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at 15:57 on February 22, 2012, EST.
BEIRUT - Syrian gunners pounded an opposition stronghold where the last dispatches from a veteran American-born war correspondent chronicled the suffering of civilians caught in the relentless shelling. An intense morning barrage killed her and a French photojournalist — two of 74 deaths reported Wednesday in Syria.
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at 15:55 on February 22, 2012, EST.
WASHINGTON - It's been almost a month since the last Republican presidential debate, and once again the race for the party's nomination is vastly different than it was when Mitt Romney efficiently put the boots to his biggest threat, Newt Gingrich, during a Florida faceoff.
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at 15:53 on February 22, 2012, EST.
NEWARK, N.J. - The mayor and police director of New Jersey's largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on Newark's Muslim neighbourhoods. Had they known, they said, they never would have allowed it.
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at 15:37 on February 22, 2012, EST.
LONDON - She was instantly recognizable for the eye patch that hid a shrapnel injury — a testament to Marie Colvin's courage, which took her behind the front lines of the world's deadliest conflicts to write about the suffering of individuals trapped in war.
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at 15:35 on February 22, 2012, EST.
VIENNA - Russia said Wednesday the world should not draw "hasty conclusions" over Iran's most recent rebuff of U.N. attempts to investigate allegations the Islamic Republic hid secret work on atomic arms, but the U.S. and its allies accused Tehran of nuclear defiance.
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at 15:35 on February 22, 2012, EST.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A train packed with morning commuters slammed into a barrier at the end of a line in Buenos Aires Wednesday, killing 49 people and injuring hundreds as passenger cars crumpled and windows exploded. It was Argentina's worst train accident in decades.
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at 15:17 on February 22, 2012, EST.
KABUL - Clashes between Afghan troops and protesters angry over the burning of Muslim holy books at a U.S. military base left at least seven people dead and dozens wounded Wednesday as anger spread despite U.S. apologies over what it said was a mistake.
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at 15:06 on February 22, 2012, EST.
PARIS - French police released former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Wednesday after nearly 30 hours in custody for questioning about a suspected hotel prostitution ring.
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at 14:53 on February 22, 2012, EST.
LONDON - The wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair is suing Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper company over phone hacking, her lawyer said Wednesday.
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at 14:44 on February 22, 2012, EST.
NEWARK, N.J. - Newark Mayor Cory Booker and his top police official say the city was misled by the New York Police Department and never would have authorized wholesale spying on Muslims if they had known about it.
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