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For many Syrian dissidents scattered around the world, the anti-government backlash in Syria is bittersweet.  They support political change at home, but they are horrified by the government's brutal crackdown. From the basement office of his home in the U.S., Ammar Abdulhamid does his part to support what he calls the Syrian revolution.  Like many Syrian expatriates, Abdulhamid keeps in regular

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U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is acknowledging publicly the key role a Pakistani doctor who assisted the United States ahead of the strike on Osama bin Laden's compound last May that killed the terrorism mastermind. The doctor who provided key information ought to be released, Panetta told CBS's "60 Minutes" in a segment set to air Sunday. "I'm very concerned about what the Pakistanis

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The death toll in the collapse of three buildings in Rio de Janeiro rose to 17 Saturday morning as rescuers found two more bodies, state media reported. Rescue efforts will continue until Sunday but some were beginning to give up hope. "Although the culture of the fire department is driven by hope, motivation, given the scenario that we're checking, and time passed since the accident, I must

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Seeking to influence other states and Washington, California air regulators passed sweeping auto emission standards Friday that include a mandate to have 1.4 million electric and hybrid vehicles on state roads by 2025. The California Air Resources Board unanimously approved the new rules that require that one in seven of the new cars sold in the state in 2025 be an electric or other

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A new study shows that social networking is growing on the African continent, especially in South Africa, where the country’s Twitter-active population posted around five million messages in the last quarter of 2011, double the amount of tweets coming out of Kenya, the continent’s second most Twitter-savvy nation. Now South African authorities are getting in on the action, using the

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Morgan Stanley, the US investment bank which played a role in the IPOs of several internet-based companies last year, including LinkedIn, is expected to be Facebook's lead adviser. Goldman Sachs, which helped Facebook raise $1.5bn at the start of 2010, is also said to have a role, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal. A successful flotation would come as a huge boost to Wall Street

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A suicide car bomber targeting a Shiite funeral procession in Baghdad killed dozens Friday, the latest attack in a country engulfed by political crisis and an uptick in violence. At least 31 people died and 60 others were wounded, two police officials said. The bombing occurred as mourners were heading toward a hospital in Baghdad's Zafarniya district to recover the bodies of relatives shot the

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy says France will pull its troops out of Afghanistan next year -- a year earlier than planned. Friday's announcement came following talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Paris. The announcement came a week after France suspended combat operations in Afghanistan, after an Afghan soldier shot dead four French troops and wounded more than a dozen others. At a

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The figures from Strategy Analytics reveal that Apple sold more than twice as many tablets in the last quarter of 2011 as it did in the corresponding period in the previous year. Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet was reported by Strategy Analytics as the key reason for Apple’s decline from 68 per cent to 58 per cent of the global market. The firm estimates that the total tablet market grew from

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The world's biggest console maker reported a net loss of Y48.4bn in the nine months to the end of December, compared with a profit of Y49.6bn (£398m) a year earlier, and warned it is heading for a full-year loss of Y45bn - dwarfing previous estimates. It also cut its forecasts for sales of the Wii console from 12m to 10m, and for the 3DS handheld games player from 16m to 14m, despite slashing

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A top U.S. lawmaker is applauding political reforms in Burma, but says more change is needed.  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell recently returned from a trip to Burma, where he met with democracy leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and President Thein Sein. The Senate's top Republican took to the chamber floor to deliver a hopeful and cautiously-optimistic message on Burma, which

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The elected leader of the Tibetan exile community based in India is calling for an international probe into this week's killing of Tibetan protesters by Chinese security forces. Lobsang Sangay, the Tibetan Exile Kalon Tripa or Prime Minister, called for a worldwide vigil on Wednesday February 8 to condemn this week's killings. He accused China of killing six Tibetans by "firing indiscriminately

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Two decades after American forces were evicted from their biggest base in the Pacific, the Philippines may ask the United States back to counter China's growing military power. The United States and the Philippines are in talks to increase the American military presence in Southeast Asia. According to a report in The Washington Post newspaper, the Philippines has indicated a willingness to host

