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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Kansas City Post.com http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/10/id/c08dd24cec417021/ en-us Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:32:12 -0500 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:32:12 -0500 30 CAIRO - Egypt has decided to advance the election of a new president, giving in to the demands of increasingly violent protesters and raising hopes of a civilian government taking over the task of fra http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203278082/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:49:56 -0500 Kansas City Post.com http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203278082/cs/1/ MOSCOW- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has stressed need for Russia to adopt new democratic mechanisms to move forward and to be able to react swiftly to the interests and desires of large groups in so http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203277461/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:41:47 -0500 Kansas City Post.com http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203277461/cs/1/ DAMASCUS - The West voiced its ire over Russia and China's veto of the UN Security Council resolution on Syria even as more clashes and deaths were reported in the violence-wracked country. http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203276650/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:29:51 -0500 Kansas City Post.com http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203276650/cs/1/ LONDON - Heavy snowfall and intense cold this winter, one of the most severe in decades, has taken its toll across Europe, with many rural areas badly affected and several deaths reported. http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203276071/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:24:41 -0500 Kansas City Post.com http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203276071/cs/1/ NEW YORK - Citigroup's Chinese subsidiary has been granted permission to offer its credit cards in China, becoming the first US based bank and the second foreign bank to receive the nod. http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280818/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:59:05 -0500 Kansas City Post.com http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280818/cs/1/ BRISTOL - Hundreds of traders and business establishments have signed up for Bristol's own currency to be launched May 21, with the backing of the Bristol Credit Union, a bank run as a cooperative. http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203279652/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:15:43 -0500 Kansas City Post.com http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203279652/cs/1/ NEW YORK - The IMF has warned of lower growth in China in view of the economic slump in Europe, and cut its forecast for the world's second largest economy this year to 8.25 per cent from 9 per cent http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275615/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:18:55 -0500 Kansas City Post.com http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275615/cs/1/ ATHENS - Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has said he would continue intense talks with his coalition partners on austerity measures for a 130 billion-euro EU bailout plan second for Greece. http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275612/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:09:56 -0500 Kansas City Post.com http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275612/cs/1/ BEIJING - China's Monday asked its airlines not to pay a charge on carbon emissions imposed by the European Union (EU). http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275609/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:58:28 -0500 Kansas City Post.com http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275609/cs/1/ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and chief of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Hamas politbureau Khalid Mashaal signed here Monday the Doha Declaration of the Palestinian reconciliation. http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275608/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:50:39 -0500 IANS http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275608/cs/1/ Al-Qaeda is trying to recruit women for carrying out suicide bombings in Britain, parliament members have warned in a report. http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275596/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:10:04 -0500 IANS http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275596/cs/1/ The spot is supposed to be encouraging, as it focuses on the resilience of Detroit. "It's halftime. Both teams are in their locker room discussing what they can do to win this game in the ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280866/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:56:26 -0500 Weekly Standard http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280866/ in danger of losing already earned pension benefits if a proposed IRS rule goes into effect this June. The public comment period on the regulation ends today, with no word from the agency regarding ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280867/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:56:24 -0500 Weekly Standard http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280867/ On a conference call Monday afternoon, a Mitt Romney campaign surrogate--Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor--criticized Rick Santorum for being part of the "big-spending establishment ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280868/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:56:22 -0500 Weekly Standard http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280868/ A British court has ruled that a radical Islamist preacher described as one of Europe's leading Al-Qaeda operatives should be released on bail. Abu Qatada -- whose real name is Omar Othman ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280839/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:45:58 -0500 RadioFreeEurope http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280839/ Swiss prosecutors have launched an initial investigation to see whether Turkey's EU minister breached the law by denying that the mass killings of Armenians a century ago were genocide. ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280841/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:45:47 -0500 RadioFreeEurope http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280841/ Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty broadcasts in 28 languages. Most of our programs are available on FM and medium-wave frequencies of local radio stations in the countries of our broadcast area. If ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280840/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:45:43 -0500 RadioFreeEurope http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280840/ A member of the Free Syrian Army stands guard as anti-Syrian regime protesters hold a demonstration in Idlib, Syria, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. | ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280877/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:37:43 -0500 McClatchy http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280877/ Israel wants world to pressure Abbas not to sign with Hamas; PM says if Abbas moves to implement Palestinian reconciliation deal signed in Qatar, he will "abandon path of ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280849/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:34:56 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280849/ Egyptian crackdown on pro-democracy non-governmental groups that has enmeshed a number of US citizens could threaten the country's $1.3 billion in annual US military aid.Nineteen Americans are ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280850/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:34:51 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280850/ VIENNA - Iran is believed to be expanding uranium enrichment activity deep inside a mountain, diplomatic sources said on Monday, a move likely to add to tension with Western powers that suspect ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280851/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:34:46 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280851/ Iran said that Tehran supports Syria today more than ever because the "majority of Syrians still support the [Syrian] regime," Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Roknabadi said ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280852/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:34:42 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280852/ William Akon, a South Sudanese citizen studying government at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzlyah, said that "we want the government [of Israel] to show us goodness, if they don't, ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280853/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:34:38 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280853/ As violence continued to escalate in Syria on Monday, officials in the Israeli defense establishment predicted that Syrian President Bashar Assad was searching for a "way out" and would ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280854/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:34:33 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280854/ Tomorrow is Tu Bishvat. Weather permitting, trees will be planted by schoolchildren and youth movements in numerous locations throughout the country, continuing a custom which predates the ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280855/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:34:15 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280855/ Arguing that US President Barack Obama has been too confrontational in dealing with Iran's nuclear ambitions would seem to fly in the face of reality. After all, this is the president who ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280856/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:34:09 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280856/ Like nature itself, Tu Bishvat has gone though a number of different seasons throughout its existence. From its Biblical origins as a tax day on fruit trees, to its Kabbalistic transformation as a ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280859/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:34:05 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280859/ I have begun to change my assessment regarding a possible Israeli attack against Iran. In the past months, as the Iran chatter intensified - particularly after former Mossad chief Meir ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280858/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:33:57 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280858/ In 2008 I was asked to be a national co-chairman of "Rabbis for Obama." The position might have given me access to the leader of the free world and perhaps important leverage given his ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280857/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:33:54 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280857/ ALMOST a year after Syria was plunged into violent and almost incomprehensible internecine conflict the world seems to have washed its hands of the problem after the Arab League observer mission ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280843/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:32:07 -0500 The Herald http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280843/ TO stand a chance of being the Republican nominee to take on Barack Obama in this year's presidential election, Newt Gingrich had to win the South Carolina ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280844/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:32:02 -0500 The Herald http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280844/ ANOTHER body has been found in the partially submerged Costa Concordia which capsized off the coast of Italy last week, bringing the known death toll to ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280845/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:31:57 -0500 The Herald http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280845/ THE Islamist sect Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for co-ordinated bomb attacks on security forces and ensuing gun battles in the north Nigerian city of Kano that killed at least 160 people on ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280846/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:31:53 -0500 The Herald http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280846/ THE Taliban said yesterday it had recruited an Afghan soldier who shot dead four French soldiers a day earlier, raising fears the militant group had managed to deepen its infiltration of the ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280847/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:31:49 -0500 The Herald http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280847/ The child, believed to be about five, was one of scores of civilians to be injured during the bombing of the rebel city of Homs by Syrian government troops ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280874/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:21:55 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280874/ Britain should brace itself for the coldest night of the winter so far as temperatures threaten to plunge as low a -13C, the Met Office warned ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280875/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:21:49 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280875/ Qatada, 51, once described as 'Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe', is free to continue fighting his deportation to Jordan - where he's wanted on suspicion of a ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280876/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:21:44 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280876/ WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama said the United States had a good fix on the progress of Iran's nuclear programme and had long prepared a military response in the Gulf should it become ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280837/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:19:34 