AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and other leaders in the left-leaning ALBA bloc backed Argentina on Saturday in its long-running dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands.
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Chavez and allies back Argentina on Falklands (AP)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 5:47am EST
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Magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes off Vancouver Island (Reuters)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 11:23pm EST
Reuters - A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck off Vancouver Island on Saturday, some 209 miles west of Victoria, the capital of the Canadian province of British Columbia, the U.S. Geological Survey said. -
Vatican rejects prelate's corruption allegations (AP)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 11:23pm EST
AP - The administration of the Vatican City State on Saturday categorically rejected as groundless a top prelate's accusations of corruption in the Holy See's awarding of contracts. -
AP Interview: US women call Egypt captors 'kind' (AP)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 10:56pm EST
AP - Their kidnappers gave them tea and dried fruit, and talked about religion and tribal rights. The California women were allowed to bring their Egyptian tour guide with them. One even put out his cigarette in the car when a hostage said the smoke was bothering her.
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Argentines seek peaceful resolution in Falklands (AP)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 10:28pm EST
AP - London's tabloids and British leaders are depicting Argentina as dangerous and belligerent 30 years after its invasion of the Falkland Islands. Argentines say Britain should consider its own history of waging war around the globe, and acknowledge that the islands and seas around them rightfully belong to Argentina.
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Libyan Sufis mark Prophet's birthday despite tension (Reuters)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 10:11pm EST
Reuters - Libyan Sufis staged a joyous parade through the heart of Tripoli on Saturday to mark the Prophet Mohammad's birthday, defying radical Salafi Muslims pressuring them to scrap the centuries-old tradition. -
Chavez celebrates 20th anniversary of coup attempt (AP)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 8:52pm EST
AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez celebrated the 20th anniversary of the failed coup attempt that launched his political career on Saturday, presiding over a military parade while fighter jets and helicopters roared overhead. -
European chill moves west, 122 die in Ukraine (Reuters)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 7:56pm EST
Reuters - Bitterly cold weather that has claimed hundreds of lives in eastern Europe swept westwards over the continent on Saturday, blanketing Rome's Colosseum with snow for the first time in three decades and disrupting air and rail traffic. -
South Africa's Malema loses appeal against ANC suspension (Reuters)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 7:40pm EST
Reuters - South Africa's ruling ANC on Saturday upheld a decision to ban youth leader Julius Malema for five years for bringing the movement into disrepute, sending into the political wilderness a noisy rebel who had called for the nationalisation of mines. -
US renews warning to Egypt over aid (AP)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 6:44pm EST
AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday issued a new warning to Egypt that the failure to resolve a bitter dispute over the status of non-governmental pro-democracy groups may lead to the loss of American aid to the country. -
US tourist dies while diving in Cayman Islands (AP)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 6:44pm EST
AP - Police in the Cayman Islands say a 47-year-old U.S. tourist has died while scuba diving off popular North West Point in Grand Cayman. -
Egypt clashes ease but protesters determined to fight on (Reuters)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 5:12pm EST
Reuters - Egypt's military faced pressure on Saturday to speed up its transfer of power to civilians, as top public figures demanded a faster transition and street protests against army rule disrupted the heart of Cairo for a third day. -
Heavy weapons rattle northern Mali town, thousands flee (Reuters)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 4:38pm EST
Reuters - Sporadic heavy weapons fire rang out in the northern Malian town of Kidal overnight and on Saturday, in a sign that a Tuareg-led rebellion was nearing its most significant target to date after two weeks of fighting. -
McCain ruffles Beijing with talk of Chinese Arab Spring (Reuters)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 4:19pm EST
Reuters - U.S. Senator John McCain warned China's Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun on Saturday that the Arab Spring is coming to China and highlighted the number of Tibetans burning themselves to death in his country.
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Russia admits brief cut of gas supplies to Europe (AP)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 3:25pm EST
AP - Russia's state-controlled Gazprom natural gas giant acknowledged for the first time Saturday that it had briefly reduced gas supplies to Europe amid a spell of extreme cold.
