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Russian Ad Compares Putin Foe to Hitler

ROBERT MACKEY and GLENN KATES The New York Times 01/13/2012

While Republican voters in South Carolina are being warned in a new ad not to trust Mitt Romney because, “like John Kerry, he speaks French,” politicking in Russia, where a new president will be elected in March, is a good deal less subtle.

Mossad agents posed as CIA in operation: report Breitbart.com 01/13/2012	Defiant Ahmadinejad wins backing of four LatAm allies Breitbart.com 01/13/2012
Agents with Israel's Mossad agency posed as American CIA agents in operations to recruit members of the Pakistani militant group Jundallah, a report in Foreign Policy magazine said Friday.	Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad headed for home on Friday after achieving his goal of securing the backing of four Latin American allies in his country's nuclear standoff with the West.
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Karzai, Taliban Condemn Desecration; Military Questions Pair of Marines JULIAN E. BARNES, MARIA ABI-HABIB The Washington Post 01/12/2012	Cashless Society: India Implements First Biometric ID Program for all of its 1.2 Billion Residents Brandon Turbeville Infowars.com 01/12/2012
Pentagon officials went to lengths Thursday to avert damage to the U.S. war effort from a video that shows a group of Marines urinating on militants' corpses.	Recently, India has launched a nationwide program involving the allocation of a Unique Identification Number (UID) to every single one of its 1.2 billion residents. Each of the numbers will be tied to the biometric data of the recipient using three different forms of information – fingerprints, iris scans, and pictures of the face. All ten digits of the hand will be recorded, and both eyes will be scanned.
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Iranian paper calls for retaliation against Israel NASSER KARIMI AP 01/12/2012	Doomsday Clock ticks closer to midnight Jason Ukman The Washington Post 01/10/2012
A hard-line Iranian newspaper called Thursday for retaliation against Israel, a day after the mysterious killing of a nuclear scientist in Tehran with a magnetic bomb attached to his car. Iran's top leader blamed Israel and the U.S.	The Doomsday Clock, a figurative timepiece used as a barometer of humankind’s fate, was moved one minute closer to midnight on Tuesday, the first time it has been nudged forward since 2007. It is now 11:55, five minutes before the appointed hour.
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US Military Rescues Iranian Sailors, Again ABC News 01/10/2012	Hundreds Threaten Suicide At Foxconn Plant In China CBS Seattle 01/10/2012
For the second time in as many weeks, the U.S. military has rescued distressed Iranian sailors, despite the extremely high tensions between the two nations.	Some 300 Chinese Foxconn employees who manufacture X-box 360 machines said they would throw themselves from their Wuhan, China, plant if demands for lost wages were not met.
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