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The U.N. Security Council urged Yemen to have "credible, non-violent and peaceful elections " but said it is "gravely concerned by the humanitarian situation" in the Middle East country. In a statement released Wednesday the council said it "welcomed the progress that had been made on implementing the political transition" in Yemen, But along with the worsening humanitarian situation the

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I have an iPad2 running IOS4.3.5. It is a Wi-Fi only version and receiving a full strength signal from my router. I have installed the BBC iPlayer app, but whenever I try to download a programme, either radio or TV, I get a message telling me to switch to a Wi-Fi connection. My PC connected to the same router is able to download programmes without any trouble.Shaun O'Sullivan, by email Problems

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel launched an outspoken defense of the European project on Wednesday, but warned that the bloc's richest nation would not make bailout promises to solve the eurozone crisis that it cannot keep. Speaking at the annual World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos, Merkel said Germany is rightly seen as being relatively strong. But if her country commits to

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Actor James Farentino, who appeared in dozens of movies and television shows, died Tuesday in a Los Angeles hospital, according to a family spokesman. He was 73. Farentino died of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Hospital after a long illness, said the spokesman, Bob Palmer. Farentino starred alongside Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen in the 1980 science fiction film "The Final Countdown." The movie

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The move will mean that social networks such as Facebook or Twitter will have to comply with users' requests to delete everything they have ever published about themselves online. It will also mean that consumers will be able to force companies that hold data about them, such as for Tesco's Clubcard, to remove it. The changes, which could take more than two years to implement, also include a

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Apple's share of the US smartphone market doubled to 44.9 per cent in the final quarter of last year, according to research from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. The company said that Apple was now growing at a faster rate than Android in Britain, Australia and the US. Dominic Sunnebo, global consumer insight director at Kantar, said: "Overall, Apple sales are now growing at a faster rate than

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Iran summoned Denmark's ambassador to Tehran to protest a decision by the European Union to impose sanctions on Iran's oil imports, the semiofficial Fars News Agency reported. Iran protested to the ambassador Tuesday because Denmark now holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, the agency reported. "There are forces in the EU that seek to create tension in the relations with the

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GPs in Scotland who asked elderly people to draw up "anticipatory care plans" (ACPs) saw unplanned admissions fall by 43 per cent, while the number of days they spent in hospital compared to others not asked to make the plans was 52 per cent lower. Associated costs also halved, found Dr Andrew Baker, a GP in Nairn, Scotland, and colleagues, writing today (Wednesday) in the British Journal of

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France has ruled out a hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan after an Afghan soldier shot and killed four French troops last week. French President Nicolas Sarkozy suspended military operations in Afghanistan and said he was considering an early pullout from the country if security conditions are not clearly established following Friday's attack in eastern Afghanistan. On Tuesday, French Foreign

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Egyptian military ruler Mohamed Hussein Tantawi says he will partially lift the country's 30-year-long state of emergency, beginning on Wednesday. Egypt has been under pressure to lift the measure from human rights groups as well as many countries, including the United States. In a nationally televised address Tuesday, Field Marshal Tantawi said he decided to lift the state of emergency except

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As Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich parse the details of their individual tax returns, hundreds of Capitol Hill employees are taking taxpayer dollars to the bank without paying their share. Internal Revenue Service data show that 3 percent of Senate staffers and more than 4 percent of House staffers owed taxes in 2010, adding up to about $10.6 million in unpaid

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A series of bomb attacks by Nigeria's radical Islamist sect Boko Haram is challenging President Goodluck Jonathan's government.  The pace of the bombings has picked up in recent weeks, with attacks on police stations in the northern city of Kano and a Christmas Day suicide bombing at a Catholic church near the capital, Abuja. In the entry way of St. Theresa's church in Madalla, one can see

