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2 Western journalists killed as Syria shells Homs (AP) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012
AP - A French photojournalist and a prominent American war correspondent working for a British newspaper were killed Wednesday as Syrian forces intensely shelled the opposition stronghold of Homs. President Bashar Assad's regime also escalated attacks on rebel bases elsewhere, with helicopter gunships strafing areas in the northwest, activists said.

Argentine train slams into station, killing 49 (AP) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012
AP - A packed train slammed into the end of the line in Buenos Aires' busy Once station Wednesday, killing 49 people and injuring hundreds of morning commuters as passenger cars crumpled behind the engine. It was Argentina's worst train accident in decades.

7 killed as Afghan Quran protests turn violent (AP) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012

Foreign troops from the International Security Assistant Forces (ISAF) attend a Mardi Gras festival at a NATO base in Kabul February 21, 2012. There were feathered masks, glitter, cakes and -- guns: America's most raucous holiday was feted by NATO troops and their colleagues in Kabul late on Tuesday in their heavily barricaded headquarters. Picture taken February 21, 2012. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY MILITARY)AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed for calm Wednesday after clashes in several cities between Afghan security forces and protesters furious over the burning of Muslim holy books at a U.S. military base left seven people dead.


Geithner: Obama seeks 28 percent corp. tax rate (AP) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, talks about the importance of the payroll-tax cut and jobless-benefits extension compromise that bi-partisan House and Senate conferees reached last week, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the current business tax system is bad for business and for job creation and says a plan by President Barack Obama to reduce corporate tax rates would make the tax system more globally competitive.


Poll: Santorum surges, Obama leads Republicans (AP) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012

President Barack Obama welcomes guests during the White House Music Series saluting Blues Music in recognition of Black History Month, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - A surging Rick Santorum is running even with Mitt Romney atop the Republican presidential field, but neither candidate is faring well against President Barack Obama eight months before Americans vote, a new survey shows.


Italy: Divers find 8 more bodies in ship wreckage (AP) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012
AP - Divers searching the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship off a Tuscan island found eight bodies Wednesday on one of the passenger decks, including that of a missing 5-year-old Italian girl, authorities said.

NYPD built secret files on NJ, Long Island mosques (AP) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012

Mohammed el-Sioufi, an accountant and vice president of the Islamic Culture Center, a mosque in Newark, is interviewed by the Associated Press about the New York Police Department's surveillance of the Muslim community in Newark, N.J., Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. Americans in New Jersey’s largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department’s effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The operation in Newark was so secretive, even the city’s mayor says he was kept in the dark. For months in mid-2007, plainclothes NYPD officers snapped pictures of mosques and eavesdropped in Muslim neighborhoods. The result was a 60-page report, obtained by The Associated Press. It cited no evidence of crimes. It was just a guide to Newark’s Muslims. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Americans living and working in New Jersey's largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department's effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The operation in Newark was so secretive even the city's mayor says he was kept in the dark.


Arizona finally gets GOP candidates']);" href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120222/ap_on_el_pr/us_gop_campaign" target="_blank">Arizona finally gets GOP candidates' attention (AP) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012

Arizona finally gets GOP candidates']);" href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120222/ap_on_el_pr/us_gop_campaign">Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum reacts while shaking hand during a campaign rally at the El-Zaribah Shrine Auditorium, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, in Phoenix, Arizona. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - Rick Santorum is looking for another upset or two, while Mitt Romney is hoping to keep his leading rival at bay in the run-up to the 20th debate of the race for the Republican presidential nomination.


W.Va. mine boss charged with fraud in deadly blast (AP) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012
AP - The superintendent of the West Virginia coal mine where an explosion killed 29 men was charged Wednesday with conspiracy to defraud the federal government, becoming the highest-ranking Massey Energy employee to face criminal prosecution so far over the deadly blast.




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