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at 16:21 on February 22, 2012, EST.

UN Secretary General sending humanitarian chief to Syria to renew call for aid access

A U.N. spokesman says Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is dispatching his top humanitarian official to Syria.

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at 16:20 on February 22, 2012, EST.

Trial involving violent Mexican drug gang begins in San Diego; victims said to be put in acid

SAN DIEGO - A prosecutor has told a San Diego jury that two alleged members of a Mexican drug gang dissolved their victims' corpses in vats of acid.

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at 16:20 on February 22, 2012, EST.

Intense government shelling in rebellious Syrian city kills 2 Western journalists

BEIRUT - Syrian gunners pounded an opposition stronghold where the last dispatches from a veteran American-born war correspondent chronicled the suffering of civilians caught in the relentless shelling. An intense morning barrage killed her and a French photojournalist — two of 74 deaths reported Wednesday in Syria.

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at 15:59 on February 22, 2012, EST.

European researchers find flaw in experiment that measured faster-than-light particles

GENEVA - European researchers have found a flaw in the technical setup of an experiment that measured seemingly impossible faster-than-light particles.

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at 15:55 on February 22, 2012, EST.

Santorum to be on hot seat in Republican debate, the first in almost a month

WASHINGTON - It's been almost a month since the last Republican presidential debate, and once again the race for the party's nomination is vastly different than it was when Mitt Romney efficiently put the boots to his biggest threat, Newt Gingrich, during a Florida faceoff.

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at 15:53 on February 22, 2012, EST.

NYPD built secret files on Muslims outside New York; New Jersey mayor to investigate

NEWARK, N.J. - The mayor and police director of New Jersey's largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on Newark's Muslim neighbourhoods. Had they known, they said, they never would have allowed it.

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