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A U.S. military judge sentenced a Marine squad leader charged with alleged war crimes in Iraq to a maximum of 90 days in prison and a reduction in pay and rank. But because of a plea deal with prosecutors, Staff Sgt. Frank G. Wuterich won't serve any time in the brig. The military judge was obligated to abide by the plea arrangement between prosecutors and the defense. In the end, Wuterich's

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As President Obama prepares to rev up his re-election drive with his third State of the Union address Tuesday night, he and his aides have already begun framing the fall contest as a “choice” election, not a simple up-or-down referendum on his own job performance in the Oval Office. In so doing, the president borrows a page from an unlikely playbook: that of the man he has spent the last five

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The chief of the International Monetary Fund is calling for European governments to take more aggressive action to resolve the continent's debt crisis. The IMF's managing director, Christine Lagarde, said Monday that the 17 nations that use the common euro currency should boost the size of their financial rescue fund, lower already-low lending rates and adopt policies to bolster economic growth

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Two more bodies have been recovered from the wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, Italian officials announced Monday, bringing the number of confirmed victims of the accident to 15. The two women were found on Bridge 4, near the ship's Internet cafe, said Franco Gabrielli, the official in charge of the operation. About 17 people remain missing after the ship collided with rocks January 13

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The chief witness in a Pakistani secret memo scandal has told his attorney he does not want to go to Pakistan to testify because he fears he will be detained. The lawyer for Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz says his client is willing to record his testimony elsewhere and submit it to Pakistan's Supreme Court commission investigating the scandal. Ijaz was set to appear Tuesday before

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Senegal’s controversial election race begins in earnest this week as the Constitutional Council decides which candidates are eligible to run in the February 26 poll. During the next few weeks a parade of candidates will challenge Abdoulaye Wade, Senegal's aging, but determined incumbent president. This week, the Constitutional Council will decide the validity of the presidential candidates,

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A nine-year-old Colorado girl was being hailed for her quick thinking Sunday after escaping a man who had kidnapped and beaten her. Calysta Cordova, from Pueblo, Colo., was snatched Thursday as she walked home from school. However her abductor's truck broke down overnight -- so he took the girl and hitchhiked to a gas station in Colorado Springs Friday morning. Calysta -- her face bruised and

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A human rights organization is urging Western powers to support the rights of Arab Spring protesters to build real democracies after ousting strongmen once backed by the West. In its World Report 2012, Human Rights Watch said Sunday that Western policy toward Arab countries traditionally has been "one of containment," backing an array of Arab autocrats to guarantee stability in the region, "

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Arab League foreign ministers, meeting in Cairo on Sunday, voted to extend the group's already month-old observer mission to Syria, nearly doubling its strength of 165 observers to 300. The decision, which provoked serious disagreements among member states, includes a plan for Syria to form a national unity government, followed by new elections. The decision to extend the Arab League observer

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First came the boom in private tutors delivering lessons in the home to help children get better exam grades. Now the phonomenon of “e-tutoring” is spreading rapidly, with thousands of British families taking up the services. Worldwide, the industry is estimated to have grown from a standing start in just a few years to be worth £8 billion. With a quarter of parents having hired a traditional

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Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno is in serious condition after experiencing health complications from lung cancer, Fox News confirms. "Over the last few days Joe Paterno has experienced further health complications," a family spokesman told Fox News.  "His doctors have now characterized his status as serious. His family will have no comment on the situation and asks that their privacy be

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President Barack Obama has given Democratic Party supporters a preview of the main points of the State of the Union speech he will deliver on Tuesday. The president did so in a in a video entitled “Blueprint For An America Built To Last," during which he states that Tuesday’s address will emphasize the need to make government and other institutions more responsive to lower- and middle-income

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Divers continued their search for survivors from the Italian cruise ship Saturday, as concerns grow over the potential environmental threat posed by the wreck. A 12th body was found within the ship Saturday afternoon, Italian authorities confirmed, with at least 20 people still missing since the Costa Concordia ran aground off the island of Giglio last week. The body of a woman wearing a life

