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Analysis: Merkozy fights to prevent Merkollande

 February 06, 2012 12:55   reuters.com

PARIS (Reuters) - Things must be getting desperate if Angela Merkel is intervening in French politics to try to save Nicolas Sarkozy from defeat.

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Romania PM Boc resigns after protests

 February 06, 2012 03:17   reuters.com

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Prime Minister Emil Boc resigned on Monday after weeks of nationwide protests against austerity measures and before a parliamentary election due late this year.

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Syrian assault on Homs kills 50: opposition

 February 06, 2012 03:02   reuters.com

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian forces bombarded Homs on Monday, killing 50 people in a sustained assault on several districts of the city which has become a centre of armed opposition to President Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian National Council opposition...

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Sudanese rebels say to release Chinese workers "soon"

 February 06, 2012 02:49   reuters.com

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese rebels said on Monday they will release "soon" 29 Chinese workers held in the border state of South Kordofan where the army has been fighting insurgents for months.

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China says Tibet facing "urgent" task to maintain stability

 February 06, 2012 02:06   reuters.com

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's mountainous region of Tibet is facing an urgent task to maintain stability, and all government workers must be on their highest guard ahead of the Tibetan New Year and the fourth anniversary of riots there, a top...

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Graft, politics, militant Islam shake Indian Ocean island

 February 06, 2012 01:41   reuters.com

MALE, Maldives (Reuters) - Few of the million or so tourists who visit the Maldives each year would catch even a whiff of the troubled politics or growing militant threat roiling the islands of one of the world's most renowned get-away-from-it-all...

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Pakistan factory collapses in gas blast, 3 dead, many trapped

 February 06, 2012 01:36   reuters.com

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A three-story factory collapsed Monday in the Pakistani city of Lahore after a gas explosion, killing at least three people and trapping dozens, emergency officials said.

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Three Tibetans self-immolate in western China: report

 February 05, 2012 12:56   reuters.com

BEIJING (Reuters) - Three Tibetans in southwestern China have set themselves ablaze in protest against Chinese rule, Radio Free Asia reported, the latest in a series of self-immolations over the past year.

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Deep-sea filmmakers killed in Australia helicopter crash

 February 05, 2012 11:32   reuters.com

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Two award-winning filmmakers working on a documentary with renowned Hollywood director James Cameron were killed in a helicopter crash in Australia on Saturday, according to National Geographic.

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One dead, local tsunami alert in 6.7 quake off Philippines

 February 05, 2012 11:18   reuters.com

MANILA (Reuters) - One child died and a local tsunami alert was issued after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake followed by two aftershocks struck off the Philippines island of Negros on Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and a local...

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