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Today's Reuters News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Insight: Can Occupy Wall Street survive? Analysis: Romney, Obama see little benefit in euro zone talk LinkedIn, eHarmony suffer data breaches Analysis: In scare for newspapers, digital ad growth stalls Yellen argues for more Fed easing amid Europe risk EU, Germany exploring Spanish rescue, no request yet Wisconsin a big setback to unions in benefits battles Exclusive: Tweaking tax code could spur green energy: senator Syria accused of new massacre as U.N. council meets Gupta trial defense bids to sow doubt with phone records Exclusive: Drones "inhumane", dead al Qaeda man's family says Nasdaq's $40 million offer for Facebook losses draws criticism Bomb targets U.S. mission in Libya's Benghazi Scandal-hit Vatican says restoring trust will take time Arrests target Puerto Rico airport drug running ring Putin says to push military ties with China Syria accused of new massacre as U.N. meets Dozens dead in Afghan bombing, air strike-officials Obama stands firm against extending tax cuts for rich EU regulator okays extra guarantees for Dexia for now Police link Vancouver body parts to Montreal murder Panetta calls for deep U.S.-India defense ties, more arms trade Germany finalizing face-saving aid deal for Spain Top al Qaeda strategist killed in Pakistan China's Hu sees role for regional bloc in Afghanistan Service sector picks up modestly in May: ISM Exclusive: Chesapeake CEO McClendon hires ex-SEC lawyer Insight: Dengue vaccine in sight, after 70 years Parade and palace wave finale for UK Queen's jubilee Syria bars diplomats, gunships in action First jurors picked in Sandusky sex abuse trial CNN says exit polls show Wisconsin recall election tied Spain says markets are closing to it as G7 confers Voting brisk in closely watched Wisconsin recall IMF says euro needs master plan, not deadline Exclusive: Chesapeake CEO McClendon hires ex-SEC lawyer Top al Qaeda strategist killed in Pakistan California gay marriage case looks headed to Supreme Court Suspect in grisly Canada murder faces German court Egypt comes to terms with Mubarak in jail Insight: Can Occupy Wall Street survive? Wed,6 Jun 2012 10:13 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - More than eight months after Occupy Wall Street burst onto the global stage, decrying income inequality and coining the phrase "We are the 99 percent," the movement's survival and continued relevance is far from assured. Donations to the flagship New York chapter have slowed to a trickle. Polls show that public support is rapidly waning. Media attention has dropped precipitously. Bursts of violence, threats of municipal chaos and two alleged domestic terror plots have put Occupy on a recurring collision course with law enforcement. ... Full Story Top Analysis: Romney, Obama see little benefit in euro zone talk Wed,6 Jun 2012 09:30 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The festering economic crisis in Europe could help determine the outcome of the U.S. presidential election, but don't expect President Barack Obama or his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, to spend much time talking about it. The November 6 election is widely expected to turn on the state of the U.S. economy, and the impact of Europe's slow-motion meltdown has begun hitting Wall Street, manufacturers and other businesses. U.S. households have lost $1 trillion in wealth since March as the euro zone crisis has pushed stock markets down, according to JP Morgan. ... Full Story Top LinkedIn, eHarmony suffer data breaches Wed,6 Jun 2012 09:35 PM PDT Reuters - BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Social networking site LinkedIn and online dating service eHarmony warned that some user passwords had been breached after security experts discovered scrambled files with passwords for millions of online accounts. The two companies declined to say how many accounts had been breached when they disclosed the breaches in statements issued on Wednesday. They only said they were conducting investigations. The breaches are the latest in a string of high-profile attacks around the world that have put personal information of millions at risk. ... Full Story Top Analysis: In scare for newspapers, digital ad growth stalls Wed,6 Jun 2012 09:12 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - As more newspapers cut back on print to reduce costs and focus on their websites, a troubling trend has emerged: online advertising sales are stalling. In the first quarter, digital advertising revenue at newspapers rose just 1 percent from a year ago, the fifth consecutive quarter that growth has declined, according to the Newspaper Association of America, a trade