OIL FUTURES: Crude Slips As Traders Assess Iran Embargo

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–Oil futures edged lower Tuesday, as traders reassessed the impact of the European Union’s ban on Iranian crude-oil imports. The EU on Monday voted slap an embargo on crude from Iran, but the sanctions have had a muted impact on …

Wall Street Journal • January 24, 2012, 12:30 PM (PST)

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Convicted Italian terrorist Battisti publishes new novel

Rio de Janeiro – Convicted Italian terrorist Cesare Battisti, whose extradition to Italy Brazilian authorities refused last year, is to publish a new novel. Battisti, 57, was a founding member of Armed Proletarians for Communism. In 1993, an Italian …

Monsters and Critics • January 24, 2012, 8:12 AM (PST)

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Syria: Crackdown on protesters will continue

BEIRUT (AP) – Syria’s foreign minister said Tuesday that "half the universe" is conspiring against his country, as Gulf Arab nations withdrew from a monitoring mission in Syria because the government has failed to stop 10 months of violence. …

USA Today • January 24, 2012, 12:30 PM (PST)

CNN

Nigeria’s Boko Haram killed 935 people since 2009

ABUJA (Reuters) – The Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram has killed at least 935 people since it launched an uprising in 2009, including more than 250 in the first weeks of this year, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. Boko Haram, which means …

Orlando Sentinel • January 24, 2012, 10:14 AM (PST)

CNN

Ahead of anniversary, Egypt’s new MPs demand justice

Egypt’s parliament will hold its own inquiry into violence during the uprising against Hosni Mubarak, the speaker said on Tuesday during a session that served notice that the army-led government will face close scrutiny from newly elected MPs. Elected …

msnbc.com • January 24, 2012, 12:08 PM (PST)

Washington Post

US ambassador to Yemen: Saleh’s absence positive

The U.S. ambassador to Yemen said Tuesday that President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s absence from the battered country will help its political transition. Gerald Feierstein also denied reports the U.S. was looking for a country where Saleh could live in exile…

AP – msnbc.com • January 24, 2012, 11:54 AM (PST)


Kansas City Star

Gadhafi loyalists seize Libyan city

Moammar Gadhafi loyalists seized control of a Libyan mountain city in the most serious challenge to the central government since the strongman’s fall, underlining the increasing weakness of Libya’s Western-backed rulers as they try to unify the country…

AP – msnbc.com • January 24, 2012, 11:54 AM (PST)

Denver Post

Israel seeks to turn gas to gold

JERUSALEM – Israel is putting together a plan for a national investment fund that would put to work an anticipated natural gas bonanza to fuel both an export-geared economy and provide a nest egg of $10 billion in under a decade for future generations….

Philadelphia Daily News • January 24, 2012, 12:37 PM (PST)

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