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February 15, 2012
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PRI's The World - February 13, 2012
Today on the World: China's Vice President and presumed future leader heads to the US. Then, concern over growing censorship in India. Case in point: a recent controversy involving Indian-born author Salman Rushdie. And a healing victory for Zambia's soccer team in the Africa Cup of Nations, nearly 20 years after a plane crash claimed the lives of most of the country's soccer squad.
PRI's The World - February 10, 2012
Today on the World: Life in Egypt one year after Mubarak's ouster. There is a power struggle at the top and a growing distrust of foreigners. Then, a conversation with author Katherine Boo, whose latest book chronicles life in a Mumbai slum. Also, music from a Grammy nominee for Best Ensemble Performance.
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Neuroscience the new face of warfare: experts
LONDON (Reuters) - Directed energy weapons that use wave beams to cause pain, and electrical brain stimulation that boosts a soldier's combat ability - it may sound like science fiction warfare, but experts say advances in neuroscience mean it's on the horizon.
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China's Xi defends rights record
China's leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, defends his country's record on human rights, at the start of a week-long visit to the United States.
Eurozone Greece talks 'cancelled'
The head of the Eurozone countries downgrades an EU finance ministers meeting on Wednesday, saying Greece has not yet given the necessary assurances about its austerity plan.
Food prices 'hit poor families'
Dramatic food price rises have forced millions of parents in the developing world to cut back on food for their children, says aid agency Save the Children.
Enter the terrifying (and silly) world of The Dark Room
Choose your own adventure with this YouTube "video game."
Wanna buy the Empire State Building? Really.
The owners of the Empire State Building, among other office towers, register to sell shares to the public.
Key financial reform gets push back
The Volcker Rule aims to prevent banks from betting their own money. Banks and foreign governments say could hurt markets more than it helps.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping on Tuesday that Beijing must play by the same trade rules as other major world powers and vowed to keep pressing China to clean up its human rights record.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers reached a tentative deal on Tuesday on legislation aimed at boosting the economy by extending a payroll tax cut for 160 million workers through this year and continuing long-term jobless benefits, congressional aides said.
(Reuters) - Talks between Yahoo Inc and China's Alibaba over the U.S. internet giant's Asian assets have hit an impasse, throwing their plans for a $17 billion tax-free asset swap into question, according to sources briefed on the situation.