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• Glencore Xstrata poised to take stake in oil group Russneft - FT.com

  "Glencore Xstrata is poised to take an equity stake this year in Russian oil company Russneft under the terms of a renegotiated loan agreement. "

  tags: russia xstrata glencore commodities europe unitedstates

• Rand Wants Law for Senate-Prez Run - The Daily Beast

  "Rand Paul wants to make sure any U.S. senators from Kentucky who want to be president in 2016 can keep their seats. Paul asked the leader of the Kentucky state senate, Damon Thayer, to push a new bill that would let him run for both his Senate seat and the White House at the same time. Thayer said, "The purpose of the bill will be to make clear that Rand Paul or anyone in a similar situation in Kentucky can run for both offices in the same year.""

  tags: paul randpaul teabaggers teaparty kentucky senate government

• BBC News - Mauritania's Nouackchott hit by protest over Koran

  "Hundreds of Muslims have protested in Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott, after news spread that the Koran had allegedly been desecrated at a mosque. An imam reported that four men with their faces covered by turbans entered the mosque, tearing copies of the Koran and throwing them into a toilet."

  tags: muslims mauritania africa islam protest

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