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Syrian state media and activists say at least 30 people have been killed across Syria on Saturday as opposition groups appeal to the Arab League for United Nations intervention. The SANA news agency says a roadside bomb blast killed at least 14 people in the northwestern Idlib province Saturday. It says a string of explosions hit a prison truck carrying detainees, wounding 26 people, including a

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Yemen's parliament has formally approved a law giving President Ali Abdullah Saleh immunity from prosecution that paves the way for him to step dwon after more than three decades in power. The law, made possible through a deal brokered by neighboring Gulf nations, grants Saleh complete immunity from legal and judicial prosecution for any alleged crimes committed during his 33-year rule. The

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The Obama administration is moving ahead with plans for negotiating with the Taliban, confident that talks offer the best chance to end the 10-year-old war in Afghanistan. But the military worries things are moving too fast, and intelligence agencies offered a gloomy prognosis in their latest Afghanistan report. Several current and former U.S. officials said the most substantive give-and-take

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Nigeria has entered a new period of political unrest following the government's decision to abolish a consumer fuel subsidy, causing prices to more than double at the pump. The increase has since been eased in response to a national strike. The price shock is prompting Nigerians to ask why Africa's largest oil exporter is forced to import so much of its domestic fuel supply. Valentine Ngema

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The latest efforts by Indonesian authorities to stop people from riding on top of trains reinforces the perception that the government is too dysfunctional to make the needed investments to address its perpetual gridlock problem. During the morning and afternoon rush hours many young men can be seen on riding on top of Jakarta's commuter trains. Some do it to avoid the overcrowded conditions

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Arab League monitors are preparing to report on the situation in Syria, after a one-month mission to observe the government's efforts to implement a plan aimed at stopping its bloody crackdown on a 10-month uprising. The mandate for the monitor mission expires Thursday, and Arab League foreign ministers are scheduled to meet Sunday to review the observers' final report and decide what to do

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An Australian panel on Thursday suggested changes to the country's Constitution to give better recognition to the indigenous population that inhabited the vast continent long before Europeans settled there. The indigenous Australians -- often referred to as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples -- suffered at the hands of the settlers and the government they established. Australian

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The chairman and chief executive of News Corporation rubbished claims that the proposed laws will damage the internet by drawing parallels with Google's targeted censorship of certain types of pornography and racist content. "Nonsense argument about danger to internet. How about Google, others blocking porn, hate speech, etc? Internet hurt?" he tweeted late on Tuesday. Today he added: "Don't

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President Obama announced Wednesday that he will deny a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, blaming Republicans for imposing a "rushed and arbitrary deadline" which he said did not give officials enough time. GOP lawmakers immediately excoriated the president for the decision. House Speaker John Boehner said Obama is "selling out American jobs for politics," and said Republicans in Congress

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Last year marked a turning point for Facebook’s popularity in Brazil, which has until now failed to surpass that of Google’s Orkut, the latest figures from comScore, the online measurement company, show. In December 2011, Facebook attracted 36.1 million visitors, marking an increase of 192 per cent on the year, finally usurping Orkut, which received 34.4 million visitors in the same month.

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Pakistan is delaying a visit by U.S. Special Envoy Marc Grossman until Islamabad completes a review of U.S.-Pakistani relations. Media reports quoted unnamed Pakistani officials Tuesday as saying it was not possible for Grossman to visit Islamabad during his current trip to the region.  U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner later confirmed the postponement. The U.S. special representative

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Russia has vowed to block any Western attempts to intervene militarily against Syria, as the European Union prepares to tighten sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad's government. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday any plans to send foreign troops to Syria will not be approved in the U.N. Security Council, where Moscow holds a veto. Russia is a key military ally of