organization. A flood of excess advertising space, the rise of electronic advertising exchanges that sell ads at cut-rate prices, and the weak U.S. ... Full Story Top Yellen argues for more Fed easing amid Europe risk Wed,6 Jun 2012 07:29 PM PDT Reuters - BOSTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's second-highest official on Wednesday laid out the case for the U.S. central bank to provide more support to a fragile economy as financial turmoil in Europe mounts. Janet Yellen, the vice chair of the Fed, cited risks from ongoing housing problems, a weak jobs market and worsening financial conditions in a speech in Boston. Her views carry great weight with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, and her comments suggest that the Fed may be close to easing policy again. Yellen said the U.S. ... Full Story Top EU, Germany exploring Spanish rescue, no request yet Wed,6 Jun 2012 01:58 PM PDT Reuters - MADRID/BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany and European Union officials are urgently exploring ways to rescue Spain's debt-stricken banks although Madrid has not yet requested assistance and is resisting being placed under international supervision, European sources said on Wednesday. Spain, the euro zone's fourth biggest economy, said on Tuesday it was effectively losing access to credit markets due to prohibitive borrowing costs and appealed to European partners to help revive its banks. ... Full Story Top Wisconsin a big setback to unions in benefits battles Wed,6 Jun 2012 04:40 PM PDT Reuters - MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker's recall election victory and votes to curb pensions in two California cities are set to embolden political leaders across the United States to take on labor unions. Walker on Tuesday survived a recall election forced by labor leaders and liberal critics opposed to his bold moves to limit the powers of public sector unions in a Midwestern state that could be a battleground in the November 6 presidential election. ... Full Story Top Exclusive: Tweaking tax code could spur green energy: senator Wed,6 Jun 2012 09:06 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A freshman Democratic senator thinks he may have found a way to encourage investment in wind, solar and biofuel projects without sapping too many taxpayer dollars or injecting new venom into a bitter partisan battle over energy incentives. Chris Coons will introduce legislation on Thursday that would allow a broad range of renewable power generation and transmission projects to qualify for a tax structure used widely by pipeline and other energy-related companies. ... Full Story Top Syria accused of new massacre as U.N. council meets Wed,6 Jun 2012 11:06 PM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian troops and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad stood accused by opponents on Thursday of a new massacre of scores of villagers hours before a divided U.N. Security Council convenes to review the crisis. If confirmed, the killings of at least 78 people at Mazraat al-Qabeer, near Hama, will pile pressure on world powers to act, but there is little sign they can overcome a paralysis born of sharp divisions between Western and Arab states on the one hand and Assad's defenders in Russia, China and Iran on the other. ... Full Story Top Gupta trial defense bids to sow doubt with phone records Wed,6 Jun 2012 03:40 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for former Goldman Sachs Group Inc board member Rajat Gupta on Wednesday tried to use phone records to sow doubt at his insider-trading trial about contact with now-imprisoned hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam. Gupta, 63, a onetime global head of McKinsey & Co management consultancy, is charged with securities fraud and conspiracy in U.S. District Court in New York over allegations he leaked boardroom secrets to Rajaratnam and his Galleon Group between March 2007 and January 2009. ... Full Story Top Exclusive: Drones "inhumane", dead al Qaeda man's family says Wed,6 Jun 2012 03:52 PM PDT Reuters - TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The brother of al Qaeda's second-in-command, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike, said Washington's use of the remote-controlled weapons is inhumane and makes a mockery of its claims to champion human rights. U.S. officials said on Tuesday that Libyan-born al Qaeda operative Abu Yahya al-Libi was killed by a drone strike in Pakistan, in what was described as a major blow to the militant group. The attack is likely to fuel an increasingly fierce debate about the legality and morality of the drones, which have become one of the chief U.S. ... Full Story Top Nasdaq's $40 million offer for