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* Kremlin arrests 300 following election-fraud protests, including star of the opposition, Alexey Navalny. * Assad: "No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person." * Merkel's Euro strategy: clever, risky, dangerous; if the euro is preserved, she'll
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