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- VIDEO: US to cut Afghan combat role in 2013
- VIDEO: 79 dead in Egypt football clashes
- VIDEO: Europe's cold spell to last for days
- Kuwait opposition seeks gains in parliament vote (AP)
- China publishes full list of IPO applicants for 1st time (Reuters)
- American Airlines plans to slash 13,000 jobs
- Black Stars reach last eight
- IAEA, Iran to meet again after "good" talks
- 5 Steps For Launching a Startup From a Small Town
- The Credit We Love to Hate: The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
- Asian stocks extend global rally on economy hopes (AP)
- Kuwait opposition seen making gains in snap election
- U.S. plans to halt Afghan combat role in 2013 (Reuters)
- There's No Way Facebook Is Worth $75 Billion- More Like $34.5 Billion
- Panetta: U.S., NATO will seek to end Afghan combat mission next year
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- AUDIO: "There are people floating in life jackets"
- Kurds Seize on Iraqi Crisis to Advance Bid for Oil, Land
- AUDIO: Ferry sinks off Papua New Guinea coast
- Vietnam reports 2nd bird flu death in a month (AP)
| VIDEO: US to cut Afghan combat role in 2013 Posted: 01 Feb 2012 09:28 PM PST The US Defence Secretary, Leon Panetta, says he hopes American troops in Afghanistan can end their combat role by as early as the middle of 2013, 18 months before the Nato mission in the country is due to end.
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| VIDEO: 79 dead in Egypt football clashes Posted: 01 Feb 2012 09:51 PM PST At least 79 people have been killed in clashes between rival football fans in the Egyptian city of Port Said.
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| VIDEO: Europe's cold spell to last for days Posted: 01 Feb 2012 09:37 PM PST A cold snap that has killed dozens of people in central, eastern and southern Europe in the past few days is spreading to other parts of the continent and is likely to last for days.
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| Kuwait opposition seeks gains in parliament vote (AP) Posted: 01 Feb 2012 09:19 PM PST
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| China publishes full list of IPO applicants for 1st time (Reuters) Posted: 01 Feb 2012 09:28 PM PST Reuters - China's securities regulator has for the first time published a full list of Chinese companies that have applied for an initial public offering on the Shanghai or Shenzhen markets, in a move aimed at boosting transparency of the system.
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| American Airlines plans to slash 13,000 jobs Posted: 01 Feb 2012 09:51 PM PST US carrier is latest to go through bankruptcy proceedings, plagued by low revenues and high fuel costs.
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| Posted: 01 Feb 2012 12:49 PM PST Ghana seal their place in the Africa Cup of Nations knockout stages with 1-1 draw against 10-man Guinea.
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| IAEA, Iran to meet again after "good" talks Posted: 01 Feb 2012 09:54 PM PST VIENNA (Reuters) - Senior U.N. nuclear inspectors plan another trip to Iran later this month after holding what both sides described as good talks on the Islamic state's disputed atomic program.
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| 5 Steps For Launching a Startup From a Small Town Posted: 01 Feb 2012 09:15 PM PST Entrepreneurs aren't solely bred in the Silicon Valley and don't need to hustle on Wall Street to grab investors' attention.
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| The Credit We Love to Hate: The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Posted: 01 Feb 2012 08:50 PM PST ? If you follow the blog regularly, you?ll know that I?m not a fan of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). So maybe it wasn?t so much of a surprise to anyone that I managed to miss Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day at IRS. Yes, there is one. And yes, it was last week ...
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| Asian stocks extend global rally on economy hopes (AP) Posted: 01 Feb 2012 09:22 PM PST
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| Kuwait opposition seen making gains in snap election Posted: 01 Feb 2012 08:48 PM PST KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwaitis head to the polls Thursday for the fourth time in six years in a snap parliamentary election in which opposition candidates expect to expand their influence and push for change in the oil-exporting Gulf Arab state.
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| U.S. plans to halt Afghan combat role in 2013 (Reuters) Posted: 01 Feb 2012 08:12 PM PST
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| There's No Way Facebook Is Worth $75 Billion- More Like $34.5 Billion Posted: 01 Feb 2012 07:56 PM PST Here's why! Facebook had $3.7 billion in revenues-- which means that at a market cap of $75 billion it would be selling at 20 times revenues. But, high growth internet companies are selling at an average of 6.8 times 2012 market capitalization. So, Facebook would have to be valued in the market at TRIPLE the value of the other high growth internet companies. Impossible, since we are talking about Apple, Google and Amazon.
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| Panetta: U.S., NATO will seek to end Afghan combat mission next year Posted: 01 Feb 2012 06:58 PM PST BRUSSELS — The United States hopes to end its combat mission in Afghanistan by the middle of next year, more than a year earlier than scheduled, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said Wednesday. His remarks reflected a growing sentiment within the Obama administration that its approach to Iraq, where the official end of U.S. combat operations came 16 months before the final U.S. troop withdrawal in December, may provide a useful model for winding down operations in Afghanistan. Read full article >>
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| AUDIO: "There are people floating in life jackets" Posted: 01 Feb 2012 07:50 PM PST A ferry has sunk off the eastern coast of Papua New Guinea with around 300 people on board.
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| Kurds Seize on Iraqi Crisis to Advance Bid for Oil, Land Posted: 01 Feb 2012 08:12 PM PST Iraq's Kurds are using a contract with Exxon Mobil and a national political crisis to strengthen their region's control of resource-rich patches of disputed land.
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| AUDIO: Ferry sinks off Papua New Guinea coast Posted: 01 Feb 2012 07:50 PM PST A ferry has sunk off the eastern coast of Papua New Guinea with around 300 people on board.
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| Vietnam reports 2nd bird flu death in a month (AP) Posted: 01 Feb 2012 07:50 PM PST AP - A Vietnamese official on Thursday confirmed the country's second human death from bird flu in less than a month, after it went nearly two years with no reported fatalities.
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