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• Analysis: Can United States defuse Koran burning uproar? (Reuters)
• Afghan laborer recalls rage as he tried to save charred Korans (Reuters)
• Chavez going to Cuba on Friday for cancer surgery (Reuters)
• U.S. cites progress in shadowy Africa military mission (Reuters)
• Does the 21st Century Need to Be an 'American Century?' (Time.com)
• Europe's Austerity Programs Will Fail (ContributorNetwork)
• In battered Syrian city, cries of `tragic' plight (AP)
• New Libya army flexes muscles to halt tribal fight (Reuters)
• US, NKorea in first nuclear talks since Kim death (AP)
• Harper says unaware of alleged vote suppression (Reuters)
• Actress Lucy Lawless climbs oil-drilling ship (AP)
• Report: London no safer for all its CCTV cameras (The Christian Science Monitor)
• The Carnage in Syria: Could the Russians Come to the Rescue? (Time.com)
• As austerity bites hard, a once pliant Spain revolts (The Christian Science Monitor)

Analysis: Can United States defuse Koran burning uproar? (Reuters) Posted: 23 Feb 2012 04:40 PM PST Reuters - After a third day of bloody protests over the burning of the Koran, there is a sense that America is lurching from one image crisis to the next in Afghanistan, with no clear path for U.S. officials to defuse the latest uproar.

Afghan laborer recalls rage as he tried to save charred Korans (Reuters) Posted: 23 Feb 2012 03:31 PM PST Reuters - In a small room near NATO's sprawling Bagram Airbase, Sayed Jamil fumes as he remembers how three U.S. soldiers ignored the pleas of fellow laborers not to burn dozens of copies of the Koran, the Muslim holy book.

Chavez going to Cuba on Friday for cancer surgery (Reuters) Posted: 23 Feb 2012 01:04 PM PST Reuters - Venezuela's ailing socialist president, Hugo Chavez, will fly to Cuba on Friday for an unknown period to undergo new cancer surgery that has shaken the South American nation before an October presidential election.

U.S. cites progress in shadowy Africa military mission (Reuters) Posted: 23 Feb 2012 03:51 PM PST Reuters - The United States said on Thursday it was making progress with its African allies in its push against Uganda's notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), but gave no clear end date for the shadowy U.S. military operation unfolding in central Africa.

Does the 21st Century Need to Be an 'American Century?' (Time.com) Posted: 23 Feb 2012 09:40 AM PST Time.com - Though the Republican presidential hopefuls are still duking it out amongst themselves, it seems the GOP has already thrown down the gauntlet on foreign policy

Europe's Austerity Programs Will Fail (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 23 Feb 2012 04:01 PM PST ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | The Associated Press reports that the austerity budgets being passed in Europe have done nothing to improve their respective economies. The implication is that deep spending cuts do not work and that these governments should be following a Keynesian plan by spending their way out of debt and recession. It is my opinion that the data does not support this idea and to do the opposite would only accelerate a nation's decline.

In battered Syrian city, cries of `tragic' plight (AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2012 04:07 PM PST AP - Medics stitch wounds with thread used for clothing. Hungry residents risk Syrian government sniper fire or shelling to hunt for dwindling supplies of bread and canned food on the streets of the besieged city of Homs.

New Libya army flexes muscles to halt tribal fight (Reuters) Posted: 23 Feb 2012 03:15 PM PST Reuters - Libyan troops intervened to end fighting between rival tribes in the eastern desert on Thursday, a rare example of the government in Tripoli imposing its authority over the fractious country.

US, NKorea in first nuclear talks since Kim death (AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2012 04:48 PM PST AP - The United States and North Korea headed into a second day of talks Friday on restarting nuclear disarmament in return for aid, negotiations that were delayed by the death of North Korea's longtime leader Kim Jong Il two months ago.

Harper says unaware of alleged vote suppression (Reuters) Posted: 23 Feb 2012 11:58 AM PST Reuters - Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Thursday he was unaware of allegations his Conservative party had used dirty tricks to suppress votes to help win last year's federal election.

Actress Lucy Lawless climbs oil-drilling ship (AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2012 03:10 PM PST AP - Television actress Lucy Lawless and six Greenpeace activists have climbed an oil-drilling ship bound for the Arctic to try and stop it from leaving.

Report: London no safer for all its CCTV cameras (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 22 Feb 2012 01:20 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - London is considered the most spied-on city in the world, courtesy of its ubiquitous CCTV cameras, purportedly there to reduce crime. But according to a recent report, there's been little or no change in London's crime rates since they were more widely installed in the mid 1980s.

The Carnage in Syria: Could the Russians Come to the Rescue? (Time.com) Posted: 23 Feb 2012 09:40 AM PST Time.com - In the increasingly bloody assault on Homs, some believe Moscow may be softening its rigid support of the regime -- if only to ease the humanitarian crisis

As austerity bites hard, a once pliant Spain revolts (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 22 Feb 2012 01:09 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - After four days of daily protests, some violently dispersed, Spain is bracing for a cycle of social unrest against the harshest austerity measures in decades. At stake is not only Spain’s economic recovery, but that of the European Union.

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