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• Some women, children evacuated in Homs: ICRC (Reuters)
• Iran has expanded sensitive nuclear work: U.N. agency (Reuters)
• Chavez flies to Cuba for more cancer surgery (Reuters)
• Facing hostility, Putin to win the Kremlin: poll (Reuters)
• Afghanistan: Riots over Koran Burning Subside, But Does Anger Still Simmer? (Time.com)
• No G20 deal on IMF cash this weekend, pressure on Europe (Reuters)
• Al-Qaida in Iraq warns of looming war with Shiites (AP)
• Argentines discover 51st victim in train wreck (AP)
• Testimony by survivor of Rwanda's genocide resumes (AP)
• Apple tactics in China iPad deal unusual: experts (Reuters)
• Manitoba court will not suspend Canada Wheat Board law (Reuters)
• Australian inquest considers dingo-baby mystery (AP)
• Argentine train crash sheds light on need for transportation reform (The Christian Science Monitor)
• How the U.S. Could Pressure North Korea Tomorrow: Quit the $100 Bill (Time.com)
• Italy's Mafia troubles creep north (The Christian Science Monitor)

Some women, children evacuated in Homs: ICRC (Reuters) Posted: 24 Feb 2012 04:16 PM PST Reuters - The first of the wounded and sick women and children trapped in the besieged Baba Amro district of Homs were evacuated on Friday as international pressure mounted on the Syrian government to call a cease fire and allow in humanitarian aid.

Iran has expanded sensitive nuclear work: U.N. agency (Reuters) Posted: 24 Feb 2012 04:00 PM PST Reuters - Iran has sharply stepped up its controversial uranium enrichment drive, the U.N. nuclear agency said on Friday in a report that will further inflame Israeli fears the Islamic Republic is pushing ahead with atomic bomb plans.

Chavez flies to Cuba for more cancer surgery (Reuters) Posted: 24 Feb 2012 02:32 PM PST Reuters - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez left for new cancer surgery in Cuba on Friday, bidding an emotional farewell to anxious supporters and vowing to return for victory in the October election.

Facing hostility, Putin to win the Kremlin: poll (Reuters) Posted: 24 Feb 2012 05:15 AM PST Reuters - Vladimir Putin will reclaim the Kremlin's top job by winning two thirds of the vote in a March presidential election, but Russia's alpha-dog leader may face growing resentment against his rule, the last major poll before the vote showed on Friday.

Afghanistan: Riots over Koran Burning Subside, But Does Anger Still Simmer? (Time.com) Posted: 24 Feb 2012 09:30 AM PST Time.com - Most observers expected the worst on Friday as the pious gathered at mosques for prayer. But, while violence did occur, it appeared to be much less than feared

No G20 deal on IMF cash this weekend, pressure on Europe (Reuters) Posted: 24 Feb 2012 03:01 PM PST Reuters - World economic powers told Europe on Friday it would have to do more to fight its financial crisis before they agree to provide back-up in the form of a bigger IMF war-chest.

Al-Qaida in Iraq warns of looming war with Shiites (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2012 02:37 PM PST AP - A spokesman for al-Qaida in Iraq said Friday that a Sunni Muslim war against Shiites in Iraq is inevitable and threatened relentless waves of attacks like the one a day earlier that killed at least 55 people.

Argentines discover 51st victim in train wreck (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2012 04:44 PM PST AP - The discovery of a 51st victim Friday two days after Argentina's deadliest train wreck in decades left the man's family devastated and prompted rock-throwing and other violence by protesters holding vigil at the scene.

Testimony by survivor of Rwanda's genocide resumes (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2012 01:50 PM PST AP - A Rwandan woman who survived the 1994 genocide said she never mentioned the name of a New Hampshire woman charged with lying about her role in it during a decade of investigations because no one asked her.

Apple tactics in China iPad deal unusual: experts (Reuters) Posted: 24 Feb 2012 03:39 PM PST Reuters - Proview Electronics, the firm trying to stop Apple Inc from using the iPad name in China, has a plausible claim over the unusual methods Apple used to conceal its identity when attempting to acquire Proview's trademarks, according to several legal experts.

Manitoba court will not suspend Canada Wheat Board law (Reuters) Posted: 24 Feb 2012 12:31 PM PST Reuters - A Manitoba court cleared away some of the uncertainty surrounding Western Canada's move to an open grain market on Friday, rejecting a request to suspend a federal law that ends the Canadian Wheat Board's marketing monopoly.

Australian inquest considers dingo-baby mystery (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2012 05:57 AM PST AP - A coroner on Friday opened the fourth inquest into the most notorious and bitter legal drama in Australia's history: the 1980 death of a 9-week-old baby whose parents say a dingo took her from a tent in the Australian Outback.

Argentine train crash sheds light on need for transportation reform (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 23 Feb 2012 12:57 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - A commuter train crash yesterday â€" the latest in eight rail accidents in Argentina since 2008 â€" is shining a light on the government's unaddressed transportation problems and poor regulatory standards.

How the U.S. Could Pressure North Korea Tomorrow: Quit the $100 Bill (Time.com) Posted: 24 Feb 2012 09:30 AM PST Time.com - U.S. negotiators are heading into a second day of what have been dubbed "serious and substantial" talks with North Korean officials

Italy's Mafia troubles creep north (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 23 Feb 2012 12:19 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The Mafia used to be strictly a business of Italy’s south, but today organized crime has reached the north â€" Italy’s economic engine â€"  and is thriving, investing its illegally-made millions there.

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