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Chances of euro zone break up tumble since mid-2012 -survey

BERLIN (Reuters) - The prospects of a country being forced to leave the euro zone have all but vanished since the middle of last year, a survey released on Monday showed. The poll of 956 investors by research group Sentix showed just 17.2 percent expected one or more states to leave the 17-state bloc over the next 12 months. This was down from 25 percent in December, and a high of 73 percent in July 2012, a month after the index began. "A euro breakup is almost no issue anymore," Sentix said in a statement. ...


Iran cracks down on media before election

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian authorities have arrested more than a dozen journalists in the past two days over their links to "anti-revolutionary" media, Iranian media reported, in what appeared to be a coordinated crackdown on the press. With a presidential election five months away, Iran's clerical leadership appears to be tightening its grip on the media to avoid a repeat of the widespread protests that erupted after the disputed election in 2009. ...

Tancredo Won't Smoke Pot, After All

Tom Tancredo has just said “no.” Under pressure from his wife and grandchildren, the former GOP congressman will renege on a public pledge to smoke marijuana, which he made after losing a bet on Colorado’s pot-legalization initiative on Election Day. Tancredo, a conservative Republican who...

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