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UN Security Council visits Haiti to review mandate
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AP - The United Nations Security Council has begun a four-day mission in Haiti to review the terms of its mandate.
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Greece faces further obstacles in bailout deal
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AP - Greece faces further hurdles and delays before it can receive a second, euro130 billion ($171 billion) bailout despite its lawmakers voting through more austerity measures in the face of violent protests.
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U.N. says Syria emboldened by diplomatic deadlock
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Reuters - The U.N. human rights chief accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of launching an "indiscriminate attack" on civilians to end pro-democracy protests and said he had been emboldened by the failure of the Security Council to condemn him.
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Dark Matter Found Lurking at Edges of Galaxies - http://news.discovery.com/space...
A new computer simulation -- based on real data -- has been created to reveal how dark matter might be distributed around, and beyond, the galaxies.
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Italian court hands down 16-year terms in asbestos case - http://www.cnn.com/2012...
An Italian court sentenced two officers of a Swiss company to 16-year prison terms in absentia Monday for the deaths of about 2,000 workers who prosecutors said were exposed to asbestos.
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Oprah draws fire for asking Nielsen viewers to watch OWN - http://www.cnn.com/2012...
Oprah Winfrey took to Twitter last night to ask Nielsen viewers to watch her cable network OWN, drawing criticism from some followers and investigative scrutiny from the ratings measurement company.
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Clashes in Bahrain ahead of protest anniversary - http://www.cnn.com/2012...
Police in Bahrain turned tear gas and rubber bullets on protesters who wanted to march from a Monday night demonstration on the outskirts of Manama toward a city landmark.
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Jon Bernthal talks 'The Walking Dead' return - http://www.cnn.com/2012...
One of the more compelling aspects of AMC's "The Walking Dead" comes with watching a band of survivors try to figure out what right and wrong means in this new, zombie plague world they inhabit.
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Supreme Court Justice Breyer robbed at knifepoint during Caribbean vacation - http://www.cnn.com/2012...
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was robbed last week by an intruder armed with a machete while Breyer was vacationing on the Caribbean island of Nevis, court officials said Monday.
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5.5-magnitude earthquake rattles Northern California - http://www.cnn.com/2012...
A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Northern California on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
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Soldier's death sparks debate over arming medevacs
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AP - It took a medevac unit 59 minutes to get U.S. Army Spec. Chazray Clark to a hospital in southern Afghanistan after receiving a call that a roadside bombing severed three of his limbs. Clark did not survive.
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Administration proposes increase in transportation spending - http://www.cnn.com/2012...
President Barack Obama wants to raise the Department of Transportation budget by 2 percent next year.
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CNN Student News Transcript - February 14, 2012 - http://www.cnn.com/2012...
February 14, 2012
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GOP leaders drop key demand in payroll tax cut standoff - http://www.cnn.com/2012...
In a sharp turnaround, House Republican leaders Monday dropped a key demand that the cost of extending the payroll tax cut be offset by spending cuts elsewhere in the budget.
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More than 30,000 Germans turn out against anti-piracy treaty ACTA
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The Christian Science Monitor - Tens of thousands of Germans have protested against ACTA, a controversial international anti-piracy agreement that has embroiled Germany's politicians in a heated debate on whether the treaty is a useful tool to protect intellectual property or an infringement of personal freedom.
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Rats being put to work in Colombia, training to detect explosives - http://www.cnn.com/2012...
At a Colombian National Police base in the outskirts of Bogota, the nation's capital, a new recruit is being trained.
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Britain frees radical cleric Abu Qatada
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Reuters - A radical cleric once described as "Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe" was freed from a British prison to live under virtual house arrest on Monday after a court ruled that his detention without trial was unlawful.
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Brazil editor killed in rough border town
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AP - The editor-in-chief of a newspaper that crusaded against corruption in Brazil's rough border region with Paraguay was shot dead, police said Monday, just days after another slain journalist's body was found in a different state.
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Ivanovic defeats Suarez Navarro but Pavlyuchenko stung in Qatar - http://www.cnn.com/2012...
Serbia's Ana Ivanovic made it into the second round of the Qatar Open after Spanish opponent Carla Suarez Navarro retired injured.
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'Whitey' Bulger trial set for November - http://www.cnn.com/2012...
A judge has set the date of James "Whitey" Bulger's trial on charges including murder for November 5, the U.S. attorney's office for Massachusetts said Monday.
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Bus company, driver sued in FAMU hazing death - http://www.cnn.com/2012...
A lawsuit filed by the family of Robert Champion, the Florida A&M University band member allegedly beaten to death in a hazing ritual, accused the bus company involved in the deadly assault and the bus driver of negligence, their attorney said Monday.
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Clinton: Poverty helping fuel violence in Nigeria
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AP - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton warned Monday that the rampant poverty that plagues oil-rich Nigeria — felt most acutely in its Muslim north — is fueling the religious violence now tearing at the nation.
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Activists: Syrian rebels repel attack on key town
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AP - Syrian rebels repelled a push Monday by government tanks into a central town held by forces fighting President Bashar Assad's regime in an 11-month conflict that looks increasingly like a civil war.
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Murdoch media crisis deepens with five new arrests
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The Christian Science Monitor - The famed Rupert Murdoch tabloid scandal-mills are grinding yet again.
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CNN Student News: Daily Discussion - http://www.cnn.com/2012...
February 14, 2012
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Radical cleric Abu Qatada being freed from UK jail
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AP - Abu Qatada, a radical Muslim cleric whom British officials say is an al-Qaida figurehead and a threat to national security, was freed from an English prison into virtual house arrest late Monday, British media reported.
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Washington, New Jersey move toward same-sex marriage - http://www.cnn.com/2012...
Proponents of same-sex marriage got a boost on two fronts Monday, when the governor of Washington signed a bill legalizing marriage for gay and lesbian couples and the New Jersey state Senate voted 24-16 in favor of a similar bill.
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NASA's 2013 Budget Sees Mars Mission Cuts - http://news.discovery.com/space...
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The proposed budget will see the U.S. space agency receive $59 million less than it did in 2012.
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The Seedy, Scandalous History of Valentine's Day - http://news.discovery.com/history...
Ancient Roman traditions included naked men running through the streets. Then, things changed a little.
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