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Top US senator: 'No real warning' on Egypt unrest - 02/08/2011

WASHINGTON- US intelligence services gave the White House and lawmakers "no real warning" that unrest would rock staunch Washington ally Egypt, Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein...

Tunisia calls up army reservists to confront unrest - 02/08/2011

TUNIS, Jacques Lhuillery- Tunisia's interim government said Tuesday it had called up reservists to bolster the army as it confronts pockets of unrest and struggles to meet demands for democratic...

Russia scraps winter time to cut stress - 02/08/2011

MOSCOW, Stuart Williams- Russia will from next autumn stop putting its clocks back in winter, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday, in a move aimed at sparing Russians the stress of the annual...

Study finds link between genes and depression - 02/08/2011

WASHINGTON- People who are genetically predisposed to produce lower amounts of a certain brain chemical that regulates appetite and stress may be at higher risk of severe depression, researchers said...

France loans antique manuscripts back to S. Korea - 02/08/2011

PARIS- France and South Korea on Monday signed a deal to loan back to South Korea a collection of antique manuscripts stolen in the 19th century, formalising an agreement made last year. The royal...

Tunisia suspends Ben Ali's former ruling party - 02/07/2011

TUNIS, Kaouther Larbi - Tunisia's interim government moved Sunday to ban the country's former ruling party as fresh violence left one youth dead in the country's south during protests against the...

'The Roommate' slips into box office top spot - 02/07/2011

LOS ANGELES- The low-budget and widely panned horror flick "The Roommate" opened at the top of the North American box office during a sluggish weekend, industry estimates showed Sunday. The...

Two dead in fresh Tunisia unrest - 02/06/2011

TUNIS, Jacques Lhuillery- Four people died in clashes between protesters and police in the northwestern Tunisian town of Kef on Saturday, union activists and witnesses said. Several hundred...

British PM calls multiculturalism a failure - 02/06/2011

MUNICH- British Prime Minister David Cameron condemned his country's long-standing policy of multiculturalism as a failure Saturday, saying it was partly to blame for fostering Islamist extremism....

Yemen denies cyber-attacks on Saleh website - 02/05/2011

SANAA- Yemen has denied that the website of President Ali Abdullah Saleh -- the target of anti-government protests -- was brought down by hackers this past week, its official news agency said. "An...
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