeaks case
The Guardian
It is certain to be closely followed in America and around theworld, both by those who see Manning as a traitor to his country and military superiors, and by those who believe he was a hero who is being punished for being a whistleblower.
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The Guardian
Amazon trounces Street targets, shares soar
Yahoo!7 News
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's quarterly earnings beat Wall Street's most bullish expectations as the world's largest Internet retailer brought costs under control and saw early success selling more digital products through its new Kindle Fire tablet, ...
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Yahoo!7 News
US-Japan deal: 9000 Marines to leave Okinawa ... Biden, Romney camp spar over ...
Politico
SPEED READ -- -- Reuters, “Exclusive: Senate probe finds little evidence of effective 'torture,'” by Mark Hosenball: “A nearly three-year-long investigation by Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats is expected to find there is little evidence the ...
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In the Wal-Mart C-Suite, it's the PR Battle That Matters
Law.com
To put this in context, according to Reuters, just those two days of losses have wiped out more than $10 billion in market value. And that's not counting the 12 percent loss to the shares of Wal-Mart de Mexico since Monday, which trade separately on ...
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Why Blogs Should Be The Hub Of Social Media Strategies
Business Insider
With 900 million users, a ton of money coming down the pipe in a few weeks, and the world's attention focused on every move that Mark Zuckerberg makes, it's easy to understand why so many businesses are putting all of their eggs in the Facebook basket.
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Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift get busy in the cupcake kitchen
WJLA
By Skip Wood Daybreak Daily's afternoon peek behind the pop-culture world curtain finds girls who just want to have fun, an aging rocker, other things, and the mystery music video. GIRLS DAY: But one of a higher profile, per PerezHilton, ...
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WJLA
Football live blog – 27 April - as it happened | Barry Glendenning, Evan...
The Guardian (blog)
10.32am: This from Reuters: "Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola will leave at the end of this season after deciding not to extend his contract, a source close to the club told Reuters on Friday. Guardiola informed club president Sandro Rosell of his ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Is sovereign immunity hurting America? | Felix Salmon - Reuters
By Felix Salmon
Since then, there's been no real new news in the case. But for ... Moving the contract to some other jurisdiction wouldn't help, either: the world's major commercial centers all have laws giving foreign sovereigns immunity on a very broad front.
Felix Salmon
World News - US to move 9000 Marines out of Okinawa
By Reuters
By Reuters. WASHINGTON -- The United States and Japan announced on Thursday a revised agreement on streamlining the U.S. military presence on Okinawa that will shift 9000 Marines from that southern Japanese island to Guam and ...
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Sudan parliament calls South an enemy | Reuters
KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - Sudan's parliament branded South Sudan an enemy on Monday and called for ... Related Video. Video .... ThomsonReuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-sudan-oilfield-idUSBRE83F0BM2012...
Stirring Mexican volcano closes schools, raises alert | Reuters
SAN PEDRO BENITO JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - A powerful plume of steam and ash rose ... Hague court convicts Taylor of crimes in Sierra Leone | Video ... Beyonce is named the world's most beautiful woman of 2012 by People magazine. .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largestinternational multimedia news agency, ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-mexico-volcano-idUSBRE83G1DG20...
Mexico's Pena Nieto extends lead over main rival | Reuters
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican presidential front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto has widened his ... Norway killer says hoped to have massacred more |Video .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedianews agency, ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-mexico-electon-idUSBRE83F0222012...
Ukraine's Tymoshenko on trial again, West warns of isolation | Reuters
KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukraine's former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko went on ... Norway killer picked victims who had "leftist" look |Video .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedianews agency, providing ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-ukraine-tymoshenko-idUSBRE83I0UP...
Sudan says cost no bar to recapture of oil region | Reuters
NAIROBI/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan said on Tuesday the cost of a full-blown conflict with ... Fed stands pat but says will act if needed | Video ...Beyonce is named the world's most beautiful woman of 2012 by People magazine. ... U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gestures during a newsconference at the United ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-sudan-fighting-idUSBRE83G0DG201...
Myanmar oath standoff puts Suu Kyi's MP debut in doubt | Reuters
YANGON (Reuters) - Aung San Suu Kyi's planned debut in Myanmar's parliament ... Britain in recession means more woe for government | Video... sort of oath has to be taken by parliamentarians at all parliaments across the world," Nyan Win .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largestinternational multimedia news agency, ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-myanmar-politics-idUSBRE83I0CF20...
U.N. sees need for more Syria observers, aircraft | Reuters
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A United Nations mission to oversee an end to violence in Syria may ... Related Video. Video ... Streets of Homs held by rebels earlier this year now resemble scenes from World War Two. ....http://www.abc.net.au/news/ 2012-04-17/israel-suspends-senior-officer-over-assault/3954238/?site= newcastle ...
www.reuters.com/article/.../us-syria-idUSBRE83E0KP201204...
Analysis: Sarkozy's last best hopes to get off the ropes | Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) - Behind on points, conservative French President Nicolas Sarkozy's last best ... Norway killer says hoped to have massacred more |Video .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedianews agency, ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-france-election-sarkozy-idUSBRE83I0...
Limbless man plans to swim across world | Video | Reuters.com
Reuters is your online source to news videos online, video news clips,news videos ... decades later he is set to realize his dream of swimming around the world.
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World economy fragile, faces uneasy calm: IMF | Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global growth is slowly improving as the U.S. recovery gains traction ... recede, but risks remain high and the situation is very fragile, the International Monetary. ... U.S., Japan unveil revised plan for Okinawa | Video .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest internationalmultimedia news agency, ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-imf-weo-idUSBRE83G0S520120417
Netanyahu says backs contiguous Palestinian state | Reuters
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced support on Tuesday for ... Exclusive: North Korea's nuclear test ready "soon" | Video .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest internationalmultimedia news agency, ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-palestinians-israel-settlements-idUSBR...
Exclusive: Briton killed after threat to expose Chinese ... - Reuters
CHONGQING, China (Reuters) - The British businessman whose murder has sparked political upheaval in China ... Related Video. Video ....Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia newsagency, providing investing ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-china-leader-murder-idUSBRE83F096...
At least 36 killed in wave of Iraq blasts | Reuters
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More than 20 bombs hit cities and towns across Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 36 ... Related Video. Video .... ThomsonReuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-iraq-violence-idUSBRE83I06N201204...
Canada suspends most sanctions against Myanmar | Reuters
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will suspend most of its sanctions against Myanmar in ... Tens of thousands sing in protest at Breivik trial | Video ....Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia newsagency, providing investing ...
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