February 28, 2007

World stocks plunge for second day (AFP)

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A South Korean businesswoman walks past an electronic share index in Seoul. Heavy gloom on world stock markets deepened with sharp falls in London, Frankfurt and Paris on signs of economic slowdown in the United States and an end to a speculative bubble in China.(AFP/Jung Yeon-Je)AFP - Heavy gloom on world stock markets deepened in early European trading on Wednesday, with sharp falls in London, Frankfurt and Paris on signs of economic slowdown in the United States and an end to a speculative bubble in China.


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Italian PM Prodi faces confidence vote (AFP)

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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi faces a knife-edge vote of confidence in his leadership, a week after he was forced to resign over a humiliating foreign policy defeat in the Senate.(AFP/Alberto Pizzoli)AFP - Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi faces a knife-edge vote of confidence in his leadership, a week after he was forced to resign over a humiliating foreign policy defeat in the Senate.


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U.S. says will not extradite CIA agents to Italy (Reuters)

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The logo of the Central Intelligence Agency is swept clean in the lobby of the CIA headquarters in Langley in a file photo. The U.S. will not meet any request by Italy to extradite 26 Americans, most thought to be CIA agents, to stand trial over the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric, the State Department's legal adviser said on Wednesday. (Jason Reed/Reuters)Reuters - The United States will reject any
request by Italy to extradite CIA agents for the first criminal
trial over controversial U.S. “renditions” of terror suspects,
a U.S. government lawyer said on Wednesday.


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Caterer exposes celebrity party to Hepatitis A (Reuters)

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Brazilian models (L-R) Fernanda Motta, Ana Beatriz Barros, Raica Oliveira, Aline Nakashima and Fernanda Tavares, who are featured in the 2007 'Sports Illustrated' swimsuit issue, pose at a media event in Los Angeles, California February 14, 2007. The magazine's bash for its annual swimsuit issue has turned into a health scare for stars in Hollywood after a caterer working for celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck may have exposed them to acute Hepatitis A. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)Reuters - A Sports Illustrated bash for its
annual swimsuit issue has turned into a health scare for stars
in Hollywood after a caterer working for celebrity chef
Wolfgang Puck may have exposed them to acute Hepatitis A.


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Italy’s Stromboli erupts, people told to quit coast (Reuters)

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Steam rises (R) where lava flows into the sea from a hillside, as viewed by a Guardia di Finanza helicopter flying over the volcanic Italian island of Stromboli February 28, 2007. (Antonio Parrinello/Reuters)Reuters - Spectacular eruptions from the
volcano on the southern Italian island of Stromboli may cause
tidal waves, and all locals and tourists should stay away from
the coast, emergency services said on Wednesday.


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Two Picasso paintings stolen from Paris apartment (Reuters)

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A photograph of Pablo Picasso in a file photo. Two Picasso paintings worth some $66.10 million were stolen this week from the Paris home of a grand-daughter of the Spanish painter, police said on Wednesday. (File/Reuters)Reuters - Two Picasso paintings valued at 50
million euros ($66 million) were stolen this week from the
Paris home of the Spanish painter’s granddaughter, Diana
Widmaier Picasso, police said on Wednesday.


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Conn. lawmakers seek near-universal health cover (Reuters)

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Reuters - Four Connecticut state
lawmakers proposed on Tuesday a $900 million program to bring
health-care to the state’s poor and uninsured, weighing in on a
growing national debate over health-care reform.

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Car bomb kills 10 near Baghdad market (Reuters)

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A man is wheeled to Yarmouk hospital after he was wounded in a car bomb attack in Baghdad, February 28, 2007. (Namir Noor-Eldeen/Reuters)Reuters - A car bomb killed 10 people and wounded
21 near a vegetable market in Baghdad on Wednesday, Iraqi
police said, as insurgents kept up a campaign of bombings
despite a security crackdown backed by U.S. reinforcements.


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Stocks rebound as bargains tempt investors (Reuters)

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Traders work on the main trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange during the closing minutes of the trading session in New York, February 27, 2007. (Mike Segar/Reuters)Reuters - Stocks opened higher on Wednesday as
the market rebounded from its worst slide since 2001, boosted
by investors snapping up attractively priced equities.


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War-weary Afghans fear new offensive (Reuters)

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Members of Afghan security forces man a checkpoint near the Musa Qala district in the southern Helmand province February 6, 2007. Steeling for a spring offensive, the Taliban said on Wednesday they had sent 1,000 suicide bombers to relatively quiet northern Afghanistan, a day after a suicide blast targeted Vice President Dick Cheney. (Stringer/Reuters)Reuters - Steeling for a spring
offensive, the Taliban said on Wednesday they had sent 1,000
suicide bombers to relatively quiet northern Afghanistan, a day
after a suicide blast targeted Vice President Dick Cheney.


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