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OPENINGS Mamma Mia! SHN presents a two-week special-engagement return run of the Abba musical, featuring many of the group's hits from "Dancing Queen" to "The Winner Takes It All." Opens Tuesday. Through March 4. Orpheum Theatre, 1192 Market St. , San Fra
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Johannesburg - Corporate heavyweights MTN Group [JSE:MTN] and Sasol [JSE:SOL] this week faced immense global pressure to quit troubled Iran as war talk and brinkmanship reached fever pitch. Former US ambassador to the United Nations Mark Wallace and form
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A barred window is seen at the Embassy of Iran in London February 18, 2012. Iran is clearly trying to develop a nuclear weapons capability, and if it succeeds it will set off a dangerous round of nuclear proliferation across the Middle East, British... View Photo »
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Obama is trying to cut cost, shrink and streamline government - all the things that conservatives want their guys to do (with the exception of getting us out of the Middle East wars). Maybe conservatives should fall in line behind Obama and see what he is actually capable of.
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(Rabat) – Morocco is prosecuting activists who campaigned peacefully for a boycott of elections held three months ago, Human Rights Watch said today. These prosecutions contradict statements by Moroccan officials that authorities arrested no one for advo
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Foreign Secretary William Hague has warned Israel that military action against Iran would not be "a wise thing". Amid rumours the Israeli government is considering strikes against Iran within months, Mr Hague insisted economic sanctions and negotiations
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In this photo released by the Iranian President's Office, an Iranian technician works during a tour of the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, unseen, at Tehran's research reactor centre in northern Tehran, Iran, Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012. In defiant... View Photo »
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As a permanent member of the UN Security Council and a responsible country, China will continue to work with the rest of the international community to promote peace, stability and development in West Asia (Middle East) and North Africa
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Iran's nuclear ambitions could plunge the Middle East into 'a new Cold War', British Foreign Secretary William Hague has warned. Iran is clearly trying to develop a nuclear weapons capability, and if it succeeds it will set off a dangerous round of nucle
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