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First contact reported by China in the wake of escalating violence in Syria and Beijing's veto of the UN resolutionChina's foreign ministry has said a Syrian opposition delegation visited the country this week and met a deputy foreign minister, Zhai Jun.It was the first contact reported...(more)
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England's landscape has changed since Stephen Lawrence was killed. Allegations of racism are taken seriously here nowSo there goes Fabio Capello, and maybe that's that for our bold experiment with foreign managers. It wasn't such a problem that Fabio is Italian. Indeed, one can look with...(more)
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Albanese has received cash and share payouts totalling $28.1 (£17.75m), in the four years after completing the Alcan deal - which has now been written down by $8.9bnThe boss of global mining group Rio Tinto has become the second FTSE 100 chief executive in as many...(more)
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Arrests and censorship continue despite Mubarak's fall, but defiant journalists and bloggers refuse to be cowedSince the Arab uprisings that rippled out from the unlikely epicentre of Tunisia, the region's hopes for freedom and dignity have never been higher, at least since the end of colonial...(more)
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• Leaders fail to agree pension cuts• €3bn savings agreed at marathon talks• Greek finance minister heads to Brussels with 'hope'• Today's agenda10.22am: Greek youth unemployment rate has now reached 48%, according to this morning's data (see also 10.05am). That's up from 22.4% back in 2008...(more)
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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.