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A failed province: Cautionary tale for S.Africa (AP)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 2:47pm EST
AP - The giant pipes lying idle along the road were supposed to deliver water from a dam completed six years ago to villages across the region.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 1:59pm EST
AP - Tunisia expels Syrian ambassador over bloody massacre in Homs. -
Heathrow Airport cancels flights ahead of snow (AP)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 1:57pm EST
AP - The owner of Heathrow Airport says it has canceled 30 percent of flights for Sunday amid forecasts for snow and severe weather in London. -
ANC youth leader gets 2nd chance on suspension (AP)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 1:48pm EST
AP - A South African youth leader who has stirred furious debate over race relations and economic policy is guilty of serious discipline violations, but will get a chance to argue against a possibly career-ending suspension from the country's governing party, party officials said Saturday.
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Afghan Taliban deny Mullah Omar wrote to White House (Reuters)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 1:42pm EST
Reuters - The Afghan Taliban denied on Saturday that the group's leader Mullah Omar wrote to the White House last year. -
Merkel unhappy China blocked lawyer from meeting (AP)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 1:25pm EST
AP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed regret Saturday that Chinese police blocked a human rights lawyer from meeting her and said the Communist government should have the confidence to allow dissent.
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Greece pushes for deal with lenders on contested reforms (Reuters)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 12:36pm EST
Reuters - Greece's government makes another push on Saturday to hammer out a deal with foreign lenders on a 130 billion euro bailout before turning to the trickier task of convincing wary political leaders to back the additional painful reforms involved. -
Tens of thousands rally against Putin (AP)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 11:38am EST
AP - Tens of thousands of Russians flooded downtown Moscow on Saturday to demand an end to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's rule, casting a strong challenge to his bid to reclaim the presidency in March.
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Death toll in latest Egypt clashes climbs to 8 (AP)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 11:26am EST
AP - Egyptian security forces on Saturday fired tear gas from armored trucks at protesters demanding an end to military rule, as anger over a deadly soccer riot fueled a third day of clashes that have killed at least 12 people.
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Russians stage rival protests over Putin (Reuters)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 11:26am EST
Reuters - Tens of thousands of Russians defied bitter cold in Moscow on Saturday to demand fair elections in a march against Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule, while supporters of the prime minister staged a rival rally drawing comparable numbers. -
Iran calls on EU to review oil embargo decision (Reuters)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 9:52am EST
Reuters - Iran's oil minister said the Islamic state would not retreat from its nuclear program even if its crude oil exports grind to a halt, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday. -
UN: Afghan civilian deaths in war hit 5-year high (AP)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 9:01am EST
AP - Last year was the deadliest on record for civilians in the Afghan war, with 3,021 killed as insurgents ratcheted up violence with suicide attacks and roadside bombs, the United Nations said Saturday.
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Iran begins naval exercises near Gulf strait (AP)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 8:24am EST
AP - Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard began military exercises Saturday in the country's south, the latest show of force after threats to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for tougher Western sanctions.
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Pakistan PM to discuss Afghanistan reconciliation in Qatar (Reuters)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 8:20am EST
Reuters - Pakistan's prime minister will travel to Qatar next week to talk with officials from the Gulf Arab state on the Afghan reconciliation process, a senior government official said on Saturday. -
Massacre in Syria: Reports of Hundreds Killed in Homs, While Diplomats Fiddle at the U.N. (Time.com)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 6:35am EST
Time.com - Friday night, Syrian security forces carried out what the opposition Syrian National Council called a horrific massacre targeting Homs in one of the worst in the 11-month uprising. -
Egyptian Protesters Confront Police After Soccer Riots (Time.com)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 6:35am EST
Time.com - Four more die in a day of violent clashes, as anger over alleged police complicity in a stadium tragedy unleashes pent-up frustrations -
Sudan rebels seeking way to hand over abducted Chinese (Reuters)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 6:09am EST
Reuters - Sudanese rebels said they are looking for ways to hand over 29 Chinese workers held in the border state of South Kordofan, Chinese state media said, as Sudan's government confirmed the death of one worker in a firefight.
