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Archive for February 14th, 2012
US, Europe look at fast but risky penalty on Iran (AP)
AP – The United States and Europe are considering unprecedented punishment against Iran that could immediately cripple the country’s financial lifeline. But it’s an extreme option in the banking world that would come with its own costs.
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More shipwreck survivors sue Carnival, Costa (Reuters)
Reuters – Dozens of additional survivors of the Costa Concordia shipwreck off Italy have joined a Florida lawsuit that accuses the ship’s owners of gross negligence and fraud, and asks for at least $528 million in damages.
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Britain’s top rating may yet survive (Reuters)
Reuters – Britain’s top-notch credit rating may survive the threat of a downgrade because economists still believe in London’s resolve to erase a huge budget deficit and the central bank’s ability to print money.
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Obama greets China’s Xi with friendly words, firm stance (Reuters)
Reuters – President Barack Obama told Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping on Tuesday that Beijing must play fair in international trade and vowed to keep pressing China to clean up its human rights record.
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Obama: Strong US-China ties help rest of the world (AP)
AP – China’s heir apparent leader is defending his county’s widely criticized human rights record but acknowledging there is room for improvement.
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Dig for human remains resumes at N. Calif well (AP)
AP – The childhood friends killed for the first time less than three months after their high school graduation in 1984. Then they seemingly killed with impunity for the next 15 years, with one man making barroom boasts about their ability to make people disappear.
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US, Europe look at fast but risky penalty on Iran (AP)
AP – The United States and Europe are considering unprecedented punishment against Iran that could immediately cripple the country’s financial lifeline. But it’s an extreme option in the banking world that would come with its own costs.
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AP NewsBreak: US weighing steep nuclear arms cuts (AP)
AP – The Obama administration is weighing options for sharp new cuts to the U.S. nuclear force, including a reduction of up to 80 percent in the number of deployed weapons, The Associated Press has learned.
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US military deaths in Afghanistan at 1,771 (AP)
AP – As of Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, at least 1,771 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.
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Scrap metal: One man’s treasure is city’s headache (AP)
AP – Scavenging scrap metal to sell enables 28-year-old Milissa Scarberry and family of seven to get by. She advertises on Craigslist offering free pickup, knocks on doors when she sees piles of metal outside, or helps herself to junked metal left on the curb for trash removal.
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