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• ANSA: Petrolio: vicino a 100 dollari barile
• ANSA: Oro: a 1.269,25 dollari
• ANSA: Crisi: spread stabile, a 202,6 punti
• Huffington Post: U.S. Shifting Afghanistan Exit Plans: Report
• Huffington Post: 18 North Carolina Patients Possibly Exposed To Rare Brain Disease
• Huffington Post: Missouri's Snow Tribute To Michael Sam Is Amazing (PHOTO)B
• Huffington Post: Lea Michele Releases Song, 'You're Mine,' For Cory Monteith (AUDIO)
• Aljazeera: Al Jazeera reporter's father in plea to Egypt
• Aljazeera: Cypriot leaders resume unification talks
• Aljazeera: Report: Officials aid Sudan-Egypt trafficking
• Financial Times: China and Taiwan hold historic talks
• Financial Times: Shirley Temple, actress and ambassador
• Aljazeera: Blast at Pakistan cinema leaves many dead

ANSA: Petrolio: vicino a 100 dollari barile Posted: 09 Feb 2014 10:18 PM PST Greggio a 99,74 dollari

ANSA: Oro: a 1.269,25 dollari Posted: 09 Feb 2014 10:26 PM PST Argento in ribasso a 19,9945 dollari

ANSA: Crisi: spread stabile, a 202,6 punti Posted: 09 Feb 2014 10:35 PM PST Rendimento al 3,68%

Huffington Post: U.S. Shifting Afghanistan Exit Plans: Report Posted: 10 Feb 2014 05:41 PM PST The U.S. military has revised plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan to allow the White House to wait until President Hamid Karzai leaves office before completing a security pact and settling on a post-2014 U.S. troop presence, officials said. Read More...

Huffington Post: 18 North Carolina Patients Possibly Exposed To Rare Brain Disease Posted: 10 Feb 2014 06:11 PM PST By Colleen Jenkins and Marina Lopes WINSTON-SALEM, N.C./NEW YORK, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Eighteen neurological patients in North Carolina may have been exposed to an incurable and fatal disorder similar to "mad cow" disease while undergoing surgery at the Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center because surgical instruments were insufficiently sterilized, the hospital said on Monday. Surgeons operated on the 18 patients on Jan. 18 using tools that had not been sufficiently sanitized after they were used on a man suspected of having Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), the hospital in Winston-Salem said in a press statement. "On behalf of the entire team at Novant Health, I apologize to the patients and their families for having caused this anxiety," Jeff Lindsay, president of the medical center, said at a news conference. CJD causes failing memory, blindness, involuntary movement and coma, and kills 90 percent of patients within one year, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. The condition is similar to mad cow disease, but is not linked to beef consumption. The incubation period - before initial symptoms surface - can last years, the statement said. After the first sign of symptoms, most patients die within four months, it said. The possibility of contracting the disease through surgical exposure is very remote, the hospital said. Julie Henry, spokeswoman for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, said the department is aware of the possible exposure of the 18 patients and is closely monitoring the situation. Last year, health officials said at least 15 patients in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire may have been exposed to the disease in a case similarly tied to unsanitary surgical instruments. In North Carolina, the surgical instruments were sterilized using standard hospital procedures but were not subjected to the enhanced sterilization procedures necessary on instruments used in confirmed or suspected cases of CJD, the hospital statement said. There are no treatments for the disease, which affects about 300 Americans each year, it said. Every year, one in a million people around the world is diagnosed with the disease, which can be contracted through organ transplants or operations, said Florence Kranitz, president of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Foundation. "This is not something where there is a possibility they could operate and get rid of it," Kranitz said. "It is a 100 percent fatal brain disease robbing its victims of their humanity pretty fast," she said. (Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Mohammad Zargham) Read More... More on Mad Cow Disease

Huffington Post: Missouri's Snow Tribute To Michael Sam Is Amazing (PHOTO)B Posted: 10 Feb 2014 06:29 PM PST Mizzou fans showed their support All-American defensive lineman Michael Sam in amazing fashion on Monday. A day after Sam publicly came out as gay, his alma mater spelled added the letters "S" and "A" next to the giant "M" in the end zone of the snow-covered Faurot Field in Columbia, Missouri. Sam, who is eligible for the 2014 NFL Draft is poised to become the NFL's first openly gay player, came out to his teammates during a preseason football practice before the Tigers' 2013 season in which they went 12-2 and won the Cotton Bowl. Despite his sexuality being common knowledge and his teammates and coaches, he did not speak publicly about it until Sunday. Awesome photo of Faurot Field this morning. #Sam #OneMizzou via Virgil Jeffery pic.twitter.com/roJ5kfH3Ia — Zach Paul (@WeatherZach) February 10, 2014 Read More... More on College Football

Huffington Post: Lea Michele Releases Song, 'You're Mine,' For Cory Monteith (AUDIO) Posted: 10 Feb 2014 06:33 PM PST Lea Michele has released a moving new song dedicated to her late boyfriend, Cory Monteith. The "Glee" star said the song had been one of Monteith's favorites before his death last year of a drug overdose at the age of 31. On it, Michele sings: Read More... More on Lea Michele

Aljazeera: Al Jazeera reporter's father in plea to Egypt Posted: 11 Feb 2014 01:26 AM PST Juris Greste says his son, Peter, has done nothing wrong, as Egypt announces trial date for him and two colleagues.

Aljazeera: Cypriot leaders resume unification talks Posted: 11 Feb 2014 03:23 AM PST Turkish and Greek-Cypriot leaders are expected to unveil schedule for talks, prompted by US and economic pressures.

Aljazeera: Report: Officials aid Sudan-Egypt trafficking Posted: 11 Feb 2014 04:00 AM PST Human Rights Watch alleges that Egyptian and Sudanese security forces colluded in the trafficking of Eritrean migrants.

Financial Times: China and Taiwan hold historic talks Posted: 11 Feb 2014 04:34 AM PST Relations between Beijing and Taipei have improved dramatically since Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou came to power in 2008

Financial Times: Shirley Temple, actress and ambassador Posted: 11 Feb 2014 04:44 AM PST Greatest child star of her generation avoided burnout and moved from Hollywood to global political stage, serving under three Republican presidents

Aljazeera: Blast at Pakistan cinema leaves many dead Posted: 11 Feb 2014 10:24 AM PST At least 13 killed and 20 wounded after attack on movie house in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province's capital Peshawar.

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