Reuters: Top News - Breaking News - World News [March ‘11 Diet]

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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Stress tests on Ireland's four main lenders will reveal a capital hole of around 20 billion euros ($28.2 billion), The Sunday Business Post reported, without citing any sources.

Source: Irish bank tests to show 20 billion euros hole: report

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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - It's 8 p.m. at Sao Paulo's sublimely overcrowded international airport and Marvin Curie, seeing all the chairs around him taken, decides to join dozens of other business travelers and sit on the floor.

Source: Special Report: Brazil's Olympic push isn't winning any medals

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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft killed two Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Sunday as tensions remained high despite signals on both sides of the border of a readiness to return to a de facto ceasefire.

Source: Israeli air strike kills 2 Palestinian militants

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MANAMA (Reuters) - Bahrain's largest Shi'ite opposition group Wefaq has accepted Kuwait as a mediator with Bahrain's government to end a political crisis gripping the tiny kingdom, a member of Wefaq said on Sunday.

Source: Kuwait to mediate in Bahrain crisis

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Elizabeth Warren, the Obama administration's defender of financial consumers, will venture into the corporate lion's den this week, along with Jamie Dimon, CEO of banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Source: On financial regulation, it's Warren vs. Dimon

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DAMASCUS (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad, facing the gravest crisis in his 11-year rule, deployed the army in Syria's main port of Latakia for the first time after nearly two weeks of protests spread across the country.

Source: Syria's Assad deploys army in port to keep order

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc will re-open 12 of its Seiyu stores in Japan which were affected by the earthquake, and is hoping to open the remaining 12 impacted stores as soon as possible, a spokesman for the U.S.-based retailer said.

Source: Wal-Mart to reopen 12 quake-hit stores in Japan

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MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, his popularity plummeting as he faces a string of legal cases, appeared in court for the first time in eight years on Monday.

Source: Italy PM Berlusconi in court for fraud trial

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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Two Reuters journalists were released by Syrian authorities on Monday, two days after they were detained in Damascus.

Source: Reuters journalists freed in Syria

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BOSTON (Reuters) - Smoke billowing from an equipment elevator at a New Hampshire nuclear plant briefly triggered an "unusual event" on Monday but did not impact operations or affect any employees, officials said.

Source: Smoke seen, controlled at New Hampshire nuclear plant