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| Syrian forces bombard Homs, Lavrov arrives for talks
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| Reuters - Syrian forces renewed their bombardment of Homs on Tuesday as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Damascus for talks aimed at pressing President Bashar al-Assad to end a bloody crackdown on a popular revolt and carry out reforms. |
| Iran shrugs off latest U.S. sanctions, trade suffers
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 Reuters - Iran castigated its U.S. adversary on Tuesday over new financial measures to disrupt Iranian commerce, and a default on payment for rice purchases highlighted the encroachment of sanctions on the staples of everyday life.
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| Maldives president quits after mutiny on paradise islands
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| Reuters - President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, widely credited with bringing democracy to the hideaway resort islands, resigned on Tuesday after weeks of opposition protests erupted into a police mutiny and what an aide said amounted to a coup. |
| Netanyahu can't fly solo in Israel to attack Iran
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| Reuters - Three decades ago, an Israeli prime minister faced his cabinet and invoked the Holocaust in an emotional appeal to approve an air strike against an Arab atomic reactor. |
| Exclusive: Iran defaults on rice payments to India
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| Reuters - Iranian buyers have defaulted on payments for about 200,000 tonnes of rice from their top supplier India, exporters and rice millers said on Tuesday, a sign of the mounting pressure on Tehran from a new wave of Western sanctions. |
| Obama Seeks to Cool War Fever While Keeping Up Pressure on Iran
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| Time.com - Nobody likely envies the challenge President Barack Obama faces getting his "messaging" right on Iran |
| Putin pledges to cut officials' traffic privileges
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 AP - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday pledged to cut traffic privileges for officials, who routinely bypass Moscow's notorious traffic jams by ignoring basic rules of the road and even driving into oncoming lanes.
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| Iran's parliament summons Ahmadinejad
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 AP - Iran's parliament on Tuesday decided to summon President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for questioning over a long list of accusations, including that he mismanaged the nation's economy.
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| Standoff continues between Brazil troops, police
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 AP - Striking police officers in Brazil's third-largest city are refusing to leave a legislature building they've occupied for a week.
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| Explosions hit near military bases in Nigeria
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 AP - Two explosions struck Tuesday near army and air force bases on the outskirts of the central Nigerian city at the heart of riots last year that killed hundreds, officials said.
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