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Violence offers glimpse of Greece's reform challenge

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:41:59 -0500

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greeks swept rocks and broken glass from the streets of Athens on Monday after a night of violence that gave lawmakers a taste of the challenge they face in implementing a deeply unpopular austerity bill demanded by the country's foreign lenders.

Arabs pledge support for Syria opposition

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:21:45 -0500

AMMAN/CAIRO (Reuters) - Syrian forces resumed their bombardment of the city of Homs on Monday after Arab countries called for U.N. peacekeepers and pledged their firm support for the opposition battling President Bashar al-Assad.

Obama's election-year budget to target rich

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:29:18 -0500

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will propose an election-year budget on Monday that raises taxes on millionaires and seeks billions of dollars for job-creating infrastructure projects, drawing a populist battle line with his Republican opponents.

A year on, only brief home visits for Japan nuclear evacuees

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:15:27 -0500

OKUMA, Japan (Reuters) - Back home for just three hours, a tearful Miyoko Takeda sorted through her belongings. She left behind the kimonos she once wore as a traditional dancer, fearful they might be contaminated by radiation.

Apple launches new legal attack on Samsung phones

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:51:07 -0500

(Reuters) - Apple Inc raised the stake in an intensifying global patent battle with Samsung Electronics by targeting the latest model using Google's fast growing Android software, a move which may affect other Android phone makers.

Olympus expects net loss, but core business seen unscathed

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:51:58 -0500

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's scandal-hit Olympus Corp on Monday forecast a $410 million full-year net loss due to its ailing camera business and tax asset writedowns, but strength in its core endoscope business highlighted its attractiveness to potential investors.

S&P's Moritz Kraemer: Europe's AAA-rated Mr Scissorhands

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:17:46 -0500

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - On January 13, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services cut the credit ratings of nine euro zone countries, stripping France and Austria of their triple-A status and triggering new concerns about the region's financial health.

Tough calculus for Obama in Chinese leader's election-year visit

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:11:01 -0500

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even as he greets China's vice president in the Oval Office on Tuesday, President Barack Obama is quietly overhauling U.S. economic policy toward Beijing, looking for new ways to extract results on issues such as market access and currency manipulation that have bedeviled him and his predecessors.

Venezuela's Capriles wins primary, seeks to beat Chavez

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:14:53 -0500

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles easily won a primary election on Sunday to become the unity candidate against President Hugo Chavez, vowing to end 13 years of socialist rule that he said has left the OPEC nation in crisis.

Tensions grow over EU aviation emissions

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:31:41 -0500

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Global planemaker Airbus joined a chorus of concern that a European scheme to charge airlines for carbon emissions risks triggering a full-blown trade war, with implications for plane deals and even Europe's crippling sovereign debt crisis.