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- Fool's Gold? Pakistan mine rift exposes investor risk
- VIDEO: Tour of a crowded Honduran prison
- After Gaddafi's Fall, Why Libya Is a More Dangerous Place (Time.com)
- 'No More Weapons!' billboard placed on US border (AP)
- Thai police: 2 more suspects in terror case (AP)
- Talks with the Taliban Are Inevitable, But Who Will Be at the Table? (Time.com)
- Maldives president agrees to early elections
- Nuclear crisis makes Japan ex-PM Kan an energy apostle (Reuters)
- 3 Nepali sisters crushed with stones; dad arrested (AP)
- Nuclear crisis makes Japan ex-PM Kan an energy apostle
- Apple loses China smartphone market share in Q4 (Reuters)
- New York Times reporter dies in Syria
- Attacks Threaten Nigeria's Future
- West Considers Iran's Offer to Talk
- Times Correspondent Dies in Eastern Syria
- Karzai Appeals to Pakistan on Taliban
- U.S. to Cut Europe Forces in Remake
- Putin Rides the Easy Slope Down
- China’s vice president highlights farm trade in Iowa visit
- Obama team smiles as Republicans brawl
| Fool's Gold? Pakistan mine rift exposes investor risk Posted: 16 Feb 2012 10:52 PM PST ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Reko Diq, an untapped copper and gold mine of fabulous potential, was meant to be the biggest foreign investment in the country's mining sector, but it's beginning to look more like fool's gold to the companies involved.
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| VIDEO: Tour of a crowded Honduran prison Posted: 16 Feb 2012 10:07 PM PST Miguel Angel Manueles, an inmate at La Paz Penitentiary, shows the BBC how cramped the conditions are.
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| After Gaddafi's Fall, Why Libya Is a More Dangerous Place (Time.com) Posted: 16 Feb 2012 10:10 PM PST Time.com - Libya should be celebrating the one-year anniversary of the revolution that toppled Gaddafi. Instead, the country remains fractured and dangerous due to its powerful militias
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| 'No More Weapons!' billboard placed on US border (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:35 PM PST
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| Thai police: 2 more suspects in terror case (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2012 10:27 PM PST AP - Thai police said Friday they are searching for two more suspects, including a possible explosives specialist, in a botched terror plot against Israeli diplomats that has been blamed on Iran.
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| Talks with the Taliban Are Inevitable, But Who Will Be at the Table? (Time.com) Posted: 16 Feb 2012 10:10 PM PST Time.com - The U.S. has said that within two years it will end its already decade-long military entanglement in Afghanistan's civil war, and the Taliban is anything but defeated
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| Maldives president agrees to early elections Posted: 16 Feb 2012 10:09 PM PST Mohamed Waheed says he will hold discussions with all parties with a view to organising elections as soon as possible.
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| Nuclear crisis makes Japan ex-PM Kan an energy apostle (Reuters) Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:29 PM PST Reuters - Nearly a year after a huge quake and tsunami sparked Japan's Fukushima nuclear crisis, then-premier Naoto Kan is haunted by the specter of an even bigger disaster forcing tens of millions of people to flee Tokyo and threatening the nation's existence.
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| 3 Nepali sisters crushed with stones; dad arrested (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:31 PM PST AP - Police in Nepal say a man crushed his three daughters to death with stones while they slept in a remote mountain village.
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| Nuclear crisis makes Japan ex-PM Kan an energy apostle Posted: 16 Feb 2012 10:14 PM PST TOKYO (Reuters) - Nearly a year after a huge quake and tsunami sparked Japan's Fukushima nuclear crisis, then-premier Naoto Kan is haunted by the specter of an even bigger disaster forcing tens of millions of people to flee Tokyo and threatening the nation's existence.
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| Apple loses China smartphone market share in Q4 (Reuters) Posted: 16 Feb 2012 08:41 PM PST Reuters - Apple Inc's share of China's smartphone market slipped for a second straight quarter in the fourth quarter of 2011 amid competition from Chinese vendors and as some consumers delayed purchases to wait for the iPhone 4S launch.
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| New York Times reporter dies in Syria Posted: 16 Feb 2012 10:37 PM PST Veteran correspondent Anthony Shadid apparently died following asthma attack while on assignment, according to paper.
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| Attacks Threaten Nigeria's Future Posted: 16 Feb 2012 08:41 PM PST Nigeria is unraveling in violence from the Boko Haram insurgency. Suspected members stormed a prison Wednesday and freed at least 119.
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| West Considers Iran's Offer to Talk Posted: 16 Feb 2012 06:41 PM PST A call by Iran for a quick resumption of nuclear negotiations with world powers drew a cautiously receptive response from U.S. and European officials on Thursday, opening a potential avenue for reducing the mounting tensions between Tehran and the West.
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| Times Correspondent Dies in Eastern Syria Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:01 PM PST Anthony Shadid, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for the New York Times, died Thursday of an apparent asthma attack while on assignment in Syria, the newspaper said.
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| Karzai Appeals to Pakistan on Taliban Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:38 PM PST Afghan President Hamid Karzai met with Pakistan's leaders, trying to gain Islamabad's support for his peace outreach to the Taliban..
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| U.S. to Cut Europe Forces in Remake Posted: 16 Feb 2012 07:54 PM PST The Pentagon will pull some 10,000 troops out of Europe in a broad reorganization that will shrink the number of Army and Air Force personnel stationed in Germany and close a number of bases.
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| Putin Rides the Easy Slope Down Posted: 16 Feb 2012 08:08 PM PST Portraying himself as a daredevil, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rode a bobsled with an elite athlete Thursday. But his jaunt—not fully shown on Russian television—was down a gentle practice slope, not the steep, twisting, banked track used in competition.
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| China’s vice president highlights farm trade in Iowa visit Posted: 16 Feb 2012 05:38 PM PST DES MOINES — The lowly soybean became the unlikely star of U.S.-China diplomacy Thursday during a visit here by Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping. Xi, who is expected to take over as China's president next year, talked at length of China's need for the beans, visited a soybean farm and had officials accompanying him sign agreements for massive shipments this year. He even took a seat on a John Deere tractor. Read full article >>   
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| Obama team smiles as Republicans brawl Posted: 16 Feb 2012 07:40 PM PST The Obama team smiles as the Republicans brawl.?? If the Fox News poll of likely voters in swing states is accurate, the Republicans are in trouble, and the scorched-earth campaign tactics of the candidates and their super packs are likely major contributors. The Romney apparatus has unleashed the dogs with ads labeling Santorum as a ...
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