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Oil prices briefly top $100 a barrel
Oil prices spiked nearly 2% Thursday to briefly top $100 a barrel for the first time in nearly six weeks, before pulling back slightly just below the key level.
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Norway police were "fantastic": justice minister
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Reuters – Norway’s justice minister on Tuesday hailed “fantastic” police work after Anders Behring Breivik killed at least 76 people, setting aside criticisms that police had reacted too slowly to a shooting massacre.
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Daily Mail says no published stories based on hacking
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Reuters – UK newspaper group Daily Mail & General Trust has not published any stories based on hacked messages, its chief executive said, as rival News Corp battles a phone-hacking crisis at its now defunct News of the World tabloid.
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China launches safety campaign after train crash
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Reuters – China’s rail minister, facing public outrage over Saturday’s deadly train crash, has ordered a two-month safety review of railway operations and apologized for the accident which killed 39 people, state media reported on Tuesday.

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Forensic experts attack Amanda Knox trial evidence
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Reuters – Independent forensic experts took the stand on Monday to attack key pieces of evidence used to convict U.S. student Amanda Knox of the murder of her British roommate in the Italian city of Perugia in 2007.

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Long-term deal with U.S. must be on Afghan terms: Karzai
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Reuters – Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday that Afghanistan will only sign a long-term “strategic partnership” deal with Washington if the United States meets Afghan conditions including an end to controversial night raids on homes.
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China’s New Dictionary: Agricultural Cooperative Is Out, Hair Gel Is In
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Time.com – The latest edition of China’s best-known dictionary shows how the country has changed — and not changed. Terms included for the first time include TV show and migrant worker. The word firewall is not
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Norway Justice employees missing after massacre
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AP – Norway’s justice minister told reporters Tuesday that employees from his department are still missing after a bombing at government headquarters in Oslo and a shooting spree on a nearby island that killed at least 76. Police plan to start publicly naming the dead for the first time Tuesday.

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UN: Gadhafi-held part of Libya facing shortages
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AP – The part of Libya under Moammar Gadhafi’s control is wracked by shortages in fuel, food and cash despite a veneer of normalcy, according to a U.N. fact-finding mission.

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Acapulco, Zihuatanejo beaches register pollution
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AP – Mexican health authorities say two beaches in Acapulco are severely contaminated and one in Zihuatanejo registered pollution slightly above permitted levels.
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