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• Europe's cold snap claims more victims, travel hit
  KIEV/LONDON (Reuters) - Bitterly cold weather sweeping across Europe claimed more victims on Sunday and brought widespread disruption to transport services, with warnings that the chilling temperatures would remain into next week.
  Posted on:5 Feb 2012 at 11:53am
  


• Egypt orders steps to move Mubarak to prison hospital - TV
  CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's interior minister has ordered Cairo's Tora prison hospital to make preparations to receive former President Hosni Mubarak, who has till now been held in a military hospital while he has been standing trial, Al Jazeera television said on Sunday.
  Posted on:5 Feb 2012 at 4:58pm
  


• Iran threatens to hit any country used to attack its soil
  TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will target any country used as a launchpad for attacks against its soil, the deputy Revolutionary Guards commander said, expanding Tehran's range of threats in an increasingly volatile stand-off with world powers over its nuclear ambitions.
  Posted on:5 Feb 2012 at 4:55pm
  


• Anger after Russia, China block U.N. action on Syria
  BEIRUT/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Western and Arab countries responded with outrage on Sunday after Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have backed an Arab plan urging Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to give up power.
  Posted on:5 Feb 2012 at 4:08pm
  


• Snow forces Heathrow to cancel half its flights
  LONDON (Reuters) - London's Heathrow Airport has cut around half of the 1,300 flights scheduled for Sunday after snow and freezing temperatures hit much of England on Saturday.
  Posted on:5 Feb 2012 at 2:16pm
  


• BBC says Iran targeting families of its journalists
  LONDON (Reuters) - Iranian authorities are increasingly arresting and threatening the families of British Broadcasting Corporation journalists to force them to quit its Persian news service, the BBC's head said on Sunday.
  Posted on:5 Feb 2012 at 2:45pm
  


• Gingrich vows to take fight to 'timid' Romney
  LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Republican Newt Gingrich vowed on Sunday to press ahead with his struggling presidential bid after another big loss in Nevada, saying he will focus on drawing a contrast with "timid" rival Mitt Romney.
  Posted on:5 Feb 2012 at 5:47pm
  


• Iranians bemoan sanctions hardship as vote approaches
  (Reuters) - Each day that he struggles to buy food for his family, vegetable seller Hasan Sharafi shoulders part of the burden of Iran's defiance of the West over its nuclear programme. He can hardly bear it.
  Posted on:5 Feb 2012 at 1:02pm
  


• Iran raid likely to drag in US, hurt global economy
  MUNICH (Reuters) - An Israeli raid on Iran's nuclear facilities would deliver a painful shock to the global economy, revive flagging Islamist militancy and possibly drag the United States into a regional war whether it backed its ally's attack or not.
  Posted on:5 Feb 2012 at 9:45am
  


• Protests grip Cairo as pressure mounts for early vote
  CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian government building was set on fire on Sunday as protests disrupted the heart of Cairo for a fourth day and public figures demanded a faster transition to civilian rule.
  Posted on:5 Feb 2012 at 9:50am