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An excerpt of a statement from Chinese telecom equipment firm Huawei is displayed on a smartphone in front of computer screens showing the Huawei logo (R) and and marketing material for a Huawei 'deep packet inspection' system (Top L and C), in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny, November 29, 2012. REUTERS/Valentin Flauraud
Special Reports

How foreign firms tried to sell spy gear to Iran

In the summer of 2008, Saleh Hamid says he was detained and beaten by Iranian security agents, accused of spreading propaganda and contacting opposition groups outside Iran. The evidence? His own phone calls. Full Article | Download PDF
U.S. President Barack Obama (C) meets with members of the National Governors Association (NGA) Executive Committee in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, December 4, 2012. With a few weeks remaining before the onset of "fiscal cliff," a bipartisan delegation of governors is set to meet Tuesday with Obama and congressional leaders in search of some answers about the impact of deficit reduction measures on their state budgets, which rely heavily on federal aid. From L-R are: Chairman Delaware Governor Jack Markell, Obama, and Vice Chair Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin. REUTERS/Larry Downing
U.S.

Obama firm on "fiscal cliff"

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama holds his ground on the "fiscal cliff," insisting on higher tax rates for the wealthiest Americans, while Republicans show increasing disarray over how far they should go to compromise with his demands. Full Article
A worker tallies the stock at a Bharti Wal-Mart Best Price Modern wholesale store at Zirakpur in the northern Indian state of Punjab November 16, 2012. REUTERS/Ajay Verma
India

How Wal-Mart got a foot in the door in India

MUMBAI - Wal-Mart Stores prepared its entry into India's supermarket sector in 2010 with a $100 million investment into a consultancy with no employees, no profits and a scant $14,000 in revenue. Full Article
London's Mayor Boris Johnson speaks during a Thomson Reuters Newsmaker event at Canary Wharf, east London December 4, 2012. REUTERS/Andrew Winning
Thomson Reuters Newsmaker

Boris demands pared back EU links for Britain

London Mayor Boris Johnson heaps pressure on Prime Minister David Cameron on by calling for a referendum on a deeply pared back British membership of the European Union. Full Article | Video
A woman carries her child past a Sinn Fein mural on Beechmount Parade near the Falls road in west Belfast October 10, 2011. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton
UK

Scottish vote sparks soul searching in N Ireland

BELFAST - London's decision to grant Scotland a referendum on independence raises an awkward question for Northern Ireland's Catholics. After centuries fighting for its downfall, do they really want the United Kingdom to collapse? Full Article
Artist rendering of Nyasasaurus parringtoni, either the earliest dinosaur or the closest dinosaur relative yet discovered. REUTERS/©Natural History Museum, London/Mark Witton/Handout
Science

Earliest known dinosaur discovered

Researchers have found what could be the earliest known dinosaur to walk the Earth lurking in the corridors of London's Natural History Museum. Full Article

Video

Software guru McAfee seeks Guatemala asylum

Software guru McAfee seeks Guatemala asylum

Dec. 5 - American tech entrepreneur John McAfee flees to Guatemala seeking political asylum as authorities in Belize seek to question him in a murder investigation. Sarah Charlton reports.


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