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ROME, Feb 22 — Salvage workers have found four more bodies on the wreck of the Costa Concordia, bringing to 21 the confirmed number of dead from the accident in which the huge cruise ship hit rocks and capsized off the Italian coast last month.
Authorities said today that the bodies of a woman and a 5-year-old girl had been recovered. ... Read More
A Roman Catholic nun uses ash to mark a cross on the forehead of a believer during Ash Wednesday in front of a Catholic church in Paranaque city February 22, 2012. — Reuters pic
Mubarak’s trial leaves Egypt with open wounds
CAIRO, Feb 22 — Mohamed Moustafa Morsy had to sneak out of his home to join the protests against Hosni Mubarak last year, afraid his parents would stop him if they knew where he ... Read More
Assad seeks to bomb Homs into submission, alarms world
AMMAN, Feb 22 — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, trying to hammer the city of Homs into submission, today killed 19 more people including two Western journalists in an ... Read More
Strauss-Kahn questioned again after night in cell
LILLE (France), Feb 22 — Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn spent the night in a seven-square-metre cell before French police questioned him for a second day today over what ... Read More
US, French journalists killed in Syria
AMMAN, Feb 22 — American correspondent Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs today when rockets fired by government ... Read More
Australian PM says Rudd never raised concerns with her
CANBERRA, Feb 22 — Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said outgoing Foreign minister Kevin Rudd never raised any of his concerns with her and did not inform her he intended ... Read More
Sarkozy’s popularity edges up as campaign starts
PARIS, Feb 22 — President Nicolas Sarkozy’s efforts to reconnect with a disgruntled French public in a high-energy re-election campaign appeared to be paying off as polls ... Read More
Syrian troops kill 27 in village raids
AMMAN, Feb 22 — Troops and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Asssad killed at least 27 young men when they raided villages in a northern Syrian provice, an opposition ... Read More
US signals possibility of arming Syrian rebels
WASHINGTON, Feb 22 — The United States appeared to open the door to eventually arming Syria‘s opposition, saying that if a political solution to the crisis was impossible it might ... Read More
Australian foreign minister quits in leadership crisis
CANBERRA, Feb 22 — Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigned his ministry today amid speculation he was going to mount a bid to topple Prime Minister Julia Gillard, plunging ... Read More
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- Development-weary Singaporeans back ‘Green Corridor’
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- Indonesia police battle to regain control of Bali prison
- Saleh’s deputy takes power in Yemen vote as sole candidate
- Red Cross seeks Syria ceasefires; more than 100 killed
- Russia boosts arms sales to Syria despite world pressure
- Bombardment of Syria’s Homs kills 21, says activists
- Palestinian prisoner ending hunger strike after deal
- Zimbabwe’s Mugabe turns 88, vowing to cling to power
- Afghanistan’s Karzai says speaks to Taliban every day, says report
- Rebels say holding 52 peacekeepers in Sudan’s Darfur
- Afghans protesting after report Qurans desecrated at US base
- Prince of Monaco punched in New York nightclub brawl
- Laws leave cruise-ship victims at sea
- Yemen votes for post-Saleh era under violence cloud
- EU likely to adopt further sanctions against Syria
- Top UN inspectors in Iran talks on atom bomb accusations
- Red Cross negotiating Syria ceasefire to bring aid
- Halal slaughter becomes political issue in France
- Violence hits Yemen ahead of vote to launch reforms
- Frankfurt airport strike extended to Wed
- Suu Kyi’s party warns Myanmar polls may not be fair
- Iranian ships reach Syria, China warns of civil war
- Russian president to meet protest organisers
- Internet again disrupted in Iran ahead of election
- Germany president row shakes Merkel’s coalition
- UN inspectors arrive in Iran for nuclear talks
- China’s Vice President Xi samples Irish sport in Dublin
- China paper says West stirring up civil war in Syria
- Syrian security forces clamp down on Damascus
- N.Korea ruling party to meet, likely to make succession official
- News Corp to launch ‘Sun on Sunday’ February 26
- France’s Sarkozy plays up crisis in campaign rally
- Alcohol seen killing 200,000 Britons in next 20 years
- Iran halts oil sales to UK, France on eve of talks
- Suicide attack on Baghdad police academy kills 19
- Bomb explodes on edge of Nigerian capital, 5 hurt
- Syrian security forces clamp down on Damascus
- Romania nightclub blasts injure 17
- Australian PM Gillard defiant under pressure over leadership
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- PAS tolak Israel, terserah kepada Anwar untuk terima atau tidak, kata Nik Aziz
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