02/04/2012 10:02 AM
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Over 200 people killed in Syria's Homs before U.N. vote
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - More than 200 people were killed in shelling by Syrian forces in the city of Homs, activists said on Saturday, ahead of a U.N. Security Council vote on a draft resolution backing an Arab call for President Bashar al-Assad to give up power.
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02/04/2012 09:26 AM
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Romania rescues children as Europe's freeze deepens
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Nine Romanian children were taken into care after a baby died in an unheated house, joining at least 189 others killed by a Siberian front which strengthened its hold over Eastern Europe on Friday and spread further west.
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02/04/2012 08:53 AM
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Iran calls on EU to review oil embargo decision
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's oil minister called on the European Union to review its decision to impose sanctions on the Islamic state's oil exports and said that the international oil market was balanced.
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02/04/2012 08:34 AM
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Iran will cut oil exports to some European countries - report
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's oil minister said that the Islamic state would certainly cut its oil exports to "some" European countries, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Saturday.
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02/04/2012 12:15 AM
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Iran threatens retaliation over oil embargo
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader threatened Friday to retaliate against the West for sanctions, a day after a U.S. newspaper said defense secretary Leon Panetta believed Israel was likely to bomb Iran within months to stop it building a nuclear bomb.
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02/03/2012 11:52 PM
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Romania rescues children as Europe's freeze deepens
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Nine Romanian children were taken into care after a baby died in an unheated house, joining at least 189 others killed by a Siberian front which strengthened its hold over Eastern Europe on Friday and spread further west.
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02/03/2012 11:40 PM
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Street battle rages near Egypt's Interior Ministry
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Rock-throwing protesters fought riot police through clouds of tear gas near Egypt's Interior Ministry on a second day of clashes triggered by the deaths in Port Said of 74 people - the country's worst soccer disaster.
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02/03/2012 10:40 PM
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Royal party and read-a-thon mark big day for Dickens
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Queen is throwing a star-studded party for him at Buckingham Palace and in Buenos Aires, leading cultural figures will gather in an old orphanage to read from his works.
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02/03/2012 10:22 PM
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Bankers' pay needs to be "corrected" - RBS chairman
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LONDON (Reuters) - Pay in the banking industry has been high for too long and needs to be "corrected," the chairman of state-backed Royal Bank of Scotland told BBC Radio on Friday.
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02/03/2012 10:20 PM
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Greece struggles on reform, lenders eye rising bill
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's government struggled on Friday to agree tough labour reforms that would appease both wary political leaders and irate lenders faced with a rising bill to save the country from bankruptcy.
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02/03/2012 10:20 PM
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Terry loses England armband but remains Chelsea skipper
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LONDON (Reuters) - John Terry has been stripped of the England captaincy by the FA but will continue to captain Chelsea, his club manager Andre Villas-Boas said on Friday.
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02/03/2012 07:52 PM
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Iran threatens retaliation over oil embargo
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader threatened Friday to retaliate against the West for sanctions, a day after a U.S. newspaper said defense secretary Leon Panetta believed Israel was likely to bomb Iran within months to stop it building a nuclear bomb.
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02/03/2012 04:30 PM
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Recession risk eases as service sector grows
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's dominant services sector grew at the fastest pace in 10 months in January and firms became much more optimistic, a survey showed on Friday, crowning a raft of upbeat economic news this week that raised hopes Britain may avoid recession.
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02/03/2012 04:24 PM
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Miliband attacks "corrosive" bank bonuses
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LONDON (Reuters) - The opposition Labour Party is calling on banks to exercise restraint in the annual bonus round, warning on Friday that a culture of excessive bonuses has been "corrosive".
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02/03/2012 03:14 PM
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Royal party and read-a-thon mark big day for Dickens
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LONDON (Reuters) - Queen Elizabeth is throwing a star-studded party for him at Buckingham Palace and in Buenos Aires, leading cultural figures will gather in an old orphanage to read from his works.
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02/03/2012 02:27 PM
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Cameron to visit White House March 13-14
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron and President Barack Obama will meet in Washington next month to discuss Afghanistan, Iran and the Middle East as well as economic growth, the White House said on Friday.
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02/03/2012 02:18 PM
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Energy secretary Huhne quits over criminal charges
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LONDON (Reuters) - Energy Secretary Chris Huhne resigned on Friday after learning he would face criminal charges for allegedly lying to police, a fall from grace that could tweak the dynamics of the coalition government and weaken its environmental agenda.
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02/03/2012 01:42 PM
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Analysis - UK gas curve signals U.S. LNG imports
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LONDON (Reuters) - Forecasts that cheap gas from the United States will one day reshape the global natural gas market are increasingly commonplace. Now the first hard evidence is beginning to emerge.
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02/03/2012 10:37 AM
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Cost cuts help BT profit outpace sliding revenues
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's former telephone monopoly BT managed a small rise in third-quarter core earnings, relying on cost cuts and lower regulatory charges to offset falling sales, with broadband a rare bright spot on the demand side.
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02/03/2012 10:35 AM
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Insight - In PIP implant scandal, a ragged safety net exposed
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LONDON (Reuters) - In June 2000, when American medical regulators posted a warning letter on the Internet about problems at a breast-implant maker in southern France, French authorities didn't pay much attention.
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02/03/2012 09:14 AM
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Analysis - China set to play it safe on helping Europe
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao raised hopes in Europe when he pledged to consider deepening Chinese participation in European bailout funds, but there is little indication that China is prepared to go out on a limb with a direct contribution.
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02/03/2012 08:33 AM
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Economy to shrink in 2012, needs government boost - NIESR
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's economy has entered a mild recession and will shrink in 2012, a leading think-tank said in a report on Friday, urging the government to boost near-term spending to prevent long-term damage from higher unemployment.
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02/03/2012 06:27 AM
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Arabs, West seek to avert Russian veto of U.N. Syria
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Arab and Western drafters of a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at stopping Syria's bloody upheaval revised their text on Thursday in a last-ditch effort to avoid a Russian veto, though the new draft includes language Moscow has rejected.
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02/02/2012 11:07 PM
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News Corp taps Bloomberg executive to lead Dow Jones
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(Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp on Thursday named Bloomberg LP executive Lex Fenwick as chief executive officer of its Dow Jones & Co unit which houses its Wall Street Journal newspaper.
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02/02/2012 10:54 PM
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U.S. tries to ease confusion over Afghan plans
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. forces will cede the lead role in combat operations in Afghanistan next year, but will keep fighting alongside Afghan troops, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday, as the Obama administration struggled to clear up confusion over its Afghan exit strategy.
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