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• Anger after Russia, China block U.N. action on Syria (Reuters)
• Reuters - Western and Arab countries responded with outrage on Sunday after Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have backed an Arab plan urging Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to give up power.
• Europe's cold snap claims more victims, travel hit (Reuters)
• Reuters - Bitterly cold weather sweeping across Europe claimed more victims on Sunday, brought widespread disruption to transport services, and left thousands without power with warnings that low temperatures would continue into next week.
• Car bomb kills nine in Afghan city Kandahar (Reuters)
• Reuters - A car bomb in the south Afghan city of Kandahar killed at least nine people and wounded 19 on Sunday, the presidential palace said in a statement.
• Cairo protesters demand early vote, clash with police (Reuters)
• Reuters - Protesters demanding a swift presidential election and an early handover of power by the army hurled rocks at police guarding the Egyptian Interior Ministry on Sunday and were forced back with volleys of teargas.
• Iran threatens to hit any country used to attack its soil (Reuters)
• Reuters - Iran will target any country used as a launchpad for attacks against its soil, the deputy Revolutionary Guards commander said, expanding Tehran's range of threats in an increasingly volatile stand-off with world powers over its nuclear ambi...
• Massacre in Syria: Reports of Hundreds Killed in Homs, While Diplomats Fiddle at the U.N. (Time.com)
• Time.com - Friday night, Syrian security forces carried out what the opposition Syrian National Council called a "horrific massacre" targeting Homs in one of the worst in the 11-month uprising.
• Finland votes for new president in runoff election (AP)
• AP - Voters braved record low temperatures on Sunday to choose Finland's president in a runoff between a veteran conservative and the first openly gay candidate from the small Greens party, seen by many as too radical for the Nordic country.
• Egypt's Mubarak to be moved to prison for 1st time (AP)
• AP - Egyptian officials say Hosni Mubarak will shortly be moved to a prison hospital as soon as the facility is upgraded to house the 83-year-old former president.
  
• Report: 78 killed in police strike in Brazil state (AP)
• AP - Brazilian media report 78 people have been murdered in and around the northeastern city of Salvador since the start of a state police strike there five days ago.
• Nigeria ruling party wins vote in violence-hit north (Reuters)
• Reuters - Nigeria's ruling People's Democratic party (PDP) won a governorship election in the northern state of Adamawa, despite fierce criticism over the party's handling of an insurgency in the north.

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