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Myanmar democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi registered Wednesday to run for a parliamentary seat in the military-run country. Suu Kyi will contest for a seat in Kawhmu, where supporters clapped and gave her flowers after she turned in her paperwork for the April election. The move by the Nobel Peace Prize winner comes after the regime pledged to pursue a peace deal with an ethnic rebel group

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The U.S. Navy's top commander in the Pacific says he's concerned local arguments in disputed oil rich waters near the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea could escalate into larger, more serious confrontations. Adm. Patrick Walsh said Tuesday there's potential for an incident in the South China Sea to intensify much the way tensions between China and Japan spiked after ships belonging to the

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It is using its investigative powers to look at emergency care at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, as a way of looking at the care patients receive throughout their whole stay. Last summer the CQC published a highly critical report of the trust's maternity service at Furness General Hospital in Cumbria, threatening to close it down unless it improved. Police have also

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What do the Kardashians have to do with struggling Haiti? Absolutely nothing, and it's up to celebrities to help switch the focus, actress and activist Susan Sarandon tells us. "It's all of our job — besides the fundraising — to keep the needs of Haiti in the news, especially when the press is busy with Kardashians and whatever they're following at the moment," Sarandon says. She also takes

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A Dutch company that specializes in salvage operations says it will take weeks to remove the fuel from a cruise ship that capsized off Italy's coast. The company, Smit, says it plans to conduct a survey of the ship on Tuesday before the extraction process begins. "It is a race against time to empty the fuel tanks on the ship after they finish the inspections to find ... any other passengers or

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“One Tree Hill” star Sophia Bush has long been involved in political issues, including touring college campuses to encourage young people to vote to making appearances in Texas in support of the 2008 Obama campaign. Apparently Bush even contemplated a career in politics herself, until coming to the conclusion she couldn’t make much of a difference. “I certainly have thought about it (moving

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Former President Hosni Mubarak's lawyer defended his client as pure and law-abiding in his opening statement delivered Tuesday in Egypt's trial of the century. Fareed El Deeb rebutted the accusations against Mubarak of corruption and of ordering the deaths of protesters in the uprising that eventually led to the longtime leader's ouster. El Deeb said Mubarak was neither an aggressor nor

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Egypt's military-led government, struggling to manage the transition to democracy, has a rising adversary: rebellious Bedouin tribes. At a meeting last Friday in the south Sinai desert, Bedouin leaders accused the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of treason against Egypt and warned that -- if necessary -- they might take up arms to achieve greater representation in the nation's new

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Lawyers and campaigners pointed out that the same legislation is being used to extradite a British student to America for alleged copyright breaches. The Duke of York's former wife is accused of “violating” the privacy of children at state–run orphanages by filming them covertly for a television documentary in 2008. Mrs May is refusing to accede to the request because the charge does not

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Government forces killed at least 13 people in Syria on Monday, including five soldiers who died trying to defect during a firefight and five people who were shot to death waiting in line at a bakery, opposition groups said. At least 20 people were wounded when the Syrian army bombarded homes in the Damascus suburb of Zabadani, according to the Local Coordination Committee, an opposition group

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The 3,000-year-old tomb of a female singer was discovered in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, it was announced. Swiss archaeologists came across the resting place of Nehmes Bastet by accident, Antiquities Minister Mohammed Ibrahim told reporters Sunday in Cairo, according to the Al Ahram newspaper. An inscription found on a wooden plaque on the tomb said that she was the daughter of the High

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Experts say Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou’s reelection will further cool long-standing military tensions in East Asia.  China, which claims Taiwan as part of its territory, sees the vote last Saturday as a chance for another four years of negotiations in Beijing-Taipei relations. Four years ago, Taiwan’s former president was threatening to formally declare the self-ruled island independent of

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It was one Saturday last spring that Ashley Harrison started Dr Pierre Dukan’s celebrated high-protein diet. Harrison had never been on a diet in his life but, having just hit 50 and weighing 14 stone (89kg), he thought it was time to shift a few pounds. That weekend, he religiously followed the diet’s strictures, eating nothing but smoked mackerel for lunch and poached chicken at night, with

