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Rebel forces take Brega and Ras Lanuf after the capture of Ajdabiya
Daily Mail
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has revealed that intelligence reports
suggest Libyan loyalist forces have placed bodies of people they have
killed at the sites of coalition air strikes so they can blame the West for
the deaths. ...
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Fear grows near another nuclear plant in Japan
Globe and Mail
When residents of this quiet rice-farming area on Japan's west coast watch
news of the unfolding nuclear disaster in Fukushima, they do so with an
added level of fear that comes from living in the shadow of an even bigger
nuclear plant, one that sits ...
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Cuomo Strikes Tentative Deal on NY Budget With Big Cuts
New York Times
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and THOMAS KAPLAN Culminating weeks of secretive
negotiations and intense political jockeying, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and
leaders of the Legislature announced on Sunday the outlines of a $132.5
billion budget that would cut state ...
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Footage emerges of protests in Deraa, Syria
BBC News
Fresh protests have flared in Syria at the end of a week that has seen
dozens of demonstrators killed. Offices of the ruling Baath party were
burned down in the southern town of Tafas and coastal town of Latakia,
witnesses said, while hundreds renewed ...
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Libyan TV confirms fresh airstrikes on Tripoli by Western-led coalition
Xinhua
TRIPOLI, March 27 (Xinhua) -- The Western-led coalition bombed targets in
Tripoli Sunday night in a fresh round of attack, Libyan state TV reported.
Both civilian and military targets were hit by the "colonialist
aggressors," said the report. ...
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'Israel's response to rocket fire too soft'
Ynetnews
IDF officers avoid criticizing government but claim Israel may pay the
price for the way it chose to respond to the firing of rockets from Gaza.
Hamas has emerged stronger from the recent conflict, some officers say IDF
officers admitted Sunday that ...
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Walter Mondale's presidential running mate Geraldine Ferraro dies aged 75
The Guardian
AP Geraldine Ferraro, who became the first woman vice-presidential
candidate on a major US party ticket, has died, aged 75. Ferraro catapulted
to national prominence in 1984 when she was chosen by presidential nominee
Walter Mondale to run against ...
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Yemen transition talks stalled
Aljazeera.net
Talks aimed at ending the political standoff in Yemen between Ali Abdullah
Saleh, Yemen's president, and the opposition have stalled, according to
opposition officials. But in a sign that there was not a complete
stalemate, the ruling party's governing ...
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Canadian election heats up over coalition claims
Reuters
By Allan Dowd VANCOUVER, March 27 (Reuters) - Opposition parties said on
Sunday it was hypocritical for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to
accuse them of plotting to take power in a coalition government since he
had once considered doing it ...
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Lights go off around world to observe Earth Hour
Xinhua
BEIJING, March 27 (Xinhua) -- As night fell on Saturday, the world saw a
wave of darkness spreading from time zone to time zone, with countries and
regions switching off lights to observe the Earth Hour event. During the
one-hour-relay campaign, ...
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