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Campaigning on hold after 20 dead in Cairo clash
Campaigning for Egypt’s first post-uprising presidential poll was temporarily on hold after thugs attacked an anti-military protest near the defence ministry in Cairo, leaving 20 people dead. Four presidential candidates announced they were temporarily suspending their campaigns over the killings. The Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Mursi told reporters he decided to stop campaigning for 48…
US says ready to help blind Chinese activist
The United States said Thursday it was ready to help Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng if he sought exile, after the blind activist expressed fears for his safety and pleaded to be taken abroad. The fate of the campaigning lawyer-dissident, who escaped from house arrest and spent six days at the US embassy in…
Nigerian market attack kills at least 34
Gunmen armed with explosives killed at least 34 people in northeastern Nigeria when they attacked acattle market and burned it to the ground, residents and officials said Thursday. The attack Wednesday night in the city of Potiskum was said to be in reprisal for an incident earlier in the day, when a gang sought to rob the…
US pushes China to allow yuan rise, speed reforms
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner Thursday urged China to allow its currency to strengthen further and push forward economic reforms, which he said were crucial to the global recovery. But his comments at the start of two-day talks between the world’s two biggest economies were overshadowed by a human rights row that has…
Munch’s ‘Scream’ beats auction record at $119.9 million
NEW YORK — The only privately owned version of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” — one of the most recognizable paintings in history — set a world record when it sold for $119.9 million at Sotheby’s in New York. Heated competition between seven bidders took the price to the highest for…
13 charged in Florida university hazing death
MIAMI — Thirteen people were charged Wednesday in the hazing death of the leader of the Florida A&M University marching band, prosecutors said — an incident that cast a light on college hazing rituals. Drum major Robert Champion, 26, was beaten to death on November 19 in what was described…
U.S. shows no sign of compromise over missile shield
WASHINGTON — Top US officials preparing for international missile defense talks in Russia said Washington remains committed to fully implementing its missile shield for eastern Europe despite Moscow’s opposition. On the eve of the two-day talks involving 50 countries, one of the officials, Ellen Tauscher, also said she doubted there…
Aspirin works as well as blood thinner in heart patients
WASHINGTON — Aspirin works as well as the blood thinner warfarin, or Coumadin, in most patients with heart failure when it comes to preventing death, stroke or brain hemorrhage, said a major international study on Wednesday. The findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine came from a landmark…
Gingrich officially drops presidential bid
ARLINGTON, Virginia — Former House speaker Newt Gingrich on Wednesday dropped his erratic campaign for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, but pledged to remain in the public eye as an “active citizen.” “Today I am suspending the campaign. Suspending the campaign does not mean suspending citizenship,” Gingrich said in a…
Bolivia nationalization hurts investment climate: U.S.
WASHINGTON — The United States voiced concern Wednesday after Bolivia nationalized Spanish firm Red Electrica’s local grid, saying it will damage the country’s investment climate. Bolivian President Evo Morales’s seizure of the Red Electrica subsidiary came just 15 days after Argentina’s much larger expropriation of Spanish oil giant Repsol’s YPF…
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