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The Pakistani government is due to appear before the Supreme Court Monday in a long-running Swiss corruption case involving President Asif Ali Zardari and before a Supreme Court commission in a scandal that has become known as "Memogate."  The commission is investigating the origins of an unsigned memo last May in which Pakistan's civilian government asked Washington for help against a feared

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The emir of Qatar's suggestion that an Arab military force be sent to stop the killing in Syria has been met with defiance and skepticism in Damascus, even as an Arab League mission meant to help end to violence appears to have had little effect. Arab League monitor Jafaar Kubaida says the Qatari leader's proposal will be raised by the regional alliance in a special panel on Syria on Saturday [

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Scientists have located members of a giant Galapagos tortoise species thought to have gone extinct in the 1840s, USA Today reports. Researchers who tested the DNA of 1,600 tortoises on the Galapagos island of Isabela found at least 84 were offspring of a species that originally lived on Floreana Island. Poachers were believed to have wiped out the tortoises. "To have a species that was

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A Russian tanker carrying fuel arrived in the Alaskan town of Nome on Saturday night, the Coast Guard said, as officials started preparations on delivering the much-needed supplies. U.S Coast Guard ice breaker Cutter Healy accompanied the fuel tanker Renda as it made its way through the frozen waters carrying 1.3 million gallons of petroleum products. "The first step is to ensure the ice is

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Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno says he "didn't know which way to go" after an assistant coach came to him in 2002 saying he had seen retired defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually abusing a boy. In his first public comments since being fired two months ago, Paterno told The Washington Post that assistant Mike McQueary "didn't want to get specific" about details in his 2002

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Dozens of evangelicals and other conservative leaders decided Saturday to rally around Rick Santorum for the Republican presidential nomination, after meeting in Texas to try and pick a consensus candidate. The decision comes amid speculation that, among social conservatives reluctant to support frontrunner Mitt Romney, indecision over which GOP candidate to back could end up splitting their

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The U.N. Security Council is urging Guinea-Bissau to hold free and fair elections in a timely manner, following the death of President Malam Bacai Sanha early this week. The 15-member body says the military should respect civilian rule, and the council urged authorities to increase security in an effort to discourage any civil disobedience. The army is on high alert in Guinea-Bissau, where

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Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), the chief sponsor of the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) said Friday he would remove a controversial provision from the bill until further study takes place.  "After consultation with industry groups across the country, I feel we should remove Domain Name System blocking from the Stop Online Piracy Act so that the Committee can further examine the issues surrounding this

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The C6 Chevrolet Corvette enters its final year in 2013 and as a last hurrah Chevy is launching the new Corvette 427 Convertible Collector Edition, the fastest and most capable Corvette convertible ever launched. That 427, as most small-block fans will recognize, is the cubic-inch displacement of GM’s 7.0-liter race-bred LS7 V-8, and the engine’s application in the Corvette convertible makes

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The deputy commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan ordered troops Friday to treat the corpses of slain insurgents and civilians with "appropriate dignity and respect." The order follows a video that appears to show four U.S. Marines urinating on bodies, images that sparked swift condemnation from the United States and Afghanistan at a particularly crucial period in the U.S.-led war. "We must

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UK and Pakistani officials on Friday denied a news report that Pakistan's prime minister contacted the British High Commission in a "panicky" phone call to express fears that a military coup was imminent in his country. In a story published Friday citing anonymous sources, the Associated Press reported that the Prime Minister Yousuf Reza Gilani asked High Commissioner Adam Thomson for "Britain

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U.S. military officials say they have identified the four Marines seen on video urinating on the bodies of dead Afghan Taliban fighters. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service, heading the main inquiry into the video, has also reportedly questioned two of the men. The four were members of a 1,000-man battalion from Camp LeJeune, North Carolina. Two of the men had moved onto other assignments