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280837/ U.S. President John F. Kennedy is seen working in the Oval Office in the White House in this 1963 photo. (JFK Presidential Library/The White House/Robert Knudsen/Handout) A former White House intern ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280864/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:04:26 -0500 C News http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280864/ The words written by Alyssa Bustamante were read aloud in court Monday as part of a sentencing hearing to determine whether she should get life in prison or something less for the October 2009 ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280828/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:02:15 -0500 USA Today http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280828/ Press Trust of India says that Facebook, Google and 20 other sites were given two weeks to present further plans for policing their networks for photographs, videos or text deemed "anti-religious" ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280826/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:54:40 -0500 USA Today http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280826/ Among the Americans is Sam LaHood, son of US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. Sam LaHood and five other Americans are in Egypt while the others have left, according to a statement from the ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280824/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:47:30 -0500 USA Today http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280824/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks edged lower on Monday as investors found little reason to extend a five-week rally on lingering uncertainty over whether Greece would accept the terms of a ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280829/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:40:27 -0500 Reuters http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280829/ alleged murder-suicide orchestrated by their father , the lawyer for Susan Powell's parents said. Josh Powell, who was a person of interest in his wife's 2009 disappearance, left behind a ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280832/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:34:21 -0500 CBS News http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280832/ Egyptian protesters clash with riot police near the interior ministry in Cairo on Monday, February 6, 2012. One protester was killed. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280831/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:34:16 -0500 CBS News http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280831/ Commuters ride on the roof of a Jakarta state rail train at Cawang train station on Jan. 27, 2012 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Jakarta is plagued by transport problems due to the lack of alternative ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280833/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:34:11 -0500 CBS News http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280833/ Updated at 2:07 p.m. ET One of the most buzzworthy ads to air during the Super Bowl on Sunday night appeared tinged with a political message. Chrysler's two-minute commercial titled ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280834/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:34:06 -0500 CBS News http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280834/ (Credit: Denton County Sheriff's Office) (CBS) Country crooner Randy Travis was arrested early Monday morning in Sanger, Texas, on a public intoxication charge. An officer arrested the ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280835/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:33:59 -0500 CBS News http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280835/ US President Barack Obama has said he believes he deserves a second term in the White House. His declaration, in an interview with NBC, came as a new poll showed his approval ratings moving past ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280821/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:28:45 -0500 BBC http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280821/ Egypt has indicted 19 American democracy advocates on charges of illegally receiving foreign funding and operating without registration, raising the stakes in an investigation that has endangered ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280870/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:26:25 -0500 Al Jazeera http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280870/ Greece's coalition government has agreed to demands to cut civil service jobs, announcing 15,000 positions would go this year, amid mounting international pressure to agree on austerity ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280871/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:26:21 -0500 Al Jazeera http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280871/ Bosnia is one of the countries that has been hit hardest by the cold weather in Europe.Some communities are cut off because roads are blocked, so aid agencies are taking to the skies to deliver ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280872/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:26:12 -0500 Al Jazeera http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280872/ A radical preacher described as Osama bin Laden's right hand man in Europe will be released from jail in Britain. That's despite the Home Office describing him as an "extraordinarily dangerous" man ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280863/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:57:38 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280863/ In a brazen effort to raise funds, Dixie State offered naming rights to individual bathroom stalls in a musical theater company's planned building. The college wanted to help the troupe, which had ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280823/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:39:43 -0500 USA Today http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280823/ The right-wing extremist who has admitted killing 77 people in Norway's worst peacetime massacre told a court that he deserves a medal of honour for the bloodshed and demanded to be set free. Anders ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280861/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:53:06 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280861/ Gingrich's Center for Health Transformation hired a former Georgia lobbyist to help develop business in that state; a former Missouri state agency director who was a registered lobbyist before ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280827/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:42:06 -0500 USA Today http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280827/ The US has closed its Syrian embassy and Britain has recalled its ambassador to Damascus in a dramatic escalation of Western pressure on President Bashar Assad to give up power, just days after ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280860/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:39:57 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203280860/ Varying Numbers According to police estimates, the pro-Putin demonstration question drew a whopping 138,000 people, more than the estimated 80,000 to 100,000 who reportedly attended the ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275642/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:57:32 -0500 RadioFreeEurope http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275642/ The European Union says gas flows from Russia have returned to normal levels in six European countries, after deliveries fell amid the European cold snap. The European Commission's ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275644/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:57:30 -0500 RadioFreeEurope http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275644/ Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's spokesman says the large turnout at a pro-Putin rally in Moscow on February 4 shows Putin will win an outright victory in the first round of the upcoming ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275643/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:57:26 -0500 RadioFreeEurope http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275643/ White House: Stricter sanctions are needed because Iranian banks are concealing transactions, due to "the continuing and unacceptable risk posed to the international financial system by ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275654/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:45:53 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275654/ The United States announced on Monday it was closing its embassy in Syria, and Britain that is was recalling its ambassador, due to the worsening security situation, further isolating Damascus ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275653/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:45:50 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275653/ Histadrut Chairman Ofer Eini declared Monday that a general strike would begin Wednesday 6 a.m. unless his labor federation and the Treasury reach an agreement before then on the employment status ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275652/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:45:46 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275652/ Describing the respective scenes in the New England Patriots' and New York Giants' locker-rooms following Sunday night's 21-17 Big Blue triumph is a bit like comparing a wedding and a ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275651/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:45:44 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275651/ WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama - bolstered by a stronger economic outlook and recent job growth - would win in a match-up against the two leading Republican presidential candidates Mitt ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275650/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:45:39 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275650/ is an author who has never recovered from his travels in Israel and loves to write about them from his desk in Texas. I stood on the crumblings of an Iron Age acropolis with a valley all around the ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275655/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:45:30 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275655/ Australia on Monday congratulated Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on her 60 years on the throne, with Prime Minister Julia Gillard describing the milestone as ';truly ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275648/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:44:37 -0500 IOL http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275648/ In the grounds of Granada's Parque de las Ciencias, delighted tourists and students watch a demonstration of olive trees being harvested. It is a timeless image of an industry whose Iberian roots ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275661/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:40:00 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275661/ Paralysed: Little Thusha Kamaleswaran will never walk again after she was shot through the chest while playing in her uncle's shop in Stockwell Road, south ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275677/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:34:51 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275677/ The Prime Minister put on his skates and took to the ice during the coldest weekend of the winter for a 30 minute skating session on a synthetic ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275679/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:34:35 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275679/ An unidentified good Samaritan jumped into freezing temperatures to save a stranger's dog from the icy waters of the River Wansbeck in Morpeth, Northumberland on the ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275680/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:34:26 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275680/ Probe: A scene of crimes officer gathers evidence outside a NatWest bank in the small Market Town of Bingham, Nottinghamshire, following the raid in the early hours of ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275681/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:34:16 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275681/ Had the pirate, who was handed to Seychelles police last week, lived in the West then he could have undergone a simple operation to remove his four extra ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275682/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:34:07 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275682/ The antics of some Kiwis on a Waitangi Day pub crawl through London have disgusted a fellow expat, who has complained to the Prime Minister and High Commissioner and says the misbehaviour has shamed ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275662/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:30:22 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275662/ Prime Minister Julia Gillard may be starting her parliamentary year today bruised and battered from media mauling, but for the first time in months there are signs that voters may be inching their ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275663/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:30:18 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275663/ Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart has launched a flank attack on her wilful children, threatening to cut off their insurance against ransom if they do not agree to keep family disputes secret. ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275664/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:30:14 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275664/ Josh Powell's note was simple and short, a farewell to the world after two years of media scrutiny and investigation by police, judges and social workers since the day his wife vanished. Just ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275660/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:30:12 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275660/ For the first time in nearly two decades of escalating tensions over Iran's nuclear programme, world leaders are genuinely concerned that an Israeli military attack on the Islamic Republic could be ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275659/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:30:10 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275659/ It is a painting of startling simplicity. Two farm labourers contemplate their cards above an empty table, their expressions as blank as the austere background against which they are posed, little ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275658/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:30:08 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275658/ France may recently have suffered a credit agency downgrade, but President Nicolas Sarkozy's triple-A lifestyle in the Elysee Palace has been skewered in a new book. L'Argent de l'Etat by Rene ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275656/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:30:06 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275656/ Welcome to your Personalized User Bar. Here, you can manage your account, sign up for newsletters, navigate to site sections, and share interesting content on social networks. You also can receive ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275647/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:29:36 -0500 Business Journal http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275647/ (Shutterstock) An Indiana woman is accused of leaving her obese sister in a chair for three weeks, to decompose and die. Vickie Holdcraft, 58, a worker for the county health department, was ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275665/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:16:28 -0500 C News http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275665/ Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people, arrives at a court hearing in Oslo on February 6, 2012. Breivik admitted to detonating a bomb at a government building in Oslo that killed ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275667/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:16:23 -0500 C News http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275667/ The Syrian government's computer system has reportedly been hacked, to reveal private memos, documents and emails apparently advising President Bashar al Assad on how to tackle reactions to his ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275669/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:11:47 -0500 Sky News http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275669/ (AP) SEATTLE - State authorities can expect tough questions about whether more might have been done to protect a missing Utah woman's two children, who died along with their father after ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275628/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:49:09 -0500 CBS News http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275628/ (CBS/AP) Updated at 11:29 a.m. ET WASHINGTON - President Obama has ordered new sanctions on the Islamic republic, including its Central Bank, in a move to enforce a law he signed in December. In a ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275632/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:48:56 -0500 CBS News http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275632/ Members of the media gather outside Miramonte Elementary school in Los Angeles on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. A second teacher pulled from a classroom at Miramonte this week was arrested Friday for ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275630/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:48:45 -0500 CBS News http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275630/ Alberto Contador of Spain gives the thumbs up on the podium after the 18th stage of the Tour de France cycling race in Bordeaux, France, July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Christophe ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275634/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:48:41 -0500 CBS News http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275634/ (Credit: CBS) (CBS/AP) CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio. - A woman who called the wrong number while suffering a stroke somehow still wound up dialing the right number.We'll explain. Cuyahoga Falls ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275635/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:48:36 -0500 CBS News http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275635/ Tom Brady of the New England Patriots chats with his wife Gisele Bundchen after losing to the New York Giants by a score of 21-17 in Super Bowl XLVI at Lucas Oil Stadium on Feb. 5, 2012, in ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275636/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:48:31 -0500 CBS News http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275636/ (CBS/AP) WASHINGTON - The Obama administration closed the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on Monday and pulled all American diplomats out of violence-wracked Syria as the U.S. stepped up pressure on ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275637/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:48:26 -0500 CBS News http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275637/ New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady sits on the bench during the second half of the NFL Super Bowl XLVI against the New York Giants, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, in ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275638/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:48:20 -0500 CBS News http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275638/ leading the New York Giants to their second Super Bowl win over the New England Patriots in four years. The Giants quarterback, playing in the Indianapolis stadium usually graced by his older ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275618/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:43:59 -0500 BBC http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275618/ Red Bull have unveiled their new car for the forthcoming season, to be driven by world champion Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber. Vettel, ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275619/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:43:55 -0500 BBC http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275619/ A factory has collapsed in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore with many people, including women and children, feared trapped. Officials said a gas explosion could have caused the three-storey ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275616/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:43:49 -0500 BBC http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275616/ A magnitude 6.7 earthquake off the central Philippine island of Negros has killed at least six people, including two children, and dozens missing. Following dozens of aftershocks on Monday, ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275673/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:41:59 -0500 Al Jazeera http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203275673/