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Google Cleared by U.S., EU to Buy Motorola Mobility

U.S. and European regulators approved Google Inc's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility and said they would keep a sharp eye on the web search giant to ensure patents critical to the telecom industry would be licensed at fair prices.
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Gold Prices Slightly Higher, Platinum at 3-Month High

Gold prices climbed on Monday as news that Greece's parliament had approved an austerity bill needed to release a second round of bailout funds lifted the euro, while platinum rose back towards a three-month high as supply issues flared up.
Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby attends the Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo

Syria Rejects Arab League Peacekeeping Proposal

Syria said it has categorically rejected a new resolution from the Arab League which calls for the formation of a joint Arab-United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country to help bring an end to the bloodshed that has lasted almost one year.
Tibetan exiles holding portraits of Tibetan protesters whom they said were killed during demonstrations in China's Sichuan province, stand behind mock coffins during a protest in New Delhi

Another Nun Kills Herself: Self-Immolations Rise as Tibetan New Year Approaches

The long-simmering tension is reaching the boiling point as angry and frustrated Tibetans are preparing to observe their New Year on Feb.22. Monks and nuns are killing themselves in protest across Tibet in alarming frequency even as the government security forces flood the streets around monasteries and nunneries and local people are intimidated with the use of lethal force.
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Venezuela Presidential Election: Is Rise of Henrique Capriles a Warning Sign for Hugo Chávez?

Henrique Capriles Radonski, Governor of Miranda state, has won the opposition nomination to fight the incumbent socialist President Hugo Chávez in the October presidential elections in Venezuela. Capriles, 39, has swept the opposition primaries, defeating four of his opponents with huge margins. His one-sided victory in the primaries is seen as a warning sign to President Chavez who is looking forward to winning a third six-year term as Venezuelan President.
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China Stocks Rise for Fourth Day Despite Wuhu Retracts Property Easing

China's stocks rose for a fourth day even as Premier Wen Jiabao has called on the need to fine tune economic policies, which has resulted in expectation of easing monetary policy though a decision was announced to suspend the easing of property restrictions in the third-tier city of Wuhu, in eastern Anhui province.
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Gold Rises in Pace with Markets on Greek Vote

Gold strengthened Monday in line with gains in shares and the euro after Greece's parliament finally approved a deeply unpopular austerity bill to secure a second bailout from the European Union and the IMF to avoid bankruptcy.
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Wen Hints at Monetary Easing by China

China will start to fine-tune its economic policies in the first quarter, Premier Wen Jiabao said in remarks published by state media Monday, the most explicit indication yet of further monetary policy easing.
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Arab League Backs Syria Rebels, Ask U.N. Intervention

The Arab League threw its support Sunday firmly behind the opposition mounting an uprising against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, and called for the U.N. Security Council to send peacekeepers to halt bloodshed.
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Airlines Call for U.N. Deal to Avert Carbon Trade War

Global airlines on Sunday called for a deal brokered by a United Nations agency to avoid an impasse between China and the European Union over jet pollution spilling into a trade war. Airlines are being squeezed between conflicting laws, the head of the International Air Transport Association said.
Turkmenistan's President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov in Moscow in this March 24, 2009 file photo.

Turkmenistan Leader Appears Likely to Win Easy Re-election

Turkmenistan votes on Sunday in a one-sided election certain to extend the rule of President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov over a Central Asian country holding 4 percent of global natural-gas reserves, which rights groups rank among the world's most repressive.

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