26 Feb
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News Bulletin – 09:35 GMT update
The main headlines on Al Jazeera English, featuring the latest news and reports from around the world.
Iran wants a complete lifting of international sanctions, which Western powers are unlikely to accept [Reuters]
Western powers hint at Iran sanctions relief
Negotiators suggest “several offers” for Western powers, which have proposed a modest easing of economic sanctions.
Last Modified: 26 Feb 2013 14:53 GMT
Middle East
Syria ‘vacuum bombs’ kill civilians in Douma
Witnesses report Damascus suburb shelled by brutal military explosive designed to decimate urban areas.
Russia’s online wavemakers
Witness
26 Feb 2013 07:44 GMT
Two brave bloggers risk life and limb to challenge Russia’s press restrictions and get their stories told.
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Benedict to become ‘pope emeritus’
Vatican says pontiff will keep the honorific His Holiness and wear a white cassock – but without his trademark red shoes
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Pope ‘did not ask Cardinal O’Brien to quit’
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O’Brien ‘sorry for any offence’
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Exit O’Brien, Britain’s plain-talking cardinal
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Mark Dowd: what’s behind religious homophobia?
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Murphy-O’Connor on O’Brien’s resignation
Comment

Kathryn Bigelow (right) on the set of Zero Dark Thirty.
Zero Dark Thirty, the CIA and film critics have a very bad evening | Glenn Greenwald

‘If the allegations are correct, you would need a heart of flint not to feel some sympathy for the cardinal as well as for his victims.’ Photograph: Angus Blackburn / Rex Features
The McGlynn: I have zero sympathy for O’Brien. Zero!
Cardinal O’Brien and the church’s sexual confusion | Andrew Brown
The McGlynn





