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  • Iran military chief says any attack will result in retaliation

    San Jose News.Net

    Iran will strike back at any location from where attacks against it are mounted, Fars news agency quoted a senior military commander as saying Sunday. "Any location which is used by the enemy for ...

  • Iraqis rally to cheer end of US forces

    San Jose News.Net

    Tens of thousands of people have attended a mass rally in Iraq to cheer the cessation of US troop movements in the country. The celebration rally was organized by Iraq's Hezbollah movement to ...

  • Washington police close camp near President

    San Jose News.Net

    Police in Washington have closed down a large camping area containing members of the "Occupy" movement. The encampment, one of the biggest protest areas in the United States, was only a few ...

  • Putin shows he has his own cheer squad

    San Jose News.Net

    A conspicuous show of support has been made for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Around 140,000 people attended a rally on Saturday in which placards were raised announcing Putin as a man ...

  • Suspected drug lord in Mexican police custody

    San Jose News.Net

    Mexican police have arrested Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, who is alleged to have masterminded drug exportation and murders. Marrufo, the supposed head of a Sinaloa drug cartel, has been accused ...

  • Prevention of child abuse to be discussed by Roman Catholic bishops

    San Jose News.Net

    Leaders of the Roman Catholic church in Rome are gathering to attend a conference on sexual abuse of minors within the Church. They will attend a prayer service for victims of sexual abuse and ...

  • Mitt Romney has sights on White House after securing Nevada primary

    San Jose News.Net

    Former Massachusetts governor and the 2012 White House contender Mitt Romney secured his third victory of the GOP primary season, as television networks declared him the winner of Nevada's ...

  • Five cops among seven killed in Afghan attack

    San Jose News.Net

    Five policemen and two civilians, including a child, died in a car bomb attack in Afghanistan's Kandahar city Sunday. "A car bomb (attack) carried out by the enemies and hit Kandahar city at noon ...

  • Good News for Rick Santorum!

    Weekly Standard

    Rasmussen poll showed Santorum as the only Republican in the field beating Obama in a head-to-head matchup. And--as if to confirm that Santorum might be seeing some movement--the Romney campaign ...

  • China defends Syria veto, doubts West's intentions

    Jerusalem Post

    The newspaper suggested that Chinese distrust of Western intervention lay behind the veto, which drew condemnation from Western governments with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calling it a ...

  • Obama: 'I deserve a second term'

    C News

    U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands after speaking about the economy at Fire Station Number Five in Arlington, Virginia February 3, 2012. (REUTERS/Larry Downing) President Barack Obama said on ...

  • Obama says risky to attack Iran, wants diplomatic fix

    C News

    Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends Friday prayers at Tehran University February 3, 2012. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday the Islamic Republic would not yield to ...

  • Goldman's Blankfein campaigns for gay marriage

    Reuters

    Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, listens during testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Investigations Subcommittee hearing on ''Wall Street and the ...

  • 6.8 quake shakes Philippines; 1 dead

    CBS News

    (AP) MANILA, Philippines - A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck the central Philippines on Monday, killing a child and triggering a local tsunami alert. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and ...

  • Super Bowl ads battle for championship

    CBS News

    This advertisement provided by Hyundai Motor America, shows a scene from Hyundai's "All For One," ad that will air during Super Bowl XLVI, Feb. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Hyundai Motor ...

  • Motorists warned of ice 'hazard'

    BBC

    Forecasters are warning of an ice "hazard" to drivers as many people take to the roads for the first time since snow fell across much of Britain. Many major roads are clear of snow, but ...

  • Syrian army 'steps up Homs offensive'

    Al Jazeera

    The Syrian army has stepped up its attacks on opposition fighters in Homs, activists and witnesses have said, a day after a UN Security Council resolution aimed at ending the bloodshed in Syria was ...

  • New York Giants win Super Bowl title

    Al Jazeera

    The New York Giants have won the coveted American Super Bowl title after they beat the New England Patriots 21-17, becoming the champions for the second time in four years. Quarterback Eli Manning ...