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The New York Times is quoting unnamed U.S. officials as saying Washington has sent a message to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, that closing the Strait of Hormuz would provoke a U.S. response. The report published late Thursday said the covert message was not delivered through the the Swiss government, the usual way Washington communicates with Iranian leaders. Iran recently

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North Korea apparently test-launched three short-range missiles this week, the South Korean Defense Ministry said Friday, an indication that the reclusive state's military is operating normally after a leadership transition. "We understand that North Korea test-fired three short-range missiles earlier this week," a spokesman for the Defense Ministry said Friday, speaking on condition of

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Negotiations between labor unions and the Nigerian government ended late Thursday without an agreement to restore fuel subsidies, and a union official expressed resolve, in the absence of an accord, to halt oil production in the eighth-largest petroleum-exporting nation. The talks, which are to resume Saturday, got under way after the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria

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The U.S. ambassador for human trafficking, Luis CdeBaca, is calling for Burmese military officers to be held accountable for any involvement in human trafficking or the recruitment of child soldiers.  Human rights advocates say an end to impunity by Burma’s military’s involvement with human trafficking is seen as a key test for the new civilian government. After the end of an official visit to

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Writing in The Lancet, British researchers concluded that transferring three or more embryos into those hoping to get pregnant "should no longer be supported in women of any age". In the past women undergoing IVF were frequently implanted with three embryos, and sometime more, to maximise the chances of at least one developing into a healthy baby. However, as techniques have improved,

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Wednesday the United States Supreme Court delivered a knockout blow to the White House in the cause of religious liberty. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for a unanimous court swatted away the government’s claim that the Lutheran Church did not have the right to fire a “minister of religion” who, after six years of Lutheran religious training had been commissioned as a minister, upon

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While Mitt Romney may have scored a solid victory in New Hampshire, the field of Republican Party candidates seeking the party's nomination in the 2012 U.S. presidential elections remains a six-man race. And all of the candidates are looking to the next stop in the race, South Carolina. Mitt Romney captured nearly 40 per cent of the vote in New Hampshire, putting him in a clear lead in the race

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A former member of the Arab League monitoring team in Syria said he resigned from the mission because it is "providing the regime cover for more killing" and "shameful" brutality. "I quit because I found myself serving the regime and not part of an independent monitoring body," Anwar Malek, an Algerian, told Al-Jazeera in an interview Wednesday. His remarks were translated by CNN. "I am unable

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made a rare public appearance Wednesday, telling thousands of supporters in Damascus that his government will defeat a "conspiracy" behind 10 months of opposition unrest. Assad, surrounded by security guards and casually dressed, told the crowd he drew strength from their presence. He said that "true patriots" are defending the nation. The speech came a day

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A nuclear scientist was killed in a blast in Tehran on Wednesday morning, an Iranian news agency reported, in the latest in a string of attacks that Iran has blamed on Israel. A motorcyclist placed a magnetic bomb under Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan's Peugeot 405, the state-run IRNA news agency said. The blast also wounded two others, IRNA said. State television channel Press TV reported later

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Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney took a major step Tuesday toward winning the Republican Party’s presidential nomination with a convincing victory in the New Hampshire presidential primary.  Romney easily defeated five Republican rivals one week after a narrow win in the Iowa caucuses and appears to be a strong favorite to be the Republican challenger against President Barack Obama in

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The U.S. Coast Guard rescued six Iranian mariners at the northern end of the Persian Gulf early Tuesday, the Pentagon said. The rescue is the second time in a week that Americans rescued Iranians at sea, intervals of goodwill during a wave of tension between Iran and the United States, which have been adversaries for decades. The latest incident took place around 50 miles southeast of the Iraqi

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Romney leads in all the polls here and a convincing victory in New Hampshire would bolster his frontrunner status for the Republican nomination. But Romney has been put on the defensive about his background in business and sensitivity to workers being laid off, and some of his rivals are trying to take advantage. Former Utah governor Jon Huntsman told NBC’s Today program that a good showing in

