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Facebook will release more user data: lobby group
VIENNA (Reuters) - Social media network Facebook has promised to release more information about the data it collects from millions of users, an Austrian group lobbying for respect of privacy laws said on Tuesday. Facebook had agreed in December to overhaul privacy protection for more than half a billion users outside North America after a three-month Irish investigation found that its privacy policies were overly complex and lacked transparency. At a six-hour meeting in Vienna on Monday with the europe-v-facebook. ...
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2012-02-07T21:13:14Z
Cable TV top source for US political news: study
Cable television is the leading source of US political news for Americans, according to a study released Tuesday, but fewer people are closely following the presidential campaign than four years ago.
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2012-02-07T23:15:26Z
Bar Council wants government to pull Lynas licence
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7 — The Bar Council demanded today Putrajaya revoke or at least suspend a temporary operating licence (TOL) to Lynas Corp, saying the move was “hasty” and reckless.
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2012-02-07T23:07:58Z
Russia U.N. veto on Syria aimed at crushing West's crusade
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia's veto of a Security Council resolution on Syria goes far beyond mere protection for a close ally and arms buyer - it showed Moscow's determination to crush what it sees as a Western crusade to use the United Nations to topple unfriendly regimes. The same holds true for China, which followed Russia's lead and joined Moscow in its second double veto to strike down a European-Arab draft resolution that would have endorsed an Arab League plan for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to transfer power to his deputy to prepare free elections. ...
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2012-02-08T08:10:47Z
Attacks in Syria's Homs resume after Russian peace foray
AMMAN (Reuters) - Armoured forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad killed at least 47 civilians as they thrust into Homs on Wednesday, firing rockets and mortar rounds to subdue opposition districts, activists said, a day after Russia said Assad wants peace. Tanks entered the Inshaat neighbourhood and moved closer to Bab Amro district in the central Syrian city, which has been the target of the heaviest barrages by loyalist troops that have killed at least 150 people in the last two day, activists in the city and opposition sources said. ...
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2012-02-08T07:57:56Z
China's leader-in-waiting carries heavy political baggage to U.S
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Communist "princeling" fond of small town America and Hollywood war dramas, and brusque critic of Western pressure with a daughter at Harvard, Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping embodies his nation's contradictory ties with the United States. Vice President Xi's visit to the United States next week will enhance his aura of readiness to lead China from late this year. It could also set the mood for the next decade that he is likely to serve as president, an era when Sino-U.S. relations face deep and potentially troublesome shifts. ...
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2012-02-08T07:57:06Z
Romney still struggles to seal the deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's march to a possible Republican presidential nomination just got a lot longer and harder. Front-runner Romney left Tuesday's round of three nominating contests with another reminder of his own shortcomings, after a two-state winning streak that had placed him firmly in the driver's seat in the nomination race. ...
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2012-02-08T07:26:05Z
NATO, Afghan and Pakistan officials to hold border talks
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - NATO, Afghan and Pakistani military officials will hold talks on improving border security and coordination on Wednesday, in a possible sign that tension is easing following a cross-border NATO air attack in November that infuriated Pakistan. Pakistan's military said the director-general of military operations, Major-General Ishfaq Nadeem Ahmed, would represent the country in the talks at a coordination centre at the border. ... more...
2012-02-08T07:24:06Z
Three-state sweep revives Santorum's White House hopes
DENVER (Reuters) - Former U.S. senator Rick Santorum rejuvenated his presidential hopes on Tuesday with a shocking sweep of the three nominating contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri, dealing a blow to wounded front-runner Mitt Romney. Even though Romney still holds strong advantages in financing and organization, his campaign will now have to refocus to fight back the challenge from the surging conservative Santorum. Backed by a wealthy "Super PAC" that pays for attack ads against rivals, Romney had excelled in major contests thus far in the race. ...
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2012-02-08T07:13:16Z
Syrian forces kill 47 in Homs city - activists
AMMAN (Reuters) - Bombardment of the Syrian city of Homs by government forces killed at least 47 civilians over the past eight hours, activists in the city and opposition sources said on Wednesday. "Electricity returned briefly and we were able to contact various neighbourhoods because activists there managed to recharge their phones. We counted 47 killed since midnight," activist Mohammad Hassan said by satellite phone. (Reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Amman newsroom; Editing by Michael Roddy)
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2012-02-08T06:31:42Z
Egypt risks 'disastrous' rupture in ties: US senators
A trio of leading US senators warned Egypt that the risk of a "disastrous" rupture in ties had "rarely been greater" amid an escalating row over the planned trial of US pro-democracy activists.
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2012-02-08T06:23:15Z
New Maldives leader to form 'unity cabinet'
The new president of the Maldives was to appoint a cabinet of "national unity" on Wednesday, as he sought to counter allegations of seizing power in the holiday paradise in a coup backed by Islamic extremists.
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2012-02-08T06:06:03Z
US poised to withdraw 4,700 Marines from Japan
The United States is to shift 4,700 Marines from Okinawa to Guam without waiting for progress on controversial plans to relocate a US base on the Japanese island, it was expected to be announced on Wednesday.
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2012-02-08T05:53:34Z