Fierce storms strike Middle East Posted: 12 Dec 2010 08:51 PM PST Fierce winds, rain and snow lash the eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries for a second successive day.  
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Kosovo's PM claims poll victory Posted: 12 Dec 2010 08:54 PM PST Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci claims victory in the country's first parliamentary vote since declaring unilateral independence from Serbia.  
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Inside the museum of heartbreak Posted: 12 Dec 2010 10:39 PM PST A museum in Croatia tells the story of people's lost loves  
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Inside the museum of heartbreak Posted: 12 Dec 2010 10:39 PM PST A museum in Croatia tells the story of people's lost loves  
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Fierce storms strike Middle East Posted: 12 Dec 2010 08:51 PM PST Fierce winds, rain and snow lash the eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries for a second successive day.  
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Malaysia's Anwar in bid to stem WikiLeak effect (AFP) Posted: 12 Dec 2010 10:33 PM PST AFP - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim Monday moved to stem the impact on his sodomy trial of US cables released by WikiLeaks claiming he had sex with a male aide in a honey trap set by enemies.  
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Russian spy named advisor for oil company Rosneft: report (Reuters) Posted: 12 Dec 2010 10:02 PM PST Reuters - One of the Russian spies deported along with 12 other agents from the United States in July has become an international projects advisor at Russia's largest oil company, Rosneft, Kommersant reported on Monday.  
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U.S. Online Holiday Retail Sales Up 12% Vs. Year Ago Posted: 12 Dec 2010 09:47 PM PST U.S. online retail sales through the first 40 days of the 2010 holiday shopping season are up 12% fr  
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Russian spy named advisor for oil company Rosneft: report Posted: 12 Dec 2010 10:02 PM PST MOSCOW (Reuters) - One of the Russian spies deported along with 12 other agents from the United States in July has become an international projects advisor at Russia's largest oil company, Rosneft, Kommersant reported on Monday.  
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Israel group blasts arrests of Palestinian minors (AP) Posted: 12 Dec 2010 09:28 PM PST AP - An Israeli human rights group is accusing the police of arresting Palestinian minors as young as five in east Jerusalem and dealing with them in ways that violate the law.  
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Amazon's European Sites Suffer Outage; WikiLeaks-Related Hack Attack? Posted: 12 Dec 2010 09:09 PM PST Did a WikiLeaks-related attack score a hit on Amazon.com (AMZN)? The e-tailer?s sites in the U  
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Australia: Iran nuclear 'deterrent' Posted: 12 Dec 2010 09:49 PM PST Secret US cables reveal that Australia doesn't see Iran as a 'rogue state' and that its nuclear programme is 'deterrent'  
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Amazon websites outage was due to hardware failure (Reuters) Posted: 12 Dec 2010 09:08 PM PST Reuters - Amazon.com Inc's websites in Europe suffered an outage for more than half an hour on Sunday night, in what the company said was a hardware failure in its European data center network.  
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Would-be Haitian contractors miss out on aid (AP) Posted: 12 Dec 2010 09:00 PM PST AP - In a Port au Prince warehouse loaded with tarps, plywood, corrugated roofing, nails and other building supplies, company owner Patrick Brun says he had hoped to get contracts from the billions of dollars in international aid promised to Haiti.  
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New climate battle looms in South Africa in 2011 (Reuters) Posted: 12 Dec 2010 09:06 PM PST Reuters - The world's governments face a new battle in South Africa in 2011 between rich and poor about slowing climate change, buoyed by some progress in Mexico but with faded hopes for a new treaty in coming years.  
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China's Wen to visit India amid trade, land spats (AP) Posted: 12 Dec 2010 09:23 PM PST AP - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao travels to India this week as part of efforts to build trust between the rival neighbors amid lingering disputes over territory, trade and telecoms.  
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Banking On Obama's Railroads Posted: 12 Dec 2010 09:06 PM PST RailAmerica CEO forecasts 2011 to be a strong year for the economy and his company.  
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China releases long-serving dissident from jail: group (Reuters) Posted: 12 Dec 2010 08:42 PM PST Reuters - China has released from jail one of its longest-serving dissidents, the ethnic Mongolian rights activist Hada, but his whereabouts are not known and he is likely still being detained, an exiled group said Monday.  
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Haiti re-opens election appeals in plea for calm (AP) Posted: 12 Dec 2010 08:37 PM PST AP - Haiti's electoral council invited feuding candidates to appeal the results of the disputed presidential election, re-opening a hearing process in hopes of calming unrest, international ambassadors said Sunday.  
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Cancún climate change deal falls flat, Kyoto Protocol on life support (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 12 Dec 2010 10:57 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The climate change conference in Cancún appears to have sealed the fate of the Kyoto Protocol, the only legally binding treaty to combat climate change, and left countries squabbling over the substance and form of a new treaty for the future.  
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