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U.S. diplomats will meet with Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi this week in another sign of thawing relations between Washington and the Southeast Asian nation. A spokesman for Suu Kyi's political party, the National League for Democracy, Thein Oo told CNN that an American delegation, including Derek Mitchell, the U.S. special envoy to Myanmar, is scheduled to meet with Suu Kyi on

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The stern of a cargo ship that ran aground last year on a reef off the coast of New Zealand has slipped further underwater, officials said Tuesday, spewing nearly 10 more tons of oil into the sea. Some 21 containers holding a hazardous metal called cryolite -- a by-product of aluminum smelting -- have also slipped off the vessel as it plunged downward, said Maritime New Zealand spokeswoman

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Opposing protests Monday highlighted Syria's new reality: The country is more divided today than it was just a few months ago. In Damascus, a large pro-government rally felt like a celebration, with a festival atmosphere as demonstrators hailed President Bashar al-Assad. Meanwhile, just outside the capital, a funeral procession and anti-Assad rally was filled with anger. Participants showed CNN

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Republican presidential hopefuls are making their final bids to win over undecided New Hampshire voters, ahead of the first primary election in the United States on Tuesday. Five of the contenders spent Monday in the northeastern state of New Hampshire trying to curb the commanding lead held by former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. The millionaire businessman fended off his rival's

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When Rick Santorum essentially tied in Iowa, he gave his campaign new life. He also guaranteed America would finally learn just how disgusting, vile and despicable the left is in this country. And how major news outlets and one of the most well-known businesses in the world – Google – are complicit in trying to destroy Santorum because he opposes gay marriage. Santorum is the victim of what

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Americans are apt to vote when they want change. Republicans are counting on that in this year's election to unseat President Barack Obama. The nation's first primary voting takes place in New Hampshire on Tuesday, that's where the economy is motivating voters. Betsy St. George owns the quaint St. George's Cafe in a tiny New Hampshire town. "I didn't go to cooking school, I went to the school

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Mexican authorities have arrested a former soccer star whom they accuse of using his social status to help a kidnapping gang track down information about potential victims, officials said. Omar Ortiz, known as "The Cat," played for the Rayados de Monterrey before the Mexican Football League suspended him in April 2010 after he allegedly tested positive for steroid use. A security spokesman in

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Hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators in Bahrain gathered Saturday in the capital, Manama, for a protest led by the Shi'ite-led opposition, defying a government ban. The demonstration was organized by opposition groups led by Al Wefaq, a leader of the Shi'ite majority's protest movement. Riot police blocked roads leading to the city center, forcing demonstrators to gather elsewhere. The

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The American Cancer Society says in its annual report that fewer Americans are dying of cancer, but doctors are seeing more patients with cancers linked to obesity, including pancreatic and kidney cancers. And while breast cancer patients are living longer, the risks of developing this type of tumor are rising along with the growing rates of obesity. For many people, a cancer diagnosis is no

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Witnesses in northeastern Nigeria say a gunbattle between unknown assailants and police early Saturday had scores of residents in the town of Potiskum fleeing their homes for safety. There are reports of gunfire around a police station and other sections of the town in Yobe State, with unconfirmed reports of casualties. Potiskum is among 15 regions in northern Nigeria where President Goodluck

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A hot air balloon crash in New Zealand early Saturday killed 11 people -- the pilot and 10 passengers -- officials said. No one survived the crash, which happened on the outskirts of Carterton, a town northeast of Wellington. A fire likely started on board the balloon, sending it plummeting to the ground, said Superintendent Mike Rusbatch, Wellington District commander for New Zealand Police.

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GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney's campaign stepped up its criticism of conservative challenger Rick Santorum on Friday, continuing to hit the former Pennsylvania senator on his spending record while in Congress. For his part, Santorum was slated to hold three "Faith, Family and Freedom" town hall meetings in New Hampshire, now four days from its first-in-the-nation primary. In addition, Newt

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