Facebook losses draws criticism Wed,6 Jun 2012 02:57 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Nasdaq OMX Group Inc said it will offer $40 million in cash and rebates to clients harmed by its mishandling of Facebook Inc's market debut. But the proposed compensation, subject to approval by regulators, drew sharp criticism from rival exchanges for its use of rebates and from clients claiming losses far in excess of what Nasdaq is offering. Nasdaq said on Wednesday $13.7 million would be paid to its affected member firms and the balance would be credited to members to reduce trading costs, with all benefits expected to be awarded within six months. ... Full Story Top Bomb targets U.S. mission in Libya's Benghazi Wed,6 Jun 2012 12:29 PM PDT Reuters - BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A bomb exploded outside the U.S. diplomatic mission in the Libyan city of Benghazi overnight, an attack that could be retaliation for the killing, in a U.S. drone strike, of al Qaeda's Libyan second-in-command. An improvised explosive device was dropped from a passing vehicle onto the road outside the mission, in an upmarket area of central Benghazi. It exploded moments after, slightly damaging the building's gate, U.S. and Libyan officials said. Washington had confirmed a few hours before the attack that a U.S. ... Full Story Top Scandal-hit Vatican says restoring trust will take time Wed,6 Jun 2012 08:04 AM PDT Reuters - VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - It will take time to restore trust within the walls of the Vatican and ease the pain caused by a leaks scandal that led to the arrest of Pope Benedict's butler, the pontiff's spokesman said on Wednesday. "Clearly to restore a climate of serenity and trust is a process, it is not something that can be solved in a few days," said Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican's chief spokesman. "But we have started and we are moving ahead," he said. ... Full Story Top Arrests target Puerto Rico airport drug running ring Wed,6 Jun 2012 10:43 AM PDT Reuters - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Thirty-six people were arrested on Wednesday in a crackdown on a drug trafficking ring that used Puerto Rico's main airport to smuggle large quantities of cocaine off the island aboard U.S.-bound passenger flights, authorities said. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said the 36 detainees, including 22 suspects rounded up at San Juan's International Airport, were among 45 people indicted for smuggling more than 61,000 pounds (28,000 kg) of cocaine out of the U.S. territory on commercial flights to the U.S. mainland since 1999. ... Full Story Top Putin says to push military ties with China Wed,6 Jun 2012 07:25 AM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he will boost military cooperation with China, including holding more joint exercises, after the United States announced plans to shift most of its warships to the Asia-Pacific by 2020. Putin referred to recent Sino-Russian joint navy exercises in the Yellow Sea as an example of military cooperation which, he said, would go on. "We will continue cooperation also between our military," he told Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping in Beijing, where he is attending a security summit and meeting his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao. ... Full Story Top Syria accused of new massacre as U.N. meets Wed,6 Jun 2012 03:31 PM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian troops and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad stood accused by opponents on Thursday of a new massacre of scores of villagers hours before a divided United Nations Security Council convenes to review the crisis. If confirmed, the killings of at least 78 people at Mazraat al-Qabeer, near Hama, will pile on pressure for world powers to act, but there is little sign they can overcome a paralysis born of sharp divisions between Western and Arab states on the one hand and Assad's defenders in Russia, China and Iran. ... Full Story Top Dozens dead in Afghan bombing, air strike-officials Wed,6 Jun 2012 10:29 AM PDT Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan officials and villagers said 18 people, including women and children, were killed in a NATO air strike in the southeast on Wednesday, threatening to raise tensions with the Western military as it prepares to hand over control to local forces. Another 20 civilians were killed when a pair of suicide bombers struck within minutes of each other outside the sprawling NATO base in the southern city of Kandahar. It was the bloodiest attack in weeks since the Taliban launched a spring offensive. ... Full Story Top Obama stands firm against extending tax cuts for rich Wed,6 