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Middle East
12:04 pm
Wed January 11, 2012

Death Of Iranian Nuclear Expert Adds To Tensions

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Iranian security forces inspect the site where a magnetic bomb attached to a car by a motorcyclist exploded outside a university in Tehran on Jan. 11, 2012, killing nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan.
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An explosion in Tehran Wednesday killed an Iranian nuclear scientist while he was driving his car. It's the fifth such death in five years, and Iranian officials immediately blamed Israel. The attack is the latest manifestation of escalating tensions between Iran and the West.

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12:00 pm
Wed January 11, 2012

High Court Upholds Church-State Separation

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The Supreme Court rules that a religious school teacher is a "minister" of the church and cannot sue her employer for discrimination under civil rights laws.

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12:00 pm
Wed January 11, 2012

GOP Candidates Turn Focus To S.C. Primary

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GOP candidates Ron Paul, Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum all show up in Columbia, S.C., for the next primary. For more, Audie Cornish talks to NPR's Brian Naylor.

Latin America
11:59 am
Wed January 11, 2012

Pope To Visit Cuba To Endorse Church's Growing Role

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Pope Benedict XVI will travel in March to Cuba, where he's expected to endorse the growing dialogue between the church and the state. In this photo on Wednesday, an employee from the Rome's Bio Park Zoo holds a rare Cuban crocodile as he meets the pontiff at the Vatican. The crocodile will be returned to Cuba around the time the pope visits the island.
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By Nick Miroff

When Pope Benedict XVI goes to Latin America in March, Mexico is an obvious choice with nearly 100 million Catholics.

But communist-run Cuba is also on his itinerary. The 84-year-old pontiff does not travel often, and this leg of his trip will be a strong show of support for Cuba's church leaders and their growing role in pushing President Raul Castro's government for change.

More than anywhere else in Cuba, the Santa Rita church in Havana's Miramar district is the place where religion and politics intersect.

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Election 2012
11:51 am
Wed January 11, 2012

Election 2012 Moves On, And America Yawns

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A man walks past campaign workers touting their candidates during voting in the New Hampshire primary, at Webster Elementary School in Manchester on Tuesday.
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Susan Gayhart stations herself outside the polls at a fire station in Canaan, N.H., on the morning of the primary.
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Tuesday was an exciting night for Mitt Romney in New Hampshire. In mid-Ohio, not so much.

By about 9 a.m. Wednesday, the bankruptcy of a local barbecue restaurant chain was one of several stories ranked higher in the "most popular stories" list on The Columbus Dispatch's website than anything coming out of the GOP primary.

For many people, the election so far just hasn't been that interesting — and it might be even less so if Romney again rakes in the chips in South Carolina next week, adding to the perception that his nomination is virtually a done deal.

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