  • 6.8 quake shakes Philippines

    USA Today

    The head of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology Renato Solidum says the quake that hit around noon Monday possibly caused some damage in structurally weak buildings. The US ...

  • Former Panamanian Leader Noriega Hospitalized

    RadioFreeEurope

    Former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega has been hospitalized after suffering a possible stroke. The 77-year-old former dictator is serving a 20-year sentence for the murders of opponents ...

  • Obama Says Israel Has Not Decided To Attack Iran

    RadioFreeEurope

    U.S. President Barack Obama says he does not think Israel has decided whether to attack Iran over its disputed nuclear program. Speaking on U.S. TV, Obama said the United States was cooperating ...

  • Fire Hits Former Russian Nuclear Research Center

    RadioFreeEurope

    A fire was reported Sunday at a former nuclear research center in the Russian capital, Moscow. Officials of the emergencies Ministry said there were no open flames and no threat of a radiation ...

  • US, France hint at bolstering Syrian opposition

    Jerusalem Post

    Western and Arab countries responded with outrage Sunday after Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have backed an Arab plan urging Syrian President Bashar Assad to ...

  • Wide-eyed Saturday into Super Sunday Shacharis

    Jerusalem Post

    Please note that by the time you read this report, the game will be over and the champion determined. Due to the seven-hour time difference, there is no way to cover the actual game in time for ...

  • ‘Cold War logic continues in UN’

    IOL

    ';Unfortunately, yesterday in the UN, the Cold War logic continues,'; said Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. ';Russia and China did not vote based on the existing realities ...

  • U.S. Drone Strikes Are Said to Target Rescuers

    International Herald Tribune

    WASHINGTON - British and Pakistani journalists said Sunday that the C. I. A.'s drone strikes on suspected militants in Pakistan have repeatedly targeted rescuers who responded to the scene of a ...

  • US protesters vow to return after Occupy DC sweep

    Channel News Asia

    WASHINGTON: Protesters from the Washington offshoot of Occupy Wall Street on Sunday vowed to return to their camp in the US capital, which was all but dismantled by park police during a weekend ...

  • Britain's Queen Elizabeth II marks 60 years on throne

    Channel News Asia

    KING'S LYNN, United Kingdom: Queen Elizabeth II marks 60 years as monarch on Monday with a deliberately low-key programme of visits to eastern England, kicking off five months of diamond ...

  • Imran Khan Warns Of Afghan Civil War

    Sky News

    Imran Khan, the former Pakistan cricket captain turned politician, says he fears Afghanistan could slide into civil war once Nato forces leave for ...

  • Student takes stands against bullying

    USA Today

    Seventeen-year-old Jasmine Scruggs told the Chattanooga Times Free Press that she is holding an event later this month to raise awareness that bullying is a problem and to raise money to combat it. ...

  • Greece Agrees to Harsh New Spending Cuts

    International Herald Tribune

    ATHENS - Pushed against the wall by its foreign lenders, the Greek government agreed on Sunday to drastic new spending cuts but failed to complete an arrangement that would unlock the financing the ...

  • Giants 21, Patriots 17: Super Bowl

    International Herald Tribune

    INDIANAPOLIS - Four years ago, the Giants were the charming underdogs who took the New England Patriots' perfect season and turned it into a game of what-if. This season, however, having ...

  • Giants win the Super Bowl

    CBS News

    New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning throws a pass as New England Patriots defensive lineman Gerard Warren rushes during the second half of the NFL Super Bowl XLVI football game, Sunday, Feb. 5, ...

  • 17 dead, 13 rescued after migrant boat capsizes

    CBS News

    (CBS News) SABANA DE LA MAR, Dominican Republic - Rescuers scouring the white-capped waters off the Dominican Republic's coast have found 17 bodies and 13 survivors from a boat overloaded with ...

