Police officers prevent unemployed Tunisians from joining Habib Bourguiba Avenue to demonstrate against the Government in Tunis.

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Japan is opening part of the evacuation zone around its leaking nuclear power plant for the first time since last year’s disasters, allowing up to 16,000 evacuees to return home.

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Stocks rose in midday trading Friday after the government reported that consumer spending grew in February. The gain extended the best start for the market since 1998.

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A top campaign worker for presidential aspirant Josefina Vazquez Mota filed a criminal complaint Monday asking for an investigation into an illegally made recording in which a woman said to be the candidate mocks the government for tapping her phone.
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LONDON (Reuters) – Chancellor George Osborne is expected to announce in Wednesday’s budget a new higher rate of duty on the purchase of expensive property and accelerate corporation tax cuts, government officials said. Osborne is set to introduce a new 7 percent stamp duty rate on sales of property above 2 million pounds, as the government launches a potential tax grab on Britain’s high-end property market. The highest stamp duty rate is currently 5 percent on sales above 1 million pounds. …

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Reuters – Big investors are showing interest in an evolving Obama administration plan to sell off foreclosed homes, although the government will have to make the offer sweet enough to coax private funds.

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AP – The Obama administration on Friday intensified pressure on Pakistan to do more to crack down on Islamist militants destabilizing Afghanistan, as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a tough public message that extremists have been able to operate in and from Pakistan for too long.

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AP – Syria’s fragmented opposition took steps toward forming a national council Tuesday, but serious divisions and mistrust among the members prevented them from presenting a unified front against President Bashar’s regime more than five months into the country’s uprising, participants said.
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AP – Syrian President Bashar Assad said Sunday his regime was in no danger of collapse and warned against any foreign military intervention in his country as the regime tries to crush a 5-month-old popular uprising.

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