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Wang Lijun is said to be receiving 'vacation-style treatment' after hundreds of police surrounded the US consulate in ChengduThe Chinese police chief rumoured to have attempted defection amid political intrigue visited a US consulate this week, Washington has confirmed.Political observers and internet users have been gripped...(more)
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Nietzschean high-school killers have obscured the interpretation of 'God is dead' as an opening, not a closing, of mindsA little over a year ago when the news broke that a lone gunman had shot Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 18 bystanders at a meet-and-greet in a...(more)
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SFr637m (£442m) loss compares with the SFr841m profit that the bank posted in the fourth quarter a year agoCredit Suisse Group has announced its first fourth-quarter net loss since 2008, posting negative returns of SFr637m (£442m) that were far below what analysts had expected.Analysts' consensus estimates...(more)
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Lack of UNSCR resolution 'encouraged Syrian government to step up its war on its people', says secretary generalThe UN's failure to agree a resolution on Syria is "disastrous" for the country's people, the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon has said as President Assad's government launched its...(more)
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• UN offers to join the Arab League monitoring mission• More killed on the sixth day of the assault on Homs• Pentagon draws up contingency plans10.29am: Syria's top Sunni cleric, Grand Mufti Sheikh Ahmed Badreddin Hassoun, met Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday and thanked Iran for...(more)
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DUBAI (Reuters) - A jailed rights activist in Bahrain has gone back on hunger strike ahead of the February 14 anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising, the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights said Thursday.
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A criminal court in the Maldives has issued an arrest warrant for former President Mohamed Nasheed, officials in his party say.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish security forces killed 13 Kurdish militants in fighting in southeast Turkey overnight, security sources said, marking an escalation in violence at a time when cold winter weather normally limits clashes.
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AP - Credit Suisse Group posted its first fourth-quarter net loss since 2008 as Switzerland's second-biggest bank continued its drive to reduce its exposure to potentially-risky investment banking at a time when Europe's economy is facing problems related to a raging debt crisis.
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German car and truck maker Daimler posts record sales and profits in 2011, with the promise of more to come.
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AP - A reality television producer has arrived in Mexico escorted by nearly a dozen agents after being extradited from the U.S. so he can face trial in his wife's killing.
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Drug enforcement measures in place for decades have filled jails with poor and minority offenders, marred police officers' credibility in the neighborhoods they patrol and fractured communities, Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle agreed at a forum Wednesday night.
