The crackdown on the demonstration at Aleppo University came less than a week after it had reopened following a raid by security forces that left at least four students dead.

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Protesters Are Attacked at Aleppo University in Syria

A petition circulated by 16 retired Communist Party members seeks the resignation of China’s security boss, Zhou Yongkang, and a top propaganda official, Liu Yunshan.

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A Senate committee plans to vote Wednesday on legislation that would give same-sex partners of federal workers some key benefits, a week after President Obama endorsed marriage for same-sex couples. The Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act (S. 1910) is scheduled to go before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for a vote. Read full article > >

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President Obama plans to issue an executive order Wednesday giving the Treasury Department authority to freeze the U.S.-based assets of anyone who “obstructs” implementation of the administration-backed political transition in Yemen. Read full article > >

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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta ordered the Air Force Tuesday to curtail flights of its F-22 Raptor fighter jet and accelerate the installation of backup oxygen generators in response to pilot complaints of wooziness and fainting spells in the cockpit. Read full article > >

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NEW DELHI — A week after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged New Delhi to reduce its engagement with Tehran , India said it would cut Iranian oil imports by 11 percent in the coming year. The promised cut could constitute a significant step for India toward securing a waiver from U.S. sanctions before a June deadline, although officials here denied that they were motivated by U.S. pressure, and some analysts questioned whether the move would be enough to satisfy Washington. Read full article > >

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Increasingly hard-pressed to find buyers for its petroleum, Iran has been routinely switching off satellite tracking systems on its sea-bound oil tankers for more than a month, in what U.S. officials and industry analysts describe as a cat-and-mouse game with Western governments seeking to enforce sanctions on Iranian exports. Read full article > >

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The children who breached security to meet the Queen

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Barack Obama’s mother died on Nov. 7, 1995, a few weeks before her 53rd birthday. She was less than two years older than the president is now. Her death from uterine cancer came between two key events in her son’s life. Four months earlier “Dreams From My Father” had been published; it seemed destined to drown unnoticed in the deep ocean of books. One year later Obama won his first election, to the Illinois state Senate, the initial stop on his swift journey to the White House that, along the way, brought a mass audience to that forgotten memoir, which in its best-selling revival defined his political image and provided him with lifelong financial security. Read full article > >

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A former security guard arrested in the US over a £1m bank theft in Suffolk in 1993 is expected to be deported back to the UK.

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Heist suspect’s deportation filed

The UN Security Council condemns bomb attacks which killed at least 55 people near an intelligence complex in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

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The parents of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, an American captured by the Taliban nearly three years ago, have made an emotional appeal for the Obama administration to make a deal with the insurgents to release him in exchange for Afghan prisoners being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Read full article > >

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Two Southwest Airlines flights from Orange County, California, to Phoenix were the subject of security scares Tuesday night — and authorities are investigating whether the incidents are linked.

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A father claims he didn't know that his 4-year-old son's stuffed animals contained parts that could be assembled into a loaded handgun, the Transportation Security Administration says.

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The chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee expressed dismay that someone leaked information about a double agent who infiltrated al Qaeda and helped foil a plot to blow up a U.S.-bound plane.

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‘Double agent’ infiltrated al Qaeda plot