  • Giants edge Patriots in stunner

    BBC

    Eli Manning produced yet another ice-cool performance in the fourth quarter as the New York Giants came from behind to beat the New England Patriots 21-17. The Giants' quarterback, who ...

  • Focus on French Economy Fuels Gains by National Front

    International Herald Tribune

    ABBEVILLE, France - This small city in northern France has few immigrants and little crime. But in the last local elections here, the candidate of the far-right National Front eliminated the ...

  • Chavez threatens Britain with Falklands pledge

    New Zealand Herald

    Venezuela's left-wing president has raised the stakes over the Falklands Islands by pledging his armed forces would fight alongside Argentina in any conflict with Britain. The inflammatory promise ...

  • Memo From Jerusalem: In Israel, Talk of Attacking Iran Transcends Idle Chatter

    International Herald Tribune

    JERUSALEM - Israelis like to say that when it comes to military and security operations, those who know don't talk, and those who talk don't know. But the intense and increasingly public debate ...

  • Former German president to honor anti-Semitic pastor

    Jerusalem Post

    BERLIN - Roman Herzog, the president of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1994 to 1999, is slated to deliver a speech next week in honor of Reverend Mitri Raheb, a fiercely anti-Israel ...

  • Blind doctor can see again

    Jerusalem Post

    A retired Kaplan Medical Center pediatrician who became blind last year can see again thanks to a donated cornea transplanted into his right eye by his colleagues in the Rehovot hospital.Dr. ...

  • 10-year sentence is stretched to ‘indefinite’

    Jerusalem Post

    The supreme rabbinical court of appeals upheld a life sentence handed down to a man who has refused for ten years to give his wife a bill of divorce.Meir Gorodetzki was imprisoned by the Jerusalem ...

  • NGOs petition High Court over air pollution program

    Jerusalem Post

    Adam Teva V'Din (Israel Union for Environmental Defense) and the Coalition for Public Health submitted a petition to the High Court on Sunday morning to compel the government to confirm the ...

  • KKL-JNF launches ‘social forest’ for Tu Bishvat

    Jerusalem Post

    In honor of Tu Bishvat, as well as Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund's 110th anniversary, the organization is launching the world's first-ever "social forest."The ...

  • Australian town evacuated amid flood

    IOL

    Sydney - The east-coast Australian town of St George was deserted on Monday as the river that runs through it reached record levels and floodwaters threatened to overwhelm its ...

  • Daredevil who'll leap off the edge of space: Skydiver prepares for 23 miles jump

    Daily Mail

    His previous records include lowest parachute jump, 95ft off the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, and highest jump from a building – 1,479ft from the Petronas Twin Towers in ...

  • Falkland Islands: Venezuela threatens Britain as Hugo Chavez vows to side with Argentina

    Daily Mail

    Venezuela's left-wing president has raised the stakes over the Falkland Islands by pledging his armed forces would fight alongside Argentina in any conflict with ...

  • Match of the neigh: Pony shows off his impressive footballing skills including passing, dribbling and shooting

    Daily Mail

    Shifting from side to side through the snow Gray, a Bashkir-type pony, appears to have mastered passing, dribbling and shooting after putting in hours of practice ...

  • Imbolc Festival 2012: Pagan sun worshippers battle winter with fire in traditional ceremony

    Daily Mail

    As much of the UK shivered in freezing temperatures and grappled with snow and ice, here was a group of sun worshippers celebrating the approaching ...

  • European Sperm Bank: How company decided to transport its samples across Copenhagen

    Daily Mail

    The European Sperm Bank (ESB) in Copenhagen came up with the design while trying to find environmentally friendly ways to transport their samples to fertility clinics around the city and surrounding ...

  • Not such a good call: Lager fans have Fosters logo waxed into the hair on their back for TV campaign

    Daily Mail

    The new promotion follows the successful 'Good Call' series of ads which featured two Australian lads playing agony aunts to hand out advice to clueless ...