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A roundup of what has happened during the last 24 hours
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Pope Benedict XVI announced on Friday he will hold a consistory on February 18-19 to appoint 22 new cardinals, the Ansa news agency reported.
Tehran is considering a twofold increase in power exports to neighboring Turkey after a new transmission line is put into operation, an Iranian official said on Friday.
Bulgaria needs no more nuclear power plants but should focus instead on energy efficiency, the opposition Union of Democratic Forces party said on Friday.
The husband of Ukraine’s jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been granted political asylum in the Czech Republic, Czech Interior Minister Jan Kubice said on Friday.
The Japanese government plans to limit the service life of nuclear reactors to 40 years, nuclear disaster minister Goshi Hosono said on Friday, according to the Kyodo news agency.
At least 26 people were killed and 63 injured when a bomb went off in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Friday, Syrian Interior Minister Mohammad al-Shaar said.
The husband of jailed Ukrainian ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Olexander Tymoshenko, is seeking political asylum in the Czech Republic, Czech daily Pravo reported on its website on Friday.
Iran is planning to hold new “massive” naval exercises near the strategic Strait of Hormuz within the next few weeks, the country’s Fars news agency has said.
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Residents in the restive southwestern Kazakh town of Zhanaozen will be unable to vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections because of a state of emergency introduced in the town following last month’s violent protests.
Six people have been killed and 10 others have been injured in an armed attack on a church in northeastern Nigeria, international media reported.
The U.S. State Department on Thursday established the Office of the Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights.
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