The developments come at the start of a pivotal week as European leaders converge to prevent the euro’s collapse.

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Mario Monti of Italy Calls Cabinet to Consider Austerity Measures

Winning a dominant majority in Egypt’s first Parliament since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak would be the religious movement’s most significant step since the start of the Arab Spring.

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Early Results in Egypt Show a Mandate for Islamists

At the start of high-profile hearings.

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Hugh Grant Slams British Tabloids

This week sees the start of Ricky Gervais’s new series Life’s Too Short, a comedy about a dwarf acting agency. But how easy is it to be an actor with restricted growth and keep your integrity intact when many of the available jobs are as woodland folk or magical panto characters?

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The dwarf actor dilemma

At least six people die in a suicide bomb attack near a mosque in Baghlan, northern Afghanistan, at the start of the Eid festival, police say.

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Suicide blast near Afghan mosque

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano spends a considerable amount of time dealing with cybersecurity threats, including potential attacks on the nation’s infrastructure. But don’t ask her to detail the nation’s biggest cyber enemies. “Oh, I don’t rank them, this isn’t basketball or something,” Napolitano said Thursday, earning her a laugh at the start of a Washington Post Live event on cybersecurity . “Threats are threats.” Read full article > >

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Thousands of Greek workers walked off the job on Wednesday at the start of a two-day general strike to protest a new round austerity measures.

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Greek Workers Start Two-Day Anti-Austerity Strike

WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. — Texas Gov. Rick Perry laid out a plan that he said would increase domestic energy production and create jobs in a speech Friday that is the start of an attempt to reboot his struggling presidential campaign. His proposals on energy , which broke little new ground, reflected the Republican view that increased domestic production of natural gas and oil are necessary to revive the struggling U.S. economy and that the Obama administration is limiting drilling and exploration because it is too tied to environmental groups. Read full article > >

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Rick Perry calls for increased oil and energy production to reboot U.S. economy

The broader economy may still be in a funk, but a bazaar in a fairy tale Middle East — temporarily located in Bethesda — is doing brisk business in invisible sesame cakes. At the start of “Aladdin’s Luck,” Imagination Stage’s lively, good-humored season opener, an excitable baker in a yellow silk robe (Michael Glenn) scurries into view with a basket of the aforementioned delicacies. He’s determined to keep them safe from that scalawag Aladdin, but he generously offers a cake or two to young theatergoers. Read full article > >

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Imagination Stage’s ‘Aladdin’s Luck’ is a treasure for kids

The pension income bought from retirement savings has fallen by 14% compared with the start of the year owing to market turmoil, experts say.

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Pensions and Isas hit by turmoil

The pension income bought from retirement savings has fallen by 14% compared with the start of the year owing to market turmoil, experts say.

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Pensions and Isas hit by turmoil

Prime Minister David Cameron raises the issue of the Alexander Litvinenko murder case at the start of his bridge-building visit to Russia.

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Cameron raises Litvinenko issue

The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index was down about 2.7 percent at the start of trading, following the trend set in Asia and Europe.

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U.S. Stocks Drop Sharply at Open, Following Europe

From the start (political orders in Brussels) to the finish (striking targets in Tripoli), there is nothing simple about NATO’s nightly bombing campaign.

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Daunting Task for NATO in Libya as Strikes Intensify

President Obama and the First Lady are in Ireland at the start of a European tour.

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