Jun 2012 03:19 PM PDT Reuters - SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's Democrats traded shots with Republicans on Wednesday about how best to avoid a year-end "fiscal cliff," as the administration insisted on the need to let tax cuts for wealthier Americans expire as scheduled on January 1. The prospect of higher taxes and automatic spending cuts that kick in next year have spurred calls for Obama to temporarily extend all of the Bush-era tax breaks to coax Republicans into a sweeping debt deal, but the White House stood firm. ... Full Story Top EU regulator okays extra guarantees for Dexia for now Wed,6 Jun 2012 10:28 AM PDT Reuters - BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU competition regulators temporarily approved on Thursday an extra 10 billion euros ($12.50 billion) of funding guarantees for Dexia and said they would widen a probe to include this new state aid granted to the Franco-Belgian banking group. The European Commission said its approval was valid until September 30 and that it had doubts that the extra funding guarantee comply with EU state aid rules. ... Full Story Top Police link Vancouver body parts to Montreal murder Wed,6 Jun 2012 11:50 AM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Canadian police said on Wednesday a severed hand and foot found in Vancouver are likely linked to the videotaped murder, dismemberment and cannibalism that led to the arrest of a suspect in Germany this week. Packages containing the body parts were delivered by mail to two elementary schools in the Pacific port city on Tuesday. "We have all the reasons to believe it's linked to our investigation," Montreal police spokesman Ian Lafreniere told reporters in response to a question about whether the hand and foot belonged to Montreal murder victim Jun Lin, 32. ... Full Story Top Panetta calls for deep U.S.-India defense ties, more arms trade Wed,6 Jun 2012 06:03 AM PDT Reuters - NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Defense Secretary Leon Panetta promised on Wednesday to let India buy America's best weapons technology and jointly produce and develop equipment in a bid to increase trade with the world's top arms importer. "The United States is firmly committed to providing the best defense technology possible to India. We are both leaders in technology development and we can do incredible work together," he said on a visit to the Indian capital. ... Full Story Top Germany finalizing face-saving aid deal for Spain Wed,6 Jun 2012 07:51 AM PDT Reuters - BERLIN (Reuters) - A deal is in the works that would allow Spain to recapitalize its stricken banks with aid from its European partners but avoid the embarrassment of having to adopt new economic reforms imposed from the outside, German officials say. While Berlin remains firm in its rejection of Spain's calls for Europe's rescue funds to lend directly to its banks, the officials said that if Madrid put in a formal aid request, funds could flow without it submitting to the kind of strict reform program agreed for Greece, Portugal and Ireland. ... Full Story Top Top al Qaeda strategist killed in Pakistan Wed,6 Jun 2012 06:27 AM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON/PESHAWAR (Reuters) - A U.S. drone strike in Pakistan killed one of al Qaeda's most powerful figures, the U.S. government said on Tuesday, dealing the biggest in a series of blows to the militant group since the raid that killed founder Osama bin Laden last year. Abu Yahya al-Libi, a veteran militant said to have been a leader of the group's operations, and who survived previous U.S. attacks, was killed in the drone strike early Monday morning on a hideout in North Waziristan in Pakistan's tribal areas, officials said. ... Full Story Top China's Hu sees role for regional bloc in Afghanistan Wed,6 Jun 2012 01:37 AM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - A bloc bringing together China, Russia and central Asian states wants to play a bigger role in Afghanistan, Chinese President Hu Jintao said in an interview published on Wednesday, as group leaders gathered for an annual summit. The future of neighbor Afghanistan, facing the withdrawal of most foreign combat forces by the end of 2014, is likely to be a main issue at the two-day meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), whose members fear instability spilling across central Asia as the pullout goes ahead. ... Full Story Top Service sector picks up modestly in May: ISM Tue,5 Jun 2012 07:09 AM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The pace of growth in the vast services sector picked up a tad in May as a gauge of new orders improved, according to an industry report released on Tuesday. The Institute for Supply Management said its services index edged