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Syria bombards Homs; West scrambles for new strategy (Reuters)

United States Ambassador Susan Rice speaks with an unidentified delegate during the U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss a European-Arab draft resolution endorsing an Arab League plan calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to give up power in New York February 4, 2012. REUTERS/Allison JoyceReuters - Syrian forces bombarded Homs on Monday, killing 50 people in a sustained assault on several districts of the city which has become a centre of armed opposition to President Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian National Council opposition group said.


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U.N. nuclear talks in Tehran: frustrated hopes (Reuters)
Reuters - After two days of rare and intensive talks in Tehran, senior U.N. nuclear officials may have felt they were finally making headway towards getting Iran to address suspicions that it is bent on developing the ability to make atom bombs.MORE
Palestinian rivals agree to form unity government (Reuters)
Reuters - The leaders of rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas signed a deal in Qatar on Monday to form a unity government of independent technocrats for the West Bank and Gaza, headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.MORE
Victims weep, ridicule Norway killer's court speech (Reuters)

Norwegian confessed killer Anders Behring Breivik (C) is seated next to his defence lawyers Geir Lippestad (R) and Vibeke Hein Baera (3rd L) at a hearing at a courthouse Oslo February 6, 2012. REUTERS/Christopher OlssanReuters - Survivors and relatives of those killed in a Norwegian mass-murder rampage wept and ridiculed the smiling attacker in court Monday as he defended his acts by issuing a tirade against immigration.


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Analysis: Iran economy could limp along under sanctions (Reuters)
Reuters - Tightening international sanctions against Iran look set to shrink its economy, push up inflation and further erode its currency, but they may fail to deliver a knock-out blow that forces Tehran to compromise on its nuclear ambitions.MORE
Syria's Splintered Opposition: Who Is Running the War Against the Regime? (Time.com)
Time.com - Even as the Free Syrian Army is establishing an identity in the conflict, another organization announces its presence in the opposition pantheonMORE
Romania's government collapses after protests (AP)

Romanian Premier Emil Boc, front centre, leaves the headquarters of the ruling Democratic Liberal party in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012, after announcing his immediate resignation with his government on Monday, saying he wanted to protect the stability of the country.  The resignation comes after weeks of protests in Romania over austerity measures that Boc introduced in 2010, and opposition politicians are calling for early parliamentary elections, which are currently scheduled for November. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)AP - Romania's government collapsed Monday following weeks of protests against austerity measures, the latest debt-stricken government in Europe to fall in the face of raising public anger over biting cuts.


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Netanyahu to Cabinet: Stop 'chitchat' about Iran (AP)
AP - An Israeli official says the country's prime minister has told his Cabinet to quit the "chitchat" about Iran.MORE
Puerto Rico fisherman survives 20 days adrift (AP)
AP - A Puerto Rican fisherman spent nearly three weeks adrift in the Caribbean, surviving on raw fish and trapped rainwater, before reaching the Colombian island of San Andres.MORE
Nigeria names seven behind Eni pipeline blast (Reuters)
Reuters - Nigeria's military has named seven people it says were behind an attack on an oil pipeline belonging to Italy's Eni on Saturday, and denied a claim that a former separatist militia in the Niger Delta was responsible.MORE
No way China can sustain its growth: Biden (Reuters)
Reuters - Vice President Joe Biden warned on Monday that there is no way that China will be able to sustain its current level of economic growth because of what he called its "God-awful" one-child policy.MORE
Canadian Muslims issue fatwa against "honor killing" (Reuters)
Reuters - A group of Canada's leading Muslim clerics has issued a fatwa against so-called "honor killings," just a week after three members of an Afghan Canadian family were convicted of a gruesome quadruple murder that triggered a national debate about cultural values.MORE
Correction: Australia helicopter deaths story (AP)
AP - In a story Feb. 5 about the deaths of two filmmakers in an Australian helicopter crash, The Associated Press reported erroneously the location of the crash. Nowra is 97 miles (156 kilometers) south of Sydney, not north.MORE
Americans face prosecution as Egypt ignores Clinton, Congress (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Egypt is bringing criminal charges against at least 40 people, including some American citizens, over the foreign funding of nongovernmental organizations, sharply raising the stakes in a standoff with the US that has put $1.3 billion in US military aid to Egypt at risk.MORE
The Mainstreaming of Hamas Continues as Palestinian Unity Gains Steam (Time.com)
Time.com - Hamas vows to give Palestinian moderate leader Mahmoud Abbas the running room to see what talks can produceMORE
Syria next steps: With diplomacy stalled, escalation expected (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis in Syria appear to have reached an impasse following the vetoing by Russia and China of a United Nations Security Council resolution.MORE
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