Thursday, January 24, 2013

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Serbian police remove Albanian rebel memorial in the South
PRESEVO, Serbia (Reuters) – More than 200 heavily-armed and masked Serbian police took down a memorial to ethnic Albanian guerrillas in Serbia’s south overnight, trying to end a row that has highlighted still-simmering tension in the region. Security forces deployed armored personnel carriers to cordon off the main square in the southern, mainly Albanian, town of Presevo, and hauled away the memorial bearing the names of 27 guerrillas who died during an insurgency in the region in 2001, a Reuters reporter at the scene said on Sunday. …


India political heir Rahul Gandhi condemns elitism
India's Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, left, talks to his mother and party president Sonia Gandhi at a meeting of the party in Jaipur, India, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. Rahul Gandhi, the scion of India's Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty, was Saturday appointed the party vice president. The elevation positions him to lead the party, which his family has long dominated, in parliamentary elections next year.(AP Photo)JAIPUR, India (AP) -- Rahul Gandhi, the heir to India's Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty, said Sunday he would work to transform the country by decentralizing power after he was elevated to the governing Congress party's No. 2 post.


Growth slows, markets feeling good ahead of Davos
German Klaus Schwab, founder and president of the World Economic Forum, WEF, gestures during a press conference, in Cologny near Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. The World Economic Forum today unveiled the programme for its Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, including the key participants, themes and goals. The Meeting, will take place from Jan. 23 to Jan. 27, 2013 . (AP Photo/Keystone/Laurent Gillieron)FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- The world's financial and political elite will head this week to the Alps for 2013's gathering of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with the global economy far less plagued by fear than it was last year.


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