NEW DELHI — Hundreds of people marched in New Delhi on Friday to protest an ambitious free-trade agreement being negotiated between India and the European Union that patient groups and health activists say could severely curtail India’s production and export of affordable drugs for millions living with HIV in developing countries. Read full article > >

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India-E.U. trade pact could boost AIDS treatment costs, health workers say

Rick Santorum’s rebuke of Mitt Romney could scramble the dynamics of the race even as many in the party’s establishment were urging its most committed activists to finally fall in line behind Mr. Romney.

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Santorum Sweep Sets Stage for New Battle in Republican Race

Syrian activists say it’s the worst yet.

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Homs Shelling Redoubles

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian government forces launched a heavy assault on the city of Homs on Friday night, killing over 200 people and wounding hundreds, according to pro-democracy activists who called the hail of mortars and gunfire the bloodiest attack of the 10-month uprising. Read full article > >

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At least 200 reported killed in protests in Syria

The FBI investigates how activists linked to Anonymous obtained a recording of a phone call between US and UK police on their operations against hacking.

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FBI probes Anonymous phone hack

Virginia is poised to lift a 19-year-old limit on handgun purchases, with the Republican-controlled state Senate expected to do away with the one-gun-per-month cap in a final vote Friday. With the purchase limit likely headed for extinction, Richmond appears to have grown friendlier to gun rights since Republicans took control of the evenly divided Senate last month, pro-gun and gun-control activists agree. Read full article > >

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Virginia expected to lift one-per-month limit on handgun purchases

Iran invited young activists to Tehran for a conference on the “Islamic Awakening,” but the fact that no one was invited from Syria’s opposition disrupted the whole script.

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Effort to Rebrand Arab Spring Backfires in Iran

Syria’s army moves to reassert control in rebellious suburbs of Damascus in the worst fighting around the capital in the 10-month uprising, activists say.

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Crackdown on rebels in Damascus

The Syrian army launches renewed assaults on the restive cities of Homs and Hama, activists say, as the UN prepares to discuss the conflict.

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Assault on restive Syrian cities

BAGHDAD — Iraq “cracked down harshly” on freedom of expression and assembly in 2011 by intimidating, beating and detaining activists and journalists, Human Rights Watch said Sunday in its World Report 2012 . Read full article > >

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New human rights report details crackdowns in Iraq

While Army pardons 1,959 activists.

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Muslim Brotherhood Tops Election Results

CANBERRA, Australia — Japan has agreed to release without charge three Australian activists who boarded a Japanese vessel off southwest Australia as part of a campaign to stop whale hunting in Antarctic waters, Australia’s attorney-general said Tuesday. The three men boarded the security ship Shonan Maru No. 2 on Sunday as it tailed the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s flagship the Steve Irwin. Read full article > >

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Australian government says Japan agrees to release 3 activists who boarded Japanese whaler

While activists say security forces fired on sit-ins.

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Syria Blames Al Qaeda for Bombing

JERUSALEM — Israel temporarily banished a dozen suspected Jewish extremists from the West Bank on Thursday as part of a crackdown ordered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a series of attacks on Palestinians and the military. An army statement said that the top military commander in the West Bank had signed “administrative removal orders” for 12 Jewish activists for periods ranging from three to nine months. The statement added that the group had been involved in “leading, directing and carrying out widespread violent and clandestine activities” against Palestinians and Israeli forces in the West Bank. Read full article > >

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Opposition activists accuse the Syrian government of deceiving Arab League monitors by replacing military vehicles in city centres.

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Syria ‘deceiving’ Arab monitors