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Former Liberal Democrat MP Lemit Opik is the star of a new music video by unsigned band The Good Suns.
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Former transit union chief Roger Toussaint is already causing trouble. Days after he asked for his old subway job back, Toussaint showed up at an MTA training center on Tuesday driving a car that was allegedly loaned to him by a rule-breaking union official.
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• PM Lucas Papademos to meet coalition leaders today• It's Deja EU all over again - meeting postponed to 3pm• Today's agenda10.22am: The eurozone crisis is hitting the travel industry. Thomas Cook said this morning that the "uncertain economic environment across Europe" has hit bookings. Sales...(more)
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• Bombardment of Homs continues for a fifth day• US says it won't arm Free Syrian Army• Russia calls for an Arab solution to the crisis10.01am: The EU is considering a new round of sanctions against the Assad regime, our Brussels correspondent Ian Traynor has been...(more)
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Reuters - Japan and the United States said on Wednesday they have started talks to transfer U.S. Marines to Guam from the southern Japan island of Okinawa despite little progress being made on the planned relocation of a U.S. airbase on Okinawa, a step forward in...(more)
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AP - Russia's foreign minister says that Syrian President Bashar Assad wants his vice president to hold talks with the opposition forces.
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German's trade surplus rises to 158bn euros in 2011 on record exports of 1.06tn euros, official figures show.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil exporters have stopped supplying Iran with most of the 30,000 tonnes of the food staple the Middle Eastern country buys each month, or about half its demand, as Western financial curbs on Tehran stymie payments, two trading sources said....(more)
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A Midwood Army veteran is finally coming home Wednesday after a long battle to recover from massive injuries suffered in an explosion in Iraq - and get the military to grant him a discharge.
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Reuters - A Communist "princeling" fond of small town America and Hollywood war dramas, and brusque critic of Western pressure with a daughter at Harvard, Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping embodies his nation's contradictory ties with the United States.
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AP - Opposition leader Henrique Capriles is heading into Venezuela's first opposition primary warning that Hugo Chavez's foes must choose a strong candidate if they want to win back the presidency and halt the country's slide into chaos.
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AP - Disgruntled police across Brazil are taking aim at the country's iconic Carnival celebration, raising threats to the annual street parties that draw hordes of foreigners as a way to press their demands for pay raises.
