Police officers opened fire on Tibetan protesters in western China on Monday in the largest violent confrontation in ethnic Tibetan areas of China since 2008.

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A Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi women and children pleaded guilty Monday to dereliction of duty in a deal that will mean a maximum of three months confinement and end the largest and longest-running criminal case against U.S. troops to emerge from the Iraq War.

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Spanish bank BBVA tells the BBC it is switching its 110,000 staff to use Google’s cloud-computing software in the largest deal of its kind.

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Astronomers have found the largest known galaxy cluster in the ancient Universe, calling it “El Gordo” – Spanish for “the Fat One”.

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President Obama is scheduled to make a rare visit to the Pentagon on Thursday to unveil details of a strategic review for the U.S. military that will consolidate missions and downsize the ambitions of the armed forces as they adjust to a new era of austerity, officials said. Obama, who will be joined by Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will place his personal imprint on a new military strategy that Pentagon officials have been preparing for months in anticipation of the largest cuts to the defense budget since the end of the Cold War. Read full article > >

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Pfc. Bradley Manning, in a military courtroom Tuesday, faced for the first time the man he apparently thought was a kindred spirit but who instead told authorities that the soldier had carried off one of the largest intelligence leaks in U.S. history. Manning, who has been detained for 19 months, stared intently at Adrian Lamo, a convicted hacker who alerted investigators about Manning in May 2010 shortly after the intelligence analyst reached out to Lamo over the Internet seeking “moral and emotional support.” Read full article > >

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The attack was one of the largest attacks yet on Syrian security forces by a growing armed insurgency.

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Syria Army Defectors Said to Kill 27 Soldiers in Coordinated Assault

MOSCOW — Tens of thousands of Muscovites thronged to a city square to protest against alleged electoral fraud and against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his party on Saturday, and demonstrators gathered in other rallies across the vast country, the largest public show of discontent in post-Soviet Russia. Read full article > >

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Moscow protest against Putin attracts at least 25,000; other demonstrations throughout Russia

The owner of the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia, where 29 men died in an explosion last year, has agreed to pay $209 million in civil and criminal penalties and promised to make major safety improvements to its mines, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. The deal between the federal government and Alpha Natural Resources, which acquired the Upper Big Branch coal field when it bought out Massey Energy in June, is the largest settlement in a criminal investigation of a mine disaster in U.S. history, the U.S. attorney’s office said. Read full article > >

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W.Va. coal mine to pay historic $209M settlement in blast that killed 29 miners

The last U.S. troops to occupy Camp Victory, once one of the largest and most high-profile American military bases in Iraq, left Friday afternoon as the Iraqi government assumed control of the sprawling complex near Baghdad's main airport.

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The lawyer for Bradley Manning, an Army private accused of passing sensitive information to the online site WikiLeaks, is seeking evidence from the government that the data allegedly leaked did not harm national security. Manning is scheduled to appear at a military hearing in December. He was arrested in May 2010 on suspicion of carrying off one of the largest national security leaks in U.S. history. Read full article > >

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The holiday shopping season got off to a strong start on Black Friday, with retail sales up 7 percent over last year, according to the most recent survey. Now stores just have to keep buyers coming back without the promise of door-buster savings. Buyers spent $11.4 billion at retail stores and malls, up nearly $1 billion from last year, according to a Saturday report from ShopperTrak. It was the largest amount ever spent on the day that marks the beginning of the holiday shopping season, and the biggest year-over-year increase since 2007. Chicago-based ShopperTrak gathers data from 25,000 outlets across the U.S., including individual stores and shopping centers. Read full article > >

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Black Friday sales up 7 pct as shoppers respond to promotions; some still seeking better deals

If you decided to spend the day after Thanksgiving (better known as Black Friday) as far away from the mall as possible, Cyber Monday is a welcome invite to scoop up the best holiday bargains without leaving your seat. The term was coined by the National Retail Federation in 2005 and has a built growing following: With more than $1 billion in online sales, Cyber Monday 2010 was the largest online retail day, according to online retail-tracking firm ComScore . Read full article > >

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TRIPOLI— Saif al-Islam, the favored son of former Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, was arrested on the border with Niger while his supporters were trying to smuggle him out of the country, a Libyan commander said Saturday. Othman Maigeta, a brigade commander, confirmed that the once high-profile member of the ruling family was detained and taken to the mountain city of Zintan. The city is home to one of the largest groups of fighters that swept across the west of the country, ultimately toppling the regime in August. Read full article > >

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Egypt closes the largest of the Giza pyramids amid online rumours that special rituals would be held there to mark 11 November – 11/11/11.

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