Assad forces try to bomb Homs into submission (Reuters)

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Obama urges corporate tax cut, closing loopholes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama launched a dialogue with corporate America on Wednesday over business tax reform, offering his first clear plan to cut the corporate tax rate, with little prospect of it becoming law in an election year.

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Reuters – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, trying to hammer the city of Homs into submission, on Wednesday killed 19 more people including two Western journalists in an onslaught that has caused an international outcry for intervention to end the bloodshed.

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Four killed, many wounded in Afghan Koran protests – report (Reuters)

Reuters – Four people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests in Afghanistan which flared for a second day on Wednesday in several cities over the burning of copies of the Koran, Islam’s holy book, at NATO’s main base in the country, officials said.

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Iran defiant as UN nuclear talks fail (Reuters)

Reuters – The U.N. nuclear watchdog ended its latest mission to Iran after talks on Tehran’s suspected secret atomic weapons research failed, a setback likely to increase the risk of confrontation with the West.

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