|  Thai villagers trickle home after Cambodia clashes      (Reuters)   Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:20 PM PST  Reuters - Thai villagers began trickling back to their homes near a disputed stretch of the border with Cambodia on Thursday in a sign of easing tension after deadly clashes over an ancient temple.
  
 
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  |  Israel's Barak: From great promise to punching bag      (AP)   Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:37 PM PST AP - A decade ago, Ehud Barak was a popular Israeli prime minister and war hero on the historic verge of making peace with Syria and the Palestinians. Today, he is widely reviled as the country's most despised leader.   
 
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  |  Morocco pressured to step up reforms      (AFP)   Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:27 PM PST  AFP - Emboldened by the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, demands for political reforms are now mounting in Morocco, touching even the country's monarchy.
  
 
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  |  India, Pakistan to resume formal peace talks      (AFP)   Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:41 PM PST  AFP - India and Pakistan have agreed to resume formal peace talks for the first time since the Mumbai attacks in 2008, the NDTV news channel said Thursday, citing unnamed government sources.
  
 
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  |  Thai villagers trickle home after Cambodia clashes   Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:20 PM PST KANTHARALAK, Thailand (Reuters) - Thai villagers began trickling back to their homes near a disputed stretch of the border with Cambodia on Thursday in a sign of easing tension after deadly clashes over an ancient temple.    
 
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  |  Suleiman: When Egypt's Transitional Figure Won't Transition      (Time.com)   Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:25 PM PST Time.com - The "orderly transition" touted by Washington is good in theory, butthere's little sign of it on the ground as the will of the protesterspresses against Suleiman's defiance of U.S. prodding   
 
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  |  Japan FM slams Russian stance on disputed islands      (AP)   Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:12 PM PST AP - Japan's foreign minister said Thursday that Russia has no legal right to occupy several disputed islands that have kept the two countries at odds for decades, despite Moscow's increasingly assertive stance.   
 
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  |  Australia PM introduces contentious floods tax      (AFP)   Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:07 PM PST  AFP - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Thursday introduced contentious legislation for a one-off tax to help pay for devastating floods which killed 35 people and swamped thousands of homes.
  
 
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  |  Revolution, Delayed      (Time.com)   Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:25 PM PST Time.com - After the high drama of the first wave of antigovernment protests, many Egyptians are beginning to grow anxious about what the uprising has wrought   
 
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  |  India says peace talks to resume with Pakistan      (Reuters)   Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:30 PM PST Reuters - India and Pakistan have agreed to resume peace talks that were broken off by New Delhi after the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Indian sources said Thursday, a step forward in improving ties that impact regional security.   
 
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  |  Can sex, shaving boycotts save Belgium?      (AFP)   Posted: 09 Feb 2011 09:26 PM PST  AFP - No sex here please! As Belgium hits eight months without a government this week, a boycott on sex is being suggested as a way out of the nation's longest political impasse.
  
 
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  |  India says peace talks to resume with Pakistan   Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:30 PM PST NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India and Pakistan have agreed to resume peace talks that were broken off by New Delhi after the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Indian sources said Thursday, a step forward in improving ties that impact regional security.    
 
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  |  Tapping a Continent's Growth From Home   Posted: 09 Feb 2011 08:41 PM PST While U.S. and European firms are waking up to Africa's accelerating growth, companies based on the continent also are expanding. From an abandoned farm outside Lagos, Nigeria, a Zambian beef processor is moving into one of Africa's most promising markets.   
 
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  |  Germans in Talks to Buy Big Board   Posted: 09 Feb 2011 09:03 PM PST After 219 years as the citadel of American capitalism, the New York Stock Exchange was near an agreement to be acquired by Deutsche Börse in a deal that would create the world's largest financial exchange.   
 
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  |  Anchor Fired After Report of President's Drinking   Posted: 09 Feb 2011 07:09 PM PST A leading news anchor accused the Mexican president's office of pushing her employers to fire her after she discussed on a radio program allegations that the president suffered from drinking problems and demanded he respond.   
 
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  |  German Shuns Top Euro Bank Job   Posted: 09 Feb 2011 06:13 PM PST German Bundesbank President Axel Weber is no longer seeking the presidency of the European Central Bank, euro-zone officials said, throwing the race for Europe's top monetary position into disarray.   
 
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  |  Suicide Bomb Kills Pakistani Soldiers   Posted: 09 Feb 2011 08:29 PM PST A suicide bomber attacked a group of soldiers during their morning exercises in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 10 soldiers, security officials said.   
 
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  |  Multiculturalism Loses Its Allure   Posted: 09 Feb 2011 08:44 PM PST A local council's effort to evict a mosque from an abandoned industrial site in east London demonstrates Britain's shifting appetite for multiculturalism, which U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has proclaimed "dead."   
 
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  |  China Kidnap Outcome Plays Out Online   Posted: 09 Feb 2011 08:23 PM PST The emotional meeting of a man and a boy believed to be his missing son has drawn fresh attention to China's child abductions and to new efforts to use the Internet to find lost children.   
 
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  |  Taiwan Says General Spied for China   Posted: 09 Feb 2011 06:24 PM PST Taiwan arrested a military general on suspicion of spying for China in the most high-profile cross-Strait espionage case in decades.   
 
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