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Putin team defiant after protest rocks Russia 

December 30, 2011
Putin team defiant after protest rocks Russia 

Vladimir Putin still has the support of a majority of Russians, his spokesman says, after a mass protest challenged the premier's authority two months before he stands in presidential polls. Vladimir Putin still has the support of a majority of Russians, his spokesman said on Sunday after a mass protest challenged the premier’s authority two [...]

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Putin team defiant after protest rocks Russia 

December 25, 2011
Putin team defiant after protest rocks Russia 

Vladimir Putin still has the support of a majority of Russians, his spokesman says, after a mass protest challenged the premier's authority two months before he stands in presidential polls. Vladimir Putin still has the support of a majority of Russians, his spokesman said on Sunday after a mass protest challenged the premier’s authority two [...]

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Murdoch paper paid Cameron aide: report 

August 23, 2011
Murdoch paper paid Cameron aide: report 

Andy Coulson, the former spokesman for Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, leaves a police station after being bailed, in South London, July 8, 2011. News Corp funded the former editor of the News of the World tabloid when he worked for David Cameron in opposition, the BBC said, in new evidence of the close links [...]

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Thai military 'accepts' opposition polls landslide 

July 4, 2011
Thai military 'accepts' opposition polls landslide 

A Thai soldier stands guard outside a polling station in the country's restive southern province of Yala. Thailand’s powerful military will respect a landslide election win by allies of Thaksin Shinawatra who it toppled five years ago, the defense minister said Monday, easing fears of another coup. Thaksin’s sister Yingluck Shinawatra, a 44-year-old political newcomer [...]

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Japan PM visit tsunami-devastated village, enters nuke 

April 3, 2011
Japan PM visit tsunami-devastated village, enters nuke 

Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) bows as he speaks to tsunami victim Ryoko Otsubo during his visit to an evacuees shelter in Rikuzentakata, after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami April 2, 2011 Japan’s prime minister made his first visit to the country’s tsunami-devastated region on Saturday and entered [...]

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Protesters stage mass rally against Bahrain ruler 

February 23, 2011
Protesters stage mass rally against Bahrain ruler 

Thousands of supporters of Bahrain’s Shiite-led opposition demonstrate in Pearl Square in Manama calling for the government’s downfall. Tens of thousands of supporters of Bahrain’s Shiite-led opposition poured into Manama’s Pearl Square calling for the government’s downfall in the largest rally in more than a week of protests. The capital’s streets were clogged as protesters [...]

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HK exchange open to alliances, adds voice to merger frenzy 

February 12, 2011
HK exchange open to alliances, adds voice to merger frenzy 

  The Hong Kong stock exchange said on Thursday it will consider international alliances after Deutsche Boerse and NYSE Euronext announced plans to form the world’s biggest trading powerhouse. Deutsche and NYSE said they are in advanced talks to form a marketplace that would have annual trading volume exceeding $20 trillion, the latest in a [...]

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Egypt counts cost of turmoil, protesters undaunted 

February 9, 2011
Egypt counts cost of turmoil, protesters undaunted 

An Egyptian flag is carried through the crowd in the opposition stronghold in Tahrir Square in Cairo February 8, 2011. Egyptians counted the economic cost of more than two weeks of turmoil on Wednesday as re-invigorated protesters flocked again to Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand President Hosni Mubarak quit immediately. A day after Egyptians staged [...]

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Mubarak cabinet meets as ‘Nile Revolution’ digs in 

February 7, 2011
Mubarak cabinet meets as ‘Nile Revolution’ digs in 

Anti-Mubarak protesters shout slogans to show their support for the anti-Mubarak demonstrations in Egypt, in front of the Egyptian embassy in Madrid February 6, 2011. President Hosni Mubarak’s new cabinet on Monday held its first full meeting since an uprising started nearly two weeks ago, with no concrete progress in talks with Islamists and an [...]

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US tax-cut bill nears Senate approval 

December 15, 2010
US tax-cut bill nears Senate approval 

President Barack Obama makes a statement about the senate vote on middle class tax cuts in the Brady Press Briefing room of the White House in Washington, December 13, 2010. President Barack Obama’s sweeping plan to extend expiring tax cuts for millions of Americans headed for overwhelming passage in the Senate on Wednesday, putting the [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...