up to 53.7 from 53.5 in April, a touch above economists' forecasts for it to hold steady at April's level. A reading above 50 indicates expansion in the sector. The forward-looking new orders component rose to 55.5 from 53.5, but the employment index fell to its lowest level since November 2011 at 50.8 from 54.2. ... Full Story Top Exclusive: Chesapeake CEO McClendon hires ex-SEC lawyer Tue,5 Jun 2012 05:53 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The embattled chief executive of Chesapeake Energy Corp. has hired a top defense lawyer to represent him in a securities regulatory inquiry into $1.3 billion in personal loans, three people familiar with the situation said. CEO Aubrey McClendon has retained Marvin Pickholz, a partner with Duane Morris and a former assistant director of enforcement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He is counseling McClendon in connection with the SEC inquiry into loans he obtained from an investment firm doing business with the natural gas company. ... Full Story Top Insight: Dengue vaccine in sight, after 70 years Tue,5 Jun 2012 03:52 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - One of the grimmest legacies of the war in the Pacific is still being fought 70 years on, but a victory over dengue, the intensely painful "breakbone fever" which that conflict helped spread around the world, may be in sight. The U.S. Army, which like its Japanese enemy lost thousands of men to the mosquito-borne disease in the 1940s, has piled resources into defeating the tropical killer. But it may be about to see the battle to develop the first vaccine won not in the United States but by French drug company Sanofi. ... Full Story Top Parade and palace wave finale for UK Queen's jubilee Tue,5 Jun 2012 02:58 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Four days of celebrations in which millions have turned out to mark Queen Elizabeth's 60 years on the throne reach a finale on Tuesday with a service at St. Paul's Cathedral, a procession through London and a wave from the balcony of Buckingham Palace. For once, the 86-year-old British monarch will not be accompanied to a grand state occasion by her husband of 64 years, Prince Philip, who was taken to hospital on Monday with a bladder infection as her Diamond Jubilee drew to a close. ... Full Story Top Syria bars diplomats, gunships in action Tue,5 Jun 2012 08:16 AM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's government banned 17 Western diplomats and its helicopter gunships pounded rebels in a coastal province on Tuesday as President Bashar al-Assad defied international pressure to halt his campaign to crush the uprising against his rule. The declaration that ambassadors from the United States, Canada, Turkey and several European countries were unwelcome was retaliation for the expulsion of Syrian envoys from their capitals last week, following the massacre of more than 100 civilians by suspected Assad loyalists. ... Full Story Top First jurors picked in Sandusky sex abuse trial Tue,5 Jun 2012 04:51 PM PDT Reuters - BELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A retired bus driver, a student, a high school teacher, an engineer and a Wal-Mart employee were among nine jurors picked on Tuesday in the child sex abuse trial of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, a case that shook the university and focused attention on sexual predation in the United States. Sandusky faces 52 counts of molesting 10 boys over a 15-year period and has pleaded not guilty. ... Full Story Top CNN says exit polls show Wisconsin recall election tied Tue,5 Jun 2012 06:42 PM PDT Reuters - MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Exit polls show the Wisconsin recall election on Tuesday is essentially tied between Republican Governor Scott Walker and Democratic challenger Tom Barrett, CNN said. The CNN data is based on interviews with voters after they cast ballots and not on actual results. Most polling stations closed at 8 p.m. CT (9 p.m. EDT), although voters in line to were allowed to cast ballots after the official deadline. First results were expected to begin trickling in from around the state soon after the polls closed, although the winner might not be known for hours. ... Full Story Top Spain says markets are closing to it as G7 confers Tue,5 Jun 2012 04:21 AM PDT Reuters - MADRID (Reuters) - Spain said on Tuesday that credit markets were closing to the euro zone's fourth biggest economy as finance chiefs of the Group of Seven major economies were to hold emergency talks on the currency bloc's worsening debt crisis. Treasury Minister Cristobal Montoro sent out the dramatic distress signal in a radio interview about the impact of his country's banking crisis on government borrowing, saying that at current rates, financial markets were effectively shut to Spain. "The risk premium says Spain doesn't have the market door open," Montoro said on Onda Cero radio. ... Full Story Top Voting brisk in closely watched Wisconsin recall Tue,5 Jun 2012 04:00 PM PDT Reuters - MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Wisconsin voters turned out in force on Tuesday to decide whether to throw Governor Scott Walker out of office in a rare recall election forced by opponents of the Republican's controversial effort to curb collective bargaining for most unionized government workers. The rematch with Milwaukee's Democratic Mayor Tom Barrett, whom Walker defeated in a Republican sweep in 2010, is the end of six months of bitter fighting in the Midwestern Rust Belt state over union restrictions Walker enacted. ... Full Story Top IMF says euro needs master plan, not deadline Tue,5 Jun 2012 10:20 AM PDT Reuters - RIGA (Reuters) - Euro zone leaders need a master plan and "collective determination" to rescue the common currency, but not necessarily a deadline, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday. U.S. billionaire George Soros said on Saturday that the euro zone had three months to solve the debt crisis. "I'm not a great fan of those target headlines that keep being missed anyway," Lagarde told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of a conference in the Latvian capital. ... Full Story Top Exclusive: Chesapeake CEO McClendon hires ex-SEC lawyer Tue,5 Jun 2012 01:52 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The embattled chief executive of Chesapeake Energy Corp. has hired a top defense lawyer to represent him in a securities regulatory inquiry into $1.3 billion in personal loans, three people familiar with the situation said. CEO Aubrey McClendon has retained Marvin Pickholz, a partner with Duane Morris and a former assistant director of enforcement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He is counseling McClendon in connection with the SEC inquiry into loans he obtained from an investment firm doing business with the natural gas company. ... Full Story Top Top al Qaeda strategist killed in Pakistan Tue,5 Jun 2012 04:50 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON/PESHAWAR (Reuters) - A U.S. drone strike in Pakistan killed one of al Qaeda's most powerful figures, the U.S. government said on Tuesday, dealing the biggest in a series of blows to the militant group since the raid that killed founder Osama bin Laden last year. Abu Yahya al-Libi, a veteran militant said to have been a leader of the group's operations, and who survived previous U.S. attacks, was killed in the drone strike early Monday morning on a hideout in North Waziristan in Pakistan's tribal areas, officials said. ... Full Story Top California gay marriage case looks headed to Supreme Court Tue,5 Jun 2012 01:48 PM PDT Reuters - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A federal court declined an appeal to revisit California's gay marriage ban on Tuesday, clearing the way for the Supreme Court to consider whether the ban violates the U.S. Constitution. Supporters of the ban, Proposition 8, have lost two rounds in federal court. Tuesday's decision now passes the issue into the hands of the top U.S. court, which, while conservative-leaning, has been sympathetic towards gay rights. The Supreme Court could agree to hear the matter in a session beginning in October, ahead of the November 6 U.S. ... Full Story Top Suspect in grisly Canada murder faces German court Tue,5 Jun 2012 11:38 AM PDT Reuters - BERLIN (Reuters) - A Canadian man wanted in his homeland on suspicion of killing and dismembering a student, then posting a video of the crime online, says he will not fight extradition from Germany where he was arrested, German authorities said on Tuesday. Police arrested porn actor Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, in a Berlin Internet cafe on Monday. He faces first-degree murder charges in Canada over the killing of Chinese student Jun Lin, 32, in Montreal. ... Full Story Top Egypt comes to terms with Mubarak in jail Tue,5 Jun 2012 09:30 AM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Hosni Mubarak's fall from grace has culminated in incarceration in the Cairo prison that housed leading political dissidents of his era - a twist of fate that some of them have called "divine justice". Mubarak, 84, spent his third day in Tora Prison on Tuesday, serving the first days of a life sentence handed to him on Saturday by a judge who ruled he was at least partly to blame for the deaths of hundreds of Egyptians killed in the uprising that removed him from power in February last year. ... Full Story Top

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